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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22
EVERGLADES or FLORIDA =
ARE NOW RECLAIMED

The best fruit lands from the At
lantic to the Pacific, are now put 0n
the, market IN small farm tracts rang
ing from 10 to $40. acres They are
sold on the installment plan, and this
within the reach Of men Of limited
means. a town lot is given with each
farm purchased. The company having
charge Of these sales have appointed
Frew W.. Wielat1d, 412 First National
Bank building, as their agent for Du-
luth and vicinity. Call on him and
learn OF the opportunities open to you,
and the possibilities within your. reach
by engaging IN. the fruit industry.
Even to buy these lands on specula--
ton is a good, rneritorious investment.
They are. located In Southern Florida.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22
M0NEY-Cos OF WAR r.. =. :. g.
~. is SIMPLY APPALLING
Only Approximate Correctness Ia
Claimed for the Following
-s.% Figures, :, -, =

The figures for the money cost of
war are staggering and would be
more SO If they could: be fully OBJ
tanned. Only approximate correctness
is claimed for the following state
ments: 49,: - - ? =. ~
The Napoleonic campaigns, cover.
Ing nineteen years, in which France,
Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Spain,
Russia, Turkey, were involved, $15,.
000,000,OO0. - - ,,. - -
The British-American war of 1872.
IA, $3000,000,0 00... -. l. - 81.
The United States-Mexican war,
1886 to 184S, $4,000, 0OO..
The Crimean war of 1854 to 1856
$1,666, 200, 900. -, -. $50, ~.
The. Italian war of 1859, s294, ooo,.
The Schleswig- Holstein r war OF
1854 $34, 100000. - -.:s.-.s.- ~.
The American civil war of 1851 to
1865, North and South, $4,000, O0O,0
(Arecent estimate places. the cost of
this war, including pensions and in.
terest since paid, at $4,000, 600, 000.)
The Prussian-Austrian war of 1866
1926, 100000. .,.@. - ..=s, !,
The expeditions to Mexico, Moroc-
co. Cochin China. etc, 1861 to 1867,
100000, 1000. ! : 49,; -,
The Zulu and Afghan wars of 1879,
$150,0o0, 900. go: ~ ~. Ill.,. ),
The China-Japan. war Of: 1894 to
1895, 100000, 900. ~. - <.-;.-,'.'
The British-Boer war of 1899 to
1901, $1,300.000.000.. =. (Great Britain,
fl,250,0O0,000; Boer republic, esti-
mated, $4,000, OOO.) ~ -.=.,s,.s.-. :
The Spanish-American4P philippine
war: Of 1898 to 1902, 100000, 900. (To
the United States for. five years, Ed
ward Atkinsons' estimate, 800, OOO,-
600; to Spain and the Philippines, es.
ttmated, 100000, 900. ~, INC.
: The Russo-Japanese war. of 1904 to
1905, $1,735, 000, 900. (To T. Russia,
$935, 600, 600; to Japan, 100000, 900. J
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22
STEEL EMPLOYEES TO 49,
=; GET WAGES RAISED
Thirty-Five II housand Men Will Be
Affected BY the In :.
L. -, crAAAa

PITTsBURG, Pa, May 2o.-An-
nouncen1e11t is made here tonight that
$4,000 employees Of iron and steel
companies having headquarters here
and In this vicinity will receive an
advance in wages, averaging 10 per
cent June / or July 1. ~
Some of the manufacturers have
already posted notices Of the increase
and others, it is said, will do so in a
few days. - z. :. :.
The United States Steel corporation
has made no, announcement of an in
crease in wages, but it is said that
the Jones & LaughHn Steel company,
the Republic IRON & Steel company,
and other Independent companies will
restore the wages prior to April last,
when a general cut was made
It is also announced that after June
1 the independents will not accept any
orders Tor steel at the present prices.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22
THE DEPENDABLE MAN.

An editorial under the above cap
ton appeared in a recent issue of
the Duluth Evening Herald, and it's
philosophy is so sound that we can
not serve our readers better than
by reproducing it. The editorial is
as follows. -.
Somebody has sent In the fol-
lowing paragraph, requesting its
publication but not giving It's author
ship: +. - I: 2 1$sss :. # .;. 8.
"A reputation for being reliable
is the key to most Of life's sue
cesses. Friends, work, honor, all
reliable is not easy, surface work;
it takes day after day and year after
year of patient acceptance Of re-
sponsibllity, Of picking up the
threads that the carless drop, Of be-
ing in place and on hand in 5. en-
ergencies where others fail; Of do
Ing uninte resting, faithful work that
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22

No piling up of adjectives or in
terjections can do justice to the
cold, snobbish, remorseless, and the
heartless thing the human heart
becomes when enslaved by greed,
witness an example in the Lake
Carriers association.
The more resolutely such men as
Livingstone of the Lake Carriers
association work for the enslaving
Of emp oyes, the sooner will society
realize the necessity of curbing the
money tyrants to save society from
ruin. "t.t<..
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22

Theodore Roosevelt's phrenolog-
ical bur p of destructiveness IS a
bowling success in the wi1ds Of
Africa. If half the Stories wired
across the Atlantic be true. The
rhinocer}us cannot defend himself
by INJUNCTION" as the trusts can,
It's a eheer mental make up that
is never happy only when destroy
ing something. That's the eccentri-
city, however; that distinguishes
the constructive statesman from the
desiructRe one, and shat in every
walk Of life, distinguish the men
who cred te and do things, from the
men whd do nothing but find fault
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22
EFFECT OF ROBBER LAWS

The Labor World is in recent If
leaflet issued by the New York
Association for Improving the Con-
d1t1on of the Poor, of which R.
Fulton Cutting is president in which
an important piece of testimony ap-
pears relative to the Responsibility for
poverty Under a photograph of a.
remarkably bright family of little
cnlidren-a family in which race
suicide has been acknowledgements
this question: IT,. ~
Shall promising children like
these grow up into useful men and
women or into physical and moral
FAILURES? This depends often On
our being able to strengthen the
good mothers hands and to hold
the family together by timely aid
when overtaken by sickness. death
or lack of work. X. -
Then comes the testimony from
this really competent source: ,'*Care-
full investigation shows that In 80
per cent of these families the dis
tress Is not their own fault and
IN the rest, it surely is not the
fault OF the suffering children. +"
And then: : ~..:7: $500 :.
We are coming to see that j. the
lives which fail are very largely the
result Of imperfect, neglected, So q.
cial conditions: TO this extent they
are our failures. -.:.. &. s., III
Many of them can be turned irto
successes by timely aid, advice and
instruction. s~.> e.. 50 l.szs VS.. *
But can "our failures be rem
edled by our charitable donations?
Why should this be a world q
which the worker is an object 81
charity and the idler eli. thing, 20
his way) the giver OF charity? The
answer lis that 1t sis not such 4
world. It is a world III which by
natural law the results 81 work
should 80, not to the idler but 3to
the worker. But We have made
rHoboer laws. i And shall va Ia con
tent to ask their heneficiaries to
relieve their victims with charity?
Or shall we contend that along with
charity for temporary relief there
shall 70 a. insistent demand for re- re-,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22
SPECIAL DEPUTY, II $751;. u
A. RESIGNS POSITION

Other Lines Of Work More Desirable
Than Guard For Lake
Carriers. -
George Ryckman. special for the
Lake Carriers, has resigned his star
and is now employed as Waterman on
the docks. 80:
He admitted in district court last
week that he was professional guard
but two days after the shooting of
James ORourke, he quit the service.
He reported, to Chief Troyer that
he was done, but would not give any
reason.
His acquaintance say he does not
care to work where he will be called
upon to shoot another workingman.
AS Waterman on the coal docks he
is not likely to be called on to draw
gun. - @+'' ;.%'2 -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22
HOW TRUSTS EsCAP !.
PAYMENT Il TAXES
Income From Inflated Securities
Has Made Mill onaires Out Of
5.s|s s., Steel Crowd.
(Snecjal "a The, IL ahor World.

Especial toIIThe IL abor WORLDLY
Washington, May IA. The United
States Steel corporation, the steel
trust, Is capitalized at 81, 400, O0O, 900.
Officials OF this trust have told, under
oath in court proceedings, that the
actual property Of the concern, at
the time 1t was so capitalized, could
have been reproduced for $4O0, 00v, 900.
There was an even million Of water
in these stocks and bonds. These
watered securities are the basis OF
the big. fortunes Of Carnegie, Prick,
SchWab and other multi-milli onaires.
It is. with these Watered stocks and
bonds which, to the, extent of a bill
lion dollars, represented nothing but
the cost OF their printing, that Car
negie endows Libraries and is build
ing million dollar palace for John
Barrett's bureau Of American Repub-
lies in this city. It is the income from
these inflated securities that makes
millionaires Of the steel crowd. And
how much Of these fortunes is taxed
The Steel trust pays q license fee
of a few thousand dollars a year to
the state Of New Jersey, for it's char
ter and its corporate right to do bus
mess under the authority of that
state. Otherwise, the only taxes 1t
pays are local taxes on it's property.
Does anybody imagine that the valua-
lions on which the local taxes are,
paid exceed the real value of the
trusts property, which is less than a
third Of its capitalization? " %E zS.Ss
At present that billion dollars OF
water in the Steel trusts securities
goes scott free of taxes, so long as
the men get a revenue from it do not
invest their income in real estate or
some other tangible property the as
SCISSORS can find. :..'.. 49, n. a: E
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22
CHANGE OF LOCATION
80 IN LAW OFFICES

Mr.. John Hoffman has moved his
law offices from the Sellwood build
ing to, rooms 1855 Torrey building.
Some writer has said that laws are
not invented. they grow out Of cir
substances" What is true Of law is
true salso OF a law practice. 1t grows
out Of circumstances; and the circum-
stances are ability, faithfulness and
strict attention to business. We are
persuaded that these three have all to
do in esta blishing the very creditable
standing to which Mr. Hoffman has
attained at the Duluth bar. :, ~
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22
NEED OF ARMAMENT.

In the course of his lecture at the
Methodist church Mr.. Bryan stated
I'm substance, that, if as Is claimed
Sby the Republican party leaders,
national armament is conducive to
international peace, we ought to re-
peal all laws against carrying fire
farms, and encourage every indi-
EVidual to go about with loaded
lrevolver in his hip pocket, to the
lend that universal peace might be
kassured.
He said this would be a much
easier, and more economic way, of
/! testing the truth of the armament
7, philosophy, than burdening the ma.
tion with the maintenance of an
immense army, and the construc-
: tion of million dollar battleships.
! Mr.. Bryan did not say what fol-
lows, but we say it. The rank and
file of Republican voters are prob
ably no better or no worse than
their Democratic neighbors. The
common people as whole are all
right; but there is not on this
; planet more hypocritical aggre-
cation than the Republican party
leaders of today.
They know that a standing army
!and battle ships are not necessary
i to the maintenance of peace with
foreign nations.
1t is not enemies from abroad
Tor beyond the seas that they fear.
But as the representatives of trusts
and robbers of the people at home,
they are afraid the victims of op-
preston and wrong in their own
country may, like the worm. turn
when trampled upon, and the arma-
ment is therefore( more for the
purpose of protecting the privileged
classes and vested interests against
the wrath of an outraged people at
home, than to suppress any inva-
sion by people from abroad.
Immense standing armies serve
the same purpose in all countries
and in all ages-to protect the
privileged class from their victims
the suffering class.
In the days when we had no priv
LEGGED class, and consequently no
suffering class, it didn't occur to
anybody that we needed national
armament to keep the peace The
peace kept itself.
We are just optimistic enough to
believe that the time will yet come
in our country when we shall not
need an armament. The spirit of
reform is abroad in the land. The
ballot and not the bullet is the
American peoples weapon of Of
tense and defense.
Woe be to corrupt politicians and
robber trusts when the people get
after them in dead earnest, and
+ through the initiative and referen-
dunn take the powers of govern
ment into their own hands, where
T. the founders of our nation de-
signed it should be.
+. The ''Star in the East" though
thrice denied ushered in a better
Z and holier era Of peace twenty
centuries ago; the "Ster in the
vest though thrice defeated is
ushering in new era of civic
Righteousness for all the people in
I. our day.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22

Every rascally promoter of some
designing species of legislation will
profess great friendship for the
dear people, and Indian like, lead
them in to, deadly ambush. Watch
Senator Aldrich's tactics on the
tariff. He is certainly, one of the
foxiest hypocrites that walk over
the capitol pike. He accomplishes
by maAe-believe tricks what the
people would not tolerate In the
OPEN 49,.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22
OBITUARY i III q Ar

-
The funeral Of James Gilbert took
place sa from st: James Catholic: church
Monday morning ats. Interment was
at Calvary, cemetery 10 ,:>:zz;;.1:: - |
He is survived by q brother, Walter,
and his mother at West Duluth; a sis
ter, Mrs. H. Christian. Cleveland O.,
and another sister, Mrs. st. Peter Os-
coda, Mich, both Of whom were here
for the funeral. = x, 4.
Gilbert was an1enber Of the Long
shoremans union. III 49,: ~ t..
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22


others tire OF and slight takes
all this to- make the dependable
man and woman known and valued.
But how good they are to know?
and how valuable? To he depend
ed upon, and not to fail anyone
who trusts us-this is worth living
for, and makes life better with the
living. 49,. Y. . >,s.>. 49,. - !.
There isn't anything very spec
tacular or dramatic about being re-
liable. Very often the reliable peo-
pie are looked upon by their more
skittish and uncertain neighbors as
being mere plodders. But if you
want to know how reliable men
stand, ask their employers. : If you
want to know how scarce such peo-
pie are, too, you must also ask en-
ployers. -:
"You don't have to be, brilliant
to be reliable. Very often brilliant
people are dis tinctly unreliable.
Genius is apt to be erratic, FOR
Seneca didn't stretch the truth very
much when he said that there is
NO great genius without a tincture
of Madness a saying which Dry
den borrowed to make this coup
let:
"'Great wits are sure to madness
near allied. And thin partitions do
their bounds divide
"Few can be geniuses, but every
body can be reliable-and it does
no harm to say again what has been
said many times before; your chance
of succeeding is not one in mill
lion If you don't cultivate reliability.
"You may envy the striking
achievements of the brilliant, but
if you think over how few real
achievements even the brilliant have
comprised and how much of the
worlds real work, is done by those
who are not brilliant, but are mere
ly dependable, you will find much
comfort in the thought.
<'When it comes to cutting down
the force in your office or shop,
you may be sure that the fellows
that can be depended upon will
stick. When it comes to taking
somebody from the ranks and put
ting him in place of authority, be
sure that it won't be one of the
cratic, unreliable ones that will adj
vance. Employers are always look
ing for the kind of people that can
be depended upon in season and
out of season, who do their work
thoroughly and reliably, who are
not afraid to go outside their reg
ular duties once in a while if it
is for the good of their service,
and who are Johnny on the spot
day in and day out, year in and
year out.
Don't be afraid Of being called
a 'plodder.'f Plodders get lots Of
abuse they are not entitled to. They
aren't theatrical or exciting, but
they accomplish a prodigious
amount of work, and it is usually
good work. Just think back over
your school days, and remember
what has become of the brilliant
pupil who is now a failure, and
the dull, plodding pupil who had
to work like the mischief to learn
anything, but who learned what he
did learn so we'll that now he is
IN an important place of high re-
sponslb1lity, because he is reliable. "
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22
NO NEED OF BEING tx
= .:.2 SHABBILY DRESSED

Fred W Edwards, the popular credit
clothing merchant, located at 20 East
Superior Estreet, upstairs over Dixon
g: .LoWry makes it very easy for any
man Or Woman to be dressed in the
best GARMENTS OF the B latest styles.
without leeling the cost. His prices
are right and his terms Of payment
50 easy bat no one need go sha'bbt1y
dressed u Duluth. .3..s.5=zz z:ss
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-22
DOING "A RECORD .
W = BREAKING BUSINESS

4 Thomasson, the furniture man, is.
making business hum nowadays. His
grand May sale Of everything coming
within the description Of household
furniture is a record breaker. Up.
to date goods at lowest living prices
cannot help but attract customers, and
that Is why Thomasson is doing such
business ~.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-06-18
AN ENTIRE TOWN
 GOES TO THE STATE
No Bid Made When Land On Which It is
 Located is Offered For Taxes.

DeQueen, June 17-The entire town of Anthony located in the corner of Howard county near the point were Howa ard Polk and Sevier counties converge has re- yerted to the state as result of the failure of anyone to bid on the property when it was offered for sale for taxes.
 The town of Anthony was at one time a live and promising community, being the center of the antimony deposits which promised at one time to be of great value. It has been claimed that these deposits of antimony are the largest in the world, but for some reason the plans that were made for the development f the deposits were abandoned. About twenty years ago steps were taken looking toward the development of the antimony de- posits. The American Anthony
The Prescott daily news., 1909-06-18
THE CANDIDATES FOR
 SUPREME COURT
Judge Mccullough and Judge FrauenthaI
 Are Men of Ability and Learning.

Little Rock, June 19-In less than two weeks every county i'll the state where any officiab vacancy has occurred in the past two years and has been filled through the appointive power of the governor will hold a special election to fill these offices as we'll as the vacancy in state pos itiOns
 The only two state offices to be filled at this election are those in the Arkansas Supreme Court. Judge E, A. McCulloch, Chief Jus tice and Judge Samuel Frauen- thai, Associate Justice, are the only candidat tes for the places to be filled in this election.
 They are the occupants of these positions and each is the Democratic nominee. which in- sures their selection by the people Chief Justice McCulloch is a man known to every section of the has been before the people several times makes him well nkown to every section of the state and ail voters. Associate Justice Frauenthal though one of the most learned men Of the state and a most successful attorney of central Arkansas, has never before been a candidate, but is well known to the bar and the people.
 Though a member of the Su- preme Court for only a few months, Samuel Frauenthal has taken hold of the work as though he had been there for years and has rendered many opinions since February 1, which have been commented upon with favor by the bar of the state,. Some Of these opinions were in cases of much prominence and in them technical questions settling weighty points in law have been passed upon in such a manner they will be accepted in the prac- tice in Arkansas for all time to comet
 Samuel Frauenthal is yet young mann He was born and raised in Louisyi tile, Ky, at tending school in that city, but completing his education at Be- thel College, RusseilyiIIe, Ky, where he graduated as the vale dictorial of his class. After grad uating from this college he stud- jed law in the office of Jp 1T Bowden, judge of the Sur orsa. Court of Kentucky, and J ph lo' Congressman from oa ,rh;n a District of that tatn, T, ah
The Prescott daily news., 1909-06-18
WRONG PERSON ARRESTED.

JCncSboro, June 1S.-All's we'll that ends well, providing the lady WhO was obliged by the local chief of police to alight from a Frisco passenger train and stay in Jonesboro all night. doesn't decide to bring suit against the city. The only offense the lady had committed was that she had purchased a ticket to Portland Ores,
 The Chief of Police had received telegram from the sheriff at Abbeyville, s. C. to arrest and detain a. woman aboard the same train who held a ticket for Port land The woman who was want ed was the wife of the sheriff it appears, and was leaving home against his wishes.
 The lady who was mistaken for the sheriff's wife waited upon the advice of a gentleman who ac- companied her until the sheriff arrivedt He failed to recognize in her his eloping wife and she was escorted to the next train with profuse apologies,
The Prescott daily news., 1909-06-18
FINANCIER ON TRIAL

Fort Smith, June 1S-R, F. De Mere Lemon, alleged frenzied fi- nancier Whose operations in connection with the Southern Bank and Trust Company entang- led him in the meshes of the fed eral law faces trial at the term Of U. S. court now in session, lie Is charged with violation of the postal laws.
 Tle cases in which he is invoiv- ed were called at the last term of court and his bond was ordered forfeited when he failed to ap- pear for trial.
 Col John |. Warrington, the newly appointed district attor- ney is officiating for the first time
The Prescott daily news., 1909-06-18
R.L. JARVIS, OF ROSS.
 TON, LOSES Ills MIND
[ is Thought that Worry Over the Ross
 ton PostOffiCe is One of the Causes

Mr. k, L, Jarvis of ROsston. Ne yada county was today adiudgea insane, and was taken n charge by the county officials who will keep him under guard untl place can be secured for him in the state hospital for nervous diseases>
 The primary cause of Mr. Jar Vis' dementia is not fully deter mined but the immediate cause is sad to be his worry over the Rosston postoffice for which he is an applicant ito succeed T. J. Mendenhall, resigned.
 Mr, Jarvis was in Prescott yes- terday and his peculiar behavior was the subject of much comment but his friends supposed the mat ter only temporary and after an hour or more he became rational again and went home. During the night he became crazy again. and alarmed the family who sent for the sheriff to take charge of him.
 Mrt Jarvis is a man of family and was a most substantial cit lZen or his community.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-06-18

Mining Company which was made up entirely of foreign investors, most of whom are said to have been residents of England spent a large amount of money in the installation of an expensive plant. A shelter was built and every preparation made for the opening up of the mines on large scale. A town which was known as An timony sprang up near the mine and for.a time had a cons'derab.e number of residents.
 For some reason the. company abandoned the mine after small amount of the ore had been taken out and with the abandonment of the mine the town was soon desertedv
 The taxes have not been paid on the land on which the town was located and the property was offered for sale when the delinquent tax lands of Howard county were put under the ham, mer this week Not a bid was made on any of the property in cluded in the town and as a re- suit the land will go to the state