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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-20

On Thursday evening. March II,
Mr.. Edwin NJ. label and Miss Mar
guerite Barngrover We're united in
marriage. Mr.. and Mrs. label will
he at home to friends after April
at 1920 Wood street, Lincoln. To this
young couple The Wageworker ex-
tends it's heartiest congratulations and
its wishes for long and happy mar
ried life. Mrs. label is the daughter
of MIR. and Mrs. Charles Barngrover,
formerly of Lincoln but now of Love-
land, Colo. Mr.. Barngrover was a
member of Lincoln Typographical
Union for many years, and Mrs. Barn
grover was a charter member of
Capital Auxiliary.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-20

Dairyman, the Country Merchant and
does a general job printing business.
The union musicians of Springfield,
Mo-, are certainly live "ones." The
local, No. $50. has just purchased
twenty-five-foot lot in the heart of
the business :trict and will pro-
coed Immediately to build a home for
itself. That listens mighty good.
Here's to unbounded success for this
bunch of Missourians.
The union printers of Omaha have
assessed themselves cents month
each for the benefit of the 1ocked-out
hatters, the assessment to continue
until the trouble is ended. "A little
fellow feeling makes us wondrous
kind" The union printers of Omaha
have been through the mill, and they
know how to feel.
Lincoln Pressmen are getting into
the game at lively rate. For a
month past The local has been prose
cutting vigorous campaign for new
members with most gratifying results.
A number of new members have been
added, and new life has been instilled
into some of the old members. When
the International meets in Omaha
next June Lincoln local expects to
be represented, not only by a live
delegate, but by bunch of live Wis
Lincoln is one of the good towns so
far as union conditions are concerned.
Martin B. Madden, president of the
Associated 2uiiding Trades of Chi
cago, and NJ. J. Doyle, business agent
of Electrical Workers Union No. 1874
eXtortion. Pond was fixed in the sum
of $4,000 each. They are charged
with extorting $1,000 from the Nelson
Piano Co., for the alleged calling off
of strike, and with extorting 800
from Joseph Klioka under similar cir
cumstances. Martin B. Madden, bet
ter known as Skinny Madden, is
one of the editors of the Building
Trades Journal, and Boyle is business
|agent of the Electrical Workers, No
1874, an adherent of the McNulty
Collins facticn. In a recent issue of
the Building Trades Journal appeared
a long TRADE against General Presi-
dent Reid, which wound up as fol-
lows: "'Ws tch this ilk' should be
labor's slogan!' The Electrical
Worker. quoting the above slogan"
got back with this hot one:
Thanks Skinny Madden and Mike
Boyle of No. 134. While labor is
watching us grow. the grand jury have
evidently suspected your practices of
extortion and put you under 100000
bond to prove your innocence. We
ask honest r1en for recommendations. y
And we rather guess that will hold
'em for a while.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-20

John w. Bramwood was secretary
treasurer of the International Typo
graphical Union for more than twelve
years. Last month he resigned on
the ground OF ill-health and was sue
ceeded by John Hays, second vice
president. Secretary-Treasurer Hays
came out in the March Journal with
formal announcement, and the Jour-
nal contained the correspondence be-
tween Bramwood and President
Lynch relative to the resignation
But we failed, after diligent search,
to find in the March Journal one
word commendatory of the retiring
official.
The lemons that a man hands out
are not bit sweeter when they are
returned.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-20

Henry S. Hudspeth. formerly presi-
dent of New Orleans Typographical
Union, and candidate for president
Of the International against James Nj.
Lynch year ago, was arrested last
week on the charge of fraudulently
obtaining money from the union. Ru-
mors of crookedness on the part of
Hudspeth have been floating around
for the past six or eight months.
When Hudspeth was a candidate for
president of the International The
Wageworker supported him. For this
The Wageworker begs forgiveness.
1t does not ask pardon for having
opposed James M. Lynch, but it cheer
fully acknowledges that next time it
supports man for that position he'll
have to furnish certificate of
character
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-20

By the way, Mr.. Union Booster,
did you help things along by patroniz-
ing any of The Wageworker's adver-
tisers last week?
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-20

The Dairyman Publishing Co. has
removed from the Western Newspaper
Union building and is now occupying
the new building two doors north of
the old location. The new quarters
are commodious and well lighted and
will permit the company to enlarge
its business. The Dairyman Publish
ing Co. is one of the fair printing
companies Cs Lincoln and is entitled
to the patronage of union men and
women. It publishes the Nebraska
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-20

Louis B. Maupin left last Wednes-
day for North Platte. Nebr.. where
he will occupy responsible position
in the Mcdonald State Bank. For
four years last past he has been in
the employ OF the Farmers & Mer-
chants Bank of this city.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-20
Among the Live Workers
Here, There and Elsewhere

Dairyman, the Country Merchant and
does a general job printing business.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-20

Lincoln Local No 265, Brotherhood
OF Electrical Workers, should be
counted among the very live ones"
II is hustling at a great rate, and in
order to make progress faster, it has
lust elected l.. E. Clifford to the
ford will devote his time to work in
the interests of the organization
with little time thrown in to
help some other unions if necessary.
The local has made no mistake in
selecting Mr.. Clifford. He is ION the
job" all the time, and he knows the
same from Alpha to Omaha.
The District Council of the Brother
hood of Electrical Workers, consist
Ing of Iowa and Nebraska, will meet
in Lincoln early next month, and the
local electrical workers are planning
to give the delegates the time of their
lives. This is No. 6 of the Second
Division, and twenty-five local unions
i'll Nebraska and Iowa will be pres
board. The convention will be pre-
sided over by E. E. Betz of the Lin
coin union. Mr.. Betz was vice-presi-
dent of the district, but became
president wheil District President
Fitzgerald resigned to accept the posi-
tion of second vice-president of the
International. w. L. Mayer will rep
resent the Lincoln local as delegate.
The Lincoln union is paying it's
allegience to the Reed administra-
ton. This is true all over Nebraska
and Iowa. The "McNulty- Collins
regime seems to be up against it
good and hard. notwithstanding the
fact that it won out at the Denver
convention. Up to date at least S5
per cent of the local unions are re-
Knitting to the Reed administration,
and President Reed and Secretary
Murphy are getting out the official
journal in spite of the efforts of Nc
Nuity and Collins to prevent it.
The whole trouble is to be deplored,
but certainly if a majority-an over
~helming majority of the union cleo
trical workers want to stand by the
Reed-Murphy administration it should
be taken as evidence that the Reed
Murphy administration is in the right.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-20

San Francisco's pressmen have had
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-20

The unions of Sioux City united last
week in series of labor revival
meetings. and speakers of national
reputation were brought on to boost
for unioniSm. The revival was a
huge success, despite the fact that
a lot of men who are always boasting
OF their unionism did not exhibit any
interest in the meetings.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-08
Growth of the A. & M. College.
Progressive Farmer.

Progressive Farmer.
A piece of news of special import
ance to North Carolina farmers is
that given by Prof. F. c. Reimer in a
recent statement as to the progress
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College: The agricultural work this
year has been systematized, and
never before has such good work been
done, the enrolment been so large,
or so much interest been shown. The
college during the past year has ad-
ded number of good pure bred cat
tale and swine; a complete orchard
and a model nursery have been
started; the horticultural department
has been equipped with an up.to-
date outfit; plans are on foot for the
identifying of the campus by compe-
tent landscape gardeners; and, better
than all, the college farm is being
changed from cold swamps, quilted
hillsides and WORKOUT lands into
productive fields" A barn for horses,
one for cattle and a shed for calves
and the farm implements will be built
this summer.
A large dormitory is now being
erected, as students have been turned
away for lack of accommodations.
The teaching force will be enlarged,
assistants being added to the depart
ments OF horticulture, agronomy and
animal husbandry.
All this should be a source of pride
and OF encouragement to every North
Carolina farmer. The future of farm
ing depends largely upon the young
men who are trained at the higher
institutions of agricultural education
to solve the problems which the ordi-
nary farmer cannot. Much credit is
due President Hill and his associates
for the good work of the A. & M. Col
lege; and the progress here is typical
OF that being made by the other agri-
cultural colleges of the South. In
provement seems sometimes to come
very slowly; but the future of South
ern farming is full of promise.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-08
The Insanity Racket.
Lumberton Robesonian.

Lumberton Robesonian.
This insanity racket in criminal
cases is getting beastly common,
Formerly if a man killed another and
was not clearly insane before and
after the commission of the act so
clearly insane as to make it necessary
to send him to a hospital for crimi
nal insane-it was rare that a man
put up such a plea. Now, however,
plea is made that he was insane at
the time the act was committed and
the plea is too often effective. AL
most every day new form ofinsanity
is sprung upon the public, when as a
matter of fact in nine cases out OF ten
it is perhaps nothing more than
ancient cussedness and depravity.
Last February in Charlotte W. s.
Biggers shot down J. Green Hood.
Biggers was tried in Mecklenburg
Superior Court and Saturday after
noon the jury brought in verdict of
not guilty. "ConfusionaP' insanity
was sprung in that case. 1t was con-
tended that Biggers brooded overin-
juries he had received at the hands
of Hood until he was no longer re-
sponsible for his acts so far as Hood
was concerned-though sane enough
on other subiects-sO he goes scott
free. Suppose Biggers suffers another
obsession and goes out and shoots
another man? Very well. Turn the
poor man aloose and let him go home
to his wife and children. Never mind
about the widows and orphans man
may make; paint the victim as black
as possible, let the little children and
wife of the condemned man present
as pitiable a sight as possible while
the trial is going on, prove that he
was mOmentarily insane when the
act was committed, and let him 90 in
peace,
Insane? OF course he was insane
to the extent that every man is in
sane who is under the influence of in
tense anger. But follow this thing
to where it is bound to lead you, if
you please, and you'd just as we'll do
away with all criminal courts and
write it large that it is clearly evil
dent, every time a man commits a
crime against society, that he was
not in his right mind at the time-no
matter how sane he may be after,
wards-and should not be punished
This insanity racket has passed the
| limit
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-08
No Tears There.
Charlotte Chronicle.

l CnfOnlClc.
The laying away OF Robert East
man, who brutally murdered Mrs
Woodill was in keeping with the end
ing of a man of that kind. 1t was
pathetic, if pathos could attach to
an event of the sort. His grave is
made near the house of murder, a
house that had been built in a wilder
ness to serve him as refuge from the
the hand of the law, and to which he
lured misguided woman and put
her to death in a horrible, savage
manner. Not for one moment is it to
be believed that the young woman
knew OF the proposed destination
when she started out with Eastman.
By successive stages of deception, he
got her to the lonely house-and the
rest can be imagined. At his grave
there was neither priest nor Bible, no
woman, no tears. Fortunately, there
was one person present who knew the
Lords Prayer, or who rendered it as
he thought he knew it, and thus the
body of murderer, self-Slain and
who left Il written lie behind him, a
lie he wrote to the woman who had
been his wife, was given to the worms.
Had there been any doubt of his
guilt, or had there been no doubt, at
all, some feeling other than that of a
repplsive duty in burying him might
have been felt, but for his last cow
ardly act in trying to cast dishonor
on the name of his victim by making
her a member of party of libertines
at whose hands she met her death.
The blow which he gave her on her
head was no more cruel than the
blow he would have given her reputa-
ton in his letter had anybody who
read the letter been SO simple minded
as to have believed it. He was buried
with less respect than most people
would have buried cat or dog, and
there is no one who has read of his
crime to protest against the manner
OF his burial.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-08
The Review of Reviews.

The July number of the American Re
view of Reviews is up to it's usual high
standard of excellence with full table of
contents. For the reader it is only neces-
sary to note that this great magazine is
ready for his entertainment and edifica-
ton, for it is known all over the Republic
as one OF the ablest and most compre-
hensive publications of this country. The
Review of Reviews is a progressive educa-
tional institution. for each number re-.
cords the leading events of the times and
discusses the vital questions as they
are brought to the fore in the world
Among the leading articles for July are
Affairs at Washington" Alaska OF
Today-Our Richest Dependency, ""How
the Railroads Serve the Northwest, y
The Playing Grounds OF the Nation"
''Europe's Naval Craze Edward Eve
rett Hale The Centenary of Oliver
Wendell Holmes" and Others. The mis-
cellaneous articles are numerous, and
when the reader finishes this magazine
he is fully abreast with the world cur
rent events topics Address the Review
of Reviews, 13 Astor Place. New York.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-08
SENATOR SIMMONS.
How He Was Regarded Ten Years
AGO and the Estimate In Which He
is Held Now-Hls Development In
Strength, Ability and Influence Rec
OQniZed.
Red Buck, in Charlotte Observer.

Red Buck, in Charlotte Observer.
Ten years ago, when Senator Sim
mons drove out the Republicans and
Populists, united under one banner
for pelf and pie, the average North
Carolinian who did not know him
dismissed him as political wire-pull-
er, and a nincompoop, unfit for any
thing else than to manage red shirt
campaign against Southern Republi-
cans and their allies, which were COM
posed of a horde of illiterate negroes
and several thousand carping Pop
ulists, but today he is seen i'll a dill
ferent light His colleagues point to
him as one OF the most formidable
men in Congress. His everlasting in
dustry, his ever ready pugnacity, his
never failing courage, physical as
well as moral, and his genius for
organization have caused him to be
ranked with the best. Keen insight,
daring courage and combativeness
are his greatest assets. He convinces
the onlooker that he has convictions
and pluck. Standing in the open,
every day in the week, he is ready to
be counted. The fence does not ap-
peal to him, nor will he take refuge
on it in time Of distress. There used
to be, and | believe there is yet, some
thing in the Tar heel blood that
made q man admire the fellow who
fights for what he thinks is right and
does not retreat under fire. In the
campaigns of 1898 and 1900, when
a real general was needed, Simmons
was in the saddle, to which he had
been elevated by crying Democrats.
At that time many called him a bluff
er but his bitterest enemy would not
apply that term to him now. He is
anything but q buffer. The scrap
ping spirit is in his bones.
Newspaper men who did not know
that his name was on the list OF Sen
ators have become interested in Mr..
Simmons and whatever he says is
considered good copy. The brilliant
Bailey compels attention, and so
does the rugged, original Tillman,
and, now and evermore, the fighting
Simmons.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-08
THE GOLD LEAF.
THURSDAY. JULY $, 1909.
Develops Splendid Section.
News and Observer.


The announcement that the At
lantic Coast Line and the Norfolk q
Western railroads would furnish the
necessary funds to carry to compile
ton the Winston-Salem and South
bound railroad, has been received
with much qualification. This road
will develop the fine section OF coun,
try between Winston-Salem and
Wadesboro and will be apaying piece
OF property from the start. 1t Will
connect the Atlantic Coast Line at
Wadesbc-o with the Norfolk 4 Wes-
tern at Winston-Salem and by the
use OF both lines give a direct route
from CharlertOn, S. C., to the coal
fields OF West Virginia. 1t means big
things for Winston-Salem, Wades-
boro. and the rich counties OF For
syth, StanIy and Arson and section
OF Rowan. 1t will be ninety miles
long and it is estimated that it Will
cost three million dollars to con-
struct the line. 1t is expected that
the road will be in operation within
two years.
North Carolina is the home OF Up
portunity and Progress.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-08
Famous For Good Roads.
Charlotte Observer.

The people of Mecklenburg are
proud of the good roads of their
county and it is matter of graft
fication to them that these roads
have been SO extensively noted and
so highly praised of late The recent
New Iork-Atlanta automobile tour
has brought them into prominence
over all this section of the country.
The Wilmington Star says:
Nearly every paper in the United
States. in publishing the accounts OF
the scout cars from Atlanta to New
York, contained the report of the scouts
giving Mecklenburg county the credit for
having the best roads between Atlanta
and Washington. This shows that when
a country is progressive the world will
hnd it out in some way. Mecklenburg' e
good roads are n big advertisement for
her
To be heralded far and wide as
having the best roads of any county
between New York and Atlanta is
cause for no little satisfaction. Neck
lenburg has found it's good roads q
first-class advertisement, not to men,
ton their more obvious uses.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-08
Raleigh Evening Times

Another Jury has gone wrong and
the cause of justice gets q setback III
the verdict OF the jury in the Biggers
trial in Mecklenburg county. Big
gers shot J. G.. Hood on the streets
of Charlotte several months ago. lie
shot his man down then emptied
his pistol into the PROSTATE form:
1t was a deliberate, cold-blOoded
murder and we believe the defense did
not deny this, but claimed that at
the time OF the murder Biggers was
suffering from ''confusional insani-
ty." 1t was contended that Hood had
wronged Biggers in a financial deal
and that this had SO preyed upon the
mind OF the murderer that he didn't
know he was doing wrong when he
killed the man, all of which is the
purest bosh He had sanity enough
left to get the man he meant to kill,
and the verdict OF acquittal is a
travesty upon justice. If the Biggers
case is to be used as precedent then
it will be mighty hard to convict any
man of murder in this State hereafter.
1t was hard enough before, and 1.-THE
Biggers verdict is a proper one then
no man ought to be convicted OF
murder in this State hereafter.
But since sentimental jurors will &C.
uqit suchmen as Biggers upon almost
any dodge that resourceful lawyers
devise there should be some way OF
protecting the public from the future
acts of these men. Biggers is now
free and may kill anybody at any
time and feel pretty sure that the law
cannot reach him. He may be crazy
but he has sense enough left to know
this, and if he is really crazy, or if he
ever has been crazy for a moment, he
is a dangerous man to turn loose
upon the community. The law should
make some provision for the proper
confinement of these "crazy" men.
Harry Thaw escaped conviction for
the murder of Stamford White on the
plea that he was insane at the time
of the crime, but he was Immediately
sent to an asylum for the criminalin-
sane, and he is still there though bis
friends have made strenuous efforts
to get him out. And that is where
he ought to spend the balance of his
days. And it is to some such place
as that, that men like Biggers ought
to be sent Immediately upon a verdict
of acquittal based upon insanity.
There is another practice that
should be stopped. During the charger
part OF the Biggers trial the accused
mans little four-year-old girl sat in
his lap. She was there for but one
purpose and that to influence the
jury And it is this practice of work.
ing upon the sympathies of iuries
that should be stopped. 1t is not
only wrong because OF the reasons
for which it is used, but, as in this
case, it is doing the child wrong 1t
is a rather brutal experience in sub
iecting a child to two weeks of such
proceeding, as this child had to
undergo, and not very creditable to
those engaged in it, even though ii
may have helped the jury in arriving
at their verdict.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-08
FARMERS INSTITUTE.

Agricultural Department Planning
for Practical Campaign Looking to
Better Farming Conditions-Insti-
tutes for Men and Women to be
Conducted In Henderson July 10Th.
T. B. Parker, Director, writes the
GOLD LEAF that the State Depart
ment of Agriculture is planning to
send out several parties to engage in
institute work this summer. 1t is
their desire to cover the State as we'll
as they can. The several articles
that have been published in the GOLD
LEAF and some of the other State
papers within the past few weeks
calling attention to the great drain
made upon our State for home sup
plies brought into North Carolina
from other States should cause our
farmers to stop and consider if there
is not a better way of farming than
the one which We are now following.
Several hundred thousand dollars
worth of corn, hay, meat, -four,
wheat and other farm products
brought annually into Vance and
some other counties of the State, and
mostly sold to farmers, is the strong
est argument that can be made in
favor of a change of farming methods.
The Institutes are intended to correct
this practice as much as possible.
The speakers will discuss diversified
ton OF crops, special crops, rotation
OF crops, soilimprovement, fertilizers,
stock raising, dairying and other
questions of vital interest to the
farmers of the State.
Mr.. Parker states that Institutes
will be held in this vicinity as follows:
Oxford, Saturday, July II.
Henderson, Monday, July 10.
Franklinton, Tuesday, July 20.
Louisburg, Wednesday, July p.
Wake Forest, Thursday, July %.
1t is hoped these Institutes will be
we'll attended. We suggest that our
people, both men and women, attend
these meetings and take note books
and pencils along with them. They
will find the discussions interesting,
edifying and profitable we are sure.
Mr. Parker writes that the Sea-
board Railroad will furnish two cars
for these Institutes, one of which will
be loaded with improved agricultural
implements for the farmers to ex-
anime, and the other for the
women's institute, which will be pre-
sided over by Mrs. W. N. Hutt, with
a capable assistant. We urge upon
our farmer friends and their wives
and daughters to attend these insti-
tutes.