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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02

1921.
At the Genus for 1905, over 49,
900 CHILDREN UNDER SIX
TEEN YEARS OF AGE were en-
ployed in the cotton mills. Three
fourths of them received less than
81 per week and nearly half Of them
received LESS THAN So PER
WEEK. ...
In the great cotton mills of New
England the average earnings of all
operatives were less than $3.50 per
week. This great wage report COW
ers four-fifths of all operatives in
Massachusetts and for that state the
average wage was only STAT per
week. The pay of men operatives
including foremep, boss spinners
and skilled operatives, averaged
but So So PER WEEK FOR THE
HEAD OF A FAMILY.
The department Of commerce and
labor of cur Government reported
in 1907 that the average weekly
wage of cotton mill operatives in
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02

Kandiyohi county ought to be
we'll represnteted at the county op-
tion convention to convene at St.
Paul March 2. Every church, soci-
ETY., official board and club ought
to see that they are represented.
The time to agitate is now. 1t will
be of little avail after the politi-
clans once get their pins SET.
Never in the history of Minnesota
was there more important con-
vention called. It will be the most
important kind of conservation
congress, for its object is the con-
servation of the manhood and wom-
anhood Of Minnesota. If the coun-
ty option sentiment of the country
districts wishes to assert itself 50
that there can be no question as to
what they want, this convention
gives them the opportunity. A little
concerted action now will mean
more than any quantity of oratory
later on.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02

The TRIBUNE has several times
contended that there is no adequate
reason why the primary election
law could not be amended in such a
way as to provide for majority
nominations. The enemies of pop
ular government do not like the
primary elections at all, as it de-
prives the political gangs of their
old prerogative of making states
and debating nominations in con-
ventions of delegates. 1t is to be
expected that they will oppose any
thing that will tend to make more
perfect the registering the will Of
the people in the selection of candi-
dates, and therefor the friends of
direct nominations should not listen
to their opposition with such ere.
dence that they refuse to look into
what vital improvements might be
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02

England was 81 GO. only % per lent
less than in the United States.
Mr.. T. M. Young, an English, in
vestigator of the American cotton
goods industry, reported in 1902 to
the English trade that American
weavers" turn out nearly twice as
much work a day as their English
competitors and their wage per
piece is absolutely a little less.'
The wages of the American work.
man are higher than those paid
abroad. But the purchasing power
of money is less in this country.
The hours of labor of the Ameri-
can operatives are longer than in
England. The speed of machines
here is usually greater. The out
put per employee in the Urited
States is almost uniformly much
greater than in England aid Eu-
rope.
It is plain from this evidence
that the cotton mill workers of this
country have not received "Ameri-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02

every bill that was acted upon. Up
to the middle of last session he had
earned a distinction probably never
squalled in any legislative body.
During one term in the House and
q session and a half in the Senate,
Mr.. Sagerg missed only one roll
call. which occu, red when he had
temporarily left the chamber to get
book. !
"Senator Sageng's greatest service
to the state consisted in his fight to
reform the rules, curtail the power
of standing committees and change
the system that controls legislative
procedure. He had sufficient abili-
ty to see that legislative methods
must be reformed before other re-
forms would be possible. He fought
not Cannon, but Cannonism, as that
element in law-making manifested
Itself in the legislature.
Railways alert and fearless and
fair, Sageng stood as the advocate
of a more deliberate Senate, with
honesty and the public welfare as
the basis of the consideration Of
every measure"
In his characterization of mem
bers", Mr.. Haines says of Senator
Sageng:
"Strong insurgent leader; is dis
cussed in chapter on Log Rolling
led fight for rules reform and stoo<
, as the foremost champion of mor'
deliberate St nate; fought the Hin
ton bill and opposed the senat'
combine en- every ISSUE"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02

EVERY loyal citizen should pa
tronize home industry" is a ,rui>m
that is accepted as truth h all. but
often times it is thoI> SLY disre-
ga,ded by the very people whom
such policy would l,enefi' the
most. Let u, all give this idea
some thot and see if pe1ciia' ce We
are not ourselves guilty of buying
goods made outside WHEN We might
as we'll have lurcha ID the same
article made at home and encour-
aged some enter rr: sc right at our
doors. 1t is We II enough to encour.
age new manufacturers to come tc
Wil|mar, but if every person al
Wi}lmar would give the preference
to home made goods right now
there would he good healthy ex'
pansion noticeable among those en-
terprises that are already located
here.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02

present trust and tariff made prices
on Sc At per week? What sort of
a high standard of living" home
can q head of a family maintain in
Massachusetts on So So per week?
These are not the "American
wages"' for the maintenance of
which the people have consented to
be taxed by the Captains of Cot
tom, these wages that rob the
child of his playday, these wages
that rob the babe of mothers care.
these that make the mill towns of
New England an inviting field for
exploitation by the procurers of
daughters of the poor" for dens
of infamy in city s]ums, the wages
that drive forth from the tenements
where they sleep all membrcs of
the family old enough to work, in
to the mills to fight the endless
fight to make ends meet. These
are not the wage rates for the sake
of which the American people have
consented to Taxation without re-
presentation ~
These are the wages of a Grimm
al system. the wages of SUBJ
jected people, the wages of oppres-
sion. and these 'profits" are not
profits but are fruits of graft and
theft. the plunderings of money
gluttons run mad in their insatiate
greed, piling fortune upon fortune
until their accumulated wealth be-
a menace to society, COR
RUPTING AND DOMINATING
THE PEOPLES GOVERNMENT.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02

Senator Ole 0. Sageng of Otter
Tail County was elected four years
ago as lone populist. He was en-
tirely Independent Of any political
party. Yet he made one of the
best records achieved in the last
two legislatures. We refer to this
because in the first place we great
ly admire the rugged honesty of
purpose of Senator Sageng, and in
the second place it was stated in
the campaign in this county four
years ago that a member must nec-
essarily align himself with some
political party in order to have any
influence or accomplish anything in
the halls of legislation. In his
chapter on clog rolling, Lynn
Haines, in his The Minnesota Leg
islature of 1909, says of Senator
Sageng:
"Ole o. Sageng, 59th district,
Otter Tail County-is probably the
freest from this "trading" faint of
any member of eithe, branch. He
recognized the evil clearly and
fought it at every opportunity.
When the Cass Lake Normal School
bill was before the Senate he at
tackled it in one of the strongest
speeches in the session. That meas
ure had little to commend it, yet so
diligently and energetically did its
authors "trade' that it passed both
House and Senate. Mr.. Sageng
has made an enviable record in
many ways With him every meas
ure has always been supported or
opposed solely because of it's provi-
Fsions and purposes. He was pos
.sibly the only member in either
body who always read and studied
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02

can wages" which in any measure
justify the extravagant tariff
benefits of the cotton schedule
These benefits have been absorbed
before they reached the wage earn
er.
In the proceedings of the last an.
nual convention of the National AS.
ISOLATION IF Cotton Manufacturers
is given a table of the dividends
paid by eighteen leading New Eng.
land cotton mills: The average an.
nual dividend paid by the mills OF
this group for the previous eight
years, through good times and bad,
was nearly Is per cent. In addition
to which it was stated that one mill
had paid an extra dividend of Is
per rent and another had paid an
extra dividend of 100 per cent.
Thirty mills of Fall River, Mass. ,
paid for fourteen years dividends
that averaged 20 per cent annual
~ and in addition accumulated a
surplus equal to % per cent Of their
total capital.
Sanford & Kelly, brokers of Fall
River, report that the dividends
paid, cash and stock. by 80 Fall
River mills in 1907 averaged over
20 per cent.
The indictment against the cot
ton schedule and it's benefciaries is
made. The case against the leap
tains of cotton" is in. The evil
dence of their grating and embez-
element is abundant and conclusive.
Charged by the people with the ad-
ministration of q great trust fund
for the benefit of "American la
bor' they loll and surfeit in wealth
while the lawful beneficiary of that
trust struggles for a decent ex-
istence. 49,.
In the face Of these facts, what
the Republican platform says about
maintaining THE high standard of
living of the wage earners of this
country, who are the most direct
beneficiaries Of the protective sys-
tenn looks like buncombe. High
standard Of livinR!!'' Where is the.
wizard Of finance who can maintain
even 4 deaeat standard e LIVING 1t
J. ~
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02

made. It is perfectly practic
that the voter be permitted to ex-
press bis second choioe and third
choics on the ballot 20 that by tho
elimination Of minority candidates
the true choice Of majority. Of
those voting can be directly ascer--
tanned.
In this way it would be impos-
sible to defeat the will of the peo-
pie by securing a lot If stool pig
cons to run and divide the vote Of
the opposition, which is the one
bad defect of the present law which
provides for plurality nominations.
The first actual trial of the pre-
ferential ballot occurred at Grand
Junction. Colorado, the other day
where the system is provided by
the rev city charter which also en-
bodies the Galveston plan of city
government. In this election there
were six candidates for commits
sioner of public affairs, none Of
! which received more than 600 votes
of the 1,848 cast. However by
eliminating the minority candidates
and counting the second and third
choice of candidates as recorded by
the voters at the election, MIR. Todd
received total of 1850 votes and
thus was elected by majority of
the people, precisely the same as if
another election had been held.
The plan has been condemned as
impractical because it is said to be
complicated, but as a matter Of fact
the plan is no more complicated
than the blanket ballots now used
in some of the states.
The popular nomination idea has
come to stay, and it should be ex.
tended to state officials and be i'm.
proved as far as possible to the end
that the will of the people be cor
rectly ascertained and carried out
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02
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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2, 1910.

The Republican Gazette says in
the last issue that it "doubts that
the tariff has as much to do with
the high cost of living as some
over-zealous revisionists are trying
to make US believe" We refer
our contemporary to the article by
LaFollette in another column.
Does the Gazette think that the
Senator from Wisconsin is wrong in
his figures presented or is lover
Jealous" in the deductions he
makes?
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02
THE DISGRACE OF THE COTTON
SCHEDULE.

the outrages of the cotton schedule
are perpetuated and accentuated.
The power behind this new cotton
schedule was the power of success
full public plumber.
Under the Dingley cotton sched-
ule, the duties levied on the i'm
ports of 1907 amounted to frac-
ton less than as percent Of the
value of the goods imported.
The duties of the new Payne
Cannon-A cotton schedule ap-
piled to the importation of 1907
would average over SO percent of
the value of the goods. Under the
new schedule there are more pro-
hibitive duties higher than before.
There are new duties on mercerized
and other finished cloths. There
are new increases by new def
nitions and by re-classifications.
Conservatively stated, the new
schedule is at least Is percent high
err than the old.
The value of cotton manufactures
of the United States, shown by the
census of 1905. was $1,014.094. 237.
The wages paid were $217 1856
1922. The total labor-cost in cotton
manufacturers amounted, therefore,
to only 81 per cent of the value of
the product.
Of "cotton goods" alone, the
production was SAP, 451 .218 and
the wages paid were 1874, 377 ,696.
The total labor cost in cotton goods
was only % percent Of the value of
the goods.
Do YOU BELIEVE, thoughtful
reader, that tariff of over so per
cent was honestly enacted to cover
the difference in labor-cost between
this and foreign countries when the
total labor cost in this country is
only % per cent?
Moreover, there was no justifica-
ton for increasing the cotton sched-
ule. The labor-cost in cotton
manufacture is decreasing, not in
creasing. The Statistical Abstract,
for 1906 published by the Govern
ment, shows that the lahor-cost in
cotton manufactures in the United
States was for 1890. Is per cent j;
for 1900, ESQ per cent; for 1905, %
percent. The Census of Manufac-
lures shows that the labor-cost per
spindle in the cotton mills of the
United States decreased as follows:
In 1890 it was $4.65. In 1900 it
was $4.48. In 1905 it was $4.08.
In New England the labor-cost was
least and decreased as follows: in
1890, SAL; in 1900, $4.3l; and in
1905, $4.06.
According to Census of Manufac-
lures for 1905, 80, 1853 cotton mill
operatives were paid 1914, 377 ,696,
an average of 1904 year for each
employe, or less than S. per week.
Last year the Census Office pub
lished the most comprehensive re-
port on wages in the cotton industry
ever published in the United States.
This document bulletin 93) shows
that at the Census of 1905, at a
time when work and wage condi-
tions were exceptionally good in
this country, the wages of 2o2, 211
cotton mill operatives in the Unit
ed States. men, women and chill
dren, AVERAGED ONLY sc. AZ
PER WEEK. The average wage
for men was but $7.7l per week,
fer women. $@e.o2. an fer ehildrea.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02

LaFollette's Weekly Magazine
This nation is committed to the
protective principle. Tariff for
protection has become an estab-
lished national policy. 1t has be-
come so by the express sanction and
approval Of the American people.
The people have been woc to the
support of this policy by the
preachments of the Republican par
ty that the purpose of the protec-
tive tariff was and is to enable
American manufacturers to pay
American wages and retain the
American market against the for
eigner paying lower wages.
The tariff enhances prices to the
American consumer by excluding
from this market the cheaper pro-
ducts of foreign countries. Those
products are supposed to be cheaper
because lower wages and lower
standards of living maintain in the
foreign countries in which they are
produced.
The tariff is, therefore, TAX
ADDED TO THE PRICE OF
WHAT THE PEOPLE CONSUME.
It is a tax to which the people have
consented in order to maintain in
this country high wages and high
standard of living.
For the collection of this tax the
American captains of Industry
are made the peoples tax-gather-
ers. This tax collected through
the tariff enhanced prices which the
people pay for what they consume
becomes in the hands of these tax
gatherers trust fund for the bene-
fit of American labor.
Against the broad principle of
protection-protection to equal the
difference in labor-cost between
this and foreign countries there
can be no successful contention.
But, that the protective tariff
should be made an instrument of
WHOLESALE PLUMBER is an out
rage upon the consuming public
and a disgrace to the national gov
eminent.
Plumber by means of the tariff is
of two kinds-GRAFT AND EN-
BEZZLEMENT.
When tariff schedules impose ex-
cessive duties and empower the tax
gatherer, "the captain of indus
try, to take from the consuming
public more than is needed to make
up this difference in labor cost,
more than he expects or is expected
to account for in higher wages to
his American labor, then the tariff
is perverted from its legitimate
purpose. This tariff excess be-
comes a public tax to support pri-
vate graft.
When the tax-gatherer, 1.-THE cap
tain of industry" diverts this trust
fund in his hands from its lawful
beneficiary, the American wage
Garner, when he does not account
for part or all of it in higher wages
paid his employees. bit applies it
to his own private enric! ment, his
act is an aggravated form of en-
beZzlement.
In the cotton schedule of the
Dingley law perversion of the pro-
tective principle was conspicuous
in all forms. In the Payne Cannon
Aldrich downward revision tariff
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02
Hardly.

Hardly.
Kindly Visitor Mrs. A.. what do you
suppose makes you suffer so?
Mrs. Al don't know. l am sure.
and l believe nothing but postmor
TEN will ever show.
Kindly Visitor-You poor thing! You
are too weak to stand that.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02
z. e. E00E.
THING CONTRACI
Cellar Draining Tile Laying
Enquire Of Anderson Land Co., WiIlmar
A Militant Statesman.

4 Militant Statesman.
The first congressman from Missouri
was John Scott Of Ste Genevieve. lie
was the delegate in congress from
Missouri territory for four years and
then served as congressman for eight
years. He was noted for the eccen-
61c1ty OF wearing winter and summer
4 cloth cap that almost covered his
eyes. and bis pantaloons were always
at least four sizes too large for him.
All bis life he carried under his vest
on bis left side a beautifully carved
dirk and on the other side pistol
Kansas City Star.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02
M atched.

II married my first husband for mon-
~ and my second for love-"
'Then you are very happy now,
suppose"
ALAS. no! You see, my first hus-
band married ME for love and my sec
ond for money."-Fliegende Batter.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02
Prudence.

Prudence Is common sense well
trained In the art of manner, of dis
C1aRinatton aud OF address, - ,5.4s
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Guaranteed Circulation. 1900.

Entered December s, 1902, =! w 'llmar,
Minnesota, second class matter, under
act OF March 3, 1871
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-02

VICTOR E. LAWSON, Editor and Manager.
LUDWIG S. DALE, City Editor.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-06-18

Sanitary Inspector G. w. Cleveland
meets with very varied and amusing
experiences in the discharge of his
duties. He had just completed the dis
tribution and mailing up at every house
Of the printed instructions from the
woman's Club about how to abate the
fly and mosquito nuisance. few
days ago Mr.. Cleveland called around
again and noticing at a negro womans
house the card was missing and de-
manding the cause the woman said her
children thought the sign meant the
house was for sale and not wishing to
move, concluded the best way to pre-
vent 1T was to tear down the sign and
land then proceeded to explain to the
dusky tenant the contents of the card
and what 1T was designed to teach
them, to improve the sanitary condi-
tion Of their premises and thereby i'm
prove their health conditions by get
ting rid Of the pesky and poisonous
fly and the fever bite of the skeeter.
She listened with great intentness and
when the sanitary inspector had de-
livered his sanitary lecture and where
she could get the liquid exterminator
for the pests. she CURLY Informed the
inspector that the flies and mosquitoes
had no terrors for her, but as she was
q sufferer at times with rheumatic
pains, If Tydings & Co. would give her
free prescriptions for the alienation of
that affection, she sure would call for
the medicine
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-06-18
4 RARE. CASE

The editor had a pleasant interview
the past week with Mrs. f. 9. Booze.
who had been visiting her brother, W.
B. Merck, and was on her way to her
home at Homestead. and learned some
curious but interesting racts ABOUT
that section of our state.
The first and most rare was that in
her particular section, within a radius
of one and one-half miles, there are
and have been for some time living as
many as sixteen widows, maiden ladies
and young women looking out for their
places with not a single male member
Of single family on the spot. They
have their groves and raise vegetables
to perfection on their own farms. She
says she has as many as fifty varie-
ties Of fruit and that it is as healthy as
1T can be. The land is covered with a
thick growth Of pines that are from
rs to 100 feet tall.
This season there were hundreds of
acres planted to tomatoes from which
a snug sum was realized by the truck
ers. Land is selling all the time and
becoming more valuable. Mrs. Booze
went there years ago and took up a
homestead and is therefore on the
ground floor with good prospects of re-
alizing a good sum should she want to
dispose of her $50 acres.-Eustis Lake
Region.
Mrs. Booze was for a couple of years
a resident of Ocala where, with her in
teresting little children, she made
many friends. She conducted the
Savoy and the Montezuma hotels dur
| ing her stay here.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-06-18

John J. Hamilton writes book on
the DesMoines plan Of city govern
mont Sixty-seven cities have now
adopted it and others are trying to get
II. Here IL what the plan has accom-
plished. commission of five men
elected by the people manage the city,
doing away with council, etc. OF the
results achieved. Mr.. Hamilton re-
marks that every city has its story of
deficits wiped out, floating debts taken
up. bonds retired. business methods
introduced, long standing nuisances
abated. laws enforced, books better
kept, streets kept cleaner, public
works more honestly constructed, pub
lie buildings erected. additional parks
and Fairgrounds acquired, economics
enforced and taxes reduced" More
over, they all report a revival Of pub
lie spirit and Improvement in business
resulting from better city conditions.
Everywhere leaks have been stopped,
system has taken the place of chaos,
efficiency has been substituted for poor
service. promptness for hopeless pro-
crastination. lower for higher tax lev
les. and better values received for the
public OUTLAWS" In word. the citizen
has become reconciled to his city; he
has acquired a new faith in it and in
himself as a citizen, and along with
this his hopes for the republic have re-
vived.