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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14
verywhere, Lord Curzonf

everywhere, Lord Curzonf :.
Who abuses the Socialists in
America, where they are weak,
and praises them in France, where
they are strong?
Who has failed at a single point
in his lifetime to take up a worthy
and unpopular cause? Who is the
greatest. moral coward of our
times?
What charlatan has hypnotized
the bewildered American people
into thinking that he has headed
the insurgent movement, which
was unable to take a single step
in advance during his administra-
ton of the presidency?
Has any president for the past
generation surrounded himself
with more unworthy characters {?
Has any president since the begin
ming of American history failed
more completely to lead the people
in one single instance? Has any
previous president ever had the
h rd1 hind RI nroton1 m oe.c,,,o u
the leadership Of every popular
movement, while behind the peo-
pies backs he does everything in
his power to defeat them? Has
any president, while counting pop
ularity in all matters Of practical
politics, so boldly Haunted capt..
alistic principles in the face of the
people on every matter which is
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14
I.ABoR's VOTE GOES INTO .
NO MANS VEST POCKET

The very nature of our govern
ment makes it duty >on every
man to vote, and those who have
common interest should cast their
votes in common. -
The workingman is coming to
be the most independent man who
has the right of suffrage. No man
controls his vote, and a hint to
this effect is the signal for the de.
mand >of an Immediate apology:
which is forthcoming.
No man has ever controlled the
combined vote Of labor, and the
man of labor will find. the poison
GUS insinuation against his free.
dom Of choice at the ballot box
has been his greatest blessing lin
the long, run, for it has made him
value to the utmost his franchise
and his right Of suffrage.
Where he once voted for the
E'good fellow because he was a
"good fellow he now keeps an
accurate account Of his record he
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14
: SMILE, DARN YOU, SMILE.

When the world don't go to suit you,
And you feel down in the dumps;
When the people whom you meet
Seem a lot of stingy chumps;
When the sun is cold and chilly, /.
And troubles begin to pile,
That's the time to can your worries
Just smile. darn you, smile.
If your lady love seems frosty,
And your friends are cold as WE'LL;
II the discomfort of winter
Comes to spend a weary spell:
If some new disaster threatens =,
- You most every little while,
That's the time to show your courage,
So smile, darn you, smile.
There is naught for you to- worry
= But an early yawning grave; ri
There is still a lot to live for,
So all grouches you may save.
Just forget the tribulations,
Though they seem to stretch a mile
Bid: them very firmly ''beat it,
And smile, darn you. smile.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

America.
They are the industrial grand
dukes that rule not only the senate,
but their paid attorneys in the house
and their office boys that conduct the
various state governments.
Not the least interesting thing
about the senate is the fact that it
is now exactly what it was intended
to be.
The constitutional convention that
created the senate intended it to be
the ruling power, and to be a pos
session of the wealthy.
/ Gourevneur Morris in the constitu-
tional convention said: 1.-The senate
ought to be composed of men of great
and established property, of the arts
tocracy. to keep down the turbulency
of democracy"
And If you will read also the words
Of Roger Sherman, of Elbridge Gerry
and of Edmund Randolph OF Cen
eral Pinckney and of Colonel Mason,
you will see that they:all agreed that
the senate should be composed Of
persons of wealth. - u
Roger Sherman went so far as to
say: 1.-THE people should have as
little to do as maybe about the gov
eminent"
Elbridge Gerry declared that "The
senate should be so constituted as to
provide a. check In favor Of the COM
mercial interests" and Edmund Ran
dolph announced that THE, Object
Of this second branch is to: control
the !. democratic branch of the ma
tional legislature."'
One Dickerson thought "The SEN
ate should consist of the most distin-
guished characters, distinguished
through rank in life and their weight
Of property and bearing as strong a
likeness to the British house of lords
as possible =
Well, the senate has fulfilled all the
purposes for which it was designed
by our revolutionary fathers. =
In the century when all other
countries of the world are moving
| toward democracy and checking alb
solutism, our senate has become more
and more powerful until today It
bears family likeness to that an
cient and honorable body that once
ruled Rome. Z
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

The administration fight against
Clifford Pinchot, late forester Of
the United States, has spread to
the postoffice department.. Post
master General Hitchcock has de-
cided to wipe the very name of
Pinchot off the map. In the Post
al Bulletin, the official organ of
the postoffice department. issued
last week, there is an order chang
ing the name Of the postoffice of
Pinchot, Shoshone county, Idaho,
to Avery.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

It now develops that the Ball
niger crowd planned to have
CLAWS indicted. It needed some
thing of this. sort to complete the
;3allinger record for infamy. But
even without this petty annoyance
Of man whose only offense was
that he prevented the dissipation
Ct the nations resources in Alas
ka, the Ballinger record is a thing
most men would hesitate about
fathering.> =.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14
GET YOUR EYES OPEN

a good many union men who
make good wages say they can
afford to take labor paper.
Have you ever thought Of the
work labor paper does for you
and your wage scales, for which
it. never gets return either in
or thanks? @@ s. y
:: Do you realize that it is through
the publicity given unionism in
your paper that the public is edu-
GATED, that public feeling is arous-
cd, which makes it. possible for
you to get a wage increases.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

The union man who loses his
temper while discussing union
questions, who believes in telling
an employer '*you must, - who is
not willing to explain in detail
the objects and aims of organized
labor, is not a fit, representative
and should be kept in the back
ground.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

looks for his measures and ignores
his mien; he laughs at his protes-
tations and looks to his platform ;
he measures the office seeker $
ability by his performance < &
Labor once, in the misty past,
begged for the crumbs from, the
political banquet, but now it sits
at the table and proposes the toast
which it drinks along with the 9th
err forces which look to a clear fu-
ture. - .T@3> .= 81: =.
Labor's vote is lAbor''s own, but,
remember, labor casts its vote for
measures which build nations and
not for men who build classes.
Your vote is your own to cast
as you will. Your organization is
not your own, but your child's:
Your vote perishes as you do. 7 our
child comes into your organization
after you. perish. Give it 70 him
as mill tant and as FIRE Of political
bies as it is now. ==
No man $ memory is 50 long as
to. to. be able t.. say that any man
lived a consistent political career,
a nor !. IS any man s memory 50 short
as to say q principle ever changed.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

Can you eat without fear Of pto-
maines? Can you drink without
danger of coal-tar poison or typ
hoids Can you order a suit with
out fear of shoddy9 Can you buy
a picture without the certainty Of
bunko? Such is life under capital
ism. 49,. -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

Conditions in. his. party in
Washington have been sue that
even Taft has deemed it advisable
to pause in that city for little
while. Of course; he has proved
up to the handle that the govern
ment can get along perfectly we'll
without him., but he hopes by
staying near: congress to have
something to do with it's actions.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

great body Of organized workers
can brand this man for what he
really is, a clustering, bull-dozing,
four-flushing braggart, than by
holding aloof from any plan to
extend him welcome, no matter
i'm what guise offered. -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

Get the old. photograph ready
for Teddy. Set it at *''Must-b bust
trust, - and let it play I'D lib.
Thed loosen the lesser parrots
tongues for Roosevelt and ire
FORM" and we will make the peo-
pie forget that such d thing as So
cialism was ever mooted.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

Don't let the milk of human
kindness in your nature turn to
limburger cheese. If you feel that
you are a human door1nat and the
world is against you, be a happy
SORT Of a mat, with Welcome" in
r|ig red*letters right across the
e.1,,i' ~ E.:~ ..<:'fttt 49, =:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14
When Money Talks Every -.
Senator's a Demosthenes

The United States senate has be-
come mi1lionaires' club.
Senator Money Bags breakfasts
with Senator Gold Bug, plays poker
with Senator diamond Stud, lunches
with Senator Smelter Trust and then
plays poker again with Senator Ruby
Nose. He dimes with Senator Ice
Trust and goes to the vaudeville with
Senator Peacock.
In country where money talks
any senator is Demosthenes.
In country where money rules
any senator is a monarch.
And so the bunch in the senate
rule the game and dominate America
industrially and politically.
There are a few corporation lack
eys in the senate. There are two or
three vulgar. political bosses in the
senate
But except these and Jeff Davis,
whom no biologist thus far has been
able to classify. the gentlemen who
run the senate, and the house, and
the president and the courts are mill
lionaires.
1t may therefore interest our read
ers to have list of those million
aires and their millions
Guggenheim, of Colorado. $50, 0Oo, 900
Elkins, West Virginia. %. $4,000, 900
Stephenson, Wilconsin %. 100000 900
Warren, Wyoming ...... $1,000, 900
Depew, New York. ...... Is, 000,0
Oliver, Pennsylvania ..... 100000
Crane, Massachusetts, .... 100000
Aldrich, Rhode Island.... 10000 900
Wetmore, Rhode Island. 10000, 900
Du Pont, Delaware. ...... 100000
Hughes, Colorado 10000. 100000
Kean, New Jersey. ...... 100000
Newlands, Nevada ...... 100000
Lodge, Massachusetts, 90. 100000
Scott, West Virginia. ..... 100000
Bourne. Oregon ........ 100000
Smoot, Utah .-......... 100000
Hale, Maine ............ 100000
Root, New York ........ 100000
Brandegee, Connecticut .. 100000
The above gentlemen are railroad
kings, trust magnates, captains of in
| dustry, brigadier generals of finance
and their associates who own and
| control the natural resources, the in
dustries and the transportation of
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

The directors of the American, Su-
gar Refining company have an
nounced an increase of wages y. of
from to 10 per cent to the en-
ployes in all the company's re-
f1neriess is g. 49,. -: # s Is
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14
TIE ,BE|l)'HEl W RID.
ssf'f q
DOES STATE APPROPRIATE
TO ASSIST FAIR GRAFT?

/ 30
TO ASSIST FAIR GRAFT?
The Minnesota State Fair Agri-
cultural Society is getting strong
er than ever with it's graft, declar-
es the editor Of the Mesaba Ore
in a fit Of righteous rage. ..%#
For : many years there has been
an "exchallgesSof courtesies'' be-
tween, the fair management and
the state press, by which the fair
received some. valuable advertis-
ing for. 'sscomplimentary" s,,:tickets
to the fair, for self and .lady.'
Several yeats ago the fair: people
became SO STRONG. with their adj
vertising that some of the state
publishers refused to give up a
hundred dollars. worth. of space
for five dollars worth of admis-
sion Il. tickets "E'et VI which ]! induced the
fair management to give ten dol
lars in addition to the tickets to
the newspapers: for their adyer-
tising, which was correspondingly
increased. FSsS >.
Now comes the announcement
that the free:list has been suspend
ed and that the|#Ytate editor who
attends the fair must pay his way.
The advertising proposition still
holds good-that the fair people
will pay ttensdoIlarss for =. advertiis:
ing that is worth anywhere from
one hundred to five hundred dol
lars, and there are some editors in
the state that are foolish enough
to print all of the stuff the fair
management sends in. 49,
The thing for the state publish
ers to do is tosrefuse to handle any
Of the state fair advertising except
at the regular rate charged the
local advertiser. The state press,
more than any other one agency
has built up1the Minnesota state
fair until it is one of the greatest
exhibitions of the kind in the
United States, and now that the
association has the state firmly by
the neck it proposes to turn
against the newspapers
The association has mighty
pull: with the state officials and at
every session off, the state ~legisla-
ture it pulls down a fine slice Of
state money TlXia{iur = y money and
mine-to be used+ for "advertis-
ing the: agricultural. :, resources,
and then wheh The Fair is over
each year its: stock holders meet
around behind the barn and d.
vide up thousands IF dollars which
they add to their personal belong
ings. -"
Then when the, legislature has
another session the smooth chaps
who. control the destinies of the
association step in=;and get anoth-
er appropriation IF state money
for their private graft.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

81 The capitalist philanthrop DIST is
g man who wants to make all men
happy BY first robblng them ana
then doing back part ef the stol-
zen goods il aims. Ye crooked
9odsl
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

An ideal labor union: One.
which will shun as leprosy the.
boycott; also the minimum wage
scale, an eight@hour day, and linn
itation Of apprentices; and which.
will defend with its last drop Of
blood the open shop, pieoewofk,
and the premium plan. Who will.
|ba the first e joint 81
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not likely to result in an imme-

not likely to result in, an imme-
diate loss of votes?'
Is it possible that any large sec
ton of the American people is un.
able to answer single one of
these questions?. -.
IF people insist that somebody is
to be praised and blamed for all
the virtues or failings of the pres.
ent political regime, why select
such humble tools as Aldrich, Can
non or Ballinger or Taft9, Why
not put the blame where it belongs
on the head Of our recent presi-
dent7 -,
What is the proper welcome an
intelligent people should extend to
this man s homecoming? Does not
the lowering and cheapening Of
the American nation before the
eyes Of the world, which he has re:
Gently brought about, give ample
occasion to the long suffering pub.
lie to turn against him with the
Kisses and groans he 50 well de.
servesi +. =. - ,..-l> =.
There is no way in which the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14

Andrew Carnegie recently, re-
ferred to "that worthless dross
called money! After all that
money has done for him, tool q
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14
SAVE FATTED CALF FOR
THOSE WHO DESERVE 1T

THOSE WHO DESEkVG Ii
And now the hysterical, hero
worshipping American people are
cudgeling their brains and strain
inc their inventive faculties seek
inc some outlandish manner In
which to welcome home that
"characteristically American
Nimrod whose exploits for months
have monopolized the big type on
the first pages Of the dailies.
Taking their cue from the Asso-
ciated Press reports that Roose-
welt is now, both by virtue of his
record as president and his skill
as slayer of dumb brutes, a demi-
god even unto the thirty third de-
gree, the great, gullible public is
getting ready to fall over it's own
feet, strewing bouquets in the path
Of the returning hero.
The Associated Press cannot be
blamed for seeing that Roosevelt s
name is kept before the public. AS
the greatest capitalistic news COM
bine the world ever saw it is rea-
sonable to suppose that it realizes
that the most polished confidence
man America ever produced is nee
essary to it in it's business.
But the public? The great
mass of the common people who
are today living from hand to
mouth-ground between the upper
and neither milestone of high food
prices and insufficient wage stand
ards-for what have they to thank
this homecoming pot-hunter?
What has he done for the work
ers of the United States that they
should now take a day off to do
him reverence?
Who sought out this man, Will
liam H. Taft, and forced him into
the presidency?
Who appointed the corporation
tool, Elihu Root, to be secretary
of state, and still accepts him as
one Of his chief advisers?
Who promoted Philander Knox
to the cabinet and made it easy
for the "good trusts the Penn
sylvania railroad and the steel
corporation to control the present
administration?
Who had the audacity to lift up
Pierpont Morgan's partner and
put him into the cabinet7
Who has always accepted the
scholar-statesman, Senator Lodge,
into the inmost circle of his ad-
visers, where this plague Of the
State of Massachusetts, still re-
mains?
Who sent Joseph H. :Choate, the
au-round corporation servant, as
ambassador to Great Britain? Who
lifted Paul Morton to the cabinet
and then handed him down to one
OF the big insurance companies
to help disguise the continuation
Of the old system Of plunder'
Who had the effrontery to step
out in the middle of: the campaign
Of exposure before it had achieved
half Of its present prominence, and
tried to check it by calling it
'.muck-raking?'' .,...:. -" ~ l
Who is ready to kick anybody
when he is down? Who spares the
respectable Morgan and excoriates
the exactly similar but oft-exposed
Rockefeller?:: ~. = ~ N
Who abuses the struggling and
oppressed Egyptians and asso-
ciates himself gladly with 18th the
chief Of their oppressors, the lead
ing reactionary Of England, the
confessed ! enemy, ''l DEMOCRACY
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-05-14
SMILES AND SMILES

b Papa ?''sS5 s. 2.
''Well?" L I'D -. i
rs there a Christian flea? 2" .
WAY. Johnny, what put that idea
= III your head 2" IS .
The preacher read it today from
the Bible-'The wicked flea when
no man pursueth.'''
\ Why, Johnny, that means that the
wicked men flee"
hen, papa, Is there wicked
woman flea?'' r.
mo, no. It means that the wicked
f1ees, runs away"
why do, they, run?''
WHO ?"@. r. <s.'
II THE wicked fleas." -
No, no Don't you see? The wick
ed man runs away when no man is,
after him. ~ 5,-.- +.
l. us there a woman after him?"
!, Johnny, go to bed! -,
The charming ignorance of the
sugar trust directors of the remark
able increase in profits by unauthor-
lied acts of their subordinates, re-
minds one of the old story:
A planter one day met one of his
slaves and said:T
-. "See here, Sam, you've been steal.
ing chickens again." .-."
Deed havn't, massa."
Then where did that chicken
come from that's sticking its head
out of hole in your hat?"
."Golly, massa, it must have crawl
ed up my trousers leg 'thout my
knowing it,
How ISIS your boy Fritz getting
along in de college?' s
Zach! He is halfback in der foot,
ball team and all der way back in his
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How ISIS your boy Fritz getting
along in de college?" )
Zach! He is halfback in der foot
ball team and all der way back in his
studies" - (. !. -. - s.
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which the husband utterly lscks. The
story deals with Dora's awakening to
the fact that the untainted goodness OF
these people with whom she has cast .-1r
life transcends all their shortcomings.
their lapses OF grammar. their ostenta-
ton, their frank seeking for honors. their
self-satisfactory expenditures. And. SIN
gularly. II Is through the serious onense
Of her own brother. the earl. that che
comes to full appreciation of her COM
moner husbands worth. Mr.. Benson has
invested this tale with q singular sweet
ness. He draws the characters OF MT
and Mrs. Osborne with exceptional skfit:
depicting them as unspoiled children OF
fortune who have learned the golden
secret of happiness, who think no III OF
others, who meet their crises braveiy
and who maintain their standards faith
fully. This is q glortfication OF vutgartty,
and It may possibly possess 2 particular
value In its bearing upon the manner In
which English society Is today being
transformed from arfstocracy into .
titled democracy.
RACE DISTINCTIONS IN AMERICAN
LAW. BY Gilbert Thomas Stephen
son, AN, LIB. New York: D. APP
pleton & Co.
After forty-f1ve years Of freedom from
physical bondage. how much does the
negro lack OF being In truth full-fiedged
American citizen? What limitations upon
him are allowed or imposed by law be-
cause he is q negro?' Mr.. Stephenson
has in the present volume sought to an
swer these questions, by means Of a
thorough. painstaking research OF the
Constitution. statutes and judicial deci-
sions of the United States. the states and
territories between 1855 and the present,
TO find the laws that have made any dis
examinations between persons on the basis
of race. His findings have been sufficient
ly numerous and koluminous to suggest
that the constitutional prohibition against
discrimination On account Of race. color
or previous condition Of eervitude'' is
virtually only IN academic proposition to-
day. He says:
America has today no problem more
perplexing and disquieting than that of
the proper and permanent relations be-
tween the white and the colored races.
Although it concerns most vitality the