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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
THE IMPENDING CRISIS
BY JOHN n. LANDBERG.


With the panic of 1907 and its train
of bankruptcies, hunger marches, starva-
ton, suicide and the horrors resulting
therefrom, still fresh in our minds, it
may not he amiss to focus our eyes upon
the shadows fOrecastinS coming events.
1t was Engles, 1 recollcct, who stated
that after the year 1000, panics would
rceur much oftener than formerly, when
they occurred every twelve fifteen years
The famous co-laborator of Marx based
his prognostication upon the fact that,
by the end of the nineteenth century.
our machinery would reach such a state
of perfection and SO greatly facilitate
production, as to enable the owners
thereof to flood the markets of the world
with such vast accumulations of wealth,
that the producers thereof would be able
to purchase back but very small por-
ton of the useful things their hands had
created. And because of lack of do
nestle, as well the disappearance of
foreign markets, the industrially develop
ell countries, of which the United States
is the foremost, are now confronted with
this dilemma, namely, an enormous over
production on the one hand, and under
consumption on the other
Add to this anarchical state of affairs
the extraordinary power of the money
cars of Wall Street. headed by the
reckless financial bucanccr, J. Pierpont
Morgan, who today wiclds over the co.
100000 free, independent" Americans a
sway besides which that of the Russian
autocrat shrinks to insignificance, a
power that makes it easy for him to
shut down every shop, factory, mill and
mine. close up every store and bank
within twcnty-four hours, to starve the
people of this country within n month,
and bring about anarchy and dcvasta-
ton within two. With this beatific
spectacle, symbolzing hunger stalking
abroad, looming upon our industrial and
political horizon in the near future, well
may the wage slaves of this corporation
and graft-riddcn land, whether organized
or unorganized, and their thirty million
dependents. pause in CONSERVATION. and
ask themselves. How am / to face that
impending crisis. when the prosperity
wagon" topples over once more two or
three years hence? What will the old
parties do for us. workers. out of Jobs :?
What did they do for us in 1907"
When Wall Street spectators fran
tically appealed to Washington for aid.
the Secretary of the Treasury brought
forth the necessary cash, and both the
Republican doctors and Democratic sur
gcons helped the paralyzcd plutcs to get
upon their feet. But when Socialist and
labor organizations pleaded with Con-
gross that it order needed public works
so that millions of unemployed might
feed their families. the American House
OF Financial Lords turned n deaf ear.
passed the Aldrich bill. which enabled
the bankers to issue half n billion of
elastic currency Did the toilers learn
that lesson? It's n simple one. Why.
the hi. trusts and combines. the fellows
who own the railroads, the banks, the
coal. meat, steel, oil, sugar and grain
those who have appropriated to them
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

Workingmen, compare the ticket of the
two old graft and corruption promoting
parties with the one that appears in
these columns, and see who are your
friends. The Socialist ticket is not COM
posed of corporation lawyers and pro-
fcssional politicians, but good, honest
men who earn their living in the sweat
of their brow, and not through whiskcy
rings, franchise grabs, illegal monopolies,
and the exploitation of the wealth pro-
ducers.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

The "open shop" is where they will
not hire n union man-did you ever see
anything more CLOSED? The so-calcd
open shops are the tightcst closed shops
in the country, because union man can
not get job-he is not given an oppor-
tunity to meet the unorganizcd in COM
petition or conversation.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

1t was conelusiyely proven during the
-.fottesheard Impeachment proceeding that
no liquor licenses were granted outside
the city during the license years of 1908,
1906 and 1907 to other than men who
were controlled ~ tt Walker, Lawrence
Co. Now the &, 'rion the people want
answered is, did the Walker, Lawrence
Co. own the court, or did the court own
the Walker, Lawrence Co.?
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

The capitalistic politician is never n
seeker, playing a good game or n bad
game rs conditions require Reform
that comes from capitnlistic politicians
is at best n tawdry counterfeit article.
The prohibitionists are the latest victims
to the guile of the Kanawha County
board. Poor deluded souls
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

The Governor calls out regiment of
soldiers to protect man charged with
II hienous crime, but he docs not raise
Ills hand TO protect the miners, and their
families from the brutal treatment of
the guards" in the Russian lied nom
union coal fields; but consistency is not
a part of the makeup of the politician.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

Unions teach men to live upright,
clean lives, to protect the homes and
family, to respect and revere the COM
mandment, 'Honor thy father and thy
mother" to champion the-cause of the
weak, to urge the abolition of child
labor and seek fair remuneration for a
fair days labor. Can the opponents of
unionism find any flaws in that plat
form?
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
WHAT SOCIALISM MEANS
TO ME.
BY PAUL HANNA.

One of our sardonic contemporaries
has induced some Socialists to engage in
discussion of the law of supply and
demand under Socialism. A discussion
OF capitalism under Socialism would be
equally appropriate and Illuminating.
The law of supply and demand is the
law of commerce for profit-capitalism.
1t is n distinctly man-made law, being
in no way akin to the laws of gravita-
ton and the circulation of the blood,
despite popular belief to the contrary.
This law has never solved any problem,
but it has excused many crimes.
God made man and the lower animals,
and made the law of supply and demand.
The lower animals being innocent of
mans hypocrisy and talent for self
deception, have exercised the power of
might side by side with man without
creating any law to cxtenuate the ruth
lcssness of greed and necessity.
The law of supply and demand is
then the law of commercial necessity
and commercial grccd-wherc one ends
and the other begins no man can say.
Inasmuch as each is born of fear both
are eNcusablc while the fear remains.
Socialism is designed to remove this
fear. When it succeeds, the law of sup
ply and demand will end. If it fails, it
will not he Socialism.
All of the Socialists to whom / re-
fcrrcd in the beginning confess that
this law of commerce for profit will
operate under Socialism. Let us look
mt the law from Il few angles and sec
where they mistaken. Socialists
say that every man shall have an op-
Portunity TO work and shall have the
fui! value of what he produces. The
value of what he produces is exactly
his usefulness to society, or. If YOU
prefer, his usefulness to society is his
value to society.
Which. if it means ANYTHING. means
that fortnight spent at ditch digging
is worth as much to society as a fort
night spent in chemical investigation,
since the ditch digging and the chem
zeal investigation had both to be done
and man had spent fortnight in
each capacity.
Old-fashioned souls will say that the
chemist is of more value TO society
because he is n chemist If there were
any truth in this at all. it would he
because the chemist is educated and the
ditch digger. is net-in the same line.
But no one can prove that. he j. more
value, though grant that he is equally
valuable in different way. But. if YOUR
present day S3,OOO-a.ycar chemist thinks
himself of greater value to society than
the ditch digger, just ask him to dig
bitches for $4,000 year. or ut an in
crease of $500 a year, and he will tell
You he prefers chemistry even Mt half
of his present salary.
1 cannot use the captain of finance
IN these examples, because he paws
some one else to do every useful task
performed in his name
Finally, let me refer to the farmer.
that useful person who never gets
rich while he does his own work and
ceases to be useful when some one else
does it for him.
The farmers products are, it will
be said, certainly subject to the law
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

No candidate on the old party tickets
can be n friend of labor, even if he
wanted to; he drags the ball and chain
of the plutcs higher up.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

Freedom =. 49, dcred, even by the
most feroC = = SITS, as inseparable
from life go Torkingmen of West
Virginia, do you desire to be classed
even lower than the wild beasts?
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

After reading the testimony in the
Mottesherd Impeachment proceedings
can any sane man doubt that Kanawha
County is rocking with political graft
and corruption?
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

The union label and the socialist
ballot is the means to free the wage
slaves. Demand the former and vote
the latter and loose your chains.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

The true American style in which its
city government is being conducted has
made Milwaukee famous for something
else besides Schlitz beer.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

The scales of justice the court
house sways with the gale and on the
inside with the kalc.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

Some of the professional political
grafters will suffer worse shocks than
nervous prostration, before the present
campaign is over.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

If You want union conditions to pre-
vail, agitate for the union lcbel. The
other fellows lebel is just rs good az
your, SO demand it.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

When it takes the sign of the cross to
get liquor licenses it is about time for
n cleanup of the political crooks.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

The slogan, "Asll for the union label
should always he kept in mind.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
Workingnan's Ticket.
(The Socialist Nominees)

For Congress
L.C. RODGERS. Miner, Oak Hill.
For State Senate
S. S. MORRISON. Miner, Sharon
For House of Delegates
T. L. TINCHER. Engineer, Chelyan.
]. w. HILL, Farmer, Mink Shoals.
GEORGE NJ. RATHBURN, Clerk, Char
lesion.
c. c. GRIFFITH, Miner, Hugheston.
w. L. RUMBAUGH. School Teacher
Winifrede.
For County Commissioner
M. c. SCHAFER, Farmer, Wexford.
For County Superintendent of Schools
/. /. BEASLEY, Miner and School Teach
er, Villa.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
Point Pleasant Liquor House
Homer Smith, Proprietor.

. All orders by mail should be accompanied by Cash.
Postottlce or Express Money Order Check We will
send to any address the following brands at the prices
stated below We conduct of the largest Mail Or
der businesses in the State of West Virginia.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
BY GEORGE AIDE.


Every man who has not tried it, thinks
that he can edit newspaper, write a
comic opera and manage a hotel. 1 stlll
believe that l know lot about the hotel
business.
When / went to Chicago to help Victor
T.. Lawson uplift a community that did
not want to be uplifted, 1 noticed every
day. in going to the roof-garden, large
and well-lighted apartment I'm which a
number of nobby gentlemen were seated at
ron-top desks talking about circulation.
Most of them were smoking and the more
they smoker the more enthusiastic they
became about the circulation. learned
that these aristocrats of our profession
were what is known as the business end
of the paper About the time we began to
diagram the daily murder they would put
on their top-coats and dog-skin gloves and
saunter over to the Auditorium hotel. In
those days If a young man from some
where out in the corn belt came to the Of
flee and applied for a job he was asked
II he had attended a first-class western
college. II he replied yes" and could pro-
duce a letter from the professor Of English,
showing that he had written articles for
the college paper he was put into the edi-
torlal department at SIS a week. II he
could prove absolutely that he had not at
tended any college, he was assigned to the
business department at $40 a week,
learned, upon investigation. that l had
made a mistake in taking up the literary
end Of the game, so l resolved to go in for
advertising. l became playwright, and
the press agent and the rest After ten
years in the rarified atmosphere of dra-
matte art practiced today at 81 seat,
or 81 on the sidewalk, l feel that l am
peculiarly qualified to sit on the Olympian
Heights and talk In a practical manner
about American newspapers. l can proceed
with safety because II say anything UNI
complimentary, have a scrap book to
prove that they began Il.
Everybody wants to help the editor. Not
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
Bri6htside and His Boy
BY LAFAYETTE PARKS.

well, the glad vacation season has about
arrived again." remarks Brightside, yawn-
ing with that tired feeling, as Mothers
worry enters to tune up for the evening
duet i-
THE married ginks at the office have
already begun to sing Hooray, Hooray"
Son replies, applying a match to a 'cof-
fin nail"
New York is a lonesome place in the
summer for a married man." says Father,
sympathetically.
That's the con game they hand to the
skirts" comments Son. It's a wonder to
me how they ever get away with it. When
hubby takes wife and the KIDS down to
the steamboat pier to send them away
where it will be cheap he tears off sad
and lonely scene that would make even
Sarah Bernhard spill the damp stuff. The
chances are he doesn't wait till the boats
gangplank is pulled in before he beats
it in a taxicab to meet the bunch to sap
up the Dutch suds"
Between attending to his business in
the daytime and then trying to find little
recreation at night when he is all alone
the man whose folks are in the country
doesn't have a very pleasant time" ar
CUES Father.
Most of the bunch of summer widowers
can locate the recreation centers with
binders on their lamps" declares Son.
And take it from me, Pop, they don't
let their business put the kibosh on a
good time"
II never can see anything attractive in
big city during the hot months" per-
sists Father. AT night the streets are as
empty as a village churchyard."
Far be it from me to lead astray a
homeloving parent says Son, with the
suspicion that his father is seeking in
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
A Talk About How to Run a Newspaper

as regards cheaper would-pulp, or keeping
down the pay roll; but with suggestions
for filling up the paper Most people still
believe that every newspaper must struggle
every night to get enough real copy to sep
arate the display ads. Being a postgraduate
l know that you are compelled to throw
columns and columns of stuff on the floor.
Very often, in glancing over a longer edi-
torial l wonder what was thrown on the
floor-hOweVer, 1 am not dsproved to up
set any traditions-merely to offer a few
helpful hints.
In tho first place the city newspaper of
today as compared with the Indiana news
paper of the seventies in anaemic, inverte-
brate, colOrless and apologize. The first
newspaper with which l was associated
came out almost every Thursday from
a room over the hardware store. / got 25
cents a day and all the roller composition
could chew The fires of civil war were
still smoldering. Indiania.s chief occupa-
ton was politics. Nearly every man was
voting as he shot and some of them a
good deal oftener our editorial mission
was to keep the excitement up to concert
prices. The office equipment consisted of
Washington hand press, a foot power
job press, perennial towel and few
fonts Of type-mostly italics. All. but we
had an editor! Those were the palmy days
Of Journalism of which we hear so much
at present. No faint OF commercialsm no
subservience to the counting room; be-
cause there wasn't any counting room, no
cog-whees or card interestingly ma
jestic figurehead Of an editor who was
animated by a high and patriotic resolve
to promote manslaughter as often as posi-
BILE. When he opened up on a man, the
mans only escape was to walk outside
Of our circulation, which he could do In
about ten minutes.
II you hear a man ravng about the
golden age OF American Journalism when
each editor exercised an individual influ-
ence and led the way through the darkness
with a flaming torch above his head-let
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
Thursday VIII
Be a Big Day
at the Stores
Proprietors Tell What They Them
selves Consider the Best Bar.
gains Offered Today.

Thursday, this week, will be an unusually
busy day at the downtown stores. The
late season has kept the buying back and
the stores are making it an object for
women to come downtown Thursday. 1t
Is always interesting to know what the
heads of the stores pick out as the Big
gest bargain they are offering, so they
nave been asked to give their opinions.
Mr. "A. d. Brandeis said: II think the
pest offering we are making for Thursday
is the assortment of women's neckwear in
Dutch collar and jabot styles, which are
offered at 20 cents; they are worth from
90 cents to 20 cents.
o. K. Scofield, when the question was
asked, replied: The long pongee coats
with roll collar and cuffs Of delft blue silk
moire These are trimmed with half inch
bands OF material like the coat and are
priced at $3.50.
AT Benefits, Mr.. Shantz, the general
manager, said: Fifteen dollars gives
every woman choice of any colored suit in
the entire stock, running up to $40 in value
expensive wooltex suits are included at
*l5. The season is getting late and we find
1t advisable to dispose of these suits at the
ridiculous prices quoted rather than carry
stock from one season to another We cut
the price to move the goods. We think
wen succeed, too"
A choice of $500 and $500 latest style
misses and women's Oxfords for $3.50 Is
considered an awfuly good bargain by Mr..
Benson Of Benson & Thorne Co.
Mr.. Stoezel of the Stoetzel Stove COM
pany said they are offering the Detroit
Ideal gas stove and the cold storage re-
frlgerator at very easy terms and low
prices for Thursday.
Mr.. George Gibbs, proprietor Of The
Home Furniture Co. In South Omaha, said !:
We are offering q solid oak telephone
stand and chair to match in mission finish.
We quote price of $3.50. but the real value
is fully ST."
Misses pumps that hold their shape cling
10 the feet and don't gap, are awfully good
bargains for 81 at Drexers. Mr.. Rosenswig
OF the Drexel Shoe Co. says they are Of
terins these pumps at 81 more for the talk
1t Will stir up than anything else.
Hayden Bros are offering in their en-
broidery department edges, flouncings and
corset embroideries at &c, SC and 15c.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02

1t go at that. For goodness sake don't
take the trouble to examine the files OF
that wonderful period, or you may be dis
couraged over your present efforts plead
for return of those heroic days when
every editorial was a trumpet-blast and
every paragraph was a frecracker. We
used to go to press at 2 o'clock and by 4
o'clock the whole population would be out
on the streets waiting for the sounds OF
assault and battery. The old-time editor
the one We all read about, who stamped
his individuality on every issue Of his paper
and didn't bother much about proof read
ing or the press work. DO you remember
what he called a man II he didn't care
much for him? He didn't call him a molly
coddle, an insurgent, or a male-factor,
or an undesirable. He said that the man
was a poltroon, a hell-hound. a pusilanim-
Gus liar, an unmitigated horse thief, q
jackal, a marplot, snveling hyena, a
caitiff reptile, viper, a cur and a
whelp. Here are a lot OF valuable and ex-
pressive words, that are gradually being
eliminated from our vocabulary because the
editors of today, STEPPED in commercialfsm,
are backing away from the high water
mark set by Wilbur f. Storey and have
accepted the leadership Of Edward w.
Box.
Also, the newspapers Of today are crit.v
cized because they are kind 10 the big ad-
vertiser. / think newspapers are somewhat
under the domination OF the big adver-
tiser In fact, the big advertiser has got
some OF them so worked up that they want
to run him for a third term.
read not long ago, that down In Brown
county, Indiana, the front room OF the
county poorhouse-a large. cheerful apart
ment with southern exposure and plants In
the windows-is occupied by a man who.
for many years conducted a Newspaper
that pleased everybody On the other hand.
It's hard to be successful without dIAAp-
pointing some Of your best friends. II
you can't please all your friends, do lie
next best thing and please your subscrIberA
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
SOUTH OMAHA
BARGAINS IN LUMBER

BAhGAlNS IN LUMBER
Having purchased from the con-
tractors who constructed the new
street car barn at 18th and Pacific
Sts., Omaha, 100000 feet of new lum-
Der, temporarily used for forms in the
erection of the building. Two-thirds
of which is just as good for building
purposes, as new lumber direct from
the yard. Consisting of 2x4s, 4x4s,
2x6s, 2xSs, 2x10s, 2x12s, and several
thousand feet of sheeting, varying in
length from ~ to "a feet, will be on
sale in quantities to suit purchases at
18th and Pacific Sts.. on and after
Wednesday, June 1, 1910, at prices
from sc to SIS per thousand. In ad-
dition to the above there are several
thousand feet of sidewalk lumber and
about 100 loads of kindling. Phone
Doug. 1882, Omaha, or So. 1913, South
Omaha.
THOMAS HOCTOR,
515 N. gath St., South Omaha.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
"Please Pity the Lonely Married Man"
Their Latest Tabloid Sketch.

a lobster colored sunset effect over their
compilations. But give me a roof garden
near Broadway and Forty-second street,
swept by gin fizzes and other home made
breezes, and I'll camp
Camping out In the real country has
a thousand delights that cannot be dupli-
Gated in a city," enthusiastically asserts
Father"
There are a bunch Of things we can't
match" Son admits, but 1 couldn't find
one word with enough sulphur in 1t to fit
what 1 wanted to call 'em. When our
tent blew down the first night out, the
kerosene spilled over the bacon, the ants
got into the sugar, the rain soaked the
coffee and few other trifles like that
were pulled off just to make us feel at
home, I made up my mind I didn't care
for camping"
scenery are features that appeal strongly
to me-" says Father. 1.-THE air always
gave me such an appetite" x
"As 1 couldn't eat the scenery and had
no way of canning up the air to bring
home to turn loose In the flat. never
| figured out where I got my money s
worth" Son complains.
Boarding in a real old fashioned farm
| house, where you get fresh vegetables and
fruits, right out Of the garden, is the
acme Of rural JOY" is Fathers optimistic
| belief" 4,-
"They give that to you in the neatly
! printed circular when you write asking
the price for board" explains Son. What
| you really get is salt pork and canned
| goods They ship the garden sass to the
city In exchange for more mazuma, which
is not so rural as It may appear on the
bills. That's why your little Willie pre-.
! fers to stay in town"
| Copyright, 1910, by the N. Y. Herald Coz