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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-03-24

ment on the eve of a non. par
tisan meeting that Mayor F.
Eberley says he will not run
again. I think there are few
that will admit that Frank
Eberley's word is not good. He
says that he had not said such
a thing to the disgruntled edi.
tor.
They appear in the non par.
tisan meeting having already
caucussed in both ends of the
town.
They do not attempt to go
b 'ck to the non.partisan way
of selecting a ticket prac tised
four years ago. They do not
show one particle of courtesy
to the democrats in a town that
has been republican only three
times in tweEty eight years
since it has been a city.
The regular r republican
wheel horses get into the traces
and in connection with the
Misrepresentation in the Ga.
zette of the same evening that
the mayor would not run, they
manage to get fe " more than
enough votes to nominate the.
man who, they hope. will at
least deliver the city printing.
Then they call hat non.
partisan ticket.
Mr.. Eberly's friends then de-
manded of him that he make
the campaign on the platform
of his own administration.
They point with pride to his
record as Mayor, the care and
judgment used; the tectful
words used to smooth out fac
tional feeling; to the abund-
ancc of good water. The previ-
Gus administration left them
with pipes, wells and a tank.
But still forced tn use river
water. Force to confront
another Typhoid epidemic.
They have solved the prot.
lem thus given to them and
where today are the typhoid
fe yer patients?.
Now, if the people of the city
Of Wahpeton want to turn
Frank Eberley at the polls they
have the chance to do it.
His friend have demanded
that he stand as long as he is
unuer lire from the selfish
partisan motives. wish to say
that while | am a republican, 1
shall cast my vote for Frank
Eberley for Mayor. 1 bell eve
that when people begin to
think and see the narrow, self.
ish partisan spirit that has
stirred up this fight playing o n
different sets of motives in diff,
ferent kinds of people for pure
ly a selfish motive, they will
sit down on it and sit down
hard
Yours truly
E. S. Babcock
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-03-24
ARMORY CONTRACT LET

AT meeting of the armory
committee last Saturday night
it was agreed to let the con-
tract to build the armory to
Sam Christensen for a little
less than $l3,OOO.OO not includ-
ing the heating or plumbing.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-03-24
NON-PARTISAN
CITY GOVERNMENT
Business Man and Republican
Commends Present City
Administration

called non.partisan ticket.
Four years ago, as l under
stand the republican county
chairman, together with the
democratic county chairman
picked niue men, each of the
opposite political faith. This
non-partisan co n m i t e e
brought in a ticket which the
mass ueeting then proceeded
to ratify. In this manner due
consideration was accorded
both parties.
Two years ago when the citi
zens mass meeting was held
there appeared to be no dispo-
sition to complain of anything
and the old ticket was renomi-
mated, thus adding strength
and confidence to the admins
tration of city affairs.
N W, I have known Frank
Eberley for seven years. 1 un-
derstand that he has lived here
some thirty years. In the seven
years that I have known him I
have never known him to make
an unkind remark of any one
and l believe that is one of the
leading characteristics of the
man. l believe l am safe in
saying that he has had the re-
spect aud confidence of the
community during that whole
time. During the four years
that he has been Mayor l be-
lieve that he has applied the
rule of doing for the city what
his judgment would dictate
were he doing it for himself.
His aim has been to be econo
mical, careful and considerate
of the whole interests of all the
people of the town. Having in
a measure retired from active
business, he has had the time
to do this, and 1 know that the
most of his time for the past
four years has been given to
work for the care and advance
ment of the interests of the
whole city-all for the large
sum of twenty-five dollars a
month.
We could not have gotten
more careful and thoughtful
work if we had hired man at
two thousand dollars year.
He has been non.partisan.
When the office of city attorney
became vacant he offered the
same to Joseph G. Forbes
When he declined the office he
gave it to Gustav Schuler.
And now when the time ap.
proaches for another election,
what is the attitude of non par
tisanship shown.
The republican ring machin
cry, down to every old tried
and trusty wheel horse and
leader is called in and set to
work.
First the organ talks about
extravaganza at the city water
works. When it realizes that
is too thin to cover the row
about the city printing it goes
to the fire boys to stir up trouble
over misunderstanding. tt
goes to the ministers of the
town and excites them over
difficult city problem. While
holding that class in caucus up
town it has one of the republi-
can party workers set up the
beer in lower town; and all
over what? About 5000 of city
printing, if 1 lam correctly in
formed. Next, it insists that
the city administration needs
"ginger," whatever that is
Then the republican organ
comes out with an announce.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05
NOTABLE VICTORIES OF LABOR
since LABOR DAY OF 1909

lof the hAttera "a preserve their or
aanization has been one OF the bit
terest struggles In this generation
and has been practically won BY
those iourneymen The atrikea OF
the soRmcn and the iron and steel
workers against the United States
steel corporation has been a des.
perate contest and In ailil In pro.
greaa, The railway men were
forced 90 call out less than 10000
men and were uniformly successful
In gaining their demands. The
miners suspended work throughout
the soft coal fields and secured
concessions, an did many OF the
building crafts and metal trades in
local strikes.
Clothing Workers Progress
Summarized. about 100. 900 cloth
ing workers won Increased wages Of
10 20 20 per cent aud reduced hours
OF toll
Nearly 300 900 railway employees
raised wages 10 90 20 PER cent. and
cat down their labor time. About
$50 600 miners gained 81 per cent
increase IN wages their maximum
hours OF labor are eight per day }
Upwards Of 10000 buIidisg
workers advanced wages from TO
- per cent tthcy also enjoy the
eiEhthour day generality.
In tho metal trades firou and
steel workers. maehiniats. molderu.
etc.. 10000 men gained 10 10 per
cent About 10000 persons IN the
printing industry. who also work
eight hours. secured 10 20 20 per
cent more wages Street railway
employees. 10 the number Of 10000.
secured advances ranging from 10
20 per cent About 5000 paper
makers. after a hard strike against
the trust. boosted wages 20 10 per
cent Add 10 this number az least
*. oQ0 bakers. brewers. tcamaters,
laborerh and other toliers who se.
cured concessions. and the total
doas not fall below n million and
a quarter men aud women whose
working conditions were improved
hY reason Of being organized
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05
nv PETER POWER.

Distinct progress has been made
by the organized labor movement
OF North America since Labor day
1909.
The most marked advance has
been made IN the clothing trade.
The great strike OF the shirt waist
makers Of New York tnearly
80. 000 In number, and mostly
womenl. which began Ia Noyem'
Der. last year. and ended success.
fully about the frat OF March. IN.
apired unorganixed workers Of ~.
cry branch In the clothing indus.
try, with the result that another
great strike IL now won.
but the victory OF those women
also encouraged the workers In
other trades as well. 90 organize
and endeavor "a keep pace with the
advancing cost Of the neceHAn rieH
Of llfe BY increasing their wages.
Have Made Gains.
while II n true that wages have
not advanced as rapidly as the In.
creased cost of rent. food. clothing
etc. Il IL nevertheless a fact that
the gains IN reductions Of hours OF
labor aud other improvements have
been Of material benefit 10 the
workers, and serve 10 strike an
average balance Of great advantage
to union labor when compared 10
tho fixed incomes aud working con,
ditionH Of nonunion tollera who
suffer equally from the higher cost
~ living
Next TO the clothing workers. the
building trades have had ruhatan.
tiai increases In membership; then
follow the steam railway employees
the printing trades. street and sub
uf an railway men. metal trades
miners. Transfers. bakers. brewers.
and other miscellaneous crafts.
II has heen year OF strikes. Too,
a sure sign Of Industrial activity.
An told. fully hair million men
and women ceased work "a secure
improved conditions. and we're sue
ceaaful IN their efforts almost with
gut exception The national strike
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05
FARMERS AND
WORKINGMEh
FIRST" TAT 7

ANN Z NNNFN vs.
ST. PAUL. MINI. Sept s--In his
labor nav speech az the Minnesota
state Fair today President TAFT
spoke Ia part as follows;
"The two classes In the COM
munity that are most important
are los farmers and It's working
men, aud this occasion aud this
date suggest thoughts OF both.
There Is sitting now in st Paul a
convention tor the promotion Of the
conservation OF our national re
sources. II anybody Is % profit
by conservation. and II anybody II
Go make conservation profitable 20
others. Il is the farmer"
Laws for the special benefit OF
labor. he enumerated. included the
bureau OF labor railroad safety ap-
pliances. alien contract labor. and
the bureau 1T mines In both cases,
the law might be characterized as
class legislation. he said, but SO
great was the public interest In the
promotion of agriculture and the
protection OF labor. that the laws
could not be termed unduly priv.
legged or Objectionable.
"But Il Is said that am not con.
lsistcnt." the president added, be.
icause | proposed % the last con
gress that Interstate railroad com.
panios be permitted TO make ten
porsry agreements lasting for 30
days so liking uniform rates for
traffic between the same places,
and TO this extent exempt tom the
operation OF the antitrust laws Il
was said With great FEASIBILITY
You az opposed to exempting
workingmen from the operation OF
such a law, but you favor the ex.
emption of railroad companies.
The answer Is that interstate
railroads are restricted much more
closely and are under much more
minute observation by the pro.
visions of the Interstate commerce
law than they can possibly be un.
der the antitrust law
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05
KINCAID WONT
QUIT AMATEURS

Bert kincaid, the Seattle Athletic
clubs crack i2Spound wrestler. De.
olines 70 give up his amateur stand.
ing 20 meet Fred safros safros
challenged Kincald for side bet
Of si00. but as Bert In an amateur,
be refuses 90 take the challenge.
kincaid Is g0lnE after the cham
pionship OF the Pacific Coast nov.
held By Edgar Frank OF the Multno.
nah Athletic club II he wins he n
going TO the middle west for some
OF the big amateur meets. aud then
get after the national championship.
Even II b. wins that. be- says, there
II no chance Of hts leaving the anna.
teur ranks
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05
Street Car Hits Auto

A Seattle Tacoma lnterurban ear
struck an automobile near Pacific
City about $50 last night. demolish.
ing the machine. The occupants.
two young men. jumped from the
machine Just before IL wss struck
and ran away
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05

ST. PAUL. Sept , Miss Mabel
nonrdman. OF Washington. member
Of the central committee OF tho
Rod Cross society. today pointed
out Ia an address 10 the national
conservation congress that while
Japan II planning a permanent Red
Cross fund Of ST. 500 900. II seems
impossible 10 raise such a fund In
the United States. though citizens
give literally NJ occasion requires.
New York has promised 20 give
$500 600 toward permanent fand
Ia the United States. and Miss
bosrdman asked whether the Unit.
ed States might not raise $1,000 600
Old King Colo ~ a merry old soul.
Yes. a merry Old soul Ia nc;
Ne halls from the cline Of the
bush and pine,
he has won sixteen and Loaf
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05

DO you want home on Lake
Washington surrounded by the
right kind OF people7 Do you want
20 live IN place where there viii
never be any apartments, any
stores. any saloons. any factories.
any Ehacksy Watch then for the
ads on Lake Forest Park. Ole Han.
son A Co viii handle this park.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05
MORE HTNDUS
COMING TOU.S.

SAN FHANCisCO. gept 4
That the wall against the iner.
OF Hindu laborers 70 the pac,e.
coast IL bearing fruit was attessss
by the arrival 81 the liner glbey,s
with only ~ Iiludus aboard y
though 900 had made applicaue.
for passage The balance we're =
ieetsd by physicians Of the steam
ship company.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05

WWWW OF HNIIITWIWFI WWTHTWV mo
be one uniting all working people OF all
nations, tongues and kindrcds Thank COD
that We have system OF industry whore
there can bo strike. Whatever the pres.
sure. there IL a point whore the workman may
stop"
'lnasmuch as most good things are pro.
duced by labor. Il follows an such things OF
right belong 20 those whose labor has pro.
duced them hut Il has 40 happened In all
aEos OF the world. that some have iaborod
and others have. without labor, enjoyed a
large proportion Of the fruits This ~ wrong,
and should not continue. To secure TO each
lahorer the whole product Of his labor or as
nearly as possible Is worthy object OF any
good government
"useleaA labor and dlenesa are heavy pen,
sioners upon useful labor, fobhnK it OF a large
CHIT The only femohy for this Do 90. SO far as
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05

bud Robinson. travelling tenn
pevance advocate. will give a free
lecture at the First NJ +. church
this evening Mr. Robinson Is a
son OF m0onshiner He Is in Sc.
atele under the auspices OF the
Holiness association.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05

Asahel Curtis. The artlst. went
out one day and took one dozen
beautiful pictures Of Lake Forest
Park and Lake Washington. We
have published n book Of the same.
II you want a copy telephone Main
sBz9 or Ind 1913 and we will send
you one. printed on bond paper and
profuscly illustrated Ole Hanson
d Co, New York Block.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05
ssstttttttttstt,
r, n. CHIEF FIGURE AT
FARGO, N. o., TO-DAY

= FARGO, N. D., Sept. g. I
Col. Theodore Roosevelt was .
4 the principal feature Of 60. ,
a days Labor Day celebration I
a here. The city was crowded 4
= TO the limit, and the people ,
q we're enthusiastic over the !
= distinguished visitor. For the 4
= frat time In roftnigh, the I
members Of the Roosevelt ,
q party slept In a hotel, instead :
Of a Pullman car. 4
1
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05

"t'n Altered my alex wife IL
worse OF than tn doctors Hus.
pieien. She ainf showed no In
terek' IN IN new hat an woman
across IN street has got"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05

MANY a man Is at loss 90 know
whether 10 take something Tor his
liver OF for his conscience
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05
A. LINCOLN.

portion OF les Just right The only remedy for this far as
possible drive useless labor and dleness OF existence
labor burden OF the the effort Of
the burden the shoulders
the oeFrom public
papers Abraham lincoln
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05
THE MARKETS

The foIioNins are the averaKs prices
suotsd bF the hscal whpissasser- IN iaeal
proeiuec. ntsasF anu feed. f'yises ~ all
Eases arw .ublett a. xariattan aernfdtnE
fr freshness ard general srreiirrre. bat
the@e prices. unls@s athsrwlMe inaieated
are for afrtetfy drst krpaes
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05

Play pool az Oriental Pool Room
tonight 80 cash prizes daily. 1913
Bird ay, between Pike and Union
zee
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05

DID you know that--Judge Ben
y Lindsey was candidate for gov
ornor Of Colorado IN 1907
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05

II ball togsers are taxable az me,.
how can they be helS 1.
coutractn7
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05
Lincoln on Labor

Tho strongost bond OF human sympathy, outside The
lily relation should be uniting all working people
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05
Tilt STORY OF WASHINGTONs
STATE DENTAL WAR

This h. the first article 81 a story
that does not need fiction for IA
base The truth about the dental
conspiracy will be- bad enough, And
Z atm going 20 state the facts.
LfnEHTY's STORY Will NEVER
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-05

Don't you think ~ strange that 40
many people read about thla Wash.
luRfon Dental FightT and why AZ
tlcg read about ltg Simply becauss
20 the principle Of liberty involved
- one SIDE and TIE power Of oppres-
aluu on the other
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-16
Pop Corn As a Southern Crop

The Missouri crop of popcorn this year
will be $3.50, 600 pounds, and 1t is worth
any day at the farm 81 a bushel One
Missourian makes more than $1,000 above
all expenses on a tract of 40 acres. Pop
corn can be grown wherever regular
Or field corn can be, and no more Guilt
walton or fertilization is needed in the
making of the little ears than is needed
in the making of the big ears of field
corn. There is but one difficulty in the
growing of popcorn-it should not be
planted adjoining patch OF field corn,
because distressing cross of varieties
would occur. Popcorn needs isolation
in order to avoid neighborhood friction.
Popcorn would make an excellent side
line in the years when Alabama farmers
will have to seek ways of starving out
the boil weevil. The demand for it is
ample, and Alabama could supply all that
Missouri does not. The subject deserves
consideration in the years when the boil
weevil is marching straight on towards
our black belt counties.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-16
August and the CITY Beautiful

In former years. before civic pride had
begun to manifest itself in large way
and before the city beautiful idea had
the attention of the public, American
cities, as a rule, looked almost their
worst in August. This last of the sum-
mer months is usually dry. 1t used to be
the month of dusty streets, parched grass,
high weeds. unelean back yards, noisome
has changed. In well ordered cities Au-
gust finds everything as sanitary and
as attractive to visitors as does any
other month of the year. Weeds are kept
down, private lawns and public parks
are in perfect condition. streets and al
leys and back yards are kept clean all
the year round.
When the city beautiful movement was
started here few years ago weed-cut-
ting orders from the Mayor were prompt
ly obeyed; and the last summer that
Mayor Ward was in office Birmingham
looked the model city, so clean and free
from rank weeds WAS it.
Citizens who possess elegant homes
keep their premises in good order as
matter of course, and many who live in
unpretentious houses take pride in having
their yards look well. But the general
appearance of some of the residence sec
tons this month is not up to our mod
ern standard. Weed-cutting has been
in progress since the first of August but
individuals have beaa sspw and the city
itself has allowed grass to grow in GER
tain streets and has neglseted to NOW
weed crops along some OF the sidewalks
Let all who have been a bit dilitory in
helping to carry out the city beautiful
scheme get busy, so that by the end of
this week Birmingham will be in the
August blue ribbon class once more.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-16
The MIlion-DoIlar Hotel

''The Fifth avenue hotel project is alive
very much alive-but in perfectipg GER
tain financial details a little delay was
unavoidable said prominent business
man who made liberal subscriAtion to
the per cent cumulative preferred
stock. From the way it looks now
final canvass for the balance of the $780,
900 preferred stock yet unsubscribed will
be made inside of week.
"A million dollar hotel in Birmingham
will pay. When 1 say a million dollar
hotel, 1 mean the cost of building, site
and furniture to total 81 100000. In two
or three large cities where handsome
hotels are about to be built it is stated
that the structures alone will cost each
81, 100000. Well, I happen to know that
in one instance the cost is an exaggera-
ton. 1t is to be on about the same scale
as our Fifth avenue hotel A million dol
lars is a pretty big pile of money to put
in hotel property. but Birmingham is
ready for such an enterprise.
Mr.. ]. A. Newcombe of Jacksonville,
Fla, a man of large experience in the
hotel business, was here Saturday TO look
into the question of leasing the proposed
Fifth avenue hotel.aI learn that he stands
ready to pay $4,000 a year rent for it, =
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-16

From the London Chronicle.
Doctor Johnson's house in Gou sh
Square is ito let." and there is an opp
portunity for an admirer to live I'M the
place VIII ere the dictionary or mostl OF
It was actually compiled.
The doctor resided at Cough Square
from 174S to 1883, and we know that
the dictionary was begun year BED bre
the first date and published In 1884, At
the top of the house, which is a lsrge
one. he had room fitted up for his
five or six assistants. whom he4tkept
constantly under his eye.
An Interviewed copy OF Bailey sAJofc-
tionary in folio he made the basis<drfyhis
work, and he collected his author flies
by incessant reading, his methods b eing
to score with a black lead pencr Y the
words he selected.
The house has many me1ancholy'rnem
cries. Here Johnson's wife dis In
1852 and left him more than eshr a
prey to his natural gloom. And hepe he
was arrested for a paltry debt or,$S
and taken to a sponging house iIh the
neighboring Cursitor street.
But 1t was here also that his Srug-
giles met with hteir reward, and when
In the last year of his tenancy Jot mson
ing in IAN easy and pleasant sta We OF
existence as constitutional unham hness
ever permitted him to enjoy
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-16
Booming ShOddy Instead Of Wool

Congressman Foss is a textile manufac-
turer and he does not hesitate to explain
the effects of the Ald1ich tariff on cloth
ing The bill, he says imposes taxes as
high as 500 per cent on the wool needed
for the coarse, warm, low-priced cloth
ing worn by the poor. The same bill taxes
at from 40 to 80 per cent the higher grades.
of wool needed for the high-priced cloth
ing of the rich. As result the coarser
md lower-prieed wool which, if it were
not taxed, would come into our markets
for the manufacture of warm and dura-
BILE clothing for the men of small incomes
and large families, is almost, entirely ex-
cluded. When it is brought into our
country. it is mixed with shoddy in the
manufacture of the clothing of the poor.
If there were no tax on this grade of
WOOL there would be no market for
shoddy. and no shoddy in poor mems
Clothes
These facts are simply ineontrovertible
simply because they are facts, and it
is these facts that are turning against
the men who devised the Aldrich tariff
thousands of votes in the middle west and
In the eastern states also.
The revolution is one of the most re-
markable in our political history. and
nothing can now alter the trend of pub
lie sentiment. The mistake was made
when Congress listened TO special inter
ests and turned deaf ear to the inter-
ests of the great body of consumers.