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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06

the antitrust law.
Mr.. Taft urges that labor unions
must be law abiding or suffer the
usual penalty.
This was his reason for de-
handing that the Hughes amend
ment be struck out of that appro-
priation bill.
But the Hughes amendment did
not propose to shield labor unions
from lawlessness. What it did
propose was to prevent their
prosecution unless they became
lawless.
The exact terms of the Hughes
amendment were "that no part of
this money shall be spent in the
prosecution of any organization
or individual for entering into
any combination or agreement
having in view the increasing of
wages, shortening of hours, or
lettering the condition Of labor,
or for any act done in furtherance
thereof not in itself unlawful
The house agreed to this amend.
ment; the senate rejected it, and
says the Coast Seamen's journal
significantly, incidentally in
creased the sum appropriated for
prosecutions from 100000 to
$200,O00!"
The senate refused to recede in
favor of the Hughes amendment
and under pressure from Presi'
dent Taft the house did recede by
consenting to strike it out.
This means, as Congressman
Hughes implied on the floor OF
the house-it can mean nothing
else-that there is a deliberate
purpose, backed by the admins
tration, to spend public money ir
prosecuting labor unions, not fo,
lawlessness, but for organizing.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06
Three Graces
and Justice

Once upon a time the three graces
sOlicitude.
Faith thought that the main trou-
BILE was with his soul, and preached
Hope ,opined that he was afflicted
with acute pessimism, and sought to
relieve his condition by presenting to
him the bright side of things. -.
Charity put a patch on his pants,
and congratulating him, said this
would keep the cold out for a while,
anyway. =: - X:
These well-intentioned ministrations
were. repeated from time to time, un-
til the poor man was well-nigh stark
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06

Charles W. Eliot, ex-president Of
Harvard is the loyal friend of the
open shop.
He is one of the distinguished Of
ficials of the Civic Federation and
likes to. tell the trades unionists what
wicked, wicked men they are. :
Eliot is the friend of the scab and
he wants for the scab equality OF
opportunity.
He wants his hero to defy union
leaders and to insist upon working
when, where and how he pleases.
He is against the labor trusts"
which attempt to regulate conditions
under which men shall labor and
even try to put up the bars and ex-
clude men from trode.
Now Eliot has more nerve than
most men even in the Civic Fedora
ton.
He fights a closed shop for the
workers and advocates in his trade a
closed shop that surpasses anything
that I know of in the trade union
world.
Speaking sometime ago on the flu
ture of Harvard University he de-
clared.
First, that Harvard should be made
the most difficult of all colleges to
get into. Second, that we do not
propose to have any institution in the
country harder. to stay in.
Now the giving of ALL boys and
girls a chance to acquire knowledge
hurts no one. :~.
If every man, woman and child
ir Massachusetts, could. have the
chance to hear lectures in Harvard
university it could hurt no one. "t
If all the bars were let down and
an open shop declared at Harvard
no man, woman or child would :suf-
fer. .-s. j.. >........>~. g.. ~ T.
Yet Eliot wants Harvard to be a
closed shop. And today it's initiation
fees amount to over one hundred
dollars for each student, and every
student must pass q difficult Jexarni-
nation before he can drink at that
fountain of wisdom: = s IS - !. E
No matter how thirsty any poor
lad may be for knowledge that lovely
and refreshing spring is closed to him,
s a Door lad .Rork king at night In
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06
TAKES MANY DRONES TO
COMPLETE HUMAN HIVE

If the man who works nine,
twelve or more hours in day for
wages which will barely provide
food and shelter for himself and
family feels any curiosity about
why it is some people in the world
work so hard and others so little,
it may enlighten him to know that
the corporations Of the United
States will pay out in dividends
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06

during this month the tidy sum
Of $204,257, 249 to persons who
have done absolutely nothing to.
earn or create wealth.
The weekly and daily wage,
workers who have done the work
will continue to draw their bread
money and toll to create another
batch of dividends for lucky
stockholders. = "
with corporations giving to
the shareholders such sum it is
hard to see where business is eth
err bad or near bad" says simple
minded. newspaper published in
New York. Well, it is hard to see
it if one lives among stockhold-.
ers and never considers the man
who does the work. -.
"This is nearly $40, 100000 more
than was paid out in the same
month last year. adds the same
newspaper, which shows that the
American workman is an able pro-
wider for people who don't work.
Of this sum $96, 842, 700>will be
disbursed in dividends and the re-
mainder will be interest on various
bonds Of railroads, industrial, trac'
ton, government and Greater New
York bonds. The sum will be in
excess of the $204,000,000 men,
toned, for it does not take into
consideration the interest on the
bonds Of many smaller municipali-
ties, which will run up into the
millions.
Following is a summary Of July
disbursements in dividends for
1909, compared with those Of
1910:
Railroad 80. .$42,e77,es7 $ss,49s, 27o
Industrial go. 3S,367,921 31,15z,900
fractions 80. 7,s22,os2 7,s2o,l4o
Banks and Trust
Companies. 7,975,000 7,85O,000
Total ......$96, s42,700 $s5,s22,310
The interest disbursements for
railroads alone will be $4,000, 900
as against. $78loo,ooo for last
year. The remainder of the $1o7,.
414,549 will be distributed among
industrial, traction, government
and municipal bonds. The dis
bursements Of interest for 1909
amounted to $99,763,549.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06
LITTLE TRUTHS. FUN ii. II Y
BETWEEN, SANDWICH
FIT FOR ANY QUEEN

Little drops CT water poured
into the milk give the niillknlan's
daughter lovely gowns of silk.
Little grains of sugar mingled
with some sand make the grocer's
assets swell to beat the band.
Little bowls of custard, humble
though they seem, help enrich the
fellow selling pure ice cream.
Little rocks and bowlders, little
chunks of slate, make the coal
mans fortune something fierce
and great.
Little ads. we'll written, printed
nice and neat, give the joyful
merchants homes on Easy street.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06
NOT BALACLAVA;
SOME OTHER LAVA

Cannon hurled threats 1T them,
Cannon shook fists at them,
Cannon j.. trent of them =:
Volleyed and Numbered:
Storned 1T them for = spell,
Gave MIR. BristoW-Well.
Anyhow, from Cannon's lips
Words that were sizzling fell!
All Kansas wondered.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06
CHILDREN's CHARTER
PLEADS FOR JUSTICE

One of the most promising feat
ures of the movement for social
and political reform that is now
sweeping over the nation is the
growing realization that partic,
ular attention must be paid to the
problem Of giving children a fair
start in life. Among the many or
CARNATIONS that have made adj
vances in that line Of effort is the
social settlement Of Rochester, N.
Y, which organization recently
set forth part Of it's program in
unique document called the chill
dren's charter. That document
makes the following contentious !:
No child should be compelled to
live in an institution, to play on
the streets, to be a. bread-winner,
to live in tenements in congested
districts, to be ill-nourished, to
have children s diseases, to be an
angel, or to die of work or neg
lect.
Then comes the following dec
laration Of rights: Every child
has a right TO home, to have a
garden Of it's own, to have at least
eighteen years Of childhood, to
have plenty Of space, light and
fresh air, to- have proper food, to
be always health,yand strong, to
be a real boy or areal girl, and to
live and be always happy: y:
/ Who will dispute those conten.
tions or defend the denial of those
rights? Yet millions of children
are suffering andzdying because
custom and greed yield but: slow
" to the demands of humanity:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06

-. y
New York cloakmakers have at
last rebelled against conditions
that are worse than any existing
in the country: today With right
on their side they. cannot fail to
get the support Of the public,
which makes success for them a
certainty. Strikes are serious
methods to- resort to, but the cir
cumstances in this case compel
strenuous action. May their bat
tie be short and victorious as it
appears evident it will be.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06

The refusal Of the employer to
meet his men has caused more
strikes than a demand for in.
creased wages or a fight to pre-
vent the reduction of them EN-.
ployers refuse to deal with their
men because they are organized.
They organize themselves. They
do not seem to realize that it is i.
question Of man and citizen and
notsa question Of master and serv-'
a11t. This state has passed long
ago
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06
do IT FOR DULUTH" IS
EMPTY PHRASE FOR THEl

do IT FOR DULUTH" IS
EMPTY PHRASE FOR THEM
That is mighty commendable
move some Duluth merchants are
making toward having the city
council pass an ordinance prohib-
iting the giving Of circus exhibit
tions here on Saturdays.
Is it not? Or is it? What do
you think about it Mr.. Working
man?
Of course you realize that it is
a step toward the prohibiting OF
circus exhibitions in the city any
old day Of the week.
The merchants behind the Sat.
urday ban on circuses say that
their receipts for the Saturday af-
ternoon on which circus shows
here are cut in two, which is Of
course, regrettable state of af-
fairs. But the receipts wouldn t
be cut in two if they closed shop
at | clock in the afternoon and
gave their clerks half-holiday as
many Of the public-spirited mer-
chants of Duluth are doing.
Some merchants say that circus
es should be barred from the city
anyway. They take lots Of money
away and give nothing in return.
That's bad-real bad, but cir
cuses are not the only mediums
through which Duluth is wrong
fully MIXED.
Here's a little story with a
moral.
A prominent Superior street
merchant ran across to a cigar
store opposite his place of bust
ness all in a white heat one day.
Damn these circuses anyway he
said in answer to the man S query
as to whether he had seen the par
ade which had just passed. "They
take money out Of the city and
should be prohibited. Give me a
Tom Moore cigar, quick, l must
get back to the store.''
Don't you think it right tc
take money out Of the city?'' ask.
ed the cigar man, who by the by
is a level headed fellow.
"Such a question: sputtered
the merchant. 'Of course j
DON'T
"Then why do you do it?'
asked the cigar man.
"Me!' queried the merchant in
establishment II don't do it,
"Oh yes. you do said the
smoke vendor, with eighteen o,
twenty of the best brands of ci
gars, produced anywhere on earth
made right here in Duluth you
come running in here. asking fo1
ci gar made a thousand miles
away. Every time you buy a CT
gar made outside of the city you
send money away that rightfully
belongs here.''
The merchant went back to his
store thinking it over.
Think it over yourself, Mr.
Workingman, and see if you don y
decide that the cigar man wa.
right.
The circus ism doing it all. Not
by q long shot. .>.. .
A. Wholesale grocery compan,
right here in Duluth-the mos
patriotic on earth, it's official.
say, and to prove it they subscribe
literally to the Commercial club.
support-won't handle a. Duluth
made cigar in all the two millions
it sells every year. .44... s,:.- =.
At an average of five cents q
cigar two millions Of cigars woulc
cost 100000. I'D. i. '$..=
This wholesale grocery firm de-
liberately sends 100000 out 81
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06
HERE'S A HOT TAMALE!

LaFollette's pays its weekly re-
spects to Uncle Joe under date OF
July 80 as follows: 4
When an elderly gentleman, being
hot under the collar, suffers a physi-
cal collapse, all humane persons feel
sorry. We are sorry because of the
irdisposition of Speaker Cannon on
the occasion. of his first ChautauquA
address. For public reasons. too. we
regret the occurrence and hope it
may not recur. Speaker Cannon's
speeches are doing more for Insur-
gency than those of any Of the In
surgents Without any more waver-s
ing, long may he wave!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06

Congress has abolished the i'm
munity bath This " ould, indeed,
be = serious calamity were it not
for. our good old friends, the
statute Of limita tion and the laws
delay.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06

The only time some people get
busy is when they are attending
to other peoples business.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-08-06

We will gladly The
Of
needs Friday Saturday what
a andre :. -
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16

from the available winter-growing
legumes, except in a few more or
less restricted areas.
The price of vetch seed has al
ways been serious obstacle to the
growth of this crop, which although
less valuable as a cover crop and
for winter grazing, is, in my opinion,
the best of the early spring legumes.
because it produces more and better
forage and is adapted to a wider
range of soils and conditions. When
the, soil is inoculated it will grow al
most anywhere, on either clay or
sandy land; but it naturally does
best on rich soils, as do all other
crops.
Until the last year or two, GRIM
son clover seed have been cheap,
an expenditure of 81 to $3.50 being
sufficient to purchase the seed for
an acre; but for the last year the
seed have sold for twice their for
mer price and this, coupled with the
uncertainty of obtaining stand,
has very much lessened the acreage,
sowed. 1t is a magnificent winte,
or early spring legume when grown
successfully; but will do nothing, as
a rule, without pretty complete in
oculation and is very susceptible to
the dry weather Of fall and the Sc
we're frosts of winter, except when
it is sowed early enough to make a
good growth in the fall before very
cold weather comes.
In succeeding articles we shall dis
cuss each of these crops, more in de-
tail, as regards their value for COW
ering the land and for winter graz
ing and also especially as to meth
DDS and time of seeding.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16
VALUE OF THE PEA HULLER.
How One May Be Made to Do the
Work for q NeighborhOod.

how On0 May be Made TO DO the
Work for q Neighborhood.
Messrs. Editors: A pea huller is
a great machine. We have had a
Dixie in use six or eight years, and
1t Is paying machine.
Our pea huller has served a good
deal for this neighborhood. We keep
1t at home. do not allow it to be haul
ed about; charge cents per bushel,
allowing the people to attend to the
pea hulling themselves. This has not
worked so well. Small trash, or
stones, etc.. have been allowed to go
in with the peas, and the teeth have
often been bent. and turned about.
Often the peas were not dry
enough, and this matter should not
be forgotten. Five cents a bushel
toll Is very cheap. and would be
enough II all knew how to take care
Of the machine-but new hands do
not know 50 well how to take care.
If one. having a new machine, al
lows others to clean their peas on It,
1t would be advisable to charge, say
about 10 cents. for cleaning, and fur
nish regular hand to feed the ma
chine. BY having regular, careful
hand to feed and watch closely, a
machine will continue to clean peas
rapidly, and will last for a number of
ears-and will pay. at 10 cents q
bushel, for the help of the extra
hand.
In order to keep the machine run
ming closely. four hands are needed
to attend to it. Then pea hullers are
like other machinery; they will need
oiling in order to run easy.
In cleaning the peas. the hulls
should be all blown out before the
turning stops. If not the hulls will
run back among the peas.
w. F. GRABS.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16

''What society needs is not the
concentration of educated men in the
professions, or in any special occu-
pations, but the diffusion of educa-
ton through all professions, trades
and occupations; the Identification of
labor of every sort and kind with
training and intelligence; for an un-
educated democracy. no matter how
good its intentions. or how wise the
structure of its government, is
danger to itself and to other coun-
tries"
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16

In practice the feeding value OF
Kudzu, or "cowvine" has the repu-
tation OF the best milk producer In
this State. 1 am setting out a lot of
this vine cuttings on creek and
branch bottoms to stop washing OF
the banks and to hold drifting sands.
l congratulate the whole staff of
The Progressive Farmer and Gazette
on the extremely high class of its
work.
J. C. STRIBLING.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16

ter-grOwing IeBumeS, winter grazing
plants and cover crops, we are still
receiving, almost daily, many inqui-
ries and requests for information re-
garding the relative value Of the
many plants used for these purposes
No one plant Is best for all soils,
purposes and conditions. In one sec
ton crimson clover may be best for
a certain purpose in view: rye may
be preferred to all other winter
growing crops by some; while in 9TH
er cases, or for some other purposes,
vetch or bur clover may better fill
the requirements. The crops sowed
for winter grazing, or to cover the
land during the winter TO prevent
washing and teaching are In the
main annual plants. We have no
permanent pasture plants which
make much growth In the late fall,
winter and early spring. For this
reason we always find IL difficult to
meet the frequent requests for
combination of grasses or plants that
viii furnish grazing during the en-
tire year We know OF no such per-
manent grazing plants.
Limitations OF Our Best Crops.
Moreover, we regret that We do
not know of any annual plant that
will make n good growth and AFFORD
much pasture during the cold wealth
err we sometimes have between De-
cember Is and February Is, through
out the northern half of our terri
tory. The plants which afford much
cover TO the land and efficiently
serve the purpose OF preventing
washing and teaching OF plant foods
from the soil during the winter must
be sowed early enough to make the
necessary growth before cold wealth
er comes The same statement is
equally true regarding crops sowed
for winter grazing.
Crops sowed so late in the fall
that the cold weather prevents suffi-
cient growth TO enable them to az
ford protection to the land or graz
Ing for live stock, may make rapid
spring growth and be valuable for
both these purposes during March
and April. Some OF the crops used
for these purposes will make more
growth during the cold weather than
Others and are consequently better
adapted TO late sowing than others.
On the other hand. in the extreme
southern parts of our territory, the
winters may be so mild as to inter-
fere very little with the growing or
these crops at any time during the
winter season.
Cereal Crops for Cover and Grazing.
The crops generally used for fall
sowing to serve as cover and grazing
crops are crimson clover, the vetch-
es. bur clover and rye. Oats, wheat
and barley are also sometimes used,
but generally these crops are sowed
for making seed or forage the next
summer, rather than as cover ana
grazing crops, although they serve
more or less for both these purposes.
In fact, for grazing purposes, II the
land is rich, we would put the cereals
In the following order OF merit for
winter grazing; Barley, wheat, rye
(Southern grown and oats. 1t Is
useless to SOW barley on poor land,
but on rich land we have no hesita-
T.. -, al
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16

It takes as much time and labor
to plant poor seed on poorly pre-
pared ground as it does to plant good
seed on land we'll prepared.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16
Comparative Analysis Of Kudzu and
COwpea Hay.

Messrs. Editors: Replying to Prof.
Massey's note in The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette. I enclose an
analysis Of the Kudzu vine, made by
Professor Keitt. Of Clemson Col
loO0
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16

quiIeu lor barley.
For winter cover crop and for
grazing these cereals should be SOW
ed moderately early. We are often
asked IL they may be put in at the
last cultivation of the cotton, but
while this may be successfully done
in many cases, we advise sowing
them, as cover crops and for grazing,
the latter part of September or first
half OF October. When sowed in
cotton, we believe it usually better
to SOW Immediately after the first
picking rather than at the last work
ing.
AS hardy cover and winter graz
Ing crop for general use on rather
thin land. Southern-grown rye is
probably the most reliable of the
cereals. The Northern-grown seed
give plants that seem to lie on the
ground more and are not nearly so
satisfactory for grazing.
We regard oats as of the least
value for winter grazing, but in the
lower half or two-thirds Of our terri
tory they are the best for maturing
for seed or grain.
Rape a Great Grazing Crop.
Rape is perhaps the best of
all our winter grazing crops. 1t
will probably produce more feed
to be grazed during December, jan
uary and February than any other
plant we know of; but as it Is best
sowed in drills 1t does not, when SOW
ed this way, serve the purpose of a
cover crop so we'll as broadcast
crop. or course, rape may be SOW
ed broadcast, and on very rich land
may do fairly we'll that way, but as
rule we think rape should be plant
ed only on very rich land and in
drills. 1t is, therefore grazing
crop rather than cover crop. All
of these crops may give considerable
fall and spring grazing, and some
winter grazing, and all, II sowed ear
ly enough and broadcast, will fill the
purpose OF cover crop, but they
are lacking in one very important
respect, as compared with the early
spring legumes which are also gen.
orally spoken of as cover and winter
grazing crops. The cereals mention
ed and rape take all the nitrogen,
phosphoric acid and potash they use
from the soil; but crimson clover,
the vetches and bur clover take the
greater part of their nitrogen from
the air. This is the point at which
these so-called winter legumes are
superior to the cereals and rape, but
as winter grazing and cover crops
they are, in my opinion, far inferior.
Crimson Glover, Bur Glover and
Vetch.
Bur and crimson clover, If sowed
sufficiently early-September or ear
ly in October-will, unless the fall
is too dry, make pretty good cover
crops but they afford little grazing
until the warm days Of early spring,
when their growth is very rapid, as
is that of vetch also, and the amount
of grazing or forage produced in
short time is accordingly very large.
We place crimson clover and vetch
far ahead Of bur clover and, in fact.
the scarcity of bur clover seed and
the many failures with recleaned
California seed, which is the only
bind that hac haan Oht a In q HE in re-
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16
J. G. STRIBLING.

Good live stock and good tools in
spire the farmer to do better work.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16
$500 More Year Farming: How to Get II
BY GROWING MORE COVER CROPS.
Of the Crops That Will Grazing and Pro-
the Soil-No One Best .n,
Rape for Grazing, Legumes for Soil Improvement
BY TAFT Butler.

FTER ALL THAT has been but also requires rio,
printed IN THIS paper during land
a the last two years about win