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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27

The attempt to evolve new
national anthem in this country is
deserving of attention. It is gen.
orally agreed, among musicians, at
any rate, that the Star Spangled
Banner is undeeerving OF the pre-
mier honor because not one man,
woman or child in Fifty can reach
all the notes which it contains.
Not only is this a serious objection,
but the words themselves, in spite
of their familiarity, are at times
undigni6ed. The words of Ameri-
ca are better from a literary view
point, but the absurdity of refer
ring to this half-world as the land of
rocks and rills is evident. just as
the original of the Star Spangled
Banner was drinking song, en-
titled To Anacreon in Heaven, SO
America comes to us from an old
German air, which the English
have also borrowed for their God
Save the King. The chief objec-
ton to the Battle Hymn of the
Republic and to Dixie is that they
have partisan associations, but
there are also literary and musical
objections. They must always re-
main merely national songs. But
1t is difficult to force new national
anthem on the people. This fact
is recognized in England, where
there has been no attempt in years
to supplant the absurd doggerel of
God Save the King. Loyal Brit
ishers will continue to ask the
deity to scatter their enemies, to
confound the latter g politics and
to Illustrate their knavish tricks.
It is in Europe that they manage
these things better. The Ma1sei!-
laise Is a revolutionary song, but
words and music are alike worthy.
Germany too is splendidly served
in Elm Feste Burg, while the Aus
, trian hymn appearsin every church
hymnbook. But perhaps the best
of all national anthems is the Rus.
sian, seeming as it does to body
forth the very life of the Russian
people in it's barbaric melancholy
All Slavic peoples stand high il
the musical world, possibly because
of the originality of their con
ceptions.
WHEN Homer, Euripides n {
. Ella Wheeler Wilcox begin to pal
on a wearied imagination, whe1
there is no health in Ruskin, Rab
elais or Clarissa Harlow it is tim
to turn to literature of the follow
ing kind: "Add the beaten yoke
y of four eggs to one cupful of whit
/ sugar to two oupfuls of pumpkin
edo I get that spelt right9) "ths
has been stewed and put throug
/ a colander. With this mix
o. quart of milk, one teaspoonfr
of cinnamon, mace and nutme
mixed, and the whites of the egg
beaten stiff. Line very Deep
you can't make it too deep-"pl
dish with good paste, cut slashe
in it here and there" (here's whe1
y the artist comes out,) "stir tt
pumpkin custard we'll from tt
bottom and put it into the pastr
Is, Bake in steady oven." Wagn'
dreamed of union of all the art
but the development of the COO
We book dates from after his da
There is poetry in the very termi
ology. Who but poet could Co
,e. csive words like colander, CHM
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27
CHURCH NOTICE.

Service O'Clock Sunday morning
Catholic service alternate Sunday Kew -
Benson and Corcoran chaplains.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27

The GREATEST men in the world-those who
have been remembered and revered by following gen.
eratiops of mankini-were engaged in endeavoring
to iighten the burdens Of their fellows
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27

DIVORCES are greatly on the increase Whyf
Because it is too easy thing to get married More
stringent marriage laws being advocated by stu
dents of the subject
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27
che Southland.

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It's December in de Souf Ian
En- de darkies am all gay,
Cause de cotton done picked en- gone,
En- till Spring dey're free to play.
De frost done touched de 'simmon,
En- made it fit ter eat,
De possum's des so fat en- fine.
He scarce can move his feet.
Molly cotton-tail's got so sassy
Dat she DIES runs roun' yo' feet,
En- in all de darkies' cabins
Dey's no scarcity of meat
So de ole folks gets de banjo down
While de chlluns gather roun'
Ter to listen to de music
OATS de sweetest 'bove de groun'.
Or dey all des sing de ole song
In chorus sof' en- low;
All kin hear dem in nah dreamin'
En- dey makes NAH ole heart glow.
But Abs done lef' de Souf benin me
En- Anil hear dem songs no more,
'Cept dey sing dem wifi de angels
On dat far-of golden shore.
The Mentor.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27

A Ru11Er will pierce the heart of him whom it
str;kes-if it reaches the right spot No one is i'm
mune if struck, on account OF pedigree.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27

RE11e1ous tolerance is expanding with each
succeeding generation. Death respects no one re-
ligion above another
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27

You CANNOT make some people believe anything
not even when they see it.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27

Love KNOWS no language-or in other words
love knows all languages.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27

A MAN who does his full duty honestly and con
scientific usly is a MAN-anywhere.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27

No ONE is ever too old to endeavor to improve
the mind.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-27

Do YOUR duty-and then you need fear no one.
United labor bulletin., 1910-09-29
PLUMBERS CONVENTION.

The report of President Alpine to the
convention of the International Union o.
Plumbers, Steamfitters and Steamfitters
Helpers, which is drawing to a close at
St Paul. Mimi, recommends that tn,
general fund for the benefit of the mem
bers be largely increased. His report
shows that since June so, 1908, total
of sl39,029 has been paid out in various
benefits. OF lnis s59,414 was paid for
strike or lockout benefits; s61.015 for
sick benefits, and s1S,eOO for death ben
eits.
One of the important matters under
discussion is the regulation of appren-
tees Under this head the association
has been severely criticised by the mas
tiers ON the ground that the stand taken
has prevented many from entering the
craft and thus kept the supply low.
1t costs the association nearly $500 a
day to maintain this convention Ac-
cording TO the secretary-treasurer's re
port, the expenses of the last biennial
were si7, ,SsS.90. and it is expected that
the expenses of this convention Will oe
nearly $4,000.
United labor bulletin., 1910-09-29
WILL PROTECT UNION PAINTERS.

Painters in Chicago decline to follow
the lead of the '-acquavit fiends" of tie
old country, who arrange cheap jags for
themselves by smiling and breathing in.
stead of drinking the product.
What the Chicago painters object to is
not breathing the fumes of acquivat oui
of wood alcohol that is being used to a
great extent by contractors in the city
for diluting shellac and varnish used in
Interior decorating.
w. E. Nestor. business agent for Chi
cago painters, said a man was varnish-
ing and lacquering floors recently in an
inclosed room in an Oak Park residence.
The contractor as usual had provided
him with wood alcohol
When he quit work he staggered up
TO the contractor.
you're fred" roared the contractor.
Now the painter had not been drink
ing. He had been inhaling wood alcono
fumes the contractor was responsible
for. and his brain had tagged"
The Painters District council ordered
by unanimous vote that all affiliat-
ed painters who are about all the
painters in Chicago-should refuse
henceforth to work for contractors who
did not provide ethyl alcohol. Letters
were sent to members of the Painters
and Decorators club. and the Master
Painters association, notifying the en-
ployers of the unions decision.
United labor bulletin., 1910-09-29
EXECUTIVE BOARD ACTS.
Charges are Preferred Against Members
Who Refused to Quit Work.

Z The joint executive board of the Cooks
Walters and Bartenders met Wednesday
afternoon and took action on the Yale
restaurant case. The Yale is located
171O Larimer street and last week sent
the house card to the headquarters of IN
Walters union, with no explanation but
telling where it was from. The crew {
cooks and walters were called out, an'
all responded except Chef Harry Waters
who was a former secretary of the Star
Federation of Labor. Since that time q
union waiter has went to work there
The board preferred charges against the
two members at the meeting yesterday
and they will be prosecuted through
their organizations.
The Antlers restaurant, Arapahoe
street, has made overtures to the boar
for a house card, but the management
of the restaurant has not as yet adjuste
the differences that caused the with
drawal of the card.
United labor bulletin., 1910-09-29
UNION TO sussIDIzE.
Convention Approves Plan to Make Sup
ply of Beer Certain in Conflict
With Bosses.

Brewery workers, in the future, will
stand all the show in the world of win
ming their strikes. if the plan submitted
by committee at the North Side Turner
hall. Chicago, and adopted by the con-
vention, is accepted by the rank and file
The plan provides for the subsidizing
of breweries in several parts of the Unit
ed States by the international organiza-
ton so that the unions will control the
output of the breweries so subsidized,
BY doing this the workers will be able,
in case of strike. to ship beer into the
strike zone and compete with the scab
product OF the employers who are fight
ing the union men.
1t will provide for resistance to the
forces of the organized employers that
will strike at the bottom of the cause of
the failures of many of the strikes caleu
in this country. that is, the failure to
provide a union product in opposition TO
the scab product.
"lt is easy to ask the friends of or
ganized labor to help us in our struggles.
but we have found it another thing to
continue doing it for any length of time
unless we can provide them a substitute
for the beer placed under the ban OF our
organization" said one delegate.
IF this plan is adopted" said another
delegate. I'VE can call upon the carpen-
ters and the printers. and all the other
organized crafts to help us in the case o,
a strike. and when the bosses see them
selves losing their business and the pos
sibilities of another company taking Il
away permanently they will do some tai
thinking before they allow strike and
boycott of this kind to be continued
against them for any length of time"
The proposition was carried by the
Chicago convention without a dissenting
voice.
United labor bulletin., 1910-09-29
MAcHINrsTs SETTLE STRIKE.
Terms Proposed by the Company Are
Accepted by the Strikers.

The strike of the Macninists' union at
the Denver Rock Drill and Machine com
pany has been settled. The settlemen.
was brought about by Vice-President J
D. Buckalew- The proposed terms of set
tlement were made by the company an
were voted on secretly by the men on
strike, the majority favoring returning u
work at the terms proposed, which are
that the men will be taken back witkin
20 days from date of settlement; that
the foremen will not be taken back as
foremen, but may return as journeymen
machinists; that one man who made him
self conspicuous during the strike wi
not be taken back under any circum-
stances. and that any work claimed by
journeymen machinists and given to la
borers to perform will go to committee
the method of selection of which has
been outlined-for decision
number of men have returned to
the shops, which have been moved from
Eighteenth and Market to Fortieth and
Gilpin, and have found the tools, machin-
cry and general condition such that they
are now sorry that they voted to return,
as they believe they could have won
every contention. The settlement has
become unpopular.
A few strikebreakers had been en-
ployed but no results were obtained by
the company from their employment
Business Agent Evans has been on
duty almost continually since the strike
started and the constant strain has al
most caused his confinement to his home
He is now under a doctors care. Mr..
Evans and a score of others were arrest
ed about 10 days ago for picketing ano
other alleged unlawful acts, but the cases
have been dismissed. The cases were
to have come to trial Tuesday of this
week.
Vice-President Buchalew is now on mis-
way to Omaha, where he has been or
dered by the national officers. Mr.. Buch-
alew was formerly linotype machinis
and member of the International Typo
graphical union.
United labor bulletin., 1910-09-29

The Colorado miners and those of the
Irwin district in Pennsylvania are the
only ones now on strike for the wage
demands presented April l. All other
districts have settled and the men are
back to work
The Northern Colorado Coal and Coke
company was denounced in resolutions
by the assembly as treating their en-
ployes unfairly and for refusing to deal
with the unions.
Political issues have again been taken
up by the assembly and the legislation
committee has been directed to address
letter to candidates for the legislature,
asking their views on an employers liza
bility law, woman's eight hour law, re-
peal of the anti-boycott law and a law
compelling the employment of union la
Dor on all state work. The assembly de-
sires that the candidates put themselves
on record and they will be opposed or
supported accordingly When these an
swers are received the assembly will
most likely issue an official statement
calling attention to the attitude toward
the proposed legislation of the legisla-
tive candidates.
Members of a committee from the La
bel League, and who are delegates to the
assembly, asked permission of the as
sembly to have Secretary Bedford pro-
duce the minutes before the committee
The committee is investigating certain
statements made by j. A. Conkle in the
United Labor Bulletin in regard to the
position George Hally should occupy in
the labor world since his opposition to
the Trades Assembly in the water fran
chise election The proposition to pro-
duce the minutes was opposed by one or
two or Hally's friends, but Delegate
Moorhouse, from the Cigarmakers. de-
clared that he did not know anything the
assembly had done which should be CON
cealed from the public. The affairs of
the assembly are in a condition to
bear publicity, he asserted, and If they
were not, it would for the benefit of the
assembly, that the members be investl-
gated. By large majority it was voted
to allow the minutes to be copied.
The Denver Trades and Labor assem-
bly, voted to urge legislators to put
through a bill providing for the payment
of outlawed state warrants issued in 1887
to 1889. These warrants are in the hands
OF the school fund and their redemption
will mean an increase of 81, 600 900 in
the school fund of the state The as
sembly likewise endorsed the proposal
that the state university be given an ap-
preparation so tnat the last two years
Of the medical college course can be Civ
en- in Denver. where the students will
have chance to get clinical experience.
y bill to this effect was passed during
the Buchtel administration, but Governor
Buehtel, who was chancellor of the Dem
yer university, vetoed it, as he feared it
would mean competition that would hurt
the Denver university medical school
The assembly voted to join the Ma
tional Commission on Prison Labor One
of the things the commission intends to
do is to prevent the sale of prison-made
goods outside of the state in which they
are made.
United labor bulletin., 1910-09-29
ABOUT Los ANGELES.

Anton Johansen has been delegated TO
bring the Los Angeles situation before
the different conventions of labor that
are being held in the United states this
month
In an address he told of how the men,
bers of all of the San Francisco unions
have been paying strike benefit of 20
cents per week to assist their brothers
in the CITY of Los Angeles" in their
fight against the dastardly Merchants
and Manufacturers association.
The effect of the struggle for the las
three MONTHS said Mr.. Johansen, "has
been to open the eyes of the workers to
the need of getting into the unions to
protect themselves against an organlza-
ton of bosses more vicious and disci.
plined than has ever been encountered
by organized labor anywhere In the
United States. The workers are ready
to fight to the last ditch to organize the
toilers thoroughly, and If the eastern
people will support us financially 1t win
mean victory for labor that win hoia
a prominent place in history"
"As conditions stand today no citizen,
lawyer or business man dares to express
himself in sympathy with the men who
are locked out. To do so would mean
the blacklisting of him by the employers
and the loss of his means of livelihood,
All troubles and grievances OF employees
are Immediately transferred to the NJ
NJ. association and they are the court OF
last resort. which spells evil for the EN-
ployes.
six thousand dollars week has been
poured Into the city by the unions In the
West and jurisdlctional and faetionnf
fights have been eliminated In lighting
the common enemy. The strikers have
established cooperative grocery at the
Labor Temple. All that Is now needs
is an expression from the East showing
that they are with US In this nsnt nnul
the workers In Los Angeles are trsates
with some degree OF respect"
United labor bulletin., 1910-09-29
TO FRIENDS AND ORGANIZED La
BOR IN DENVER.

1t is with great pleasure that We an
nounce that The United Labor Bulletin
will issue a special Thanksgiving Day
edition, one week before Thanksgiving
day. This is the first special issue We
have gotten out under the new regime
and we aim to make 1t a hummer. Or
ganized labor has a great many things
to be thankful for, as this has been a
year of victories for our cause. Therefore
put your shoulder to the wheel and heir
boost this special issue. The business
men of Denver are helping nobly and we
think the issue will be credit to or
ganized labor. All news for this issue
must be in the editors hands two weeks
before going to press. For further in
formation in regard to this issue consult
the Advertising Manager. Room sos Club
Bldg. Phone Main 7440.
United labor bulletin., 1910-09-29
TRADES ASSEMBLY
is WORKING HARD
The Special Committee Miners Strike in Confer.
ence With State Observation-Disclosures Commits
tee Busy With Candidates for LeaisIature--
Minutes Ordered Before Committee.

The Trades and Labor Assembly is
now working in a business-like way, and
is being appreciated by the press of the
city and union men in particular. The
poisonous influences that have been in
jected into the assembly in the past are
being thrown off by the passing of time
and the injection of new life and cleaner
more ogressive-thought. The assem-
bly, is now working. meeting the great
issues of the state as they are advanced
for solution.
Four weeks ago the assembly, on mo
ton and second by Delegates Koch and
French, respectively, directed a commit
tee to go into" the coal situation and
see what could be done looking toward
having the great daily papers of Denver
handle union instead of non-union-mine-
COAL and make an effort to secure union
miled coal for Denver this winter. The
committee named was Delegates Kocn
Lindsey and Moorehouse, and was later
supplemented by President White and
Secretary Bedford, and were directed to
work in conjunction with the officers OF
the State Federation of Labor.
This committee has succeeded in get
ting the assistance of the newspapers to-
ward the same end, they report; ana
have had conference with the govern
or. Deputy Labor Commissioner Brake
and the head of district Is, United Mine
Workers of America, and all have been
working in harmony looking to the end
ing of the great strike in Northern Colo
rado.
The conditions in these mining camps
during the strike have been beyond be-
lief to the average citizen. Strikebreak-
ers have been imported from West vlr-
ginia, Tennessee and Missouri and car
loads of from 40 to have oeen regu-
larly taken to the struck mines. Very
few of them remain after learning the
conditions and that there is a strike and
leave the mines as soon as they can es-
cape the guards. who are armed and keep
the strikebreakers corraled on the COM
pany property.
great many of these guards are
the worst of characters and have been
given permits as officers by Director
Whitehead of the Humane society, wit1
offices in the capitol. The committee
from the assembly met Governor Shat
roth and Sheriff Capp of Boulder county
and laid before them the facts They
eptNAutu AOE Il test ease IudI one Deputy
Porter was carrying concealed weapons
and breaking the laws of the state O.
Colorado. and the governor obtained an
opinion from Attorney General Barnett
10 the effect that these men nor the
agents of private detective agencies had
no more right to carry firearms than a
private citizen. When the governor
called Mr.. Whitehead's attention to the
violation of said Porter, he called Porter
on the telephone and revoked his permit.
to take effect at once. stating that let
ter would follow. The committee has
the situation well In hand and the dele
gates in the assembly expect much from
their efforts. The committee will meet
with Governor Shafroth at 2:30 Friday
afternoon to again take up the question
of settling the strike of coal miners in
the Northern Colorado fields.
United labor bulletin., 1910-09-29
STRIKE MAY TIE UP FAIR.

In an attempt further to cripple the
shops of the Missouri Pacific railroad,
union blacksmiths employed in the Sc
dalia shops have voted to strike. joining
the boilermakers and sheet metal WORK
ers. who agreed upon walkout recently
These strikes are in sympathy with ma
chinists who have been on strike since
May 3. throughout the Missouri Pacific
and Iron Mountain systems. Union lead.
ers assert they hope to tie up the rail
roads before the Missouri state fair. Oc-
tober l.
United labor bulletin., 1910-09-29
AGENT LYNCH RESIGNS.

Business Agent Lynch of the Bartend-
ers has resigned his position and has
gone to Texas, where he will assist in
the fight against the Prohibitonists who
are trying to vote the state dry at the
coming election
Secretary Ernest Stabenow is filing
the place temporarily and new bust
ness agent will be elected at the meet
ing Sunday morning.
United labor bulletin., 1910-09-29

if he had such a thing, showing that
had personal ends to gain in not protect
ing the Christ in his legal rights, unit
the present time, judges have been foun
who can be depended upon to do any
thing for the ruling class.