davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-01-14
Labor Editors Association.

Labor editors to the number of twen.
ry-two Who attended the recent A. F.
of l.. convention at Toronto have form
ed an association to be known as the
international Labor Press of America.
The officers elected are: President,
Charles W. Frear of Joplin. Mo-; first
vice president, Edward Hirsch of Bal
timore; second vice president. R.. D.
Stewart Of Cedar Rapids, Ia; third
vice president, Edward Stephenson of
Winnipeg; secretary-treasurer. VIII NJ.
Maupin of Lincoln, Neb.
Editors of labor periodicals will be
given the opportunity to join the asso-
citation.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-01-14

Mr. Hubbard is evidently not what
might be termed popular idop at
the State Federation convention at
Hoquiam this week.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-01-14

every woman wage Garner in the
city of New York should set day in
which they would all go out on strike
and thus show their sympathy for the
striking shirt waist workers" Some
loud mouthed labor agitator or Socialist
appealing to the passions of the work
ers, we suppose? Bless your heart, no
Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont, if you please
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-01-14

The Liberal party of England pro
poses that upon the shoulders of the
rich shall fall the major portion of the
expense of government and loud are
hYh a Ct 5gaa sf aggtdb d9aHgpi'9 n9 E9Ra f5{
the burden of government fall upon all
alike? If all were alike engaged in
producing wealth, yes. But when q
class tolls nor spins not but lives life
of ease and Incidence while another
class tolls and struggles for bare ex-
istGnce, that theoretical idea of equal
taxation topples like a house of cards
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-01-14
UNION DIRECTORY
American Federation of Labor.

comual Comners President.
Jomse Duncan First Vice President.
Iobn Mitchell Second Vice President.
lanes O'Connel Third Vice President.
Nax Morris Fourth Vice President.
Dennis A. Hayes--Fifth Vice President.
VIM. D. Huber----SiXth wee Presioeht'
JOS. f. Valentine Eighth Vice President
John b. Lennon ------------ treasurer
Frank Morrison - Secretary.
Washington State Federation OF Labor.
President ----- c. r. Case,
Seattle.
First Vice President Fired Hudson,
Bellingham.
Second Vice President--Thos. Maloney'
Spokane.
Third Vice President L. F. Clarke
Walla Walla.
Fourth Vice Presidential. A. Livermore,
Hoquiam.
Fifth Vice President j. Bradford,
Tacoma.
Sixth Vice President------Jas. Durham,
Ravensdale.
Seventh Vice PRESIDENT. E. Campbell,
Everett.
SEC. Treas ---Charles Perry Taylor,
Box 1876, Tacoma.
Organizer ---C. o. Young,
Tacoma.
Everett Trades Council.
w. R. Stambaugh ---------- President
w. Stratton ------------Flce President
Gordan MertZ --------------Ir treasurer
r. F. Straka
w. H. Tillman Reading Clerk
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-01-14

It's long lane that has no turning,
Mr.. Cannon, it begins to look as if
your finish was in sight.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07
Only a woman's WAY.

William and John were two broth
ers who differed very widely in tenn
permanent tsee dictionary. William
was always kind and good, and had
been ever since he was born John
was bold and bad, and would be until
he died. When William reached mans
estate (Which was the only estate he
ever did reach) he fell in love with q
beautiful maiden and married her.
John also fell in love and married,
which was the only time in his life
that he followed his brothers exam
pie.
AS time went on, William rose In
the business world until he became a
bookkeeper for a wholesale grocery
firm at q salary Of sl2 week John
found 1t necessary to struggle along
on modest stipend of $4,000 year,
for he was only broker. william,
however, couldn't be any broker. Will
liam proved q model husband. and
permitted his better half 20 absorb
eleven-twelfths OF his earnings, where
as John made his wife keep house on
$4.75 a week. and beat her regularly
every Tuesday. After a while the
world was surprised to hear that Will
liam's better half had run away with
a male person who wore his hair long
and played the French horn with a
strong German accent. Johns wife
still adores him. and rumor says that
she. has requested her husband to beat
her hereafter on Fridays as well as
on Tuesdays.
For such IL the way of woman
Lippincott's Magazine.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07
Virginia Lands.

The leading editorial article in the Baltimore
Manufacturers Record OF current issue is based on
facts set forth in A Handbook of Virginia, issued
BY George w. Koiner commissioner OF agriculture.
The facts to which contemporary refers, APP
pear in letters from farmers who have settled In
Virginia from the North and West and from foreign
lands telling of their experiences in their new homes
One writer is raising and better crops on land
that he bought for fourteen dollars an than he
could produce on forty dollar land in South Dakota
or hundred dollar land IN Illinois former
Ohioan regards the best-mproved land in Virginia
Al fully equal 10 Ohio land that sells for from SIS
& 10 $500 an acre.
ACalfor,an purchased eatly-depleted land on
the Rappahannock River, but the soil responded
quickly TO kind treatment, with the aid OF crimson
clover cowpeas and lime, and he says that favored
Virginia is, with two such crops as cowpeas and
crimson clover aids i'll improving soil, the near
future should see the State standing in the front
ranks for fertility and production.
What is already being done is suggested by the
experience Of one man on a farm OF "a acres, in
Guiding eight acres in an intractable ravine. During
the past year from the 20 acres he sold as surplus
after full provision for the support OF three horses
four COWS calves, pigs and chickens and supplies
sr the home table 800 bushels Of potatoes for $780,
fifty bushels nj sweet potatoes TOR SIS, beans and
peas for SIS early cabbage for SIS, garden peas
fer siaaf, beans for $40, apples for SIS, cider
vinegar for Sl25, milk and butter for S210, live
animals for S624o slaughtered animals for SIS,
honey and wax for SS24o eggs for S7.40, asparagus
for $40 and hay FOR S7240, total Of S1004o0 This
thrifty farme estimates that the expenses in making
this income amounted to $3.50 for labor fertilizer,
interest On Investment, taxes insurance, etc, and
that the depreciation in tools and machinery was
compensated for 10y the improvement in the soil.
There are many letters of the same character in
.re book and Commissioner Koiner is almost daily
adding TO his stock Of testimonials. There has been
great appreciation of real estate in the West and
the DAYS OF cheap lands in that section are past.
But in many parts OF Virginia, lands still selling
at bargain prizes.
1t is no exaggeTaton. believe, to say that Vir-
GINA is Offering greater inducements to settlers
than any State in the Union Yet few States are
doing so little to advertise their bargains 1t is d
subject which should have claimed the earnest
4 attention OF the General Assembly.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07
New Era for Southampton.

When the CORTLAND dispeasary
closes Its door on June 18th, in obe-
dience to the passage of bill for
It's abolition in the Virginia Legis-
lature last week, there will be 40
whiskey sold In Southampton
state of affairs which has not exist
ed in the county since the memory
of man runneth not to the contrary
This should mark the beginning Of
an era for better things for our
county, of happier homes and more
orderly citizens. For all of the in
toxicating liquors which have been
sold for so many years In South
ampton for all of the fame that
Southampton brandy" brought the
county In the olden days, no one
can say that any good results or
permanent prosperity ever came to
those who dealt in it, or that aught
but ruin has attended the lives or
wrecked the homes of those who per-
sisted In its use. We should hate
to think that any town in our coun-
ty Is dependent upon the sale of H.
quor for its prosperity" and we
cannot but believe that every citi-
zen who has the highest welfare of
his county at heart will rejoice at the
closing of the last place where II may
he sold within the borders OF our
county.-Franklin News.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07
EDITO RIAL
Does 1t Payi

Thomas c. pIatt was probably not SO black as
~ was psi1,tcd by some of the New York news
papers He could not easily have been Wneh
these newspapers get pubiic man TO goiils' 'ies
usually rush him TO the limit -,
But now thai the reign OF Platt is ever now .ia'
his career is done and the measure OF the man
taken il must be recorded Of him that he dd that
which was evil in the sight OF the Lord. None 10
all evil and MIR Plat doubtless had his good TRAITS
But the tendency Of his life was bad. Tie had MS
fuI .ten talents That is to say he was a man
az extraordinary abilities, as human abiities 60
and he Rad "a special talent for politics, lie knew
how to control and how TO lead men. lie Knew no" "
organize and how to work the organization. he Kne"
how to acccrapiish-how to secure legislation suteo
10 his purp1se and how to get his 'henchmen into
nnbl;c office He Scew also how to make money
, But he used his talents for selfish purposes ana
f,eftes and legislation worse, and net oet.er
because he lived ard wrought There was d tl'lle
when he found keen enjoyment in playing the game
of politics It is interesting and exciting game
and TO the born politician there is nothing IKE IT,
Ii is a game OF human checkers o. chess anc IN all
ages il has fascinated men ard even women Fia.t
knew the game we'll ard played it Scientifically
and he had his reward.
Bur in the estimate of the public, he did not
play fairly, and few politicians in the Empire state
have been denounced in terms more severe: ne
play ended for Mr.. Platt long ago, and in the
closing years of his life he was left to his silent
reflections in which he must have found but poor
soIace for his old age.
And set what noble work man OF MIR. Patt s
talents and executive ability might have done Tor
his day and gencration 1t was possible Tor such
a man to have revoutionized the politics OF New
York State and City. and made them pure AND
ii So how much happier would his last days have
been and how different his epitaph.
We do not mean to speak harshly OF the dead
These remarks are not intended criticism, but
as a preachment The point in the sermon is this
Does it pay to play the game of politics as Ton
Platt played it? Taking it by and large and II
the long is that sort OF game worth the candle
Isn't it better for the who goes into politics t.
use the talents committed to him for the public
welfare, to discharge his trust with the tidelt,
required in stewards? Isn't it wise for every mar
: m public fife to have eye to the time when nj
record will be made up and the verdict OF TN
people rendered? These are the thoughts which
The career Of Thomas c. Platt suggests.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07
The Governments Way.

press telegram under date of March 9th. says:
That the United States government does not
intend to take any chances of having its property
in Philadelphia interfered with by unruly mobs,
was made evident today, when orders were received
at Fort Du Point to have the Forty-fifth Company
Coast Artillery ready to leave for Philadelphia at
moments notice. This company of regulars, it
is said, will be used to protect the Philadelphia
mint and other government buildings
There are workingmen in this country who favor
government ownership of transportation lines. We
call their attention to this item of news If this
were government affair it is probable that troops
would be used to whip the strikers into line. In
fact every employee on strike would be government
officer in a sense and more or less subject to the
discipline of government. That's very much the
case in those European governments which own
and operate public utilities In all such cases a
strike is in the nature of rebellion against the gov
eminent and an act calling for suppression by the
military.
We want no such conditions in free America,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07
Keeping Roads in Repair.

Amherst county has spent considerable sum of
money in making good roads. but it is reported
that the roads not being kept in order. The
New Era says that of these highways the
sum of $4,000 was expended and with the aid of
convict labor splendid clay road constructed
Where is it today" asks our contemporary. Gone
70 naught,' it answers
That is a bad showing, and sorry exhibit for the
thrift OF Amherst. If the road was worth building
much more is it worth preserving The New Era
suggests that a competent road man be employed
by the county and kept on the road continuously
as the section master railroad.
The people of Virginia have expended enough
money in the last fifty years on repairing the
reads TO have had first rate highways throughout
the length ard breadth OF the State. But until
lately the money was wasted In slipshod repairs
from year 70 year, instead OF investing il in perma-
penr improvements. The folly of such course
|Zccame apparent several years ago, and new plan
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07
Tariff and Income Tax.

The only practical reason given. by Senator
Bailey for a Federal income tax is that when the
Democratic party comes into power, as ne predicts
it will do it will reduce the tariff and, therefore
the revenues OF government and that the deficit
must be met by imposing tax or incomes
We do not admit these premises, but granting
them the fact remains that the Democrats are not
in power and not likely to be for some time to come
The Republicans are in power and they are not
going to reduce the tariff Nor they going to
reduce expenses. Congress wants more money to
spend, and we fear that this desire is not confined
to Republican members The tax on corporations
was imposed to increase the spending money OF
Congress That's what the income tax IS tor, and
if the Sixteenth Amendment is ratified, the several
States will have to shoulder another burden of
taxation without compensation in the way OF tariff
reduction That's the cold storage proposition Tor
the people to consider.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07
Tariff and Trusts.

at is not the American tariff, said Austin
Chamberlain, in recent speech in the House OF
Commons, that has preserved the trusts in the
United States but the weakness of the central au-
thority in America, the great complexity of State
jurisdiction and the inability of any public authority
to bring the law to bear successfully upon them.
So long as we remain united Parliament we will
have no such difficulties to affect us here.
There can be no doubt that the tariff made the
trusts But now that they made Mr.. Chamber
lain is right in saying that only the nation can con-
troll them. The Virgnian has great respect for
State sovereignty and the reserved rights OF the
Stares But this country has now become a nation
and the nation alone is able to deal successfully
with national and international problems. State
lines are after all but imaginary. Railroads cross
and recross them without ado. Trains fly over
them and nobody on board knows where they are
crossed. There many States, but they are en-
braced in one nation, and the nation must do for
the States as a whole, what they are incapable
in the nature of things, of doing for themselves
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07
The Laurel school Building.

Editor of The Virginian:
sir.--In the Richmond virginian
of Friday, March 4, your reporter
makes the following statements:
MIR. J. d. Eggleston, Jr.. super
intendent of public instruction. Was
called upon Friday by the House
committee on finance to explain the
expenditure of $4,000 on the pub
lie school building at the Laurel Re-
formatory.
THE members of the committee
were of the opinion that the de-
partment of education exceeded its
authority in expanding such large
amount"
These statements are incorrect.
though under the circumstances 1t
was natural that your reporter should
have misunderstood the situation and
written as he did.
was called before the finance
committee for the purpose or AVIS
Ing in regard to the amounts TO be
appropriated for summer institutes
and other purposes. But before
these matters were taken up MT.
Wingo, member of the finance
committee, and also member Of
the Laurel Reformatory board, stated
to the committee that l was present
and that he would like for me to
make statement in regard to the
cost Of the school building at the
Laurel Reformatory. The point tha.
Mr. Wingo desired me to make was
that. acting under the law In re-
gard TO the erection of sanitary
school buildings. the department had
refused to permit an unsanitary build
Ing to be erected for school purposes
at the reformatory.
| stated to the finance committee
that / had nothing whatever to do
with the cost Of the building; that
my duties were confined to passing
upon the plans and specifications IN
regard to ventilation, sanitation,
| lighting and safety. and that ! did
! not know what the building had cost
The act establishing a public free
I school on the grounds of the Laurel
/ Reformatory did not place In the
hands of the department of educa-
1 ton the responsibility of erecting a
schoolhouse. That responsibility was
I In the hands of the Laurel Reforma-
! tory board. as was we'll understood
by the finance committee The com
| mittee, therefore. could not have beer
/ "of the opinion that the department
of education exceeded its authorit,
In expending" more money than the
! finance committee thought was
| proper.
In the discussion In regard to Thu
matter I stated to the finance com
pittee that the department would no
under any circumstanc permit th'
erection OF an unhealthy school build
ting. and we thought the boys at thu
laurel Reformetcry we're rs mucf
entitled to healthy and decent sur
rnundings as any other bows In thu
State. Yours very truly
7. y. FGCr. ESToN. JR..
Supt. of Public Instruction.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07

/ squeezed myself back into the BUSH
es. my ears singing ana my cheeks
burning.
There are women who will meet or
pass strange man In the woods or
fields with as finished an air OF being
unaware OF him (partscniariy II he ba
a rather shabby painter no longer
young. but this woman was not OF
that prigSish kind. Her straigntfsr-
ward glance recognized my existence
as fellow being. and she further ac-
knowledged 1t by faint smile. which
was OF courtesy only. however. and
admitted no reference to the fact that
at the first sound of her voice ! had
ieaped Into the air, kicked camp
stool twenty feet and now stood blush
Ing. so sha mefully stuffed with sand
witch that ] dared not speak.
Thank you." she said as she Went
by and made me little bow SO grace
full that it almost consoied me for my
caperincs.
Then, discovering that sen held
the hurrfh remains of sausage sand
wich in my hand. threw 1t into the
upderbrushE with UNNECESSARY force
and. recovering my camp stool. eat
down TO work. did not Immediately
begin. Al thought OF the il bad
danced to 1t my face burned again.
Suddenly n saapping'of twigs under
foot and swishlnG of branches In the
thicket warned me of second in-
truder forcing way toward the path
through the uuderhrush. and very
briskly. too. judging by the sounds
He burst out into the glade a few
PAGES from me. a tail man In white
fannels. literally decorated with bram-
bles and ciinging shreds of under
brush The youthful sprightiipess OF
bis light figure aud the naive activity
OF his approach gave me very faun-
like tirst impression of him.
Have you seen lady In a whits
and lilac dress and with roses In her
hat:" be dema nded eagerly.
What SURPRISED me was the instan.
taneous certainty with which recog-
nized the speaker from Amedee's de-
scriptlon.
r. Ia Csontin,,ed
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07

Nearly 100000 new farms have
been created IN the United States dur
ing the last ten years. In the last ten
years the total number OF farms has
tncreased Is per cent. In the older
States. from Ohio eastward. there has
been going on for twenty years q rem
dency toward the amalgamation of
farms distant from market into iarger
holdings. On the other hand. this
section has witnes~ed the cutting up
into EnaalIeF sizea Of many farms NEAR.
err to market There are now almost
three times as many farms az In 1870,
and an unprecedented increase In the
value OF farm lands and i've Stock
American Axr'culturist
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07
New CORPORATION Tax Law.

The new corporatren tax law went
into effect yesterday. Many of the
corporations. over half, have failed to
make returns to the government upon
which returns the tax is based. The
tax being a new one. misunderstand-
ings arise about il. Many corpora
tons are not prepared to submit their
report, because of the work necessary
to get the report ready. In about TWO
weeks the constitutionality of this law
will be tested in the Supreme Court,
and we expect the decision before a
great while. as the expense of enforc-
ing this law is heavy upon the gov
eminent, and the law is also entaiiins
much work upon the corporations
Salem Times Register.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07
THE PEOPLES FORUM

All letters cent for publ at IN
In The Peoples Forum" o. ne
vireinian" should be concise and,
as far a. possible, kept within 500
words.
No attention will be paid to
anonymous letters, but names ana
addresses sl6ned az an evidences OF
good faith viii not be printed II re-
quest 10 made that they be omitted.
The freest discussion Of topics OF
public interest b invited, with the
understanding, Of course, that
publication Of q letter II not to be
taken necessarily as approved BY
the editor Of the writer's views.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07

was adopted Substantial roads. as in Amherst,
have been constructed in many counties anu s,au
fvinp progress has been made But it would be
a worse folly than ever, now that the roads have
been made, to allow them go to pieces tor lack Oh
attention and necessary repairs. The report rom
Amherst is discouragng. We hope the New Fra,
which has done much to get good roads LOT ,he
county. will now arouse the people and the super
ysors to full sense of their duty.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07
Prccocity Causes Suicide.

II may no! be generally known that
child suicides. SO numerous in Ger
many, are nearly as common in Rus
Ella. During 1907 some 400 children
under sixteen years OF ago are said
tn have taken their lives in Ruesin.
nearly all OF these. as with Germany's
yearly 600. being pupils at secondary
schools And as these secondary
schools are modelled on those OF Ger
many and the courses III study are Sc
verer. " anything, overstrain must
play q considerable part la producing
tho rtate Of mind which leads a child
TO take Its life. IN some cases the
abnormal precociousness OF the chil-
d dra.. was extraordinary wegtTinyfsr
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-07
Case OF Wasted Charity.

Robert Loveman. the Georgia poet.
said. In the course of an address on
charity in Dalton:
..An cases, naturally. are not wor.
thy cases. II was hut the other
month Dalton philanthropist, yis-
ting destitute family, had his heart
strings torn with pity. And draw
ing out his wallet. he said:
/" Here, Calhoun. take this dollar
and 60 and buy chicken for the
Christmas dinner
Calhoun, the young son Of the
house, accepted the bank note crate.
fully, and the poor widow. with tears
in her eyes. bowed the philanthropist
out.
But the garden walk wound ~
an open window. and MS the DEPART
Ing ph.lanthropist passed the VIM
dow he heard the mother say shrilly
to her son:
You. Cal, you. jes' gimme dat
dollah an. go git dat ChristHaas
chicken In. de- snatcherl ways'--P hills
adelphia Bulletin.