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TAFT AMONG SPEAKERS
At MINING CONGRESS
Promises One Day to Organi-
zation When He Visits
Chicago.

CHICAGO, August 19.-President Taft,
John Hays Hammond, James j. Hill and
Secretary Of the Interior Walter L.
Fisher will be the principal speakers at
the fourteenth annual meeting Of the
American mining congress. to be held
here September g. q. % and o. ac-
cording to plans made at meeting OF
the executive committee last night.
Objects Of the Congress.
"The congress is a practical organiza-
ton devoted to the economic admins
tration and commercial rather than to
technical phases OF mining" said j. F.
Galbreath. 1r.. of Denver. secretary OF
the organization.
There will be 1900 members Of the or
ganization present. and about LOCO al
ternate delegates and visitors.
President Taft will be in Chicago to
attend the opening of the United States
naval training station near North Chi
cago, and will devote one day here to
the convention. according to announce
ment.
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T|MbY AS INVENTOR
How He Conceived Idea of Re-
voIving Gun Tower.
BACKED BY PATENT OFFICE
Builders of the Monitor Also Paid
Him a Royalty.
INTERESTED LEADING MEN
Jefferson Davis Among Those Who
Recognized Value of Invention.
Claim Bill Failed.
INTERESTED LEADING ME-

The recent controversy between certain
members of Congress and the Navy De-
partment over the question of providing
a warship to convey the body of the late
Theodore Ruggles Timby from New York
to Washington, has brought to many OF
the present generation of Americans
their first knowledge that such a person
ever existed. Old residents of Washing
ton will remember him, however, as one
of the last of a large group of notable
characters who used to make their head
quarters in the Capital city, while prose-
cutting before Congress claims for their
relief, or urging appropriations for the
purchase of valuable manuscripts in their
possession, or the like.
Mr.. Timby when the writer knew him
more than twenty years ago was oc-
cupying modest apartments over q store
in business street, and pressing upon
the notice of the Navy Department and
the proper committees at the Capitol the
proofs that it was he, rather than John
Ericsson. to whom the country owed the
gallant little Monitor which turned the
tide of war by its successful battle with
the Confederate ram Merrimac in Hamp-
ton roads. The navy was still using in
those days the monitor type of coast de-
fenSe vessel, and Senator HiScock intro
duced a bill awarding Mr.. Timby $780,
600 las compensation in full Of all de-
mands whatever for the past, present and
future use by the United States govern
ment of his invention of a revolving tow
er for offensive and defensive warfare
as applied to floating devices" 1t never
became law, but it served to recall to the
public mind some dramatic incidents of
an earlier era.
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Our next illustrated song. Kathleen
Mavourneen," illustrated by Fred Pc
gram. in tomorrow's Sunday Magazine.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

wANTED-IN THE INTERESTS OF JUSTICE:
the names Of persons who were. on north ound
lith ST. car at L st. Friday. August IL, at
about 2:3O p.m.. when elderly colored
woman was hurt in alighting from car. PAUL
r.. LESH. Pacific BLDG.
FURNACES LATROBES AND RANGES RE-
paired: roofs repaired and painted: gathering
and spouting. GEO. T.. GARTRELL. 1901 o
st. NV. Orders left at residence. 1909 Newton
St Brook,and. will receive prompt attention.
Phone North 1927.
CONSOLIDATED CARLOAD SHIPMENTS TO
Pacific coast at reduced rates. SECURITY
STORAGE CO. l1f0 18th st. Safe deposit.
cold stora-e packers. foreign forwarders.
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Seif-Educated Scientist.

Mr. Timby was not an educated man
in the technical sense. though he received
honorary degrees from one or two insti-
tutions of learning. He went through
the common winter school course with
other farm-bred boys in the neighborhood
of his birthplace at Dover, N Y, and
owed all further accomplishments to his
lifelong habit of reading scientific litera-
ture and thinking out problems to which
he had voluntarily addressed himself
His career as an inventor really began
in his boyhood. when he conceived the
idea of device for raising sunken YES
sells, and of a floating dry deck. both of
which. though then pooh-poohed as
puerile and impracticable have since
been brought into regular use. He also
conceived what he asserted was the first
plan ever put into operation for fir ns
high-power guns by electricity. and one
of the last mechanical schemes his mind
was working on was the construction OF
a lighting tower for marine harbors
which would. in his Judgment, be not
only immensely efficient. but substantially
indestructible.
The last time they met Mr.. Timby ap-
preached the writer with a proposal to
cooperate in preparing an article to be
published in one of the leading maga-
zines, designed to prove that the accepted
theory of color as a mere effect pro-
duced upon the eye by the absorption
reflection or refraction of light in con.
tact with certain media under given con-
d.tions, was an absurd fallacy, and tha,
color was as essential a quality of matter
as shape or size or tangibilty.
Had Demonstrated Theory.
He had demonstrated this by expert
ments, he declared. which could be per-
fectly illustrated by pictures and dia-
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CHURCH NOTICES.
PRESBYTERIAN.

NORTHMINSTFR. nth ST. AND II. l. AVE.
n.w Rev George L. Wilson, ID. d.. pastor
s. s.. $50: IL am, sermon, DR.. +. II. Stone;
soloist, Mrs l. II. T. Smith; midweek service.
Thursday 7:i5 pm
CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOUTH
ern Assembly. Rev. Jas. II. Taylor, pastor
Rev. Ii. W. shannon. assistant.-Preaching. IL
am; prayer service. Thursday, 7:4o pm.
night service at Central Presbyterian Chapel.
18th and Irving SITS. NV: Sunday school al
9:3o am. Visitors given cordial welcome.
EASTERN MD. AVE. 9TH AND SITS. NE.
Public worship at IL a.m sermon by Rev.
Thomas C. Easton. d. u. former pastor of
the church: Sabbath school at $3.50 and Bible
classes at 10 am; Christian Endeayor, GAS
N IN
Evening star., 1911-08-19

Fortify and strengthen your
system by drinking Ballantine's
Canada Malt Ale with meals. and
between meals. ST a dozen bot.
Shoemaker Co.. I:snI 1881 s. st NV nv
Evening star., 1911-08-19

CHRISTIAN. VERMONT AVE. NEAR ST,
Rev. Earle Wt.aey. Passor-Preanohtin,s P shin, I, al II
$50 an: c. E. 1880 Pm. No other evening
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Had Demonstrated Theory.

Aau Do11o11Se1 4Hoo1y.
He had demonstrated this by expert
ments, he declared. which could be per-
fectly illustrated by pictures and dia-
grams. To suggestion that the editors
Of the leading periodicals would probably
Evening star., 1911-08-19

FIRST GEORGIA AND Me-. HAMPSHIRE
aves. and Rock Greek Church road '.Th'
Church on the Point" Rev. ]. A. Campbell
pastor.-Sabbath school, $3.50 an; preaching
IL an and pm. by Rev. j. W. Springer
Pittsburgh, Pa. All cordially invited.
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BAPTIST.

E. HEZ SWEMS SUBJECT: "WASHINGTON
Church Members: Jesus Christ is Coming for
You. What viii Be the outcomef'' Sunday
night. S:1J o'c. No morning service. Capital
Baptist Church Typographical Temple. 423 q
ST. ny
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IL 4 u t. ~
LUTHER PLACE MEMORIAL. CHURCH. 14TH
and y SITS. n.w.-Service. IL am, Aug. 20
sermon by Rev. J. Bowman Derrick OF Au-
gusta Ga: 5. s. $50 am; Christian En-
deavor. 4 pm. All welcome.
KELLER MEMORIAL, MD. AVE. AND 9TH
St ne. c. L. Wiles, pastor.-Preaching. 81,
by Rev. j. A. Flickinger; Sunday school. $50
G. T.. meeting church lawn. 6:45 pm. All
welcome.
ST PAUI'S, nth AND II NV. REV. JOHN
T. Huddle. pastor.-Services at IL. with ser
mon by the pastor: Sunday school at $50;
Christian Endeavor Thursday evening at :.
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE REFORMA-
tion. Pa. and st. Sc. Rev. John Weld
ley, mtnist ster.-Seryiccs at II AM; Sunday
school at $3.50 am; Christian Endeaeor prayer
meeting at pin.
EPIPHANY. 18TH AND Q SITS. NV, REV.
Charles F. Steek ID. D.. pastor. Sunday
school at $3.50 Preaching by the pastor
at IL am
UNIyERSALIST.
CHURCH OF OUR FATHER. 18TH AND L
SITS. NV, Rev John Van Scha,ck. jr.. pastor
IL a.m morning service address by the pas
tor. More universa'st History"
NEW THOUGHT.
MISS VAN voAST WILL SPEAK SUNDAY AT
\ pm, li2s Clifton st: topic, Infinite Love
Friday, pm, .'Selfdevelopment." All vel
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POLITICAL ACTIONS.
tContinued from in,.. ~

CONTINUED from page one,
ical battlefield upon which labor
would quickly gain permanent mas
terry With the bloodless weapon ar
the ballot in the hands of the intoIIi-
gent working class the bitter strrr-
gle could soon be ended But Con-
pers and Mitchell and their follow
ers have blindly placed the taboo an
political action. and thus forbidden
the use Of the only weapons ina.
would mean success to the toilcrs
Then when their followers, like the
McNamaras, seeing no way to win
by the cid weapons, resort to vio
lence, these blind leaders howl for
their punishment. Craft nnionism i
out of date Its present tactics will
inevitably lead to its defeat. \ liz
tie more charity upon the part of the
trade unioniSt toward these mentally
blind brothers of theirs who were
lighting their battle III their crude
barbaric way would be becoming at
this time. Their aim was not wau-
ton destruction of life. Their ann
was to benefit their class. In this
they failed most miserably, and all
who Use such weapons must fai:. #
the working class learns through
sIIch experiences as this to choose
the political road, the lesson will no.
be wholly lost.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-12-21
in tragfc-farce.

Neither votes for the mere sake
OF votes, nor direct action, Will ever.
lnaugurate revolutionary Socialism
Socialism must come in through the
Intelligent and conscious activity of
the masses of the people. That is
why we must never stop our effort
at education. We have scarcely
scratched the surface. We have got
TO dig deep, and sew our seed thick.
before We can have satisfactory re-
suits. We will never swing into the
cooperative commonwealth at the
heels of a few orators and bomb
throwers -,
Good literature, plenty of it, and
win workers to distribute it. that
Is what the Socialist movement of
America needs today And the least
CONSPICUOUS, most timid woman who
carries bundle of papers. or leaf
lets to her-neighbor's' door is a. BET
ter soldier. for the Cause. than n
score of would-be heroes whose mon
tai processes would continually leai1
the Party into the broils and scrans
and final disruption Let us have
more of the silent and effective
workers.
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ELKDABE. w. VA.
Conditions ON Cabin Creek From
Bad to Worse.

Editor Labor Argus,
Dear Contradict understand
that the Coal Barons >of Cabin
Creek have cut the miners pay abou.
flNe cents on the ton. Mr. Cabell
! commonly known as the Gar of
iCab1n Creek) being the first to make
the cut and the others follow; now
We're ban enough when
you so Up and down the Creek and
see women with not enough clothes
on to keep them warm, and children
bare-footcd at this time Of year. I
wonder what conditions could be
worse. and before they made this
cut, the miners wife would 20 to
the Company store, or rob shop and
take up his daily earnings in such
as fresh sausage 1Scts per pouna.
buttor 90 cts. per pound, eggs so
cts. per dozen. and common bacon
Is cts. per pound, and all other
articles at eNtortionate prices. Tell
me how, after miner locates o.,
CABIN Creek he could ever get outo
AS 1t seems 1T is just hand to
mouth existence and it is pIain to
see there will be no change so lons
as the poor down trodden miner con-
tinues to SO blfndly to the POLLS and
vote the two old party tickets, which
means only every election to make
the laborinG. mans slave chains
heavier. Miners of Cabin Creek and
else where in F,anawha Countrywide
the working nan's ticket and free
yourself rom wage slavery and tho
low down thug; or cowhrdly fellows
who would frown to see'their history
in print I say cowafdI4 because
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-12-21

always so drunk, or SO young o..
small that he can't help himsalf
They always beat him up. hand cnr
him, and tell him he is arras,na
and when YOU see one you will notica
nearby two or three more. If rho
miners must be deprived OF thei,.
hbet ~ and political views. and DIV,
not talk. hope they will! waIi, hoIL
~ to the polls in 1912 and helm nc
win working class victory. :, NO
can take away from those thugs tbr
commission granted them bv N,
sheriff and Governor The lattor
who last Labor Day tried to tell nc
he, was in favor of Labor Unions
Miners watch the, railroad mon
They are Your friends who VIII cas-
their votes in favor of Socialism in
I912.t2.2 ,yssissf.-gr -
Yours Tor the Revolution,
a Cabin Creek CITIZEN
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-12-21
PROGRAM.


As measures calculated to
| strengthen the working class in its
fight for the RELAXATION OF this ulti-
mate aim, and 10 increase its power
of resistance against capitalist OPP
preston, we advocate and pledge
ourselves and our elected officers to
the Following program:
GENERAL DEMANDS.
l. The immediate government re-
lief for the unemployed workers by
biildinS schools. by reforesting of
cut-oVer and waste lands. by recla-
nation Of arid tracts. and the build
ing OF canals. and by extending all
other nsefulSpublic works. al per
| sons emrloved on such work shall be
employed directly by the government
| under an eight-hcur work day and
at the prevailing union wages. The
government shall also loan money
to states and municipalities, with
! out. interest. for the purpose of car
ryinS on public works. IT shall con-
tribute to the funds of labor organi-
cations for the purpose of assisting
their unemployed members and shall
take such other measures within it's
ipower as will lessen the widespread
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-12-21
Platform of Socio lis
Party in. United States

the most antagonists of the ruling
class. They suffer mos from the
curse OF class rule. The fact that
a few capitalists are permitted to
cortro! all the country's industrial
resources and social tools for their
individual profit, and to make the
production of the necessaries OF life
The object OF coinpetitita private en-
terprise and speculation is at the
bottom of all the social evils of our
time.
IsH overprodurtion and IIlcness.
In spite of the organization of
trusts. pools and combinations, the
capitalists are .powerless. to regulate
production Tor social ends. Indus
tries are largely conducted in :,
painless manner. Through periods
of feverish activity the strength and
health of the workers are mcrciless-
ly used up, and during perions O.
enforced indleness tho workers are
f-co"cntly reduced to starvation
The climaXes of this system of
production are the regularly recur-
ring fndustrials, depressions; I'm d
crises which paralize the nation
every fifteen or twenty years.
Labor's Exploitation.
The capitalist class, in it's mad
race, for profits, is bound 10 exploit
1.-THE workers of the Very limit OF
their endurance and to sacrifice their
physical, moral and mental welfare
to its own Unsuitable greed. Capital
ism keeps the masses of workingmen
in. poverty. desti:ution. physical en-
hIustion and ignorance. 1t drags
their wives From their homes to the
mill and factory. It snatchos their
children from the Fairgrounds ard
schools and grinds their slender
bodies and Uniformed minds into cold
dollars. 1t disfgures, mains and
kills hundreds OF thousands of work
ingmen annually in mines. On rail-
roads and in factories. 1t drives
millions of workers into the ranks
OF the unemployed and forces large
numbers of them into beggary,
vagrancy and all forms Of crime ana
vice.
Power of CoTruptior.
TO maintain their rule over thci1
fellow men, the capitalists must keep
in their pay all organs of the public
powers, public mind and public con-
science They control the dominant.
parties, and through them, the elec.
cd public officials. They select the
executives. bride legislatures. ana
corrupt the courts OF justice. Thes
own and censor the press They:
dominate the educational ,instftu-
tions. They own the nation polit-
ically and intellectually Just as they
own it industrial. .E';
Th" Vital Issue.
The struggle between wage work
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-12-21
and a half in each week.

and half in each week
(c) By securing a more effective
inspection of workshops and factor
les.
Cd By forbidding the employ
ment of children under sixteen years
of age.
te) By forbidding the interstate
transportation OF the products of
child labor, of convict labor and of
all uninspected factories.
90 By abolishing official charity
and substituting in its place cobpul-
sorry insurance against employment,
islness.., accidents. invalidism, old
age and death.
POLITICAL. DEMANDS.
S. The extension of inheritance
taxes. graduated in proportion to
the amount of the requests. and to
the nearest of kin.
9. a graduated income tax
10. Unrestricted and equal suff-
rage for men and women. and We
pledge ourselves TO engage in an ac-
tive campaign in that direction
II. The initiative and referendum
proportional representation and the
right of recall
IL. The abolition of the power us
nrped by the supreme court of the
United States to pass upon the Con-
stitutiOnality of legislation enacted
by congress. National laws to be re-
pealed or abrogated only by act OF
congress or by referendum of the
whole people.
IA. That the Constitution be made
amendables by majority vote.
Is. The enactment of further
: measures for general education and
for the education to be made n de-
partment. The creation of depart
rlcrt'. of health.
&c. The separation of the present
bureau of labor from the department
of commerce and labor, and the es-
Enlistment CT department of la
Dor.
Il. That all Judges, be elected by
the people for short terms, and that
the power to issue iniunctions shall
be curbed by immediate legislation.
The free administration of justice.
Such measures of relief as we may
be able to force from capitalism arc
but preparation of the workers to
seize the whole powers of govern
mert in order that they may there
bv lay hold of the whole system Of
industry and thus come to their
rightful inheritance.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-12-21

identical. The struggle is not only
national, but International 1t en-
braces the world and will be carried
to ultimate victory by the united
workers of the world
To unite the workers OF the nation
and their allies and sympathizers OF
all other classes to this end is the
mission OF the Socialist Party. In
this battle for freedom the Socialist
t'aTty does not strive to substitute
working class rule for capitalist
class rule, but By wFonging class VIC
tory to free alltnumanity from class
rule TO realize the international
brother hood of man.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-12-21

ers and capitalists grows ever fer
Ger. and has now become the only
vital issue before the American peo-
PIE. The wage-working class, there
fore, has the most direct interest in
abolishing the capitalists system
But in abolishing the present sys-
tenn, the workingmen will free no:
only their own class, but also al!
other classes of modern society: The
small farmer, who is today exploited
by large capital more indirectly but
not less effectively than is the wage
! Ia borer; the small manufacturer ana
trader. who is engaged in, a desper-
ate and losing struggle for economic
Independence in the face of the all
conIuerin & power CT concentrated
capital; and even TIL capitalist him
self who is the slave of his wealtl,
rather than his master. The st-ng-
rcapitalist class, while it is \. Glass
istruggle for the abolition of all
tclasses and class privilege.
The Rock of Class RUE.
The private ownership of the land
exploitation is the rock upon whic:,
'itSS l ultf IS Dulit, DollIlCii GOV erH-
ment is its Indispensable instrument
TIE wage workers cannot be freed
from exploitation without conquer
ing the political power and substi-
tGtirg collective for private owner
ship OF the land and means of pros
dnction used for exploitation.
The basis for such transformation
is rapidly developing within present
capitalist society. The factory sys-
teIc, with its complex Mao f,inery
and minute division Of labor is rap
idly destroying all vestises of indi-
vidual production in manufacture
Modern production is already very
! largely a collective and social pro-
cess. The great trusts and monopo-
lies which have sprung up in recent
years have organized the work and
management of the principal indus
tries OH a national scale, and have
fitted them for collective use and
operation.
Land and Public Welfare.
There can be no absolute private
title to land. All private titles.
whether called free simple or other
wise, are and must be subordinate
to the public title. The Socialist
rarity strives to prevent land from
pelnS used for the purpose OF OK
ploitation and speculation. 1t de-
mands the collective possession
control and management of land to
Whatever extent may be necessary to
attain that end. It is not opposed
to the occupation and possession OF
land by those using it in Il useful
and bona fide manner without ex-
ploitat1on. '''''-'- '..'''' - q
The Socialist PARTY lis primarily ;il,;
an economic and political movement!
III, is mot concernel with matters OF
religious belief.
Iabor's Interest Identical.
In the struggle for freedom the in
terests OF all modern workers are
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-12-21
What Human Life Depends On.


Human life depends upon food
clothing and shelter. Only with
these assured are freedom, culture
and higher human development pos
siblc. To produce. fooG, clothing.
or shelter, land and machinery are
needed. Land alone does not salts
fy human needs. Human labor
creates machinery and applies it to
the land for the production of raw
material and food. Whoever has con
troll OF land and machinery controls
human labor, and with it human
life and liberty.
The Cause of Glass Rule.
Today the machinery and the
minority. So long as machinery is
owned by a rapidly decreasing
land used for Industrial purposes arc
simply and easily handled by one
man, its owner cannot dominate the
sources Of life of others. But when
machinery becomes more compile I,
and expensive, AND requires for it's
many workers, its influence reaches
over wide circles of life. The owners
of such machinery become the dorni-
nant class.
Men are Made Slaves.
In proportion as the number OF
such machine owners compared to
all other classes decreases, their
power in the nation and in the world
increases. They bring ever large
masses of working people under their
control, reducing them to the point
where muscle and brain are their
only productive property Millions
of formerly self-employing workers
thus become the helpless wage
slaves OF the Industrial masters.
Ruling Glass as Parasites. go
AS the economic power of the rul-
ing class grows it becomes less use
full in the life of the nation. All
tho useful work Of the nation falls
, npon the shoulders of the class
whose only property is It's manual
and mental labor power-the wage
worker--or of the class who have
but little land and little eTecffve
machinery outside of their labor
power-the small traders and small
farmers. The ruling minority Is
steadily becoming useless and para
site.
The Class /Strl;g"lc. -....
A bitter struggle over the division
OF the products of labor is waced
between the exploiting propertied
classes on tho one hand and the ox-
plotted Dropertyless class on the
other. In this struggle the wage
working class cannot expect nde.
Quate e1ief from any reform of the.
present order ut the hand of the
dominant class
me wage workers are, therefore,