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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
A BATTLE SONG.
Pickin' on de banjo string

Pickin' on de banjo string
Is wasted many day,
But dishere song I has TO sing
Is tuned different way,
sits down in de lazy shade
An takes dat shinin' razor blade; =
] stroy i'm
An flop i'm;
Use careful not to drop i'm.
Fob de finest sword OATS made
Some folks wants a cannon neat
An some jes' wants gun
An some il thankful for DER feet
Dat stahts EN- on de run.
But hishere friend, wants TO say,
Has stood my friend both night and
day.
! strop i'm
An whop i'm,
] pass my thumb On top I'm,
Oars muffin glnter stop i'm
When be once gets under way.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
THE MAN AND HIS PARTY.

do you think that man can con-
vince people that he is greater than
his party?"
Perhaps replied Senator Sorghum
but the only way he can do it is to
make his party look exceedingly
small"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
GOSSIP,

Persons staying at a seaside hotel
have promised not to talk about their
neighbors. This voluntary renuncia-
ton of one of the chief seaside amuse-
ments may mean that the millennium
is at hand.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
A DIFFERENCE,

From the Minneapolis Journal.
II is claimed that there are as many
microbes on a dollar bill as on fly.
But he dollar bill does not make such
desperate and continuous efforts to
alilght on you.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
MASONIC CALENDAR

Tuesday. Aug. i, ls11-Richmond
lodge No. 1876. F. & A NJ. Stated meet
ing.
Wednesday. Aug, 2-Webb lodge,
No. -. F. & A NJ Called meeting
Work in Entered Apprentice degree.
Work to commence promptly at s. 80
2. II.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
THE PRACTICAL PARENT.

81 understand that Count Marigold
is paying his attentions TO your daugh-
ter
YES" replied Mr.. Cumrox, And II
Gladys Ann is smart she'll make il
long engagement. cause there's moth
in keeps a man paying attention like
bein' broke"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31

North which
PEELED
100
II this fell
legal liability
ions the finding whether
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
TWINKLES
FROM ARTS VIEWPOINT.

What do you think of those Canon
rists?'
Well" replied the impresario, their
technique isn't much. but they certain
| " have temperament"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
The Lineiien..

Pa. what is meant by the lime
light
The Iineiight. my boy. is something
that everybody wants TO be in without
paying advertising rates for the priv
Gege."-Detroit Free Press.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
A COMMERCIAL FAILURE.

Us that astronomer successfulg
Not very" replied the popular sci
enlist He insists on spending his
time staring through a telescope when
he ought to be at a typewriter PUNK
ing out articles for the magazines"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
Advanced Ancestral Pride.

$50 Woodby is very rich now. When
/ knew him be- was poor. His only
treasure in these days was the Uusket
his great era udfather carried in the
Revolution
'*Oh. his reat-erandtather has been
promoted since Woodby exhibits his
sword uow"-Philadelphi Press
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
JUST A LORD,

From the Chicago Recohr- Herald.
The Englishman dearly loves lord.
but he wants him just to be a lord and
not a legislator.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
VALE WINS,
From the Cleveland Plai

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Connecticut woman has just mar.
ried her third husband and all have
been Yale men. Harvard has had
bad year all around.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
TIE SUNRISE.

| 1t is the glory of each cline,
Yet frought with disappointment
| deep,
| It always happens at time.
| When everybody wants to sleep.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
ANOTHER THINK COMING.
From the Chicago News.

TFTom the Chicago news.
Senator La Toilette may think that
President Taft has dropped the Roose-
welt policies. but the big trusts are not
,generally of that opinion.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
The Best Books

Read the best books first or you ma
not have a chance to read them st all
-Thoreau
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31

ON EQUALLY AS GOOD TERMs?.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31

Entered at Richmond. Indiana 2oss
cffics as second class mail matter.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
CHANGED HIS MIND.

A Woodland man who owned a
nice home but wanted change,
put his home in the hands of a
Superior street real estate agent
for sale. The agent wrote de-
scription of the property and in
serted it in the city newspapers.
The owner read them and recog-
nized in the description just such
a place as he was yearning to own.
So he chased down to the agent
and wanted to know all about it.
When the agent told him he had
been reading description of his
own property the man said: II
didn't know it was such a fine
place until I read about it. Take
it off your list, for I wouldn t sell
it at any price,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11

unions have produced thinkers
and educators from out their own
ranks, and have drawn students
and teachers from the wealthy
and professional. And more yet
while doing this, they have bet
tered the conditions Of thousands
Of families, by securing higher
wages, shorter hours and greater
independence, individually and
collectively. The result is some.
thing to be proud of. The car
penter, the printer, the cigar
maker, the clerk, the shoe maker,
tailor, working long hours on
short rations, have stepped boldly
to the front and worked revolu.
ton in American thought. It is
a fact, beyond cavil-Samue]
Gompers. -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
DO YOUR PART.

The road along which the
Trades Unionists travels is not
a MacAdamized one, nor does it
always lead through pleasant
scenes and by we'll springs Of de-
light; on the contrary, it is a
rough and rugged path. Many
sacrifices have to be made by. men
in the movement to uphold it's
principles. Weeks Of walking the
streets on strike or lockout are
sometimes necessary, hours of
sleep sacrificed. Think of this
you who are reaping the benefits
for which you failed to work and
make up your mind to do your.
Remember that you cannot live
for yourself alone. IF you have
a good job today you may be
looking for a shave tomorrow. If
you once belonged to a labor
union and left, it because some
action was taken that did not suit
you, forget it, join again, and
help the good cause along.-Ro-
chester Labor journal.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11

Lotions, if such there be, should
be placed the great service pri-
waite corporations have rendered
to the community at large, and
the transition from private to
public ownership should be ef-
fected in a manner so as to give
equitable recognition to the good
private ownership had done.
That in nutshell is the doc
trine of the Labor World ana of
the trades union movement of
whom it is an humble exponent.
We have observed among other
things that public ownership of
the utilities does not always mean
bed of roses for the wage earn
ers. The Railway Mail Clerks
and the Post Office Clerks have
found this out, and their national
organizations are today practi-
cally in open revolt against gag
law, unsanitary conditions, and
long hours. It would seem that
these grievances can reach the ex-
ASPIRATION point, as we'll under
public as under private owner
ship.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
THE ART OF FORGETTING.

A good memory is an excellent
thing to possess, but it's some
times as we'll to be a little forget
full.
Some people pride themselves
on the fact that they never forget
anything. They are always ready
to revive any little past grievance
or mistake, if it suits them to do
so.
l know a woman whose hus-
band once made an unsuccessful
deal in the city, and she simply
won't let the matter rest.
Every time he. even so much as
mentions an investment she re-
minds him Of his one failure, and
although he has made several very
successful deals since, she never
will allow that he is likely to do
anything but bring her to the
workhouse in the end. s.e...>>
It's a bad habit to get into, and
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
MEMORANDUM BY TAFT
ON PARDONING WARREN

In committing the sentence of Fred
Warren of Girard, Kansas, socialist
editor of the Appeal to Reason,
President Taft says:
Were this a prosecution for GRIM
inal libel in a state court, the sem
tence might perhaps be justified be-
cause of the destructive and reckless
purpose of the defendant in his pub
LEGATION. But even in such a case
would question the wisdom Of making
the defendant conspicuous and feed
ing his vanity by treating him seri-
ously, when his violence, his exag-
geration, his wild accusations, and
his mock heroics ought to be treated
with ridicule. Doubtless his writings
are read with pleasure by number
whose views are as wild and per-
verified as his, but for all presons of
average common sense reading of
his articles is the best antidote for
the poison he seeks to instill. Peti-
tons have been filed for the defend
ants pardon. He does not join in
them. He prefers martyrdom. I
shall commute the sentence of six
months Imprisonment and $1,000
fine by striking out the imprison-
ment and reducing the fine to 500,
to be collected by civil process only"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.

We believe in public ownership,
municipal, state and national, but
we also believe that justice de-
mands society should t'make
haste SLOWLY in bringing such a
transition about. Let the action
be gradual rather than precipi.
tate.
All controversies relative to the
broad question of public utilities
should be handled in an ad.
vanced and enlightened spirit,
and the taking of unfair advan.
tages should be avoided.
The men who had the courage
and faith to invest their capital
in some public service utility at a
time when such investment was
experimental, and who perhaps
for years thereafter rendered fair
service to the public, when such
rendition was not yet attended
with profit, certainly deserve
some consideration at the hands
Of the public in the day of pros.
perity. .
Along side Of corporate dere.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
A CRITIC ANSWERED.

According to a Washington
dispatch appearing in another
column of this issue, Maj. Gen.
Leonard A. Wood, u. S. A., would
reverse the old scriptural beati-
tude, Blessed are the peace
makers and have it read
"Blessed are the war makers.
It is passing strange, that the
very sentiments and conditions
which Major General Wood seems
so much to deplore are the very
factors which evidence our up
ward progress as a nation.
If we had our way about it,
that Spanish cannon would not
adorn. (?) our high school lawn
another day. Let us have done
with war and it's belongings as
relics OF the barbarism of an age
that is gone forever.
In the last analysis war is a
transgression Of morals, manners
and rights.
During war it is right to for
age, which is a euphemism for
stealing.
During war it is right to deci-
mate the enemy, which is cir
cumlocution for murder.
During war it is right to. con-
.fiscate contraband, which is an
invasion Of the rights of property:
During war it is right to be a
spy, which is another name for
lying.
During war it is right to draft
soldiers, which, violates the sa-
cred right Of personal liberty.
During war it is right to be led
away by the passion Of the mo-
ment, which is another name for
acting foolishly.
Yes, General, war is a survival
Of barbarism, and American senti-
ment is OUTLYING it.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
LABOR'S RECORD.

1T is to labor and to labor
only, that man owes everything OF
exchangeable value. It is the
talisman that has raised him from
the condition Of the Savage; that
has changed the desert and the
forest into cultivated fields; that
has covered the earth with cities
and the ocean with ships; that
has given us plenty, comfort and
elegance instead of want, misery
and barbarism. -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERN
MENT.

It is interesting to note the
agility with which plutocrats and
their parasites try to make it ap-
pear. that the Initiative, Refer
endum and Recall are hostile to
representative government and
would abolish it. .-
Not. only would this reform not
abolish representative govern
ment, but it could not. You can
no more abolish representatives
in government than in business.
A self-governing people to have
agents. The most that would be
abolished by the Initiative, Re-
ferendum and Recall would be
delegated government.
They would not even do that
for so long as the people, repre-
sentatives did what the majority
Of the people wanted there would
be no interference through the
Initiative, Referendum and Re-
call.
This reform is in aid Of repre-
sentative government; it makes
it representative instead of mis-
representative, by treating the
delegates as representatives in
stead of bosses.
The difference between repre-
sentative government with and
without the Initiative, Referen-
dunn and Recall is analogous to
the difference between transac-
tions by power of attorney and
those by power Of attorney ir-
revocable. The former belong in
the category of agency, the latter
in that Of ownership.-The Pub
lie.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11

an unfair one, too. Besides, a
"cultivated " memory of this
description is apt to make the
owner unpopular both at home
and abroad. pr
If you have too. good a memory
for mistakes, people won't let you
know when they make them, if
they can possibly help it-Se-
lected.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
SHOULD BE CAREFUL.

The greed Of the cold storage
companies in locking up neces-
saries Of living in order to extort
exorbitant prices from consumers
has naturally enough provoked
retaliation, as seen in bills, in
troduced in many Of the state leg
islatures. But in bills Of this kind
care should be taken not to shoot
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
UNIONISM'S VALUE.

If labor unions did nothing else
than call attention to the misery
that abounds, their existence
would be justifiable.; but they
have done more, they have not
only called attention to the ef-
fects, they have shown the causes.
They have done more still; they
have produced the remedies; upon
the merits and dement's of which
professors, editors and ministers
now discuss and advocate. Labor
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
WHAT THE LABEL MEANS

promotes good clt1ZenShlp
It elevates the standard Of la.
Dor.
It abolishes unsanitary condi.
tions.
It protests the home and fos.
ters family ties.
It forbids conditions which en-.
danger the health of the com.
munity.
It improves the environment
Of those who labor, thereby
enhancing the quality Of citizen.
ship.
It. is hostile to the system OF
child labor and is a. factor in
keeping children of school age
out of the workshop.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
FEARS POPULAR VOTE.

Senator Depew is filing GER
tain New York papers with a lot
of "rot" against the election of
United States senators by pop.
ular vote.
The senator's sudden concern
about the 'Edear people" and the
elective franchise is one of the
humors Of New York state poll.
tics.
Depew is, of course, opposed to
the popular election of senator's
When the people elect their sena-
tors they will elect men to repre-.
sent them, which means, boiled
down, that representatives of
railroads, tariff protected indus.
tries and other special interests
would not have special represent
atives masquerading as represent.
atives Of the people.
Of course, that would mean that
the Chauncey Depews, the Lori.
mers, the Penroses, the Aldriches
and the Quays would be absent
from the senate chamber. Depew
is sorely afraid Of the sway of the
"dear people, in whom he pro.
fesses to be so intensely inter.
ested, but only when the <*dea1
peoples interests do not conflict
with the interests of the New
York Central and Hudson River
Railroad?
A Chauncey M. Depew oppos.
ing the election Of United States
senators by direct vote is one of
the best arguments that could
possibly be made in favor of the
proposition.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
RECEIVED WITH THANKS.

A. R. Macdonald, the new edi-
tor of the Duluth Labor World,
is charging the editorial depart
ment, aiming to make it strong
er feature in the paper. The
World has always been ably
edited, and is evidently growing
in influence. Superior Evening
Telegram, Henry G. Stivers,
editor
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
NON-UNION STRIKES.

The attention Of thoughtful
men throughout our country has
of late been very forcibly called
to the fact that strikes and other
labor disturbances have been con-
spicuously numerous among nom
union workers.
Statisticians who have made a
careful study of the subject de-
clare that the average has been
three to one as between non-union
and union shop workers.
Another thing, strikes among
non-union workers are invariably
attended with all manner of riot
ing and lawlessness, while union
shop strikers are orderly and law
abiding in their methods and seek
to obtain their rights by a peace
able adjustment of the difficulties
involved.
Whatver of lawlessness has at
tended a union strike in the past.
was caused not by the union
strikers, but by those men and
their hirelings whose tyranny and
oppression precipitated the strike.
Unionism is for peace, for the
maintenance of law and order,
and the settlement of difficulties
between employers and employees
by methods consonant with the
dictates Of good conscience and
twentieth century enlightenment.
Unionism never assumes the
militant aspect until it has ex-
hausted every peaceable means
that human ingenuity can devise
to obtain redress for the wrongs
being perpetrated upon it; and
even then, a cessation from work
contemplates settlement Of the
trouble by the law abiding meth
DDS of civic society.
We are not so foolish as to con-
tend that all union strikes in the
past were justifiable, but we do
contend that the percentage of
unjustifable union strikes is so
small as to be hardly worth not
ing.
Another thing, there is not an
instance known where unionism
insisted upon being judge and
jury in it's own cause. That's a
species of tyranny entirely for
eign to the principles of union
ism, and is a relic of the semi
barbaric age when the relation
Of capital to labor was that of
master and slave. Like all long
existing errors it dies hard. In
our day it only survives in the
"hearts' Of only few of those
"individuals'' who have no souls,
and are known in the law as cor
porations.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
"CRUEL INJUSTICE"

The National Civic Federation,
as we understand it, is really a
crystallization or the taking root,
of the trades union sentiment and
philosophy in the hearts and
minds Of men who are not in the
strict sense of the term wage earn
ers; and instead Of being hostile
to the Federation, it seems to us
all loyal trades unionists should
be most friendly towards it,.
For some reason that we have
never seen or heard explained,
the United Mine Workers of
America, by recent constitu-
tional amendment, prohibited any
member of their big organization
from holding membership in the
Civic Federation.
The actuating motives, why's
and Wherefores Of such prohi-
bition, we sincerely hope does not
find solution in the old adage,
"whom the Gods would destroy
they first make mad.'' It would
seem to us that any individual of
ordinary intelligence ought to be
able to see the inestimable bene-
fits that would accrue to the
cause of wage earners from the
activities of National Civic Fed
Grafton.
The first man to Immediately
feel the potency Of the miners
dictation is John Mitchell, ex-
president Of the Mine Workers
and now an organizer for the Ma
tional Civic Federation. In a
telegram to the convention
Mitchell said that he considered
the action "cruel injustice" but
that he would bow to the law
that had been enacted.
But there are others besides
Mitchell, assert the miners dele.
gates, who will have to eventually
fight this matter out in their in.
ternationals. A list was shown
OF a dozen international presi.
dents of labor unions now mem.
bers of the National Civic Fed.
Grafton.
1t is not only a EFcruel inius.
tice' but a base ingratitude fo1
the Mine Workers. organizations
to thus treat John Mitchell. Oh
all men in America he accom-.
plished most in giving the organ.
ization character and prestige
and is this recent asinine act on
the part Of the miners to be his
reward9 If so, it is a sad com.
mentary upon the sense of graft
tude of their organization.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
THERE is NO. DEATH

by Lord LyttOn
There is no death! The stars 20 down
To rise upon some fairer shore;
And, bright in heavens jeweled
crown,
They smile forever more.
There is no death! The dust we tread
Shall change beneath the summer
showers
To golden grain, or mellowed fruit
Or rainbow-tinte. flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize
And feed the hungry moss they
bear;
The forest leaves drink daily life
From out the viewless air.
There is no death! The leaves ma,
And flowers may fade and pass
away;
They only wait through wintry hours
The coming Of the May.
There is no death! An angel form
Walks DER the earth with silent
tread;
He bears our best loved things away
And we then call them dead
He leaves our hearts all desolate:
He plucks our fairest, sweetest
flowers.
Transplanted into bliss, they now
Adorn immortal bowers
The birdlike voice, whose joyous tones
Made glad these scenes of sin an6
strife,
Sing now an everlasting song
Around the tree of life.
Where'er he sees a smile too bright
Or heart too pure for faint an6
vice,
He bears it to that world of light
To dwell in Paradise.
Born unto that undying life,
They leave us, but to come again
With Joy we welcome them the
Except their sin and pain.
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirits tread:
For all the boundless universe
Is life-there are no dead.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
WOULD SEE THE PLAY.

A Lakeside resident who first saw
the light of day in the Emerald Isle,
on hearing that a play entitled Goods
Country" would be presented at the
Lyceum next Sunday, exclaimed,
"Begorra, !'that play must explain all
about the scanes and incidents of the
Guild country, and, bedad! I am going
to say it,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11

beyond the mark. By arbitrarily
fixing too brief a term for the
storage Of commodities more
harm may be done to the masses
Of consumers than to the object
of hostile legislation.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
NEXT TO NEW YORK.

Col. Graham D. Fitch, United
States engineer in charge of har-
bors, says that the Superior Du-
luth. harbor stands practically
next to New York. Mention this
when you write topeople in other
states-Fhe Superior Telegram.