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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-10-14

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TAFT, A mid yR0ADER."

"There are two great schools
one which believes that the pres
ent is not perfect perhaps, but
that changes from it would be
dangerous. They are the conserv-
atives, sometimes known as the
reactionaries. Then there is an
other class at the other end
which is extreme in it's view that
the whole present condition is
wrong and that there must be
radical changes if we live at all.
I think I am going along in the
middle Of the road between these
two, and / believe the legislation
of this administration has been
along that line.''
So said President Taft at Peo-
ria.
The only legislation Of import
ance that has been enacted dur
ign his, administration. so far is
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law and
the reciprocity law. The latter has
been rendered ineffective by the
recent Canadian election, SO that
the Payne tariff is the only law
we have to show for Mr.. Taft 3
middle of the road" policy. IF
that is an example of what he
considers moderate progress
would it not be interesting to hear
him describe what kind of a
measure would suit CONSERVE
tives, sometimes known as reac-
tionariesi'' Mr.. Taft middle Of
the road" ideas seem to be quite
satisfactory to all the stand-pat-
ters in congress and distasteful to
very few actionaries outside Of
that body if indeed to any at all.
Pinchot and CLAWS must be
wild-eyed radicals in Mr.. Taft 3
estimation, since their policy was
not in accordance with his mid
die Of the road IDEAS. On the
other hand ex-secretary Balm
ger must be a middle Of the
roader, since IL was with the
deepest regret that his resigna-
ton was accepted. Other promi-
nent : mid Idle Of the roaders must
be Joe Cannon, ex-senator AID
rich, John Hays Hammond,
Senator Lorimer Congressman
I Payne and othsra rho hsye been
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-10-14
TOBACCO TRUST TRICKERY.

The Independent tobacco manu-
tacturers are taking advantage of
the recent decision of the United
States Supreme court, and they
have banded together, with Louis
D. Brandeis as their lawyer, to
compel a reorganization Of : the
American Tobacco company, not
in the interest Of stock 1nanipu-
lators, but to open wide the door
Of competition.
The scheme of Thomas D Ryan
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GOING BACK TO EUROPE.

GOING BACK TO EUROPE.
A range news item in a daily
paper states that there is large
exodus of foreign laborers from
the mining locations to Europe.
'This is the season Of the year."
it says, "when many of the min
ers begin their annual pilgrimage
to Europe and this year the num-
Der will be somewhat larger than
usual.''
It occurred to us while reading
this item that there were very
few American workmen making
annual pilgrimages to Europe
nowadays. Indeed the workmen
from the British Isles, Scand-
inavia, Germany and other north
ern European countries, where
the standard Of living somewhat
approaches that of the American,
are not taking any winter trips to
the fatherland. It requires about
all Of their meager wage to fur
nish homes, educate children and
feed and cloth their loved ones.
For the small sum of $50 the
Slavonic workman can ride from
Hibbing to any port on the
Adriatic in Austria-Hungary. He
can return to America much
cheaper. In fact-it is calimed by
those who ought to know that a
Slavonic laborer can ride from
any point in the center of the
United States to his native home
in the old country, live there dur
ing the winter, and return to
America in the spring at a
cheaper cost than his living would
amount to during the same time
in this country.
He is about the only prosperous
workingman we know of in
America. His low standard of
living, and that on the common
lstic plan, enables him to live
cheaply. His total cost of living,
including his beer, amounts to not
more than $3.50 per week. His
wages in the Minnesota mining
regions range from $1.75 to $3.50
per day. On railroad construction
work they run from $1.30 to 81. so
per day. In the woods he is the
most cheaply paid workman. In
all cases he receives less than
other workmen, but his presence
IN great numbers in every labor
center has a tendency to and it
does prevent needy increases in
wages to those workmen whose
standards of living are above his
SO the basis Of competition
then is not really so much in
wages, as it is in the difference
in standards of living. Our gov
eminent restricts the coming Of
Aslatics whose living standards
are far below that of the Amer
lean workmen, and this is about
the only legitimate economic
reason for their exclusion.
The only difference between an
Asiatic and a Slav is in that of
degree, and the degree is about
the difference in distance from
the boundary line Of Turkey in
Asia to the frontier of the lower
olavonlc provinces.
1t they would only live in
America long enough to be as
simulated we might see ray of
hope for the future, but they re-
& main here but temporarily, and
\ then a new crowd comes to take
their places. American standards
are maintained with difficulty in
the face Of such unequal compete
n ton :
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ODD TARIFF INCIDENT.
"It makes some difference

whose OK is gored." :,
An amusing letter appears in
Bryan's Commoner from an in
dignant Ohio sheep raiser, who
processes to be q free trader but
objects to removal of the tariff
from wool.
What makes his Indignation
ridiculous is not only his appar-
ent desire for free trade in ev-
erything but his own product, but
his tale of woe as we'll. He has
200 sheep, he says, to feed, which
for a year cost him $500, while
the. sale Of their wool brought
him just 1920. r.. =. :.
So Hhe Payne-Aldrich tariff
has helped him lose at. least $3.50
in one year, to say nothing Of
his labor and trouble. Yet he is
fool enough TO be ANGRY with
Mr.. Bryan for advocating free
wool. 49,. ~:
It would be interesting to
learn how much more unprofit-
able: the wool raising business
would have to become to COM
pei most farmers to get out Of it,
regardless Of whether the tariff
Be high or low.
It is bad enough to tax con-
ssumers Of woolens to enable
sheep raisers to make more mon
ey than an open market will per
NIT, but whom tho tax not only
burdens the consumer, but fails
to help the sheep raiser, it can
not be 9 high grade of intelli.
gence that insists On retaining it.
Il He'd
THE GIRL or TODAY.
Helmet hat md hobble skirt,
Manner ray Is awful f1irt. q
Bright blue eyes kin q ike mill,
Velvet shoes ana bookings silk.
I RoquSt 81. ROSES lost : pile.
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The American laborer has now
more than he can bear through
the inequalities of our industrial
system at home, without being
called upon to meet the competi-
ton Of the laborers of the world,
whose tardy civilization is de-
pressing him. .-
The American manufacturer
will not permit Of a competition
from foreign manufacturers where
labor is supposed to be cheaper,
and we cannot understand
where the consistency is that
compels American labor to meet
that competition at home. IL
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-10-14

to split the American Tobacco
company into three parts fur-
nishes another interesting side
light on the methods of the trusts,
and again illustrates the def
cheney Of the Supreme courts
order.
The tobacco trust proposes to
dissolve the existing corporation
only to reconstitute in triple form
under a common control through
the community of interests plan.
1t proposes virtually to perpet-
uate the American Tobacco COM
pany itself, on the plea of con-
serving the interests of bondhold-
ers and providing for the pay
ment Of bonds at maturity.
One of the constituents of the
trust has filed a suit for release
from the terms of the agreement
by which it was gobbled up by the
trust. This petition sets forth
many Of the facts recently made
public by the report of Herbert
Knox Smith of the bureau of cor
porations of the Department of
Commerce and Labor. It recites
that in 1901 many holders of COM
mon stock were persuaded to ex-
change their holdings for 4 per
cent bonds, thus leaving to those
that retained their common stock
increased dividends.
In 1910 there were $35, 00O, 900
earnings, of which $500, 900
went to those that held $104, 0OO,-
600 of bonds, $4,7o0,000 went to
the holders of $4,000, 900 of pre-
ferred stock, and $25, 100000 to
the select bunch of insiders" who
held the $4o,ooo,0Oo of common
stock. But this is only a continu-
ing chapter of the high finance
that the tobacco trust represents.
Under competitive conditions a
certain business was valued at
$250,000 in 1885. Five years aft
erward it was taken into the old
American Tobacco company,
where it was made the basis of
issuing $7,500,000 of stock. I'm
der a readjustment in 1908 the
securities based on this same
business amounted to $22,O00,OOO.
Meantime the cash dividends had
been $16,900,000.
OF the $14s,ooo,o00 capitaliza-
ton of the trust, Mr.. Smith finds
that $84,000,000 set down in the
company's books as |tgood will'
is overcapitalization. *tThe, small
group Of insiders,' as Commits
isoner Smith calls them, (who
hold the $40,00o,00O of common
stock and got $4,000, 900 of the
earnings in 1910), left only a to-
tai of $10,0o0,000 for those that
held $183,o0o,oo0 Of the COM
pany's securities.
The common stock Of the to-
bacco trust has earned about
1, 900 per cent in eighteen years.
The trust has a practical monop-
oily of smoking tobacco, the net
earnings from which in 1908 were
55 per cent. It controls SO per
cent of the snuff of the country,
Is per cent Of the cigars and
about so per cent of the plug
tobacco.
The company that is seeking
release from the trust asks the
courts to sell all the assets of the
trust, pay it's debts and liabilities
and divide the balance among the
stockholders in cash. .....
This process might be followed
if the tobacco trust were insolv-
ent, and it was a question of
winding up it's business. It is,
however, a solvent going and
prosperous concern as the above
figures indicate. H. ~.
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vented by a. professional man-killer.
It is wicked and unchristian, and 7
hope that no boy who reads this will
Join the cunningly devised plan TO
convert innocent boys into fighting
nnachlnAs.a Ganeral Sherman said:
Var 20 heIl.S' NY advice to boys il to
think good thoughts, do. kindly deeds
speak friendly words, stand up man
fully for peace and good. fellowship,
and II the kings and nabobs Of Eu-
rope, and the grating monopolists Of
America want to get up killing bees
and wars, and thus ''raise hell' by
Wholesale murder, let them do tho
killing themselves.
STATE OF MINNEsoTA. COUNTY Or
st: Louis, SO; District Court Elev-
John sath Hsnbi1 District suP PIaf1s;,,
Dona e. Handy. Defendant.
The State OF Minnesota to the Above
i Names Defendant:
Yon ars. hereby summoned and re-
CURED to answer the complaint of the
Plaintiff In the above entitled action,
which complaint has been filed In the
onice OF the Clerk Of said Court. at
me CITY OF Duluth County Of St.
serve a. copy OF your answer to the
said complaint On the subscriber, at
his sofftees In the city Of Duluth, In
the said County Of st. Louis, within
thirty days after the service Of this
summons upon you, exclusive Of the
day Of such service: and II you fail
to- Answer the said complaint within
tho time Aforesaid, the plaintiff in this
action. Will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in said complaint.
Dated October 9Th. A. D.. 1911.
.zs., stss -. THOMAS J. McKEON,
-. Plaintiffs Attorney,
ST Torrey Bldg, Duluth, MINI.
l. w. Oct. IA, q. %, Nov. 4. II. ID, 1911
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20

An ancnoT 20 windward-an ad. ID
the EVENING NEWS.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20
MRS. EDDY ON
WIRE, SHES SAYS


Boston, Jan 20.-Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy is sending messages through
Mrs. Minnie l. Cove, according to
Mrs. Cove, who is neither a spiritual
ist nor a Christian Scientist. Ia
strange frances, she says, her hand Ia
guided to write the messages.
She refuses to give out the exact
wording OF the messages until such
time as she becomes absolutely GER
tain that they actually come from Mrs.
Eddy. The messages are addressed to
Mrs. Gove's father, james Littiefield
OF Lynn. Mr.. Littlefisld knew Mrs.
Eddy well when the latter lived in
Lynn thirty on forty years ago.
Also Hears From Cleveland.
In addition to receiving messages
which purport to come from Mrs.
Eddy, she says she has received sew
eral from the late Grover Cleveland
and from Professor William James.
In one of the messages which she be-
lieves came from Mrs. Eddy the latter
Mrs. Augusta Stetson Of New York
that the Christian Science leader would
return to earth in the flesh was an
"error." She referred to her earthly
body as merely a shell and said it
would not be again habitated.
She viii Have More to Tell.
The message also declared that there
was no need of keeping a watch over
the tomb where the body lies and that
1t would be better to discontinue the
vigil.
Another OF the messages which pur-
port to be from Mrs. Eddy Is to the
effect that the Christian Science leader
was mistaken about many things per-
tanning to the future life while she was
in the flesh.
According to Mrs. Cove, Mrs. Eddy
has urged her to become more prof.
cient in technicaities, SO that the de-
parted Christian Scientists may be en-
abied to express better, through her,
amended views on the spiritual life.
Oscar w. Underwood Of Alabama
was nominated as chairman of the
ways ard mean committee.
Two hundred and twenty of the 220
representatives elect to the new house
responded to the roll call.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20

it viii meal a loss OF millions of gal
Ions OF oil.
The well is the greatest ever tapped
In Mexico and probably In the world
1t Is reported to be throwing a stream
ten incfes In diameter nearly AGO feet
into the air. Its present yield Is esti
mated at 1oe, 0o0 barrels daily.
No attempt has been made to cal
the well, but an immense force Ii
| building earth reservoirs to hold tn.
| oil. Several have been finished, bu'
they are aIled to oyeriowing. and
, thousands OF barrels OF oil daily ar
| flowing into the river. Materials arr
being rushed by a chartered steamer
J which also carries expert mechanics
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20
BUSINESS METHODS FOR
n. BRUNSWICK SCHOOLS

Special to the EVENING NEWe.
New Brunswick, Jan. 20:-That the
appointive school board named by
Mayor John 3. Morrison three weeks
ago propose to manage the school af-
fairs of the city in a business1ike
manner is shown by the re-arrange-
ment of the several committees as an
nouneed yesterday by President Henry
G. Parker. Each committee consists of
three members, each member being a
sosr~111fsnas1ea1laitteea and chair
nan Of e are nIne members
in the board and ryery n has a chair
manship. There are nine committees
bnt the president is not on any of the
committees.
The building eommimttee and the
teachers committee were held by Frank
r. Jones at the board meeting Wed.
nesday night to have been the whole
thing in the old board. The new
board will revise the bylaws and have
completely changed matters as to the
committee powers. Heretofore the
Teachers Committee purchased the
stationery and supplies for the schools
but hereafter all supplies ever to a
broom for the janitor will be bought
by the Supplies COMMITTEES. The
Teachers Committee win consider
applications for teachers and look at.
| ter the discipline of the schools. The
course Of study which they also con
trolled before is now in the hands OF
a Course of Study Committee.
The chairmen Of the various com.
mittees are as follows:
! On finance, Frank Jones; ON build,
ings and repairs, Howard v. Buttler;
on teachers and discipline, DIR. A. L
lSmith; on supplies, Howard G. Rule;
on course of study, Prof. Richard Nor
ris; ON attendance, Harry @. Burton;
on rules and regulations, w. Fl. Bene-
dict; on evening schools and lectures
I Anthony Viehmann.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20
LIGHTS FOR
JAMESBURG
Electric Light Company In
corporated Yesterday.
Special to me EVENING NEWS.

special to tAe NE MS. y
New Brunswick, Jan. 20:-Artf-
cles of incorporation of the James
burg Electric Company were filed at
the county clerks Office yesterday at
ternoon. The company has been
formed to supply that borough with
electric light. 1t has a capital stock
of $4,000, divided into 500 shares.
They begin business, however, with
$1,000 invested. The ineorporators
are Louis Rafello, OF Philadelphia,
$500; Merritt w. Phare, Tuckerton,
and Milton /. Voorhees,, Jamesburg,
each 500.
This borough has had some trou-
BILE of late getting the streets light
ed because of opposition being mani
tested by some of the property own
ers to poles going up In front OF
their properties. The matter went
so far as to be brought before the
freeholders, where some relief was
sought, but could not be secured, the
not having the power to
compel property wne to let the
poles go up This new company
will probably succeed In getting the
poles up.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20
.In0uRLES For MILLIONAIRE
M.ks 80 p..T@sGit
One For Divorce.

0nS TOR 6fSOfSos
Boston, Jan. 20.-Thomas G. Plant
who recently received a sum estimated
at from 100000 to $S,00a,00o from
the United Shoe Machinery company
for a rival company he had built up
Is pursued by court troubles.
His wife, who was Caroline Griggs
when he married her In Chicago ff
teen years ago, fled an action for di
vorce. and Mr.. Plants property to tht
value Of $1,5oo, eco was attached.
On top OF this came a suit for 500.
COO instituted at Worcester by Harry
w. Smith Smith asserts he assisted
Plant in the sale OF the Wonder Work
ers Shoe company to the United. Ar
attachment for the amount claimed b,
Smith has been issued by the supertol
court.
Mrs. Plant accuses her husband O
inf1delity. No n is named as core
s%pondent, the offending woman beint
given as unknown"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20
nE-

ngent or the Chicago, BI,S aSton and
Quincy. Two years later he left the
Burlington to become vice president
OF the Colorado Fuel and Iron coRr
pany. In 1886 he left that company
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad. In chnrge Of traffic.
II was while he was working on the
Atchison that he became a close friend
OF theodore Roosevelt. As a result Of
tfcrfriendEhip Mr.. Roosevelt when he
became president offered Mr.. Morton
the nrst cabinet position that hap
pened TO he vacant. That was secre-
tary ef rorn1nerce and labor. Mr.. Nor
ton did not feel able to throw up q
place on the Atchison paying him
$36.o00%a yeef and declined, but in u
abort time when requested again to
enter the cabinet became secretary Of
the navy.
~ Year ~ \ Cabinet Officer.
Fits term as secretary OF the navy
began July /. 1904, and ended exactly
a year later. He and the president
were OF III idea as to the naval pol
Icy. Each believed In q big nav and
believed in the construction OF new
ships as rapidly as possible.
After ne had been less than q year
In the cabinet Mr.. Morton's great ex-
eeutire ability commanded for him Of
fers OF lucrative business positions In
this city, II had been practically set.
tied that he was to come here and
take charge OF the street railway sys-
tem when, the life insurance scandal
having been aired. there was need Of a
man TO take charge Of the Equitable
Life Assurance society. Mr.. Morton
assumed the presidency at a meeting
at which there were rendered the res
ignations OF President James w. Alex
ander. Vice President James Haxen
Hyde, Second Vice President Gage ID.
Tarbeil aud Third Vice President
George r. Wilson.
When a young man MIR. Morton mar
Tied Charlotte Goodridge of Chicago,
who survives. He also leaves two
daughters. Mrs. Caroline Merton Pot
Ar and Mrs. Pauline Morton Smith.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20

Vienna, Jan. 20.-Kaiser Wilhelm Is
about to. add to his numerous distinc-
lions that OF doctor OF medicine. The
German university Mt Prague offered
him the degree and his majesty ac-
cepted 1t. 1t will be conferred on him
with great ceremony at Berlin.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20
PAUL MORTON
DIES SUDDENLY
ApopIexy Brings End TO the
Equitable Head.

New York, Jan. 2o.-Paul Morton
president Of the Equitable Life Assur
unce society for the last five and a hall
years, secretary Of the navy under
President Roosevelt from 1904 to 100,
and from 1896 to 1904 vice presidenl
Of the Santa Fe railway system, died
rs q result Of the bursting of an artery
N his brain at the Hotel Seymour.
Dir. Morton's death created an ex
~raordtnary sensation, both because oil
~ ~suddenness and because Of the place
where It occurred. for his visit to the
Seymour cannot be accounted for by
his family.
HI died just a few minutes before
his wife and brother, Joy Morton OF
Chicago, reached the house. The body
wuS removed to MI. Morton's home al
ga Fifth avenue
When Dir. Henry Pearson of the
Hotel Iroquois, just In the real Of the
Seymour, reached Mr.. Morton's bed
side he was unconscious.
Coroner Makes a Report.
Coroner Feinberg went to the hotel
IN response t. a report sen to the cor
onefss office by DR.. Pearson that Mr..
Morton had died suddenly.
MI. Morton came to the hotel about
8 O'clock Coroner Feinberg said. "He
had an appointment here with a law
yer While he was going to the apart
ment ~ became suddenly Ill and was
naQfNfcaf RI n vapupf ronvn
Mt. Morton's physician, DIR. Isaac
Adler. had been treating Mr.. Morton
Tor kidney and arterial conditions. l
am cons4nced. that death was due to
apopIexy caused by q rupture OF a
blood vessel In the brain. The attack
was brought on by hardening Of the
arteries"
Doctors Expected Death.
Joy Morton said:
About Dec. | my brother went to
Or. Wells, the medical director Of the
Equitable. to be examined. and DR..
Wells rejected him because OF unmis-
taxable evidences Of kidney trouble.
i happened to be here at the time, and
M brother spoke to me about 1t with
great surprise.
4 was alarmed, and about Dec. s I
persuaded my brother to come to Chi
cago with me and be examined by DIR.
Frank Billings DR.. Billings told him
that bis condition was serious and that
his blood pressure was altogether too
high
Paul Morton did not see the inside
of 9 nfe insurance office until July 1,
1904.
Went to Work atsAgs Of Fifteen.
He was born In Detroit In 1861, son
.. Sterling Morton, who was secre-
81 the interior under President
Cleveasnd- His only education was
ln The common schools, and that last
81 only until he was fifteen years old.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20
TO BE X. Wifh.im, M. o.

who will attempt to cap the well.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20

New Terk, Jan 2.-The Republican
rouuty committee. Of which Lloyd
GrIzeom Is chairman. unanimously
passed resolutions supporting Taft for
/ second term, This is the orgnnixa-
Non that supported Roosevelt In his
sent ~ the serssegs convention. The
resolution was introduced by Con-
freszHnan w. 8. Bennett.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-20
EMERSON ASKS DIVORCE.
Millionaire Drug Man Fiiss papes
Secretly la baItirnore.

Baltimore, Jan. a0-Csptain Isaac
IT, Emerson, millionaire drug man and
yachtsman. whose daughter Margaret
recently was divorced from DR.. Hoa-
Inns MeKim, has secretly fled suit for
divorce here. Contrary to usual pro-
cedure, the papers were handed to the
judge OF the circuit court and not sent
into the clerks Office.
1t has been reported that G. Hazel
tine Basshoer, a prominent manufac-
turer and club man. has been named
rs correspondent. $50