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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-04
LAND SCHEMES.

About thirty years ago or more,
certain land sharks reaped rich
harvest in the state of Michigan,
booming and peddling Florida
orange-grove lands.
The writer Of this article was
one of the number buncombed at
that time into buying, by the fas-
cinating allurement Of the i'm
mense profits to be realized from
the investment.
We were hoodwinked by pam
phlets, circulars, we'll written ma
gazine articles, attractive news
paper advertisements, glib
tongued agents. and other almost
irresistible influences, to put our
earnings into orange groves,
which would in few years make
us independently prosperous and
wealthy.
We got the lands-perfected
title to them on the installment
plan-planted them with orange
trees, which grew we'll and at
their maturity, blossomed well,
and gave promise of an abundant
harvest.
But, Alas! "The best laid
schemes Of mice and men gang
aft aglee.' A factor that we sup
posed was unknown in these
southern ATTITUDES, and of which
the agents told us not, made it's
appearance, and frustrated our
plans and withered our hopes.
The tender blossoms yielded their
vitality to the blighting influence
OF an early morning frost. and the
trees did not yield enough fruit
to pay the cost Of their planting.
After a number of years Of such
experience, we sold the land for
less than half its original cost.
There is an article in another
column of this paper written for
the New York Call by Thomas F.
Kennedy of Pittsburg, Pa, rela-
tive to the present day peddline
of Texas and Florida lands
which our readers would do we'll
to peruse, before investing their
hard earned money in any land
schemes away from home.
The article is on our first page
and is entitled "Land Fakiers
Skin the Working Glass" Back
to the land is a good slogan for
Duluth wage-earners, but let t.
be to lands right here in Minne-
sofa, and tributary to Duluth.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-04

It is said that new rule has
been inaugurated at WELLESLEY
college requiring that students
learn how to spell before they are
allowed to gradute. This is 2
good innovation, and might be
adopted with profit in the schools
of-South America.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-04
REAPPoRTIoNMENT FRAUD.

REAPPoRTIoNMENT FRAUD.
The reapportionment bill passed
by the House and now before the
Senate is meeting with decided
opposition in that body, and it
ought to.
Senators from the southern part
of the state are not natural born
idiots, and when they are asked
to support measure primarily
designed to give the steel trust
political control of northern
Minnesota, those southern Mime
sofa senators, clearly seeing the
"nigger in the wood pile,' and
the Interior motive back of the
measure, cannot as honest men
give it their support.
We have been clamoring in
northern Minnesota for reappor-
tionment for years, a reapportion-
ment made as near as possible in
conformity with the letter and
spirit Of the state constitution.
Such conformity would not per.
NIT of the gerrymandering tactics
that are sometimes resorted to, to
give, whichever party may be in
power at the time, some future
political advantage.
Dividing the state into legis-
lative and senatorial districts in
an unfair and unnatural way for
political purposes is bad enough,
but when the gerrymandering is
done in the interest of a. gigantic
Industrial octopus like the steel
trust it is high time that not only
southern Minnesota but also
northern Minnesota should stand
up and take notice.
1t is high time too that the peo-
pie of Duluth, Republicans and
Democrates alike, should wake up
to a realizing sense Of the trick
that is sought to be played upon
them, under pretense of this re-
apportionment measure.
Judging the bill now be-
fore the Senate by the district
boundary lines which it pre-
scrlbes, no man is so stupid, but
he can see at a glance, that the
sole and only purpose of the bill
is to give the steel trust a larger
representation in the state legis-
lature.
We expected a reapportionment
that would give the people of
Duluth, at least a measurable de-
gree of fair play. We knew the
steel trust would endeavor to be
IN on the ground floor, but we
never dreamed Of their seeking to
go the whole hog' and capture
everything.
We can see no good reason why
Duluth should not have a couple
of legislative districts exclusively
to itself, instead Of taking in
dlvldual wards and attaching
them to some city on the range.
Ii the bill passed by the House
and now before the Senate be-
comes law, we might just as we'll
save ourselves the expenses of
election and let the steel trust
name our representatives and SEN
ators from St. Louis county.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-04
STRIKE CALLED OFF.

The strike Of boiler makers in
the marine boiler shops of Buff
falo, n. Y, has been called off,
A settlement was effected with
the men on basis of 2 cents in
crease per hour all around.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-04

Foolish migratory birds, and
humans too, that went south will
never know what delightful
spring weather they are missing
in Duluth all through the so-called
winter months.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-04
BEST THINGS TO GIVE.

1.-The best thing to give to
your enemy is forgiveness;
to an opponent. tolerance;
to a friend, your heart; to
your child, a good example;
to a father, Difference; to
your mother, conduct that
will make her proud Of you;
to yourself, respect; to all
men charity. ''-Selected.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-04

For everybody's sake quit your
knocking and boost for once in your
life. It is good for the health.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-04

lowing questions:
10 you think it short sighted
policy for our government to license
the saloons which makes drunkards
and then create jails and inebriate
asylums to care for them?
Does the revenue they receive equal
the expense of the asylums and
jails?
Very truly.
TI-SALOONIST.
Answer. We will assume that
you want the ''editor of the La
Dor World" to give absolutely I'M
biased and candid answers to
your two questions. We will en-
deavor to do so.
First. AS a nation we are dis
tinctively industrial and CON-
mercial. There is more money in
vested in the liquor traffic of this
nation today than in any other
one industry. It makes no diff
ference how much you and others
may deplore the evils of the liquor
traffic, it is the opinion of the
editor, that they can never be re-
moved 50 long as the traffic is
suffered to maintain a commercial
character in the nation.
Once destroy the commercial
prestige of the traffic and the
traffic is ruined, and fully ninety
five per cent of the evils that flow
from it will 60 with it.
How is that to be done? Ger
tainly not by any such make shifts
as local option, county Ioption,
prohibition, high license or low IL
cense, or any other expedient that
does not reckon with the traffic
as factor in the commercial life
blood Of the nation.
Remove all national, state and
municipal protection from the
traffic. Abolish every system of
taxation and license with which
the traffic is now protected and
it's commercial character main
tanned.
Let every man be allowed to
manufacture whiskey who wants
to; let every" man sell it who
wants to, and let every man drink
it who wants to, and there would
not be a saloon in Duluth in one
week. after such a law came into
effect.
Why? Because the business
phase of the traffic is ruined.
Pure unadulterated whiskey
would not be worth more per gal
Ion than the price of two drinks
Of the spurious article is today.
Whiskey would probably be made
and sold, but it would not pay
any one to engage in its sale as
a distinctive business.
The millions now invested in
the traffic would be withdrawn
and invested in other industries.
You will observe that our plan
only contemplates the removal of
IS per cent Of the evils Of drunk
enness. The removal Of the other
five per cent we postpone uati]
the morning of the millennium.
Second. But, the argument of
your questions, is a criticism Of
the lack of consistency in the leg
islative policy of our law makers.
Your contention is right. Con-
sistency does not seem to be one
Of the jewels of our law makers.
From our viewpoint there is not
a single statute relating to the
liquor traffic that is correct in
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-04

Two-thirds of the world must
sweat and groan so the other third
may dream. -. .a..354 Ss
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-04
Duluth, Mimi, March, 9. 10

To the Editor Of Labor World:
Is it not fact that all classes and
conditions of men in the United States
want free trade, or some sort of a
reciprocal agreement, such as is now
proposed with Canada, on every
commodity excepting the particular
article they themselves want a mono
ploy on?
For instance the packers, or meat
trust, want reciprocity on cattle, but
wants reciprocity on hides and a tar
If on leather. The shoe manufac-
turers want free leather and a tar
if on shoes. The lumber trust wants
tariff on lumber and nothing else
The mine owners don't want reci-
procity on coal, but on every other
thing. The steel trust only wants a
tariff on STEEL The Standard oil trust
don't want reciprocity on oil. Nor
does the ship building trust want
reciprocity on ship building
You can go on Indefinitely will!
the list of selfish interests that want
to plumber the American people
through tariff, licensing them only
to being held up themselves
The farmer wants everything he
buys on the free list, but everything
he sells on the protected list.
But all interests combine when it
comes to labor and are very broad
minded, public spirited, etc., favor
the open door policy, throw down the
bars and favor the unrestricted ad-
mission of foreign labor.
What do you think of all this?
LONGSHOREMAN.
Answer. We cannot have abso-
Lutte free trade. There must al
ways be a tariff sufficient to pay
the expenses Of the government
economically administered.
Your first question has to be
answered in the affirmative. That
spirit Of selfishness to which you
refer manifests itself in many
ways. Probably in no instance is
it more clearly in evidence than
in the matter of law enactment
and enforcement. "Enforce the
law against the other fellow but
don't Disturb U.S. is the motto of
those who are actuated by an ex-
elusive regard to their own inter-
ests. We are all in more or less
degree so affected, and need the
regulation of wise laws to keep
us within proper bounds.
The instances which you cite
are undoubtedly true, and being
true, they go to prove more than
anything else, that there is no
hope Of the politicians ever giving
us tariff measure that will be
just to every interest and section.
Even a tariff commission is not
likely to be wholly free from i'm
proper influences, but it is step
in the right direction.
With respect to the importation
of foreign labor, the question
should be decided wholly upon
our own need of such labor, and
not upon foreign labor S willing
ness or desire to come to us. I'm
restricted immigration would be
our ruin as a nation; and the
strangest thing We know of is,
that those who are supposed to
have the most at stake, are turn
ing heaven and earth over, to
flood our country with the surplus
population of the decaying ma
tions of Southern Europe and
Asia.
But it's the old story. In all
history the common people were
the nations upbuilders, and the
privileged classes and vested in
terests were the destroyers. 1t
was so with all the nation S that
were, but it will not be SO with
lis. &hera11sn n11,. nn,1oY1n@,f y,Ao,olA
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-04
Our Question Box

Sucn QUESTIONS will be answered in this
column cena az appertain In 4 more Or less de-
gree % the good ana welfare Of our read
era Questions strictly sectarian in nature.
Or ultra political in character, VIII Be- either
cons1sned to tho waste basket or returned to
may determine. Va S'op'
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-04

Duluth, Mimi, Feb. 81. 1911.
To the Editor Of Labor World:
Please give your opinion on the fol-
lowing questions:
Do you think it a short sighted
policy for our government to license
the saloons which makes drunkards
and then create jails and inebriate
asylums to care for them?
Does the revenue they receive equal
the expense of the asylums and
jails?
Very truly.
ANTI-SALOONIST.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-23
WANT BURAh 10
RUN WITH TAFT
Idaho Man Urged For Second
Place on Ticket.

For president of the United States
William Howard Taft, of Ohio.
For vice president-William Edgar
Borah, of Idaho.
This is the ticket which it is learned
the leaders in the movement to have
President Taft succeed himself are
working for. They are desirous of hav.
ing Senator Borah, of Idaho, take the
nomination for second place en- the
presidential ticket.
For some days it has been going the
rounds in high political circles that
the administration looked on the
able young senator from Idaho with a
kindly eye. But Tuesday it came out
from high source that actual over
lures had been made to Senator
- rah to get him to take the nomina-
IN for vice president. He has been
given to understand he can have the
administration support.
1t is admitted on all hands that Sen
ator Borah would make an excellent
running mate for President Taft. The
president likes him and admires him,
despite the fact that they have clashod
sharply on one or two occasions. In
the fight for the direct elections
amendment and in other struggles in
the senate Borah has proved himself
the peer in capacity of the ablest men
of the senate. He is one of the fore
most lawyers of that body
Among the progressives of the SEN
ate Borah is recognized as a strong
factor in their cause He is less rad
cal than Senator LaFolle te, but a,
the same time generally votes for pro-
gressive measures.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-23
Murdered and Robbed.

In a little fringe of woods on the
edge of Paradise creek, near Nor
folk, Va, murder was revealed wner
party of searchers out scourin'
the country in quest of ]. L. Benton,
merchant, who had been missing
from his home on Deep Creek shell
road since last Friday, found him with
gaping wound in his face.
Robbery was undoubtedly the ruling
motive of the crime and shotgun was
the weapon.
Industrious and possessed of a large
family to care for, Mr.. Benton had ac'
cumulated considerable money, which
he carried about with him wherever
he went. He had in his pockets when
he left his home on Friday morning
nearly 5000. When his pockets were
searched the money was gone.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-23
Convicts Save Family From Fire

To the bravery of squad of con-
victs William Lewis, his wife and five
children owe their lives.
Lewis is wealthy planter, and his
large residence occupies a command.
ing position on the public road a few
miles from uitman. Some twenty con.
victs, at work on the road, camped
with their guards near the Lewis resi-.
dence.
.ahoat two o'clock in the morning
one of the convi, is discovered the
Lewis residence in flames. He notified
the other convicts, and they ran to the
burning house, being fired on several
times by the guards, who thought the
prisoners were escaping.
When the convicts reached the home
it was almost completely enveloped in
flames, and the Lewis family was in
the sec@d story, facing almost Ger.
tain death. The convicts quickly i'm
provised ladder that reached to the
second story and Lewis, wife and five
children were rescued. Several of the
convicts were badly burned.
Lewis announces that he will en-.
deavor to obtain pardons for the con-
victs. 1t is said that nearly every
person in the county will sign the pc
tition for pardon.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-23
Human Remains From Maine.

The first parts of human body
from the wreck of the batleship Maine
in Havana harbor were discovered
when workmen removing mud and de-
bris from the spar deck forward of
the after superstructure found the
blackened and coral encrusted bones
of left forearm and right foot
They were taken in charge By an
undertaken and placed in a recepta-
Gle on the collier Leonidas.
OF course there is nothing to slg
gest Identification, but it is hoped that
this may be established by discovery
OF other objects in the immediate vi
entity.
The water in the cofferdam has now
been lowered thirteen feet below nor
NAL, Revealing considerably more Of
the craft, especially amidships.
superficial examination of the
most recently uncovered portions has
tended somewhat to revive the hope
that it will be possible to float the
after half or more of the hull.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-23
ADOPTS NEW GOVERNMENT
City of Trenton Votes In Favor Of
Commission Form

AT a special election held in the
city of Trenton, N. j., the voters adopt
ed the provisions of the WALSH act
of last winter, providing for com
mission form of government, W IT,
most of the radical features that are
being tried out in a number of the
cities of the west and south.
The majority in favor of the propo-
sition was 1902, the vote being 6792
for and 1890 against.
Under the Walsh act the entire
present system of government will be
wiped out in the city, whose affairs
will be placed in complete control OF
an elective commission of five men,
bers, exercising both legislative and
administrative functions. The com
missioners will elect one of their mem.
bers, who will be the putative mayor
of the city. They will hold office for
four years, unless the recall feature of
the act should be placed in operation
in the meantime. The initiative and
referendum are among the other fea-
lures of the act accounted upon to add
to the novelty of the new scheme of
government.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-23
Record Tour of French Actress.

When Sarah Bernhardt sails away
from New York to Paris on the La
Lorraine on Thursday the expressions
of affection for American theater-goers
in which she may confidently be ex-
pected to indulge ought to come from
her heart, for her tour in its financial
returns has exceeded the records of
any other French dramatic star.
Independent of the retui ms of ner
coming four performances at the
Globe theater in New York, the gross
receipts of Nine. Bernhardt's season
have totalled $9S2,000. This huge sum
has been earned in less than eight
months, and the physical energy dis
played by the venerable French genius
during her visit has been quite as
amazing as her artistic powers.
Al the age of siXty-seven, when most
grandmothesr are content to take only
a passive interest in the affairs of the
world, she has travelled more than
$4,000 miles, crossing the continent
twice.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-23

Mrs. Luke Lea. we.,>ste HAe senator
From Tennessee, III w whom an oper-
alton was performed at the George
town University hospital in Wash, ,ng-
ton few days ago, became suddenly
worse and Senator Lea was hastily
summoned.
When he arrived Senator Lea was
advised by the physician that Trans,
fusion of blood was the only thing
that would save the patients life The
senator Immediately submitted to an
operation.
Senator Lea was able to walk about
the hospital with assistance and is ra-
pidly gaining strength. 1t is said that
nearly quart of blood was trans.
fused. Mrs. Lea is now thought to be
on the road to recovery.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-23
SUESFOR DIVORCE
ON BIRTH OF SON
John Bancroft, Jr., Starts Action
Against Wife, a Dupont.
CASE CREATES A SENSATION

Wilmington Millionaire Declares Max
HeibIer Is Father Of Child Born
Three weeks Ago.
John Bancroft, Jr., son of John Ban
croft, millionaire textile manufacturer
of Wilmington, Del, has applied for a
divorce from his wife, daughter of
Alfred l. Dupont, multi-millionaire
vice president of the Dupont Powder
compan y
The action, which caused sensa-
the young couple to Washington, Dec.
s, 1907, where they were married by
Rev. d. c. Mcleod. The case is
brought on alleged statutory grounds.
The docket reads: John Bancroft,
Jr., VS.. Mrs. Madeline Dupont Ban.
croft and Max Heibler, Jr. Libel for
divorce"
The Max Heibler, Jr, mentioned is
a three-weeks-old son of Mrs. Ban
croft, the paternity of whom Bancroft
denies. Max Heibler was a resident
of Munich, Bavaria, where Mr.. and
Mrs. Bancroft passed much of their
time, following their elopement on
Dec. 10, 1907. The husband declares
that the son born to Mrs. Bancroft Is
the child of this Max Heibler.
The case promises to be one of the
most sensational that has ever been
heard in the Delaware courts. Di.
vorce cases in this state are heard in
open court, and the case will come up
at the September term of superior
court.
The wedding of the couple created
a sensation at the time they left the
home of the girls father in an auto
mobile, following stormy scene with
the girls mother, and were married
in Washington the same day. At the
time the bridegroom was a student at
Princeton.
Shortly after the wedding Mr.. and
Mrs. Bancroft went to Munich, where
the husband completed his studies at
Heidelberg University. Upon return
ing to this country, young Bancroft
became connected with his father in
the Bancroft mandatory.
Allegations are to the effect that
the husband remaining in Whining
ton, she had improper relations, con-
tinuing at other European cities. The
child was born at the home of Mrs.
Bancroft in this city three weeks ago.
The object in joining the child as
defendant with its mother, it is said,
Is to have the court pass upon its
legitimacy.
Neither Mr.. nor Mrs. Bancroft are
in this city. He is at Minerva, N. Y,
and she is at Atlantic City. Mr..
Whiteman, attorney for the husband,
declined to discuss the affair.
Thomas Heisal, lawyer for the wife,
said: 81 have a perfect defense"
According to the docket, Mrs. Ban
crofts age is twenty-three and her
husbands twenty-siX 1t is the i'm
preston in Wilmington that Mrs.
Bancroft is considerably more than
three years younger than her hus.
band.