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others of that region where dams can De
 made at the outlets of mountain lakes, which will eventually give 9300O0 acre feet. There is enough water there to redeem half million acres and there are four or five schemes planned for the Yakima valley alone. There are excellent
 orchard lands on nearly all of the projects
 and the men who have taken up holdings are rapidly growing In wealth. .s- Engineer Blanchard of the reclamation service tells me of man named Silver
 who planted 10 acres of orchard near
 Yakima about six years ago. He netted
 $2700 last year from this fruit and the vegetables which he raised between the rows. In the same region J. O. Shadbolt, a dry goods merchant from Montana,
 made $16,OO0 from the fruit; raised on Al acres. In 1907 the same orchard yielded a gross of $29.00O and a net Of $2O00O, and in the three. years which the man has
 been fruit raising he has netted ss9,c0O
 or more than ,$13.O00 year. t The government reports that full-bear- ing orchards produce crops of from $500 to $12O0 per acre. and that $500 is less than the average if the trees are well
 kept. The lands that have been redeemed there are being largely planted to- fruit, and millions of trees have been set out in the valley during the last season or SO. Robert Mccormick, who was a lumber man in Minnesota, came to this valley ten years ago with 75 cents in his pocket
 He worked for time as teamster, and with his savings made his first payment on 25 acres of the government project The land was then covered with sage brush. Today it is all in crops and is paying him 5000 a year above all his expenses. Last fall he picked seven or eight hundred bushels of apples from a little over an acre. making a yield of about $500 for that amount of ground. A wisconsin man the same year sold $370d worth of apples from nine acres of trees A Voice From Montana
 Here are some letters from Huntley Mont, where the irrigation projects ern-
 brace total of 29,O0O acres. They are not all completed, but the water has been put on large tracts. and several good sized towns have gone up. This is land of grain and alfalfa. Wheat averages 3o bushels to the acre. barley from 50 | to 70 bushels and oats from 90 to 100 bushels The oats sell for 90 cents a hundred pounds, and good seed oats bring as much as $2. There is grazing coun- try about, and alfalfa is worth s a ton in the stack. It yields from five to seven tons to an acre from three cuttings, and is used also to restore the fertility of the soil.
 A sugar-beet factory has been recently esta aplished near Huntley, and the farmers :. are raising beets. getting h tons to the
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Nabob's Good Time Coming

From the New York Wor1d.
 w. A. Clark. who we believe, was once a $50O,O00 senator, has had test made of the S120.o00 organ in his 8, o00,o00 house. It is expected that next September he will begin to bathe in his s25.00o hath tsio and to sleep in his s15,0oo bed resting his auburn ringlets on the 5000 eiderdown pillows. He will also eat at his SOON table from his s40,000 Sevres service, ana walk on his s1o0000 carpets The s250000 art gallery will be made attractive by the s25,0oO portrait. sometimes known as cloudburst in red and green.
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(Copjyrght 1911. by Frank c. Carpenter)
 Washington, D. C., August F.
 "HREE years ago he was a stenog
 rapher in the Postoffice Department
 ! at Washington He was getting f s1200 a year and he had one months an nual vacation He had saved $500 by -lSifping, and could see but little light for the future. Then he went west on his annual leave and was present at the open ing of some government irrigated lands at Huntley, in northern Montana. He dropped into the line of homeseekers and drew an allotment of 46 acres, with the right to pay for it in ten-year install ments fa a 3
 He resigned his Washington job, and, using his savings, built, himself home. He then cleared B acres of sagebrush and sowed it to oats and wheat He set out an apple orchard and between the rows put in 4000 strawberry plants and some entrants, grapes and black berries. His oats produced 62 bushels per acre and the wheat 30 bushels. The apple trees grew. The next year he plant ed sugar beets on 31 acres of this land and the crop brought in $310O. The or chard is rapidly growing and the man already estimates himself worth at least $1O,OOO. M
 That is the story of one mans experi-. ence on the irrigated tracts of the re-. clamation service which Uncle Sam is, now parceling out to his children. He has already sold thousands of acres on such installments and he has water enough in the big reservoirs lately built to feed 25,OO0 farms of 40 acres each This land has all been reclaimed from the desert,e and it is only the beginning. It Is the first fruits of the reclamation service, which has already spent $6O,0OoO00 in dams reservoirs and canals. iniiion acres are now under water, and within the next generation or so more than a million homes will have been added to those of our country.
 Some of Uncle Sam's Settlers
 Before I tell you how such farms may be gotten I want to give some stories about and letters from Uncle Sam's pio- neers The reclamation bureau at Wash lngton has a large correspondence from those who have taken out such tracts. It publishes the value of the lands and tells what may be made from them. Take the fruit oases of the Pacific northwest. If the information did not come from the government I should not venture to quote 1t. for the prices seem to be out of all reason Irrigated fruit lands owned by Individuals right near some of the gov ernment tracts sell for from $100 10 5000 per- acre, ,. and some of the sagebrush nearby-.is bringing $50, per acre and up yserd- This b 'ino the. Yakima valley and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13

high schools are among the best in the country, the grades being accredited to all colleges that admit students upon credentials.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-04-13
natural process.

, natural process.
To such an extent has this taken
place that wealth with the modern
machines is produced twenty-five Q
times as rapidly as it was possible Il
century ago, and yet the modern work
er can make no financial gain while
the aggregate wealth OF the country
has increased from s25O.OO per capita
to $1250O0.
This wonderful wealth is getting
into fewer and fewer hands. The ac-
tual producers are getting fewer ana
fewer also. Even now only 80 per
cent OF, the men are actually producers
This means that the unemployed
problem is becoming greater and
greater. At this ;moment there are
four and one-half million men in the
United States. who are partly or who'll
ly unemployed. These men are will
ing and anxious to work but can fad
no master who can make profit off
them and Of course capitalism must
have profits.
The problem is squarely up to the
American people aud must be met
These men will not starve nor allow
their families to slarve in land of
plenty. They do not ask charity, they
demand Justice. Something must
yield soon to them. What will it be?
Why hesitate to bring Socialism
which will guarantee a job for all and
give every man the social value of his
toll? That cannot rob any one. 1t
Will, however. prevent the sChemers
from dealing in humanity and its pro-
ducts and living without work.
Prof. Eli. of the University of Wis
consin. formerly of Johns Hopkins,
says: Socialism viii make a fact of
the command of the APOSTLE Paul. IF
a man will not work neither let him
cat"
The Socialists are the only political
party working with evolution. there
fore they are working with the tide.
In fact they are only trying to point
out the inevitable. point to the storm
coming and want the people to real
Zc the trend OF things. The condi-
tions of society. ruled by capitalism is
rapidly creating disgust and unrest.
and til people arc looking for a haven.
They are coming to us in rapidly III
creasing numbers. and will continue to
do so as The only solution to the pres.
cnt unrest. GEO. B. KLINE, NJ. d.
New Martinsvillc ". Va.
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The Coming of
Socialism Very Soon
The Wage Garner Beginning to Re-
alize That Greater Justice is Due
Him.

Prof. Wently. of the University oi
Michigan, says: Socialism is inevit-
able; it's coming in Some form, which
will revolutionize society, giving
srcater justice and more opportunity
tu the wage Garner is simply a matter
Of time. 1t is an ethical movement
and all attempts to stop 1t will be as
futile as gust of wind against a loco
mCtive."
Chas. F. Dight, NJ. d., of the Uni
vcrsity of Minnesota. says: Socialism,
is as sure to come-and soon perhaps
as it is certain that the sun will rise
tomorrow morning, because behind it
i, that boundless and eternal energy
from which all things proceed, and
which has advanced industrial evolu-
iVr To {. stag" alc.adT S.,.--
i-u I:s outlivsd ta 80: '!n.ss has
Lc'0a:" II shell. = constructing band to
natural developer. s'.t /nas n''nlr u op-
p.s.sI>e and Cas- &c mot the nc"ds OF
- r.r.cS of The people. Natu -
order is to move onward and drop the
useless
Francis willard realized the
strength and goodness of Socialism for
she said: 81 believe competition is
doomed. The trusts, whose single
object is to abolish competition. have
proved that we arc better without than
with them. q I" What the Socialist de-
sircs is that the corporation of hu-
manity should control all production.
Beloved comrades, this is the friction
less way: it is the higher way: it
eliminates the motives for selfish
life: it cnacts into our every day liv-
in= the ethics of Christs gospel.
Nothing else will do it: nothing else
can bring the glad day OF universal
brothcrhood.'
oh. that were young again. and
1t would have my life! 1t Is Coils
way out of the wilderness rld into the
promised land It is the very narrow
of Christ's gospel. 1t is Christianity
applied
The primitive forms of production
hav" been supplantcd with the modern
machine. The hand loom and the
Sho" shop have become the mighty
cotton mill and the shoe factory.
The OK cart and the sailing vessel
have disappeared before the railroad
aud the ocean greyhound A revolu-
iion has taken place in nearly every
field of production and distribution
Yet it was an evolution. a growth. Il
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boOtlcSger who lad rooms C:l Sum-
mers street sold from three hundred
to seven hundred ;pints of whis!iey
daily and was never pulled. Why
was this? We hear that he paid so
much Il, day to the chief of police
for protection. Campbell mcnfione ell
this place il his letter. Why didn't
the mayor have the place investi-
gated? No doubt he had good rea-
sons OF his own. 1t seems from the:
information coming to us that those
engaged in the illegal sales of whis-
key not only had TO pay the chief
Of police SO much weekly for prutrc.
tion. but also had to grease the
county officials as we'll If this in
formation is true and indications
all point in that direction as we
know that these places Eourislyed
openly. then our city officials arc
nothing but lot of Sraftcrs who
have prospcred by promoting vice
and are unworthy public servants
and should be expelled from office.
All of the Campbell charges were
true and blind man could have
found ample evidence to have sub
stantiated them, but this would never
do as Chief Quill is Gen. Hollcy's
personal friend ard KNOWS too much
about the generals private life, so
1T would never do to antaGonizc him
as he might saucal. Yet the people
must put up with these officials and
DC taxed to pay them good salaries
Can you expect criminals to put
down crime? Can you expect moral
dcSencrates to abolish prostitution .?
These are the conditions the Hollcy
rcIcrm administrator have fastened
on the people of Charleston This is
what the HOllcy machine stands for.
Are YOU going to vote to continue
this state of affairs by elcctinc to
Office the Holley slate? In voting for
the Hollcy slate you are voting for
AL GULL for Chief of Police and
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-04-13
For a Price BY Mayor Hol-
ley and His Man Fri
day" Al. GULL, Figure
head Chief of Police

From what we can learn Mayo
VICE, CRIME and prostitution Pro-
Holley had excellent reasons for not
investigating the Campbell charges
against his right bower, AL GULL. As
it seems that our honorable mayor
was silent partner to the whole bus
mess.
For flstance we will take the case
of John Wills OF the Elk Pharmacy.
Mr.. Wills was arrested Tor selling
whiskey without n prescription and
was told by Chief GULL and Mayor
Holley if he would pay 5000 he
would not be prosecuted land that
they would sec that he was not ill
dicted. Mr.: Wills was only able tc
pay $500 of the amount which was
sent in by policeman and bccaus:.
he was not able to pay the other
$500 the evidence IL possession of
the police was laid before the re-
cent grand jury and Mr.. Wills was
indicted. Previous to this Mr.. Wills
was charged with selling dope and
retained Judge WertZ to defend him
and was fighting the case when Ne
gro friend of the mayors told him
if he would so to see Gen. Holley he
could fix it. Mr. Wills called on the
mayor and was told that he would
not have ANY thing to do with the
case if Judge Wertz was in it. but
said if Wills would retain VIM. G.
Barnhart he thought they could have
1t thrown out. Mr. Wills told Judge
WentZ what the mayor had said and
WcntZ advised him to go to Barn
hart which he did and the case was
dropped. We have heard of Other
cases that could be mentioned where,
the bootleGGcr had paid for protcc.
ton and were promised that they
would not be i.ldicted. If the hal:
of the grating that went on while
our city was dry could be uncovered
it would impcach several in high
places. Claude HUFF. notorious
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Fourth Ward
Made Dumping Ground

brazCn ;ludacity to assert that Mil
waukce. Wisconsin. because it is
governed by Socialists. is unclean--
when these papers should know that
40 such penurious. pernicious prac-
tice as dumping manure under poor
peoples noses would be tolerated in
that city d single moment. Milwau-
kee is kept clean and pure from ali
such foulnesS as the plutncrats i'm
pose on the people here. And Mil
waukee in this respect is as far
above the capitalistic corruption of
Charleston as Heaven is beyond the
rottenness and filth of He'll.
This is the good Socialist admins
tration in Milwaukee against which
the rich recently combined the Dem
ncratic machine. the Republican
ring. the Wealthy Women voters and
the Catholic church. In order to de-
feat Socialism they all combined and
gave Catholics control OF our public
schools by helping 20 elect as school
commissioners every candidate the
Catholic Church desired. Rather
than be deprived of the opportunity
TO rob the public. wealthy politicians
give the Catholic Church control oi
our public schools in exchange fol
| enough votes to defeat Socialist can
didateS. Such is the greed and rob.
| berry of the savage rich that they
| would put our splendid public school,
| in the hands of Catholicism or any
thing else in order tc continue theil
crime.
| As Inhabitants of the fourth war,
! are Victimized by this nasty filth
ness. so the citizens o: the first ware
are neglected or forced to live il
| filth. There is not a single foot n
pavement in the entire first ward
| Sidewalks are in wretched condition
Many streets have nothing but mu,
Continued on Page F'our.l
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The fourth ward of Charleston,
like other sections of our city, is the
dumping ground for nasty. rotten
filth and dirt from other sections
where the rich reside. Look at the
trash. manure and other sinking
rottenness dumped under the pco-
pies noses in the fourth ward. Here
the foul and filthy water from mills
and manure stand in stagnant pools
from year to year. while putrid old
rottenness shoulders. decays and
fills the air you breathe with the
germs of disease and death.
Look at sections where the
wealthy live. You see no such dump
ing grounds among the rich peoples
homes. No. they the too nice to
smell the stencil of their own trash
and dirt. But the poor and COM
mon herd" as the rich call the pco-
pie. are compelled to sniff and smell
this capitalistic con Elimination or
plutocratic pollution day and night
from year to year. Under Socialism
these localities where the poor hard
working people live could be as well
drained OF poison water and cleared
of manure and other foulness as To-
cations where the wealthy live a
good sewer system would drai:l these
death producing sections of their
other timber good for fuel for fire
would be given to the poor for wood
to COCK their food and keep then
warm. The manure and other ferti
| lizer waste and trash would bt
hauled away to enrich the farming
| lands. while useless trash and fiItl
would be burned and our city KEEP
as neat. healthful and clean as pos
/ sibe.
And yet with all this nasty abom
ination stenching the people witt
stink. disease and death. the pluto
! cratic papers of Charleston have tn
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-04-13
ORGANIZATION. COMRADES.

Il IS organization. organization for
N'rFa months right now, comrades.
Don't YOU see what a splendid work
yen have dClc during the past year.
WI t"rausc you have harped on or
"arzarton.
II should 20 in this order:
]. Nation-alrca1y in good shape.
''G h!mos; every state organized.
: S'aic-with 4 hold on every
'nUIty
D. '"nnty-with hold on every
'fE and township
Ci'y-with a hold on every
ward
g Ward with a hold on every pre-
r.@e-
-i'rccinct-with Il hold on every
v"rar
i Zach division RESPONSIBLE
''hfhd" should have charge. al
way under the direction of the or
"au'zaiion
We yet right down to business
IAN get responsible comrade
''' very precinct who will see tc
.Aa' """rv voter is brought int
'-'H with Socialism
'E" FRS; ami most important duty
."'~ precinct captain at present is
parry
Say th"s" workers just hGng loos,
"'t Z" pick for the Socialist part:
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SOCIALISTS AM
LOVERS OF LIBERTY.

We have a Socialist organizer to
lecture and organize the party in
every locality in the country or
towns. Every secretary of Soclalis.
locals and everybody else wanting to
hear Socialist speaking or the party
organized at your town or country
place. be sure to write us to that CT
feet Also be certain to name as
many places at which you or some
one else. whose name and address
with the name of your county YOU
should always give. could arrange fo''
a Socialist speech. Address all re-
plies to
GEORGE GHEREIN.
COZ Virginia Street.
Charleston. W. Va
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The Socialists are working hard in
kauawhu County and if they con
'inu" tn strive hard they will elect;
tn" cuiir" Socialist ticket in 1872
I'd" Socialists in South Charleston
"'@auiz"h a local with betweCI fifty
ana sixty members a few days ago.
'ha' promises to be one of the most
a'iiv" Socialist locals in the state,
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Socialists Active in
Kanauuha County

as they have some untirinE workers
who know what they want and how
to get it. Comradc +. e. Stanley
writes from Shrewsbury that Il good
1ocal was organized there and the
future prospects were bright Tor the
Socialists in that section. With Il
good organization all the powers OF
plutocracy can't beat us i'll 1912.
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basket.
When YOU get the membership yon
get the working force
When you get the working force
you get the money.
When you get these you can get the
earth.
And that's all We Socialists want.
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Between January 1, 1910, and
January L, 1911. nearly five thou
sand men have died and nearly
three hundred thousand have been
wounded in industrial operations in,
England. according to statistics just
published.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-04-13

Foreign miners Will be taught
American methods of mining by pho
tographs and the moving picture ma
chine in the anthracite mining re-
gion of Pennsylvania.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-04-13

According to the latest official re-
turns the organization of the ANAL
gamated carpenters has a total mem
bership of 2,15e in the Dominion of
Canada !fst7
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-04-13
Vice, Crime and Prosti-
tuition Protected

John Baker White for city solicitor.
Do you want these men for these
important Offices? The only way to
beat them is to vote the Socialis.
ticket. Altogether good citizens and
elect the Socialist candidate to the
Board OF Affairs, and let us have a
clean. pure Sraftless administration.
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ICE CRIME
1olley
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Ilanawha Bridge Trust.

The people of Charleston are not
only plundcred by water and light
monopoly but they are pilIascd by
the toll bridge trusts. Think of the
money poor and common people pay
this bridge trust every year. for
which they get littl. else than sneers
and jeers in return. No wonder the
owners of this water monopoly and
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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-07-20

Since the bird-men began to fly
or in palmer language since Lieut..
Thomas E. Selfridge was killed in a
flight at Fort Myer,. Va, Sept. II,
1908 to, and including NJ. Lendron
near Paris, France, June Is, 1911,
fl fly eight of the best of them are
in memory only, today. TITS a
frightful loss of life to try out a
theory. Four of the number were
killed in the U. S.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-07-20

Mr.. Ray Statzell returned home
from Co. Bluffs Sunday, where he
visited relatives at the w. r. Cope
land home.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-07-20

Miss Sorenson returned to her
home in Wisconsin Tuesday, after
visiting for several days with her
brother, Nick.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-07-20

The familiar face of Chas. Hawks
is missed from our streets. Mr.
Hawks is helping his son law
harvest his grain.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-07-20

Mrs. Bemedeu and daughter, Flo
renee charlottesville, Ohio and Miss
Jennie Mintier of Des Moines visit
ed over Sabbath with the Rev. and
Mrs. Mintier. Miss Jennie has been
teaching in the Des Moines schools
but is now on her way to New Mex
leo where she will teach for sea-
son.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-07-20

John W. Gates has had seven
surgical operations since he reach
ed Europe and if all of them were
successful he is goner.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-07-20

Miss Mary Powell visited friends
in Audubon Wednesday night.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-07-20

It is probable that the whole
country will be electrified when the
81 Wire Trust men come to trial.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-07-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed McNary and
baby of Brooklyn, Iowa arrived here
Tuesday to visit her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Porter. They went
np to Audubon Wednesday to visit
his parents for several days, after
which he will return to his home
and she will return to Extra for a
longer visit.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-07-20

The little son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lochray of North Branch, while in
q cherry tree picking cherries, lost
his balance while reaching for come
fruit and fell to the arouud. One
of his arms was broken in three
places.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-07-20

Mr.. Ed Delahoyde and family re-
turned from the Lakes Saturday
and report delightful trip with
plenty of entertainment landing
the finey tribe.