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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-02-23

Yellow Dent
1sr Sandwich shelter G. Bach 81. so
2 Ins policy, Aliens Agency 500
3 Cash, Garry & Berry ........ 300
a Box cigars, A. r. Welch .... $50
S Map Turner Co., Herald .... l25
6, g Due bills one dollar each
Queal & Co.
White Dent
LIST CIT. Deposit, Turner Co. Bank 81. so
2 Cash. Farmers S Elevator 49,. 500
3 Horse shoeing,.J H Carnahan 3.2O
a Job work. Hurley Herald...... l so
S Cash, E. T. Peters ........... LOO
6 Cash, e. e. Palmer ........... LOO
Z Cash, j. I Scroggs ............ LOO
8 Cash, j. 7. Scroggs ............ LOO
Other Dent Corn
LIST Due bill cement tile or blocks SIS. 90
Hurley Cement Tie Factory
2 Box cigars, a. H. Welch. .... ESQ
3 Cash, j. T. Scroggs ....... -. 200
4 Cash, j. T. Scroggs ............ LOO
Boys Under l6
LIST Fur lined coat, +. N. Co. $500
2 Cash, John Lakings .......... 3OW
3 Cash, John Lakings ............ 200.
A, S & 6, Certificate deposit 81 each
Bank of Hurley
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30

A school Of Philanthropy is the
latest thing in the circles where there
is willingness to do anything for the
poor except 70 get OF 81 their backs.
New York City IS the place where it.
Is located. Connected with the insti-
tuition are two Or three individuals
who are earnestly desirous Of doing
away with the cause Of poverty re-
gardless OF how such a move may af-
feet powerful financial interests. But
these are exceptions and seem sadly
out Of place In the imposing array Of
names Of professors Of political eco
Monty whose teachings show little
knowledge Of that science, Of officials
Of charity organizations and charit-
able institutions devoted to giving
aims as substitute for justice, and
of well known asocial WORKERS" Of
other kinds working to uphold exist
ing social conditions.
The year book for 1901 says that:l
aThe purpose Of the school is to
fit men and women for social service
III either professional or volunteer
work. The announcement for the
term Of l911-12 declares that It aims
to prepare students for service Is fol.
lows:
q. Expert visitors for charity or
ganization societies and other charit-
able institutions.
e. investigators Of social condi-
lions and Institutions.
q. Matrons or administrators IN
institutional work.
"A. Financial secretaries for Pill
vate individuals or societies.
Is. Inspectors tenement houses,
factories, etc.
&c. Executive secretaries Of educa-
tional or philanthropic societies.
q. Probation officers.
IS. HeadWorkers and assistants in
social settlements. institutional
churches, welfare departments Of
manufacturing and mercantile estab-
lishments.
20. The public service. state and
municipal, especially those branches
which deal with public welfare, such
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30
Contract onvictLabor Downed
In Michigan

prisoners, some of which Is sent By
the men to their families, provision il
made for the families Of those who
are imprisoned on the charge of aban-
donment. This is accomplished un-
der statute which provides that
$3.50 per week for the wife and an
additional so cents for each child I'M
der 15 years Of age be paid them out
of the funds of the institution"
A. paper by Frank Moore. superin-
tendent of the State ReSormatery at
Railway, n. j.. treated the question
of reforming those whose moral de-
linQuencies might be traceable to
mental defects.
The number Of persons in penal in
situations belonging to the class
whose minds have q certain amount
Of development. but have not reach.
ed the full mental standard Of civilizar
ton. was said by Moore to be surpris-
ingly large. In his refOrmatOry. 4s
per cent of the inmates had been
found to be deficient in the last tive
years. A special system Of training
would have to be adapted to such
charges. and he challenged the belief
of many that they should be kept in
permannt custodial care.
Baltimore has been agreed upon as
the meeting place Of the congress Of
1912. which viii be held some time
between November 10 and %.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30

do not favor the imparting of it?
There is nothing to Indicate that
the students are informed Of the vital
fact that the poor are suffering be-
cause they have been robbed of their
right to the use of the earth. The
course Of study does not call their at
tention to~the fact that the right of
these poor people to life implies the
right to live somewhere on the earth
regardless of any other mans wiling
ness to permit them. It does not tell
them that the tenement jewellers of
New York City and other places are
corwded together, because land mono
pohsts are permitted to hold land out
of use or ina state of partial use. 1t
does not tell them that a system of
taxation of labor and labor products
together with land monopoly makes
opportunities for earning a living SO
scarce that the number of workers
exceed the number of jobs. 1t does
not tell them how tariff laws rob the
workers of large part of the pur-
chasing power Of their wages. Neither
does it open their eyes to such cur
rent swindling falsehoods like the
one that dupes many workers into
supporting the tariff robbery on the
opposition that thereby opportunities
for earning al living are increased and
wages raised. Such vital matters are
not taught. That is not the purpose
Of the charity game. The welfare of
the poor unquestionably is the inn
polling motive with some honest $50
cial workers." but is not with organ
lied charity as whole. The underly-
ing motive with that is the welfare
of special privilege, the welfare Of
the institutions that create poverty.
The interest Of privilege demands
that legalized iniquities be not per-
mitted to drive the impoverished
classes too far lest they be rendered
SO desperate that they turn and de-
stroy their oppressors. So the charity
organization and its social work"
are called into being to ward the dam
ger off. To make this work more
efficient, the School of Philanthropy
naturally comes also.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30
Roosevelt and Labor

/, even hindered and INSTRUCTED it. He
| is staunch upholder Of the protec-
tive tariff, which is one means Of
keeping fEom sthe man who tllls the
soil and the man who works for
wages" large part OF the fruits Of
his toll. While he held the presidency
he made no attempt whatever to at
tact fundamental causes Of existing
:. He wasted time and opportun-
ity in puerile, though strenuous at
tacks on only the outward symptoms
of social disease. The only attention
he gave to causes was to strenucusly
defend them and to give the name q
''muckraker" to those who came near
er than he to telling the truth about
existing conditions.
Unless Mr.. Roosevelt has changed
since then and is big enough and brave
enough to admit that he was on the
wrong track, he can give NO help to
the toiler, however strenuously he may
try.
If Mr.. Roosevelt actually meant
what he said, he must be prepared to
give his endorsement to the movement
in favor of making conditions so that
the man who does not work. viii not
eat. He must favor the abolition Of
every special privilege that enables
one man to appropriate without ade-
quate returns the earnings Of another.
He must take his stand with those
who would do away with monopoly Of
land, with private control Of public
highways, with tariffs and other use Of
public taxing power Tor private galns
with taxes OF all kinds on industry
and its products, and with every other
power which government now confers
on some and denies to Others.
Is he ready to do so?
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30

At the October is session of the
American Prison Congress, William
H. Venn, in Omaha, Neb., parole Of
ficer for Michigan, strongly opposed
the contract system in connection
with the labor of convicts, and told of
the passing of this system in his State.
I'm the State of Michigan the con-
tract system is doomed" said Venn,
''its expiring gasp having been slated
by legislative enactment. In most, if
not all, other States it is held in dis.
pute, especially among the ranks of
free toilers, whether organized or un-
organized. When the State, the pris-
oner, or his family, receives the profit
from prison labor, and not some con-
tracing firm which pays to the State
the paltry sum of from IS to rs cents
per day for the toll of IT'S wards, the
mouth of the objector is silenced."
venn outlined the compensation
plan operated in the Detroit House of
Correction, which he said had met
with general commentator.
Michigan may well be proud Of one
of its penal institutions, which is not
only self sustaining" he continued,
.'but. which has in vogue a co-opera-
tive plan Of payment to all prisoners
confined within its walls for periods
of thirty days or over. This is tAe
Detroit House of Correction, which
occupies a unique position among not
only the prisoners Of Michigan, but of
America as well, if not of the world.
..July 6, 1911, the Detroit House of
Correction passed its fiftieth mile
stone. During the last thirtyt-wo
years over s1.OOO,OOO in profits has
been turned over to the City of De
troit, the families of prisoners, and
to the prisoners themselves. Since
1880, the City Of Detroit has annually
received sums ranging from $s,O16.SS
to $52,711.64.
I'm addition to amounts paid to
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30

Addressing delegation of Pennsyi-
vania farmers. ex-President Roosevelt
is reported to have said:
There are two classes of men, l
want to help. The man who this the
soil and the man who works for
wages. Don't help any one else. A
man mustn't get a living unless he
does work. He must pull his weight
Every man who pulls his weight is
worth helping. Don't try to help your
self by hurting some one else. Let
your motto be: sAll men up, and not
some men down.
Mr.. Roosevelt seems to accept as a
matter Of course that the man who
tills. the soil or works for wages
should be in need of help. Apparently
he looks on such a situation as natural
and unavoidable. Now, why should
men who produce wealth be unable
to help themselves? If they get all
that they earn they are not entitled
to any assistance. To give them any
is to give them more than belongs to
them. To give one man more than
belongs to him is to give some other
man less. SO If wealth producers are
not being robbed Of some part of their
earnings, then Mr.. Roosevelt is wrong
in encouraging them to expect help
from any one.
But do they get all that they earn?.
If not, then the obstacle that prevents
them from getting what justly belongs
to them must be located and removed.
Is Mr.. Roosevelt willing to help in do
ing that? Unless he is, then all his
assertions OF friendship for the toiler
amount to little else than empty
words. Hitherto he has MT given any
effective aid to such work. He has
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30

IS health, charities and corrections.
10 Members Of boards Of man
ayers and committees Of phiIan-
thropic institutions.
ii. Friendly visitors and yolun-
teer Workers in any field Of service
reQuffsng an acquaintance with exist
ing conditions and knowledge Of.
modern methods Of social work
IN short the program is to give IN
struction IN the time-worn charity
game. the game Of applying superficial
remedies to deep seated disease and
not bothering about causes or how to
remove them.
Graduates Of this institution viii
undoubtedly be well posted in regard
to the fact that there Is an awful lot
Of poverty and misery. They will be,
able to point out the places where it.
is most prevalent and talk learnedly
about individual cases. Probably they
will be experts at distinguishing be-
tween the genuine case Of distress
and the fraud. But in regard to
fundamental causes and remedies they
win know nothing. Possibly they will
have some notions drilled into them
that for this or that particular evil a
law has been or ought to be passed
forbidding something or other under
severe penalties, q prohibition that
would be Unnecessary Il conditions did
not exist, making the act prohibited
a desirable thing to do.
Now there are many men and wo-
men who have never attended
school Of philanthropy" who per-
haps have never seen 3 case Of ex-
treme want, but who know, neverthe-
less, that such misery exists and also
why ii exists. They furthermore
know how to remedy the eVfl. An un-
derstanding Of economic laws and an
appreciation Of what human rights
are is ali the knowledge required to
deal inteIligently with the problem
of poverty That seems to be unfor-
tunately the only sociological knoWl-
edge, the imparting Of which is not
included in the curriculum Of this
school. Is it unreasonable to con-
clude that the founders Of the school
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30

other activities. We can attend party
meetings and devote ourselves t. the
party work, and yet always have a
petition blank at hand and get those
comrades to sign It who have not yet
had an opportunity to do so. we can
follow the outline routine Of oav daily
lives, and vet elect signatures among
our fellow workers, among our
butchers and bakers and cand.o-stick
makers. among the men and women
with whom we come into contact
socially
AS the wording Of the petition does
not refer to any party afiliation. we
are not confined to the signatures Of
Socialists but we may in fast we
must collect signatures among non
Socialists as well. BY doing so we
viii find many excellent opportunities
for discussing the aims and principles
Of Socialism.
So get busy, men and women COM
rades! You are given an opportunity
as never before the help the sdftrage
cause and at the same time to serve
the interests Of your party. Make the
most Of the opportunity. Now is the
timel
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30

producing wealth. This will continue
to be the case until the values Of
land shall eb taken for public use.
Even in the case Of so desirable q
reform as temperance or total abstin-
ence, there is the same obstacle to its
becomingsa means Of materially bene-
fitting the great mass Of laborers.
Nothing can show the horrible injus-
tice OF existing conditions more
plainly than the fact that as things
are today, it is to the financial inter-
est Of every sober working man that
other workingmen should be drunk
ards. The present system limits OPP
portunities for employment TO such an
extent that some workingmen must at
all times be unemployed. OF course
the sober man has a better chance
than the drunkard to get and hold q
Job, SO that while drunkenness or a
tendency toward drunkenness prevails
the existence Of the evfl proves to be
an actual benefit to the man who is
himself free from it u all working
men became total abstainers, the adj
vantage which the non-drinker now
has over the drunIard would be gone.
and he would actually suffer financial
loss unless the conditions which make
Jobs scarcer than men be changed for
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30

William Hickey & Company have ar
ranged with the English publisher.
VIM. Heinnman Of london. to publish
IN America early in January MRS.
DrummOnd's Vacation" by Mark
Ryce.
This book Is much in demand now
in London, and it is predicted that it
VIII have larger sale both in Eng
land and America than did "Three
Weeks
.aThe story Of half-French. half
English young woman who evolves
from the state Of q missionary's wife
into that Of the chatelaine Of = grand
house in Paris. and finds no very
great moral shocks in the course of
the volution. There can be NO ques-
ton at all that the novel il very
brightly written. IT has a well bred
ease that gilds the world with which
It deals. It has art In It's natural
treatment Of strange things and craft
in its coloring. :
Mary Ryce the name on the title
page, is q name meaning nothing, ex-
scept indeed, that it wells the pen Of a
woman writer, Who that may be
baroness Won Hutton, the creator Of
pam" could no doubt tell, for the
book is dedicated to her. ~ mo.
Cloth $40 net.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30
New York
Times Fakes

The New York Times enjoys . re.
putation, no longer deserved, Of being
a good paper for news. Hohewer.
that may once have been. 1t certainly
does not live up to that reputation
now. This - made particularly clear
by its oft-repeated assertion that
three-cent fares in Cleveland are
failure. In face of the fact that when
first established in that city It was
thought prudent to charge an additions
al cent for transfers, but that expert
ence has shown TINS additional charge
to be unnecessary, and It has eonse-
quently been abolished, the Times con
tinues repeating at every opportunity
that the street railway company either
has,been or soon win be forced to re-
turn to the old rate. A paper that
deliberately falsifies news about one
matter can not be depended to ten the
truth about any. OF course, traction
interests in New York City are partl-
cuIarIy interested in keeping the pso.
pie in ignorance concerning the sue
cess Of three-cent fares II Cleveland.
If such fares can be made q success
in Cleveland, an even lower rate
would probably be successful IA New
York, provided Of course. the watered
stock be not taken in consideration.
That explains why the Times, which
has plunderbund interests back Of Il
il misrepFssenting facts about clercs
land.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30
Is He Tariff
Board Afraid !?

The recent withdrawal Of Samuel s.
Dale from service as adviser to the
board on Schedule x promises to lead
to important developments. Dale is
editor Of the Textile World Record Of
Boston. and Is the man who coached
Senator Dolliver previous to the lat
ter,s speeches on Schedule x in the
Senate in May, 1903. Dale has the
reputation Of understanding Schedule
*. He is not financially interested in
wool manufacturing, and those who
know him, say that when he has once
made up his mind on question he Is
absolutely uncompromising. Early n
1910 the tariff board asked him TO
assist them on Schedule x. He con
scented on condition that he was to-
act in an advisory capacity only, and
to have no responsibility for any act.
Of the board. on April n Of this year
he suddenly terminated his relations
with the board and . few days later
the President announced that he had
requested i committee Of the Nation
ii Tariff Commission Association to in.
yestigate the work OF theb GARD.
While Dale has declined to give out
his letter 81 withdrawal from the
board, be recently made the folloWing'
statement for publication:
- =. 80 asl
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30
Success Under
Existing Condition

/ A recent Sunday editorial in the
New York American voices fallacy
that is frequently used by upholders
Of existing conditions. It quotes APP
proyingly the words of a successful
business man who attributed the fail
ure Of another man. equally able, to
the fact that "he never had the nerve
to take an invoice Of himself. The
moral which the editorial writer
draws from this remark is that finan-
is quite possible for any one to attain
cial success, under existing conditions,
who will take pains to learn what
qualities he possesses and do the thing
he can best do.
Such advice may be good as long as
only a few individuals follow it. but
there is no rule of personal conduct
which can bring financial success to
all, or even to any large number, with
economic conditions as they are.
The present system will not permit
more than a comparatively small num-
Der to succeed, no matter how wise or
how praiseworthy the persona. con-
duct Of large number may be- Ger
tain action may bring success to an
individual who would otherwise have
failed, but If it does it will either bring
failure to some one else who would
otherwise have succeeded, or will
prevent him from being as successful
as he otherwise might have been.
The fallacy Of Mr.. Brisbane's adj
vice is the same as is involved IN the
frequent advice to employees not to
ewatch the clock" but to voluntarily
70 to work before the whistle blows
to begin, and to keep on after the
usual quitting time. The trouble with
this advice is that It can only benefit
an exceptional case. II all were to
work that way, no one individual
would get any particular credit, and
the final result would be longer hours
and harder work for all, with no in
crease in compensation.
There IS the same fallaey in the
latest discovery" known as scientific
management, " which aims to increase
the productive power Of laborers by
making more perfect machines Of
them. The manufactures who EN-
ploys that system will have an advan-
tage over competitors who do not, and
laborers who follow its rules will have
less trouble in getting and In keeping
iobg than those who do mo-. But
should ali manufacturers adopt the
svstem and all laorers work in
ACCORDANCE with its rules, no employe
would GET any benefit out Of It and
would any employers except one who
happened to have monopoly There
would. to Be sure, be q great increase
| II me total amount Of wealth pro.
ducea. but the lot Of neither laboreI
nor capitalist would be improved
thereby. The fact that method had
been generally applied to make laDol
mare productive would cause . Pro
nortionate increase in the value d
land which labor and capital mast use
q nat landlords would finally be the
ones TO get the lions share Of the
BENEFITS. This has been the result O
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30

Dale has publicly stated that he vel
comes their publication. Why then
should the tariR board refuse TO give
its consent? Are the members afraid
to mako these letters and reports
public?
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-30

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industry rather tban trade. Il
acceptanc ! 81 the class strugg,e and
bent upon the abolition Of the wages
system. In its aim ii is Socialism, as
+ f i Il its philosophy; ii is method
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-01-26
JUST LIKE A CAT
Hord Claim Comes Back to
Senate.
palladium Specially

indianapolis, Jan 26.--Into the par
simonious Indiana legislature has
come a cry for money clear from 26
Liberty street, New York The old
"Hord claim, has come back to haunt
the senate. William B. Hord, attor-
ney, New York, says Indiana owes
him $63.585 for services rendered
the state in the successful prosecution
and collection of its war loan refund
claim against the United States In
the sum of $685. $500. Hord worked
on 10 per cent commission basis.
The "Hord committee" of the senate.
appointed in the last session, consists
of Senators Fleming. Higgins. Proc
tor and Durre, who met Wednesday
afternoon. They reviewed few court
decisions but came to no conclusions.
The supreme court decided the attor-
ney general made contract with
Hord which ran beyond the attorney
generals term. and that this was Ill.
legal. and hence Hord got not his
hoard A special act of the legisla-
ture would be required to pay it.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-01-26

The three last presidents Of the
United States Steel Corporation. From
top to bottom are: Frank A. Farrell,
the newly appointed President; Will
liam E. Corey, who preceded Farrell
in that position, and, Charles NJ.
Schwab. who was the first president
of the trust. Schwab was chosen
head of the trust in 1901, at the age
of So; William E.. Corey succeeded
him as president in 1903 at 81; James
A. Farrell who was chosen as the new
executive is 48.
Mr.. Farrell was born in New Haven
in 1868 and served his noviate in the
steel business there. When twenty
five years of age he went to Pittsburg
as assistant superintendent Of the Oil
yer Iron and Steel Company. In 1903
he was asked to come to New York
and organize the United States Steel
Products Company of which he was
president and which position he has
held up to his present appointment.
Charles M. .Schwab, the first president
of the trust, started as salesman in
a country store at S. week.