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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
THE STRADDI,ER

Once as boy, we visited farm in strawberry
time. Eating the berries fresh from the vines we
enjoyed very much, but every now and then we bit
into bad TASTE It was caused by what the country
boys called "straddle bug" Why f@straddle
bug we never knew, but we have always retained
vivid recollection of that small insect whose flavor
a combination of sour and bitter, was utterly dis
gushing ~
The world is full of another kind of straddle
bug, well entitled to the name, the man who
straddles every question that to him. In poll
tics we find men who are so pre-eminenty for them
selves all the time that they stradde continually lest
they miss the side that might bring them place and
name. In friendship we find men with so little con-
ception OF what friend really is that they try to
hold last to two opposite extremes. In religion we
lind men apparently imagining that one foot is as
firmly planted on the Rock Of Ages as the other is
on their material gain at any consideration Even
society there are many who fear to express opn-
ion way or another lest they will disagree with
someone whose opinion they wish to hold.
Everywhere there are men and women lacking
either conviction else the courage to express that
conviction Generally the stradder results from the
principle of absolute selshness coupled with lack
of sufficient judgment to pick the winning side
Afraid to cut himself off from either, he Supports
neither heartily. He agrees with you and agrees
with your adversary, and if third man to
have different opinion, he would say that he
agreed with neither of you
And yet this straddler is of the loudest shout
for principle although he cannot from his very
nature know what principle is. One of his favorite
expressions is that no side has a monopoly Of the
truth or the right Small, narrow, bound sooner or
later to lack friends because he does not know how
to be real FRIEND about the only redeeming feature
Of the straddler is that he does not usually get very
far. Striving to compass all he falls between and
loses ALL For mankind admires man with convic-
ton who stands for it courageously, who sweareth
to his own hurt and changeth not
Now and then however, such straddler darts
across the stage for BRIEF brilliant career lasts
while before he goes, before he is found out And
when he has gone, we sometimes remember that first
straddle bug-a small and insignificant insect, leav
ing flavor that was such combination of sour and
bitter as to be utterly disgusting.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
BOOSTS AND SLAMS
ON CURRENT EVENTS
Law AND ORDER DID
: >~ NOT COUNT IN CHICAGO

II n Chicago it became necessary to
- call in extra detectives to keep the
various delegates to, the Republican
convention either from numbering
one another or from committing high
way robbery. Chicago has had an
evil reputation in the past-possibly
because it received more publicity
than most cities-and it was looked
upon as q dangerous town. But new
err has it had anything to equal the
happenings of last week.
There were more private detectives
on the JOB than there were delegates.
tend to the morals of each delegate.
the chances are that the corruption
would be beyond any present limits.
For, look at what the combined
knowledge in the matter Of preying
would come from this-a detective
and a delegate! It is appalling in
it's possibilities and horrible to con-
template. IL
Besides the overpowering force of
detectives there was the Chicago po-
lice force which operates with the
detectives. So the poor city had
many delegates, many more detee-
tives and it's usual complement Of
bluecoats. All this is in addition to
the visitors.
But it was a great demonstration
for law and order, though it would
have been much cheaper had Roose-
Welt been delegated with the power of
running the affair.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
MORGAN DID NOT SAVE
THE COUNTRY IN 1907;

GO after all that has been said
~ about that panic of 1907 and the
part played by J. P. Morgan in stop
ping it, it was the United States gov
eminent that really came to the res
cue of the Strengthened banks and
let them relieve the situation-and
the stock SPECTATORS.
After all these years Of giving
praise to Morgan and his set Of fin
ANGLERS the truth is. at last out,
brought out in the investigation of
the so-called money trust by a con-
gressional committee. At the criti-
cal moment, when worse and more
disaster faced the country, $25,0OO,-
600 of the peoples money went into
favored New York's banks and was
used to relieve the pressure. The
panic was stopped.
And what is more significant this
money went into those banks inter-
est free, not one cent was paid the
government for it's use. But the
banks-Morgan and Rockefeller in
situations for the greater part
reaped an interest profit on the loans
thus made. And unfavored banks
went to the wall:
This has all been brought out by
the investigation of the congressional
committee largely through the tes-
timony of George B. Cortelyou who
was secretary of the treasury and GUS
todian of the public funds at that
time.
This testimony gives an entirely
new aspect of the relations existing
between the treasury and the inan-
c1ers of New York-or some groups
of them. The money was not loaned
to Duluth and other banks, or to all
needy banks, but to certain ones of
New York City. All other borrow
ers had to pay interest to those banks
pay it on funds belonging to- the
public.
It also sheds new light on the
patriotism Of those big flnanciers who
have for four years received credit
FOR saving the country.
The use of public funds for public
salvation is one thing. The use of
public funds for private salvation
and profit an entirely different thing.
In this latest revelation there is
much that the public can we'll think
over.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
s'POOR WIDOW" is GREATEST
ASSET OF SPECIAL, INTERESTS

n HE poor widow has been the
i greatest asset the interests have
ever had. She lived before the war
and q defense Of slavery was made
because the poor widow owned five
or six slaves which were her only
means of support.
Their emancipation would be g.
most cruel thing for it would re-
duce her to poverty. After the war,
she became a stakeholder and any
effort to keep the corporations in
bounds would ruin her more certain
ly than the loss Of her slaves.
After the :'neurotics," as President
Taft calls all those who have OPP
posed the extortions of the corpor-
ations, had got the railroads under
some sort of control, the widow turn
ed up as the owner of Industrial
stocks, the dividends on which were
her only means Of living.
It seems she owns large blocks Of
wooden trust stock and any increase
in the wages Of those who receive
from six to eight dollars a week will
ruin the widow again.
Out in Oregon she is in terrible
distress It sNms that the s.poor
widow owns many NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
sand-dollar lots and acres upon acres
Of timber land. The new tax that
it is proposed to place upon land will
take the last loaf of bread out of her
humble home.
The poor widow has had a long
and terrible career and the future
seems as dark for her as the past
has been.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
STAND FATHERS HAVE GONE MAD.

The Republican national convention was hope
lessly reactionary. Mr.. Taft, in spite of all his
promises, is by birth and education a reachonary.
He is simple, honest man, as unsophstlcated as a
baby
When he said during his visit to Minnesota be-
fore his election that he would oppose Cannonism
and work for a reduction OF the tariff In such way
as really to benefit the people, he meant just what
he said.
Once in Office however, he was persuaded that
it was necessary to play with the Aldrich- Cannon
crowd of reactionares, and he began he was in
their hands, It meant surrender and death. The
hope held out by Dolliver, La Toilette, and their
associates their opposition to the Payne bill was
short-lived.
The convention dares to insert tariff plank
promising reform How it must disgust every decent
in the country for party so organized to talk
about reforming the tariff that the people will be
benefited! In the light Of what they did in the
vention, it was an insult
The continual promise of reform, the continual
pretense that something about to be done for
the relief of the people, have destroyed patience.
The very insult of thus attempting to throw dust in
their eyes is, we believe the kind of thing that has
chiefly enraged the people against Taft.
The Labor World solemnly believes that the
Republican party is doomed. It long since got away
from the principles Of liberty which it was
founded. The tariff monster has grown stronger
and stronger. It has demoralized government by
making it the servant of business. It is impossible
to reform the currency, to carry out other needed
reforms because the people have grown to- believe
that what is done is not done in their interest but in
the interest of Privilege
party must be doomed that has been so dis
honest. Living the idea Of it's great and never
tobe-forgotten service to. liberty in freeing the
Slaves it has with the reputation of the party of lib
erty built up wealth and classes to such towering
height that wealth is Haunted in all kinds of ridic-
ulous and fantastic ways, the like of which the
world has never SEEN
What of the future? It is in doubt. Dear God !!
Can those who robbing the people that it is
time to let up
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
TRAINING MOTHERS.

"God couldn't be everywhere at once, so he
made mothers.' That's what someone said once,
and it sounds altogether probable. At least no one
has been able to take the place of mothers.
But there some good things our own mothers
knew and good many mothers know that lot of
mothers don't know. This is the reason why New
York now has school for training mothers Mothers
have so great opportunity for looking after
babies and it is safe to- leave the application of
their lessons to- them, trusting that they will know
what to d. that it is worth while to teach them all
that anyone else knows Of what is good for children
In the first year the school teaches the scientific
care of babies, how to make their clothing, how to
tell stories and play games Just the things we ex-
pect mother to do but that she doesn't always
know just how to do Later they study especially
the kindergarten age and of the principles of
nursing, and later still hygiene and certain other
things. This new course which is very different
from wood working and clay modelling they call
mothercraft They know it is greater than an art
and more than science to be mother
Of course there will be ridicule of the idea. Many
Of us wouldn't admit that our mothers could be
improved on. But then if you have ever heard one
mother telling how many mistakes another is MAX
ing, you know that the mothers themselves admit it,
And we all used to hearing and saying: EsThese
are things that ought to be learned in the home -
So glad there is school to teach mothercraft
that is it it is so arranged that the mothers who
need it and who really want to learn more of how
they can care for their babies and keep them well
and happy and good can take advantage of the
training. And if the ideas Of those who are teach
ing the mothers are not always good and won't
apply to all mothers, we know Of nothing we are
more willing to trust with modifying them than the
crucible of mother instinct and mother love.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
THE FITNESS OF THINGS.

With William IL. Taft It's nominee Tor president,
the Republican party will enter the national cam
paign under it's true colors and with candidate
whose training, class environment and mode Of
thought make him fitting leader of political
ganizaton devoted to the task of conserving the
existing economic system.
Mr.. Taft is good man. Senator Dolliver said
that he is good man surrounded by body of men
who ought to know what they want. That is a
definition that might be applied to all our Demo-
by corruption
Government as it now exists is an instrument of
the exploiting class. The laws enacted and ap-
piled with the idea of conserving the institution of
private profit Government responds to the great
propertied interests precisely we'll drilled
chestra responds to- it's leader
Could a man be found in the Republican party
who is better qualified to its candidate for
president than William H. Taft? He is a good man
He is an honest He plays the game fair and
does not leave his hackers in the lurch. He is no
demagogue who stirs up popular ntment against
the Christian gentlemen to whom the coal fields and
other resources and nstrunentalites of production
have been entrusted.
Mr.. Taft loves Judges He believes that their
judgments are such as just God renders in heaven
He is conventional of mind No disturbing ideas
permitted to enter-no hereses find root therein
His mind is as free from doubling thought as we'll
kept garden patch is free from weeds. When he
meets with problem that has to deal with economic
conditions which he cannot understand or fathom
he shifts the responsibility onto God and resumes
the even tenor of his way.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
NERO FIDDLED.

Here are some interesting facts, taken from Prof
Scott hearings book, Wages in the United States -
Of the industrial workers Of the United States,
not more than 10 per cent receive 900 year
One-half of them get less than $500 year.
Of the women workers, three fourths are paid
less than $400 year.
The United States bureau Of labor, after exhaust
i've investigation, has reached the conclusion that
the lowest wage upon which American working
man can support family and maintain his efficiency
as worker is 5000 q year. - s>'.>~ :.
These are pressing facts They are the most
momentous and vital facts with which American
craftsmanship has to deal ="
They involve the very perpetuity of our civil
ization. -. a...s#% <>.sz s1 = .
The nations workers can not be submerged with
out snbmerging the nation itself. !. s:5 4. 4,
Nero fddled while Rome burned ss !.
s8 w hot are our Caesars doing Ssg,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
Alene With My Conscience.

1 sat alone with my conscience.
In a place where time had ceased.
And We talked of my former living
In the land where the years in
creased;
And I felt that I should have to
answer
The question it put to me,
And to face the answer and question
Through all eternity.
The ghosts of forgotten actions
Came floating before my sight,
And things that I thought were
dead things
Were alive with terrible might,
And the vision Of all my past life
Was an awful thing to face,
Alone with my conscience sitting
In that solemnly silent place.
And I thought of a far-away morn
OF sorrow that was to be mine
In a land that then was the future.
But now Is the present time:
And thought of my former thinking,
But sitting along with my conscience
Seemed Judgment enough for, me.
And ] wondered if there was
future
To this land beyond the grave.
But no one gave me an answer, "
And no one came to save. --
Then I felt that the future was
present, -. #..z ..'..
And the present would never. go by,
For it was but the thought Of my
past life = T
Growing into eternity. -
Then I woke from timely dreaming
And the vision passed away, ~
And knew that the far-off warn
Was q warning OF yesterday, ~
And ! pray that I may not forget 1t,
Tn the land before the grave.
That may not cry In the future,
And no. one come. to save.
And SO ! have learned the lesson
Which ought to have known be-
fore .5>s & q. III n Z -.s.4.
And which, though I learned It
dreaming, 555&s ,7 .es
hope to forget no more.
So 1T alone with my conscience,
In the place where the years In
crease, .sfs 8}@
And I try. to remember the future 4
In the land where time will cease.
And / know Of the future Judgment.
IL How dreadful so e'er II be.
That to sit alone with my CON
science &; sszsss
Will be- Judgment enough Tor mo,
Anonymou9
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
J. HAVELOOK WILSON
ENTERTAINED AT FRISCO

SAN FRANCISCO. June 27.-J.
Havelock Wilson who conducted tbs
successful struggle of the seamen OF
Great Britain against the Shipping
federation arrived in this city last
week.
The maritime labor organizations
Of the. city rendered him 4 reception
upon his arrival and he later adj
dressed the San Francisco Labor
council. Mr. Wilson will remain in
this city about two weeks.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
GARMENT WORKERS ON
STRIKE IN MONTREAL

: MONTREAL, Cam, June 27.-Four
thousand men and women garment
workers are on strike in this city for
the abolition of the sweating and
sub-eontract system. The demands
of the union are to establish the
same conditions in Montreal as pre-
vail in Toronto and Hamilton, and
the usual feature, Of course, is the
fact that the cotlhing manufacturers
have declared for the "open shop"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
FREIGHT HANDLERS - .
MAKING GREAT FIGHT

CHICAGO, June 27.-The strike OF
the freight handlers is in it's sixth
week with no early prospect Of an
adjustment of the difficulties with the
railroads. It is stated that the men
on strike are standing firm and that
very few assertions have been re-
ported.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
CHICAGO PRESSMEN
Still. WAGE STRIKE

CHICAGO, June 27.-fhe, strike OF
the pressmen is still the chief topic
of conversation in this city. While
no, advance has been made toward
q. settlement, yet the strike is ex-
ceedingly effective and is giving the
newspaper publishers involved much
concern as to the final outcome.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29

bill providing for an advisory recall Of judges
and United States senator's by majority vote Of the
people has been passed by the legislature Of Arizona
and the governor has expressed his approval Under
the terms Of the bill adverse vote will be con
sidered advice to the federal government to i'm
peach and dismiss the judge senator accused
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29

Try our remedy by any test. The test Of justice,
the test of expediency Try it by any dictum Of po-
litical economy; by any maxim Of good morals by
any maxim Of good government. It will stand every
test. What ask you to do is not to take what or
any other man may say, but to think for your
self Henry George.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
ONE RAILROAD MAKES
GREAT ACCIDENT RECORD

0NE western railway, the Burling-
~ ton, has announced that dur
ing the year just closed, it carried
100000 passengers without death
among them. That is a record worth
having. And when the suburban re-
cord is added to ia record of H.
900 q day for five years without
death-the credit to that road should
be the greater.
Many American roads have worked
earnestly to reduce the death list of
both employees and passengers. Many
have fine records. Few, if any, have
equaled this record Of the Burling
ton.
English and other European rail-
ways have long maintained a better
record Of death of and injuries to
passengers than have the railways
Of this country. But the record
made by the Burlingten-and those
made by several others of the better
managed roads, which while not up
to that quoted are excellent ones
puts some American roads right up to
the lauded foreign systems.
Railway accidents probably never
will be eliminated. There are too
many elements entering into them
But the advance Of science in man
agement, in the study Of materials,
In the construction and maintenance
of road bed, track and rolling stock,
in all the many details OF operation,
will reduce the record and more
roads will equal this excellent show
ing of the Burlington.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29

A Frenchman claims to have found way to
turn iron into gold, 4 Scot who lives in America
found out how to do that long ago. -.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29

Meantime let us not forget that American min
ing kills about 5000 workingmen every year and no
great fuss is made over them s@' = ri. IT."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29

England's drink bill in 1911 was 1910, 0oo, 600,
the heaviest on record: No wonder John Bull
Thought he saw>a German nation # ~7
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29

Two big disasters in 1912-the sinking Of the
Titanic-the Republican national convention
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29

Popular - chicago today: Altar The bawll
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29

The only trouble With Mexico IL
that she Is tempsramentally untitled
70 be governed BY anybody else. /.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29
SWAT THE FLIES AND
KEEP THEM FROM THE BABY

there were any way of knowing
= how many babies have died be-
cause of disease the germs of which
We're carried by flies. every mother
would be astonished.4,. If she could
follow fly during a day and see the
places it visits before lighting on the
nipple Of the bottle which her baby
then puts in it's mouth, she would be
still more surprised. Flies take all
sorts of germs on the tiny pads on
each Of their feet. Killing the fly. is
the only way to prevent the spread
ct diseases which the fly may carry.
In Texas they have been waging a
hot war against hies and the man
who won prize the other day for the
most flies killed 443,772, every one
OF which came from q. restaurant In
which the winner worked. He re-
ceiYed $1,000 and perhaps saved
scores Of people from sickness. !, ..."z
Each female fly lays 100 eggs every
ten days. Half Of these are female.
kM the the first ones you see and save
millions. Get g newspaper, or fly.
paper .pE Of q wire trap over the garb-
age catln =, v hing to set rid Of the
hies 1 i $s5 ..,1 - = I. S&5'aF77
The only trouble with Mexico is
that that she Is tempsranentally untitled
e be governed by a!.nybody else.
Is Many . man prunes his family
tree px cutting his loor
I.ota AZ young hloo da could tracs5
thsay hlosk
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29

i, Many 9 man pruneS his family
tree t. Z. hY cutting pfff his Door relations
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29

Lots AZ young hloo ds5 could trace
ths i! I losk 81 d
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-06-29

By comparison, any kind Of Fourth will now
seem safe and sane to Chicago 1 Y z " b. " u
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-08-31
When Company Comes.

II there's one thing above all others
hat makes woman feel desperate IL
Is 10 have company drop in unex-
pectcdlv 10 spend the day, and to
know that her table cloth is yellow
from the last washing. and the nap
kins worn in holes and dingy looking.
" she had used Easy Task laundry
soap her table linen would have been
spotlessly white and she would be
proud Of H. Easy Task soap is the
enemy o. dirt and the friend OF fab
RIGS Of all kinds. Try n next Monday
and you'll rename washday TO Easy
Task dav
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