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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-06
HARDlE AccLAIMs VICTORY.

"Labor's Great Victory in England"
Is the title of a striking and interest
ing article by the world-famous British
labor leader, J. Keir Hardie,. M. p,
which appears in The Metropolitan
Magazine for. June. The minimum
wage bill, which the government was
compelled to enact in order to end
end the recent great general strike of
British miners, is regarded by Mr..
Hardie as an epoch-making victory for
organized labor, as well as involving
an unlooked-for but important consti-
tutional change.
Mr.. Hardie explains the minimum
wage bill at length and analyses it's
probable effects. This is the first au-
thoritative expression on the subject
that has been written for American
readers and it was prepared exclusive
ly for the Metropolitan. Mr.. Hardie
also takes up the question of "synd1c-
allsm" as it affects the British labor
movement, criticizing it vigorously
and defending the policy of the labor
party, which was formed mainly
through his efforts.
Keir Hardie himself began life as a
miner, going to work in the coal-pits
in Scotland when but seven years of
age. While digging coal he became
active as az organizer of the miners
and his ability and sincerity received
such general recognition that he soon
became member of parliament and
won renown as an organizer, traveller,
lecturer and author. No man is so
well qualified to write about the out
come of the British miners strike and
its merits as he and his Metropolitan
article is noteworthy statement OF
an historic event. ---..
The Metropolitan can be had at all
news stands or will be sent anywhere
in the United States for fifteen cents,
Address, The Metropolitan Magazine
2S6 Fifth avenue, New York City.
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:. OUR GENE %.

hood of the Cooperative Common
wealth. they formed the Social
Democracy of America. This new
party was Wavering, utopian~ and fad
dish, but gradually theR practical. sci
entific element gained control, and
the Social Democracy spirit, the MI
nority going west to colonize, the
majority organizing the Social Dem
ocratic party of America. The new
party proceeded. to clear their plat
form of all freak planks and came
out entirely for political action.
Eugene V. Debs, Victor L. Berger,
Jesse Cox, Seymour Stedman and
Frederic Heath being the executive
board.
In 1900 the Social Democratic party
placed Debs as the presidential nom
inee,. with Job Hartman as vice pres
idential nominee Of the Socialist La
Dor party. Again, in the 1904 presi-
Dental campaign, Debs, with Ben
Hanford, were the Socialist nominees.
Again, in 1908, after some discussion
as to their condition of health, the
convention chose Debs and Hanford
as the standard bearers ofthe Social
list party. The state of Comrade
Hanford's health was so bad as to
place all the work of the campaign
upon the shoulders of Debs. The
national party chartered special
campaign train, known as the Red
Special The campaign OF 1908 was
one of the. most strenuous eevr made
in the United States.
Since the 1908 campaign Debs has
been on the editorial staff of the Ap-
peal to Reason, spending large por-
ton of his time on it's lecture bu-
Chicago Daily Socialist.
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Kings Conversion ;.
(By the Charles stezIe)
(By the Rev. Charles steIzIe.)

with fatigue, yet trying to minister to
the constant needs of the invalid. The
mother had been worn out and had
fallen down exhausted, during the day
In the most embarrassed way he offer
ed his services as nurse. He had
never before spoken to the father. AL
most joyfully he began his duties. The
years of training that had been his in
caring for his own child now served
him to good advantage. He seemed
to know Just what to do. Soon the
sick one fell asleep, but he watched
till daylight. For three nights he per-
formed this service, getting just few
hours sleep. Towards the dawning of
the last morning, the child passed
away, in his own arms. As he tender
ly laid the body down upon the bed,
there seemed to go with the departed
spirit, all the bitterness in his own
soul. The rasp had already left his
voice. The hardened look upon his
face had gradually been softened. His
eyes had lost their unnatural coldness.
And these things the boys had no
ticed He was no longer. 'bitter" In
speech. The spirit of helpfulness had
taken possession of him. He seemed
to make every other mans burdens
his own. By a bitter experience he
had learned that other hearts have
their aches, and as he learned more
about others trials, he became COM
forter instead of a cynic. 1t was this
evolution in Kings life which affected
not only himself, but nearly every
other in the shop. More of the spirit
of brotherliness prevailed. Deeper be-
came the sense of responsibility one
towards the other. 1t needed the
sacrifice of life, but out of that sac
rifice there sprang up a new spirit
| which found expression in many lives
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Printina Trades Must Unite.

The printing trades for fifteen
years have been drifting apart, the
swath separating them gradually
growing wider and wider year by
year, until today they act, not as
units of a great cooperative move
ment, but as separate and distinct
institutions. This condition of
affairs must change. Closer affilia-
ton must come, OF disaster is ahead
for all. OF course, the more power
full among the printing trade unions
will, under existing conditions, last
longer than the weaker, but in the
end all must suceumb, the strong as
we'll as the weak, unless they change
tack. Present and past differences
must be forgotten and each stand
honestly and earnestly ready to as
sist the other. promptly and effect
lively, in the hour of need.-Organized
Labor.
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San Diego savagery.

The outrages perpetrated upon
Emma Goldman and Ben Reitman by
the so-called "vigilantes" of San
Diego with the sanction Of the local
authorities, including the city officials
and police, make every decent citi-
zen hang his head in shame.
Let us be distinctly understood. We
are Socialists, not anarchists. We are
opposed to anarchism and are fight
ing it. We reject its philosophy, its
spirit its tactics. We have no reason
to favor Emma Goldman or Ben Reit-
man. There is nothing in common
between US. They are anarchists and
we are Socialists, and they are going
up and down the land denouncins
Socialists as office-seeking grafters
and the Socialist party as the worst
of all political parties. But that is
beside the point.
We have said that we are opposed
to anarchy, and in this case the most
vicious, coward1y and brutal of an
archists are the San Diego authori
ties and representative citizens.
All the country should rise in wrath
and condemnation of the disgrace
they have brought upon their city
and the American flag.-BrewerJ
Workers Journal.
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SOME OBJECTIONS TO SOCIALISM
(By r. A. Dague.)-

Some people who have not carefully
studied Socialism, say it presents a
fine theory, but it cannot be establish
ed until all /selfishness is eliminated
out of human beings and they all be-
come not only good but very wise.
Those using that argument are stand
patters" and do not believe in evolu-
ton or progression. They think civil.
cation has reached its zenith and a
representative government is the most
perfect that can ever be established
on earth.
Now, Socialists are not trying to
eliminate all selfshness from people,
but propose system of industrialism
which will prevent the very few sharp
tricky, and extremely selfish from ex-
plotting other people, especially wo-
men, children, the aged and those
who are not able to protect them
selves from the powerful and crafty.
If you owned a bunch of swine and
a few big, strong hogs ate up all the
swill and crowded away from the
trough all the little pigs, would you
say there is no way by which that
unfairness can be prevented until all
the hogs are converted, or educated
and made into unselfsh and wise
hogs?
China has recently established re-
public and enfranchised women. Did
the able statesmen there wait until
all the four hundred millions Of in
habitants were republicans and in
favor of universal suffrage? Did
Abraham Lincoln wait until three mil
lions of negroes demanded freedom
before he emancipated them? Social
lists do not propose to-change human
nature, nor do they suggest any vision
airy or impracticable thing. Their
chief proposition is to so adjust at.
fairs that few human hogs shall not
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Everybody's Magazine give ample
proof of this fact.
But the people are many and judges
are few, and when we make up oul
minds, fellow-workers, this miserable
farce will end! :;
Dishonest judges may be the ablest
servants of any tyrant for they gain
the ends in ways not understood by
the ordinary honest man. Dirty de
cision follows dirty decision, until q
new body of law is made. Judge-made
law. This is done through prece-
dents. One judge quotes the opinion
of another and another, and when
enough of them agree the trick is
done-the original opinion becomes
law. Then we, the people, suffer.
Precedent is a nice, soft smooth
word-a mouthfiller. On the lips OF
a judge, it is a word of magic power
Precedent is the trick of judges
whereby our rights ire crushed. Prec-
edent is the trick whereby the judge
becomes the legislator, lawmaker-
yes, BY it he becomes a whole legis-
lature. Precedent is the means of
raping democracy. ~
Precedents and injunctions- these
these are the two long arms of tyr
amy with which the judge, through
legal hocus-pocus, helps to shackle
our wrists and ankles and stifle our
voice.
Precedents, injunctions and con-
tempt of court-that is the unholy
trinity upon which judicial tyranny
rests, and with the aid of these wea-
pons the judicial puppets stifle our
protests against the CALLING bonds OF
unjust working and living conditions.
The fight of the working people
the world over to remove these con-
ditions is not sham battle or a pic
mic, but fight to the finish. Every
page of history teens with illustra-
tions that give us courage and hope.
The courts are human institutions
and the power of judges to make new
law with old judicial opinions must
be crushed and wiped out.
The power of judges to cripple us
in our struggles for better conditions
by raining on us unjust injunctions
is going to be crushed.
The power of any judge to hale
anybody before him for criticizing
him or his court outside the court
room must be abolished, or we shall
be as dumb driven battle.
We, the people, arg many; they
the judges, are few. We have the
power to change these things; the
power to get more freedom for our
selves. Let us, then, engage ourselves
in the Springfield Tribune.
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There was always a half-cynical
smile on his lips. The upper part of
his face never seemed to laugh. The
wrinkles were up and down instead of
across his face. His chief asset was
his tongue. He could talk. But most
of the things that he said might bet
ter have been unspoken. He did not
hesitate to sacrifice his friends in his
bitterness. He could say enough cut
ting things in day to make a dozen
men feel all ripped-up for a week.
Naturally, therefore, he had few
friends. No man felt like getting very
close to him in confidence. There was
nothing sacred to him. Religion,
home, women, morality-all suffered
at his hands.
We wondered what he did with
himself when he was away from the
shop. There seemed to be for him no
deep interest in anything. He was a
literal Anarchist-alone, unsocial,
law unto himself. OF course, he did
not throw bombs. He apparently did
not take enough interest in life to be-
come greatly excited about anything.
But during the days of certain week
there came a new expression into his
face. Gradually the story OF the
chanpe became known
For, years there had been In his
home little invalid-a seven year
old daughter He had been caring for
her most tenderly, carrying her
about, and nursing her better than
could have been done by a trained
servant. Just across the hall in the
tenement in which he lived, there was
another family in which there was a
daughter of the same age as his own,
but strong, hearty and well. Her
laughter and singing cut him deeply,
because his child never laughed and
sang that way. Her romping on the
streets and in the back yard simply
goaded him into a state of frenzy
Why could not his little girl do these
things? These thoughts had made
him bitter, cynical and almost cruel
to others, while he devoted himself
more fully than ever to his helpless
sick one.
But one day the cause of his un
happiness became very i'll. He could
hear her moaning in the night, as she
suffered the tortures of a malignant
disease. He could not sleep. Fol
nearly week this was continued. Ii
desperation he finally knocked at the
door OF his neighbor and found the
father Of the sick child almost sinking
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The Judge and You

"The courts are sacred" says the
conservative.
What are courts and Judges?
Courts are human Institutions
Judges are mere men; no better and
no worse than other men of their
cass, elected or appointed to office
Therefore, courts and judges are no.
above honest criticism.
Not being a god, or a demi-god, a
Judge is quite capable of being big
oted, and prejudiced. and biased
Even as any other man, judge may
be contemplate; and his position
should not shield him from ridicule
or exposure.
A court presided over by judge
who is a bigot, and necessarily a par
tisan; who, as often as possible, rules
against the people-such court and
such a judge are, indeed, contempt
ible. Certainly they are beneath
the respect of fair-minded citizens,
and no amount of glamour and patri-
otto gush can save them from the
contempt of honest-thinking citizens.
Therefore, arises the necessity for the
recall of judges and judicial decis-
ions.
Prating about justice, "even-handed,
equal and exact" will not now, and
never can, save such court from
the contempt of honest men.
Fine words never buttered any
bread for the wives and children OF
the workers. Neither will legal plat
itudes and cheers for the Star
Spangled Banner ever protect our
right to freedom of speech and free
dom of press, if bigoted judge can
have the final word.
We workers are fighting for better
conditions here and now; for a
chance to properly feed and clothe
and house our wives and children and
ourselves; for a chance to give our
children the best education the TWEEN
tieth Century affords; for leisure and
life for ourselves and those dear to
US. In this fight for the workers,
and it is not confined to America
alone, the courts Of the world over
by their decisions have usually been
found against the toilers.
The right of tyranny, whether 1t
be that of the king by divine right
or he who is king because he owns
the means whereby many must earn
their bread,-the ways of tyranny are
indeed dark and devious, and no man
can tell from one day to another
what the next move of the tyran''s
tools may be. The expose Of rotten
judicial decisions now appearing in
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CClSSoRED
ACQ !nnEY35
Debs and seideI.

The National Convention of the So
cialist. party, in. session at Indianap-
oils, has nominated Eugene v. Debs
and Emil Seidel for President and
Vice-President respectively.
This will be the fourth time that
Debs will have headed the Socialist
ticket, his first nomination being in
1900, and each four years thereafter
he has been chosen.
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n ND there's Gene Debs-a man
~ And jest holds out in his two
at stands

y at stands
hands
AS warm a heart as ever beat
Betwixt here and the Judgement
seat"
So says James Whitcomb Riley,
lifelong friend of Eugene V. Debs.
Seldom is it the lot of man to be as
universally loved by his class as is
"Our Gene"
Eugene V. Debs was born in Terre
Haute, Ind, Nov. 5, 1855. His father,
Jean Daniel Debs, and his mother,
Marguerite Marie Butterich, were ma
tives of Colmar, Alasace, France.
The mother was gentle, loving and
wise, the father was a reat studengt
of history. The Debs library con-
tanned many valuable works on
French history.
Debs' childhood was passed in the
healthful atmosphere of an ideal
home, the loving care of parents and
the harmonious association of brother
and sisters went far toward molding
the character of the man who was
10 play so important part in the
history of American unionism. Paren-
tai love is woven into the very wool
Of his being. Speaking of his mother
he once said: "The dominant influ
ence in my life has been my mother
Whatever of good there is in me l
owe to her. Do you know, care abb
solutely nothing for the praise or
condemnation of the world so long as
my wife and mother think am il
the right"
His school days were short and I'M
9ventful, ending with creditable
graduation from the old Seminary
school, where Indiana State Normal
school now stands.
Debs, the Man.
Debs is very tall man of powerful
but slender build. He has fine
head, the forehead very high. His
blue eyes are deep set, the forehead
very high. His blue eyes are deep
set, frank and searching. His smile
sweet and gentle as woman looking
into the eyes of a favorite child.
No one who has felt the clasp of
Debs' hand and looked into the
depths of his clear eyes can doubt
the sincerity or courage of the man.
Debs was married to Katherine
Metzel in 1885. Kate, as he calls
her, is in thorough sympathy with
him, and is of great assistance, act
ing as his secretary. Access may be
had through her able management to
many valuable letters papers, etc.
No children have been born to them.
They share their love and their home
with little nephew, who is the de-
light of their hearts.
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ers Of the magazine applauded; they
wrote letters to the editor, who, for
his own part, considered that he had
rendered a public service meet for
substantial reward. All he got, though
was more blank space in his advertis-
ing pages, and a liberal reduction of
his income from that source"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-06

With Debs' well-known devotion to
the interest of the workers, and with
Seidel's splendid record as Mayor of
Milwaukee, the ticket of which they
are the head should appeal strongly
to that ever-growing army Of workers
which year by year is seeking po-
litfcal redress for the wrongs of those
who toil.-Organized Labor.
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Parry.

The AR IT held its annual con-
ven+ion in chicago. June l., 1897.
This convention indersed political ac-
ton. and joining with the Brother
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-03-31

ands of others were, BY the marVel.
GUS tales told and published about
the Great New State" When
decided to investigate the conditions
and possibilities of Oklahoma, | was
not at first impressed; in fact
made four trips here during period
of two years before | became inocu.
ated with the proper fever conti
tions to feel justified in tearing W
back home, to try my fortune
in the great southwest
When | finally concluded 10 locate,
| made an extended tour OF the
state and carefully investigated the
different places that had seen or
heard of, and finally located in Car
ter county. found conditions mere
such as | found in no other part Of
the state. found lands, in ny
Judgment the equal, and in many iD-
stances superior to those in other
parts; found n climate that ex-
celled that OF any other locality that
a had visited; 1 found values that
more nearly appro&imated real bar.
gans as | saw Them than elsewhere
found natural resources that no
other part of the state that invest.
gated possessed. found more op-
portunities for conservative and prof
table investment than found in 9th.
er vicinities that had Deen exploited
and advertised far greater; in short.
| found the most ideal conditions
In Carter county than in any other
part of this truly great state Other
parts possessed conditions favorable
in some particular lines: but they
did not approximate the UNIVERSAL
attractiveness that this part of the
state presented
| have many quite extensive n
yestments now in this county. most.
ly agricultural lands. and in the
short period OF eighteen months thar
have held them, I have refused
many opportunities 20 dispose of
them at an advance of what they
cost me-in fact a material profit.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-03-31

way and work of construction has al.
ready begun. This road will opeen
up magnificent new territory adj
Jacent to .--lmore. II will traverse
belt of some OF the very richest
country in agricultural Oklahoma.
opening up thereby market for the
farmers output and will bring other
farmers and their families into the
territory of which Ardmore is al
ready the trade center. 1t will touch
the famous oil fields OF Wheeler
and Oil Citl and be the cause of the
investment of more capital in the
already large oil industry OF this
county.