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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02
WHY CANADA ENJOYS
ERA OF PROSPERITY
Only Ignorance and Prejudice
Are Depriying This Country
Of Similar Conditions.


Conditions In western Canadian
cities show what American cities are
losing by denial to them Of the free
dom enjoyed by municipalities across
the line. Knowing full we'll that a
trial Of the single tax by any locality
will prove the claims of its advocates,
opponents of the measure bitterly
fight against home rule in taxation.
IF they. honestly believed their own
arguments they would welcome home
rule and trial of the single tax in
order to kill the movement for good.
The following report was made by F.
]. Dixon, Of Winnipeg. Manitoba:
'"The building. record for the frs:
eight months of 1912, covering 81
cities in Canada. is a striking testi-
mony of the efficacy Of land value
taxation. Medicine Hat, small city
of 5,6os Inhabitants, stands first in
the percentage increase in the eight
months, with sos per cent
'The legislature Of Alberta, at it's
last session, passed a law to compel
all municipalities in that province to
adopt a system of land value taxa
ton. within seven years. The city
council Of Medicine hat was not con-
tent to wait that, long. 10 it applied
for and obtained special act, by
which all taxes upon business, build
ings and personal property were abol-
ished, and the whole of the munich
cipal revenue raised by a tax on land
values.
There is no doubt that the phe-
nomenal increase in building opera
tons is principally due to this change
In the system Of taxation. In Ed
monitor, the capital city Of Alberta,
which this year abolished the last
raises the whole Of its revenue by
land value taxation, there has also
been an enormous increase in tho
number of building permits issued.
The figures are $1o.250.662 for 1912.
against $2,7O6,7S0 for 1911, an in
crease Of $7,543,7S2.
1.-THE figures for Victoria are $5,-
1925 for 1912. against $2,197.920
for 1911, an increase Of $3.683,336.
For the sake of comparison, include
the building record for Winnipeg,
which Is a much larger city, but still
lags behind in the matter of mending
her tax system. We, have, it is true,
abolished all taxes on personal prop
erty, and in 1909 the assessment of
buildings was reduced to two-thirds
Of their value, but We are still ham,
pered with a tax upon buildings and
business tax. -.,. =< -
ITO show the effect these have in
the way Of holding the city back, it
Is only necessary to compare the build
ing record OF Winnipeg with Victoria
and Edmonton, which are much
smaller cities. The figures for Win
nipeg are $16.298,600 for 1912, 49,
911,s00 for 1911, an Increase OF only
1886, 700 as against the larger In
creases in Victoria and Edmonton.
The population Of Winnipeg, ac-
oording to- the census Of 1911, ID
1S8.035. Victoria has $1,000 inhabi-
tants. ana Edmonton $4,000. =
These are hard facts which should
shake tho opposition TO single tar, In
any part of the world No man can
look these figures squarely IN the
f 6 u and ~ that land valuation taxa-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02
CONNECTICUT LABOR
APPEALS TO GOVERNOR

HARTFORD. Conn, Oct. 31.-Rep-
resentatives Of the Central Labor
union of. this city, and active labor
men in this section, held an inter-
view with the governor Of the state
in regard to the treatment accorded
Organizer Miles in Thompsonville.
Organizer Miles was shot at and
roughly handled by supposed tough
men of the Hartford Carpet company,
with view to discouraging the ef-
forts to organize the people employed
in the carpet factories.
The result Of the antagonism to-
ward labor organizers has intensified
the situation, the employees being ia
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02
REFUSE TO CONDEMN
CIVIC FEDERATION
Cigarmakers Uphold Samuel
Gompers and Declare for
Freedom of Action,

BALTIMORE, Oct. 31.-Tuesday
before adjournment, the delegates to
the Cigarmakers' convention set apart
for the discussion Of a resolution,
which, If adopted, would have prohib-
tied any Of its officers or members
from being actively associated with
the National Civic federation under
penalty of forfeiture Of member
ship.
The representatives Of all the
"isms' marshaled their forces for a
final bombardment of the trade union
idea Of permitting men, although Of
ficers and members of labor organiza-
tons, to exercise the widest and full
est freedom in their association with
institutions outside of the trade
From far and wide it had been
heralded that the Cigarmakers' con-
vention would put an everlasting
Quietus upon the liberty Of the men,
bers Of that organization to affiliate
themselves with organizations which
did not pass the muster Of approval
Of all the devotees Of the various
fsms" which are recommended as a
positive cure for all Industrial ills.
Delegate Barnes, ex-secretary of the
National Socialist party, now the
manager Of the Debs presidential
campaign, led the ism" forces in
favor of the resolution, while Samuel
Gompers, first vice president of the
Cfgarmakers' International union,
met the opposition in one of the
stormiest debates that has ever &C.
Cured in any convention of the CT
garmakers.
When the vote was taken it showed
that the representatives of the "isms"
had been badly routed by the forces
behind the trade union idea repre-
sented by Samuel Gompers. Upon
the decision being announced, 95 be-
ing in favor of the restrictive reso-
luton, while 253 voted against it, the
convention gave vent to it's feelings
by cheering vociferously the result.
The decision of the convention in
this matter gives undisputed evidence
that there is an overwhelming senti-
.ment in the Cigarmakers' Internation-
al union to stand like adament
against the incorporation of any OBJ
noxious MISUNDERSTANDING clauses
In Its constitution, in order that the
feverish advocates of mythical heo-
ries may effustcely discharge verbal
volleys in theinterest of some political
party over the backs of trade union
lists.
This decision will have a wholesome
influence in directing the attention of
ISM followers to the fact that a
trade union organization, while having
the right to demand obedience Of it's
members in the matter Of wages.
hours Of labor. conditions OF employ
ment. and trade regulations, 1t has no
right to restrict the activities Of its
members agreeable to some compile,
political creed, y i 53. ..f5f
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02
To the Laboring Men Of the United States

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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02

children of respectable, hardworking
foreigners. Any movement which
seeks to help these children should
be heartily supported. After all, it
resolves itself into a question of
neighborliness. Quit calling them
"dagoes' and "sheenies" and hun
kies,' and stop thinking Of the for
eigner as problem. How would you
like to be 'problem?" Think of the
foreigner as a brother. This will help
immensely on both sides.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02

When a million or more immigrants
come to America during single year
it makes most people wonder what is
to become of our country, but the
peril of the immigrant is for the
most part a phantasy Of the imagin-
alton. In spite Of the fact that i'm
migrants have been coming to Amer
fca in such large numbers in recent
years, it is interesting to note that the
percentage Of foreign born living in
the United States at any one time has
not materially changed since 1860.
Following are some figures: In 1860
the percentage Of foreigners in the
United States was 1872 per cent; in
1870, 14.4 per cent; in 1880, 1873 per
cent; in 1890, 1913 per cent; in 1900,
1877 per cent; in 1910, 14.7 per cent.
The constant percentage therefore is
about IA.
During some years more than half
as many immigrants returned to the
fatherland as came to America. The
condition of the labor market in
America determines the number Of
foreigners that come and go, so that
immigration is in a constant state Of
hux. The foreigner not only takes
care Of himself by returning to his
native land during time of indus
trial depression, where he can live
more cheaply, but he also relieves the
labor market of congestion which
might result in great harm to the
American worker.
1t has sometimes been declared
with considerable feeling that the i'm
migrant comes here merely for the
purpose of making what is to him
small fortune and then returns to his
own country, remaining there to
spend this money; but, in the first
place, he has honestly earned what
ever he takes with him and has left
more than its equivalent, and he has a.
right to do with it as he pleases. This
Is more than can be said Of some
Americans who go to foreign lands
and spend small fortunes among an
alien people.
But what about these immigrants?
Are they a peril? DR.. Edward A.
Steiner who knows more about the
human side Of the immigration prob
lem than any other man in America,
recently declared that 5000 strong
limbed, healthy-bodied immigrants
landing at Ellis Island are more re-
sourceful than as many average COL
lege graduates would be-and Steiner
knows, for he is a college professor.
They come to us, most Of these immi-
grants, after their own countries have
paid the cost of their education. They
lre ready to take up their days work
The moment they land on our Ameri-
can shore. We are often concerned
about what we term the "new immi-
grafton" but Robert Watchorn, for
Ieveral years commissioner Of immi-
grafton at Ellis Island, once remark
I'd: IF you give the Italian, the
Hungarian and the Russian Jew half
chance, he will make the English.
Ind the Irish look like thirty cents. -
And presumably Mr.. Watchorn knew
what he was talking about, for he has
handled literally millions of immi-
grants. II
In the early days there was no
areful inspection Of the immigrant.
Many of them came to this country
eeble or diseased, with the result that
comparatively soon they became 6
burden upon our charities and un-
luestionably affected the health Of
he community through contagious
diseases. But this is not the case to-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02

ton will not work. Vancouver shows
an increase of $691,000 worth of build
ing permits over last year.
"Of course, last year was a phe-
nomenal year in the building history
Of Vancouver
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02

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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-17
National Prohibition.

In speaking of national prohibit
ton Congressman Hobson said: i
think this new era will spring from
and be of the young people OF the
nation-we must rear a generation
to accomplish this work. So the
good women must train and enlist
boys and girls for total abstinence"
.'Is there not one child in danger that
your hand may lead Alright? Just
one life into whose darkness you
may bring a ray of light? Lest their
tender feet should stray guard them
from lurking dangers from the pit
falls in their way" The special aim
and object of Loyal Temperance Le-
zion work is to lead the feet OF chill
dren in paths of righteousness, to
bend the mind of the child life so
that it will have an affinity for things
of God, to influence the soul so 1t
will come into sweet harmony with
all the highest purposes and demands
of our Creator
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-17
DARK AFRICA IN ATLANTA
How the Negro Business Section At
tracts Attention There. Pict-
uresque Originality.

ATLANTA a scenic stand
point, and the word scenic is here
used in it's bluntest and simplest sig
nificance, there is no Atlanta street
that can compare with the lower part
of Auburn avenue, which is th6 pros
porous negro business section OF the
city.
The negroes use an originality and
highly colored sense of the pictur-
esque in advertising the various es-
Establishments which they operate and
patronize
The Silver Moon" barber shop is
an African shave emporium immedi-
ately opposite from the Church Of
God Grocery Store"
A little further down the street is
the Mecca" cafe, where all colOred
folks are urged to enter and drink
true Arabian coffee.
Across from it is a picturesque es-
tablishment known as Moses Soda
Garden" You step through brave
front door and instead of entering a
building you step right out into the
open air again. Behind this sign, be-
meath the shade of oak trees, Moses
has tables arranged where drinks are
served in the cool open air.
The cheaper restaurants have large
signs reading, "Hashery'' or Bean
cry" according to which is the dish
on which the proprietor especially
brides himself
A boarding house which has rooms
to rent but does not serve meals does
not attract the passerby by the GUS
tomary sign of rooms to rent. In
stead it puts up this picturesque APP
peal, "Sleepers Wanted
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-17
10000 VOICES.
Ard Many Are the Voices of Daw-
son People.

Thirty thousand voices-what a
grand chorus! And that's the num-
Der of American men and women
who are publicly praising Doan's
Kidney Pills for relief from back
ache, kidney and bladder Ills. They
say it to friends. They tell it in the
home papers Dawson people are in
this chorus. Here's a Dawson case:
Miss Lilly Allen, $50 College Ave-,
Dawson. Ga, says: Judging from
my experience with Doan's Kidney
Pills and knowing their beneficial eff
fects on another member of our
household who used them l am glad
to give this statement. They did
me a world of good when 1 was suf-
fering from lameness and soreness
through my back, and best of all the
trouble has not returned. We con-
slider Doan's Kidney Pills by far the
best kidney medicine to be had"
For sale by all dealers. Price go
cents. FOster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-17

pect and hope that the next returns
will show a still larger increase in
the traffic.
This business is, in fact, the czar's
monopoly. His subjects. who are
fond of joke, call vodka mono
pol" and to drink to the Little
Father" who farms the liquor trade
is an action that covers desire with
the cloak of loyalty.
None are allowed to compete with
him, under pain of heavy fines, and
even, on occasion, Imprisonment.
The poorest subject who doles the
spirit out of bottle for money pays
5000 to the car, so jealous is he of
his monopoly. No distillery in the
empire may sell it's spirits to any,
body else, at home or abroad, with
out his special permission-which is
never granted till the petitioner has
spent large sums in greasing the
palms of the czar's special officials.
Opened by Imperial Command.
Drinking saloons are opened by
imperial command in Russia. There
must be at least one in each hamlet,
no matter how small. Larger viii
lagos have minimum of two, lest
the moujik be wearied and turn
home without leaving his quota at
the cars store. In the more civil
lied communes a strange thing hap
pened a short while back.
The elders of the neighborhoods
in question RELAXED that the scourge
of the countryside was not famine,
but ignorance and vodka, which de-
praves men, women and children till
they can think of nothing else. They
therefore arranged to shut down half
the saloons and get the people to
spend money on a school or two and
a few agricultural machines instead.
Many communes took up the idea
with zest. Old primers and copy
books were brought out and filling
the land was started in more in
telligent way.
Drunkenness Pays Well in Russia.
But the government drove them
back to the saloons, the police or
dered the saloons to be reopened
and the village schools closed, and
fined the communes for abolishing
drinks and starting education. For
drunkenness pays too well. That is
what the government said when the
communes protested; and it was
about right. Moreover, a fuddled
vodka-soaked brain does not worry
about reforms.
Russia's national drink is distilled
from potatoes and cereals in such a
way that the proportion of sulphuric
acid to spirit is as nine to ten. 1t
is very strong, fiery and always swal-
lowed neat 1t easily affects the
brains of drinkers, who consequently
often become vodka-mad. Fierce
quarrels and Standings are the fire.
quent sequels.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-17
Cigarettes and Disease.

Hon. Price Gilbert, lawyer and
nudge of the superior court of tine
Chattahoochee circuit, says: The
cigarette habit is a prolific source OF
bodily disease. 1t so affects the ner-
vous system that it's victim becomes
increasingly irritable and easily Oh
Tended; his body and mind soon pear
shameful scars; the eyes are even
more severely injured than by drink
and blindness from the excessive use
of nicotine is by no means rare. Mar
cotic poisons make the victim san
guine and conceited, so they resent
admonition and cling to the evil
practice, seeking ever stronger doses
of the deadly poison until it produces
insanity or death. Boys who smoke
cigarettes are like wormy apples
they drop long before harvest time.
They rarely make failure in after
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-17

ta0se times, and said that l ought to
NV an operation. would not listen to
En na' and when friend of my husbands
s s9d MN about Lydia E. Pinkham s Veg
!" que compound and what it had done
|Tau ms wife, | was willing to take it.
sSN look the picture of health and feel
|er., ~ 100: | can do all my own house
o mA' work in the garden and entertain
i 4spany and enjoy them, and can walk
h iar as any ordinary woman, any day
|Ens sne week. Iwish could talk to every
|S5 rsFiqg woman and girl, and tell them
nv as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
kr, upoqnd has done for me."-Mrs.
n bETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
b.. "semGember, the remedy which did this
EonL Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
k, ~ mas helped thousands of women who
ueen troubled with displacements,
hlsri+;lnatlon, liberation, tumors, irreg-
besrin os' periodic pains, backache, that
Ae.vo,'ss GOWN feeling, indigestion, and
bay sO -; Iprostration, after an other means
NC tailed. Why dat you try it?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-17
CARS WHIsKEY BUSINESS
RULER OF THE RUSSIAS RUNS
10000 DRINKING PLACES. -
Has Control of 1000 Spirit Factories
and Rakes in a Yearly Toll of
More Than $35O.OOO.OOO.

ST. PETERSBURG.-Who is the
worlds greatest liquor saloon keep
err? Nicholas II, Car of All the
Russias and despotic ruler of more
than hundred and sixty millions
subjects.
Nicholas is not only the man of
highest rank ever employed in this
lucrative trade, but owns larger
number of wine stores and spirit sa-
looms than any other individual in
the universe He has over 10000
kabaks-Russian for drinking sa-
loon-has complete control of 1000
spirit factories and distilleries, and
rakes in a yearly total of between
$3.50, 100000 and $4O0,0OO,O0O by
selling vodka to the dutiful soakers
of his realm.
A Real Liquor King.
He is the real liquor king-unique
in the history of the civilized world.
The latest statistics prove that the
czar's vodka revenue of 1910 was
Just 100000 more than that of
the. year before. His managers ex-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-17
HAPPIEST PEOPLE ON EARTH.
No Taxes to Pay and Little Labor
Necessary for Existence.

NNNNSoSe1y III ANAASOCiICCs
The Ekiod of extreme Southern
Nigeria on the equator should be,
and probably are, among the happi-
est people on earth, for they have no
taxes to pay, no wearisome restric-
tons to undergo, and so fruitful is
the land that a few weeks labor is
enough to supply them with food,
home and clothes for a whole year.
They have curious beliefs as to the
advent and death of their babies.
One charming superstition forbids
all quarreling in a house where there
are little children. The latter, so
they say, love sweet words, kind
looks and gentle voices, and if these
are not to be found in the family in
to which they have reincarnated they
will close their eyes and forsake the
earth till chance offers TO return
again amid less quarrelsome sur
roundings.
In the whole country there are no
open spaces, save those which have
been cleared as sites for villages or
farms. The Ekoi spend their whole
lives in the twilight of the beautiful
mysterious bush, peopled to their
fancy not by wild animals alone, of
which they have no fear, but by
were-leopards and all kinds of terri
BILE half-human shapes, and by the
genii of trees, rocks and rivers. Here
more truly even than in old Greece
the terror of Pan is everywhere.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-17
THIS is A QUEER TOWN.
No Arrests, No IdIeness and No Let
ters Written Nor Received.

t6PS written NOT hcCeIV0u'
The most remarkable town in
America, in some respects at least,
is to be found among the hills of
Southern Ohio. 1t is Transport, with
700 inhabitants, 10 miles east of
GAINESVILLE. The Ironsport postoffice
was closed because Joseph Barney,
the postmaster, said he had not sold
a single stamp in five weeks, nor had
he received any, incoming or outgo-
ing mails. The people explain that
they have no friends to write to, and
that they are all too busy anyhow.
There has not been an idle man in
Ironsport since 1909. The mines are
running full time and every miner
owns his own home. Some time ago
the police department disbanded, the
chief declaring there had been no ar
dests made within six months and
that it is only waste of public mon
ey to keep salaried policemen. The
village records one fire in two years
and the damage then was $500.
A recent census showed that the
population is composed of 637 Irish
men, II Welshmen and 50 Germans.
Until October, 1911, there were only
II men and women in Transport who
had mo church" A GAINESVILLE priest
recently reported that he had sue
ceeded in converting these II per-
sons
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-17
Draws the Line.

Mr.. G. Gunby Jordan, banker and
president of the Eagle and Phenix
mills, says:
"As an employer we have required
our employees to abstain from smok-
ing cigarettes or cigars while at
work. I remember a sign in one of
the large banks in New York that
always expressed my personal ideas
on this subject. 1t was placed con-
spicuously at several places in the
bank, and read as follows; we
draw the line at cigarettes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-17
Promotes Crime.

The Scientific American says:
Beer drinking in this country pro-
duces the lowest form of inebriety,
closely allied to criminal insanity.
The most dangerous class of ruffians
and tramps are beer drinkers" Grim
inal records show that the most bru-
tai, premeditated crimes are commit
ted by persons sodden with beer.