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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-04
BOOSTS AND SLAMS
ON CURRENT EVENTS
WHAT MAN OF WEALTH WILL
DONATE FOR PUBLIC BATHS?

hE ISIS JEAN POIRIER, factory
AV1 inspector for the woman's de-
partment of the Bureau Of Labor, is
advocating the establishment of q
municipal bathing house. Under the
city charter such an institution
would be under the management and
control Of the Board of Public We'll
fare
While the council appropriated
$1,000 for the support of the Board
of Welfare last Monday evening,
this sum will do little more than
provide for expense of administra-
ton.
Just now the newspapers and the
public generally are devot1ng con-
siderable thought to the establish
ment Of a penal farm for the care
and treatment @of petty offenders
against society. However important
a penal farm may be, the question
Of public baths must not be over
looked. Just think Of it; a city of
the size of Duluth with a lake full
Of water at her feet and not place
anywhere for people to battle.
Duluth boasts of her millionaires.
They do not invest in our industries,
nor do they in any way promote the
commercial welfare of the head Of
the lakes. They are not captains of
industry, they are mining men, who
have made money by chance, and
some of them have so much of it
they do not know how to spend it..
Here is chance. Under our city
charter the Board of Welfare may
accept money from private sources
for the purpose of establishing and
caring for such institutions as pub
lie baths. Is there not some man of
wealth in Duluth who will start the
good work going by making a liberal
contribution to municipal bath
fund?
Who will be the first man to place
his name on this roll Of honor? The
man who starts this will win the
everlasting gratitude of every kid
in Duluth, and the praise of whole
lot of grown-ups.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-04
HE'S BETTER THAN THE
TELLER ON THE FENCE

I like a man of courage, an convic-
tons good an strong,
Though his judgment may be hasty
an his theories be wrong;
A man who'll come out boldly an de-
fend with main an might
A thing In controversy II he thinks
the thing is right.
I like t. measure words with one
who'll parry, guard and thrust,
Defendin' what he thinks Is fair. an
flghtin' what's unjust.
He may hold Views t. which my mind
most stubbornly dissents,
But I'm bound t. like him better than
the Teller ION the fence
The wishy- washy Teller who when
politics or art
Are subjects Of discussion never cares
t. take part;
The man who when he's talkin' with
his dearest bosom friend
Will state not his opinions lest the
;: 's7~s~.4s statement may offend -.s7s-ss-zszs,~
Offends: me more by silence an by
. sitting calm, inert y = Ss%tE
Than he would by fghtin' back bit.
my views to controvert
An 1t doesn't stand t. reason that a
man with common sense
Could feel much admiration for the
Teller ION the fence"
The mans moral coward who the
topmost rail will choose
To perch on, wholly speeches., when
you charge on him with views.
A long-horn Texas bovine might
there drive me to a. seat
But I'll ne'er from controversy with
palsied tongue retreat!
An so, man of courage, and COM
victions good an strong,
I'll choose, although his Judgment an
his theories be wrong,
His views be those t. which my mind
most stubbornly dissents-
I'm bound to like him better than the
Teller ION the fence ~
Hope. ,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-04
GOVERNMENT SHOULD OWN WIRELESS

The government is going to suppress the amateur
wireless operators.
Western Union has acquired Pacific Wireless
Western and Marconi are to work in conjunction
Doubtlessly the governmental supervision of the
amateurs and of the wireless pirates will greatly
assist Western Union and such wireless concerns
as enter into a working agreement with it, Of
course there cannot be such thing as combination
OF Western Union and Wireless. That would con-
stitute trust, and as trust it would have to be
busted. But still the government in paternal
way is taking great deal of interest in preventing
any disturbance of interference with the wireless
company which now practically occupies the whole
field. That is quite right. It will tend to lessen
confusion
At the same time it will also tend to foster
monopoly.
1t is quite good as the franchise with which
the telegraph and telephone companies operate and
which give to them their supremacy and power
It is better, in way for it to restrict opera
lions by any outsiders combinations of outsiders
In this matter it is quite obvious that the govern
ment should go step farther It already owns the
Postoffce, as far as express companies permit Now
It should add to the postofce the other necessary
means Of communication, wire and wireless, and
should operate them for the benefit 81 the people
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-04
BIG BUSINESS AGAINST
MONEY TRUST INQUIRY

n HE newspapers tell us from time
Il to time that a congressional
committee is about to make an in
vestigation Of the money trust"
When will the Investigation begin?
Big Business has not worried very
much over the Steel Trust investi-
cation, nor would it worry over the
investigation of any other of the So
called trusts, but when the nation
talks about making an INJURY into
the money trust Big Business sits
up and takes notice.
Less than dozen men today domi-
nate IS per cent of the railroads, 80
per cent Of the express and pullman
companies, IS per cent Of the tele-
phones, so per cent of the copper, IS
per cent of the petroleum and over
81 per cent Of the steel.
In addition to these are other cor
porations whose stocks and bonds
have been underwritten by these
men and parties allied with them
whose capital amounts to many bill
lions of dollars.
j. P. Morgan, the king of finance
together with his associates and af-
fliated firms and corporations, alb
solutely controls the working CAPT.
tai of more, than $10,0O0,O00, in
which he has no interest.
Enormous as the power Of such an
aggregation of capital is, it does not
tell the whole story. Each of the cor
porations controlled by these men ex-
erts a powerful influence indirectly
on all portions Of the country. The
transportation systems can add to or
detract from the Importance and the
business prosperity Of every locality
through the manipulation of rates
and the facilities afforded for the
prompt shipment and delivery of the
goods. =
There is not a hamlet reached by
railway, some Of whose citizens have
not favors to ask and disfavors to
dread from the management Of these
great corporations, ana whose BUSH
ness men. bankers and newspapers
do not, in some degree feel the me-
cessity Of bowling down before the
mandates Of Big Business. ~ p.
If the search-light Of investigation
could be turned upon the money
trust" the parent and protector OF
all Big Business are certain the peo-
pie would get a true insight into the
cause Of the wrongs and iniustices
from which they suffer.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-04
UNCONSTITUTIONAL, ;" BUT LEGAL.

When congress passed the bill to tax "phossy
jaw matches out of existence, Senator Bailey who
since the retirement of John c. Spooner has the
distinction Of being the greatest constitutional
lawyer in the senate opposed it on the ground that
it is unconstitutional.
We shall not take issue with Senator Bailey on
the question of the laws constitutionality AS it
IS generally conceded to be most meritorious
measure, may believe that it is tunconsttution-
all We doubt, however, if Senator Bailey's pre-
d1ctlon that the supreme court will pronounce the
law to be in conflict with the constitution and in
valid will come true.
The supreme court has enough to answer for
without taking upon itself responsibility for the
continuation Of evil which has shocked the CIV
1l1zed world. With every civilized nation prohibit
ing the manufacture of s'phossy jaw matches, the
palladium of our liberties is hardly likely to strain
itself in judicial endeavor to permit their manu-
tacture in the United States.
Ii the property rights were involved, if there
were 'coniscation'' Of profit, the mere fact that
the manufacture of these matches causes horrible
diseases among the workers engaged therein might
not restrain the supreme courts edict of <'uncon-
stltutlonal, but inasmuch as the manufacturers of
matches will lose nothing by the law, the court
may be moved to the view that congress in this
instance may safeguard human life without leopard
ling our glorious institutions. 49,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-04
PEOPLE KNOW LINCOLN
BETTER THAN HIS SON
! :OBERr i. LINCo1tN son Of

u OBERT r. LINCOLN, son Of the
~ great emancipation, Abraham
Lincoln, has once more been brought
into the lime-light in the defense Of
the privileged classes. Away back In
1856. Robert I. Lincoln. then attor-
3ney Tor the Pullman Car company.
was sent throughout the country to
tell tho voters tlhat 81 Mn immortal
Ifathsr ~ aliys ~ iStiuld rs sinst
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-04

Teddy says that If he doesn't win
this time. I'VE are in for 'ehree years
Of the war" Oh, make it one nice,
finishing massacre, by nominating
Bob La Toilette in June, Teddy.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-04

Francis J. Heney is explaining that
L Toilette was deserted because he
could not VIM BY the same token,
down with Heney! He was a great
graft prospector, but he could not
win. Principles and character be
hanged! A winner, though he be the
devil himself.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-04

Enemies Of the initiative, referendum and recall
twaddle about our historic and Constitutional sys
tenn" That twaddle won't fool the people. What
the enemies OF the initiative referendum and recall
want is government that does not represent thu
people. They have that kind of government now
and they want to keep it. #s"s ~
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-04

The adoption Of the charter amendment will
cause all officials to become responsive to the will Of
the people The rights Of persons will no longer be
ltism will become dangerous 5 Ss1s
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-04

The sun never shines for the man
to whom only joy il money.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-08-31

chicago numlSmatlSt, deposited a
U. S. half-penny, dated 1884, in
the Merchants Trust and Savings
Bank.
There was a reunion in the Ju-
venile Court of four of the FIVE
children of Mrs. Nellie Knight,
133 w. Indiana St., whom the
court had separated for three
weeks.
The fifth child, Norma, g; died
last week in Oak Forest infrm-
airy, of general tuberculosis, &C
cording to the doctors. The
mother thinks she died of grief.
Gov. Deneen arrived here to
discuss preliminary steps for
formal opening of state Repub-
lican campaign.
Edward Connors, a., laborer,
731 w. Madison ST., quarreled
with unknown man at Desplaines
and Madison SITS. They went to
Connors' home and fought it out.
Connors stabbed near heart.
County Hospital. Man escaped.
Clarence Mccarthy, IL, 17o5
Carroll av. struck by auto truck
owned and driven by James
Bouzas, 1908 w. Washington
blvd, while he was riding his BIZ
cycle at S. Paulina and Carroll
av. Bruised.
Bougas tried to escape, but
was caught by Hugh MCGEE,
1859 N. Ashland av., who saw
the accident and chased Bouzas
in his machine for several blocks.
Mrs. Augusta Whitney, ii,
2719 S, Wabash avs, suicide. Car
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-08-31

worth av., suicide. CarDollc acid.
Despondent. Lack of work.
Six alleged gamblers arrested
in handbook raid in room on third
floor of 1873 N. Fifth av. William
Grace booked as keeper.
Geo. B. Armstrong, SIS, o28
Eastwood av., publisher, struck
by plank on lumber wagon at
State and Van Buren, SITS. Raw
enswood Hospital.
Daniel Murza, %, 623 Max
well ST., stole six pairs silk hose
to give to his sweetheart. Sixty
days in Bridewell and fined 81
and costs.
Solomon Galet, IA, 1450 w.
Polk ST., shot when he resented
an accusation of theft made
against him by Tony Guino, 10,
1927 Taylor st. Undertaken.
Guino escaped.
F. M. Muir, 4o41 S. Wabash
ave., held up and robbed of s. at
E. 41st st and S. Wabash ave.
Mrs. G. 1. Cochrane, TAG Wells
ST., chloroformed and robbed of
$50 diamond ring while asleep at
her home.
Mrs. Mary capelett, 613 S.
Sangarnon ST., Louis Capelett, 7,
her son, Miss Mamie Zaltire, COS
IS. Sangamon ST., Nicholas Pin
tello, Is, 946 DeKoven ST., and
Angelo Tatasso, 5, 625 w. Taylor
st., bitten by dog at S. Sangamon
and w. Taylor st. Dog, was shot
in the leg and crippled.
Theodore Stancil, 6, 1902 w.
Madison ST., and Frank Borwitz,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-21
TAXPAYER NEEDS RELIEF,
WILL COUNCIL GRANT 1T?

Editor Pensacola Journal
viii you kindly state in your paper
for the information of at least one in
digant taxpayer, whether we have
here any law, ordinance, proclamation,
or other vehicle Of Official authority
which gives him remedy, either legal
or summary, against the depredations
of his neighbours dogs. pigeons and
chickens. I own my own home and
have been trying to beautify my lawn
and plant my back yard, which is
fenced in, but my neighbor, who is
only a tenant, permits his chickens to
destroy my garden and his dog to dig
UP my lawn. What would you do?
IGNORANCE.
There are many other taxpayers
suffering from similar causes in Pen
sacola. An ordinance was introduced
several months ago in the city council
aimed at just such nuisances as You
describe, but it was pigeonholed and
has never been heard of since. About
the best means to abate such a
nuisance would be to get after your
aldermen and see if the measure can
not be brought to life and passed.
Another effective way, and one which
some property owners are said to
have adopted. is to secure permission
from the city to discharge firearms in
the city limits and use your shotgun.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-21


Editor Pensac cola journal.
; The city council seems to have over
looked the most important protection
for East Hill property holders, viz: a
safe and convenient tI1oroughfare
north and south from the lower level
to the upper grades of East HILL
The franchise committee and the
railroad management, with the APP
prevail of the board of public works,
have agreed upon an underran thor
oughfare on Seventeenth avenue.
There is but one avenue left that can
be made to do duty for an of the
space between Ninth avenue and
Bayou Texar.
This being the fact, should not the
council provide that this avenue, Four
teenth. be improved in the best pos
sible manner to promote the safety
and convenience of this large section
of the city that is rapidly growing
into a prosperous and delightful part
of our New City community?
Fourteenth avenue is 100 feet wide.
There is now a sanitary sewer down
this hill and there should be storm
sewer also, and a fifty foot substan-
tial pavement should be made to con-
meet Gadsden and Gregory streets.
This, with a fiagman at Fourteenth
avenue, and the underrail way at Sew
enteenth avenue and we will have
reasonable convenience and safety
over and under, with the proposed
extension of trackage Of the railroad
| and at the same time afford reason
able facility for the same corporation
to handle the business Of million dol
lar export cargoes.
Respectfully,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-21
The Commercial Association
Is After 400 Members.

-Four hundred members by February first is the task
set for the Commercial Association.
The Pensacola Association has already been of much
service Pensacola 1t will be of service this year
If you interested in the welfare Of Pensacola and
want the city to develop you afford not to belong
to the association
II you not member you have right to complain
that the city is not what you would have it,
If every business professional and laboring would
contribute few dollars yearly to the Commercial Assoca
ton. Pensacola would take fe such the most
enthusiastic have never anticipated that it would.
What the power house is to the electric lights, live
commercial body the business prosperity of city
You should be of the four hundred members of the
Pensacola Commercial Association
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-21
vox PoPULI.
OPPOSED TO BILL
OF MONETARY COMMISSION


Editor Pensacola journal.
If you will turn to your file OF The
Journal for January 10. 1908, you win
find under the head of Present Fiscal
Problems" that / discussed the ques-
ton now in issue.
THE National Reserve Association
of the United States. proposed in the
bill submitted by the National None
tary Commission, as printed in the
Congressional Record for January 8,
1912, pages 1893 to S62, is a revival Of
the United States bank, with some
omissions and extensions, which bank
charter Jackson vetoed once and Tay-
lor vetoed twice.
That charter was modest compared
with the one proposed. It only asked
for 20 years. this one asks for so years.
1t must be defeated.
am frightened at the silence that
seems TO exist since this report was
published and I would ask you to re-
publish the article wrote to you four
years ago. It is as true today as It
was then.
] commend Senator Kern's speech
at the Democratic banquet and Champ
Clark's statement In the National
Magazine of January II, 1912, page
205. If Clark vetoes this bill it might
make him a second jackson.
HENRY p. LASON.
DeFuniak Springs Fla
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-21
Where Would the
Deficit Come In?

Being opposed to everything that
sounds like a progressive idea, we are
not surprised when the Montgomery
Advertiser does not approve OF Mr.
IKitchcoclss proposed plan Of the gov
eminent owning and operating The
telegraph lines Of the country. Com
menting on The Journals approval Of
the proposition the Advertiser says:
'The Journal has always contended
that as the postal service is conduct
ed BY the government. so should the
telephone be conducted says the
Pensaco1a Journal in approving the
Hitchcock plan Of government soWn-
ership OF telegraph lines.
Does The Journal relish deficits IN
our several departments of govern
ment? The postal department has
always been conducted at a loss.
Every year the country is greeted
with a gaping deficit from that de-
pertinent In England, . the shining
light American pro- ownership people
always hold UP to us, the annual
deficit from the telegraph department
runs into the millions. And this not
withstanding the fact that England
area IS not q great deal more than
that Of Alabama Everything is close
together over there, and covers little
space. which makes the operation OF
business cheaper than it could ever
hope to be in country so vast as
the territory covered by the United
states.
The Advertiser believes that gov
eminent ownership would not only be
q farce. but it would be more: II
would open the quickest route tc
government bankruptcy.
Since the Advertiser has a sensible
and intelligent class of readers it is
rather amusing that it attempted tc
make them swallow the above. Surely
the Advertiser does not believe it IN.
less It has more grounds for SO doing
than it gives in the editorial. A won
ans Just because" has more logic ii
It than the Advertisers contention.
We win not argue the question a.
to England's loss by government op.
Grafton of the telegraph lines, but the
Advertiser failed to give the figures o.
the other European countries ownins
and operating the telegraph lines, sue,
cessfully and profitably, as stated by
the postmaster general
Tho postal department has Away,
been conducted at a loss" says tn,
advertiser. This is not exactly true
but II it were. would the Advertise
be in favor of turning the postal de
partment over to private ownership
a4e operation? With all its faults
the postal department is the most sue
cessful public service institution TIL
United States possesses today.
Il the telegraph companies ca,
make profits on tens Of thousands 9
dollars Of watered stocks. there is NJ
reason why the government could not
as the postmaster general says it car
conduct the telegraphs giving tn
same service at lesser rate and the
make a profit.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-21
Why the Women Claim
Rights to Suffrage.

Leaders in the woman suffrage
movement have compiled list of
eight reasons why women should be
given equal rights of suffrage with
men. They are:
ID The women Of the United
States are citizens of the United
States. entitled by nature to an equal
right to enjoy the opportunities of life.
CD They perform half the work of
the United States.
CD They bear all of the children OF
the United States.
Cd They educate these children.
CD They inculcate in these chill
dren lessons of morality, of religion.
of industry. Of civic righteousness and
civic duty.
(6) They deserve to be honored by
the children of the country as en-
titled to equal dignity and honor. pos
sessed by men,
90 They pay half of the taxes OF
the United States.
(S) They possess half of the prop
erty of the United States, or at least
they are entitled to possess half OF
the property OF the United States, by
virtue Of labor performed and duty
wen done.
The Journal is perfectly willing for
the women to vote If they want to
but they must revise the list if they
want to make "a successful campaign
A,ywoman doing all Of the above
things without the assistance of mere
man could not find time to vote and
attend the political log rollings.
Until reading the declaration by the
women. we had always belief that
man had part in several of the
Things which the suffragettes claim
as they work without the assistance
of man.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-21
CHAS. COTTRELL AT
BAGDAD SATURDAY

Chas. Cottrell, the photographer,
spent the day Saturday, behind the
camera, for the Stearns- Culver Co. at
their plant in Bagdad, Fla. Mr.. Cot
trell took numerous pictures of their
plant and also of the new road rum
ming from Milton, Fla. Everything in
sight is to be taken, logging scenes.
turpentine farms, timber booms and
mill scenes. s%s
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-21

No, it was not a member of The
Journal staff who contributed poetry
to the Pensacola under the nom de
plume of Harry Lys." This is print
ed in justice to NIL Z. H Barker,
who not only writes under the name
of Harry Lys. but has the active
management OF the Pensaeolian, and
the member of The Journals staff who
has been accused of contributing the
poetry not only does not want to
claim credit due to another, but asks
to be excused from being accused OF
writing any poetry at all.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-21
SUNDAY. JANUARY Il, 1912.
Use Of the Name
Of Robt. e. Lee.

On Robt.. z. Lees birthday. some
OF the papers carried display adver-
tisements showing picture Of the
dead Confederate commander attirsd
in his uniform, and by the side Of the
picture were the words:
RoBT. z. LEE
Commander Chief of WHISTLES
Special only s1.oo Full Quarts.
# there ever was a travesty on q
pure and spotless name, this effort OF
the whiskey men to sell their product,
by coupling it up with the name OF
Robt. z. Lee, is the acme Of impu-
dence. Gen. Lee. living, could and
did prevent the use Of his name for
commercial purposes. Gen. Lee. dead,
is at the mercy Of any unscruplous
person who may find it profitable TO
couple the name Of Americas greatest
war chieftain with commercial en-
terprise Of any kind.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-21
BOUNTY ON PIG IRON.

Ottowa, Jan. 2o.-The establishment
of a bounty on pig iron as a measure
of protection for the iron and steel
industry of Canad is foreshaowed here.
1t is said that a bounty of 30 cents a
ton will be allowed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-21

At Fort Barrancas, some
of the boys were glad to see
the A Cigar; they knew it.
It was like meeting a friend
from home.