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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
.SUCCUMBS TO
LURE OF STAGE
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw 10 Back In New
York and VIII Seek Favor Be-
hind the FootIlahts
Again.
HAS BABY WITH HER
ALSO Has Three 5000 Checks upor
Which Payment Was Stopped
by the Thaw
Family.
HAS BABY WITH HER

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service j
NEW YORK, May 13.-Aithough the
announcement that Evelyn Thaw is
here with son, 81 months old, came
from sources known to be In constant
close touch with her, 1t was impossible
early today to get direct confirma-
tion from Mrs Evelyn Thaw, herself.
Her whereabouts was not made known.
though it was asserted that she was
here.
The announcement that she had de
itermined to demand payment on
checks aggregating $4,000, "for the
sake OF her baby came as sensation
such as Broadway has not sustained
lin years The story was given out in
such detail, and published here in
such elaborate fashion that the whole
town was stirred by the sensation.
From Pittsburgh came the fiat state
ment from Roger O'Mara, for years
private detective OF the Thaws, that
/ the story was not true The fact that
the existence OF the boy should have
been concealed for 81 months was In
explicable to many persons familiar
with the Thaw family 1t Is asserted
/ that Evelyn Thaw, II she. had brought
! into the world an heir to the Thaw
millions. must have been moved by ex-
ltraordinary motives to have kept the
child's birth secret for so long.
In its mnltifarious features. the an
nouncement of the presence of the
child, furnished more food for gossip
than any story in months. The New
York newspapers seized upon 1t as the
sensation OF the day and played it up
| at great length with pictures of the
famous Evelyn Thaw. In the newspa
pers the existence of the baby was ap
parently accepted as fact, though
the whereabouts OF 1t and Mrs. Thaw
was not given.
The Sensational story.
NEW YORK, May 13.-With baby
twenty-one months old, Evelyn Thaw
is in New York today preparing, she
says, to withdraw from the life of Har
ry K. Thaw, her husband, the slayer
], of Stanford White. now held as ar
insane man at Matteawan. The chor
us girl-wife OF Thaw, whose sensa
tional testimony at the murder trial
startled the country. says she is pre-
pairing to seek an Independent life for
the sake of the beautiful baby boy.
The child was born in Hamburg
Germany, little less than year af
ter the last test of Thaw's sanity in the
White Plains proceedings in July an6
August, 1909, and this is the first time
that it has figured publicly in the life
of the young woman.
1t is said that the boy baby is the
reason for Evelyn Thaw being willing
to give up the $4,000 year provided
for her by her husband and with SIS,
900 cash. which she now seeks, going
back to the stage or taking up ar
work 1t was said that Immediately
; after the commitment of her HUSBAND
!. to Matteawan, Evelyn Thaw was Civ
en- three checks totalling $4,000. Pay
ment on these checks was stopped be
fore the young woman had a chanc,
to present them and she says sh,
still has them.
During Thaw's sanity hearing be
fore Judge Morscauser, in 1909, til,
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Local Observations.

May IL, p. M, SO degrees; clear.
May 13. a, M, AZ degrees; clear.
Mean temperature for May 18th, 81
degrees; highest 81; lowest 46; lowest
last night Al.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
River Forecast

The river will remain nearly station
airy from Davenport to Keokuk during
the next forty-eight hours.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
Taft, Roosevelt and Lafollette All
Claim the California Delegates
to be Elected To-
morrow.
TODAY IN POLITICS
President Taft Begins Ten Days of
Hot Campaigning In Homo
State OF
Ohio.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, May ID. -
LaFollette, Roosevelt and Taft mana
gers all claim twenty-six delegates
from California to the national con-
vention, who will be elected at the
presidential preference primary to-
morrow. The fact that Senator La
Toilette has spent more time in this
state than in any other since the pre-
convention campaign started and has
addressed many thousands Of voters,
is relied upon by hig managers to give
him the delegation. The Roosevelt
managers. however, declare there is
not the slightest charce for either La
Toilette or Taft and that the colonel
will get solid delegation with an
Overwhelming majority OF the prefer
ence vote.
The Taft and Roosevelt adherents
have closed their campaigns. but La
Toilette continued speaking today and
will close his camnaign with a big
speech here tonight. Governor John
son, Clifford Pinchot, Francis j. Heney,
Medill Mccormick and former Senator
Beyeridge conducted the speaking
campaign for Roosevelt, while former
Congressman Cole Of Ohio was Taft's
chief representative.
The Wilson and Clark men have al.
4 SO conducted campaigns, which have
4 been overshadowed by the republican
fight. Underwood and Harmon will
/ not appear on the ballot.
Ten Days Campaign.
MARIETTA, o. May 13.-Pres;
dent Taft, fresh Of voice and primed
full of fighting facts by his conference
with the cabinet and political advisors
1 during the past two days in Washing
ton, stepped to his car platform and
looked upon great crowd gathered
at the railroad station here early to
day and the fiercest ten days of poll
tieal campaigning Ohio ever saw ha6
begun.
4 Taft planned to dwell chiefly upor
the record of his administration in his
plea for votes at the primaries weel
from tomorrow, and to drop the per
sonal note which crept into his talks
to southern Ohio Audiences last week
But the colonel also will be in the
state this week, arriving tomorrow
and in the hot scramble for votes i
is more than likely that the one timt
friends will drop into bitter personal
tiles and character revelations before
the week is over. Il Is said that Taf
will flay Roosevelt for his attitude il
the Tennessee Coal and Iron assimila
ton,
Taft reached here from Washington
via Parkersburg, w. Va, at 7:45 a
m. After short talk here. he was Of
on a schedule that called for tel
speeches before night. BY noon he hat
addressed crowds at Caldwell, Cam
bridge and New cemerstown. Thi
afternoon he made speeches at Den
J nison, Uhrichsville, st. Clairsyille
Bellaire and Bridgeport. The BIZ
meeting OF the day was scheduled 70
Steubenville tonight.
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All But Two Districts.

ST. PAUL. MINI, May 13 Colo
mel Roosevelt has carried certainly
every district in Minnesota except
two, according to the latest figures on
the primary elections and he will have
twenty and probably twenty-five of the
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subecribers o. This Daily gate City
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 81
HIT NAIL ON THE HEAD

THE action Of the County Com
missioners in securing the SER
vices of two expert engineers to make
a physical value Of the Duluth Street
Railway company's property in Du-
luth and Superior is a step in the
right direction. Indeed it is a move
that hits the nail squarely on the
head.
Such an estimate of the valuation
of the local street railway system will
be useful for many purposes. First,
1t will give the county chance to
know just what the taxes to be paid
by this company should be. Second,
the estimate of the real value will
enable the city to make plans for the
ownership at some future date of the
street railway system, and, third, it
will give to the people an idea of the
greed of the corporation in exacting
a wholesale profit for it's stock and
bond holders, while it's employees are
obliged to labor long hours to earn
a decent living wage.
There is nothing like turning the
search-light of inquiry on the or
ganization methods of a public SER
vice corporation. Even if a city is
tied up by contract rights" there is
always chance to compel corpora
lions to be good when the facts con-
nected with their methods of organ
tzation and business transactions are
generally known.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11
SHOULD DULUTH FOLLOW
EXAMPLE OF EDMONTON ?

HE city of Edmonton, the capital
l. of the Province Of Alberta in
western Canada, is the latest important
accession to the single tax ranks. To
be sure the city did not have far to
go to get there. For some time it
has been raising local revenues by a
tax on business as the only additional
form of taxation. Now the latter
tax has been abolished, and the city
has for all local purposes the I'M
adulterated single tax operation.
For some time the Hudson Bay
company held large area of vacant
land in the center of the city. But
as industry became exempt the tax
bill for this land increased. This
continued until this year the COM
pany has bee requested to pay $685.
900. It has concluded that the ex-
pense Of holding it is too great and
SO is subdividing the tract into lots
and getting rid Of them as quickly
as possible to persons who want
them. This is but one more example
shows what the single tax will do.
Besides raising all public revenue
from land values, Edmonton owns all
public utilities. Street railways,
telephones, gas, electric light and
water plants are all under municipal
ownership and control. The city
seems to have more progressive
policies at work than any other in
the Western Hemisphere If not in
the world.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11
L0RIME!R

No senator who voted to retain
Lorimer in the senate has since been
reelected. Ten Senators-Hale, Scott,
Kean, Bulkeley, Depew, Piles, Dick,
Burrows, Carter and Flint, who voted
for Lorimer, retired March 4. Three
Bailey and Guggenheim-
announced their retirement after their
Lorimer vote, and two-Foster of
Louisiana and Collum of Illinois,
have been beaten in primaries. Jones
of Washington "dopped" on Lorimer in
committee, and the people of his state
are in an uproar. 49, .
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11
DULUTH LOST WHEN
III. w. OHEADLE RESIGNED

WHEN Harry W. cheadle re-
w signed as city clerk Duluth lost
its ablest and most efficient public
servant. Mr.. Cheadle has held the
office Of clerk for more than II
years under several administrations.
He has been elected from time to
time by councils composed of men,
bers, of different political faith, and
at all times he has been uniformly
courteous and obliging to everyone.
Harry w. Cheadle's success in pub
lie life is not alone due to his ex-
ceptional ability. His position was
q most trying one in which he came
in contact with people in every walk
of life. No doubt his patience was
many times sorely tried, but it is Of
record that he treated every person
who had occasion to visit his office,
no matter what his station in life
happened to be, with the most gen
tlemanly consideration.
We are sorry that the city is to
lose the services Of Mr.. Cheadle, but
for his sake, as his friend. we are
pleased to know that he has
launched into private business that
will be much more remunerative
than a public office.
However, the public will not lose
the services of Mr.. Cheadle, for he is
still a member Of. the state senate.
He made a very creditable legisla-
tive record at the last session of the
legislature, and another session, we
are sure, will give him an opportun-
1ty to further ably and effectively
serve the people Of this city.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11
CHANGED INDUSTRIAL
LIFE CREATES NEW NEEDS

WHEN industrial life was less COM
w pick, and when social life was
organized more simply and on the
basis of the home, a. woman police
was not necessary. Nor had the pos
work been recognized.
But today, with many girls working
away from their homes, with many
whose homes are in the city leaving
them in the evenings to seek recrea-
ton and amusement, no city can afford
to neglect the service that only women
clothed with the full authority of the
police perform. Their part would be
less to detect crime than to detect
the danger of evil and warn and pre-
vent. In this the woman's instinct
and her knowledge Of the things that
are dangerous to girls would be in
valuable, as would her capacity for
discovering these things. Above all,
the ability of the right kind of women
to win the confidence Of these young
girls should make her the trusted
guardian Of those who need counsel
and help.
There are many things that police
men see which they are powerless to
help; they know the dangers of
wrongdoing, though they lack the
woman's perception in these things;
but they are unable to underate the
confidential, intimate relations that
are possible between women. Nor
can they go into the homes to warn
and counsel fathers and mothers.
And daily in Duluth the lives of
young girls are ruined, their limo
cence is lost, and their hope for the
future is clouded The life Of the
city is the life Of men and women,
and the guardians Of the city must
be of both sexes.
= With the ideal Of doing for our city
all that may be done to make it the
safest and the happiest home for all
her citizens, shall we not make use
of this asset? Already some cities
have recognized its possibilities. and
have added women to the police.
Shall not Duluth be among the first
to guard, through every means at
her command, the lives OF her young
girls?
This opera-bouffe war between
Italy and Turkey is, to say the least,
up to date, when they are using
aeroplanes for dropping bombs and
killing Of the Turks BY wholesale.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11
YOUNG GIRLS WHO GO WRONG:
DULUTH'S SERIOUS PROBLEM

HE number of young girls be-
Il tween the ages Of IL and Is
who are constantly appearing before
the police court in the city Of Du-
1uth, is creating an alarming situa-
alton. Not long ago there appeared
in the daily papers a story of the ex-
perlence of a young girl 10 years of
age upon whose testimony we'll
known man in Duluth was bound
over to the grand jury on serious
charge.
One of the notable elements of our
civic life today is the call of the city
for every force that may become a
factor in political and social better
ment. The public consciousness is
awakening to new dangers. Is it not
time to apply ourselves to the discov-
ering of new remedies that will COR
rect or at least restrain the forces of
moral and social evil?
The voice of the city calls for
greater protection for her young
people; in them is there hope; that
their lives shall mot be blighted in
their very beginning must be more
and more her care.
The social needs of the young peo-
pie are known by all; but unhappily
they have been supplied mainly by
purveyors of cheap amusement, too
often lacking the conscience that we
require them to safeguard young
people.
Greater protection is needed for
the young girl constantly exposed to
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of which
she may not dream and which too
often are beyond her strength.
The city needs to avail herself of
every help in fighting these evils.
She needs women-and the right
kind of women-on her police force.
This is the next step that Duluth
can take, that She must take, if she
would do all in her power to safe
guard the purity and the happiness
of her young girls.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11
TILE DEMAGOGUES,

BY Berton Braley.
That's your charge-that we "foment
Common folk to discontent?'
Well, we cheerfully admit it
Even boast about it, too,
And we're never going to quit it
Til we've seen the trouble through!
Yes, we're stirring up unrest
With "the present state of things"
Where the worst survives the best,
Where the greediest are kings;
And our days and nights are spent
Rousing men to discomfort,
With the tyranny and wrong
With the bitterness and fraud,
With the power of the strong
Who have made of Gold a God!
We SOW seeds of discomfort
Mid the poor in bondage pent;
Discomfort with slums whose breath
Reeks of squalor, vice and death:
Discomfort with want and woe So S@
Which the toiling millions know,
Discomfort that some possess y
Legal license to Cypress; #
Discomfort with hearts that break, (
Misery that men have made,
Discomfort for Justices sake
With the game as it Is played.
That's the species of unrest
We would rouse in every breast!
That's the sort Of discomfort
We are seeking to 'tfoment,"
And we'll do it, everywhere. s
Till the chances all are fair.
Till the game Is on the square!
The more You laugh the more slln.
ahix lnA n y. rnl,,s :. -.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11
A BUSINESS" COURT.

There seems to be something in the charges
LOGGED with President Taft involving Judge Archi-
bald OF the court of commerce.. Judge Archibald
is Taft appointee. Mr. Taft has said that he
loves judges. dim vision is one of the pecu]iar
attributes of love.
The dispatches were silent as to the identify of
the judge accusers We are told that he is CHARGED
with having indirectly entered into negotiations
for the purchase Of cum banks from subsidiary
coal company of the Erie railroad at price of about
$3,5OO and later arranged to sell the banks for
$30o0o to an electric railroad in Pennsylvania and
these charges have been filed with the president
and department. of JUSTICE
In conclusion, the charges recite that 'tpart of
Judge Archibald duties in the commerce court are
TO pass upon all questions affecting railroads, in
Guiding the Erie.'
If the allegations be true, the Judge stood to
make very satisfactory profit in the transaction.
1t shows that he is good business man. The COM
merce court was created in response to the demand
Tor court to deal exclusively with questions ars-
ing under the Interstate commerce law The author
OF the charges apparently conceived that the judge
business ability should disqualify him as member
Of the court when in fact, it establishes
his peculiar fitness for the place.
Judge Archlbalds appointment was no blunder
Inc men who recommended him to Mr. Taft knew
what they were about He had proved his worth
when judge of the United States circuit court
He is the judge who sent rug importer who cheated
the government on an importation of $4,000 worth
OF rugs, which were undervalued to three months
in jail and let off with fine one of our chest
citizens'' who was found to have defrauded the
government on importations aggregating $780,
000,000
We have never heard the explanation for this
disparity in sentences. It was offered however, as
objection to his appointment and confirmation,
but dismissed by the President and the Senate
immaterial and irrelevant. The judiciary, which
is the sheet anchor of citizens whose profits are
menaced without due process of law, must be held
immune from popular clamor.
Judge Archibald's accusers have invited severe
condemnation. President Taft may be moved to
make another speech in defense Of our glorious in
sttqtions.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11
BOOSTS AND SLAMS
ON CURRENT EVENTS
NO FRIENDS NOR FLOWERS;
WOMAN WHO HAD LOVE
DON'T know this woman, b,

SSr DON'T know this woman. but
I know that-like myself
and many others-she will go to her
grave without flowers and without
friends
so wrote an unknown woman who
sent violets to be laid on the coffin
OF another, another who would in
deed otherwise have been buried
without token that anyone cared.
is without sin cast the first stone
said the Master of life, but here nc
one cast a stone-only there wastruly
no one who cared, no flowers and nc
friends
The saddest part of the story is
the thought of that other woman
who sent the violets, who lives some
where in our city and who believes
that she must go to her grave with
out flowers and without friends. u
Need this be?
The world has not a great deal
of tenderness for those who disobey
certain laws on which it places
especial emphasis, but it has not sc
little that anyone still living need
say that she will have no friends al
DEATH. The most that society can dc
Tor the sinner who has gone is to
cloak the sin In the mantle of char
table silence; but for anyone who
still lives there is the chance of re-
turn, of some place in the world
even of friends.
For, far as the world is from the
ideals of the Man of Nazareth, it has
yet advanced far in twenty centuries
Everywhere those who have learned
the lesson of forgiveness are ready
to stretch out helping hands Of
friendship. No one in our city can
really utter the despairing cry: enc
man cared for my SOUL"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11

The Labor Union does not want to take work
away IRON any one it is unfair to say it does It
wants to make every one who works receive snf-
Hcient compensation for the work done. It's object
6s not to keep man from working, but to keep
him working at wages and under conditions con-
sistent with the instincts Of manhood and the i'm
pulses of liberty.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11

The American worker is rooted and grounded
in the rights of man. His measure is manhood. He
puts humanity before everything That's why he
is changing his politics.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11

The campaign slogan Of Mayor McCuen: t.Give
the people what they want can now be fully
realized. Thanks Doc for your support.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11

A mollycoddle in labor is Union man who
carres his Unionism in his pocket and simply keeps
it alive by having it stamped by the financial
secretary.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11

Duluth people did themselves proud at the spe-
cial election held on Tuesday last, =53.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11

Labor played it's part honorably and nobly in
last Tuesdays election. Now for the state
campaign. s :,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11

The more You laugh the more siln-,
shine you let into your soul.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-11

This opera-bouffe war between
Italy and Turkey is, to say the least,
up to date. when they are using
aeroplanes Tor dropping bombs and
killing OF the Turks BY wholesale.