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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1912-09-20
LESSONS OF THE PRIMARY
ELECTION

The recent primary election has
served to direct attention to several
weak points in the system. In the
first place the date should be
changed to some day toward the end
of June or the early part of July,
when the farmers are not too busy
TO vote. There never will be full
farmer vote as long as the primary
is held in the early part of Septem-
Der, just when the harvest is on. One
date is as convenient as another for
the residents of the cities, but the
farmers can not and will not take the
time to go to the polls when their
harvest is at stake.
In the second place, blanket bal
lot on which the names Of the candi-
dates of all parties are printed should
be used The present system of hav-
ing separate party ballots and re-
curing each voter to call for the bal
lot of his party, simply results in dis
franchising the Independent voter
and does not prevent members of one
party from voting for the candidates
of another. The only argument
against the blanket ballot is that it
uyn1lH tand IN hpAaL artN in C
and would make it possible for the
members of one party to help nomt-
nate the weakest candidates of an
other. This Is a possibility, but not
a probability, for the great majority
of the voters are more interested in
nominating the best candidates on all
| tickets than in naming weak men on
one ticket so that the nominees of
another ticket could win. The indie
pendent voters, who support the best
men, regardless of party lines, usu-
ally hold the balance of power and a
blanket ballot would enable them to
use their influence effectively in
stead of m minimizing it. as the present
system does.
The second choice provision of the
law should be modified so as to make
! the voting for a second choice OPP
tional instead of compulsory. Then
all who have an honest second
choice would vote it and those
who have no honest second
choice would not be compelled
to kill their first choice votes by CIV
ing a second choice vote to some can
didate whom they do not want. The
inevitable result of the compulsory
second choice vote is that a great
many of the second choice votes will
go to the weakest candidate.
Some method should be devised to
give the voters more information re-
gardlng the qualifications of the can
didates for state offices. The Herald
does not hesitate to assert that a
large majority of those who partici-
mated in the recent primary election
knew absolutely nothing about most
of the candidates for state offices and
simply voted for those whose names
were most familiar or made their
selection by guess work.
The principle of having the people
nominate their candidates is sound
but the law In this state needs fixing.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1912-09-20
10000 VOICES
And Many Are the Voices of Pull.
man 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. Pullman people are
in this chorus. Here's Pullman
case.
Mrs. II. stephens, sol Maiden
Lane, Pullman, Wash. says: Il
still have high opinion of Doan' s
Kidney pills and | gladly confirm all
said in their praise when | publicly
recommended them in November
1907. | attribute my kidney trouble
to being on my feet so much. | had
backache, but the worst feature of
my case was weakness of the kid
neys. After using Doan's Kidney
Pills a short time, | found relief and
since then. whenever | have taken
this remedy, it has helped me. al
ways keep Doan's Kidney pills in the
house and recommend them at
every opportunity.
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. FosterMilburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Rem ember the name--Doan' s.
and take no other.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1912-09-20
THE COST OF BEEF

Fat steers recently sold for more
than SO per hundredweight, on the
Chicago market. and this has occa-
stoned various shrieks of protest from
all over the country. The following
from the New York Times is a
sample:
The culprits are not the trusts,
but the haters of the trusts, to-wit,
the farmers. 1t Is the farmers who
are raising $40 steers and wasting
billion dollars worth of food for
steers. Not ten per cent of corn
stalks are used They are treated
as waste and nuisance, when they
should be treated as fodder and turn
ed into steers to be sold at greater
profit than by getting $40 for corn
fed steers. There is no objection to
finishing steers with grain, but there
are as many reasons against wasting
corn stalks as there are dollars
worth of them not used. This is
another count against the farmer,
who has already been convicted of
not knowing how to raise as much
grain as he ought. Perhaps before
long there will be a trust formed
to raise food which it will be possible
to buy at rates corresponding with
wages"
The eastern folks seem to be hay
ing a great deal OF trouble to accus-
tom themselves to paying fair prices
for farm products. For a generation
they have been buying from the
farmer and paying prices which
would not cover the bare cost of
production If allowance be made for
depreciation in the land, that is, for
the fertility exhausted by the produc-
ton. With the increase in popula-
ton, the taking up OF the available
land, and the increase in proportion
of city population, lessened produc-
ton and increased consumption
have combined to increase the prices
Of agricultural products. In the flu
ture, the consumer will have to pay
something near the fair price for
what the farmer grows, and the
quicker he adjusts himself to this
condition, the better it will be for
him. He can make this readjustmenI
easier for himself by giving somewhat
more attention to economies which
he might practice to the benefit of
his health and to the relief OF his
pocketbook. For example, the price
t. the consumer OF loins and roasts
Is out of all proportion to the price
of the cheaper cuts of meat. BY i'm
proved methods OF cooking, these
cheaper cuts can be made highly pal
atable, and are as nutritious as the
more expensive cuts. II the eastern
consumer does not want to pay tho
price which he must for the latter,
we suggest that he learn how to
handle the cheaper cuts.
The farmer has not taken con-
tract to keep the American people
supplied with beef three times a day,
nor Is It necessary that our people
should have beef three times a dag
As a matter of fact. the average resi-
dent of the city eats about three
times as much beef as he ought to eat
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1912-09-20

Groceries and Meats-that's our
business; It's not side issue with
us. We devote our entire time to it.
We study your wants. III there is
something you are particularly fond
of and we do not have it in stock we
will gladly order it for you. Rcmem-
Der, YOU can always buy 1t at
SANDERS GROCERY, Phone 80.
Sep20
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1912-09-20

FOR SALE--My 7-room modern
house at SOB High street; hardwood
floors and furnace; bearing fruit
trees and trees that will bear in two
years. Lots OF garden space and
berries of all kinds. $275O. Also
7-room house on College Hill for
rent. A. e. Shaw Sept 3tf
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1912-09-20

ROOMS FOR RENT-For three
gentlemen, two ladies or man and
wife. Mrs. White. 205 Mckenzie st.
Sept 3tf
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1912-09-20

FOR SALE-Six-room furnace
heated house of College Hill for sale,
$3.50; or with furniture $1,000
ID. b. Putnam & Son. Sep13-2O
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1912-09-20

FURNITURE FOR SALE-Dining
table, stoves, rocking chairs, etc. w
l.. Hadlock, 703 California street
Sept1 3tf
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-17

ploitation in manufacturing and commercial enter
prise shall become limited agriculture will undergo
the same evolutionary process that has marked our
industries 1t will be, of course more difficult to
eliminate the farmer than the small manufacturers,
but where capital may be employed to advantage,
as in dairy and stock farming and grain growing
and gardening under glass, agriculture will be high
ly organized, uniting the producing and marketing
of products and eliminating many Of the middlemen
that are essential to the distribution of the
food supply.
1t does not follow, however, that this develop
ment will lead to cheapening of the product and
Lowered cost of living. Farms will be exploited
for profit as the trusts exploit manufactured
goods and meat products for profit Then will come
the next step-the necessity for socalizng the land
as there is necessity for socalizing the mines
Of the coal trust and the mills Of the steel trust
In agriculture, as in manufactures, capitalism
will prepare the way for Specialization. The green
fruit will be left to ripen and the ripened fruit
picked or gathered as it falls from the tree
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-17

since the Pinchot idea of withdraw
ing government lands from develop
ment and tying them up absolutely
has been in effect-the west has COM
planned. The west wants it's great
tracts Of government land developed.
That does not mean wasted, grabbed,
monopolized, but developed and used
for the benefit of all the people, and
of actual settlers, in accordance with
the ideas expressed by DR.. Wilson in
his address Of acceptance. Conserved,
not timed and packed away in cold
storage.
In connection with this charge of,
Senator Borah, it would be interest
ing to know how much truth there
is in the stories that have been float
ing around which did not want the
western resources developed and
brought into competition with. the
business and products Of the east.
OF course, the idea Of men like DR..
Wilson, who wane to see the resources
of the government lands in the west
developed, has nothing to do with
wastefulness. It has to do with true
conservation, which means protection
protection from wastefulness, CEN
tralization, monopoly and special pri-
vilege. And it also means the wise
use Of those resources for the Develop
ment of the states in which they are
located, and for the protection of the
whole people from monopolies or high
prices or other burdens brought on
them by other. sections which, through
such a policy as has been followed,
are enabled to. exist and to tax the
people. ..
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-17

we Immediately cry out that there has
been transgression of rights. The
new Testament declares that the law
of love and brotherhood has been
violated. ..
If the rich operator Expresses the
wage-earner, reducing him to, star
walton plane; if he so manipulates the
market and closes factories so as to
prevent the laboring man from en-
joying food and comfort, the remedy
that the Bible proposes is not in en-
phasizing the rights of the poor, but
in thrusting in upon the employer
the thought that in the treatment OF
his men he is to follow the law of
love and of brotherhood
Human rights will never suffer if
human duties be performed. The
time has come when duty must be
emphasized. The duty of the mistress
to the maid, of the maid to the mis-
tress. The duty of the employer to
the employe, of the employe to the
employer.
Duty then, and not rights, is the
supreme need of the hour. For the
doing of ones duty will carry one
farther along than the mere granting
OF another's rights. Gradually, men
are coming to learn this important
truth. The growing spirit Of altruism
indicates it. The workingman de-
mands justice, and he is right. But
God demands more than justice-His
Imperative is Love. For love is the
fulfilling of the law.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-17
WAKE UP!

Many a mystery lies concealed
= Deep down on the oceans bed, ::
And many a thing is not revealed
In the land where we are bred.
There's the tyrant who rises in dis
guise:
"Hark! am the peoples own"
And then like the ape of cunning tries
- To assume old wisdom's tone.
He promises many Of our ills to mend
When tomorrow holds it's sway;
But our ever patient thots attend
To the needs we have today.
The morrow is but charlatan GRIM
Fair promises are his tools,
And those who serve must take from
That currency Of fools!
How long. O Toilers, will you stand
- And await the singing stroke?
How long kneel and lend a hand
To adjust the CALLING yoke?
Wake up, wake up! Your slumber
gives
More ease to the tyrant's seat,
Push on, you'll find that victory lives
The next door to defeat!
Cast out the creeds which bind you
down
To the stake where labor bleeds
And let your life scintillate around
A standard made of deeds!
The impetuous current Of nature
The brave man half the way,
And gives the strength where with
he breaks
The chains which bid him stay.
All men by nature are not planned
The same great size to be, -
But all are built to understand
. That nature made them free.
Then awake, o! workmen-learn to
<: *, live - - rs
And. possess as yours the earth, -
Difficultys soil will quickly give
A place to prove your worth.
,s,. CHARLES. J. IIANFORD. !.
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-17
BOOSTS AND SLAMS
ON CURRENT EVENTS
TT COSTS TOO MUCH.

n EFy1NG. lodging or "bucking"
- the law is expensive business.
Notwithstanding the apparent f1nan-
cial success of some who have held
the law in scant respect, in the long
run it doesn't pay to set oneself up
as greater, smarter, or ADLER than gov
eminent.
Now comes the beef trust, which
had been acquitted by a jury Of GRIM
inal violation Of the law, to say that
it disbands because it cannot afford
to further defend itself. It's defense
in the criminal case-that is the de-
Tense of the men charged with be-
ing Its heads-cost them $75O,000.
And rather than go to still more ex-
pense to defend their judgment that
their organization is within their
rights, they prefer to dissolve the
trust and comply with the law.
Side by side with this exhibition of
the expensiveness'' of going counter to
the law comes that New York gam
bier case. There defiance of law
strobe hand in hand with profit. But
the combination couldn't last forever.
To keep silent tongues that might
wag, to keep from the public the
truth, to keep going the profitable
combination, murder was done. And
the doing of that murder has brought
more publicity to the evils sought to
be hushed up than the ordinary course
of legal investigation would bring in
a long time.
Both Of these cases, as have thou
sands of Others show that law, the
organized rule of society, is more
powerful than combinations of men.
They show that notwithstanding the
power that strong men backed by
great resources, or men Of another
kind of strength backed by nerve, can
WELD, the will Of the people in the
end is the strongest of all human
forces. In that fact lies the strength
and salvation of the nations, this one
among them.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-17
DUTY VERSUS RIGHTS.
BY the Rev. Charles Stelzle.

- Il q { s. )
Since the birth Of the American
Republic, we have accepted as SUI
preme the doctrine of .'the right OF
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness =
In our systems OF Jurisprudence, and
In our treattses upon statecraft and
sociology. the emphasis has been up
on the rights Of mankind. We have
been hearing about the rights Of the
child. the rights OF women, the rights
of capital. the rights Of labor, civil
rights and political rights. until the
doctrine Of human rights has become
a thing working endless confusion
and hatred.
In sharp contrast with this method
OF securing better conditions for man
kind and more harmonious spirit
among men. y the doctrine taught by
God. IN the sacred word there Is
practically no reference to the rights
scf mala-t the emp llasis . upon the!
duty of mn
When the atronr opnrAa fIha "a
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-17
FREE PORTS.

T IS suggested by The Worlds
l. Work that congress establish a.
few free ports and free manufacturing
zones. BY that it means the passage
Of laws that would admit foreign
raw materials to certain American
ports free of tariff duty, there to be
manufactured by American capital
and labor into finished product for
export. It is held that by remitting
the duty on raw materials American
manufacturers could better compete
with foreign markets. OF course, If
goods finished in the free ports were
sold to Americans. the tax would be
charged. ......
If the nation is to work under the
protection idea forever the free port
is foxy thing-if constitutional. It
is in line with a protection special
privilege policy. For It extends the
special privilege to foreigners while
carefully charging the home consum-
er the tax.
ica2 Even with the alleged high cost
of manufacture in this country and
the tariff on imported raw materials,
the exports Of the country are climb
ing stea Oily and the manufacturers
are finding foreign market for their
wares, are even able to sell them
abroad at lower prices than charged
in America. ss==& IS
What America needs to increase its
foreign trade in competition with
Europe is not free ports, but better
selling and credit conditions. This
has many times been told the manu-
facturers by the Bureau Of American
Republics. United States consuls
abroad and foreign consuls and min
listers In this country.
Meanwhile It would serve better to
apply the principle Of free ports to
the American consumers who have
TO pay the tariff tax while seeing the.
foreigner: get American goods at lower
prices, than to further aid Sthose for
eigners and permit q larger gather
sing by the few of the beneflta of q
nieantic 0pActaI pyiy 1l0xs
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-17
THE INTERNATIONAL TYPOGRAPHICAL
UNION

The officers of the international Typographical
Union have distributed their reports to the member
ship Tor its consideration previous to the fifty eighth
convention, which is in session at Cleveland
These reports are complete in every detail and con-
slst OF a volume of $50 pages. In previous news
letter some details as to the economic progress OF
the Typographical Union given, and from this
report the following facts cleaned analytical
perusal OF which will convince the reader that the
Typographical Union is one of the great American
trade unions Of which the organized workers are
justly proud.
: During the fiscal year just closed, 113 agree
ments were made with the employers which carried
raise IN wages In twenty other instances, hours
were reduced for hand and machine compositors
varying from one-half an hour to six hours per
week, the average reduction being two and seven
tenths hours per week for all classes of work TAX
ing the membership Of the unions for whom these
reductions IN hours were affected, they aggregate
saving in time of 100, 1924 hours per week. The NOR
tuary receipts for the year 224 the number
OF deaths 655, the death benefit totaling dur
ing the year $74,698. One Of the greatest benefits
accrung to the members of the Typographical Union
is the conservation Of health, which is being made
obligatory upon all employers. The battle by this
organization against tuberculosis has resulted in the
increase OF almost eight years in the average life of
the members.
IN l9OO the average age at death was forty-one
and one-quarter years. and in 1911 was fortv-nine
and one-eighth years. The balance in the old age
pension fund June l. 1912, was $57,28O. The in
crease in that fund during the year was $1O2,459
Since the establishment of this fund 1341 applica-
tlons for pensions have been filed during the last
fiscal year 304 were approved and eleven disap-
proved. Thirty eight applications were received
from members over seventy years Of age
On May 81, there were 1898 on the pension roll
being an increase of 228 during the year.
At the Union Printers Home at Colorado SPRINGS
l27 members are guests at the home, the total num-
Der admitted to the holme since it's opening, being
1872 Walls
Carl Legien, president of the Federated Trade
Unions OF Germany, who, with his secretary, was
recent visitor at the international Offices gave this
tribute to the printers. Said Mr.. Legien: "The
offices Of the International Typographical Union
were the finest and best arranged that I have ever
SEEM
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-17
DON'T REPEAT BLUNDERS.

0NE Of the senate amendments to
~ the Panama canal bill provides
for the free passage Of certain Amer
lean shipping through the canal on
condition that the ships so favored
may be bought by the government
for war purposes. So the war SUBJ
sidy idea crops up again.
It should not be necessary for the
government to make any such con-
cessions to American ships. Under
the laws the government may,
through condemnation proceedings,
take the property for war purposes.
That should. apply to ships needed
for the national defense.
In accepting such a clause the
house should see that the experience
Of 1898 be not repeated. It will be
remembered that some years prior to
the beginning Of the war with Spain
the government granted mail sub
ventions, or some other form of sub
sidy, to certain ships on the condition
that they could be used by the gov
eminent when needed for war pur-
poses.
Promptly on the coming of the
Spanish war those ships were called
into the federal service. The owners
were powerless to do other than obey
the orders and send the ships where
they were wanted; But when the
question Of compensation came up it
was found that in addition to paying
those subventions, = the government
was tight in the hands Of the ship
owners and had to pay handsomely
for the vessels. ~ w.. ,... -
In putting any "war use' clause in
a Panama bill the utmost care should
be taken. to see that the government
IS not tied hand and foot in a ship
owners knot. It should be seen to
that when the time comes for the gov
eminent to take over such ships they
can be taken under conditions fair
to the people. ~ H..
Don't repeat the expensive blunders
of the sos. -. ~. @-5.> s.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-08-17
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.

HE high cost of living is going
l. to receive good deal of atten-
ton during the campaign. In fact, it
is already taking large place in the
political discussions. And with good
reason, for it lies closer to the peo-
pie than any of the other questions
being considered.
In the discussions so far started
some of the defenders of the systems
under which the cost Of living did
Its aeroplaning, have brought forth
the argument that there must be no
reduction in the prices of the peoples
living necessities, or those who pro-
duce, make or sell them will have
to accept less for their goods. But
they are very silent as to the justice
Of those prices.
For years the ultimate consumer
has responded to the appeal for this,
that or another class Of producer or
worker. But the people as whole,
as an interdependent, interviewer
mass, have been forgotten. Yet in
the end it all comes out of the peo-
pie. 49,.
There is very general opinion
that good deal in the high prices
is padding; that there is a. vast gulf
between the actual producer and the
ultimate consumer. The ultimate
consumer wants that padding re-
moved. He does not begrudge the
producer or the legitimate handler
his fair and living profit. But he
wants and demands an equitable re-
adjustment. He wants a fair deal for
himself. He is tired of being the one
upon whom the whole load is laid.