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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01
A VACANT LOT AND ITS
LESSON.
BY ERNEST REEDER.

Recently lady appealed to me for
symphaty, but I had none to spare
(this. is an "ower true tale'). She
owned a suburban lot for speculation.
Adjoining it was a modest home.
The vacant lot appealed to the oc-
cupant. He planted it and produced
food. When my friend learned Of
the trespass and cultivation and the
production of good things, with the
resulting convenience, economy and
comfort, she was indignant. She
said to me: What do you think Of
this, Mr.. Reeder?''
told her what I thought VIZ,
that the man was in the right, and
she was in the wrong; that he was a
good citizen, while she was not: that
he was getting good naturally, she
unnaturally, that he was obeying the
law Of nature, while she was OBJ
structing it. Attempting to get good
by doing evil, she was not engaged
in using the land, but in preventing
its use.
And then I opened up unto her
Moses and the prophets, and showed
her how the Lord had given the
earth to the children Of men without
respect of person, but she had put
up a. sign-"KEEP OFF,"
The result of my teaching was,
think, that she thought 1 was queer"
She had paid good money to keep
people off the lot. 1t makes a diff
ference. My interest was in the
principle; hers was in the principal.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01
BOOSTS AND SLAMS ~.
ON CURRENT EVENTS
ON PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.

NJ ANY pat points are made in
AVA satire. Advocates Of the gov
eminent ownership of public utilities
take pride in pointing to the success
OF the governments operation of the
postoffice, and the fact that the tend
ency Is to get cheaper postal rates
with the development of the system.
IT the people owned the railroads
and the telegraphs it would not be
necessary for them to pay dividends
on Watered stock and interest on an
excessive bonded Indebtedness. Pri-
vate corporations are forced, because
of their system of organization, to
maintain their present high rates to
pay large interest and dividend
charges.
Under government ownership the
dividends would be wiped out and
the only interest charge to be met
would be the interest on the bonds
required to take over utilities.
In last weeks issue of Life" the
following bit CT satire on public
ownership is full of pointed truth:
THE great fundamental, damna-
tory weakness in our postoffice sys-
tenn is that thas no securities, no
common stock, no preferred stock,
no watered stock; nothing that can
be listed on a respectable stock ex-
change and bought and sold and re-
bought and resold and rerebought
and reresold. If there were only
securities, beautifully engraved GER
tificates of negotiable assets, the
postoffice could change hands every
few days and it's price be raised and
lowered along with those other vacil-
latory flora and fauna. It's owner
ship would be perennially in doubt,
long and futile Investigations could
be held about it and the price Of
postage stamps could have as low
specific gravity as that of eggs, coal
and meat. AS it is, the postoffice is
of use only to the people, and no use
whatsoever to the commission brok-
ers or the captains of industry or the
master minds of Wall street,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01
THE TARIFF HEARINGS.

The abolition of protective duties was the prin-
cipal issue which Wilson was elected president
There ought to be question concerning the wiling
hess of democratic congressman honorably redeem
the partys pledge But justification for doubt
now being furnished by the Ways and Means Commit
tee OF the House of Representatives The only
for holding tariff hearings this time to determine
the advisaby of keeping violating the parys tariff
pledges. Otherwise the hearings are but a waste of
time.
There is no information to be had that was not &C.
cesslbe or could not have been furnished elec-
tlon' mere are no arguments to be presented that
were not could not have been before
ton or at the numberess previous tariff hearings It
also seems scarcely possible that there can be any
Instrumentation on the matter which protectionists
Jailed to publish before election. Unless the members
or the Ways and Means Committee have been indulg-
ing in Rip Van Wrinkle Sleep there can be nothing
for them to hear that they have not already heard
AT the late election the people had three distinct
tariff policies presented for their choce high protec-
tlon represented by President Taft moderate protec-
tion' represented by ex-Presdent Roosevelt; and no
protection, represented by Governor Wilson. The
laters election leaves no excuse for attempt to
construe the verdict to mean an endorsement of anv
protective tariff whatever.
1t is the business of the democratic majority in
Congress, including Chairman Underwood and the
ways ana means committee, to unquestioningly carry
out this mandate. The democratic congressman who
considers it discretionary with him whether he ought
to vote to abolish all protection or not has simply
obtained office under false pretenses.
The plain duty of Chairman Underwood and Other
Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee is to
inform all peaders in behalf of protective duties that
the protection issue has been settled and all remarks
thereon out of order All the public hearings
necessary were held during the campaign.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01
WELCOME HOME, FRED MOONEY!

Fred Mooney, glad 10 welcome you back
to your home again.
Our hearts with you during every moment
of the trying through which bravely passed
We have faith in you We believe in your in
From the day OF your arrest YOU have shown your
self to be man. entitled to the respect and
support of all your fellow workers. and indeed of all
lovers of fair play everywhere.
You not given a fair trial: you were victim
of circumstances, and you convicted in court
where prejudical atmosphere purposey created
against you.
But wrong does not always triumph day of
reckoning is coming. We believe If another trial is
granted you will not only be able prove your in
nocence but the purpose of the men who have COM
PEELED you to suffer will be exposed
So have faith in the future, Fred Mooney. Be of
heart We morally certain final triumph
will be great your suffering has been painful.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01
CAN JUDGES LEARN?-THEY CAN.

One of our contemporaries asks: "Can judges
learn?"
1t is moved to make the inquiry relative to the
ability Of judges to profit from experience and to
their judgments upon accumulated knowledge by the
fact that the New York court Of appeals has passed
the law limiting the hours Of labor to ftyour in
certain specified employments.
The ffty-four hour law exempted canneres, owing
to the reluctance of the legislator to interfere
with his business interest while regulating the
activities of the heinous capitalist of the in
dusrial ceters So the candy manufacturers felt that
they have been Disseminated against and they then
appealed to the court for "equal JUSTICE
There is no question whatever that two years ago
the New York law would have been Unconstitutional
Then the GROWING glory of the judiciary was it's devo-
ton to the sanctity of contracts has been
much ribald comment the Justification the
brain. 1.-The mob has been excited. Demagogues
have agitated for the judges that persist in
blocking the will of the people.
It's been distressing, but what is poor Judge
to do?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01
PROTECTING AMERICAN HOMES.

Senator Hackney of Ramsey county, during the
debate the womans suffrage bill in the senate on
Tuesday, declared in his opposition to the bill that he
ION his feet for the American home"
Oh, what hypocrisy! These so-called saviors Of
the American home are loud in their pretenses but
mighty slow pass that will really the home.
is said that there million females employed
in American work shops factories, offices, laundries
and mercantile institutions. These women largely
employed, not because they women, that they
the work any better than men, but that their
services be obtained at far lower wage than is
paid to for doing the amount of work.
1t is the present practice of American industry that
is really destroying the American home; it is forcing
young women out of the home and into the factory
at time when their health and their strength should
be conserved, and it is compelling wives and mothers
enter the Industrial world to help sufficient
income to keep the family together.
These female workers are being exploited as the
wage of other time have been. In New
York. where the garment workers strike, it has
been shown that mere babes working in tenement
houses. Hours of labor long and sanitary condi
lions bad
1t is conditions like this that wrecking the
homes of the American earners and when legis-
lation is framed and is pending in such law-makng
bodies the Of Minnesota is pretending
friends of the American home Senator Hackney of
Ramsey county who invariably vote to kill every
designed to protect the health, the life and
the morals of the American wage-earning
Woman asks for the right to vote because she sees
these things Today she is helpless; she has voice
in anything pertaining the affairs of the govern
ment She is DESTROYS of saving the American home
and she feels that she become power in doing
by being given equal political rights with man.
The statesmen who cry the loudest against political
freedom for women too frequently the very ones
who would tighten the shackles of industrial slavery
about them
Let's have less hypocrisy in discussing this ques-
tion of suffrage.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01
THE GARMENT WORKERS. STRIKE.

The garment workers of New York have the heart
felt sympathy of the entire labor world and of every
person who knows the present critical condition Of
the toiler
They striking not only for themselves and their
children, and not alone for better homes chance
for fuller hfe they striking for the cause of
labor. They battling for comfort and decent con-
ditions for democracy and rational government.
Theirs is fight for homes and education for the
children of the workers, who alone of any import
ance in society. Their surety of success lies in the
absolute union Of the workers themselves.
Wherever the toilers unite, stand together, show
their cohesion and their perception of their common
cause, humanity wins the victory and the powers of
evil defeated.
We are praying for the full success of the gar
en workers strike for it is ours, and the strike of
all that love justice and believe In the emancipation
of
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01
HI1.I :" % = IF5Eli.IIal-T' - =
KICK A. r. OF L. MEN
OUT SAYS T0WNE

W. E. Towne, the erratic Duluth
cialists should kick every member Of
an A. F. Of L. union out OF the party.
Mr.. Towne is a member of the Typo
graphical union, but he properly be-
longs In the Industrial Workers of the
World.
In communication to the Mime
sofa Socialist, in which ne excorciates
Thomas Van Lear, the well-known
Minneapolis Socialist, Mr.. Towne
takes Mr.. Van Lear to task for calling
a meeting of certain members of the
party for the purpose Of mapping out
a local city political program to be
submitted to the party.
Mr.. Towne. in commenting on Mr..
Van Lear's course, writes as follows:
This action of Van Lear shows one
thing Is necessary and that is house
cleaning and the place to begin with
these so-called Socialists who are
prominent in the A. F. of L. and who
hold paying positions in it's affiliated
organizations. The quicker the party
bounces these A. F. of L. labor fakirs,
the better Off we will be.
1.-THE quicker We stop this idiotic
boring from within and tell the Amer
lean Federation of Labor to take its
votes and go, the quicker we get
down on a class conscious basis.''
Mr.. Van Lear is a practical and
sane Socialist. He is also mighty
good trade unionist. He is interested
in making the Socialist party con-
structive organization. He recognizes
that because Of the great discomfort
among the workers the Socialist party
has become the haven for lot Of
hair-brained impossib1lists whose min
ny-like tactics endanger the life of
the party, and he is trying to save it
from inevitable destruction by helping
to direct it along practicable and
constructive lines.
There are more brains and common
horse sense in Thomas Van Lear's lit
tie finger than there are in w. E.
TONNES whole carcass.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01
IT'S UP TO US
By BERTON BRALEY.

Well, after all, the whole things up
to Us.
However, we may try to shift the
shame. !
It's you and I that really are to-
blame I,
If things are tangle and a muss. t
If Might is right, if Goodness yields
to Greed,
If mammon thrives, and God is
quite forgot,
II evil reigns in many a beauty
spot,
It is because We have not taken heed.
The wrongs that live are those We
tolerate
Because we have not tried to make
them right;
If Darkness where Justice call for
Light,
If Love is trampled out by wrath and
Hate.
If little children toll and women slave,
If some men starve while others
feast and waste.
If Truth is lost and Liberty dis
graced,
If millions fast from childhood to
the grave.
It is because, for all our noise ana
fuss,
We stay content with matters as
they are,
We have the final chance to make
or mar
Well, after all, the whole things up
to Us!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01
WOMAN SUFFRAGE AGAIN DEFEATED.

Senator sageng's bill proposing constitutional
amendment allowing women to vote equal terms
with men, was defeated in the senate Tuesday by
vote OF 80 to So 1t was the first real lineup of this
session between the sandpa and progressive senator's
or course, there were some progressives who
voted against the suffrage bill; that u.s. senator's who
usually vote right such the election of
United States senator's by popular vote, legislation af-
tecng the railroads and bills in the interest of labor
The woman suffrage bill, however, showed the
lineup in the senate to be between the real
s1ves and the real reactionarie Senator Sageng sui
fering from severe cold prohibited from lead
ing the Tight and his part in the debate taken by
Senator Haycraft, who ably assisted by Senator
Boyle the brilliant and eloquent young member from
st. Louis county.
The friends Of suffrage in Minnesota are
much disappointed the result of the vote in
the senate. 1t that the people will not have
an opportunity to vote the question for at least
four years In the meantime every progressive state
question: and Minnesota will lag along behind Just as
nature In recent years.
twenty years the eyes of the nation were
rveted upon this state for her venturesome reform
legislative enactments She took the adopting
the Australian system of voting. She was among tho
first OF the states to substantial railroad legsa-
ton in the interest of the people. laws protect
Ing the rights and promoting the welfare of the work.
Ing classes were pronounced the very best
Following the campaign Of 1896 Minnesota fell
into the reactionary column. The privileged classes
from then until now have exercised more or less IN
4Sfnce in the framing Of general legislation Only
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01
MURRAY BILL WILL
STAND WATCHING
Continued from PAGE I.

49, Continued from Page 1.
within the state from granting a
franchise to any public utility until
such shall have been approved by the
board. The commission il not to seek
individual direction Of the operation
Of any public utility. but is to act
only as court OF appeal to which
complaints may be taken. r. ......-..>
l. Senator Murray proposes amending
his bill 40 a. to make the railroad
and warehouse commission the public
utilities commission. I'll, I'LL, H. 81
The Labor Worlds suspicion that
tho Murray bill needed to be care
fully locked into Wa f1Est aroused
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01

There is such thing peace in this world and
is earned by kindness to Others smile for the de-
jected, sympathetic word for those PAIN thought
that there higher and better and nobler things in
life than own self-advancement
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01

Now we're told that it has been costing the rail-
roads $25'0ooo0 more year to transport the mail
then they're getting for it. It's safe guess that its
news to the railroads @# ..# % S5
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01

Milwaukee working girls are orga-
nizing cooperative buying clubs to
reduce the cost of living.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01

Thirty thousand members Of the
Christion labor union in Prussia, in
the coal mines, have quit work.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01

Kansas City's welfare board since
it's start in 1910 has provided free
legal aid for 11,10S poor applicants.
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1913-12-05
Martin Will Not
Be In Race
Congressman From The Third
Says He Expects To Rest
On Sons Farm In Hills

Deadwood, Nov. 2S.-Con-
gresham Eben w. Martin of the
third South Dakota District, who
spent the day at his home here,
when asked as to his candidancy
for reelection, declared he was
not IN the race and would not be
a candidate. Il did not see the
necessity for issuing any for
NAL announcement" said Mr..
Martin, for | have been telling
my friends for some months that
| could not run again. | am in
terested in my sons farm near
Hot Springs and will spend much
of my time there outdoors. |
nope to be able to return TO
Washington in about three weeks
to fill out the term"
Mr.. Martin has been suffering
for months from physical break
down and is slowly improving.
1t is expected that Circuit
Judge w G.. Rice of this city will
announce his candidacy to sue
cecd Mr.. Martin in a few days.
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1913-12-05

conded by l.. X. Wilson that we
vote by secret ballot. Motion
carried.
The chairman put the question
and a secret ballot vote was
taken, J. C. Stoner having re-
ceived the majority of the votes
cast, was declared elected as
democratic majority state pro-
posal committeeman from Per-
kins County.
Moved by John c. Stoner that
the chair appoint a committee
of five to recommend precinct
majority democratic committee
man. Motion seconded by
Charles N. Cooper. M otion
carried by unanimous vote.
The chair appointed as said
committee:
Sam Hooker
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1913-12-05

soon as he was dressed Sheriff
Anderson read the death war
rant to him and at no time did
Hickman show any emotion
whatever. This being done
Rickman was lead from the cell
to the corridor of the Jail where
the black robe was put on and
his hands bound behind him.
Then the march to the scaifold
begun, Sheriff Anderson on his
left and Rev. Hyink on his right,
silently but quickly with Deputy
Ellison leading the way, the
party left the Jail and entered
the enclosure where they mount
ed the steps TO the scaffold. I'M
mediatIy the black cap and
straps binding his legs and arms
We're fitted to place. Rev. Hyink
was leaning close TO the con-
demned man who was prayinp
when at exactly 5:2l A. NJ.
Sheriff Anderson pulled the trap.
Hickman s body shot downward
the length of the rope ana few
minutes later DR.. Walker pro-
nounccd him dead.
The body was then taken in
charge by a local undertaken
who brought it to Lennon.
where 1t was prepared for ship
ment in the EVansOn Undertake
ing rooms, Thursday morning.
and shipped to the Medical De
partment Of the State University
at Nermilion on Thursday even
ing.
The story of the crime for
which Hickman was hanged is
well known to our readers and
was without doubt premnditated
on his part
-Sheriif Anderson performed
the ardupu- duty which fell up
on him as sheriff in commend
able and entirely satisfactory
manner.
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1913-12-05
Some Poor Shooting

Yesterday afternoon Jerome
Fry was standing in front of the
Farmers State Bank in Faith
when he observed Albert Agnew
coming toward him with d5
Colts revolver pointed i'm
threatening manner. Fry hoI-
Tered don't shoot and jumped
into the door Of the bank. But
ARncW came right on and he
shot Fry rushed into the back
part of the bank hollering I'm
shot, I'm shot," sympathetic by
standers gathered around and
DR.. Aver was sent for, on inves.
tlgatlon there developed that the
ball had gone through the back
of his heavy overcoat but no
mark was on him. AgneW.
thinking he had got his man or
being satisfied with the effort he
had made turned and walked
away into the arms of The city
marshal and the city jail. Fry
made haste to hitch up and get
out of town. The parties are
n9mesteader5 living in southeast
PERKINS county near Blxby.
AgneW says, and his wife who
ls with him confirms the sto'y v,
chat this fall he went to North
Dakota to work in the harvest
.ields and that Walle his wife
was on the claim alone Fry went
70 the house and after prolong-
ei and hard struggle he raped
he woman. Agnew only learned
ot 1t snort time ago and went
70 Bison and swore warrant
for Fry which up to now has not
been served. Considerable in
dignation is felt with Agnew be-
cause he is SO poor a marksman.
Deputy Sheriff Garvey, of Per-
klns, county went after Fry last
night and brought him in for
witness against AgneW.
AgneW's hearing will be had
some time to-day before Squire
Elliott. Faith Gazette.
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1913-12-05

Mrs. Ellen Fox and her young
daughter Mildred, in their lonely
homestead shack in southern
Perkins county on the night of
Sept. 28th, 1913.
The gallows and surrounding
enclosure join the Jail on the
north, the enclosure probably 80
feet square being constructed Of
matched lumber and II feet in
height. Monday morning Sheriff
Anderson and Deputy Ellefson
made several tie s s of t h e
mechanism of the trap and of
the rope which was to be used
in hanging Hickman, by dropping
a heavy bag of sand thru the
trap door. They satisfied them
selves and those who witnessed
the tests that everything was in
perfect condition for the final
act.
All day Tuesday crowds of
people who gathered to attend
the Mass Conferences Of the
different political parties, were
coming and going from the jail,
curious to inspect the sinister
looking instrument of death or
catch glance Of the condemned
man as he sat in his little cell
awaiting his fate.
Rev. Hyink, of Lennon, who
had been called at the request
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1913-12-05

conference of Democratic Ma
lority Electors Of Perkins Coun-
ty, South Dakota, held pursuant
to published notice, as provided
by law on the 2nd day Of Dec
ember, 1913, at two O'Clock p.
NJ, at the County Court House
or place " here the Cir
cult Court for said County was
last held, to-Wit: at the City Of
Bison in said County, do hereby
certify that the electors whose
names are hereto annexed and
appended were each duly and
severally elected by said mass
conference as ID emocrat c
Majority Precinct Proposal
Committeeman for the several
voting precints in said County,
and that the name Of the pre-
cinct represented by said Com
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1913-12-05
MURDERER JOSEPH RlCKMAN IS PUT TO death
Is Hanged Bison "Wednesday Morning December
Man GoestoT With Apparent Compoure

When the trap was sprung at
5:21 o'clock A. NJ. Wednesday,
beneath the feet of Joseph Rick
man and his form shot down
ward thru the trap door to
dangle at the end of the hang
mans rope, the gallows ha d
claimed the full measure of its
power to infiict punishment and
do justice to the murderer of
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1913-12-05

o f Hickman, arrived Monday
and spent many of the remain
ing hours with the condemned
man, preparing him to pass thru
the ordeal of death and for the
life hereafter. Hickman became
repentant soon after he was
sentenced to die and was model
prisoner during the time he was
held at Bison. Rev. Hyink bap-