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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20
Weather Forecast

Washington. March 1s-Foreeast for
Alabama: Rain Thursday and probably
Friday; warmer south portion Thursday
colder Friday; moderate to brisk variable
winds.
Georgia: Rain Thursday and Friday;
warmer Thursday; colder Friday; moder-
ate east to south winds.
Mississippi and Tennessee; Rain Inurs-
day, decidedly colder in afternoon Ut
night; Friday cloudy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20
A Card

We wish to thank the members of Bir-
minglam Temple lodge $685. A. f and A.
NJ, as well as the members of Honora-
Vile lodge 25l. and other friends who ten
dered their aid Snd their sympathy in our
recent bereavement.
JOSEPH MORGAN AND FAMILY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20
KaDlan Talks at Synagogue

Admission, March 19.-(Special.) DIR.
Jacob III. Kaplan, editor of Kaplan's
magazine, new publication being
issued at Selma. delivered an interesting
talk to a representative audience at
Temple Beth FL in this city Wednesday
evening. DR.. Kaplan has beeen IN An
niston for several days in the interest
of his publication.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20
Street Cars Collide

Two street cars on the North High
lands line eolided yesterday afternoon
near Huntsville avenue on Nineteenth
street. No one was seriously injured
although several passengers sustained
minor bruises. Headlights on both cars
were damaged and number of windows
broken
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20
Celebrate D'Annunzio's Birthday

Pescara, Italy. March 19.-The mayor
and council of Pescara, the birthplace of
Gabrielle DAnnunzio, today celebrated the
fiftfeth anniversary of the poets birth.
The municipality has set aside a large
piece of land for the erection by popular
subscription of a house in honor of
n'AnnunziO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20
At the Theatres

Bijou-'erhe Fortune Hunter 2:5o and
$3.50 o'clock p. m.
Majestic-"A Winning Miss" 2:so, 7:So
and o'clock p m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20

Areuses the Liver and Purifies the Blood
The old Standard general strengthen
ing tonic, GROVES TASTELESS chill
TONIC. arouses the liver to action,
drives Malaria out of the blood and
builds up the system. For adults and
children. soc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20
EVENTS OF TODAY

Alabama Boys Industrial school band
gives concert at school auditorium at 7.sO
o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20

The new Meth@list church at Tom Cox
gap will be formally dedicated April 6.
An address will be delivered by Dr. Nor
ton of Boaz.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20

John r. Smith. manager Of a carnival
company that has been at Alabama City,
was arrested on state warrant issued at
Ashland, in Clay county, charging him
with running a lottery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20

Before going to montgomery to attend
the meeting of teachers, j. e. Williams.
county superintendent of education, an
nounced that elementary examinations for
seventh grade pupils in Etowah county
will be held March 20 at various places
in the county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20

A missionary institute for the Gadsden
district of the Methodist church opened
this afternoon at Alabama City. Ad-
dresses scheduled today We're by S. r.
Lester, r. W. Anderson and Joseph Par
kin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20

COLDS CAUSE HEADACHE AND GRIP
LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine removes
ths cause. There Is only one "BROMO
Q1JININE." Look for signature of e.
w. GROVE. csc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20

John d. Dunlap has just returned from
Washington, where he saw Secretary of
State Bryan with reference to his candi-
dacy for the position OF minister to Guate-
mala. Mr.. Dunlap has been much en-
couraged by what he learned in Wash
ington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20
.COFFERDAM0NTHE
COOSA FLOODED
Operations Will Be Delayed
at Dam II Owing to
High Water

Gadsden, March 19.-(special.)-News
has been received by those connected with
the Alabama Power company here tat
the recent high. water on the Coosa river
has caused the cofferdam at Dam II 10
be flooded NJ. Webb Offutt was in Gads-
den today. He reports signing up a large
contract for power
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20

Congressman John l.. Burnett returned
last night from Washington. and will re-
main here until the extra session on
April s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20

In February in Etowah county there
were 60 birth and 81 deaths. OF these
numbers eight in each class were ne
grCeS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11

pleasure to the spectators is debasing.
There should always be the opportunity
provided in a glove fight or bare fist
fight to stop il when one competitor is
hopelessly outclassed or too badly ham
mered. But the men who take part in
these fights are hard as nails. and it is
not worth while to feel sentimental
about their receiving punishment,
which. as a matter of fact. they do not
mind. OF course, the men who look on
gloves. or without them, themselves
| have scant use for the type Of sports
manship which consists merely in look
ing on at the feats Of some one else.
Some as good citizens as I know are
or were prizefghters. Take Mike" Dom
ovan of New York. He and his fam
lily represent a type of American citi-
zenship of which we have a right to be
proud Mike" is devoted temperance
man. and can be relied upon for every
movement in the interest of good citi-
Zenship. | was first intimately thrown
with him when was Police Commits
sioner. one evening he and I-both in
dress suits-attended a temperance
meeting of Catholic societies Ii culmi-
mated in "A lively set-to between myself
and Tammany Senator. who was a
very good fellow, but whose ideas of
temperance differed radically from
mine, and, as the event proved, from
those of the majority of the meeting.
Mike" evidently regarded himself as my
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11

physical instead Of merely verbai
Afterward / grew to know him well.
both while ] was Governor and while
was President, and many a time he
came on and boxed with me.
Battling" Nelson was another stanch
friend, and he and | think alike on
most questions of political and indus
trial life, although he once expressed 10
me some commiseration because, as
President. l did not get anything like
the money return for my services that
he aggregated during the same term Of
years in the ring. Bob Fftzsimmons
was another good friend of mine. He
has never forgotten his early skill as
blacksmith, and among the things that
| value and always keep in use is a
penholder made by Bob" out OF a
horseshoe, with an inscription saying
that il is Made for and presented 10
President heodore Roosevelt by his
friend and admirer, Robert Fitzsim-
mons" | have for long time had the
friendship of John l.. Sullivan, than
whom in his prime no better man ever
stepped into the ring. He is now a
Massachusetts farmer. John used oc-
casionaIly TO visit me at the White
House. his advent always causing a
distinct nutter among the waiting Sen
ators and Congressman. When | went
to Africa he presented me with a gold
mounted rabbits foot for luck. ] car
ried it through my African trip, and [
certainly had good luck.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11

WHEN obliged TO live i'm cities,
w for long time found that
;" boxing and wrestling enabled
me to get a good deal of exercise in
condensed and attractive form j was
reluctantly obliged to abandon both as
grew older l dropped the wrestling
earliest. When l became Governor. the
champion middleweight wrestler OF
America happened TO be in Albany. and
! got him 10 come round three or four
afternoons week. Incidentally, ] may
mention that his presence caused me
difficulty with the Controller who re-
fused TO audit a bill | put i'm for
wrestling mat, explaining that | could
have a billiard table-billards being
recognized as a proper gubernatoriai
amusement but that a wrestling mat
symbOlized something unusual and UNI
heard of, and could not be permitted.
The middleweight champion was, OF
course SO much better than l was that
ne could not only take care of himself
but Of m. too. and see that | was not
nurt, for v-estling is a much more ViO-
lent amusement than boxing. But
after luple of months he had TO go
away, and he left as a substitute
sood-humUred, stalwart professional
oarsman The oarsman turned out TO
know very title about wrestling. He
could not even take care of himself,
not to speak of me. BY the end of our
second AFTERNOON one of his long ribs
had been caved i'm and two of my short
lids badly damaged, and my left Shout
ger blade 50 nearly showed out of place
mat II creaked. He was nearly as
peased as / was when | told him
thought we would vote the war fail
ire and abandon wrestling. After
mat took up boxing again. While
resident | used TO box with some of
ue aids. as well as play singlestick
WIN General Wood. After a few years
mad to abandon boxing as well as
wrestling. or in one bout "A young cap
'ain OF artillery ross-countered me on
me eye and the blow smashed the little
Uiood vessels Fortunately. it was my
'eit eye, but the sight has been dim
''er since. and if it had been the right
we should have been entirely unable
shoot Accordingly. | thought it
'e''er to acknowledge that / had be-
so"ne an elderly man and would have
stop boxing. then took up jiu-
''su for year or two.
"hen | was in the Legislature and
"as working very hard. with little
nance of getting out Of doors. all the
Aereise ! got was boxing and wrest-
ing young fellow turned up who
vas second-rate prizefghter. the son
= one OF old boxing teachers. For
'e'al weeks i had him come round
my rooms in the morning to put on
We gloves with me for half an hour.
inen he suddenly stopped, and some
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11

shoulders that slope like a champagne
bottle. OF course. boxing should be en-
couraged in the army and navy |
was first drawn To two naval chaplains,
Fathers Chadwick and Rainey by find
ing that each Of them had bought half
"a dozen sets of boxing gloves and en-
couraged their crews in boxing.
When / was Police Commissioner
heartily approved the effort To get box
ing clubs started in New York on a
clean basis. Later ! was reluctantly
obliged to come to the conclusion that
the prize ring had become hopelessly
debascd and demoraliZed. and as Gov
ernor | aided in the passage of and
signed the bill putting a stop TO profess
sional boxing for money. This was
because some of the prizefighters them
selves were crooked. while the crowd of
hangers-o who attended and made up
and profited by the matches had placed
the whole business on basis Of COM
mercialism and brutality that was in
tolerable. / shall always maintain that
boxing contests themselves make good,
healthy sport 1t is idle To compare
them with bull lighting: the torture
and death of the wretched horses in
bull fighting is enough Of itself TO blast
the sport. no matter how great the skill
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animal spirits can find vent When
WAS Police Commissioners ! found tand
Jacob Riis will back me up in this)
that the establishment of "A boxing club
in a tough neighborhood always tended
IN do away with knitting and gun fight
ing among the young Fellows who
would otherwise have been in murder
ous gangs. Many If these young fell
lows were not naturally criminals AT
all but they had to have some outlet
,or their activities. In the same way |
have always regarded boxing as first
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11

amateur as "A first class sport, ana 40
not regard ii as brutalizing. Or course
matches can he conducted under CON
dtions that make them brutalzlhs'
But this is true of football games ana
Of most other rough and vigorous
sports. Most certainly prizefighting Is
not half as brutalizing or demoralizins
as many forms of big business and OF
the legal work carried on in connection
with big business. Powerful. vigorous
men of strong animal development
must have some way in which Their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11

DAYS later ] received a letter Of woe
from him from the jail. / found that
he was by profession burglar, and
merely followed boxing as the amuse-
ment of his lighter moments. or when
bushes was slack
Naturally, being fond of boxing, |
grew TO know a good many prize
fighters. and to most of those / knew !
grew genuinely attached. ] have never
been able to sympathize with the out
cry against prizefghters. The only OBJ
lection / have to the prize ring is the
crookedness that has attended its COM
mercial development Outside of this
regard boxing whether professional or
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-10
DOING AWAY WITH LABOR.
National Socialist. }


The United States bureau of engraving and printing mas nsae
wonderful which will print mile OF postage stamps
in five minutes This machine designed by Benjamin H. SUCK
of Ralph chief of the bureau Not only
will there saving of time printing the postage
stamps production will be reduced by about 81 per
cent it is The machine prints gums DRIES peoi
aes and cuts into winds into spoo about $4,000 stamps
minute
The out about 4OOOOOOO stamps daily but
when this work it will be able to manufacture
many millions a day.
II is stated that invention will revOluonize plate printing
doing away with much of the manual labor
Do statement? Doing with much manual
invention saves enormously of aborpOwer but the labor
nower consists beings who eat and sleep and wear
clothes and have place live What about this displaced LABOR
power? Every swels the army of the unemployed
under our present regarding aborpoWer COMMONLY
which must and sold just like other commodities Inc
only thing working class of the country have to sell IN exchange
bread Clothes and shelter is their laborpoWhy nave no
other commodity the market When take away part
the for abOrpOwe do with every invention OF
abosayng machinery the chances OF every vendor OF
aborpowr to his commodity We increase the competition Tor
Jobs. =, ..r.4 .-a4or,
Why should be? 1t is because under the capitalist system
production carried profit and saving IN the cost o
Sane system the invention machinery would that the adj
vantage the working class whole by permitting
reduction in hours Of labor. -.
1t is significant that in the present the invention oil TINS
machine NAV of making postage stamps at
will be possible perhaps introduce penny postage as result
This because the government Is the employer III ~ o an"
malls profit on its enterprises. ~ A.
If ali LARGE scale production and distribution were under the
the invention OF aboSaFg MACHINERY
would similarly benefit the whole people Under private ownership
of life the invention OF such machinery Is curse 10
the working class of being benefit as it should be-
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-10
A TERRIBLE LITTLE STRIKE.

The victorious strike of the textile
workers of Little Falls, N. Y, which
came to an end on the first day of the
new year, was comparatively small
with respect to the number of people
involved but stands almost unparal-
leled as regards the ferocity and bit
terness which it evoked.
1t was the strike of body of men
and women made desperate by hun
ger and misery and lasted twelve
weeks. About 1900 people took part
in the original walk-out but these
dwindled, because of the moving from
town of many families and the finding
of other jobs by strikers, until at one
time less than 800 were left.
More than rs arrests were made
and at one time the number of strike
prisoners in Jail numbered AS, includ-
ing one woman with a twoyear-old
child. The number of strikers kicked,
been dubbed or otherwise assaulted
by special and regular policemen, but
not arrested, of which there is record,
numbered exactly so, twelve of whom
we're women. There were many more
injured strikers who never reported
the assaults made on them but nursed
their wounds in silence
About a dozen were sentenced 10
Jail terms from ten days to ninety
DAYS. Others were confined for sew
eral DAYS and then released for no ap-
parent reason. In one case three
strikers were kept 81 days in jail
without trial and were then released
with no explanation.
Eighteen men now remain In jail
under indictment on charges varying
from "inciting to riot" to assault
with intent to kill" They have al
ready been punished by more than
two months confinement in a crowded
iail and several of them have been adj
lditionally punished by policemen who
beat them I'm cells, while supposed TO
be under the protection Of the law, un
lin the blood came. A few Of them
were compelled to wear the shirts
j stained with blood, which they wore
on the day they were taken to jail
They must pay penalties, II convicted
az high as ten years ia rhe peni'eh
tiary
}, u The free speeCh fight which made
Little Fails notorious, speakers we're
arrested for quoting from the cOns'i
tuition, the Declaration 81 IntePend
eBce and the Bible and even for max
ling signs on the hands The case
growing out q these arrests must W
. BE- fought out Ia the courts
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-10

In Lewis county dates from 1904
when a few Utopian dreamers met at
Silver Creek and nominated few
candidates for political office.
In 1906 the county was better or.
ganized and a full ticket was placed
In the field which received 2O4 votes.
BY 1908 this had increased to 512
and the politicians discovered we
were on the map. The socialist vote
in the state was $4,000 and in the ma
ton $4,000
Increased agitation, improved meth
DDS of education and more efficient
Organization famed the flames of in
ltelligent discomfort and the vote grew
to 1,G4O in this county, 41,000 in the
state and the national vote was &c.,
600 in 1912.
The politicians have consoled them
selves in the past with the belief that
the socialist vote was mainly a pro-
test against bossism and graft i'm the
old parties and that a large per cent
of the voters we're not really social
lists; perhaps this was true.
To counterfeit this they organized
the progressive party" so called be-
cause like a crawfish it goes back
ward, with the avowed intention of
side tracking the ultra-radical vote
away from the wicked socialists.
For the purpose "the great and only
good men" headed the ticket which
stole a number of important planks
from the socialist platform, promised
all things to all men and captured
few half baked reformers who might
otherwise have voted with the social
lists. For this we are duly thankful, for
we do not want any one to vote for
socialism until he knows what he
wants and then all the bulldozers and
politicians, who ever packed a con-
vention or stuffed ballot box, can
not mislead him.
What did this great reform" party
Inc COiiDii'Cu Jun
moose and Standpat vote was less
than Bryan and the total popular vote
increased only $4,000 over 1908, yet
we more than doubled our vote after
the protest" vote had been elimi-
mated by Crazy Horse and other
would-be leaders of "the people"
True we lost our only congressman
due to the unjust system of repre-
sentation in vogue in the U. s., but
we broke into the legislatures of sew
eral more states, sending one repre-
sentative to Olympia.
The 1916 campaign began Novem-
Der 6, and we are pressing onward
ever nearer that goal of which the
poets, dreamers and thinkers of all
ages have sung and dreamed and
thought, the greatest ideal that has
ever inspired humanity to action, the
complete social, political and indust-
rial freedom of the human race, the
cooperative commonwealth, the own
ership of the earth by the working
class.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-10
CLERGY FOR SOCIALISM.

One hundred and twelve priests and
preachers I'm regular orders I'm Eng
land declared for socialism. The
Reading Labor Advocate gives their
names. residences and churches They
say in declaration.
eve declare that the socialism We
believe iu involves the public owner
ship and management OF the means ot
production. distribution, and exchange
aud 10 therefore essentially the same
socialism as that which Us held by the
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-10
Advertising Talks

Comrades-Before you do your
shopping tomorrow cut the directory
from the Commonwealth and carry it
with you to make sure you are patron
izing present Commonwealth advertis-
ers.
Special attention is given the direc-
tory to have it correct and you are GER
tain of patronizing Commonwealth
supporters when you buy from the
merchants whose names are found
here.
R. E. Orne, better known as "E-Z,
the Shoe Man." won loving cup, So
in cash and several other prizes with
his White Orphingtons at the poultry
show. His chickens are surpassed in
quality only by the shoes he adver-
tises in the Commonwealth.
L. Eye.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-10

Milwaukee, Wis.-The slavic social
list convention closed i'm milwaukee,
December 20, 1912. During the con
vention speeches were made ON vari
GUS subjects by Emil Seidel of Mil
waukee, English; Joseph Zovertneck
Sr., Slavonian; \. Bessenic Croatian,
b. r. Sarvich, Servian; ID. Ecanamoff,
Bulgarian, and many others. A ball
and reception was given in their honor
in Milwaukee,
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-10

Spain-After a vigorous protest
made by Pollas Iglesais, socialist sen.
ator of Spain, the government has fin.
ally taken steps to stop the inhuman
traffic in children which has been GO
ing on in Spain unmolested, Senator
Iglesais presented several actual cases
before the senate, of how the children
of the poorer classes are sold to the
purchasers, "padrones," they are
called, and then made to shave in the
glass factories of France and Southern
Belgium.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-10

Constantinople socialists and mem
bers of the general Confederation OF
Labor are making an appeal to the
international socialist movement on
behalf of Valos c. Zachas, of Con.
stantinople, who has been arrested in
Greece for agitating social education,
undernonial schools and trade unions,
and is now threatened with the same
fate of the late Francisco Ferrer.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-10

Because an imperial unkase issued
by the car of Russia required them
to salute all army officers, the stu
dents of the Kieff medical academy
have gone on strike.
Leslie It. Mailer yand w. e. Kinney,
two Burns detectives, are under arrest
in New Orleans for attempting to kill
Darlington Hall, socialist and writer,
who sent out the news of the recent
timber workers. strike.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-10

socialists throughout the world"
There are some 700 clergymen in
the United states who are declared so
cialists. Yet those who have stran-
Gle hold on the religion trust aud ex
elusive access u the ear and intla
ence Of the Almighty would "freeze
out" as destroyers Of religion, all Whn
40 not belong 20 the big religion trust
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-10

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The Young Peoples League of Spain
held largely attended convention in
Madrid. The league showed wonder
full gains in membership The con
venton elected Saberit national presi-
dent.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-10

Battle, Creek, Mich.-John G. Wool
ey, former prohibition candidate, has
left the folds of the prohibition party.
He says it is a "lost cause" we
knew that long ago, John.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-10

The parliament of Iceland has
passed on an equal suffrage bill. Ice
land has had limited form of woman
suffrage since 1882.