davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-15
SIMMS FAILS TO EXPLAIN
MOTIVE OF HIS KELP BILL
REPRESENTATIVE OF STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN" LEAGUE
CONFINES SPEECHES TO SELECT FEW-PUBLIC SHOULD
LOOK INTO RECORD OF FISH INTERESTS IN THE STATE
OF WASHINGTON.

privileges other than Occupying the
gallery''-could even be found invad-
ing the sacred precincts of the legisla-
tive session room itself. Greatly
paid "lobby" of the farmers and the
labor unions personally threatened
your lawmakers on the streets and at
their hotels; threatened to punish
them at home unless they vote for the
measures favored by the lobbyists" 4"
The first part of the statement would
be serious indeed if it had a particle
of truth in it, which it has not, and no
one knows it so we'll as does Mr.. Sims
himself. But then one must make
some counter charge when ones fish
graft is about to be compelled to
shoulder a burden of taxation the
same as the other industries of the
state. The second part of the state
ment is quite true, but then members
of the legislature need not fear threats
of this character unless they really
have been untrue to the interests of
the people at home. If they have not
kept faith with these people, then is
it not the duty of those who are there
to look after the interests of the farm
ers and the working people of the
state to both warn such members of
the legislature against such conduct
and to report hat conduct back to the
people at home?
Having acted for the Washington
State Federation of Labor at the last
session of the legislature as it's legis-
lative agent in behalf of its legislative
interests, l must plead guilty to hav-
ing received a salary for my services.
There was nothing secret about this.
The full facts have been reported in
the minutest detail and publicly print
ed in the literature and reports of the
State Federation of Labor, as the boys
and girls of this great organization
have rather prided themselves in the
fact that they have for many years
had the spirit and enterprise to send
to Olympia to watch
over the doings of the legislature and
to work for legislation which they
honestly believed was to the best in
terest and for the upbuilding and de-
of the people of the state
along the highest lines. The same has
been true of the State Grange and the
State Farmers Union. All of us who
have at times gone to Olympia for
these organizations are men and wom-
en- who live and support our families
by our daily toll, and being unable to
take wings to and from Olympia, or
live on thin air during a 60-day legis-
lative session, we necessarily had to
be paid for our services by that great
army of men and women who are like
in life, but who are as
much entitled to have representatives
at the state capitol to look out for
their interests as is any one else One
Of the things we found out as a re-
suit of having such men at the legis- |
ative sessions, is that the fish COM
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-15

this fish problem and get rid of the
pernicious influence of the fish COM
bine and its allied interests upon mat
ters of state legislation, as we'll as to
break the mOnOpOlistic control of the
fisheries and to conserve the fish prod
ucts of the state, it would appear that
it must be done by initiating a proper
fish code and referring it to the voters
of the state under the initiative and
law"
H. 1. HUGHES.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-15

bine has a great deal too much to do
in the matter of shaping legislation
in this state, and that it does not pay
enough royalty on the fish, which the
people provide, to pay the cost of
maintaining the fish hatcheries. Be-
sides this the report of the recent
grand jury in Whatcom cunty shows
that the fish interests are notorious
tax dodgers. Pretty good reason why
the people should have some one at
Olympia to watch this crowd.
Just to prove that Hon. E. A. Sims,
organizer of the Stop, Look and
Listen" league, himself possibly needs
a little watching, l want to quote the
following from my official report, as
legislative agent, to the Raymond con-
vention of the Washington State Fed
Grafton of Labor, since it has particu-
lar bearing upon Mr.. Sims record as
LEGISLATORS:
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-15
Fish Legislation.

Fish Legislation.
"The fishing business is one of the
most important industries in the state
and controlled as it is by powerful
private interests, these interests have
never scrupled to use their power to
shape legislation to their own ends,
and in so doing have been particularly
adept in entering into unholy alliance
with the lumber trust and all the
other big business interests of the
state, working solidly together-'each
for all, and all for each'-in a shrewd
little game for buncoing all the rest
of the people. They have been emf
nently successful in enacting special
laws for the support of great in
dustry which few have monopolized
to the very great cost of the people
of the state. At this session of the
legislature several bills were intro
duced, all looking toward the correc
ton of some of the abuses which this
powerful combine has been practicing.
The fish interests themselves pro
fessed to favor remedial legislation
and united with others to frame gen
eral fish code. They had purpose in
this as we shall shortly see. In draw
ing up a fish code they succeeded in
detracting attention from the separate
fish bills until late in the session,
when the fish code was finally pre-
pared-by that time it was too late to
organize anything of a fight for the |
code and the fish combine members
pulled out from under and let the
whole matter fall through-just the
very thing they wanted to do. They /.
are profiting exceedingly we'll with the |
laws just as they now are, and they do
not desire to have this condition dis
turbed
''In one instance, however, the fish
combine had a bill of their own that |
they were exceedingly anxious to have
enacted-at least they desired it until
the Joker was exposed, and then they /
themselves killed it. This was house
bill S61, introduced by Representative
Sims, fish man, floor leader for the
forces in the house, and |
generally recognized as the spokesman |
for the fish sombine. 1t purported to |
be kelp land bill to promote and |
protect the growth and industrial use
Of kelp, providing for the lease of kelp |
ands, etc Kelp is a sea weed product |
hat is commercially valuable. From |
The history of this bill it is to be
however, that the fish com
1ine was not nearly so much interested /
IN kelp for the kelp's sake. as they
we're to get control of certain lands
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12
The Scientific Art=ROad of the Future

TT has been observed, with wit
and truth, that Uncle Sam"
without Panama Canal, Is
like householder hat has to run
around the block to chase a
tramp out of the back yard"
And certain ii is that it Is as
difficult for city, State or ma
ton to run itself without owning
its thoroughfares common roads
and railroads, as II would be for
a hotel. department store or Of
flee building to run itself with
out owning its passageways,
stalrways and elevators.-Al-
bert Kimsey Owen.
Logan Waller Page. director Of
the United States Office of Pub
lie Roads, says: Nations are as
strong or as weak as their roads
are great or insignificant"
The Roman road system was
wonderful Every conquered
province was traversed in all d.
rections with connecting roads.
OF the narrow paths, three to
six feet wide, found in conquered
Gaul, no less than 10000 miles are
said to have been improved. In
Britain the road improvement is
estimated to have been at least
$500 miles. Across the Alps,
through Gaul to Spain, Austria,
and the regions of the Danube,
led the great military roads.
Nor were the countries beyond
the seas ignored. Straight to the
waters edge led the road from
Rome. and then on the shore be-
,yond was the continuation. Eng
land, Sicily. Africa and even Asia.
all bear witness of the wonderful
energy which strove to bind firm
ly every member of the great
empire into living whole.
Nor was this energy directed
exclusively toward imperial prog
ress and the building of roads for
the movement of legions, or to
satiate an empire with the lux
uries Of remote countries. If not
at first, at least later in her de-
velopment, Rome saw in her roads
value other than military, for in
the reign of Augustus, there was
a seemingly we'll devised system
of crossroads leading to and con-
Meeting villages and even farms
with the great military roads.
The roads were no longer exclu-
sively military. but were also
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright, 1914.)

f1lling the domestic needs of the
farmers. Albert Kimsey Owen,
of Baldwinsville, N. Y, one of the
great altruistic, brainy men of
the age, is bending all his abili-
ties to the establishment of four
thousand four hundred and fifty
miles of good roads in America.
His idea Is uplifting and in
spring; and 1t is to be hoped
that President Wilson, to whom
the matter has been presented,
will see its great value to Amer
lea, industrially, socially and
morally.
Because It means employment
for the unemployed, homes for
the homeless and cleanliness for
the unclean.
Here is brief summary of Mr..
Ovens gigantic and beautiful
idea;
Scientific art roads or auto
highways are to be grand, magnifi-
cent, multiway boulevards along
which tn people are to be at
tracted with order and system to
readjust themselves, their homes,
farms, factories, banks, villages,
schools, lecture halls and amuse-
ments.
While the width of the right
of way will be one mile, the width
of an auto highway proper will
be but 1,4S0 feet, and will con-
sist IF one cement or brick paved
road twenty feet wide, on which
roller skaters will glide up and
down and across ways.
This roller skate road will be
the middle road of ten roads, five
on a side, in order that the five
different classes of vehicles now
in use will not only be confined
each class to it's particular and
exclusive road, but that each class
VIII go out on road on one side
Of the roller skate road and come
back on the other side of the roll
er-skate road. Taking one side,
the arrangement is to be as fol-
lows:
one cement road, fifteen feet
wide, with three steel plate, brick
or other improved ways for mo-
tor and other cycles; one cement
road twenty feet wide. with two
steel plate, brick or other i'm
proved ways for automobiles that
VIII no. run more than 25 miles
an hour; one cement road TWEEN
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12
Henry F0rd's Plan and Its Great Value
By WILLIS J. ABBOTT

rank with the foremost in the
country.
The Ford Company begins Its
program of profit sharing with
an act Of absolute justice. 1t fixes
the hours of a days work at
eight, instead OF nine, and as its
factories are In continuous opera
ton. works three shifts daily. Mr..
Ford expresses pleasure that this
system enables him to give en-
ployment to several thousand
more men.
But It does more. 1t advances
the movement for a general eight
hour day prodigiously. The Ford
motor works will be pointed TO as
an example by advocates of eight
hour the world over, and their ar
gument will be vastly strength
ened.
The next step is one of pure
generosity-as business ethics
now stand. To fix five dollars as
the minimum wage for any en-
ployee over % years of age Is an
act of arbitrary benevolence. Po-
litical economists and hard head
ed business men will tell you that
men are worth what you can get
them for In the open market, con-
trolled by the memorable law OF
supply and demand-no more.
Henry Ford evidently never
studied political economy, and,
excellent business man though he
is, does not think a hard heart
the necessary accompaniment of
hard head.
Magnificently imperial IS the
announcement that $40 900, 900 has
been fixed upon as the sum that
will be divided during the COM
ing year among the Ford en-
ployees. Payments from this
sum are to be made In the pay
envelopes semi-montl.ly. The in
estimable superiority of this sys-
tenn over the common practice Of
profit sharing corporations which
keep their employees In doubt
twelve months az to their share
of the profits Is obvious
Thrift Is most encouraged by
a precise knowledge Of what one
has and what one may fairly
hope to save. The Ford system
will distinctly develop thrift.
This magnificently generous &C
ton on the part OF this company
will enable IL to take its pick OF
employees in every branch Of the
industry In which II is engaged.
To that extent its generosity will
be profitable.
To the employees the advan-
tages of shorter work day. high
er wages and a share in the prof
its are too obvious TO need eXpla-
nation
What Ia worth while is TO point
cut the great good II t this &C
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12

ton portends to Detroit and to
the Industrial world as a whole.
Detroit is pre- eminently the au-
tomobile city. Great as are the
Ford works, there are others
there hardly overshadowed. The
standard set by Ford must be
closely measured up to by the
others if they desire to keep their
high grade employees. Any revi-
sion of wages in that field must
necessarily be a revision upward.
The eight hour rule can not long
be observed in one great factory
and ignored in the factories of its
rivals.
No possible expenditures of
great profits by a corporation
could be so advantageous to
city as their distribution among
great multitude of employees.
iiC VI u NOlilpdIN Is d Oul 10
double the purchasing power OF
thousands of its employees. and
greatly increase 1t for many
thousands more. What this will
mean to the business community
of Detroit and of the other cities
in which Ford branches ere To-
pafaJ lie
1t is fortunate for the business
interests Of the whole nation that
this eminent manufacturing
concern has taken this step at
just this time. Could there be
more positive answer to the
croakers who are dismally pre-
dieting hard times, and advising
every man to lock up his dollars
where they can't be lost-or be
useful?
The Ford Company deals with
the average man. The motor
cars it makes are bought by peo-
pie to whom the expenditure OF a
few hundred dollars is an event,
and a car a highly priced posses
sion not to be discarded for
whim Of fashion. Its customers
are precisely those who first
would feel the pinch of hard
times. lessened employment.
slackened industry and falling
wages.
Knowing this, and undoubtedly
not deaf to the dismal forebod-
ings of pessimists. Henry Ford
announces a policy which will
give employment to one-third
more workers, which enormously
Increases regular wages and con-
fdently assures employees a share
in prodisious profits to be earned
in 1914.
The business community owes
Henry Ford an inestimable debt.
AS for Detroi.--well no wonder
her people declare It "a place
where life is worth living" If liv-
ing there has developed a charac-
ter so rich in practical generosity
and business astuteness as his.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12
ME GEORGIAN has protest

TINE GEORGIAN has protest
ed the opinion of the At
torney General of the
United States which asserts that
the subsection of the tariff that
allows 5 per cent discount on
imports in American vessels is in
operative.
The proviso forbade such a
construction of the subsection as
would abrogate or impair exist
Ing trade treaties. The proviso
was added only after the State
Departments expert on treaties,
Mr.. John Bassett Moore. had in
written opinion quoted articles
from treaties. showing their scope.
This opinion was made a Sen
ate document. The bearing OF
treaties, in advance Of action by
Congress. was impressively de-
fined. The Attorney Generals
contention Is that Congress did
not know VIII, 1t was doing in
enacting this subsection.
The Georgian contends that the
sequence Of events clearly estab-
fishes that Congress not only
clearly understood what 1t was
doing, but that it understood that
imports in certain foreign vessels
would be entitled to the discount
of the duty that imports in Amer
lean vessels enjoyed.
The Georsian has contended
that importers would find redress
through the courts. A Washing
ton dispatch in a New York news
paper, which is bitterly opposed
to this subsection and to any re-
vival of American shipping, thus
confirms The Georgian's conten-
tons:
Treasury officials were dis
turbed by the litigation in New
York and Eoston over the en-
forcement of the per cent diff
ferentiaI in the tariff In favor of
imports carried In American bot.
toms, which extends also to shins
OF certain nations by reason of
the American treaty obligations
with them"
This was precisely The Geor-
CLANS contention. 1t was inevi-
table that importers should seek
redress at the hands Of the courts
for the reinforcement of the
subsection. The dispatch in ques-
ton further states:
Although the Department. of
Justice, through Attorney General
McReynoIds, has ruled against
the enforcement Of the differen-
tial as being Impractical. Of ap-
plioation, it Is understood that
customs brokers and lawyers be-
lieve they can have a good case
against the Government in the
enforcement of the aifse-en.;aI.
and THEY ARE TAKING ALL
MANNER OF GASES ON A
CONTINGENT BASIS, believing
thoroughly they will win"
The Attorney General merely
sought delay, hoping the subsec-
ton might be repealed. We do
not say that his opinion was
written in the interest Of foreign
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12
Attorney Generals Blow to Shipping
The dispatch say. further.

The dispatch say. further.
Tho Judgments against III.
Government for the return of d.
ties equal to the differentiaI. il /,
believed, will be heavy, and tbs
TREASURY OFFICIALS wuo
THEMSELVES BELIEVE rvs
IMPORTERS WILL WIN ON
THEIR APPEAL, fear tb.. Al.
Treasury must face a deficit r..n ~
or than point with pride to , s,,
plus"
The last quoted sentence WAS
WRITTEN WITH INTENT To
DECEIVE; its purpose is ia w..
ate q prejudice against the ( No,
cent discount subsection. 80 a, -
prevent the upbuilding Of Ar.r
can shipping foreign tr.A.
treasury experts estimated a .rr
Mus Of $1s.ooo,ooo from the n.u
tarifr. If all of last years dut,.
Die imports were admitted with ,
per cent reduction OF ths at
the reduction in revenue could no,
have reached s11,OCo,ooo Proh,
Oily not rs per cent Of our dut,ab,a
Imports will enjoy the discount
BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT
ENOUGH AMERICAN SHIPS
AVAILABLE NOR ENo1rru
SHIPS OF NATIONS WHOSE
TREATIES WITH US ENTITI.E
THEIR IMPORTS TO THE D1s
COUNT TO CARRY % PEP
CENT OF OUR DUTIABLE I'M
PORTS. The dispatch concludes
"Relief could come by the re.
peal by Congress OF the 5 per cent
difsersntiaI."
Relief can also come by termI-
mating all existing trade treaties
The Georgian advises their term,-
nation. That is the relief that
Mr.. Underwood. approves of; II
ought to be the relief the Presi-
dent will favor; 1t Is the kind Of
relief that WILL HELP AMERI-
CAN SHIPPING; IT IS THE
KIND OF RELIEF THAT FOR
EIGN SHIPS DO NOT WANT
The Georgian believes that the
great era of American shipping
revival has been entered upon.
Oscar w. Underwood has pl-
oneered 1t. Will he infuse still
more virility and force into it
through the rm:aation Of all
existing trade treaties? When i'm
ports in foreign vessels begin to
enjoy the per cent discount,
then, The Georgian has always
believed, the people will loudly
demand the termination OF
treaties that give them such ben
Gifts, SO that the benefits will be
confined to American vessels only
The Georgian feels some pride
In the support it has unwaver-
1ngly given to this, the most i'm
pertant section of the entire tariff.
The Georgian and Representative
Underwood believe in going for
ward-not backward-in the re-
Mobilization of American shipping
In foreign trade. Public sentiment
ought to carry the Congress and
the President in their forward
progress, BECAUSE THAT IS
WHAT ALL TIE PEOPLE
WANTi
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12

MO visitor to Detroit is per
1 mitted long to stroll It's
spacious streets, or to fire.
quent hotel corridors, clubs or
other places where men congre-
gate without hearing much about
Henry Ford. The story of the
swift and sudden rise to enor-
nous wealth, and the essential
simplicity and modesty OF this CO.
lossus OF roadsters is a topic
upon which the Detroiter can ever
wax eloquent
You are told of his bank ac-
counts so plethoric in ready cash
that the banks themselves hesi-
tate to take them, dreading the
sudden Withdrawal of such large
amounts.
You hear of the lawyer who
unwillingly took block of stock
for his fee for drawing few le-
sal pa pers in the Ford Company's
early days. and now enjoys an in
come OF $4,000 a year from that
reluctant investment.
In a passing limousine you OBJ
serve highly prosperous looking
gentleman, and are assured that
twenty years ago he was $1,50o-
a year bookkeeper who, deaf TO
his wife's prudent protests, put
all his little savings into Fords
infant concern and now reckons
his daily income at about the
same figure as his former annual
wage.
II you drive about "the city
where life is worth living" as De-
troiters modestlv describe their
home, YOU will be shown the huge
Ford motor works, covering city
blocks and still a-building, and
you will hear of the $4,000 men
employed in this great edifice Of
concrete, steel and glass
But on the fashionable streets
OF the city, or at Crosse Pointe.
where palatial residences look
across velvety lawns TO the blue
waters of Lake st. Clair, YOU will
look in vain for any modern cas-
tie housing this modest captain
of industry. Out in a wholly UNI
fashionable suburb. selected by
him because there was the farm
on which he lived in boyhood
days, he has built his home, sur
rounding 1t with broad acres on
which he instslls animals OF va
rious ds-domesticated and
wild--for the one hobby hitherto
enjoyed by Henry Ford has been
the study Of animal life. | I'M
derstand that in pursuance Of
this interest he is active in a
movement 10 give TO Detroit
geological garden which shau
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12

ty feet wide, with two steel-plate'
brick or other improved ways, for
fast automobiles; one cement
road twenty feet wide, with two
steel tracks, one for electric cars
for passengers and one for cleo
trio cars for freights; and one ce-
ment road twenty feet wide, with
two steel plate, brick or other
improved ways, for carts, wagons
and carriages.
Altogether, an highway
proper consists of eleven ROADS
two zones, each 80 feet wide, for
water, gas and oil pipes; for
tubes for drainage, wires and ca
bles, and tubes for pneumatic and
other services; six zones. each 100
feet wide, for factories, public
buildings and dwellings,; two
park zones, each twenty feet
wide; four lawn and flower zones
each twenty feet wide; sixteen
shade tree zones, each ten feet
wide, and twelve footways, each
ten feet wide. The remainder OF
the area included in the mile
wide right of way will be occu-
pied by farms, orchards, forests
stock ranRAs, etc.
Auto highways stand for the
combination Of roads, rails, tracks
ways and paths; roads for wag-
ons, rails for electric cars, steel
plate tracks for fast automobiles
cement ways for slow automo-
biles, cement ways for cycles
cement ways for roller-skaters'
and cement and brick paths Tor
pedestrians.
In all there are eleven thor
oughfares. The cement way for
roller skaters is in the middle ana
is twenty feet wide. On 1t sKal-
ers can move both ways.
The construction of these roaoS'
the settling of the workers Oh
their farms and in their own gar
den homes, and the building =.
many varied and inter-sustalnInnsI
industries along these ROADS W.
give go many new and olNt.s
opportunities and will so rais
the standard OF opportun.9'
thought and living Of the anne
can people that there VIII pc
greater demand for all kinus -
better things, grown ana nla anA
featured. than existing farms
factories will be able to supB0s -