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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-01
UNEMPEoYED SEEK FOOD

Chicago, Jam 1Ent tertng restau-. rants and denanding food, breaking windows and puncturing alitome bile tires, a acrowd Of nearly 500 unem- ployed men early this morning march ed through C4lfcagoss business district. They furnished 3 strange contrast to New ear reVeIlefs who were leaving thee afes and sresta uranus
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-01

It is no longer fashionable to keep a diary, as in society people want to forget instead of remember
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-01

Tokio.-The public execution was carried out at Taihoka, Formosa, of Is Formosan conspirators sentenced to death for a, plot to overthrow Japan ese rule in Formosa~ Tn addition, 123 others were condemned to long terms of imprisonment.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-01
EA O N

x fsft q e.
 A speeiaI meeting of Easton grange was held Tuesday evening. As the master AureI Rutnan, was i'll, State Master J. Arthur SherWood, took the masters chair. The second and third degrees were conferred on Misses Frances Cook, Bertha Andrews and Regina. Stenseek, and Messrs. stephen Baremore, George Marsh, Stanley Joyce and Victor Gustavsom After the meeting closed -the lecturer, Mrs. John H. Candee, presented the follow ing program Selection, by the or chestra, Miss Mary Gillette, Clifford Gillette. Edward D. Gillette and, Le-4 roy Wheeler; reading, Miss Hazel E. Sherwood; duet, MT. and Mrs. Will liam Loper, Accompanied by Miss Edith Sherwood. After the program the committee, Mrs. Robert w. Marsh and Mrs. Clarence A.. Jennings. dis tributed gifts from the beautiful Christmas tree. At the close the members enjoyed dancing for a short time. There were 61 members pres ent and two visitors.
 The Easton grange will give a dance at the hall enssFsriday evening, Janu- ary 16
 William, Cook of Shelton, a former teacher at the Academy, is spending a few days at the home Of MT: and Mrs. Jesse H.. Wheeler.
 MT. and Mrs. Herbert Si11imanf of New York and Mrs. Ella Sherwood Of Bridgepc1s,- were guests on Sunday of
 MT. and Mrs. Walker Sherwood of Sport Hill.
 Much sentiment is expressed in fa- vor of law to prohibit men from ., 'I1-. --s5
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-01
RED MEN.

Interest on your mortgage coming due next winter Join the Christmas Club. The Bridgeport Trust Company, 167-171 State street.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-01

Berlin-It has been discovered that the former Shah Mohammed Ali, of Persia, is hiding in Berlin. He has been here nine months posing as a merchant under the name of Kazan Mach Nadross.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14
THE LOAD OF LOW WAGES.

The employer who prefers cheap labor not practic
Ing the sound business he must make any
business undertaking success.
man living near Chautauqua Lake, New York
watched an eagle it gracefully the lake
when suddenly darted toward the water catching
mis- talons muskellunge two feet in length
and weighing probably ten pounds.
There was clash and splashing of fins and
feathers But slowly the bird in the air with its
captive dangling and wriggling
When at height Of about thousand feet the
bird, still cnging to the fish, began to sink slowl,
toward the lake again, gaining speed it descended
and finally fell with splash into the water
Later the bird and Ash found together dead
The fish had evidently been heavy for the eagle
carry But Its claws firmly imbedded in thu
flesh that it could not release its hold. ..... -.
The employer who commits himself to cheap labor il
not gaining anything by such course. - -:
For time it may seem to pay him. But eventual,
he will find his mistake. =
Low wages Is as fatal to business as to labor
Ready sales and good prices are indispensable t,
business success. b.: b..
The workers are the great buyers in the business
world And they only buy as their wages SUPPL,
the ability. =
So the merchant who takes up the cause of chea,
labor is taking load that sure to bring business
down. : =
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14
!, STATE INSURANCE -.
PAYS IN CALIFORNIA

From the San Francisco STAR:
After seven weeks of operation. the
Compensation Insurance Fund OF the
State OF California, with offices in
San Francisco and Los Angeles, has
on hand fund Of approximately
100000, and has collected actual
premiums on industrial policies
amounting to $2so,o00. The balance
of the fund consists of two appro-
priations Of 100000 and $4,000
made by the legislature for it's use.
Many Of the employers of the state
have insured with the state fund. Up
to date more than $500 applications
for insurance have been made, and
most Of these have been granted.
making the state responsible for poll
cies On payrolls estimated at more
than $30,0o0,o0o. The state insurance
fund has already had nearly forty
claims presented to 1t, most of which
have been for small amounts, involv-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14
!: TAFT's, WISE ADVISE
TO. AMERICAN PEOPLE


Speaking Of the demand. in certain
quarters for: armed Intervention in
Mexico, former President Taft says
that chose who lightly look forward
to Intervention are either utterly re-
CARELESS of the loss Of life and the ex-
penditure of immense treasure, or else
they don't know what armed interven-
ton on the part Of this government in
Mexico will mean"
He points out that 1T would, in
volve the garrisoning with a sufficient
force of every. town." and the "organ-
ization Of columns to chase the gueril-
las into their mountain fastness. and
across desert plains, and the subju-
cation Of 15,000,000 people," He says
truly that mo effort ought to be
omitted to prevent such catastro-
phe:"
The loudest and most persistent de-
mands for Intervention come from
those who are utterly regardless, OF
the loss of life" They have "conces-
sions" and other interests in Mexico,
and demand that the American peo-
pie be subjected to an enormous bur-
den Of taxation for their benefit. 1t
would be cheaper for us to pey then.
the full value Of their "concessions'
and other property. However, they
assumed the risk when they went &c
Mexico. f.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14
Z Z I : 4 +
/ WHEN A GOOD STORY :
MAY BE RELIsHED .
Observation-Disclosures!

a story is good to illustrate point,
provided it fulfills its function, but
It 1t does not, Francis A. Lewis writes
IN The Living Church, don't tell it
merely for the sake Of the telling. It
may raise momentary Taught, but it
Weakens the speech. Again. If you are
going to tell story; do not waste
much time on its preface. The point
Is the thing, and get there speedily.
How often have heard a really good
story ruined by an elaborate state
ment Of the place were, or the time
when, or the person to whom, the in
cident happened. ''.,.
Let me illustrate. A friend was
visiting an Irishman. who had on his
parlor mantel brick with wine
glass on top in which was q flower.
curiosity being aroused, he inquired
the cause OF the presense Of the brick
The 1rishman, pointing to his head,
said, DO you see that scar? The
brick is what made that scar" welt,
what is the flower in the wineglass7 r
THAT is from the grave OF the man
who. threw the brick" The story
good, but '"~any speaker would ruin
1e#by reciting that 1t occurred in Bos-
ton and that the Irishman' name wau
f1nnigan and the victor's name was
Jones am. the man who threw the
prick Sullivan. In the wilderness .,
nomenclature the point would be lost.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14
!. ALL BACK WILSON IN 49,
MEXICAN SITUATION

49,
i. Sumner Curtis, The Chicago Record
Herald, says: 49,
Every man in congress whose sup
port is worth having is standing be-
hind the president in dealing with the
Mexican situation, regardless Of party
all hoping that the Democratic chief
magistrate will guide to safe aud
peaceful solution. .... h. p. =,
Yet these members Of congress Of
all parties see the difficulties thai
confront the president It is a strik-
ing fact that the admiration which
success of the higher sort begets in
clines natural political opponents OF
Mr.. Wilson to regret sincerely that
he has troubles in the foreign field.
Republican leaders, as well as those Of
the presidents own party, would like
to see him have as smooth sailing
in putting all his policies into effect
! as he has had in the important do
nestle questions. u
I'VE actually have arrived at that
previously unbelievable. day. in po-
litical history when a partisan states
man politician is anle to, get down
right satisfaction and keen pleasure
through observing the genius that
spells success IN q rival .s 5.5 !.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14

There is no chance to hurry President Wilson in the
Mexican situation. He knows what he is about and all
the Jingoists in Britain America will not be able
to bulge him from his which righteous one
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14
HOW TO ORGANIZE.

HOW 10 ORGANIZE.
The strength OF Organized Labor its extentions
of organization.
Every unorganized worker given trade determines
the standing of that trade organized power.
If all the workers in Duluth were Organized the
workers would have the say in regulating conditions OF
labor in the city. ..-..
The proportion of organization determines the pro-
portion Of strength.
All this is self-evident
But organization is not something that works auto.
matcally.
1t Is not something that the EN- blowers
1t Is not something that be accomplished BY
an organizer or committee. - -. 49,. :
1t is something that only be accomplished by in
divdual effort. - 49,. .'~ T =. ::
AS every unorganized worker is an instrument of
disorganization. every organized worker must be-
come an instrument of organization. but in a more
. He must go personally to the unorganized worker
and urge him to join the union
He must explain to him the principles and PURPOSES
of the union y
. He must show him the advantages of membership in
the union
He must impress him with his duty as a worker
to his fellows.
He must inspire within him ideals of brotherhood
that Brotherhood of Labor which Mr.. Lincoln said
should be the strongest bond between men.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14
ANOTHER RAILROAD CHECKED UP.


The railroads of the country given severe
setback this week in their demand for increased freight
rates. 1t is not likely that the Interstate Commerce
Commission in view of it's discovery of the irregular
of accounting pursued by the Chicago Milwau
kee and St. Paul road, will recommend authorize
increase.
Commissioner Harlan has completed examination
of the companys books and in his report he charges
that serious Irregularities made in the accounting
system st. Paul when it's Puget Sound extern
sion was being built.
Under the accounting rules of the commission, the
St. Paul company permitted to include in its
counts for transportation of and
material for equipment and other of it's equip
ment used in the construction of the Puget Sound, and
funds advanced. That course however, not pur
sued On the contrary, the St. Paul included
in it's report accounts for the 1910 all the interest
rents and assgnabe to the period prior to
July 1909 the total amounting to over 900
In the also decreased its operating
accounts by. crediting thereto than 100000
of the salvage of destroyed to the
year 1907.
:y means of these entries the income of the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway company for the year
1910 was overstated by more than $5,oo0.ooo AS a
result this oversatement of the report the
st. Paul company for the succeeding. showed
apparent falling off in and income of 3d.,
In it's report it's stockholders company
the statement that the large decrease in the
operating is accounted for by the inability
obtain increased rates and the great increase in the
Of labor.
This statement not in accordance with the facts
So far being increase in the expenditures for labor
during the fiscal year 1911 the expenditures that
account about $4,000 less than the previous
year, according the company's own reports to the
commission.
So the claim this railroad for increased freight
rates account of the Increased cost of labor falls
fiat An investigation of the methods of accounting
Of other railroads will similar irregu-
laritics.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14
THE I. w. w.

1t is hard to form an unbiased opinion Of the In
dustral Workers Of the World that organization which
has injected of violence destruction into
the always serious conflict between capital and labor
The I. W. WIS latest exploit; the raid upon New York
churches. has again shocked sober-mnded Americans
into serious consideration Of why such things occur
and what manner of men responsible for them.
An exceedingly fair and impartial sizeup of the
I. W. w. is found in John Graham Brooks American
syndicalism-the 1. w. W.. Brooks grants the high
motives of many members, the value of
the organization sort of fire ALARM and describes
it as "shocker," which. like the stroke of the
sufragets hammer plate glass; gets instant attention.
1t is the voice of the masses Of workingmen and
women who have been neglected by the trades un1onis
That is its attraction and it's danger.
The devotion Of these workers to the leaders
those leaders to go on png up their promises until
heaven itself described in the Bible tame.
But Brooks has false dreams about the theories
Of the I. W. WIS., He says they have little real
constructive suggestions to embarrass their best
friends He into history to show that they have
no new idea to organization and methods.
Quoting from the speeches Of the leaders, articles
In their papers, he that between
is their a and that anything which hurts the employer
Is approved Its gospel is the gospel Of despair the
union is the union the beaten and hopeless and its
enemies are all workingmen and employers alike. who
are not willing to overturn everything The strike is
war; War is destruction Destruction hurts those who
possess. Well, then, any strike "successful to the
I. w. WIS, if only enough damage is done.
On this theory is based the defense of sabotage
which is the "one-man strike. And sabotage may
pretend to stop short of murder driving large nails
into sawogs and fastening railroad switches is surely
dangerous to life.
Brooks is impatient with the idea that destruction
of property help the workers or prepare them to
take over the great factories railroads
He attacks the theory that manual labor created
everything and therefore should seize everything
His conclusion is that there are "some millions of
wage earners and farmers who have just enough
IN ways that are wiser and fairer to take
themselves against noisy minories that have learned
so little about the business world Of the ways
through which It is to be reformed"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14

fIre gold was in ancient times sacred metal and
has only become debased in times by it's service
to the god OF greed. .s s51 Il. 6#z155a58sa 5s
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14
The Spoil Of the Yukon.

| t., =
I wanted tho gold and sought it:
scrambled and mucked like slave.
Was It famine or scurvy-I fought it:
hurled my youth into q grave. /:
wanted the gold and got it.
Came out with a fortune last fall
1et somehow life's not what thought
And somehow the gold isn't all. 7
MOI 7he IS the land. (Have you seen
It's the cussesest land that know.
From the big. dizzy mountains that,
screen it as: -
To the deep, deathlike valleys below.
Some say, God was tired when He made
Some says it's fine land to shun:
Maybe; put there's some as would
For no land on earth-and I'm one.
You come to get rich damned good
You feel like an exile at first;
You hate it like hell for season.
ana then you are worse than the
r. grin. worst ,ea;s ,;,-o
It twists you from foe to a friend;
1t seems it's been since the beginning:
1t seems it will be to the end.
I've stood in some mighty mouthed-
That's plumb-full Of hush to the.
I've watched the big. husky sun
In crimson and gold and grow dim,
TIL the moon set the pearly peaks
And t6 6ees amin t,n,h,ea o,+ nec,,
ana I've thought that I surely was
dreaming.
With the peace O. the world piled
me summer-nO sWeeter was ever:
Inc sunshiny woods all athril1;
me Erayling asleep in the river,
ihe blghorn asleep on the hill.
The strong life that never knows
The wilds where the caribou call:
fhe 1reshness. the freedom. the
fairness
Q God! how I'm stuck on it all.
The winter; the brightness that blinds
!. You,
The white land locked tight as
The cold fear that follows and finds
you,
The silence that gludgeons you dumb.
|,The SHOWS that are older than history,
The woods where the weird shadows
! slant;
The stiffness. the moonlight, the mys-
terry,
I've babe 'em goodby-But I can't.
Iheres a land where the mountains
are 'nameless,
And the rivers all run God knows
- where;
There are lives that are erring and
aimless,
~, And deaths that just hang by a hair.
There are .hardships that nobody
There are valleys unpeopled and still;
Ihere's a land-oh, it beckons and
beckons;
And want to go back-and will.
They're making my money diminish
| I'm sick of the taste of champagne,
Thank God! WI hen I'm skinned to ,
finish
I'll pike, to the Yukon again;
I'll fight, and you bet it's no sham
! =. fight; ;,
+ It's hell! ut I've been there before;
| And it's better than this by damsite-
! - So me for the Yukon once more.
There is gold-and it's haunting and
/, e.. haunting; =
It's luringe me an as Of old;
let It. isn't the gold that I'm wanting,
So much as just finding the gold.
It's the great big, broad land way up
In the fofssts where silence ha.
It's the beauty that thrills me, with
wonder,
It's: the stiffness that fills me with
49, -RORERT w. SERVICE
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14
THE JOBLESS MAN.

With prophetic instinct Lord Macaulay once wrote
to an American friend: wages will be low
will fuctuate much with you with us. You will
have your Manchesters and Brminghams and in those
Manchesers and Brmnghams hundreds of thousands of
artisans will assuredy be sometime of work Then
your institutions will be fairly brought the test
Was it of this very day and condition the great
essayis wrote? Are not institutions being put
test?
Said Carlyle: "A willing to work and unable
to find work is perhaps the saddest sight that
inequality exhibits under the sun"
O. we have him! He is about us on every hand We
feel the chill of his respondent heart haunted
by the hopelessness that envelopes him. Like muzzed
hungry horse in 1uxuriant PASTURE Like stringed
fish on float in the middle of the stream. He stands
beside US on the He brushes elbows the
street. His pleading face bellies his proud heart and
asks for crust Of bread. His weary, wasting body
aches for cheap bed He is not myth. He ia not a
stranger He is our neighbor. There poverty half
as tragic as that Of the workingman:
Who begs brother of the earth
To give him leave to toll"
1t won't do to preach him. An empty stomach ia
stony ground for the seed Gospel It won't do
to tell him to be temperate and Industrious He is
forced to the former denied opportunity of the
latter 1t won't do to pass resolutions of sympathy.
He will see the hypocrisy. 1t won't do to offer him
charity If he's man he won't except it, and if he
isn't, he doesn't deserve it,
JoBLEss MAN, IF HE'S DECENT, WANTS
DECENT JOB And decent job is not soft one or
aristocratc but any will give him and
those who depend upon him a decent living
What an awful price the copper kings of MICHIGAN
exact from the strikers? They must surrender their
union cards to return to work. Now not be the
opportune time for government to notify the
barons to surrender their corporation charters They
have had the mines long enough give the workers a
chance
lure gold was In ancient times sacred metal and
has only become debased in modern times by it's
to the god Of greed. zG-sz-#a3.* @ 55z&a&#
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14
THE P1KER

!. THE P1kER +
!: !: -
They call him a ''piker"- perhaps
they were right, ..,.. !
He didn't spend much with the
gang.
On drinks and cigars he was: ::
certain tight"
And to tip gave him really a pang.
He never threw money around like
a prince"
Or played the good fellow at all;
At the club he was known as a lime"
and q ounce" -:
And the sums that he squandered
were small.
But his family had what his purse
could afford
And he shaved for his girls and his
boys.
He'd lend to a. comrade in need all
his hoard
Without any boasting or. noise.
He would help any chap in the Down
and Out club,
Though the fact was not <blazoned
to fame,
But walters declared him Cheap
skate" and dub
And spendthrifts considered him
tame"
Well, here is the moral, too potent to
miss,
:: And one it is wise to recall.
"A sport is a sport, but piker> like
-. this e.. -
l. Is the. bulliest sport Of them ALL"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14
THIS WEEKS THOUGHT.

Are not all true that live, or that ever
lived, soldiers of the same army. enlisted under
Heavens captaincy, to do battle against the same
enemy, the empire Of Darkness and Wrong? Why
should misknow another, fight not against
the enemy but against ourselves from mere Diff
ference of uniform? All uniforms shall be good,
CARLYLE.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14

We suggest that the people who are shouting the
loudest for with Mexico be drafted and armed
and sent into the country Other blood is too precious
to spill on Mexican. g>
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14

Az little summer now and then /.
rehsl1ed by the latest men. s.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14

The spirit Of organized labor social It IS fraternal
It is not merely buwark against the entertainments
OF greed 1t is than all influence for developing
the genial and generous qualities among men,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-03-14

There are economic laws and these laws are lust
as imperative as any other laws. sz Oh
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-06-11
PROCLAM NATION

Pursuant TO a resolution passed by
the Board of School Directors of the
Parish of Natchitoches La. at a Spe-
clal meeting on May 18th, 1914.
. I. Edgar Levy president of said
Board, hereby give notice that in
compliance with said resolution a
special election will be held in New
Prospect School District. Ward s,
Natchitoches Parish on the first day
of July. 1914, for the purpose of sub
qualified under the constitution and
laws of the State of Louisiana to-wit.
10 levy 10 mill tax on the dollar in
New Prospect School District, Nat
chitoches Parish, La, subject to State
taxation annually for period of 8
years for the purpose of giving addi-
tional aid to schools in said district.
For the purpose of special election
the polling place will be at. New Pros
pect Scnool House and G. w. Massey
Napoleon Basco and G.. r. Mitchem
are appointed commissioners and
Jesse Fletcher Is appointed Clerk to
serve at said election. all of whom
will serve without compensation. At
said election the polls shall open at
I o'clock a. m. and close at o'clock
o m. and the election will be conuuc-
ted In accordance with the laws Of
Louisiana applicable thereto. Notice
is also given that at 10 O'Clock a. M,
July 9Th. 1914, the said Parish Board
of School Directors will meet at Nat
chitoches La. and in open session
proceed to open the ballot box, ex-
anime and count the ballots In num-
Der and amount, examine and canvass
the returns thereof and declare the
results of the election.
This the Goth dav OF May 1914.
Edgar Levy, Pres,