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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-28
WEATHER

Generally fair tonight and Thursday:
warmer: moderate winds. mostly south
west.
Temperature past twenty-four hours:
High, 80, at pm. today. low 80. at 4
am. today.
For full report see page 16.
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near the Chamber. Of Commerce In.
Minneapolis land march to the city
line, about two and one half. miles;
where they will be met by st. Paul
business men who will welcome them
at the city: limits. The farmers then
will be carried in automobiles to the
new st. Paul headquarters Of the ex-
change. -, +, @.-,%.,
The situation is indeed strange. The
farmers exchange is to form a. fun
eral march out of Minneapolis, and
will be carried triumphantly into st.
Paul. This reminds us Of the story
Of a st. Paul boy whose parents were
getting ready to move to-, the Flour
City. On the evening before moving
while the boy was saying his prayers
his closing sentence was 'Good bye
God, we are going to Minneapolis. The
st. Paul papers found considerable
pleasure in printing this story, but
they were taken to task by the Min
neapolis papers which charged that
the St. Paul papers left out the punct-
uation marks. What the boy really
said, they declared, was "Good, by
God, we are going to Minneapolis.
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BAPTIST PREACHER
H|TsNA|[ ON HEAD
Can See No Virtue in Advising
Family Prayer to overwork.
r ed Store Clerks. ~.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, May 29.-Sug-
gesting that the 'retails clerks organ
ize to protect themselves, Rev. e. H.
Stevens, of the First Baptist church,
criticised store conditions in this city,
What wisdom is. it, he asked, tor
a minister to preach upon the subject
Of family prayer to a congregation Of
clerks when the deacons Of the
church rout the clerks out of bed at
$3.50 O'Clock in the morning in order
to be at work on time? And how
much Christian influence have those
same deacons who teach Sunday
school classes Of young men and
women who suffer the wrongs inf1ict-
ed upon thousands of clerks today?
Suppose, for example," suggested
the speaker, that the shopper, put
himself in the clerks place. How
would he enjoy working day OF from
II to Is hours? How would he keep
pleasant waiting on halt, a. hundred
women pulling and hauling over a
table of; shirtwaists and dress goods :?
How would. he like to stand at the
close of a busy day and take the talk
of well-dressed customer and pre-
tend to relish it? But this, you say.
is what the clerk is hired to do. Then
he needs to be a better man than
most Christians are, and should be
paid for it accordingly
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-WEI,CONIE- = .G ..s
BLUE LABELLEAGUE /.
LEDF0RDULu7H
Convention Will Be Held Here
Sunday Before State Fedora .
tion of Labor Opens. 2"
DELEGATES TO COME ::
FROM THREE STATES
Cigarmakers Fear Prohibition
Wave-say Their Business is
Affected-Will Be Issue

Duluth will entertain the annual
conference of the Northwestern Blue
Label League on Sunday, July ~,
just before the opening of the con-
vention of the Minnesota State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. Delegates will be
here from all Cigarmakers' unions in
Minnesota and the Dakotas
The call for the conference was is
sued this week. It is signed by Eu-
gene Campbell, president, and E. c..
Hall, secretary-treasurer. Meetings
will be held at Kalamazoo hall be-
ginning at 10 o'clock Sunday morn
ing. 49,.
The call sounds a cheerful note
over the progress of the Cigarmakers'
unions in the Northwest during the
past year, their success in keeping up
their membership and lessening the
number of unemployed below that in
any other district in the country. It
attributes these good results largely
to the active campaign carried on in
behalf of the blue label, and urges a
continuance of that useful work.
Union Is Alarmed.
Attention is called to-, the persist
ent efforts by interested persons to
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WOOL: \ !: TRUST CHIEF:
! =[AuDs'jCB||||L|D|L |


=
: PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 2s.-That
the employer sof children should in
many instances be praised rather thar,
blamed. because he provided work
and opportunityto to many minors who
were mentally not able to progress be-
yond a certain degree: Of intellectual
proficiency, was the statement: made
by John P. Wood, president of the
National Association of Wool Manu-
factur urers and vice president Of the
Pennsylvania Manufacturers associa-
tion in an address in this city. &c
The speaker was much exercised
over what he termed "fanatical leg
islation, which Injuries business and
stops the employment of children un-
der 16, who, in many cases. were ply
sically able; to labor. ST s.,4 \
Mr.. Wood spoke at length on 'the
rights of minors and believed that
the matter Of employing children un-
der 16 should be based on physical
ability. without the .least bit OF hu-
NOR, Mr.. Wood; called Upon his as
sociates to- get into politics and see
that legislation that Injuries them is
opposed at every turn, because organ
izations that favor the abolishment of
child labor are we'll represented In the
halls Of the law makers. .I.
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operate an electric street: rail
'Way?,' =: The point was. never.
raised. And because it was not
raised we are suspicious of the
sincerity Of the persons. on either,
side of the case. j -, p =
!: The. Duluth Street Railway:
company was granted a fran
chise by the legislature Of Mime
sofa before electricity came into.
use in propelling street, cars.
The franchise itself declares that
"the cars shall be propelled
either with animal, pneumatic or.
other power But electric power
was then unknown in the opera.
tion of a street railway as much
as electricity was then unknown
for street or commercial lighting.
' Have we ever heard OF gas
companies in any city claiming
the right Of franchise for electric
lighting simply because this new
method of lighting was dis.
covered after a gas franchise. had
been given by the people2: We
may not have had a clear case
in attacking this feature Of the
street railway franchise, but we.
at least had fighting chance,
something we did not have in.
the trial before Judge Cant.
1 The city has nothing to gain
by appealing the case to the: su-
preme court. It is the Duluth
Street Railway: company s fight;
let the company pay the freight
if it must have the issue finally
determined by j higher court,
for there. has already = been too
much Of the people q money ex-
pended IN q futii iiIeaeantast..Eeeog-
nized as such by every disin-
terested lawyer in. Duluth long
before the case got into court. i L:
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STREET RAIL- WAY FRANCHISE CASE
=. WAS FRAMED UP I0 HELP COMPANY
Enough Of Peoples Money Already Spent Futile ContesCy Attorney
Railway Company
Al Franchise" Company
Borrowing Limit Uncertain License: ~
Wanted the

the :franchi# of the Duluth
Street Railway company were
none other than the holders of
Duluth Street Railway bonds.
They wanted a ruling on the
legality of the franchise !; the di-
.rectors of the company wanted
it. A bond: issue authorized by
them more than a year ago is
still begging on the market with
no takers. The already over
capitalized and over-bonded com
pany had reached. its borrowing
limit, and it was imperative that
a frameup. of some sort be worked
to assure bondholders Of the Ger
tainty Of i the + company's fran
The city attorney who insti-
tuted the, proceedings against the
street railway company, when he
lost his public office, walked
from the city hall to the office
Of the attorneys for the bond.
holders where he hung out his
shingle, and he has camped there
ever since. ss ,t:: @< ! -
The city's. position in. attack
ing the franchise Of the company
was fragrant with deception. We
made the issue on the failure of
the company 33 years ago to live
up to a. certain requirement of
it's franchise. Our right to action
for such alleged violation ex:
pired a quart% sof a century ago,
# it did not, ! should have done
so. St. 81 . - = :.
But did the lawyers for the
city, particularly he who had the
s'srn1es of . j !, ten i inttt
the SShernansaa nsaaatt j. ttaastrlaw, raise
any question about the right o1
the Duluth Street Railway com.
pany, under it's franchise, tc
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: 7tt u So 'rT
IS JUSTICE
.UV|ONsIIO|'T TRUSTS;
PAR|1Y'K|.E|::|E|:Ps ! ! 4: ! ! B I
Demo ocratic Members Of Congress
Vote TO Exempt Labor from op-
erations Of Anti Trust Laws.
CONGRESSMAN HENRY
FLAWS LABoR's FOES
+s h. g:.5 j. s. -----y- ~, j.5,
Courts to Be Restrained &,om Is
suing 1njunctions in Strikes !
Their Power to Be Gut. !. Z

All Democratic members Of the
house will vote in favor Of adding
the labor. amendments to the anti
trust bill Opposition virtually col
lapsed after a. prolonged debate
Tuesday. Conferences at the White
House and. the capitol settled the
question. Democratic members Of the
judiciary committee will be solidly
behind an amendment providing that
labor, fraternal. Agricultural or con-
sumers' Organizations ''shall not be
held Or construed to- be illegal COM
binationsi2 in the restraint Of trade
under the antitrust laws" =
None of the acts forbidding injunc-
tions against psaceables strikes and
boycotts shall be construed to be un-
lawful" This is the biggest victory
American workingmen have achieved
in Congress lin q hundred years. The
action OF the house prompted a. Re-
publican member to chide the Dem
ocrats for taking the antitrust bill
from the "house calendar and put
ting it on the "union calendar."&
- @.,:s =. Henry Plays Square.
Congressman Henry Of the Rules
committee would not stand for this
bit OF irony: He made a. telling speech
!: ; : cont4nued on Pese :, Column 3. = :.
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|LANTHR0PY Ck1 ]
HELP TUBERCULOSIS
Federal Health Department Dis
cusses Means for Treating
White Plague Victims,

WASHINGTON, May 2s.-1n dis
cussing tuberculosis in his annual re:
port, Health Officer Woodward de-
clared that philanthrophy is utterly
unable to cope with the situation and
that there is no reason why this
method should be relied upon for the
elimination of tuberculosis from the
community any more than for the
elimination of any other dangerous
communicable disease.
The health officer favored methods
whereby persons Of moderate means
desiring to take the cure in their own
homes could be assisted, and adequate
provision. should be made for the
treatment in sanitarium of poor per-
sons of moderate means in the early
stages of the disease.
Facilities for the diagnosis and
treatment of incipient cases Of tuber-
culosis, available at hours adapted to
the needs of the ordinary working
man, should be established" says the
report.
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Judge Cant has rendered his
decision in the Street Railway
case: The city lost. According
to Judge Cant the franchise
granted by the legislature in
1881 is still valid. The fact that
the company did or did not build
one mile of track as provided
in the grant is immaterial now.
It will be folly for the city to
appeal the case. Enough Of the
taxpayers s money has already
been spent in a useless trial.
There will be nothing from the
city's standpoint to, gain from a
review by the supreme court.
The Labor World felt from the
beginning that there was a
**nigger in the wood pile" some
where between the office Of the
man who served as city attorney
at the time proceedings were
begun in this case and the office
Of the attorneys for the holders
Of Duluth Street Railway bonds.
None Of the men in this city
who, usually participate in con-
tests against public: service cor
porations advocated a test of the
street railway franchise. Indeed
they objected to the proceedings
being started under any cincum-
stances.
When the city of Duluth once
gets ready to own it's street rail
way system no existing: fran
chise will prevent it from getting
control Of the property Of the
present company. That question
has long ,sgos heenade determined in
pthe 80. - 81 - s:s;-s -. !.
+. We have ,hunch that the peo-
pie most vitality interested in
initiating the proceedings against
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.s ..s . MALICE ~ ...5 5sz.
GOMPERsAl'TEDBI
n | Ys'0C||AL|sTs !! 0 ] ] 5
Bitter Feeling Cresps Out il
Hearing Before Industrial Com
mission in New York.
HILLQUIT ATTACKS
= ~ FEDERATION CHIEF
Says He Is Old and dAntiquated-
Gompers Comes Back and Flags
Tactics Of Socialists.

Morris Hiilquit and Samuel Gomp..
ers came together at the hearing be-
fore the United States Industrial com
mission In New Work this week The
bitterness between the two was mani
fest throughout. Z Hillquit said
Gompers was old and antiquated.
Gompers came back like a tiger and
paid his respects to the tactics Of
the dilettante Socialists, who he said
were harassings the constructive work
.'of the American labor movement.
Mr.. Gompers expressed disapprovals
Of the Socialistic. party and its
methods, charging that in statements.
speeches and other ways its leaders
tried to misrepresent the aims of the
American Federation of Labor.
Mr.. Gompers said that the Amer
ican Federation of Labor never used
coercive methods to get workers to
join it's unions, though it held THAI
1t was their duty to join labor or
ganizations. ~
Opposes q. s. Wage Control.
He did not believe the government
should set minimum rate Of wages,
as it might mean a return to indus.
trial slavery. It is the work Of the.
union to raise wages by using its
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which, time it waged war on the Min
neapolis Chamber of Commerce.
1t has given up the fight In the
Flour City and on June Is, which it
designates as moving day." 1T will
move to st. Paul. But this is not
all. It proposes to do the spectacu-
lar thing in moving Farmers from
Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota. the Da-
kotas and Montana are being rugged
to come to Minneapolis to take part
in the moving. p A large attendance
is expected. - .,..-+}~:s = ,.
j. It is proposed that the farmers meet
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WHO is YOUR CANDIDATE FOR THE LEGISLATURE:


We are getting mighty close to pri-
mary election day. In the county
and legislative districts one would
hardly know that campaign was on,
so little attention is given to It by
the voters. But 1t is important that
interest be aroused, and more par
ticularly in the contests for the legis-
lature.
While the voters are slumberine.
the interests which : have axes to
grind in the legislature are as busy
as bees. Portions of three 1egisla-
tive districts are located in Duluth,
The Fifty-seventh district comprises
the First and Second wards of Du-
, luth, the townships Of Duluth, Nor
mamma, Lakewood and Ault., The
, senatorial district consists of the same
territory and also the counties Of
Cook and Lake.
The candidates for senator in the
! fFifty-seventh district are Alex e.
Mcknight, Chas. E.. Adams and
Everett N. Edes. 49, s.
A. G. Mcknight is a, we'll known
Duluth lawyer. He served as alder
man from the First ward I'M Duluth.
He has taken an active part in local
civic affairs; is a staunch, advocate
of municipal ownership: the fullest
measure of home rule for local gov
ernments; is opposed to the state
regulation Of local public service cor
sporations: believes in increasing the
amount of compensation and other
wise improving the workingmen's
compensation act; will support all
progressive legislation designed to ef-
feet better social conditions and more
political freedom. Can be depended
upon to l vote in the peoples interests
on all matters coming before the
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legislature. He is a good man to
elect. =. /: 49,
Chas. e. Adams is :: also a well
known Duluth lawyer; was several
times a candidate for county at
torney, and is now attorney. for the
board of county commissioners for
st. Louis county. He is a man of
high personal character and known
integrity. He is not known to have
any pronounced views on the great
issues now before the people, He has
not publicly committed himself on
the question Of local control OF public
utilities operating within the city:
Is not of the aggressive school OF
present day politics, and will receive
the support of the type of voters
who are usually against progressive
Hesitation and particularly the kind
which has teeth in 1t. Il: ,,.%
= Everett N Edes is q workinkmanr
nominated by the Socialist party. He
is an engineer employed at st. Luke's
hospital. 4 He is pledged to carry out
the state political program of the
Socialist party. He is an earnest and
conscientious man. who IL elected will
support all legislation de4igned <to
promote and protect the interests ;of
the working classes. Mr.: Edes,is not
making a vigorous campaign. .s.s@
: The candidates for the House from
the St. Louis county portion of the
Fifty-seventh district are b. n.
Wheeler. F.. J. Kenny, and w. j.
North, one to be elected. The cand-
.tdates from Lake and Cook counties
are James w. Woodfill and Matt IS.
Mcmahon, q and only one to be elected.
B. ~. Wheeler has lived all his life
IN Duluth. ,'l, He lis best known. as q
consistent Prohibitionist, but he has
strong views on social and political
reform legislation. He - opposed "a
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on all Questions affecting the rights
and interests of the working classes
as well as those of the masses. 4. NJ
: The ty-eighth district comprises
the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
wards of Duluth and the townships
of Canosia, Rice Lake, Fredenburg
and Gnesen. There is no contest in
the primaries !. for members Of the
House. There are three candidates
for the senate 4. M. Pugh, Richard
Jones and John r. Randall. :. ~
p T. N. Pugh is the present incumb :.
ent, He has served his district in
the legislature for fourteen years.
He IS territorial resident of Min
nesota and enjoys a wide circle Of
friends throughout the state. In pol
1tics he is q standpatter OF the pro-
nounced type. He belongs to the old
school; has no conception Of the i'm
portance OF the present day progress
sive movement, and usually votes with
thesmachine. He is a kindly gentle-
man, affable, makes friends easily,
and takes pride in, the office ofS SEN
ator, but. his vote is seldom cast to
correct the social and political evils
which now confront the, people. h,
Richard Jones is young lawyer.
He Is well known In labor circles;I is
member Of the Commercial Tele-
gra phers' j; union is on the Western
Union telegraph operators, black
list" for activity as a union labor
man. Mr.. Jones was candidate for
alderman IN the Fourth ward under
the old form OF government. He
made q good run. He stands true
on all social and political questions
now ia progress of solution. He VIII
vote to enact legislati lon Intro duced
for the purpose of emelioratinE the
X coont1itionE 3 % the working classes. no
will also vote the interests N
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the people on SuCh questions as nome
rule for local governments, munich
pal ownership, against, pub
lie utilities regulation and kindred
subjects. He is without doubt the
most wide-awake and active. candi-
date in the district. He is honest,
able, conscientious and true-blue. He
should ,;be elected. v. :s:
John r.. Randall served as a men1-
ber Of the House several years ago.
He is a veteran of the civil war He
has lived In Duluth for many years.
He is a conservative with progressive
tendencies: is public spirited and
patriotic, and would be prompted to
do the right thing as he sees It from
home rule and local control OF public
utilities. He advocates prison labor
reform and joins with union labor In
building and clearing state lands.
The Fifty-ninth district comprises
7: the Seventh and Eighth wards Of the
city Of Duluth and all townships west
to the boundary line Of ST. Louis
county and north to the q Mesaba
range. There is no contest In the
primaries for senator, the nominees
being George Peterson and p. g.
Phillips. Il 5l.: q s Il ~ 81 q 81
There are seven candi didates for the
Legislature and but two to he elected:
Four are to be nominated. The cand-.
idates for nomination are William u.
Bernard, p. N Nelson, Leo Laukki,
M. n. Triplett. John Mattson, Thor
gier +. Olson and J. 2. 81 g lbister.
William u. Bernard IS just . plain
workingman. His parents died when
he was a. boy and ever since ne has
shifted for himself. s He came up
through the "a hool fsof hard Knocks
10 served - an ald lInsr ~ 49,
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tne state regulation OF public utilities;
Is for municipal ownership; will vote
TO increase the amount of compensa-
ton and otherwise improve the
Workingmen's compensation act: is
generally sympathetic with labor
legislation, and his lifelong training
will lead him to oppose all legisla-
ton furthered by the special inter-
ests: crowd, which would. do injury
to-: the masses; =
!: $E. j.. Kenny is a well known Dill
luth lawyer; served as assistant citv
attorney during the administration Of
Mayor Haven; issra clean-cut, able.
honorable and conscientious young
man, who has the right viewpoint on
most public questions, Heyis for local
control Of public utilities; for i'm
provement of the workingmen's, com
pensation, municipal ownership and
other progressive questions. Mr..
Kenny is Of the type. of young men
who are taking the lead in promot-
Ing better government in city, state
and nation. He is opposed to machine
politics, and IL elected will line ,Eup
with the progressive forces in the
legislature. p ...........' ~. Z. g."
4 w. J. North was until recently con-
nectad;; with the brokerage firm Of
Cay sturgts. Two years ago he made
2 :. strong run for the. legislature as
the Democratic nominee against A..
Z. Warner. He has liberal views on
social moral and political questions.
Matt S: Mcmahon and James
Woodfimll III OF Two Harbors are both
members i OF the Brotherhood Of, Loco
motive Engineers. Mr. Woodfil1 is
the Socialist nominee. He aspires to
fill the seat occupied SO creditably
by Nals q HEillman who is not q cand.
date AZ this election. Either man
s3ean's u w pended - pon to vote riRht
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Attorney for Carl Persons, 1ndict-
ed Strike Leader on Illinois Gen.
tral, Makes Discovery.
LAWS ARE VIOLATED
BY PUBLIC SERVANTS
Defendant Has no Means Of
Knowing Who Are to Testify
Against Him at Trial..
By FLOYD GYpBONS.

CLINTON, ILL.,, NJ 29.-Another
effort in the schem' i railroad Carl
Person to the gall } vas exposed
in the circuit cour1 s>t. today when
Attorney Frank 9 jord, who is
defending the imp 4 editor, sub
poenaed ten of t. a te's own wit
nesses to prove II r. eir names and
the names of "a had been sup
pressed and with-he,J from the in
dictment by States Attorney L. o.
Williams.
The suppression Of the names Of
the witnesses who appear before a
grand jury in a murder investigation,
is a violation of the state statutes
which have been upheld repeatedly
by numerous supreme court decisions.
The laws specifically state that the
indictment shall bear on its back,
the names of all witnesses who testi-
fled before the grand jury in the
case of the defendant who is in
dicted. This is expressly provided
so that the defendant shall know
what evidence he has to meet in
court.
Last week the Dewitt county
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