United labor bulletin., 1914-04-25
THE OPTIMISTIC
HnOSOPHER

That you'll hang on and bang ON until
you win,
No matter how hard you were cuffed
and kicked,
No matter how sadly your faith was
tricked-
If you just remember what brought YOU
low
And keep away from the undertow,
It's only a matter of holding tight
Before you're back in the big world
fightl
But the man who pines and the man
Who skuiks away from the skirmish
lines,
Who hasn't the grit to swing and hit
And slug his way, never counts n bit.
He isn't worth bothering over a min
He's out of the game and he never was
in it.
A man who is really a man keeps his
luck
So long as he keeps good chest full
of pluck.
Congressman Edward Keating of Colo
RADIO has the correct philosophy on the
Mexican war situation. He proposes tina.
fellows like John d. Rockefeller, Will
liam Randolph Hearst and other multi
millionaires who will be largely bene-
fitted by the Intervention of Uncle Sam,
be required to foot the bill, because the
workingmen of the nation will be re-
quired to do the bulk OF the fighting
and make the great sacrifice of life that
is bound to accompany such conflict.
Another one of our enemies who will
reap a rich reward from this war is
Harrison Gray Otis of Los Angeles,
whose bellicose attitude toward labor il
causing his California properties TO rap
idly depreciate. If the wives and chill
dren of the toilers give up their hus-
bands to do the fighting at the front
the rich. who profit and stay at home.
should be compelled by some form of
government taxation to produce the nee
essary funds, says keatingi and he j.
right. as usual.
The Rocky Mountain News is doing a
splendid service to the people OF Den
yer in exposing the quack doctors, who
prey upon the miseries OF unfortunates.
Hundreds OF thousands of dollars have
been taken from the working people
OF Denver by these fakirs, and it is a
wonder how they are permitted to ply
their graft and fraudulent business in
this or any other city. The Bulletin
has refused time and again to accept ad
vertising from these frauds, while other
papers in Denver have made themselves
parties to this corrupt practice. Re-
Gently the National Association for the
Study and Prevention OF tuberculosis
announced that fake tuberculosis cures
annually take $4,000 900 from pockets
OF American people, and this in spite of
repeated public declarations by the as
,..t, hat tnr Is,
white plague had ever been found.
Through a system of letter writing and
made order diagnoses several Denver
quacks have played upon the credulity
of hundreds of victims, and once in their
power they are fleeced as long as there
is any money in sight. No matter what
your ailment, consultation with n repu-
table physician is the only safe plan,
and by far the cheapest.
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Lieutenant Governor Barrett O'Hara
OF Illinois landed in Chicago few days
ago with Crouch equal to that OF some
Denver people we know. He had been
fired from u Connecticut corset factory,
where he and his young wife had se-
cured work at the munificent stipend of
"a per week each. What peeved the lieu
tenant governor was that he was only
permitted to work three days and had
not got fairly started on his study of
working conditions when a factory spot
ter penetrated his disguise, got his num-
ber and reported him to the boss. Now
O'Hara is going to propose to the Hi
nois Legislature that law be enacted
protecting workingmen from being dis
charged without proper advance notice.
O'Hara was chief of the Illinois vice
commission, which aroused the whole
country to the dangers surrounding
working girls, and it was in furtherance
OF this investigation that himself and
wife sought and obtained work in
New England factory.
Can't we trust organized lnbor to
speak for unorganized labor at least as
well as we can trust organized employ
ers to speak for unorganized laborf'
This is the everlasting kibash placed on
criticisms of Secretary of Labor w. B.
Wilson by Assistant Secretary of La
Dor Louis +. Post. This was made for
the benefit of those members of the
National Association Of Manufacturers
who started out to have President Will
son remove Secretary Wilson because
he was "too sympathetic to the pur-
poses and demands of union labor For
10 these many years organized employers
have had the ear of Presidents and Cab
met officers and members Of Congress
in speaking for unorganized labor, and it
is perhaps natural that they should be
chagrined when new administration
comes along that deigns to accept repre-
sentatives of labor unions and listen to
that large class of toilers who have been
exploited, coerced and deprived of the
freedom which comes through labor
unions. Posts sockdolager Of come
back" puts labor crushers on notice that
they no longer have all the say so at
Washington.