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The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-07-17
4 POLITICAL CIRCUS
WITH MANY RINGS.

The remnants OIL the Republican
stand-patters met in Montgomery on
July 9, for the purpose Of appointing
delegates to the county convention to
be held later. After much railing and
scraping and much sending Of mos
sages, they managed to co"l;.I q
qourum, made up mostly of: eS SALON
keepers. The machinery started 10
grind, it being in good order, ard we'll
ciled-no l did not say Cleaned--r."t
a cog slipped, everything moved off to
order, the only question that seemed
to give any trouble was the time and
place for naming the elephant for the
November ride up Salt River. Tbs
crank was given i quick turn and
Montgomery was the place ground out
Then the date for the convention was
the next thing OIL the program. In a
lengthy and to the point talk, during
which the grand old party, freedom,
patriotism and old glory was waved
before the eyes of the Henry Dubbs,
Honorable Bill Johnson, better known
us Pistol Bill, because nc fathered the
law disarmng the citizens of the state
and placed them at the mercy Of hired
gunner, grated on the Importance of
the time for holding the convention.
Ample time should be given, quoth
Pistol Bill, in order to give all the
pie counter aspirants an opportunity
to see each and every delegate face
to face-and neck to neck-of bot
tle-and make the NECESSARY az
engagements with the delegate body.
Bill made it plain that if ample time
was not given for the gum-shoe work
by the candidates that no body would
know who to bet on when the time
for naming the candidates for the free
and independent voters arrived.
Well, during the convention did
manage to find out approximately
how many political parties they have
in Fayette county this year. Here
they are: Stand-pat democrats; indie
pendent democrats, progressive demo-
Gratis; Stand-pat republicans, bull
head republicans and independent re-
publicans-so take your choice-there
is damn little difference anyway. Any
of them will take the workers into the
side show and then dump them into
the main slinning device and off goes
their hide. How long will the Henry
Dubbs be led up to the slaughter
block by lot of bought and paid for
political crooks and stool pigeons for
Capital. When will they take stand
for Justice, say to the Masters, Get
down, you parasite, and walk awhile
Give us liberty or give us death"
G.. +. Parsons.
The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-07-17
WEST VIRGINIA
q "POME' AND 4 REPLY

(By Stuart F. Reed.)
They rallied forth to Lincoln's call,
In West Virginia.
And never let "Old Glory" fall
In West Virginia.
And soldiers on the battlefield.
Were never known to shirk or yield,
Because they bore loyal shield
For West Virginia.
Tho natures stores are scattered VIDE.
In West Virginia.
IT'S not in these we take most pride.
In West Virginia.
The priceless charm of womanhood,
The things for which her sons have
stood,
Attest the fact that we've made good
In West Virginia.
To merely live is not enough,
In West Virginia.
Men are made Of sterner stuff,
In West Virginia.
If on Lies seas ever tack,
To some strange land where truth IS
slack,
III turn and sail directly back
To West Virginia.
The skies take on a deeper blue,
In West Virginia.
And sweethearts never prove untrue,
In West Virginia.
The poor have little need to fear,
For faithful friends are always near.
With words of hope and things to cheer,
In West Virginia.
Life is full of JOY and hope,
In West Virginia.
Ambition finds wider scope.
In West Virginia.
Success is not rainbow CLEAN,
And youth and age can work and dream
For things are truly as they SEEM
In West Virginia.
The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-07-17

Mrs. Marie S. Orenstcin, state la
Dor department Investigator. has star
tied New York with the following re-
port of conditions surrounding work
girls in popular restaurants Of New
York City: That women, the great
majority Of them, young girls, are
compelled to wallow in grimy, foul
smelling water and dotheir work while
discarded vegetables and scrips rot on
shelves and in corners and fill the
place with stale, germ-laden air. That
many of them work in total darkness
sometimes in kitchens three levels
below the sidewalk, and they are lit
tie better off than beasts that work
in the mines. That most Of the wo-
men work from 81 to 90 hours q week,
while little or no regard is paid to
the one day i week rest law. That
roodstulIS prepared IN most of the
restaurants are carelessly handled, be
ing allowed to stand in pots and ket-
ties on floors covered with dirty waste
and in many cases surrounded with
putrid potatoc pealings and other de-
caying matter.
The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-07-17

United States troops now patroling
Southern Colorado coal strike zone,
expect to remain on duty here indie
linitely. This is the statement issued
by officers in command, who admitted
however, that they had no orders
from Washington revealing the gov
emmcnts intentions. Leaders of the
striking miners declare that produc-
ton is but so per cent Of normal.
The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-07-17

The strike u!timatum Of the $4,000
employees Of ui the big trunk lines
and their contributing lines west Of
Chicago, was presented at the gener-
al managers committee meeting. rep
rcsenting the roads. this being final
conference. This action puts the next
move up 90 the railroads. 1t is very
likely that they will appeal to Depart
mcnt Of Labor and ask for mediation
under the NcwlaudS Act. Ii the rail
roads fatty reject the utimatum
without appealing for mediation, one
Of the greatest strikes III the history
Of the nation will be on. About 49,
900 miles of railroad. including not
only the western lines in the United
States, but all lines in Canada west
of Fort Williams, except the Grand
Trunk Pacific, would be tied up.
The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-07-17

The trial Of Carl F.. Person, charg-
ed with the killing Of ex-police chief
Tony Musser, Clinton, ILL.,, will be
heard in Logan County instead of
Clinton. Persons attorneys convnc-
ed Judge Cochrane that prejudice
against Person in Clinton is TOO strong
to admit Of fair trial. Person was
editor Of the Strike Bulletin, organ Of
the |. G.. c. strikers and Musser was
4 railroad bull. Socialist and union
labor forces took up Persons cause.
The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-07-17

CLERk-"Mr. Brown, I should like
to ask for 4 raise in my wages. I've
Just been married.
'EMPLOYER-"Ncry sorry, my
dear man, but ! cant hclp YOU. For
accidents which Happen 10 our en-
pIoyces outside If the factor! We ar"
not responsible
The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-07-17

The police of New York were out
in force 10 quell and disorder at the
public funeral of the dead anarchist
recently killed in a bomb blast in a
tenement house in New York City.
Alexander Bcrkman, an anarchist of
international rcputc. was the princi-
pie speaker. Before him stood big
floral piece on which was inscribed:
you did not die in vain," tribute
to the dead anarchists. Placards
were carried by friends of the dead
bearing the words: They who die for
a cause, never die" The affair was
quiet.
The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-07-17

(By Oscar II. Adkjnson.)
They rally to the eXpIoitcrs c1II,
In West Virginia.
And are fleeced Of their all
In West Virginia.
And soldiers on the industrial field,
Always get their hides well peeled.
I;rc;t,ise they have been taught to yIeId,
In West Virginia.
Nature has been ever kind.
To West Virginia.
Hul 40 10y the workers find.
In West Virginia.
Their natural rights to work and save,
Is denied by privileged knavc,
md they can do naught but SLAVE
In West Virginia.
They workers merely exist.
In West Virginia.
frhcy are ruled by Greeds IRON fist,
In West Virginia.
II they ask for meat and bread.
\ hired thug fills them full Of lead,
md on the hill side they're found dead,
In West Virginia.
ne SKIES III IujLS HiN''
In West Virginia.
And the workers. lives are, too
In West Virginia.
They are always filled with fear,
l}ecause poverty is ever near,
And they cant even get glass Of beer
In West Virginia.
Success is not for those who work
In West Virginia.
But goes to those who always ShIrk
In West Virginia.
Youth and age must strain and sweat,
and be ruled by curse and threat
:, lille earning wealth they do not get
In West Virginia.
It's Just one immense skin game,
In West Virginia.
The Masters play it without shame,
In West Virginia.
Nothing better will be known,
fill Socialism stands full blown,
And outlawed labor reaps it's own
In West Virginia.
The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-07-17
NEWSY NOTES

ter behind the skirts of Mother Au-
thority. Verify, with the advance OF
radical thought this union-leading
business is becoming more and more
fraught with perils. Moral: Keep
one eye on the boss and the other on
The labor leader
The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-07-17
ENGLISH COURTESY

- The suffragettcS
saluted the Prime Minister this NOR
ming"
!AMERICAN-"Did they fire twen-
ty-onc guns '
ENGLlSHMAN-"No; houses
The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-07-17
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The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-07-17

At the time of taking the thirteenth
censue (l910), there were 30.O9l, 564
males engaged in grainful occupations
in continental United States, as COM
pared with S.075,7772 females. Of a
total of 3S.lG7, 333G persons engaged in
all occupations in 1910, 1873 per cent
were males and PIP per cent were
females. In clerical occupations one
third of the persons were women.
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-22

The Malay States have coin worth
one-five-t housandth part of cent.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-22
JAMAICA.

G. II. Gardner is 1T work on the
railroad section.
Ed. stark went 70 Manchester the
first of the week.
l.. l.. Torrey is at work ii Willard :
mill In Towusheud.
The Christian Endeavor society will
hoid its annual business meeting and
election IF officers At Mrs Hartwell s
Mrs. Almira Barnes. who has sold her
mousse iii South Londonderry. Is staying
to. the present at John Alien :.
Rev. \. T. Hartwell and Wilbur
eastman went on an lS-milc walk one
day the past week.
q. H. LoveIand received news from
Albany, y. v, recently that his son,
| Eric, WAS married May 81
Mrs. Fila J. Robinson Is having a
veranda built ON her house, William
johnson is doing the work.
Mrs. G. }. Eddy mas sold her land
and sugar orchard on the Pixies Fails
road 10 +. L. Williams
Miss Rena Allen Of Brattleboro came
Saturday TO the home of her father,
/ 6. 6. Allen
Judge L. T. Waterman has spent
several days with his sister, Mrs. OHye
Shgmway.
Mrs. Flora RaNson Of Brattleboro
was in town visiting friends and reia-
tives last week
Mrs Edna Wright of Concord, n IT,,
who was in town visiting relatives and
friends few days, returned to Con
cord Monday.
John Cummings ami daughter. Mrs
Benson. and child OF South London
derry called on Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Martin sunday
committee Of the two churches {,
plan for one day for ola Home wech
met ut Mrs A. Il. Stark : Friday Ie,
cream and cake We're served by ths
hostess.
Robert CushmaE Of New York cit,
came by automobile To the home of hi.
grandfather, III. J. Sage, one day las
+, week. lie is visiting relatives in Towns
: hend this week.
Mrs Lewis Savage has been seriousl,
III about a week. She j. somewhat
better at the present writing. lie
daughter, Mrs. Lila Williams of Graf
ton, is caring for her.
/ DIR. and Mrs. Charles T. Clarke an,
daughter. Miss Marie Clarke, of Bel
lows Falls and Professor Hill of Har
ward university came by automobile q
: George l.. Clarke 5 Sunday.
Little Ina Alien went Thursday 4
the Memorial hospital in Brattleboro
where she underwent an operation OF
! her forehead for an abseess. Her moth
or, Mrs G. c. Allen, accompanied her
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-22

he will be aided by the Maderista ex-
governor, Rosales, commanding HOO
Hidalgo rebels; then on through the
rich mining district of Pachuca, where
the federal garrison of 1000 is being
REINFORCED by recent levies from the
Serrano Indians, numbering 1,400
These Indians are undiSciplined and
poorly equipped and viii be more than
Offset by the miners who will join the
Aguilar forces
After passing the swampy oil region
west of TuXpan, Aguilar's advance
will be comparatively easy if the fed.
erals continue their retreat The whole
distance could be covered in a week.
but Aguilar may be tempted to defect
his advance and attack Puebla's weak
ened garrison, a capture far more i'm
portant than anything else in that re
gion. Puebla is but a little over 100
miles to the south from Tuxpan and
Is but sixty miles from Mexico City.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-22

day 81 their automobile for Boston tn
attend the meetings II the Ncuhcrn
Baptist convention.
Miss Ruth Watson spcut Tew davs
al her home. owing 90 the illness of
hcr mother. She returned to hcr WORDS
in Brattleboro Monday.
Rev Joseph Mexican went SATURDAY
20 Boston to attend the meetings 81
the Northern Baptist convention. Or
his return he Will stop Be Worcester IL
visit his sister
Miss Alice wheeler and Mrs. Erurzt
Wheeler ami son. Maurice Nh-rier.
came by automobile from Wiurhrr-
don, Mass. and spent Thursday af.,r
noon at the Baptist parsonage
Miss Laura Wave returned 10 ha-
home Saturday To rcnain for the -rn
mer. She taught The past year iu Mas.
sachusetts. Next war She wili teach
IN the first and second grades 81 fhe
Oak Grove school in Brattlehoro.
George White has sold his farm in tbs
north part Of the town. which hs
bought several years ago ~ Fred Wat
son. They expect 20 move this week
10 their former home I'm Whitehall. ~
Y. The many friends Of Mr. cut Mrs
White wish them success in their new
home.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-22
REAL RESTRAINT OF TRADE.
The Process OF Burning Down the Barn
to Kill tic Rats.


At the hearing OF the government
action ia Boston to dissolve The United
Shoe Machinery company. as being in
restraint 81 trade, Judge Putnam
brought ont highly pertinent fact. lie
said TO the counsel for the govern
ment.
You DO not seem to specify just
what YOU are driving at here The dis
solution would result in restraint IF
trade more than it would the OPENING.
MI Of trade. Hou also do not point out
exactly what relief Won desire. Yon
ASK that We Should appoint u receiver.
Perhaps what Won want ~ to 40 would
do more 70 restrain trade than ANYTHING
else sc could 10.
= But what VIII become Of the shoe
machinery business If the United
company is allowed 10 continue rs if
/ Is asked Mr.. Gregg.
What viii become of il if we
grant your request
The Judge is right The department
Of Justice. ably assisted BY Congress.
and in obedience to the most ignorant
popular clamcr. tries TO create an ar
titcial crime. The combination il at
taeks in this instance is not restraint
of trade. Its dissolution would raise
employment and cripple the export
| trade, without comforting the slightest
benefit upon anybody.
This is because there is no moral
( otiense involved; and because the ar
| tificial. s'crime is wholly in the pub
| lie interest. The Interpretation the de-
partment of Justice chooses To set upon
| the law would, in practice, create eX
actly the restraint of trade which il is
! desirable to avoid. The sherman Law
has been clearly Interpreted under tn,
rule of reason. Not single dissolu
tion secured by the department of jus
| tieC has failed to reduce employment
to advance prices, and TO impose an en-
tlrely wasteful burden upon the cost q
! productions.
This Nlndictive attack upon success
without warrant in morals or the tru,
principles of law, is one Of those rs
tonishing alterations upon which fu
ture students Of history will look bacl
IN ineredulous amazcment. They vii
not believe it possible that to satisf,
the forces of envy and unrest a grea
industrial nation s public officers coul,
be used TO cripple its productive power
land to impose a hopeless handicap upol
1t IN competition for the world 5 mar
ket with other nations eonductini
their business upon a basis of common
sense.
Judge Putnam indicates one of tn
+ necessary results. The indictment !
!. not specific, but general, and even wer
there something which might be chang
. ed in the public interest, the process 0
burning down the barn to kill the rat
would bring about a real restraint O
trade beyond public or private remedy
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-22
TOWNSHEND.

A. r. Marsh and son, Harold, spent
Sunday in Londonderry.
Miss Harriet Doane of East Jamaica
is visiting at Dr. F. l.. Osgood :.
NJ. Park Osgood returned from the
University of Vermont TO his home
Saturday.
Mrs. Lois Rumrill went Wednesday
to Brattleboro to spend several weeks
with friends.
Miss Ella Ware was at her home FOR
the week end. She returned 10 her
work in BrattIeboro Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kellogg Of
Hartford, Conn, came Friday to spend
a few days with his sister, Mrs. w. II
Miles.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. f. Chase left sun
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-22
PERSONAL.

+. 3D. Stewart Of Levden was in town
on business saturday.
+. f. Harrington Of Barre is spending
several days N town.
Emerson Fl. Dunlllee is working IN
\. L. Miller 5 candy store
Miss Florence Allen left today for
Middlebury to visit a week.
Mrs. Clarence Briggs visited sunday
in Greenfield with Mr.. Briggs.
+. LaVcrne Thayer is taking a
week 5 vacation at Sunset lake.
Miss Leah Rathbone will return today
from New Haven, where she has been
since Friday.
+. p. Carter of Barre spent the week
end with his mother, Mrs. +. c. Carter
OF Green street.
Joseph Dahlstrom Of New York, for
merly of Brattleboro, is visiting Allen
Colt two weeks.
Mrs. +. E. Hapgood of Newport is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Theodore Turner.
Stanley Fits came from Worcester
| Saturday night TO spend the summer
vacation at his home on Oak street
Mr.. and Mrs w. S. Bishop returned
today to their home in New Haven,
i Corn, after visiting in town since
| May %. IS
Miss Elizabeth Doyle of the firm o.
Doyle 4 Doyle, who has been in Boston
several days on business, will return
today.
Miss Elizabeth Kidder, who had been
a guest of Mrs. f. G. Harrington, re
turned Saturday to her home in Little
ton, y. IL.
Mrs. G. R. Crosby left this mornin.
for Philadelphia, where she win NEE
Miss Marjorie Crosby, who has beer
visiting there.
Mrs. Harry Rhodes left this morning
for Portland, Me-, where she will spen,
a month with her parents, DR.. and Mrs
+. B. Lockwood.
Miss buoy Derby of Gardner, Mass
is visiting Mrs Wilbur Rockwell. Mis-
Derby is on her way TO her sumne
home at Wardsboro.
Mrs Robert O. Mitchell left thi
morning for South Windham, Conn
where she will visit a week or more q
the home of her parents.
Miss Clara Pierce will go to Windhal
|
in July, when she will take Il positio
in the Holstein- Friesian Office.
Mrs Harry A. Bingham, who ws
operated upon recently in New Yorl
: has left the hospital and returned i
> her home on st. Nicholas avenue.
Attorney o. b. Hughes went today |
. Burlington to attend the banquet of h
= class at the University of Vermont,
= which he will be one Of the speaker
n Ray Mixer of the retail departures
j. of the Durham Brothers Co. and Err
s est Herrick of the wholesale departmei
= are enjoying q week s vacation at Su
= set lake.
e, Mr.. and Mrs g. O. Abbott and NJ
e and Mrs. Sherman Abbott went
% Springfield yesterday to visit DR.. al
e. Mrs. w. J. Alderman. Ruth Ackerm:
y accompanied them home for tw
lweeks' visit.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-22

In Brattleboro. june -. Alvah Elliot
Thomas. -.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-22
PERSONAL.

Herman Brooks of Bellows Falls
spent Sunday IN town.
Mrs. John Wheeler went this morning
TO Turner's Fails for two-weeks' Wis
IT,
Mrs. Robert Miller of Northampton
was weekend guest of Mrs IL. T.
Bascom.
Miss Theresa Burke finished work
saturday night for the McheIman
system.
Mrs. w. H. Mitchell has returned af-
Quebec.
Mr.. and Mrs f. C. Buzzell and jerry
Laundry spent yesterday in Springfield,
this state.
Miss Mary Austin, nurse. moved Sat
urday from Chaplin street TO Mrs. Julia
Cooley $, $ Brge street.
Mrs. Abbie Follett and Miss Ethel
Folctt Of Weston were guests over Sun
day of Mr.. and Mrs. s. NJ. Yeaw.
Conductor Charles Cook and family
moved Saturday from New London to
II. r. Lawrence IS house on South Main
street
Mrs. }. T. Denning returned Satur-
day after weeks visit with her
daughter, Mrs. Thomas II. Ssk, in New
Eondon.
Miss Anna O'Neil, head nurse of the
Ohio Valley General hospital in Wheel
ing, W. Va, is spending her vacation
with relatives in town.
Miss bly, Paul, student at Mount
st. Mary s academy in Burlington, is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. w. H. Mitchell
before going to her home in Quebec.
Rev. J. J. Griffin of the Catholic
university, Washington, D. c., came
Saturday and went 10 Spofford lake to
open his camps for boys and girls for
the summer.
Mrs. r. 4. Thompson and son, Ons
low, and Mrs. Fred Cressy left yester
day morning by automobile for North
field, VT, where they will attend the
commencement ut Norwich university
They will return Friday.
William Schuster, who has been sing
ing in grand opera in New York dur
ing the winter and spring seasons, vii
come to town tomorrow for a vacation
Of about two weeks He will 90 from
here to Chicago to fill a summer en-
gagement ut Ravmia park.
Among those who went to Amhers
today to attend the Amherst Dart
mouth baseball game are Mrs. J. Ora
Estey, Jacob and Joseph Estey, DENIM
son Cowles, Paul Chase and Roge
Bracket, going in the Estey ear. The
also will attend the alumni parade.
Rev. Father Maurice Griffin, curat
Of the parish of Houlton, Maine, VIII
~ having a weeks vacation, visited Q
the home of j. T. Denning Friday o
his way 70 Buffalo, n. Y. Before g,
ing to Maine Rev. Father Griffin wa
Cor al years a priest in Australia ha'
ing a parish of his own, his health b,
coming impaired, owing TO the chmat
the bishop of sydney gave him a leay
of absence of which he still has Nv
years. He may return TO Australia b
fore that time as his health is yel
much improved.