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The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-08-10

his Endorsement of the theory that in
functions apply to personal relations.
Mr.. Hughes has taken an unequivocal
position. He indorses the abuse Of the
writ OF injunction against which wage
earners have vigorously protested,
and which they have tried to correct
by remidial legislation in order that
they might enjoy the rights and OPP
portunities of free citizens.
"The above is accurately the informa-
tion which you asked and take it
will be OF Importance to YOU as well
as to the working people and liberty
loving citizens all over the country
and enable them to understand the
mental attitude of Mr.. Hughes, who
now is a candidate or'the presidency
of the United States"
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-08-10

Washington.-Wi the street rail-
way workers of New York trying to
exercise their legal right to organize,
Theodore P. Shonts, president of the
New York Railways Compay, is
spending hundreds of thousands OF
dollars of the nickle-payers' money in
buying page advertisement i'll the New
York newspapers to misinform and
consequently to prejudice the public
against the men, and to attempt to
bribe the newspapers against fairness
to the street railway workers.
Leaders of the street railway union
and executives Of the Railroad Broth
erhods who are now assembled in
New York denounce as astounding eff
frontery the statement of this corpora
TONS president, Mr.. Shonts, that the
union is an alien organization" These
leaders in the labor movement say
that it is supreme nerve coming from
a man and corporation who have been
notorious for importing to New York
and employing subway workers and
others who are new to the New York
situation, and who cannot even speak
the languages that the union organi-
zers and workers speak.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-08-10
TO FOOL THE PEOPLE
Vast Sums Of Money Expended by the Railroads
to Mold Public Opinion

es, involving 7,l33,o44 miles of travel
the value of which was $20o, APO.
The passes issued on account of
members of legislative bodies and
other public officials were distributed
among state senator's. representatives
and other state officials, county and
city officials and judges of various
courts.
These facts made public through
the Interstate Commerce Commission
investigation, are doubtless indicative
of the wide spread abuse of the free
pass evil on the railroads in different
parts of the country.
The Commission does not hesitate
to condemn this practice of the car
Fiers. In we'll chosen words, the
Commission says such laws reveal
the manner in which these carriers
have dipped into practically every do
main of public and private life by
the instrumentality of the free pass.
There is scarcely a walk of life which
is not represented in this procession
of recipients of passes, from the fed
eral bench to the local politician and
the sheriff who summons the jury.
The threads represented by these pas
ses tie thousands of citizens to the
carriers through improper relations"
The lack of morality reflected by
the facts here compiled, is a menace
to the institutions of free people"
No wonder the Interstate Commerce
Commission strongly recommends
that the practice OF railroads in ex-
pending their funds for the-purpose
of influencing the laws of the coun-
try as well as the abuse OF private car
travel be restricted by the railroads.
If this recommendation were fol-
lowed by the roads there would be
less cause for complaint as to insult
hcient revenues. Protection to this
one avenue of economic waste" in
railway operation would alone more
than enable the roads to establish the
eight hour day principle in freight
train service without additional ex-
pense.-Transportation Brotherhood's
Pubiicitv Rureat,
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-08-10
RICH CAN PAY FOR WAR
(By Marcus Day.)

The plutocratic dream of the inn
mediate future visions the use of
great army and navy, supported by
high taxation OF the American people,
in the collection of debts due capital
lists i'll this country. One of the surest
ways to cause reaction against the
enthusiasm for a military government
here will be to begin a drastic pro-
gram of taxing the rich to pay the
price of any possible war Make them
feel the pinch of higher taxes and
they will lend their influence in keep
ing down appropriations. But back
OF this proposed outline OF procedure
in the interests of peace is yet bet
ter scheme-keep eliminating from
public representation men who hold
allegience to private interests. To
continue the election of inferior pub
lie servants will mean the end of lib
erty regardless OF whether we have
one soldier or a million. We have
Millionaire exploiters now in spite of
the fact that we are the least military
of any large nation in the world and
militarism, as possibility, is a men
ace more because of the danger of
its direction by these exploiters than
of the probability of our people be-
coming imbued with the spirit OF con-
quest. Our robbing classes so fear
the people here>that they are impati-
ent in their desire to put military
protection between themselves and
the victims whom they rob. Without
being able to continue large theft
here they could not carry on war
against any nation. 1t may be tax
en- for granted that any scheme of an
nexation or occupation they have in
mind bases its calculation upon cheat
ing the American wage-earner first in
order to carry on robbery abroad
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-08-10
By Paul Scharrenberg

Secretary OF the California Federation
OF Labor and Editor of the Coast
Seamen's Journal
A fiendsh crime has been commit
ed in San Francisco. At least six hui
man lives were instantly snuffed out
and nearly forty more seriously in
jured by the explosion of bomb or
Internal machine placed uear the line
of march of the preparedness parade
held in this city on July p.
No one but wild fanatic or a
mono-maniac could have conceived
or carried out such dastardly deed.
And no sane human being, be he rich
or poor, for or against so-called pre-
paredness, would hesitate moment
to condemn the monster guilty of
such an appalling crime
Upon the issues involved in mill
tary and naval preparedness, honest,
sincere and patriotic citizens have dis
agreed ever since this republic was
born. Upon the issue of cruel, cow
ardly and wanton murder such as
was perpentrated in this city on Sat
urday last, there never has been and
there is to this day absolutely no
difference Of opinion. Arson and
murder, called by whatever name, is
abhorred by the organized workers
not one whit less than by those who
are banded together in employers
associations.
1t would eemfunnecessary TO dwell
upon the well-grounded fact that men
who have different opinions upon pre-
paredness and militarism are not nee
essarily far apart in opposition to bru-
tai and cowardly murder.
Unfortunately we have in San Fran
cisco a newspaper owned and control
led by that slanderous knave. Hearst.
This man, who, through his news
papers, persistently reviled and Will
fed one of the nations martyred
Presidents up to the very day he was
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-08-10
What the Trainmen Demand

the day. But the man in the engine
cab must keep fresh; he must keep
his mental activities keen for he must
see every signal, keep in mind every
order, and when he enters railroad
yard must know just what every one
OF all the way from so to 800 switch,
signal and block lights mean, and if
they are as they should be to guaran-
tee him clear track. Yet eye fatigue
is one of the first symptoms and re-
suits of long hours of work, and men
tai dullness comes close second
Safety first" for the travelling public
demands that men on railroads be not
overworked.
There is yet another side-one
which affects the commercial side OF
railroading. Why are some freight
trains handled with such speed that
men who handle them are not on their
runs over eight hours, while other
freight trains hauled with the same
class of motive power and over the
same right-of-way, are Ia to 20 hours
clearing one division? Why is a
carload of fruit from 90 to u hours
coming from New Orleans to Sioux
City, while carload of other freight
is three to four weeks?
Trainmen say the railroads so ever
load dead" freight trains that they
cannot make their time This is done
in order to increase the railroads
profit. This is why the trainmen who
handle these trains must lay out on
sidings and at way stations, and be
on their run IA to 10 hours
Trainmen also offer the hint to the
shipper that if the eight hour law
goes into effect, it will solve the
freight car famine to great extent
Railroads will then speed up their
freight schedule in order to avoid
overtime wages. and freight cars will
be rushed to their destinatio.
loaded instead of dinq-donging along
on the road for weeks.-Sioux City,
Iowa, Tribue.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-08-10

The railway managers are flooding
the country with publicity regarding
the increase in wages" that is being
demanded by the members of the
four railway brotherhoods who are
engaged in actual handling OF trains.
1t seems the railroad managers can
rot make an honest presentation of
this issue any more than they can of
their valuation, or their inside fnanc-
ing.
The railway employees are not ask
ing for an advance Of wages. In
fact they are asking for the adoption
of plan that will decrease the in
come of many OF them. They are
asking for an eight-hour day, instead
of being compelled to stay out on the
road from II to 10 hours.
Their argument in favor of this
change is reasonable. They say that
passenger trainmen and fast freight
trainmen would not be materially af-
fected by such rule as few of them
are now on the road more than eight
hours. The men who would be af-
fected are the trainmen who handle
dead" freight trains. These men
are on the road usually the limit per-
mitted by the federal laws-l6 hours
and often longer than that before
they get back to their homes. Their
expenses on the road must come out
of their own wages
The greatest evil. however, is the
physical and mental effect upon men
working that length OF time. 1t needs
no argument to prove that after eight
or 10 hours continuous strain, ones
and mental activities get
sluggish. 1t is during these periods,
say trainmen, that wrecks most fire.
quently occur; and then the railroad
blame it on to the
"carelessness' OF the railroad en-
ployes.
Even the traveller in the Pullman
gets tired after a 10-hour ride during
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-08-10
Influences of Railroads on LegisIa
lures is Pernicious Says I. c.
Commission

1t is suggested to the railroads that
an additional way of conserving rail-
road funds would be to discontinue
contributions to campaign funds and
to save the enormous sums that il
costs the railroads annually in the
endeavor to influence legislative bod
les, etc.
Millions of dollars are annually ex-
pended by the railroads in the endea-
'or ito mold public opinion" and to
ecure the passage and defeat of laws
n which the officials or their friends
night be interested.
An investigation which is now in
progress by the Interstate Commerce
Commission into the affairs of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad,
shows that tremendous sums have
been expended for in the charters of
the railroad companies.
1t might be assumed that the bust
ness of a railroad company would be
the transportation of passengers and
freight, but judging from the facts as
brought out by the investigations Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
the officials consider that it is the
business OF the railroads to provide
avs for the various states, as well
as to influence the election of state
md county officials, that are approx
ID by the railroad officials.
In the course of a single year. a
single railroad-The Louisville &
Nashville-issued to or on account of
OF legislative bodies and
other public officials. attorneys, news
papers representatives and various
other persons { not including officials
and employees of railroad companies).
as many as llSO5 free passes, in
volving 4,577.o28 miles of travel. the
yalue of which exceeded $130.S3o.
The Nashville, Chattanooga & St
Louis Railroad subsidiary of the
Louisville & Nashville, during the
same period, issued 22,225 free pass
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-08-10
AREMANY OLD AND DEPENDENT

family and home.
And after you have finished figuring,
eat, drink and take your children to
the movies
We spend $l3,OoO,0OO annually for
gum. But it isn't our gum bill which
leaves us bankrupt after sixty-fve.
Our lack of thrift is in the rents
we pay under our present system of
landlordism-when we might find
better way.
Our greatest luxury is our tolera-
tion of the prices fixed by gentlemen's
agreements. butter boards, packers
associations. transportation combina-
tons and other punches of exploiters.
And just so long as we keep our
minds on saving the gum money we
will never find out exactly why John
ny's shoes cost so much. We will
never discover why we must live in
a flat instead of that ideal dream cot
tage with a vegetable garden in the
back yard and a rambler rose over
the porch.
What we squander most in this
country is brains!
We fool away our mental equip
ment on details of petty economy
when we ought to apply it to ways
and means of handling our exploiters.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-08-10
THE MEAT TRUST

Regardless of screaming protests
In the new revenue bill before the
house finance committee it is propos-
ed to reduce the exemption of per-
sons who will pay an income tax
from $4,000 to $1,000 They will have
10 reduce considerably more before
ihey hit US.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-08-10

A parcels post agreement has been
entered into between the United States
and China whereby parcels not ex-
ceeding II pounds in weight may be
sent between the two countries. The
rate of postage will be II cents a
pound.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-08-10

The county commissioners have de-
cided to use the 100000 voted to be
expended on the roads by employing
day labor and not letting the work
to contractors. In this way it will
give employment to the farmers and
other tax payers and the money will
remain. in the country instead of be-
ing divided up between the contrac-
tors and officials. The state appro-
priated 100000 some years ago for
roads and after the money was all
gone it was found that only 40 per
cent OF it went into actual road work,
the rest being overhead charges.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-08-10

from the unhappy victims who pay
tribute to the meat trust and in spite
of the fact that congress has been well
aware of the criminal nature of the
combination, there is as yet no action
by government which really offers
anything effective as check upon
the robbery.
1t might be suggested that the one
great reason for congress delinqu-
ency in this and other respects is that
congress gives first love to criminal
combinations while it never thinks OF
the peoples interests at any time.
A great majority of our representa-
tives in Washington loathe the fact
that they must go to the people for
power and place and il reactionary
Republcanism wins this election
there will be strong efforts made to
put representatives of the beef COM
bine as well as its brothers in in
inquity so far above the people in
preference that even criticism of
wholesale crime can be made illegal.
Agitation concerning great wrongs
always finally brings results and bust
ness bandits have long since deter
mined to center their efforts toward
suppressing agitation. As the matter
now stands between the people and
the packers the latter will not be
molested in their era of extortion be-
cause the same men who own the
banks, railroads transportation and
terminal facilities also own the pack
ing houses.
Government competition is the only
thing. with teeth long enough TO bring
the meat-packing dollar grabbers to
time and the first step toward this
end will be government ownership of
transportation, which will guarantee
business life to competitive meat
packing establishments.
Mountain advocate., 1916-03-03
HERNDON DRUG CO., Inc.
THE RExAlL STORE

account is from his own party.
In the opposite party, always the
party of patriotism, there is no
opposition to the policy 81 nation
al defense and preparedness.
But in that party there is a mill
tant feeling on another form of
preparedness ess-industrial pre-
paredness. This, if only the Pre-
sident knew it, is the greatest
cause for uneasiness on his part.
The determination Of the oppo-
site party to restore Protection
as a vital element in the policy of
preparedness may well cause
President Wilson to be sorry that
this is a campaign wear.
Mountain advocate., 1916-03-03
Another Conversion

Joe Partin, of Swan Lake, was
in to see us Monday, and while he
was here told the editor that he
had long since quit the Democra-
tic party, and has cast his lot
with the Good Old Republican
Party" and that he intends in
the future to vote the Republican
ticket. Joe is a good fellow and
we welcome him into our ranks
Joe is not by himself, there are
lots of others who will do the
same thing in November, let.the
good iwork go on, and let US have
such a victory in November that
the world viii know that with a
protective Tariff with a Republi-
can congress and President that
every thing will have the ring
and CLEAN of gold and that pros
perity has surely returned to
stay.
Mountain advocate., 1916-03-03
HUSBAND RESCUED
DESPAIk,NG Wife
After Four Years Of Discou,aei ing
Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave
Up in Despair. Husband
Came to Rescue.

Catron, Ky.-ln an interesting letter
from this place, Mrs. Bette Bullock
writes as follows: 81 suffered for four
years, with womanly troubles, and during
this time, could only ST up for a little
while, and could not walk anywhere at
all. AT times, would have severe pains
In my left side.
The doctor was called in, and his treat
ment relieved me for a while, but was
soon confined to my bed again. After
that, nothing seemed TO do me any good.
had gotten so weak ! could not stand,
and ! gave up in despair.
At last, my husband got me bottle Of
Cardui, the woman's tonic, and COM
menced taking il. From the very first
dose, ! could tell II was helping me. !
can now walk two miles without its
firing me, and am doing my work."
Ifyou are all run down from womanly
troubles, don't give up in despair. Try
Cardui, the woman's tonic. II has helped
more than a million women, in its so
years OF wonderful success, and should
surely help you, too. Your druggist has
sold Cardui for years. He knows what
il will do. Ask him. tie will recon-
mend it. Begin taking Cardui today.
Write %: Chattanooga Medicine Co. LAaIes..
Advisory bert.. chattanooss. Tenn. for. SHeeial
lss Rls:s;s:fsas%S: = &As. Il: ~ flf s1 : ssss k3
Mountain advocate., 1916-03-03

Write %: Chattanooga Medicine Co.. LAdies.
Advisory Dert.. Chattanoosa. Tenn. for Speeiol
|;:sa:ssasS: siss = " ~ 81 fs1s & = Sx IT,: s9st E8
Mountain advocate., 1916-03-03
Whv He Changed His
Mind

President wilson, 10 tne DuSl-
ness Mems League of st. Louis,
on Thursday. thus defined his
position on the Tariff commission:
Il have changed my mind
about the advisability of having
a Tariff board and | have done it
for this reason: Before the war
began and the universal sweep
of economic change set in, | be-
lieved, and | think | was justi-
fed in believing, that a Tariff
board was a means merely to
keep alive the question of Pro-
lection. Now the sweep of this
change has been so universal that
an unprejudiced, non-partisan
board'is absolutely necessary in
order to. find out how far and in
what way. the facts have chang
ed"
Why Mr.. Wilson is anxious
that the question of Protection
shall not be kept alive is readily
understood. This country be-
lieves in the Protective system.
Usually when that'issue is raised
between Republican and Demo-
cratic national candidates the
Republican win. Mr.. wilson at
tanned to the presidency in 1912
not because 81 the Democratic
Tariff plank. but solely through
Republican dissenSions. If there
is a straight fight this year, the
Protection question will be very
much alive. Changes violent in
character and far-reaching in
their consequences have been
wrought by the war, there is no
doubt Of that, but they will not
be found to have effected econO-
mic laws or the manner in which
these laws operate in different
countries. So that there will be
no greater necessity for a Tariff
commission after the war than
there was before -TRerrray>be
more work for it to do, a wider
range of inquiries to make, ETC.,
but the fundamental principles
upon which the Democratic and
Republican parties differ will re-
main. Nor will the commission
take the Tariff out of politics.
Hear what the Philadelphia Re-
cord (Dem.), the ablest anti-Pro-
tectionist paper in the country,
says:
"This commission could not
take the Tariff out of politics.
So long as Congress has exclusive
power to fix rates of duty and
public opinion is divided on the
question whether the purpose of
the duties should be to afford
public revenue or to shut out
foreign competition, the Tariff
will remain a political issue"
Mr.. Wilson has come around
after long hesitation, evidently
realizing that "the question of
Protection cannot be killed by
the simple process of ignoring it
it in the White House.
Mountain advocate., 1916-03-03

The Senate passed the Knight
Meyers workmen's compensation bill
81 to 2. Senators Sanders and
Speer cast the dissenting votes.
Mountain advocate., 1916-03-03
He Is Sorry

In one of his recent speeches
President Wilson is quoted as
saying: Il am sorry this is a
campaign year." 1t is a queer
remark. Probably he meant that
he was sorry that in a campaign
year devided sentiment should
exist in his own party on the
question of national defense and
preparedness of the military kind
All that he has to dread on that
Mountain advocate., 1916-03-03

"The greatest health insurance in the
world is the simplest" he said. II new
er could quite understand why people
are so negligent in the use Of the sim.
plest of all preventives of illness. It's
all q matter of keeping the bowels
open. The man who carries little box
Of Rexall Orderlies has got Il good
health policy In his pocket. believe
they are the best laxative ever pre-
pared, and their pleasant taste appeals
70 men, women and children alike"
We have the exclusive selling rights TOT
Mountain advocate., 1916-03-03

In investigating the accounts o.
various county officers on file at the
State House, assistants in the Attor
ney-Generals office have uncovered o
new form of graft. 1t is simple, A
man is employed by the sheriff at s;
a day to go after prisoner. He is
gone ten days. That would indicate
that his pay would be $50. But in Q
bill sent in to the state for payment
the pay asked for was figured like
this: Ten days of "a hours make 24(
hours; a working day is eight hours;
240 hours divided by eight hours
makes 30 days; at 50 q day Il would
be $50. sherin's profit 800.
Mountain advocate., 1916-03-03
Rules Committees to Have
Charge of Bills Before
General Assembly
WILLIAMS Is OUSTED
House impeachment Proceedings Pass.
ed Despite Fight Of Meyers-Tas
Revenue Bill Is Presented.

Frankfort, Ky.-(SpeciaD Govern
or Stanley and his administration
hackers will use every effort to have
passed. during the closing days of the
Legislature, those bills promised in
the Democratic platform.
And, it is certain that these will he
given preference with the Rules Com
mittee Of both Houses in charge OF
those to be voted upon.