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Chevalier d'Eon

c. x.-rhe Chevalier d'Eon was a
famous French spy who assumed woman's
clothes for purposes OF disguise and be-
spieuous. He died IN 1910 at about So.
having kept up the elaborate pretense Of
being woman to the end. partly, It Is
said. because the King OF France ordered
him 10 do 50. Louis had been giving him
pension or several thousand pounds
yearly, but did not want him back IA
France. In England his intrlgues had 70
DO with the attempted restoration of the
Stnarta
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OUR WESTERING
LITERARY CENTER
Riley and the Indiana School
Have Broken the Tradition
of New England Su-
premacy
THERE was time when New England
l. produced not only the shoes and stock
ings. but also the poetry and philosophy

Of all America
Long after the
center Of popula-
tIon moved across
the Alleghenies
and into Indiana,
there still throve
the old tradition
that nothing that
was really great
could come from
the pen of men
who did not live
within the liter
ary shadow OF
L o n g { clio W,
Emerson, Holmes,
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re psmeefatle esHsEeasfaen who
vented fa set back homs . fight for re-
zIze|Isa a1e discouraged At the prospect
= 1ss|n4 e stay n Washington until
zHIsIsz TheF hoped % get away b.
44sazI = zaa9 eeala have dons il 4
49, - aI=saaza = 1asIaass. hut they
- - keese .ae|s aaa nlnaa ThsEs
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ut is rather strange coincidence"
the letter concludes, but 1 must give
you credit, as 1 believe your idea was
original, as we have not yet marketed
our product, but expect to in four to five
weeks. ]. II. H.
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The nation is as unprepared to re-
sist the armies led by General what's
His-Name OF some other country as to
repel the attacks Of General Humidity
for the last two weeks.
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San Francisco has offered reward
OF $4,000 for the capture of the man who
fired the bomb In the preparedness pa
rade. He may give himself UP with de-
light at the discovery that he is thought
70 be worth SO much.
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The Bremen is long overdue and
the Deutschland delays her departure.
Is 1t possible that these two subs failed
10 get the Berlin report of the Jutland
battle3
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And now they are charging in Con.
gress that the National Guard was
modified under false pretenses. Well. IL
It was modified to catch Villa the move
was futile. whatever else it may have
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Loyal Philadelphians are sure that
Mack win get there after a while. but they
welcome the chance nevertheless to see
kome baseball The Phi1lies are back in
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WASTR

Probably nothing elss so saddens the
practical pOlitlcian's heart as the thought
Of Henry Ford's money lying Idle Ia this
epochal eampaign.-Chio STATE Journal
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July 4

T. X. 1.-The reason the question was
asked at all is because there seems TO be
a general impression that the Declaration
of Independence was signed on the 4th OF
July, l776. The Declaration was promul-
gated on that day but was signed later
that summer.
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SUBMARINED

our new battleshiDs ought 70 be modelled
after Mr.. Daniels. The projeetiles OF the
navy never penetrate his armor.-CharIes-
ton News and Courier.
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The ordinance appropriating s9,ooo,-
90 for completing the Parkway has been
.,s ,snea' NOW let the PARKWAY be COM
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What Do You Know?

Queries Of general Interest tpiH be ansioered
tn this column. Ten questions. the dHStDsrs to
vhtCh every ,oeIl-inJormed person should kaet1.
dSked ddtly.
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War has been declared on all the
little gamblers.
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What does a child labor bill amount
to. anyway, IL the Southern Senators
don't want Il?
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MINES

The statistics say California has 6ss
mining properties. OF which ATT are Rold
The others are the kind We Fasteners in.
vest IN. no ooubL-cleFeiand Plain Dealer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-25

Holland has issued an orange book,
and Belgium remarked some time ago that
Germany had handed her a lemon.
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FhIi.d.ipAI., Tuesday. Jul, as. 1915.

Have you not heard il said full off,
A lOoBlon's nay doth stand for nousht7
--Moriowe.
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Municipal Pier

G. J.-At the Municipal Pier in Chicago.
recently opened, the orchestra is paid by
leet 10 cents, and this entities the dancer
TO the two encores which custom allows.
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Sweetest girl in Pennsylvania be-
trothed.-Headline.
1t is not necessary to tell her name,
for she lives in every community In the
Commonwealth, and the man who is to
marry her knows It very well.
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Honorable Mention

May call your attention to Conductor
sOs on Route ls. for all.round polite
ness? Thanks M.
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TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
ri todnt to be an angel" That
We heard fat man say.
"I'nt 0rotUing t0edrv Of this fat;
I acould not HUe all 1Ceioh."
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WALTER SCHAEFFER,
JOHN SHONERT.
FRED KRUAIAI,
JOHN ROACHE,
Company NJ, Sd Regiment, N. G. p.
FL Paso, Tex, July 10.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02

Labor Day is the occasion above all
others when the workers meet to rejoice
over past victories and hearten one an
other for the battles to come. Every
wear the powers that make for human
misery grow weaker as labor's cause
overcomes one obstacle after another
standing between the men and women
who bear the worlds burden to produce
the fullest measure of freedom and we'll
being for every man and woman, the
fullest opportunity for every child
Many pages might he filled with the
record of what the workers have accom-
plished within the past year. II is well
that the record should be set down in
full Only by comparing our gains OF
today with our failures of yesterday can
we keep cheerful hearts and bright hopes
without which we grow weak and dis
couraged. The despondent man, the con-
firmed pesimist, never yet won great
victory.
But the achievements of the past arc
not enough. They are nothing compared
with what the workers are TO win in the
future. And today, our greatest cause
for rejoicing is this: that the organized
workers of America are united, conf
dent. fully equipped in mind and heart,
for the great task that lies before them
Today as never before the American
wage Garner. organized or unorganized,
carries in his heart the principles of or
gsnized labor. Those not yet fortunate
enough to have put those principles into
effect are only waiting the opportunity
before they too Join their more courn-
geous or fortunate fellow workers in the
greatest battle line ever flung out
against poverty and injustice and oppres-
sion Those principles have been ac-
cepted not only by the workers, but to-
day they are recognized as correct by
every humane, intelligent citizen of this
republic. The time has come when no
man or corporation is arrogant enough
or powerful enough to deny to the work.
crs the right to q voice in determining
the conditions under which they shall
toll. And against those individuals and
corporations that remain blind to this
truth. there is rising tide of popular
wrath and resentment that on some not
far distant day will call to bitter rcck.
oning and defeat for all time their at
tcmpts TO stem the tide of freedom and
democracy in American industry.
The day is coming when labor will no
longer have to fight for the right to or.
ganizc. The day is soon coming when We
will look back ON the policy of Rockefel
Ter in Colorado; Of Gary and Morgan
in Pennsylvania and Minnesota; of the
Boston copper kings in Michigan, and
wonder that such medieval tyranny and
short sighted inhumanity could have cA.
isted in this land of ours. And when
that day comes labor will face new
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02
Success of The Bulletin Due
to Enterprise, Energy, Ability

over control OF the paper. On Decem-
Der IS, last, Clint G. Houston and Ed
ward j. Hines purchased the interest in
The Bulletin then held by Harvey E.
Garman, and secured the entire issue of
stock amounting to 5000. Having an
unlimited amount OF energy, some abil-
ity, together with initiative and de-
cision, Messrs. Houston and Hines began
to put The Bulletin upon a higher news,
editorial and business plane
Circulation and advertising business
has increased from week TO week, until
now The Bulletin has a larger circle of
readers than any other weekly publica-
tion in the entire Rocky Mountain re-
gion.
First OF all, The Bulletin is a success
because it is the kind of a paper the
working people want. 1t is a newspaper,
and in no sense q personal organ The
Bulletin is always optimistic, and tells
OF the good things that labor organiza-
tions and the members do. None the less
it is fearless, and does not hesitate to
expose fakes and shams when occasion
demands 1t has thereby gained the
respect not only of the working people,
but OF business and professional men as
we'll.
The Bulletin breaches the straight
trade union doctrlne ailo i the TecoI-
nized paper of the American Federation
Of Labor for the Rocky Mountain dis
trict. It keeps the Colorado labor move
ment on the national map. being one of
the most widely quoted labor paper in
the country.
This issue of The Bulletin will be
read by more than 10000 men and
vomen. and its regular circle OF readers
extends from the Mississippi river to
the Pacific coast.
The Bulletin is now in its eleventh
year, having been first printed in
March, 1906. as small monthly bulle-
tin of the Denver Union Label League.
Mr.. Hines, the present manager, was one
of the godfsthers at its birth, being
then secretary of the League. 1t was
printed as monthly for about four
years. and then converted into a weekly,
still under control of the Label League.
1t was later sold and Incorporated under
the state laws.
From small l6-Page monthly pamph-
let ten years ago to the present 6s-page
Labor Day edition in a measure repre-
sents the development, during this pc
rod, of the labor movement in Colorado
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02
Labor's Progress and Opportunities
By JOHN P. WHITE
President United Mine Workers of America.

duty. 1t will not be enough then to
stand together for the right to exist as
members of the union. The question VIII
arise: How shall we use our combined
strength for the good of humanity, for
the betterment of our own lives and
those who come after us, For organized
labor stands not for itself alone. Labor's
fight today is humsnitys fight, The
progress of civilization depends on
whether or not you who are members
OF organized labor prevail. No measure
OF society making for the betterment of
society. has become an established law
that was not first championed by the
men of organized labor. There has been
no conspiracy by the enemies OF the ma
tion but has met its sturdiest foes in the
ranks of organized labor. Labor never
needs to be told which is the right side
of a public question. Labor has no self
ish interest. Labor is Interested in the
welfare of men. women and children,
and unerringly it lines up with those
who are fighting humanity's fight.
Today the clerks and the school teach
ers and the farmers are beginning to
sec that their interests are identical with
those of the men in shop and mine. In
the past, and even today, we are occu-
pied in fighting the employer too blind
or too selfish to recognize the wage
Garner as free man, entitled to voice
in fixing conditions OF employment. The
day will soon come when on even
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02
Denver Post Attempts to lnjure
Regular Labor Day Celebration
Stages Counter Attraction the Unfair Etchs Gardens
and Trades Assembly Registers Vigorous
Public Protest.

To Working Public Generally:
attempt
holiday by widely
II off
Eitchs,
believing
Assembly
deprive the organized workers of making of their
naton celebration
hedued one he
the
andth
Assembly
HOUSTON Chairman,
d. X. ARMSTRONG,
C. BULGER,
andL Assemb
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02
Fight of Century
Won for Children

The enactment of the Federal Child
Labor law by this congress will free
nearly three quarters of a million chill
drcn from industrial slavery. It is a
long step toward freeing nearly one and
one-h half million other children who Ia
Dor, but the product of whose labor does
not enter into interstate commerce.
In 1927 a union organization of work
e-s in the city of New York declared
tina. no child under l6 years of age
should - permitted to work in gainful
industry, Thai was the first recorded
effort 10 abolish or to avoid child slavery
in the United States. The evil was then
only little one comparatively. But in
the nearly one hundred years from that
first effort to the day President Wilson
and congress emancipated the children,
the evil grew until it cast as black
shadow over the republic as the black
shadow of negro slavery. The foul i'm
morality OF mankind's feeding upon its
young" aside. the estimated three-quar-
ter million children in factories, mines,
quarries and sweatshops reduced the
standard of living and of wages in near
ly every workers home. The material
danger to the republic and to industrial
security was that every child worker or
potential worker was competitor for
the job of its father and the jobs of
other fathers.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02
UNTERMYER COMMENDS
CLAYTON ACT FOR LABOR
ALSO COMPENSATION FOR INJURED
AND PENSION FOR AGED
Says Income Tax Is Wise Because It
Puts Burden On Wealth Instead
of the Workers.

Samuel Untermyer, aut ority on
commercial law, has issued in pamphlet
form his recent address before the Com
mereial Law league, at Atlantic City,
\. j., wherein he stated:
"A long stride in the direction of
progress was made when congress wrote
into the Clayton act the sentiment that
human labor is not commodity in
connection with certain exemptions of
labor organizations from the laws aimed
at trusts"
In favoring workmen's compensation,
and old age, sickness and enforced un-
employment legislation he said:
1T is the part OF good bookkeeping
to carry a depreciation account to cover
the wear and tear on mechanical mach
inery as part OF the cost of the prod
uct. The time has come when provision
must be made for the wear and tear on
the human machinery engaged in the in
dustry, which is quite as much a part of
the cost of production as is the wear and
tear on the plant"
He gave indorsement to the income
tax and declared that the toiling masses
are at last being encouraged to believe
that the taxes of tht future will be
imposed on wealth, where they belong.
and that hereafter their backs will not
be bent under the ever-increasing bur-
dens OF government to the exclusion Of
those who should be made to bear them,
but have thus far escaped their just
share
we must cut loose from some Of
our cherished prejudices. 1 am among
those who believe that our grand jury
system should be discarded 1t served
useful purpose, but it has become a
prolific source OF oppression. It ought
not to be possible in these days to brand
fellow being by an Indictment result
ing from a star chamber proceeding, in
which only one side has had the opportu-
nifty to be heard. Every criminal prose-
cution should be inaugurated by a COM
plant supported in open court by suffi-
cient legal proof to make out a prima
facie case. The defendant should not be
permitted to waive examination. 1t Is
in the interest of the state that such a
case has been presented, and that the
defendant should have the privilege Of
testing the sufficiency of the evidence
before being called upon to answer be-
fore trial jury
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02

sands of dollars annually. The payment
of damages for stock killed and injured
amounts to many more thousands And
when the railroads are relieved of this
burden, the entire responsibility will de-
volve upon the owner of livestock,
whether he possesses one head or fifty.
He will have no recourse in law for stock
killed. And, tho it might be far-fetched
supposition, there is absolutely no clause
in the proposed law that would prevent
the railroads claiming damages from the
stock owner for the wreck that his cow,
straying thru no fault of his, causes.
1t seems not an overstatement to say
that this possibility alone should arouse
every voter to opposition to the measure.
For there is no good reason why the
railroads of the state should reap such
benefits. And to garner them at the ex-
pnse of Colorado, at the expense of an
industry which gives the state a total
OF approximately 100000 in wealth
annually, at the expense of the strug-
Cling settler, the small farmer, the
stoekgrower. the states greatst human
assets, is unthinkable. And considering
also that the ramifications of the agri-
cultural interests extend into every line
and branch of industry, affecting vitality
employment and business, labor should
be found fighting the measure to a fin
ish.
Farmers over all the state are opposing
the measure because it offers only a sub
stitute for the present fencing and tres
pass law, by which damages may be col.
lected where stock breaks thru legal
fence and injuries crops, and in return
offers no remedy for the admitted faults
OF that law. By the provisions of this
measure, compulsory arbitration is not
provided for. No properly constituted
authorities aid tn ownr of stock and
the person claiming damages to arrive
at a Just assessment. Instead, if an,
owners domestic ANIMAL stray-horse or
COW or sheep, even dog and cat-and
trespass on another's property, the own
er OF that property can seize and hold
that animal, claiming damages and feed
bill But he assesses the damage. And
If the stock owner does not agree he
must undertake the cost of courts and
lawyers to recover his property and OBJ
tain an equitable settlement.
Constant strife and enmity can be the
only result. And a clogging of the
courts with cases means an increased
cost for court maintenance which
means increased taxation.
1t seems the city voter is vitality in
terested.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02

Not alone in advertising and number of
pages printed. but in the specially writ
ten articles by the leading thinkers and
doers in the American labor movement
does this Labor Day edition surpass all
that has gone before, together with sPc-
cial drawings, half tones and general IL
Iustrations. Intentionally, no labor pub
Iication has ever before been 50 valuable
to the men and women of labor, as well
as other classes Of readers, for this edi-
tion is a veritable encyclopedia of the
labor movement. Reading matter has
not been sacrificed by the large amount
of advertising offered for this issue.
Phenomenal is the only word that com
pletely tells the success made by The
Bulletin since the present owners took
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02

paper. 4 creditable paper, which prints
the labor news fairly and honestly, is the
working peoples most valuable asset. Its
columns are ever open to those who have
no other medium of reaching the great
public, whose sympathies are always
with labor when the truth can be made
known.
Messrs. Houston and Hines desire to
express their sincerest appreciation for
the loyal support given them by the
working people and the business men Of
Colorado. which has made the phenom-
email success of The Bulletin possible
since the present owners took complete
control OF the paper This Labor Day
edition is credit to the labor movement
of Denver, of Colorado and the nation.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02
(From Committee on Industrial Rela-
tions)


The most dramatic incident in the an
nails of labor unionism in America was
when the chiefs of the four Railroad
Brotherhoods and the $40 other execu-
tives of the railway employees Of the
whole United States met with the pres
ident of the United States for the SET
tlement of the demand for the eight
hour day. The climax to that incident
came when the president of the United
States announced the principle for which
trade unionism has fought-that the
eight-hour day is not subject of ar
bitration; that the eight-hour day is
fundamentally right and necessary
part of the economic and industrial law
OF the United States. The president
pronounced "the law higher than the
constitution" when he thus declared the
extra legal Judgment Of the whole peo-
pie of the United States.
Control of Labor and Capital.
The solidarity Of the labor movement
was illustrated in this great fight of
the railway workers for the eight hour
day as il never has been before Back
of the absolutely united demands OF the
railway operatives were the solid ranks
of the millions OF other organized work
ers OF the United States, represented
tN the heu1 oil the American edeTation
Of Labor, Samuel Gompers.
That great exhibition Of the power Of
organized labor standing solidly togcth-
er wus equalled by the exhibition Of
weakness OF the men who nominally con-
troll the railways as owners" First
tho managers were called before the
president, and then the presidents of
the railroads who appeared before the
publics chief executive, proved their ut
ter dependence upon the few financiers
who have no interest in the railroad
business except to make profits out OF
it and to manipulate stocks and bo1Ids.
Fallaey of Rail Managers.
Another result of tremendous signi.
fieance was TO prove what a sham and
what hypocritical thing arbitration"
- as the railway owners use that
phrase. At the same time that they
were demanding arbitration OF the eight
hour principle. their chief spokesman
was saving that the cight-hour prin-
ciple could not work and would ruin
suy road that installed it-this in face
Def the fact that many roads have In
stalled II without ruin, and in face of
the fact that many of the roads that
have not installed it have been wrecked
by financial misdecds. But where these
railway managers and presidents gave
their hand away was the proof they
gave that they had nothing TO fear
from arbitation-that IL they got their
usual Arbitration" they felt absolutely
assured that they would not have TO
put in an eight hour day.
The attitude of these men who nomi-
nally control the vital transportation
business of the United States is that
they are the strikers" striking not for
principle, striking not for the better
ment OF the railway business or for
those engaged in the railway industry,
but striking for the personal interests
opposed to public welfare and TO the In
dustrial justice due the men who run
the trains.
Errand Boys of Wall Street
The use of cocrcivo power to get un.
organized and underpaid railway work