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The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02
NOW FOR A VERDICT

The case has gone to the Jury and
their verdict will be rendered next
Tuesday. President Wilson has been
on trial. He has been charged with
being weak and vacilating and with
being stubborn and headstrong; with
being dilatory and using words with
out deeds, and with rushing the eight
hour law through Congress without
stopping for debate or investigation
deed without words; with having
kept us out of war at the expense of
our national honor, and with having
not kept us at peace, but getting us
into three wars, one with San Do
mingo and two with Mexico; with
having tamely submitted to German
aggressions. and submissively ac-
quiesced in English interference with
our mails and commerce, and with
having denied Germany her rights and
having failed in enforcing the rights
of the Allies and neutrals; with hav-
ing ignobly refused to declare war
against Germany and with having
been equally ignoble in declining TO
declare war on England; with having
brought the country TO the verge Of
ruin with a fictitious, temporary pros
perity, raising the wages OF the work
ingman and shortening his hours. and
increasing the price OF agricultural
products, thus increasing the cost Of
living.
With all humanity bewailing the in
effectiveness of European diplomacy
which failed to avert war, Wilson's di-
plomacy has put stop to Germany s
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the foundation for a recovery in full
of all injury done American property
rights by England or her allies. Words
without deeds-certainly when words
are diplomacy and deeds are war. and
diplomacy gains our point. Patient ne
gotiations is not weakness or vacilla-
tion, firm insistence is not stubborn
ness. Immediate action to avert a
nationally disastrous strike is not a
surrender to force or headlong action
without thought. Police work in San
| Domingo and Mexico is not war. Pa
tience with poor distracted struggling
Mexico, patience with Germany, with
/ the Allies. all of whom are engaged
in bitter war which each believes to
involve its very existence, is not
weakness. 1t is the strength, the for
bearing strength of great. a power
full a noble nation. Prosperity which
is all pervading. which brings up the
price OF labor and the products of la
Dor manufactured or grown from the
soil, which gives work to all. which
swells bank accounts. particularly
small savings banks, which puts all
mills. mines and factories at work
such prosperity is not fictitious nor
is it merely temporary.
Whatever the verdict of the people
next Tuesday may be. the present
President OF the United States is sure
Of an exalted place in history. His
task has been as hard as Lincoln's
was, and he has performed it as Lin
coin would have done. This and sue
ceeding generations Of Americans
have cause to rejoice at the course
President Wilson has pursued and the
things he has accomplished. and the
fearful things he has>prevented.
He has nothing to fear from just
people.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02

Wilson Sentiment PredOmmates Among Men
nf Iahnr
0f Labor
By Grant Hamilton

No other presidential campaign in
the history of this country is com
parable with the one just closing.
The wealth owners and grad-grind
employers for the first time in politi-
cal history stand in their true cplors
in an effort to elect Candidate
Hughes upon a platform constructed
by the House of Have. The spectacle
of Candidate Hughes demanding that
all legislation passed by Congress
during the last four years be wiped
off the statute books indicates the
consideration that labor would re-
ceive at his hands were he elected.
No two congresses in the entire his
tory of this government passed so
much needed remedial labor legisla-
tion as did the last two. To dedlare
unreservedly that this legislation
should be repealed is a direct and
open bid for the support of those who
own the wealth of the country and
against those who produce it.
During the period in which l have
been engaged in correspondence with
local unions and the distribution of
the records of the candidates, evi-
dence of the feeling of labor men
and unions against Candidate Hughes
has been most striking. There are
two factors which stand out pre-emi-
nent above all others, These eleme ents
comprise the attitude of labor aga inst
war, and the record OF Candidate
Hughes in the Danbury Hatters de-
cision by the United States Supreme
court. 1t is my judgment that the
labor legislation enacted by CongIess
constitutes the groundwork of the
friendliness of the trade unions for
President Wilson, but undoubtedly,
the efforts of the American Fedora
tion of Labor in cooperation with
the Mexican trade unions and the
avoidance of armed conflict with NJ ex-
leo through those efforts, aided by
the president, form the strongest link
in the chain of circumstances which
have brought the organizatios of lab
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02
The Greatest Election In History
(By Marcus Day.)

Torrance and plutocracy, in control,
will not again trust their fortunes to
the decision of victims.
On the important question of peace
the present political campaign de-
velops the candidacy for reelection
of an executive who has preserved it
asking for vote of confidence. He
is opposed by candidate whose chief
slogan against this able executive is:
He has failed to preserve the national
honor"
Let us drop this point of conten-
ton and look at actual conditions as
they exist today. We ask the people
to be guided by common sense and
aside craftsmanship at a time when
their general welfare hangs upon the
proper decision
Candidate Hughes, Theodore Rose
welt and the forces of reactionary
Repubicanism, with trust magnates,
munition makers. tariff beggars and
multi-millionaires back of them, are
asking that everything in the way OF
internal improvement which has been
the constructive accomplishment OF
the Wilson regime be repudiated in
order that they be allowed to expert
ment with bulldozing tatcics in max
inng other nations acknowledge
wrong and apologize for a series OF
incidents which were only the natural
and logical aftermath of life and
death struggle in which all rules are
disregarded and forgotten in the des-
peration of each party to the conflict
to grasp at anything which may seem
to hold their heads above the waters
OF oblivion.
Can party leaders who fail to rec
dJnize the blessings of peace be
trusted with the preserving of peace
Does the surrender of Progressives
who bolted away from this leader
ship in 1912 insure the continuance
of progress toward characterization
of industry or does it not certainly
lead to open insult of those after
election should mere receiving the
capitulation gain control?
Is prosperity in hand, peace with
the outside worldablaze, government
divorced from invisible, monopolistic
influence and numerous other bless
ings already enjoyed, with others GER
tain, to be held lightly and trifled
with in the unreasonable hope that
nations at war will become national
by the simple change of one set OF
office-seekers for another set, while
the "outs" have nothing behind them
as credentials except long series oi
promises broken and are at present
receiving the open support of cruel
unprincipled, selfish interests, who in
the past we're satisfied with nothing
but positive dictation Of government
policy toward themselvese Can the
electorate afford TO leap into the
dark7
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02
lie EXPOSED BY
IDAHO STATE
FED. OF LABOR

The Republican canard to the eff
feet that the Building Trades Council
OF Chicago in resolutions had repudi-
ated Wilson and come out for Dod-
ger Hughes has been very effectu-
ally nailed by the officers of the said
council the State Federation of II
linois and of the American Fedora
ton of Labor in kilograms to P. H.
Spangenberg, secretary of the Idaho
State Federation of Labor resident
OF Boise. This attempt to make it ap-
pear that the laboring people of the
country are deserving Woodrow Viii
son is on par with number of other
disreputable attempts made by the
supporters of the losing cause. bur
it will avail them little The toiling
masses of the nation are next" and
cannot be turned from their path of
duty. They are enthusiastically for
the man above all others who made
the national 8-hour day for railroad
men possible. just watch the labor
vote this time, if you please. and you
viii not see it cast on the side of the
interests. The following are the tele-
grams received by Mr. Spangenberg:
Chicago. Illinois.
October 27. 1916.
p. Fl. Spangenberg, Secretary,
Idaho State Federation of Labor,
Boise, Idaho.
Your telegram received. We have
been officially notified by the Presi-
dent and Secretary of the Chicago
Building Trades Council that no kind
of a resolution was passed condemn
ing President Wilson and that the
alleged resolution published is an alb
solute fake and falsehood The posi-
ton OF the Chicago and State labor
movement is best explained in tele-
gram sent President Wilson. which
was as follows: "The Chicago Fed
Grafton Of Labor, representing three
Hundred thousand organized men and
women. by unanimous votet heartily
endorse your attitude in the enact
ment OF the eight-hour day law. We
congratulate you upon your splendid
record of achievement in the cause
OF humanity. Your administration
has really proved to be Democracy
against Autocracy. You are the first
President OF the United States who
truly understands the cause Of the
common people and had the fortitude
and courage to place human beings
above property"
+. n. NOCKLES. Secretary.
Chicago Federation of Labor.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02
DISCUSS s-HouR LAW.

At meeting of the Presbyterian
Brotherhood, held at the parlors of
the church last week, the S-hour law
for railroad men. recently passed by
congress. was discussed. The said
law and the national administration
were upheld in vigorous manner
by M. S. Parker while negative posi-
ton relative to the statute was taken
by Mack Hoke and c. c. Fisher. who
made strong arguments from that
point of view Mr.. Parker made an
urgent plea for labor and clearly
pointed out the justice Of the Adam-
son law. saying that it was only the
beginning Of legislation Of a national
character for the wage-earners of the
country and that the man who tolls
was coming into his own. He held
that the S-hour work day was the
natural work day and that Il was so
considered even centuries ago.
Messrs. Hoke and Fisher made inter-
esting talks for their side OF the Dues
ton. In faet they did especially wen
considering that they were really on
the unpopular side OF the question.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02
ELEcTRIcIANs ON sTRIKE.

Salt Lake City, Utah--The Electri-
cal Workers union presented de-
mand to The employers for recogni-
ton Of the union, eight hours and a
slight increase IN wages. The request
was refused and the men ceased work
to enforce their demands. President
LanChett Of the Intermountain Elec.
trical company is attempting TO secure
strike breakers TO take the places oi
the men out Practically every firm
in the city is involved.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02
FORD woRKERs GER RAISE.

Detroit, Mich.-The Ford Motor
company has increased its hourly
wage rate for men in its employ less
than six months from $2.72 day Of
eight hours to $5.44, an increase of 9
cents an hour. According to an Off
ciai of the company, the increase was
granted because the company does
not consider S272 a day enough un-
de5 present conditions
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02
Springfield. H.. los3A.

VI. 20, I5IU. :
P. II. Spangenberg, Secretary,
State Federation of Labor,
Boise, Idaho.
Convention took no action. The
full eleven members executive board
Illinois State Federation of Labor
take public position in opposition to
election of Hughes and endorse ac-
ton Of President Gompers. Vice
President O'Connell and Secretary
Morrison in iscsuing recent circular.
Take the position that the election
of Hughes would mean a greater cal
amity to common humanity in our
country than was the civil war.
J. H. WALKER, President.
Per MARY MORRIS. Secretary,
Illinois State Federation OF Labor.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02
Cash For the American Farmer

Some few Republican campaigners
and writer's have stated that the Rural
Credit bill was fake and of no value
to the farmer. Here is the state
ment of p w. Gobel of Kansas City
president of the American Bankers
Association, made before the Federal
Farm Loan board at Topeka:
The need OF such land banks is
best indicated by the percentage OF
farm mortgages held by life insurance
companies. These companies are
particular as to security and when
they get one of their liking they make
a lower rate of interest than the aver
age banker or private money lender.
These loans are made at about the
same rate as the land banks would
bear. But there is one DISADVANTAGE,
and here the land banks would be of
great assistance, when these inshr-
ance company mortgages mature it
may be a panic or in a panicy time
and money sometimes impossible to
obtain, or if obtained at all, only al a
high rate of interest.
What interest rates will be after
the war when foreign Indebtedness
has been adjusted | would not even
venture to guess. Unless we can know
that we have a medium for making
loans that will keep the maximum rate
down, there is no telling. Competi-
tion will keep the rate on first class
farm mortgages at or under its PRES
ent rate by reason of this law. This
is my deliberate judgment based bn
experience and dealing with farmers
for the last thirty-five years and a
large dealer in credits.
"Now," continued Mr.. Gobel lin
regard to the success OF this propp-
sition / have no doubt in my mind oi
the ultimate success of it. Just how
quickly these farm loan associations
will be formed to an extent large
enough to enable these land banks Ia
do business and the volume of busi-
ness that they should do, and which
would enable the banks to reduce thd III
percentage of expense is problema1i-
cal
~ons sdditionsl phase Of these sS.oJs.1u1 la1d
WILSON SENTIMENT CROWN {
PhiIadelphia--"The growing senti
ment for Wilson has aroused the RI.
publican organization in Pennsyl-
vania, says the Philadelphia North
Americ an which is supporting
Hughes Republican campaign ma
chinery has been put in motion y
every election precint in the STATE
More than 200 stenographers aHC
clerks have been put on rush time
distribution of 20,000000 pieces dl
Republican literature has been start
ed and the entire state organizatioF
has been ordered to whoop It up fdi
Hughes
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02
Chicago, Illinois,
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ONlODeT 20. lSlO.
p. Fl. Soangenherg. Secretary,
State Federation of Labor,
Boise. Idaho.
Telegram received Dispatch orig
mating in Chicago claiming Chicago
Building Trades Council passed res
olutions in opposition to President
Wilson an unqualified fake and false
hood. Investigation now proceeding
TO unearth those who were RESPONSE
Bile for the canard
GRANT HAMILTON,
Legislative Committeeman.
American Federation of Labor.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02
IN LINE WITH PROGRESS.

Binghampton. N. H.-- Announce
ment OF an eight-hour day. effective
November 1, has been posted in the
shops Of the international Time Re-
corder company at Endicott The new
schedule affects several hundred em-
ployes.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02
PRINTERS RAISE WAGES

Boston-The Typographical union
has Endorsed a warge agreement en-
tered into by its committee and news.
paper proprietors in this city. Wages
are increased 81 a week.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02
WILSON SENTIMENT GROWING

A vote for John c. Rice as Justice
Of the Supreme Court is vote for
character, efficiency and high legal
standards in the highest court in the
stnte.--Adv. - <-a~snr~
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02

banks is the assistance they will be
to the small farmer. The small far
mers borrowing small sums will not,
as they now do, have to pay a largef
interest rate than their brothers bor-
rowing larger sums on larger bodies
OF land. / believe that in those coun-
ties where the farm holdings are
small you will find that the farm
loan associations will be easier and
more quickly formed than where there
are larger holdings. But you will
find also that there will be many more
young men who will save enough
money to enable them to buy Is or
1O acres OF land and under this law
get loan of so per cent on it.
Another great benefit that this law
is going TO be in my opinion is that
these mutual loan associations are go
ing TO be a great factor in the CO.
operation among the farmers. 1t is
going to bring about better financial
conditions for the farmer and better
marketing conditions and / have adj
vocated and ! hope to see the day
when there will be fire-proof ware
houses enough owned bv farmers
unions to hold wheat and other grains
to insure reasonable and sound mar
keting and the farmer as able to bor-
roy money at just as low a rate of
interest as the biggest grain man in
the world.
Another result OF this long time
loaning will be that more of the in
come from the farm can be placed
INTO equipment for the farm. Not only
enuipment bringing larger returns in
dollars, but making family life on the
farm more, pleasant. These farm
loan bonds, which will be issued by
the land banks, will constitute the
first real ideal investment that we
have ever had in the United States
The chances for loss are absolutely
nil. They will be within the reach OF
any investor. There will always be a
greater demand for these bonds than
the supply can possibly be in the larQ.
est use of the system: and | believe
that the interest rate will be no higher
than on first class railroad bonds"
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02

The labor Of q human being Is not
q commodity or article Of commerce.
Act Of Congress, October Is, 1914.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02
WILL USE THE UNION LAREI.

Toronton. Ontario-The Regal shoe
factory Of this city has signed a union
agreement and will hereafter employ
only union labor and be entitled 10
the use of the label Recently over
fifty members were added. An en-
couraging feature is the fact that the
women are taking a very active inter
est in missionary work among the fe-
male employees.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02

On good authority it is asserted that
candidate Hughes wears Loewe
Danbury Hat" and under It carries It's
spirit.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-11-02

Voters OF Idaho
Are you going to stand for such
tactics on the part of the Republican
Party?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
FOUR-YEAR TERM
BILL IS DEFEATED
Measure For Biennial Sessions of the
Legislature in Senate Graveyard.
Suffrage Gets Setback.

ATLANTA.-Sena action today
made the outlook rather gloomy for
the biennial sessions bill at this ses-
sion. After defeating the bill to ex-
tend the term of the governor to four
wears and allow him only one term
for the lack of one vote the biennial
sessions bill was tabled, its friends
fearing it might meet the same fate If
brought up today. These are the
bills introduced by Senator Peacock
and are considered companion meas
ures.
The bill providing four-year term
for governor received 29 votes, while
II were cast against it. AS 1t is
constitutional amendment 80 votes
or two-thirds majority were re-
ouired for it's passage. The same vote
is needed for the biennial sessions
measure. Friends of the two meas
ures have not by any means lost hope.
Senator Peacock got the governors
term bill on the table before the re-
suit was announced, and it may there
fore be called up at any time for
action. In the meantime friends OF
the bill hope to get the needed vote
and believe they will do so, as there
were four not voting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
SUES BROTHERS FOR
TEN MILLION DOLLARS
Five Guggenheims in Dispute Over
Worlds Greatest Copper Mine.


Worlds Greatest Copper Mine.
The greatest copper mine in the
world is the subject of an important
lawsuit in the New York supreme
court in which William Guggenheim
is seeking to recover $10,00O,O00
from his FIVE brothers as share of
alleged profits in the Chuquicamata
copper mine in Chile.
When the plaintiffs attorney learn
ed that the court would not bar him
from offering evidence to show the
copper produced by the Chuquica-
mata product and its selling price he
remarked: 81 may now sue to re-
cover $26,OOO,000 instead of $1O,-
100000"
The chief mining engineer for the
Guggenheims testified that "the mine
of the Chile Exploration Co. at Chile
is, as regards tonnage and contents
of valuable metal, the greatest known
copper deposit in the world and is
unique in that its principal copper
metal, brackenite, is mined on com
mercial scale in no other locality"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
NEW DESIGNS IN SILVER
MONEY IN CIRCULATION
TIE FIRST CHANGE IN QUAR-
TIERS, DIMES AND HALF DOL
LARS SINCE 1891.

The new designs of dimes, quar-
tiers and half dollars made their ap-
pearance in Washington on the open
ing day of July, when the govern
ment began putting them in circula-
ton. Under the law the secretary
of the treasury may change the de-
sign of coins after 20 years. This is
the first time since 1891 that any of
these coins have been changed.
Adolph A. Weinmann designed the
new half dollar and dime pieces. Her
man A. MacNeiI designed the new
quarter model. On the face of the
new half dollar is a full-length Lib
erty with an American flag back
ground. Liberty stands facing the
dawn of a new day, carries laurel and
oak branches, symbolic of civic and
military glory. The reverse side
shows an eagle perched on a noun
tain crag with wings unfolded. From
a rift in the rock grows sappling of
mountain pine, symbolic of America.
On the new 25-cent piece is Liber-
ty, full length, stepping toward the
country's gateway, bearing appraised
a shield. The right hand carries an
olive branch of peace. Above the
head is the word Liberty" and be-
low the date, 1915" The reverse
bears an eagle in fight, wings extend
ed, and the inscriptions United
States of America" and "E Pluribus
Unum." The phrase SIN God We
Trust" is on both coins.
On the dime is Liberty with a
winged cap, on the diverse side, and
on the reverse design of bundle
of rods and battle axe, symbolical
of unity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19

attacked. Under six months there
seems to be natural immunity. But
no fixed rule is established, since
some adults are victims and some
very young children.
The best that science can say up
to date is to keep children clear from
danger from infection from the
arms that may Turk in the threats
nasal passages of others.
germ is a long-lived creature.
Ii ems to be a summer disease. A
certain doctor, whose son is deform-
ed for life by an attack of infantile
paralysis contracted during the sum-
mer in particularly healthy country
community, discovered some time lat
er that ten years previous to his sons
illness a case of infantile paralysis
had occurred in the vicinity.
Thus out of the unknown comes
the lightning flash that mysteriously
may strike one and pass over anoth-
err. But no effort is being spared to
keep the plague from becoming cpl
demic and spreading over the entire
country.