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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-10-11
Married.

Tuesday, October 3, 1916, occur
red the marriage of Miss Della
Scheidemantel of Ossian to Mr.. Al
bert Hauber of Calmar, the cere-
mony taking place in st. Francis De
Sales church, Ossian, Rev. NJ. J..
Thiltgen, ID. D., officiating. The
bride is a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Schidemantel and the groom
is a son of Mr., and Mrs. Geo. Hauber
of Calmar. These people are we'll
and favorably known in the county
and their many friends join the Bee
in extending congratulations They
will make their nome on a farm near
Cresco. -Ossian Bee.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-10-11
groom-to-be returned and announced

groom-to-be returned and announced
that there would be no wedding.
The sheriff had learned that
marriage license had been issued to
Wayne Scoggins. He had known of
"a man by that name and knew thai
he was married. He went to the par
sonage and discovered that it was
the same one. The girl has hied her.
self to the seclusion of her parents
home.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-10-11
Methodist Minister is suspended.

Sioux City, la. Oct. At the
session of the northwest Iowa Methc-
dist conference at Spencer the Rev.
j. a. Troke was found guilty of high
imprudence and conduct unbecoming
minister of the gospel.
The investigating committee rec
commended that he be suspended from
the ministry pending q formal trial.
The charges are: First, lying; sec
ond attempt to eXtort money; third,
improper relations with women,
Recently Troke has been filling a
pulpit at Elm Creek, Neb.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-10-11
ASTONISHED BY NIER-
CHANTS STORY.

A merchant relates the following:
For years l could not sleep without
turning every hour Whatever ! ate
caused gas and sourness. Also had
stomach Catarrh. ONE SPOONFUL
.buckthorn bark, glycerine, ETC., as
mixed in Adler-i-ka relieved me IN
.STANTLY" Because Adler-i-ka
Pushes the ENTIRE alimentary tract
liz relieves ANY CASE constipation,
sour stomach or gas and prevents ap-
pendicitis. 1t has QUICKEST action
OF anything we ever sold. r. A. Eng
bertsOn, druggist.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-10-11
sherirs Stops Wedding Bells.

Clarinda, Ia, Oct. 9.-Wedding
bells were about to ring here today
when they were rudely interrupted
by Sheriff Whitemore. When min
lister was about to pronounce a cou-
pie man and wife, the officer raped
at the door and asked to speak to the
groom. The groom left his blushins
companion and went to the door. A
whispered conference was held. The
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-10-11
Apple Is Inches in Circumference.

Apple lO IhctieS III circumference
Roland, Ia. Oct. st. j. Samp-
son and T. A. SOrem, well known
farmers near Roland have brought a
few samples of apples that they have
raised this year TO the Farmers Saw
ings Bank OF this city, where they are
now on display The largest one
measures fifteen inches around and
weighs eighteen ounces. Apple grow
ing is again becoming an industry
with the Iowa farmer and there is no
reason why it should not, as apples
can be raised just as big and as plen-
tiful as they have been in years gone
bv
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-10-11
WEDDING STATIONERY.

Printed or Engraved in the latest
style. Quality the best. Samples
may be seen and prices quoted at
Public Opinion Office. l2-tf.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-10-11

Advertisers who use the public
opinion columns get results II.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-10-11

Our Want Column.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-10-11
gnblit Opinion.

BY HARRY j. GREEN.
DEBORAH, IOWA, OCT. II, 1916.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-08
DENY
AMERICAN RIGHTS
Indiana Courts Are Called to
Task for Refusing to Rec
ognize Law.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 1.-THE gov
eminent Of the United States, through
congress-. has said that the labor
power OF human being is not a
commodity or article Of commerce. "
says the United Mine Workers Jour-
nal.
But, while this human labor DOW
er, which includes the worker himself:
is conceded by the federal govern
ment, not the property Of any except
the worker himself, to grant or with
hold, singly or collectively, as he de.
cides. many of the judges of state or
district courts still hold the contrary
to be the fact. In no state in the
Union can there he any written law to
justify such a position; the Laws of
equity, confined in every other coun-
try, and now by the government of
the United States as only applying to
property may be done, and for which
there is no other redress, is based on
what is known as the common law
based on the laws of chancery of the
AAO1dICuIdl governments.
I'VE hold that the expression of the
government of this country on the
status of citizen within this country
must be binding in every state.
I'VE have always maintained that
the writ Of injunction when applied
to the labor power Of human beings
was only based upon usurped power;
yet it was found necessary to enact a
supplementary law to wrench this
usurped power from the hands of
venal, ignorant or subservient federal
judges. It may be best to demand
laws, conforming with the law Of the
country, in all of the states.
I'm the meantime we do not believe
it best to submit to injustice through
usurped power.
1--WE hold it is the right and duty
Of all the workers to disregard the
claim Of property right in labor power
even when allowed by the ermined
servitors of the employers.
1T may mean Imprisonment for
some, but only by determined re-
sistance can we hope to call attention
to the injustice OF this assumed
power
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-08
EFFORT TO CRUSH +.
OUT UNION WORKERS
Manufacturers Wage An Unjust
Warfare to Enforce Sweat
Shop Conditions.

WASHINGTON, DC, July 1.-THE
evidence is piling up that the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
is backing the Manufacturers Asso-
citation in the cloak and skirt divi-
sion of the garment trades of New
York in the effort of those New York
manufacturers to crush out the union
organizations among their workers
mission to permanent sweat shop
conditions.
Public sentiment in New York is
and has been all with the 10000 gar
ment workers in their splendid strug-
gle to save the 100000 members of
their families from the most wretched
industrial slavery. --;
Yet the local manufacturers have
defied public opinion as they have
defied the most ordinary sentiments
of humanity.
They have done this because they
have felt secure in the support of the
National association. Not the presi-
dent of the local manufacturers is d.
recting the fight against the workers
in New York's largest industry; but
the directors of the nationwide or
ganization to fight workers and to
keep down wages are now directing
that fight.
Lately the landlords and real estate
spectators have joined with the
manufacturers against the workers.
They have imagined that their "loft''
and shop rents were being threatened.
They have joined in the cry Of the
manufa cturers that the demand NJ
1.-THE workers. for decent conditions of
work and for enough pay. to live on
would drive the industry away from
New York-and leave their shop
rooms vacant!
1t is all part Of the tactics of the
National association of manufacture
ers everywhere. In Pittsburgh, in
Chicago, in New York-everywhere
that the workers have asserted even
share In the control of their own
lives-the: methods have been the
same, to crush out ferociously all COL
1ective. bargaining for wages, to crush
out all the means by which the or
ganized labor movement has brought
more liberty, more happiness, more
life to the workers and their families.
The garment workers of New York
are the latest objects of this vindict-
i've nationwide fight of the National
association of Manufacturers. Labor
all over the United States should re-
alize the character of the struggle.
1t is not local fight. It is a local
phase Of a fight that takes in the
whole industrial field of the whole
United States.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-08
SPIRIT OF INTERNATIONALLY SHOULD s. ST.. 4: = :
BE SUBSTITUTED FOR PATRIOTISM

And there's my fame. And there's
my many thing. But as long as
use my" I'm tied. AS long as I con-
tinue to shut anybody out shut my
self fn.
That's what makes all our present
governments ludicrously wasteful.
They deny so much in order to affirm
so little.
If we can only remember America
by forgetting the world, then want
to remember the world in order that
I may forget America.
It's not enough to know that, while
America can't contain the world, the
world can contain America.
I don't ask you whether you care
what happens to other Americans. I
take little interest in that I ask you
whether you care what happens to
people who are not Americans.
It's easy for us to care what hap
pens to Americans. But it's hard for
us to care what happens to those who
are not Americans.
Roosevelt's a good deal worried for
fear some country ma; insult us. He
don't seem to see that it's our part in
such a. game to see that we don't in
suit another people,.
Kings say my" country. Presidents
say my country, just as the mer-
chant talks of my" business-just as
the coupon cutter talks of my
bonds.
my" Is the Tyrant.
That my is the tyrant of schism.
1t breaks races into pieces. 1t re-
duces humanity to shreds.
My interest. My rent. My profit
My success. My welfare. My any,
thing. It's all in the way. It's all
negation.
No man was ever born with my"
in his mouth. my" is the word of
the barbarian. It's the word of one
| against all the rest. It's the challenge
| of the common welfare by the per-
sonal desire.
We can't keep the word my" in
| civilization. The two things cont go
| together. You've got to give up CIV
ilization to keep my" Or you've got
to give up my" to get civilization.
| So that my brothers become every
! body. So that my country becomes
all countries. So. that my children
become all children. So that all the
! fragments become the total. So that
nothing is left out side the circle Of
acknowledgement
Now we know why we're not salts
fled when Roosevelt or any other
mere American says he hates the Am
erican who don't care what happens
to other Americans.
Now we see that tire only man who
can satisfy us is the man who does
care what happens to Germans, Eng
lishmen, everybody, everywhere, seen,
unseen, bad, gpod, despicable, glor-
ious.
We do care what happens to Amer
leans by caring first. of all for what
happens to everybody.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-08
FAVOR p. O. RETIREMENT.
WASHINGTON. July 1.-THE no

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE house
committee on postoffice and post
roads has voted to report for passage
a retirement measure which will en-
able postal employees who have
reached the age Of so years, after rs
years Of service, to retire on an in
definite leave Of absence with an an
nual allowance Of $500.
This indefinite leave of absence
plan, as agreed to by the house COM
mittee," said Secretary Flaherty of
the National Federation of Post Office
Clerks, "is not ideal and does not
meet with the requirements of the sit
uation. It is, however, a star. in the
right direction. It will help to bridge
over q gap and save the old men Of
the postal service from facing dis
missal or demotion." ~.
The clerks are being aided in their
effort to secure retirement legislation
by the American Federation OF Labor,
and at the recent convention Of the
two principal political parties this
was one Of the planks urged before
the platform committees by A. F. of
L. officials. e, ~ .=Y. -. =. T..
The action by the house committee
Is looked upon as the preliminary step
toward the eventual enactment Of q
compreAensive retirement BIZ
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-08
(By Horace Traubel.)

Roosevelt says he'd shrink las from
plague" from the American who
don't care what happens to other
Americans.
80 farther. I shrink from a. man
who don't care what happens to Rus
slams and Germans and everybody
else as we'll.
The patriot is the man who does
care what happens to his own people,
but who doesn't care what happens to
other people.
The internationalist is the man who
cares what happens to all people.
When you come to the real ques-
ton there are no people who are your
people and there are no people who
are not your people.
The man who speaks Of my" faith
err and my" mother and my
brother without meaning all fathers,
misses the intention of fatherhood,
material and comradery.
Too Big For Patriot.
The world is getting too big for the
patriot. Patriotism can't accommo-
date itself to the new diameters of
the spirit.
There are people who can't see
acros a town lot. But there are al
ways people who can see around the
earth.
Horizons may limit you. But the
horizon passes you on and on.
Europe today shows us what "my''
country means to the man who can
see over his back fence.
~ ,,oo Ia 1@k
religion and "my' politics and "my''
science and my literature, we usu-
ally find him talking from the inside
of a locked door.
Until become the ather of every.
body I'm childless.
This wars not made by the people
who don't care what becomes of their
own peoples, but by the people who
don't care what becomes of other
peoples.
Roosevelt hates the American who
don't care what happens to Ameri.
cans. find it hard to like the Ameri.
can who only cares for what becomes
of Americans.
Geographical America contributes
nothing to civilization. But spirit
ually America contributes everything
to civilization.
The same accident that made me
an American makes some one else
something else.
Open Arms of Welcome.
don't want America mbolized by
a club. I want it symbolized by two
open arms of welcome.
The same thing that. makes Roose-
welt say my makes the Kaiser say
my" and makes the Car say my
and makes them all say my" And
"n,y'' is as bad in one place as in
another:
There's my family. And there's my
income. And there's my ambition.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-08
GAINS BY MACHINIsTs.

WASHINGTON. July IA bulletin
issued by the International Associa-
ton Of Machinists shows substantial
gains have been made in the following
localities since the last report, May
is:
Cincinnati, Toledo, Cleveland,
Youngstown, Fostoria, Newark,
Salem, and Columbus, Ohio; Derby,
Conn: New Brunswick. N. j.: Eliza
beth, N. j.; Mobile, 1.la.: New York
city, Syracuse, Philadelphia, Wilkes
Barre, Oil City, St. Joseph, Fort
Wayne, Coyington, Va; Kenosha,
Wis; Rochester, N. Y: Seattle,
WASH; Massena, N. Y; Auburn. N.
y; Chattanooga and New Orleans.
The New Orleans report indicates
the extent: Of gains made by the ma
chin1sts. In that city. 81 shops ac-
,cepted the eight hours day with min
imum wage from IS 2-3 to S. IL
cents an hour: two shops reduced
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-08
hours to 10 per day and five to nine
hours. Minimum rates for these lat
ter plants range from IS to IS cents
an hour .. :
WILL PROTECT FIRENiEN.

DENVER. Colo, July 1.-The con-.
vention of the Brotherhood of Loco,
motive Firemen and Engtnemen has
voted greater power to its president.
in cases where members are charged.
with criminal negligence in connec-,
ton with wrecks. The delegates ex-
pressed no sympathy for the man
whose neglect causeS loss Of life or
property, but they intimate that there
have been cases wht.re public Off
Gals, at the instigation OF railroad
companies. would not be averse to
prosecuting fireman, thereby reliev-
ing the company Of responsibility. Il
they were sure the ]: fireman was not
able to defend himself
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-08
LABOR FAVORS PREPAREDNESS BUT ~" nv; -: :, -
=: IS OPPOSED TO COMPULS ORY SERVICE
the need arises, without endangering
democratic ideals.
Intelligence and Industry.

the need arises, without endangering
democratic ideals.
Intelligence and Industry.
Give us an army in which any en-
listed man Of intelligence and indus
try can hope to attain a commission.
Abolish the age limit after which en-
listed men are ineligible for examina-
ton for commission. Provide for
West Point training for any enlisted
man who shows ability and who
passes certain fair tests. Diminish
the number of offenses for which en-
listed men can be tried by court mar
tial and imprisoned for long terms
without trial by jury. ..
The proposal to establish compuls-
DRY military service in this country is
the saddest and most abject surren-
der Of American ideals ever proposed
in this country. 1t is that because it
is put forward on the ground that
only through putting men in regi-
ments, under martial law, and drill
ing them with weapons of slaughter,
can we make our young men efficient
and patriotic.
Labor knows better way. Estab-
llsh industrial freedom. Abolish priV1-
lege. Give the worker a voice in de-
termining wages and conditions, and
with that voice a responsibility. Pay
him his just wages and conditions,
and with that voice responsibility.
Pay him his just wage, so that he can
provide leisure and education for
himself and his children, SO that he
can afford the services Of good doc
tor, so that he can buy books and pic
lures and magazines, so that he can
bring up his children happy, healthy,
strong, intelligent and free; above all,
SO that he can raise his voice in the
councils of this country. He will raise
it, as the 100000 members of or
ganized labor invariably have raised
it, in behalf of humanity and justice
and liberty, in behalf Of the honor
that means not glory for handful
Of leaders. but life and freedom for
the millions.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-08
STRIKE OF LABC7ERS ENDS.

BOSTON, July 1.-The strike of
5000 members of the Building La
borers and Hod Carriers union, which
has tied up building operations in this
city since June 1, has been settled
and questions in dispute will be sub
mitted to arbitration. Masons' ten
ders will receive 40 cents an hour,
and cement workers and excavatine
laborers, IS cents. The question Of a
further increase and the wage Of
other classes Of laborers will be de-
cided by an arbitration board. The
unions original demand was a flat
wage Of 423tk cents an hour. for all
workers With time and one4half; for
overtime ..S= & .,:.. sss
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-08

John p. White, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, in
a recent article has the following to
say regarding labor's attituderon mill
tary preparedness:
To organized labor the question of
immediate Importance is this: What
constitutes common Defense? Labor
accepts nationalism as a fact and as
a necessary expedient for the progress
of the race. La Dor is patriotic. It
sees these 100,000,0o0 people of ours
as nation, bound together by our
devotion to certain ideals. These
ideals are liberty, justice, education
and: equality of opportunity for every
child. They are the same for every
American. But whereas part of us
have actually attained these ideals
the great majority of us are still
striving to attain them. For the great
majority Of wage earners they are
still only ideals.
There are between 100000 and
3O,O0O,0OO wage earners in America
today, and the United States public
health service tells us that hardly
more than half OF these earn enough
to maintain a healthful, decent exist
ence. OF these less than 5000, 900
have freed themselves from industrial
tyranny and feudalism so far as to
enjoy the right to bargain collectively
and to interpose strong organization
between the individual worker and
the employer for the workers full
protection
What War Means.
What does war mean to labor? It
means death to its dearest hopes. It
means the re-esta blishment, where
they do not still exist, of feudalism
and autocracy, in order that every
thing may be supordinated to the
success of the war. And when the
war is over the feudalism and auto
cracy remain. It means the absolute
suspension of the struggle for more
democracy and justice. A strike be-
comes treason, and in the passion of
the moment any man temporarily in
command can work his will by re-
sorting to the sacred word patriot
ISM" It means establishing the habit
Of obedience without thought or ques-
ton. It means the death and maim-
ing Of the workers in the proportion
VI oOouS 4OuI W OAO VI oSAOI 61OUpS
of the population.
And so labor cannot discuss with
much enthusiasm the methods Of pre-
pairing for war. But labor must be
prepared for the worst. If war comes
the workers will respond.
realize that this nation cannot be
defenseless in a military sense. We
must be prepared just to the extent
that other nations will understand
and respect our strength without
fearing it. I believe we are already
prepared to that extent and that any
considerable addition to our arma-
ment would be construed by other
nations that we have warrke and az
gressive intentions. that we. fear and
expect trouble.
Let us keep up our navy. Let us
keep alive among US the science of
arms through the maintenance of a
small expert army. Let us have a thor
ough overhauling Of our military es-
tablishment to assure ourselves that
our expert military men are FORE
sighted and abreast Of developme nts.
Z: Above all. let 10 sreorganize our
present military force on 4 basis that
will permit its sniarIenent, Il ever