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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06

Mr.. Bryan deserves all the honor
accorded him in Washington. He
quit the Wilson administration be-
cause he feared it was too militant.
but, unlike many others of the same
mind, he did not rush into the arms
of a candidate who was practically
committed to war in both hemi-
spheres. In loyalty to party princi-
pie as well MS faithfullness to an idea,
he has given the country fine ex-
ample of fidelity and common sense.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06
Leaving a Man HELPLESS.

On one occasion during the Cleve-
land administration there was beau.
tifu row between President Cleve-
lands colorcd man and Secretary
Holic Smiths colored man. The two
were exercising their masters horses
out on n country road and got into n
dispute as to what is the best thing In
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06
Quick Lunch Episode.

You tip the waiter. and don't.
"Welly''
yet he gave us both the same
amount OF clam chowder."
"You are unobservant. my friend.
He dipped yours from the top and mine
from the bottom. where the ingredients
Courier Journal.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06

Bess-You interest me strangely,
Jack-as no other man ever has. Jack
You sprung that on me last night.
Bess-Oh. was 1t you? Pardon me for
rereatinc.-.Judge.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06

Friend-"Will your salary be paid
just the same, Rastus, now that you
are going to war;"
Rastns-"Wcil, my wife'll keep
right on workin', If dat's what yO'
mean."-J Judge.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06

Wall Street speculatOrs who are
scolding the banks in relation to the
Federal Reserve System for the high
er rates now charged on stOck-market
loans than for commercial paper seem
to forget that this was just about the
way the Federal Reserve System waS
designed to work.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06

The way some of the far western
states have gone in for prohibition
puts check OH favorite line of bar
room chatter in cowboy fiction.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06
Methodist Episcopal Church

Sunday School. Sunday 1000 n. m.
Preaching. ...-.. Sunday 200 a. IN.
Epworth League Sunday $3.50 p. IN.
Preaching. -..... Sunday 1870 p. M.
Ladies' Aid =. Wednesday 2:3O p. III.
Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. IN.
Choir practice Thursday 500 p. m.
You are cordially invited to find II
place in the services of this church.
Phoue 49, +. II. ROSE, Pastor.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06

You can contract cold now rs easy
as earlier in the season. Check and
cure it by using Strehlke's BROMO-
FEBRIN.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06

MONEY TO LOAN-On farm Sc
curity. Low interest. For partcu-
lars, apply to f. Sheridan, Meeker,
Colorado. II
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06

Nikola Tesla says that the next war
will be even more terrible than this.
Why not omit the next war?
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06

Send The Herald to your friends
in the East.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06

Send The Herald to your eastern
friends.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1917-01-06

Religion is the hest armor in the
world. but the worst cloak.-Newton.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04
GUILTY CONSCIENCE
SHAKES WITH FEAR

For many generations the children
of christendom have looked forward
to the approach of the first OF May
with pleasure. In Germany com
menced the custom of celebrating the
dav with a festival enjoyed alike by
Young and old. But some practical
Joker, who is canvassing for a mill
machinery concern, sent postal cards,
printed in red ink, to the sawdust
aristocrats warning them that there
were only three days before the LIST
of MAY. The mill men took this as
a threat of dire destruction and i'm
mediately set about preparing to
meet the coming distroyers. In this
town extra watchmen were placed on
the Fourteenth street dock and
searchlights played upon the mills
Monday night Extra guards were
on duty early Tuesday morning and
much preparation made to ward off
the doom advertised by the "red-
handed villains" These mill men
well know they have been doing some
things which develop in them some
things the general public had no idea
they possessed-consciences. Con
science doth make towards of US ALL
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04
UTILITIES CANNOT
ESCAPE FRANCHISE

At last the Public Service Commits
sion, or Public Service Corporations
Concentrations Commission, has dis
covered that the public has a few
rights which it might be well for
that body to respect if its members
expect to hold their jobs. An Olym-
pia telegram Of last Saturday says:
THE state public service board
rendered an important decision to-
day, holding that the board is with
out power to relieve a public service
utility company from franchise obh-
cations. It dismissed the complaint
brought by the Tacoma Railway &
Power Company against the city Of
Tacoma, seeking to abroeate the
franchise obligation to pay two per
cent gross earnings tax, pave certain
streets and give free rides to city
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04
INSURANCE
SAFEGUARDS THE POOR

Health insurance by the State is
intended to safeguard people of low
incomes against the hazard of sick
ness. High income groups can care
for themselves" declared Commits
sioner Royal Meeker, of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, this morning.
The April Monthly Review of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.
S. Department of Labor, which was
issued recently, contains several lead
ing articles on many phases of this
subject.
"Will State health insurance come?
No one can tell. Personally, l regard
it, while not the most important, a
most essential part of any well-bal-
anced system of social legislation"
said DR.. Meeker. "Such a system,
properly worked out" he continued,
Twill indemnify workers against loss
and reduce disease. Competent med
ical, surgical and hospital treatment
is fundamental to all social insurance
covering accidents, sickness, invalid
ity and old age. Health insurance
is the extension of the principle of
accident compensation to cover sick
ness whether caused by the employ
ment or not.
"Some insurance companies selfish
ly oppose compulsory health insur-
ance They call it class legislation
That is how most progressive legis-
lation is stigmatized at first l re-
call the broad view of the Pennsyl-
vania Supreme Court when the toll
roads applied for injunctions to head
off the building of steam railroads.
The court held that the vested in
terests of the toll-roads did not in
clude an eternal right to block all
improvements that might benefit the
State. Neither insurance nor any
other interest should be given the
| job of writing law intended to in
demnify and safeguard men against
accidents, sickness, unemployment
old age, and death, or even fire losses
and other damages to property. Fire
losses are not generally considered
subjects for social insurance. How
ever, | define social insurance as
all insurance, whether of property or
persons, from which the element of
private profit has been entirely elm
mated and the concept of social SER
vice and betterment substituted
Applied in this sense, social insur-
ance becomes an effective means of
counteracting the harmful results of
modern industrial conditions upon the
general well-being of the nation"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04
(By Dante Barton.)

NEW YORK CITY, April "a
Never did an unfair prosecution of
labor leaders get a quicker exposure
than in the collapse of the frameup
against Tom Mooney and his fellow
victims in San Francisco. Never did
a terribly wrongful conviction get
swifter condemnation. The proof of
perjury to convict Mooney has been
made public to add to all the other
known misdeeds that were done in
determination of the enemies of labor
to lynch him-to lynch him in the
name of the law.
And yet remember that Tom
Mooney is still in the shadow of the
gallows! Remember that the same
interests that tried to send him to
death have not yet loosed their hold
The conspiracy to "get him" and
to put him out of the way for good
has collapsed so far as proof of it
and public knowledge of it is con-
cerned. But the San Francisco COM
bination to crush labor does not care
for proof, in the newspapers any
more than in the courts, if only it
can get its victims. Those prose-
cutting officials and money interests
that are in that combination will
frame up any new story that they
need, or coerce and bully any wit
nesses who obstruct their purposes.
Can they still do this and get away
with it,? Are they strong enough
to do, in the light of publicity, what
they were doing when they were able
to suppress the facts?
The man, F. E. Rigall, has told of
the perjury by which the false case
against Mooney was framed. He has
shown the letters tempting him also
to commit perjury to bolster up the
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04
Try "BLUE RIBBON" Cigar, SC.

MEN AND WOMEN-Do you want
more money? SIS to $40 per day,
all or spare time; easy, congenial
work right at home. Write today
before your territory is gone.
j. M. Coughlan, 725 Chamber of
Commerce, Portland, Ore.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04

officials. The company alleged that
these franchise provisions have be-
come burdensome and confiscatory.
A similar petition has been filed with
the board by the Puget Sound Trac-
ton Light & Power Company, oper-
ating street cars in Seattle, against
the city of Seattle"
The management of the Tacoma
Railway and Power Company claims
among other things that to give free
rides to city officials" has become
burdensome and confiscatory. In
deed? 1t is not 'confiscatory" to
issue free passes to city officials who
have to do with franchises and their
enforcement, but to give a free ride
to a policeman, a fireman, com
mon" clerk or anybody like that, is
outrageously burdensome and confis-
catory.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04
TRACY TRIAL

1t seems to layman who has fol-
lowed the Tracy trial that, consid-
ering the large number of witnesses
examined, it has been comparative
ly short one, notwithstanding it is in
it's ninth week.
Wednesday Prosecuting Attorney
Black and George Vanderveer
occupied the day in argument.
Yesterday H. D. Cooley for the
Prosecution and Fred H. Moore for
the defense took their turn at the
jury.
The witnesses for the prosecution
most of them at least-got their
stories considerably twisted. They
contradicted one another frequently
and appeared to be trying to do one
of two things, to show they were
not in high state of excitement on
November (while their testimony
proved the contrary,) or to hide the
truth. There were several of them
who participated in the affair who
plainly showed that they would not
like the public to know all about it.
The witnesses for the defense
seemed to have more retentive mem
cries, and if any one of them was
frightened he said so.
The judge showed the utmost fair
ness and prOVed the wisdom of his
appointment to preside in the case.
The Journal regrets it must go to
press too early to give it's readers
the jury's verdict.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04
ORGANIZED
WORKING WOMEN TO
MEET IN CONVENTION

The National Women's Trade IN
ion League, representing through its
affiliated membership 100000 organ
lied working women, is calling its
Sixth Biennial Convention to meet at
Kansas City, Missouri, June 40.
These are critical days in the his
tory of the world and it is essential
that the organized working women of
America meet together for counsel
and for action. England, France,
Germany and other countries now at
war have called into consultation the
women of labor when making plans
for the workers service to their
country.
Women will be called upon in ever
increasing numbers to serve in indus
try. 1t is of vital Importance that
the working women of America be
ready to meet these problems. Am
erica can profit by the worlds ex-
perience. Will she do so? Recent
government reports from Great
Britain on Standards of Work in
War Time" emphasize the necessity
Of conserving the health of the wom-
en- workers by demanding that an
eight-hour work day and other pro-
tective legislation be enforced.
international Unions having wom-
en- members will recopniZe the i'm
portance of being represented at this
convention by a woman delegate.
Central Labor Bodies and Interna-
tional Unions may still affiliate with
the National Women's Trade Union
League and send a delegate with
voice and vote to this convention.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04

Just a suggestion 70 the street
railway companies 70 aid them in tae
fight against the jits:-Make trans
fers good for all Of the day or which
they are issued.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04
better wages; shorter hours; free

better wages; shorter hours; free
speech.
With organization and by intelli-
gent action you can obtain all this,
and hold it and be able to say to the
employer:
go on with your little game of
cut throat competition. Fight all you
wish with other mill owners for trade,
but we, the workers, in your camps
and mills, members of the Interna-
tional Union of TimberwOrkers, will
not be pawns in your dollar-chasing
game"
We will set a standard condition
of operation for your camps and
mills and if you are not bright
enough business men to operate your
camps and mills under the standards
we set get out of business and leave
business men who are bright enough
to realize the justice of our demands
operate the industry.
i
WANTED-Every logger or saw
mill man who reads the above to
write P. 0, KIRKLAND, Secretary of
the international Union of Timber
workers, Box 574, Aberdeen, and vol
unteer his aid in building the union.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04
CONSPIRACY TO get HIM"
HAS WIDESPREAD PUBLICITY

prosecutions case. Police officers
and others have told the public how
they were prevented from investigat-
ing and finding out the real facts in
the bomb explosion of Preparedness
Day" Moneys innocence and that
of his fellow labor leaders have been
unanswerably established in fact.
But what about the legal processes
that have already been so perverted
and misused?
The men who used the law to kill
Tom Mooney should be prosecuted,
as doubtless they will be. Labor mot
only on the Pacific Coast but
throughout the nation) is aroused to
prove that now and henceforth it
shall be a dangerous thing to try to
"discredit the labor movement" by
trumped-up, false prosecutions of
labor leaders.
The labor mass meetings for
Mooney in Chicago and New York
and other cities have sounded the
right note in demanding a United
States government investigation into
this whole bomb affair and into the
conspiracy against the labor men.
The federal government can lawfully
do this, since it was charged by the
prosecutors of Mooney that the bomb
explosion was only part of general
conspiracy to kill the chief officers
of the nation and state.
Now let impartial investigation
disclose the real conspirators and the
real conspiracy! Let labor get this
whole business Exposed to the sun
and the air." so that, not only the
innocent men now facing the gallows
shall be set free, but the habit which
vindictive employers have of dragnet-
ting labor leaders into false prosecu-
tions and false convictions shall be
stopped definitely and for all time.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04

The Bureau of Soils has installed
an electric furnace at Arlington, Va,
for experiments on the volatilization
of phosphoric acid from phosphate
rock.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04
OMAN, PERJURER

Slowly the friends of Thomas
Mooney are weaving a net around
Frank c. Oman, Fickert's main wit
ness in the trial of Mooney. Oman
now charges Riggall made the pro-
position that he go on the stand and
give perjured testimony. Oman was,
Wednesday. undergoing examination
before Police Judge Brady. There
seems little doubt that they have
the goods on Oxman. Then, for the
Edau women and others of their ilk,
who would falsely swear away a
mans life for gold. But don't forget
Fickert and Cunha.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04
CONDITIONS IN THE
NUMBERING INDUSTRY
(By w. H. Stackhouse)

The numbering industry has not
centralized like other industries
for example, the steel industry,
for any one can easily see it is still
largely in the hands of small capital
lists, who are dominated in many
ways by the larger capitalists and
corporations.
This has resulted in very bad con-
ditions in the industry, from the
profit point of view
The machinery and plants for the
production of lumber-in capacity for
output-far exceed the necessary re-
quirements of normal trade.
Hence we see periods of intense
depression when large numbers of
mills shut down, throwing their en-
ployes out of work.
These periods of depression last
until the stocks of lumber in the
yard are absorbed by the consumer
and then follows a period of activ-
ity, until another large stock of lum-
Der is piled up in the yards and then
down go prices and we are in an
other ''period of depression"
This condition of the numbering
industry-broadly speaking, due to
its operation by a large number of
small capitalists competing with one
another, makes the business extreme
~ uncertain, for the small capital
list, even when trade is normal. In
periods of depression, when it is an
acknowledged fact that the market
is over stocked. the fact that he has
limited capital forces him to operate
his mill, and often results in his
business failure.
Now the miserable conditions and
low wages that fall to the lot of
the wage worker in this industry, is
due TO the above mentioned condi-
t.ons that confront the employer, plus
the wage workers lack of organiza-
ton for the uncertain trade condi-
tions that compel him to take full
advantage Of the unorganized con-
dition Of the wage worker.
In times Of depression it is not I'M
common to see the wages Of the
mill worker fall below the subgist-
ence point.
Now the lesson to be deduced from
the above review is this:
The worker in the logging camps
and saw mills can not possibly hope
or expect any natural improvement
Of the intolerable conditions in the
camps and mills, except through his
act of organizing, forcing the i'm
prOvements on the employer.
Let us reason it out.
The Boss can not help you.
Fierce competition with other mil
owners prevents him, even if he is
so inclined
The Boss won't help you, because
he has all he can do, in looking after
his own interests.
Individually you can not help your
self.
For your individual protest will
only lead to your discharge.
Then there remains only one othe
source for you to follow.
Organization and collective action
In a union with your fellow wag
workers, by the use of your collect
i've power, you can demand and get
Better conditions in camp and mill
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04

The interment of Charles Merrill,
mention of whose death was made in
the last issue, took place at the G..
A. R. Cemetery on Thursday April
26th under the Auspices of the
Single Viewers Union. The follow
ing were the pallbearers: Grant
Began, Eddie Lawnes, James Flem-
ing, James Taylor, Cliff Lamb and
Lew Ketchum.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04
TWO.PLATOON SYSTEM

The firemen Of the Everett depart
ment have become FESTIVE, and just
ly 50. The people voted for two
platoon system, it will work for ef-
ficiency in the department and would
be doing right by the members Of
the best managed and most capable
fire fighters in the state.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04

Prosecutor Black, in his argument
before the Tracy jury, said that
Snohomish County is ill able to af-
ford the expense of Tom Tracy's
trial and that if the whole bunch
were tried, it would overwhelm the
County. He admitted that the l. w.
W. were abused at Beverly Park and
that there was no excuse for it.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-05-04

The United States leads all coun-
tries in the consumption of sugar,
with an annual average of 3,492,O0O
tons during the 10 years between
1904 and 1918. The annual consump-
tion in this country is nearly one
fourth of the worlds production.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-01-10
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. SARAH eERNHAROT TO .
. APPEAR SHORTLY At
; SAINT AUGUSTINE ,
! i i J. i !. !. J. 4 !.


Manager E. R. Croft. manager of the
Jefferson theater of st. Augustine, was
. visitor to Daytona yesterday for the
purpose of placing publicity for the
coming engagement of Madam Sarah
Bernhard, who appears there Tues
day, January Is.
The appearance for one single and
unfOrgettAble performance in this To-
cality of Nine. Sarah Bernhart, the
has known during the past fifty years.
will be an event Of extraordinary i'm
portance. Fresh from her triumphs at
the Empire theater in New York
where for three weeks she lately held
crowds spellbound by her amazing
art and her still more amazing youth
fulness. Nine. Bernhard will be seen
in st. Augustine on Tuesday, January
Is. at the Jefferson theater, in three
varied characters, carefully chosen to
reveal her at her best. and in some
of her most interesting plays.
She will be supported by her own
company, from her Paris theater and
will bring with her the costumes
scenery and properties used in the
original productions. Her leading
man, Jean Angelo. has come
straight from the French trenches
| where he was wounded more than
once, to fulfill his present engage
ment. He is son of that Mr.. Angelo
who supported Nine Bernhard during
her first visit to this country.
| The program will be opened by 9
| fascinating one act arrangement OF
| the immortal tale of CleOpatra Oueer
of Egypt, made by Henri Cain. anG
Nine. Bernhardt's son. Maurice l,
| will reveal the great star in a tragic
hor-, defying Caesar the Victoriou:
and choosing death before dishonor
In this play Nine Bernhard seem:
to realize the line Age cannot with
variety" She seems Cleopatra to the
very life-and death.
The second feature on the program
will be an amusing comedy. played b!
the company. and entitled THE Hus
bands Luck" in which the HUSBAND
gets the better of two rivals for hi
coQuetish wife's affections. In tn,
third of the four plays announced. en-
titled, From the Stage to the Fielt
of Honor" Nine. Bernhard will i'm
personate young soldier at the from
in France. who. after saving the flal
entrusted to him by his dead father
himself falls a martyr exclaiming
with his last breath, Long Liv'
France!" Out of Difference to Amer
lean neutrality, Nine. Bernhard viii
omit the terrific and ironic passag
known as q Prayer for Our Enemies
and substituting Victor Hugo's ad
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-01-10
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mirable poem, "Patria." The last and
no doubt. to many. the most attractive
episode in the performance, will be
the beautiful and moving final act of
Dumas Lady of the Camelias," best
known here as Camille
Since she was seen here last, Nine
Bernhardt's Interpretation of the SOL
der in From the Stage to the Field
of Honor" that in New York and other
places, it brought audience, not figura-
lively, but literally. to their feet
Since she was seen herel asst. Nine
Bernhardt has braved Zeppelins and
submarines, and paid homage to the