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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-08-04

Miss Fanny Mae Fathe:ee has r
turned to Der home in Ta!'aheek
ef,er a week spent here as The CUES
OF Misses Iva and D7lphl;.7 irea
erlck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-08-04

Mrs. julius Oppenheim and little
daughter, Sarah Ann, left Monday,
after two weeks spent in CovingtOn.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-08-04

Mr.. ana Mrs. Milles Simmons. ut
Su1ell, wee weekend Suests OF Mr.
aid Mrs, Howard Burns and NJ. and
Mrs. j. NJ. lmmOns.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-08-04

Miss Marie Huberwald left Sunday
afternoon for New Orleans t. be gone
several weeks.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-08-04

Mrs. Edmund Hebert, of New Or
leans, spent Wednesday here as the
guest of DR.. and Mrs. J. F. Bouquo1.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-08-04

Mrs. F. Lacourt left Sunday after
a three months visit to her daughter,
Mrs. J. McNeely.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-08-04

Miss Velma Cooper is visiting the
Misses Ray for several weeks.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-08-04

Mss Ferdie Cole, OF New Orleans
was the guest Wednesday, Of MY
and Mrs. l.. Cole.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-08-04

Miss May Shaumberg left Sunday
for New Orleans, after several weeks
stay in Covington.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
A PRESS SECRETARY.

Is your local union losing it's grip? Is it fall
ing behind because Of dsinterestedness the part
of the bulk Of the membership?
If either of these questions can be answered
in the affirmative, The Labor World wishes to
have word with you. We want to make a sug-
gestion which, if carried out, will not cost local
unions one cent, but which WILL on the other hand,
stimulate an interest in local union activities that
will manifest itself in greater attendance at meet
ings and more wholesome conditions all round.
Appoint press secretary. Select good live
member who knows how to write lively items with
respect to what goes on at regular and special
meetings. Have these items sent in to The Labor
World and we will print them free of charge.
Your members will read them. They will under
stand that there is something doing besides the
reading of the minutes Of the previous meeting
and the consideration Of appeals for financial aid.
The Labor World do much to assist local
unions who will appoint live man to cooperate
with US. Try it anyway. AS we stated above it
will not cost you cent, and that alone should
induce local organizations to try the plan out.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
IRELAND NEAR HOME RULE.

A significant incident occurred in Ireland some
days ago which many lrishmcn claim had pow
erful influence in actuating the British government
in its decision to let the people Of Ireland settle
the Irish question themselves
Joseph McGunness. Irish Republican. was
elected to the House of Commons at special cleo
ton held to fill vacancy for the southern divi-
sion Of County Longford
AcGuinness is serving three years sentence
IN LeWes prison. His conviction grew out OF the
Dublin revolution last year. His election coming
on top of victory for Count Plunkett, who was
triumphantly elected in North Roscommon, where
the Redmondites were regarded as exceptionally
strong, is looked upon as very damaging to the
prestige of the Redmond party
The Daily Chronicle says: Mr.. Redmond S
leadership of the Irish people has been shaken to
the foundations, while another leading daily main
tains that the McGunness and Plunkett victories
demonstrate beyond question that it is useless for
the government to bargain with the Redmond party
because their representatives have not the power
to fulfill any bargain they accept
Heretofore these constituencies have not failed
to elect the representative of the Irish Parliament
tary party, and recent developments l. dictate that
even the Redmond strongholds are making known
their determination to accept nothing short of
Home Rule without permittl the county of Ulster
and others who form the minority led by Sir Ed
ward Carson, to secede
1t is claimed that Lloyd George is merely seek
ing to induce the Irish to walk into pitfa But
to man up tree, it seems that the Premier s
proposal to let the Irish decide the question should
be given trial at least The election of represent
tatlves to Dublin parliament to consider ways and
means of settlement cannot injure the cause of
Home Rule. If the Obstetrics are in minority,
here will be an opportunity to find it out and to
ascertain the Of their reluctance to accept un-
aduterated Home Rule Such convention might
also clarity the issues as to enable the outside
~ .,,&o1
what ought to be done, or ought not to be done.
Public opinion is with the Irish people. Americans,
true Americans, want Home Rule for Ireland. and
it is hoped the Home Rule element in Erin will
them in this country by failure to act judicious]v
in the matter.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
GERMANY IS FAR
FROM DEFEATED
British Trade Union Heads Tell
Chicagoans Not to Expect
Short War.

CHICAGO, May 24.-"Germany is
far from beaten; don't make the mis-
take British laborers did and think
you are in for short war"
This was the formal admonition to
Chicago trades unionists Tuesday by
the British labor representatives who
came to the United States at the re-
quest of Premier Lloyd George to pro-
mote a better understanding between
British and American labor.
The labor representatives reached
Chicago Monday night.
Their mission is to outline what has
been done during the war by the CO.
operation Of organized labor, business
and the government in Great Britain.
The ENJOYS are:
James H. Thomas, member of par
lament and head of the British Trans
port Workers federation. -
Charles w. Bowerman, member of
parliamentary committee, British
Trade Union congress.
Joseph Davies, private secretary to
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
MORE GERMAN INTRIGUE.

German efforts to involve the Am
erican labor movement in her plans
to prevent the manufacture of mu-
nittons in this country for the use of
the entente powers were revealed at
the trial of Captain Franz Rintelen
of the German navy and former Con-
gresham Buchanan of Illinois, who,
with six others, are charged with
conspiracy. They are accused of TO-
menting strikes designed to interrupt
trade in munitions through the ac-
tivities of I4abors National Peace
Council, of which Buchanan was first
president.
Gompers testified that he advised
Buchanan that his plans were fool
hardy; that they were in conflict with
the interests of labor as represented
by the American Federation of Labor,
and that he warned Buchanan against
associations with Herman Schulteis
and Henry B. Martin. These men are
defendants and were members of La
boris National Peace Council.
The testimony as to Rintelen's ac-
tivities was given by John c. Ham,
mond, an advertising agent, who said
that Rintelen engaged him to carry on
a pro-German publicity campaign.
Hammond said he gave up his work
for Rintelen when he learned that he
was doing all in his power to bring
on war between the United States
and Mexico, and that Rintelen believ-
ed it was only a matter of time be-
fore German diplomacy would en-
broil this country in war with Japan.
Rintelen's purpose, he was told, was
to bring on strikes so as to break up
the nunition traffic.
There seems to have been no linn
1t to Germany's underhand activities.
Her agents were ready to corrupt
anything from a newspaper or a lab
or leader up to the president of Mex
leo or the emperor of Japan. Fortu-
nately not all men are purchasable,
which discovery seems to have been
surprise to the advisers of the kais-
err. Samuel Gompers not only is in
corruptible, but his many years of
leadership have given him the wis.,
dom of the serpent. So long as the
American labor movement has his
wise guidance it will not 60 far wrong
on any proposition that may be pre-
sented.-San Francisco Star.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
THE REFORMER
BY the Rev. Charles Stelzle.

From the man who takes himself
too seriously, and from him who
thinks that other people do-deliver
US. The first must be a burden to
himself, while the latter is bore
to others. You have met both types
The man with mission" and he
who imagines that the world is de-
termined that he shall not carry it
out. Both are usually narrow, Bit
ter, censorious.
Your average reformer can see
only one thing. Everything else to
him is painfully distorted and in
adequate. He cannot believe that
there is another viewpoint, and that
each new vision presents a new out
look. He is an individualist of the
rankest kind. It is absolutely i'm
possible to get him "lined up" with
! the rest of US, who, in the nature
of things, must have had other ex-
| periences which give us otEer ideas.
These ideas may not be as good as
his, but they have come to us as
because they form so large a part
| VI d lCd1s VlldA Au"0A CADOA AOAN0,
they must, of necessity, be a factor
in determining how all the needs Of
men are to be met. If all men were
run through molds-made from the
same pattern and of the same ma
terial-then the problem would be
! simple. Or, if human nature could
! be eliminated, then the solution
| might come easier to hand.
! But every man is a problem by
himself and requires individual treat
!ment. You cannot handle men in
the mass. God never intended that
this should be 80. What might suf-
flee for the man of sluggish. tempera-
ment, who is never disturbed by a
l single new idea, will not answer for
that throbbing human engine, who.
with red blood in his veins, is fred
with rush of thought that arouses
the deepest passions.%
It isn't that we object to the man
who has mission. We need him.
But sometimes sense of humor
would save him and us from serious
embarrassment. AS for the poor
| fellow who thinks that everybody is
set against him ON account of jeal-
ously or ignorance-he is to be pit
led. He is his own worst enemy
| People do not think about him near
ly az much as his self-consciousness
leads him to suppose. Neither do
they oppose him quite as much as
he foolishly imagines.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02

the liquor traffic Its stand on this question is not to
it's credit. It does not measure up to that news
papers advocacy of fundamental democratic prin-
cipes.
The people of Wisconsin, through the legisla-
ture, submitted the proposition to referendum.
The legislature represents the people, it ought
to at least It is closer to the people than the gov
ernor. But the governor puts his stamp Of disap-
pr0val on what hundred and fifty representa-
tves elected by the people have DONE and the Mil
yankee Socialists at least that portion represented
by The Leader applaud the governors action.
Veto power in the hands of an executive has
been the object Of special attack by socialist
papers and soap-boxcrs. They have denounced it as
undemocratic, toy of plutocracy and relic of
Toryism.
A number of socialists journeyed from Mlwau-
kee to Madison during the consideration of the
Evjue bill and demanded that the legislature refuse
to submit dry constitutional amendment to the
people, We did not hear their argument against
this democratic method of settling the question:
1t must have been interesting. It is said Victor
Berger was one Of those who spoke before the legis
lative committee in opposition to the submission of
the Evjue bill. And Mr.. Berger is the editor of
The Leader, and it is said, heavy stakeholder in
the Peoples Brewing company of Milwaukee,.
The Leader exultation over the action of Gov
ernor Phillip in exercising the veto power does not
square with it's long time democratic preachings
We prefer, rather to regard it as Mr. Bergers pri-
vatc opinion publicly expressed.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
SOCIALISTS AND THE VETO POWER

The Milwaukee Leader which, by the way. is
one OF the newsiest and most readable labor Journals
OF all those that come to our exchange table, gloats
over the fact that Governor Phillip placed his off,
elal veto on the Evjue bill which provided for a
vote OF the people the question Of licensing the
sale OF intoxicating liquors in Wisconsin.
1--WE will soon get sumptuary legislation of all
kinds a.penty from Washington. We surely do not
now,' states The Leader.
: The weakness of the argument made bv The
Leader indicates that it would object to any lers
laton which might be submitted to vote Of The
people, and which might mean the determination Of
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
FAILURE OF REGULATION.

Another beautiful result Of the private owner
ship of public utilities is shown by the fact that
thousands of railroad cars are held idle when
they sorely needed to move coal, timber, grain
and other useful products.
Nor the railroads themselves entirely to
blame. Officials are grumbling because, they say,
the fault lies with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. Some years ago the railroads started out
to correct an abuse which was prevalent at the
time. Similar railroads were stealing the equip
ment OF the bigger concerns. When freight car
belonging to one road was shipped to point on
another road the latter wouldSuse it as it's own
The Interstate Commerce Commission was an
pealed to for redress and that body promptly de-
clared that thereafter car belonging to one road
consigned to point another road and un1oaded
there should not be loaded again except to be sent
back in the direction in which it came.
The result Of this ruling,'' says Charles Ed
ward Russell, ''is that thousands upon thousands
OF freight cars stand side tracks idle waiting for
chance to be loaded for home, or are hauled with
a hundred pounds Of freight or even hauled empty.
to get them out of the way.''
Meanwhile the country suffers because Of the
lack OF cars. The people kick because food prices
scar 1t IS said we short about 100000 freinh,
cars OF the supply we should have and what WE
nave must be loaded hack in the direction Of tho
road that owns the cars.
Suppose now, the government owned the rail
roads, or the roads had but one ownership. These
cars would be sent wherever they were needed. The
problem of shortage would in part At least he
solved. '' ~
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
FAREWELL TO MEAT
BY SCOTT NEARING.

Vegetarians have always been rare
in the United States. People have
taken it for granted that in India or
in China a meat diet was out of the
question-but in the United States
have not our ancestors eaten meat
from time whereof the memory of
man runneth not to the contrary !:
True enough, but our descendants
must stop it.
From 1860 to 1917 the population
of the United States increased a little
more than three-fold, and from 1880
to 1917 it doubled almost exactly.
Contrast with this increase in popula-
ton the increase in the production of
meat, for which the workingman
spends one-third of his food budget.
The meat supply is absolutely limited
by the number of live animals in a
community. The figures showing the
number of live meat animals in the
United States indicate an alarming fall
ure of the meat supplies to keep pace
with the increasing population. Be-
tween 1850 and 1917 the number Of
cattle in the United States more than
doubled. In 1860 there were rs mil
lion cattle and in 1917 there were 60
million. From 1880 to 1917 there was
an increase of 80 per cent in the num-
Der of cattle in the United States. The
increase in the number of people in
the United States is therefore more
rapid than the increase in the poten-
tial supply Of beef. Bearing in mind
the fact that dairying has increased
very rapidly during the period under
consideration, it becomes evident that
beef demand has increased entirely
out of proportion to the beef supply.
During the so years from 1860 70
1917 while the population more than
trebled the supply of cattle merely
doubled. Practically the same thing
is true Of sheep and swine, the two
other principal sources of neat supply.
There were 22 million sheep in the
United States in 1860, AZ million IN
1880 and 48 million in 1917. The
swine in 1860 numbered 80 millioc;
in 1880 40 million, and in 1917 81 mill
lion, showing a slight progressive III
crease. In no one of these cases,
however, has the increase in the num-
Der of animals correspondent with the
increase in the population.
AS for meat prices, of course they
are high, and unless the ratio be-
tween the number of meat ANNA IS
and the number of people in the
country can be radically changed, Of
course meat prices will be higher.
The increase in the land values: the
disappearance Of great unclaimed
stretches of free grazing land, and the
growing conviction that money can
be made in forms of agriculture other
than stock farming are all playing a
part. and the American meat supply is
diminishing.
Two-thirds of the people of the
world are vegetarians. The proper
tional decrease in the number Of
available meat animals, with the con-
sequent increase in the price of meat
products means vegetarianism for the
low-paid American wage learners. The
rich and well-to-do will continue to he
meat eaters, but those who do the
bulk of the work in the United States
must abandon a meat diet. The next
generation will see a growing line IF
distinction between those who eat
meat and those who do not eat it.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
What Other Papers Say
DRAFT RIOTS?

II we may judge from the express
sions In the Chicago Federation of
Labor there is some doubt whether
there will be popular subscription to
the Consumption law for military SER
vice passed by congress.
Some of the labor representatives
seem to be considering whether to
accept or reject, sign or veto, this
law. There may be in certain circles
an idea that the law has a referen-
dunn attachment and that it still re-
mains with the electorate to approve
what the representatives of the cleo
torate have done.
There will not be referendum.
There is only one thing which will be
asked of the people of the United
States from row on. That is sub
mission. They will do as they are
ordered to do by the authorities to
whom they have given the power of
ordering them.
They gave the power. It is being
used for their benefit. They will abide
by the decisions of the power they
conferred. If the idea that personal
selection remains should have any
weight in the country there might be
violence. There might be draft riots.
That would be unpleasant-bot to
the men who could cause them and
to the men who would. stop them.
Persons considering setting them
selves up against the CONSUMPTION law
might wisely reflect that when the
CONSUMPTION law begins to take men
from civil life for military duty there
will be under arms a large body of
men, volunteers who compose the ma
tional guard, who may not think it
cruel to force men to give the SER
vice which the national guard already
will be in arms to give.
There will be, approximately, a half
million of these men in service, armed
equipped, and trained, and if their
first service Is to enforce a federal
law they will be sorry, but they will
be ffective.-Chicago Tribune
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
DAMAGE DONE BY PLUTOCRATIC
PAPERS.

The threatened food shortage might
have been averted had the press and
politicians dealt more honestly with
the people during the past few years.
For example, in the year 1908, the
people of Oregon voted on a PROPOSE
ton to take many taxes off of labor
products and increase taxes on land
values. In 1912, 1914 and again in
1916, measures similar to this in prin-
ciple were again submitted. Had there
been a favorable vote at any time,
thousands of acres now lying idle
would have been brought into use.
Crops in Oregon would have been
much greater, and the country's food
supply would not have been so scant.
Other states would have followed Orc
CONS example and the whole nation
have benefited.
But each time the people rejected
the measure. The responsibility, of
course, lies primarily with the voters,
But they are rot altogether to blame
A large number Of the papers of the
state were active in spreading misin-
formation concerning the proposition
and 50 misled voters into opposition
A number Of politicians followed the
lead of the press. And the nation is
today in worse shape than it would be
on that account
The same is true of California, Mis-
souri, and other states, where similar
efforts were made, and where similar
tactics by the plutocratic press pre-
vented favorable vote.
While responsibility for the present
food shortage is being fixed. let the
obstructive policy be remembered to-
ward taxation Of land values, that was
carried on by the Portland Oregonian,
San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles
Times and other papers of that kind,
during the past few years.-American
Economics LeagueA
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02

Lovely are the achievements of private owner
ship, says Russell. He calls attention to couple
Of box-cars on a side track at station in South
Dakota. The side track Was at an elevator where
the two cars had been loaded with wheat. The
wheat had been taken out Of the same bin. Same
grade; same quality. The waiting to
be hauled to Minneapolis where they were to be
sold.
One was a Northern Pacific car: the other an
Erie. But the wheat in the Erie car brought ten
cents bushel more than the wheat loaded into
the Northern Pacific car. Listen to the explana-
ton:
The rules of the Interstate Commerce commits
sion which prevent railroads from stealing cars
from each other meant that the Erie car must be
shipped east. The N. P. must be shipped back
to N P. points and the Minneapolis shippers were
willing to pay 10 cents bushel more for wheat
to get hold of car they could load for the east.
Verify, lovely are. the achievements of private
ownership!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02

After four years of uncertainty the
supreme court has split $3.50 upon
whether the Oregon minimum wage
law is in accordance with those i'm
mutable principles - and the law
scrapes through on a technicality. In
accordance with our best traditions
Justice Brandeis, who knows more
about the case than any other per-
son living, was not allowed to ex-
press his opinion.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
ownership!

':The trend of the times is for democracy.
1t is a fashionable word in every walk of life
today. We say that are fighting for it, our
captains of industry talking about it, the
people are thinking about it and all in all
democracy an institution is receiving the most
expensive advertising through this war that it
ever had It remains for us to make good in
carrying out the principles of democracy in this
nation and after the has ended''-
Raymond Robins.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
JUST A LABEL THOUGHT.

When union man buys goods without the
union label he is doing just what he condemns
employers for employing non-union labor.
When the members of unions fully appreciate this
fact the labor movement will advance much more
rapidly working conditions will improve and life
be made worth living. These are worthy objects
and easily achieved Demand the union label.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
CARPENTERS QUIT FOR RAISE.

WILMINGTON, Del. May 31.-Be-
cause they were refused a wage in
crease of 10 cents an hour, members
of Carpenters Union No. 625 suspend
ed work. The present rate Of d
cents is 10 cents lower than the mar
by city of Chester. Pa. ana, is cants
less than that paid in Philadelphia.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
Lloyd George.

Lloyd George
H. w. Garrod, member British mu-
nitions act commission.
I'VE are not here to do much talk
ing" said Thomas, but rather to OBJ
serve and help local labor leaders as
much as possible in giving them the
benefit of our expericnce.:'