The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-03
Uncle Sam One Of Largest Of
Employers.
THIS YEARS BIG HOLIDAY
Sending Troops TO Southern States
Causes Race ~Prejudices to Break Out
Afresh - Senate a Body Without
Rules-Msmbsrs OF Upper House
Wsary Of Long Session.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

Labor day has become one OF the very
interesting holidays of the year be-
cause 1t brings sharply to the attention
of the people the situation in regard
to the workingmen and their employ
ers. 1t is also a holiday observed more
generally than some of the others be
cause every w~orkingman makes a
point OK celebrating that day unless his
employment is such as to make 1t i'm
possible.
Attention has been brought TO Labor
day at this time IN account of the fact
that the United States government is
one of the largest employers of b
In the country. Our officials do not an
ticipate any difficulty with their work
ingmen because they are paying higher
wages han ever before. OF course the
matter of open shop is always acute.
and there are dangers o. strikes where
union and nonunion men are employed.
Their Day of Celebration.
This year Labor day finds the work
ingmen In such a position as to cele-
brate because they are getting higher
wages than ever before, n every man
who wants to work can find a job.
Notwithstanding this fact there are
strike dangers and some troubles
ahead, especially In the west, but the
w%orkingmen as a rule seem to he reap
ing their harvest.
A Chance For the Imagination.
If IL is true that the United States
has been defrauded Of $300,000,OO0 by
perjury and deception In different forms
OF commercial trickery. as charged by
Senator Lewis of Illinois. in the few
rs that the old income tax law has
been In operation, what will ii amount
to when the rates have been jumped
so as to increase the amount by twenty
! fold2 There is a chance for the imag-
| NATIVE person In this suggestion, for
1t is scarcely to be expected that any
greater safeguards will be employed
In the collection of income axe than
heretofore.
A Win For Lenroot.
When the revenue bill was under
consideration In the house Congress-
/ uAu LpuIOOl vi lE&OlASAl OhCAC u
series of amendments to the income
tax provision, and the ways and means
committee was voted down and Len
roots proposition voted in. The senate
finance committee struck u the Len
root provision and inserted a number
Of its own. but the senate on several
yeas and nays voted to restore Len
roots income provision.
Lenroot can well afford to feel that
he won a victory ON income taxation.
A Dominant Issue.
From the dawn Of history the race
question has been one Of the most i'm
portant factors of human strife. Race
prejudice started the present war, ant
a prejudice intensified and kept 4
going.
Ii has been the boast OF America tina
the United States is the melting pot,
and to a certain extent after fifty OF
sixty years the foreign born popula
ton becomes Americanized. But melt
ing pot" does not apply TO the creates
race problem In America.
1t would seem, however, that afte
the experience In stationipg negr'
troops In the south such as happene,
at Brownsville. Tex, during Roose
velt's administration our war depart
ment authorities would avoid possibl,
race riots by sending colored troops t
stations where the prejudice agains
them Is not quite the same as 1t Is II
the southern communities.
Did Not See the Light of Day.
Senator King of Utah. who has de
veloped into one Of the most actiy
men I'm the senate. spent a great dea
Of time In drafting a revenue bill as
substitute for that which passed tn
house and vas passed upon by the ser
ate finance committee, but Ii failed I
see the light Of day. The Utah senate
> knows he had a good bill, but he de
cided not to present 1t at that time, es
) p~ecially when II was found that hi
I party associates considered 1t inoppol
tune.
A Body Without Rules.
; Il don't know anything about tn
rules of the senate" Senator Under
wood of Alabama told a friend. Il oil
: know something about the rules Of tn
> house when l was a member there
: but In the senate we have no rules
that Is. one that we enforce. w
( make our own rules to fit any occasio
that may arise as we go along. and W
: are not very particular about enforcin
the rules we have"
: Constantly on tho Job.
While quite a number Of senator
have slipped away for a week or tw
weeks or even for a longer period !
order to attend to business matters
home or to take needed rest and recr'
e alton. there have been a number
others that have beer constantly on tn
job since the session convened on tt
q I'd Of April and have not missed a wee
or a day. These senators who hay
" been constant In attendance are gettin