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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07
START ANOTHER DRIVE
TO SECURE NEW
SIGNATURES
WORKERS ARE OUT.
ATTORNEY CONWAY ASKS THAT
PETITION BE WITHDRAWN AT
HEARING THIS MORNING IN
COUNTY COURT ROOM.

The petition to recall the commits
sion form of government was with
drawn this morning at 10 o'clock,
when hearing to test its legality was
scheduled before Judge Mayo Of the
county court. Attorney Conway, rep
resehting the~faction opposed to com
mission form OF government was pre-
sent and requested that the petition
be Withdrawn,
City Attorney, Roger Clark, in the
interest of-tl1e 4eity showed that there
were 212 names on the paper, with
merely month and day date, but no
reference as to what year the sigma
lures were secured.
lures were faulty in this respect At
lures were faulty in this respect At
tCrney Conway asked the petition be
withdrawn.
start New Drive.
A new drive to Oust the commits
sion form OF government is now on.
Anticipating that the first petition
would not stand law. workers against
the present form of government start
/, ed out to secure the names of people
opposed to the present style of city
management.
In an interview with a reporter Mr..
Conway stated that his workers would
have little trouble in securing the
same signatures and that many new
names have been received. while
all OF the workers are not out yet, il
will only be question OF very short
time until we have enough names on
Ahe petition" said Mr.. Conway.
There Is no doubt but what the
workers will be able to secure enough
names to put the vote up to the peo-
pie as to whether or not they want to
revert back to the old style of city
government In the event the ques'
tion comes up for vote, people will
be asked at the same time to express
their opinion on the concentration OF
the saloons in the business district
thereby ousting about twenty thirst
parlors from the city, in the outlying
district.
City commissioners when they
heard of the action of Mr.. Conway ex
pressed their opinion that voters
would have to decide on the saloon
question. at the same time they de
cided upon the ousting of the com
d, mission form
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07
MARSEILLES DOCTOR
IS NAMED LIEUT.. ~e
IN MEDICAL CORPS

Among the professional men who
have been given commissions by the
war department are Albert Stebbings,
Marseilles In the medical corps, first
lieutenant and f. c. Heninger, of Mi
',a and b. r. Thayer, of Morris in
the veterinary corps, 2nd lieutenants
These will be detailed to national
army and national guard camps to
await the command to go to France.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07
Some jrlsh Families.

Il Is a notorious fact that many OF
the families Of Ireland which have
come to be regarded as typically Irish
ure Of alien extraction. Thus the Plum
ketts are Of Danish origin, the Burkes
billions. Roches, Husseys aud all the
tribe Of Fitz are Anglo Norman. whit
the Mitchells are English. - Londo
Spectator.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07
MILK REPORT SHOWS
SOME DEALERS ARE
BELOW STANDARD

Ottawa milk supply is not all up to
standard, according to report made
by Health Officer Pike at the meeting
of the council this forenoon. The
state standard for milk provides for
go butter fat The report on inspec-
tion conducted by the city health de-
par.ment discloses number OF milk
producers who furnish milk below
the standard The report of DR.. Pike
follows.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07

She--Thcy refused to cash check
for me this morning because they said
the account was overdrawn. Now RI
really like to know what is the good
Of having a federal reserve board al.
way.--l.ife.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07
1us,ness Disposition.

0uOIn000 OISposIt'o"
mo wonder our washerwomah mas
such a hard time at home. Her nus
band IN garbage man.
what has that to do with it!"
Cant you understand he Is always
in the dumps?'-Baltimore AInericah'
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07

Unusual clearness Of the atmosphere,
unusual brightness or twlnklilg OK the
stars, indicate rain.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07

Personal hygiene is the iirst requisite
for community health.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07
POLICE FIND NO
TRACE Of THIEVES
ANDREWS AUTO. STOLEN FROM
CITY, Is RETURNED - CHIEF
ZURICH ISSUES SPECIAL PRE-.
CAUTIONS TO OWNERS OF
CARS.

The Dodge touring car. of J. A, An
drews, stolen from here Saturday
night, was returned to Ottawa, by
Mr.. Andrews son, Edwin. The ma
chine was disbandoned early Sunday
evening at Hindsdale, ILL.,, when the
thieves had trouble with the engine
of the car.
No arrests have been made in con
nection with the theft. Police today
received a good description of the
young men seen leaving the car at
Hinsdale, by the c., r. |. 4 p. tower
man.
Parts Stolen.
Several parts of the auto, were stol-
en- by the thieves before they left
the car A tire on one of the rear
wheels was badly worn. 1t was learn
ed from the Hinsdale police that four
young men purchased tickets for
Chicago, Sunday morning at 9 o'clock
and it is believed this quartet are re-
sponsable for the theft.
When asked by a reporter as to
whether or not he thought local talent
was responsible for the theft, Chief
Zurich refused to give out any state
ment.
Chief Zurich Sunday ordered all of
his men to question or arrest anyone
they found tamperiHg around ma
chimes. Owners Of cars, too. are ask
ed to take special precautions to car
against the theft of their machines
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07

Continued on Page 81
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07
THE WEATHER.

Unsettled tonight and
Tuesday; probably show
ers; not much change IN
temperature.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03
IT MUST BE SETTLED RIGHT

However the battle is ended,
Though proudly the victor comes
With fluttering flags and prancing
nagS
And echoing roll of drums;
Still the truth proclaims this motto
In letters of living light
No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right
Though the heel of the strong op.
pressor
May grind the weak in the dust,
And the voices of fame with one
acclaim
May call him great and just;
Let those who applaud take warning
And keep this motto in sight
No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.
courage,
Though the enemy seemed to have
won,
Tho his ranks are strong, If he be
in the wrong,
The battle is not yet done.
For sure as the morning follows
The darkest hour Of the night,
No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03
INTERNING BRYAN.

Perhaps Congressman Miller thought he exhib-
tied rare craftsmanship qualities when he read IN
the house Of representatives the letter of Mr. W. E.
Richardson, of this city, asking that William Jen,
nings Bryan be interncd Munition makers and
their cohorts, laughed glecfuily at the ''joke.'
But the great commoner needs no one to make
apology for him. He has proven that he can get
along tolerably well. Mr.. Bryan needs only to be
understood. and Mr.. Miller has not yet been able
to understand. It Voltaire who said Testing
is frequently an evidence of the poverty Of under
standing"
The real people Of America, however, do not
laugh at the kind of "jokes' INDUCED in by Mr..
Miller People who desire to live at peace with their
neighbors, who have private interests to serve,
and who believe that Christianity is not yet fail
ure are not ready to turn their backs on Mr. Bryan
and accept the doctrines of calamity howlers and
ultra-preparedness advocates.
The campaign which sought to show that to
insure peace must prepare for war, has not been
convincing Somehow, we cannot forget Bel GUM 5
sad experience
Mr.. Bryan and those who think as he does, will
be on the job when 'internment' howlers gone
and forgotten This is real world with real h,l-
beings in it, Mr.. Miller.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03
MOONEY CASE OPENS
EYES OF THE PEOPLE

(Stuart w. Booth in Oakland Reyiew)
There is much food for thought
in the status Of the Mooney case at
this particular time. There are side
lights to be thrown on it that seem
to have escaped the reports in the
daily papers. There is that in the
atmosphere that suggests that the men
on trial would get a fairer hearing
away from the heated temperature of
San Francisco. Without in any way
detracting from the Nervousness of
the diabolical crime it can be said
that another jury might not bring in
the same verdict as that already on
record.
Right when the trial of Mooney was
at its height the San Francisco
Cham Der of Commerce issued tens OF
thousand of copies of a very elaborate
book. freely illustrated, telling IF the
work that is being done in that. city
to break up the labor unions. 1t con-
tanned two full-page reproductions of
the front pages of the San Francisco
papers on the morning after the Pre-
paredness Day outrage. lust how far
this might have Influenced the jury
and public opinion generally ca,
never be known, but it certainly did
not conduce to a fair trial as under
stood in this country.
The testimony of people who swore
they saw the bomb descending from
the roof of a building is just as strong
as the testimony that the explosion
came from the suit case; the aiibi
established for Mooney was just
as strong as the testimony that con-
nected him with being near the suit
case: the fact that the bomb killed
two union men and injured others is
not consistent with the police theory
that the outrage was directed against
officials of the United Railroads by
the Moneys; in fact much of the
evidence against the defendants bears
the unmistakable earmarlss of police
enthusiasm and of having been BORN
after the commission of the crime.
The verdict of murder in the first
degree is not justified by the facts.
To an impartial observer there is
much doubt in every phase of the
case. 1t was clear that the jury was
prejudiced to some extent by the
fact that an attorney had been
brought out here from New York to
defend Mooney as though it were not
the privilege of any man to secure
legal defense from any source. AS all
the leading lawyers in San Francisco
are allied in one way or another with
that city's "big money! perhaps the
friends of Mooney had good cause to
60 far away for legal assistance in
which they had the necessary con-
fdence.
The details Of the trial have opened
the public eyes to much regarding
which they did not see clearly before.
Justice demands that Mooney be given
another, and less prejuGiced opror-
tunity to prove his innocence In tho
meantime a basketful of warrants for
perjury might be in order.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03
ANOTHER OF GEORGE NJ PErERsoN's GEMS.

George is not satisfied to shut out peddlers and
producers of goods who sell direct to consumers.
lie also wants to shut out all agents and others who
take orders and deliver the goods later
On, no, he doesn't want to shut out the agent
OF the grocer or butcher who comes around and
takes orders in the morning. and then delivers the
goods later These are not transient merchants -
They have permanent place of business near by
They "pay taxes''-which, of course, they pass on
to the consumer with profit to cover the cost of
collection.
Let lis see just what the law would do.
Here is an elderly widow at Alexandria-poor
honest and industrious. She is very skilful at
knitting. For many years she has taken orders in
advance for good, warm, yarn mittens getting the
size and colors wanted Then she knits the mittens
and delivers them to her customers
TINS Is the way she makes her living
She is a transient merchant within the mean
ing OF this bill of Senator Peterson
She would be put out Of business deprived Of
her means OF making living, to satisfy the narrow
greed OF certain commission merchants and retail
dealers who want the produce market all to them
selves ~ 'A'''-
Every summer vacation hundreds of college stu.
dents canvass for books, photographs, and other
usetui things, which they deliver to their custom
ers afterwards
The Peterson bill would make their work nn]aw-
inl. They would be subjected to arrest and fine or
imprisonment for trying to earn an honest living
is Senator Peterson fully aware what this hill
contains? 1t So does he still persist in advocating
It's passage? Does he believe he is representno hs
constituents fairly?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03
THE WORKER

I have broken my hands on your
granite,
I have broken my strength on your
steel;
! have sweated through years for YOUR
pleasure,
have worked like a slave for your
veal,
And what is the wage you have paid
me?
You masters and drivers of men
Enough so 1 come in my hunger.
To beg for more labor again!
I have given my manhood to serve
you,
I have given my gladness and
youth;
You have used me, and spent me,
and crushed me;
And thrown me aside without ruth:
You have shut my eyes off from the
sunlight,
My lungs from the untainted air,
You have housed me in horrible
places,
Surrounded by squalor and care.
L have built you the world in it's
beauty,
l have brought you the glory and
spoil,
You have blighted my sons and my
daughters,
You have scourged me again to my
toll,
Yet l suffer it all in my patience,
For somehow 4 dimly have known,
That some day the Worker will con-
quer,
In a world that was meant for his
own!
BY Berton Braley.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03
THE SINGLE TAX

Education is power. The rich
know it. Their sons and daughters
go to the state university-arc
educated by the taxpayers, the grea
hulk of whom are too poor to let
thelr children even enter high school,
to say nothing about completing the
course therein.
Cneducated workers are not
respected very much. knowing this.
they should demand better conditions,
better tax laws, better education.
They are i'll the majority.
Single tax will help. Demand it. or
something which will be a near ap-
Droach to it. The fact that we have
not the single tax in force at the
present time is not a good argument
against it. There was a time when
Christianity was unknown. Now that
we have it, it is accepted as good
thing. 1t will be so with single tax.
The world is getting wiser. Tax laws
all over the world are getting to be
more and more like the single tax
idea.
Laborers, being in the big ma
jority, should discuss the subject and
get more familiar with the social ills
that beset us. Public sentiment IS a
power factor. It should be cultivated
Good is bound to come of it.
Our present tax system makes COM
petition between laborers which
" eakens them in any strife with en-
ployer.
Why should four or five IN every
hundred workers be job hunters
Under the single tax system workers
would be game, able to protect them
selves and to dictate wage rates. They
can't do that now.
WILLIAM BUSSELMAN.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03
ESPECIAL PRIVILEGE"

line railroad Trainman, official magazine of the
brotherhood of Railroad Tranmen throws this side
light on arbitration of railroad disputes:
"A special privilege granted to railroad CON-
Panes by the present Federal arbitration law known
as the Newlands act, is that of administering any
award reached in an arbitration For instance, rail-
road and its employees may submit to arbitration
%nder the Federal law complicated wage dispute
Line aware may be intended to benefit the employees,
oat immediately and almost invariably, the railroad
othclas on that road interpret the award to mean
wage reduction instead of wage increase, and thus
raroad employees have been educated to look upon
arD1tratlon as gross injustice
SO long as operating officers of the railroads
are permitted to interpret the Language of an award
to suit themselves, compelling the employees ito &C.
cept such Interpretation, with the full knowledge
mat the board of arbitration did not intend it's
language to be distorted, the employees are justified
in refusing arbitration
Can you imagine one Of the parties to a suit
at law being permitted to interpret the courts dec
SION TO the extent Of compelling the other party to
the suit to accept such interpretation
Experience has taught the employees that it re-
cures many months, and often years. to secure the
enforcement OF award as intended by the
arbitrators.''
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03
::ATURi:DAY:

heavily that only the poorest and cheapest build
ings would be erected and only the fewest possible
workmen would be required to build them and keep
them in repair.
All taxes on goods of any kind have the same
tendency. The goods must be sold at higher
price. Fewer goods will be demanded. Fewer men
will be required to produce them.
OF course, wages will be lower
All taxes on the processes Of production and
exchange have the same effect. They are all added
to the final cost and must be paid by the end man
the ultimate consumer
These taxes again diminish the total amount of
business done and reduce the demand for men to
do the work.
Of course wages will be lower
And this is not confined to wage-earners alone.
The man who calls his wages a salary is in the
same boat. So are lawyers doctors, and all others
whose wages are called fees All who do useful
work are affected in the same way by our crooked
system OF taxation. They all injured all de-
prived of opportunities for doing good things, all
kept out of the fullest and most complete employ
ment.
And, Of course, wages are lower.
Worse yet and more of it.
Every dollar Of taxes levied upon industry and
its products diminshes the taxes on those who are
holding the Of the earth for speculation It
costs less to hold idle-more to use Hence natural
opportunities are monopolized and held at higher
price. Hence greater burden still upon industry
IN the excessive prices of land for homes, stores
factories and all other useful purposes.
SO, OF course, wages and salaries are lower labor
stands idle, vainly seeking for work.
The poverty, vice, crime, sorrow, suffering, and
distress that follow the natural and inevitable
result of our system Of crooked taxation.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03
PARKER?

Northern Minnesota house members stood bv
date for his present position. We were assured
Parker was fright on everything in which this
section of the state is interested.
But Mr. Parker cast his vote in favor of the
tonnage tax last week.
Inc Labor World believes there was something
else behind the support given Mr.. Parker hv +he
representatives from this section of the state The
COMBINATION lined up behind him indicated that
certain interests were in favor of the repeal of the
primary and non-partisan laws.
And the fact that Burnquist, Frankson and Par
ker are now working together to that end bears out
Mnat we nave always claimed, namely, that tonnage
tax, Northern Minnesotas interests and in faot
everything else was thrown to the winds in order
that Parker might be put across, and thus make
complete the legislative machine which would be-
put IN operation to kill the peoples non-partsan
system r '
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03
HUGH DORIAN IS DEAD.

CHICAGO, March 1.-Hugh Doran,
veteran trade unionist, is dead, aged
about ~ YEAR, Deceased was one of
the "old guard"' in the organized labor
movement. In 1891 he was elected a.
member of the first general executive
board of the International Association
OF Machinists, and with the exception
OF ono year continued in that office
until 1911. He served his apprentice
ship as a machinist in the Aurora, ILL.,,
shops of the Chicago Burlington e.
Quincy railroad and was for years
employed as a machinist in the Chi
cago municipal water works depart
ment.
The general executive board of the
international Association Of Machin-
lists. in session in Washington at the
time of his death, officially recognized
the passing of this staunch trade
unionist and his valiant work in the
cause Of Justice
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03

or the labor union, you simply place
yourself in a position where you have
no right to criticize or fight the organ
ization with which you have nothing
to do.
1t is altogether possible for Chris
tan workingmen to capture the
church because there are more work.
ingmen than people of any other class.
They have it within their power to
make the church whatever they
choose.
Why doesn't org. nized labor see the
possibility in educating the great mass
of church men to recognize the vita.
truths which are being preached by
organized labor? II the church were
controlled by Northumberland the
church was controlled by them for
many years-there is no measure for
which organized labor IL today. con-
tending but what would win out with
all classes. ~, - ~. ~.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03
A "Non-Union" Christian
BY Rev. Charles Stelzle.

There is no doubt that you may be
Christian even though you aren't a
member of the church. 1t would be
rank folly for the church to claim that
1t has monopoly on all the Christian
ity in the world. But wonder If the
average trade unionist who declares
that he is Christian-but who is out
side of all the churches-ever thinks
about the position into which he has
placed himself. AS a matter of fact
he is exactly in the same position as
the non-uniOnist in the industrial
world.
The Christian who is member of
the church is the union" >Christian,
whereas the Christian who is not a
member of the church is the nom
union Christian. He is outside of the
reorganization" although he is getting
all the benefits for which the organi-
cation has been fighting. Meanwhile
ne is making absolutely no sacrifice
In order to maintain an institution
which is making Christianity more
vital influence. -.
There are some men who declare
that they are outside the church be-
cause the people inside the church are
too narrow, too. bigoted and too hard
to get along with and they imag CINE
that by remaining outside Of all the
churches that it is an evidence of their
"bigness'' and "breadth."
AS a matter of fact it doesn't re-
quire a very big man to leave an or
gantzation because he can't agree with
everybody or because everybody does
not agree with him, -
1t takes real breadth and. real big
ness to remain inside the erganization
in spite Of the fact that there are
small petple and narrow people iden-
titled with it.
This is surely true of the trade
Union and yet you would not get out
of the trade union because not every
body agreed with you, You would
stay inside and fight from tho inside
because that is the best way and the
only fat7 way to, fight, For, it once
you get outside Of either the church
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03
FUR WORKERS STRIKE

TORONTO, Ontario, March H.
Sixty fur workers employed by A..
Mailman quit work because of low
wages, which averaged 10 and 20
cents an hour. About 1870 fur work.
ers at another establishment sus-
pended work because they were
asked to sign an agreement calling
for the Mailman scale. Officers of
the International Fur Workers
union are assisting these employees.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-03-03
CROOKED TAXES AFFECT WAGES

T. we nave seen that taxes on houses not only add
to the burden of the home owner, but also reduce
1.-THE number of houses built This results in de-
fmand for fewer carpenters, stonemasons brick
ayers painters steamftters mechanics and laborers
a[Eof all kinds.
a s OF course wages will be lower.
1t would be possible to tax buildings Of all kinds