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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-08
MEXICO LAST BIG
MECCA FOR THIRSTY

-,
LIS ANsiHi-ihS, Sui' , March ~.
4 wHH htl,ioiiWi"ow Piohipltioh - ratlieu
n tne ohi'eu o.ntes, MeNico' as tne
iast DE ssrVi's hoiu ~ u leiloh Rum IN
North FIieiie"' iooiiis ~ heaVeh TOT
'ne thirsls. ~@l @G
but "a meAico lug shuatioh ~ pe-
ING viewed wild nixed ieehngs.
Lower Saiiiorhias governments ac-
coruihB 70 heihi-oliieiai sources, wei-
comes nationai prohipition ~ the Unit
ca states. NOT as u source OF Iuture
prosperity pul ~ u step TOWARDS re-
duction of drnlkins IN northern Mcxi-
co.
AT tne same time large contisent
IN mexican bofder towns pictures a
new sun OF Mexican prosperity risins
IN the north.
Mexicaii. opposite Calexico, Caiifor-
MIA, Is well stocked with liquor. Train
loads or wet goods nave recently pass
od over the border ana were unloaded
at Mexicaii. These stocks. their ow-
ners saw Will dampen american
thronts for many month
Pian GFahd fscoiHhing.
Tia Jnana-for years Lower cailfor'
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-08
AMERICAN MISSION
BARR|CADED IN BERLIN

BERLIN, March S.--The American
mission was yesterday entrenched in
the Adlon hotel behind a battery of
machine guns while the fighting con-
tinucd in the streets
The Srartacans erected barricades
and otherwise fortified themselves in
the space of a dozen blocks. including
the royal castle, stables and public
buildings. The Spartacans captured
the main telegraph office. They
charged through Leipzigerstrass,
shooting in all directions and endan-
Gering the American Red Cross mis-
sicn. Colonel Taylor ordered the wo-
men of the mission to seek safety in
Berlin people faithful to the govern
ment, fear boishevism will be victo-
ricus. The government however. will
fight to annihilation. The outlook is
considered omInous.
While this hitter struggle was ra-
ging, the remainder of Berlin was
quiet. Bands paraded, entertaining
the crowds enjoying their strike vati-
cation by strolling in the spring sun
shine oblivious to the rattle of ma
chine guns which came from the di-
rection Of police Headquarters.
Scores of Casualties.
Both sides werc using machine
guns and armored automobiles, tho
government attacking in an effort TO
raise the siege with tanks. airplanos
and poison gas. Scores of casualties,
including many civilians, are restored.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-08

NEW YORK, March 1.-THE trnns-
pert Mexican arrived yesterday with
1904 officers and men. principally
members of aero squadons. The El
Ocoident also arrived with SO casual
ties and medical officers and three
enlisted medical men.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-08
RADICALS GET CONCESSIONS

BERLIN, March 6.-The German
cabinet in an effort to end the revo-
luton. the cricis of which is not yet
passed, agreed to constitutional rec
ognition of the soviets as economic
controllers of labor and production
official Weimar dispatches announced
Concession was also for the immediate
Specialization of industries.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-08
Christian Science.

l.. Webb and Johnson SITS. Services
Sunday II II. m. sunday school 10 n,
m. Dednesday evening service y p. m.
Subject of the lesson sermon Man.
The reading room at the church is
open daily. except Sunday from 1880
until y. IN.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-08
ELECTION PLEAsEs WILSON
ALTA SUNDAY

ABOARD THE GEORGE WASH
INGTON, March S.-Presidcnt VIII
son was ovcrioycd mt messages re-
porting victory of the Democrat rum
ming on the League of Nations plat
form in t.lc Pennsylvania special con-
arcssionai election. (rhis election was
In The 22nd district in Pennsylvania
90 fiji a vacancy caused by the death
of Representative Robbins, Republic
can.)
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-08

If reading the aGs will help you to
buy more Wisely, isn't the task worth
uhile?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

wife of Major Wallace Winchell, of
Jersey City, N. j., whose Salvation
Army Industrial Home in that CITY is
known across the continent for the
service it has rendered to the poor and
friendless.
From Danbury the band that had
undertaken the invasion Of Connecti-
cut went to Rockville. The first night
there the leader found a group of men
at the hall wi a a noosed rope. They
announced they were going to hang
him to nearby lamppost. There was
every indication that they intended to
carry out their announced purpose, but
the sheriff of the county, who had been
Informed of what was going on, arrived
in the nick of time and forced a path
way with drawn revolvers for the Sal
vationists back to their lodgings.
In 1888 a corps that sought to
evangelize Georgetown, Col, was ar
rested and its entire membership COM
PEELED to serve sentences of thirty
days in Jail. For the next decade
wherever the Salvationists went, they
were accorded the same sort of treat
ment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Philadelphia Riot
the Climax

1t was in August, 1899, that police
bounding of the Salvation Army in the
United States reached its sensational
climax and its virtual end 1t was in
Philadelphia, almost within the shadow
of independence Hall, where 1874 years
before the founders of a nation had
decreed that freedom of conscience
should never be denied. 1t was in the
city where twenty-one years earlier
the brave Shirleys had scandalized or
thodox worshippers on Sunday morn
ing.
A platform had been erected in a
vacant lot and to this fifteen men
and women Salvationists marche d
about o'clock in the evening. They
had to thread their way through a
closely packed throng Of some 5000
persons, for the police had issued an
order that drums were not to be beaten
and Clash was looked for. Twelve
Dluccoats took their stations at the foot
OF the platform. while other policemen
mingled with the throng. Tho 4yocta-
tors, 1T was noted, did not evlncs' hos
tiiity toward the Salvationists. Curl
osity over what was likely to happen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Gompers-The Untold Story of His Part in the w

wonder at his development to query
how he acquired the encyclopedia
knowledge that is his. The explana-
ton of this is that he has always
been student.
'In the cigar factories" he once
said, cit was the practice for the
men either to hire some one to read
to them as they worked, or have one
of their number do so. If it was one
Of their own, the others made up
his stint for him, so that he lost
nothing. Then all hands would dis
cuss what had been read. They did
not go in very much for trash. They
did like the kind of stuff one rather
likes to see his boys porting over.
That was an education in itself and
perhaps started me.
"Then, too, there were debating
societies, lyceums, in those days. We
boys had one of our own, and I was
it's president. We called it the Ris-
ing Sun Literary, Debating and
Baseball Society," The name would
indicate the ages of the members"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

appeared to be the impelling motive
that had attracted them in such large
numbers.
For almost an hour the meeting pro-
crossed, with prayers, the singing of
hymns and the testimony of converts
Upon the platform a slight built lassie
stood beside her great bass drum, but
up to this point she had made no move
to violate the police order. Finally she
began to tap it lightly during the re-
trains of the hymns. The crowd heard
and grew apprehensive, but the police
did not act.
But when the voices of the Saliva
tlonists were raised in the Doxologv
the lassie proceeded to beat a lusty
accompaniment to the anthem.
The police made rush for the plat
form. The huge mass of spectators.
fearful of swinging clubs, surged back
ward. But the benches impeded their
retreat and there were numerous fights
between policemen and citizens. After
arresting the lassie who had beaten
the drum, the police endeavored to
loosen the instrument from the floor
OF the platform, where it had been
securely nailed in anticipation of Just
such an emergency. 1t took them half
an hour to do it, and by that time the
feelings of the throng had been pretty
we'll worked up to sympathy for the
Salvationists.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

to justify your reputation Of me
with your people and the country
"Of course the story goes on.
"Sam had four aces; he knew where
the great rank and file would stand.
Those who opposed him had busted
hushes. They signed on the dotted
lines where they were told to sign
and the word went out to the world
that American labor was as one man
behind the President. 1t ought to be
said that there were only a few who
we're not with Gompers all through.
Had they not been in a minority he
might have lost"
A man Of less force Of character,
less sure of himself than Gompers,
might easily have messed the situa-
tion, or allowed those not for the
war to have messed it for him.
t 1t was not the first time that
Gompers had faced and fought men
prominent in the labor movement
who in one way or another had
sought to do things that would help
Germany and weaken the Allies.
They FLASHED first in Bridgeport
when the war was young, and the
Connecticut city was beginning to
blossom as the Essen of America.
That was in August, 1915. On tech
meal grounds q strike was called on
a building Of one Of the largest
makers of munitions. This was made
the excuse for calling other strikes.
The troublemakers also had the as
sistance of an obstinate official who
sought to run things with an iron
hand.
There was, in a word, every ele-
ment there that made possible the
great Lawrence disturbance of 1912,
and more than a lively suspicion
that German money was at the bot
tom Of all Of the trouble.
1t was situation that Gompers,
had he wished to do so, might have
easily kept out Of. Any one of a
dozen excuses he might have made
would have passed muster. Instead,
he jumped into the middle Of the
fight, publicly declared what others
suspected, that German money was
being used, and restored peace. He
did it by bringing the executive
council of the Federation to Law
renee to break into a meeting of the
strike leaders in the old Atlantic
House, where he laid down the law.
"You've got no business coming
here and turning a hose on the pa
rade," one Of the strike leaders told
him.
81 have business wherever the
welfare Of the American worker is
involved" said Gompers, standing
his ground. Two days later, the "war
correspondents" quartered in the
Hotel Stratfield broke camp and left
town, closely followed by the NAL
content leaders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

mates of his establishment. lnr;nr
sailors to part with their savings. Then
Allen went upstairs for his little how
showed off his various ACCOMPLISH
ments, ranging all the way from a
knowledge Of history and geography to
that of clog dancing, finally having the
lad recite the Lords Prayer, the while
his father interspersed it's supplica
lions with blasphemous comments.
shocked UNNECESSARILY at Aliens de-
graded conduct, the visitors neverthe
less made up their minds to work his
reformation. They frequently called at
his place and assembled the girls, who
would join them in singing There Is
Rest for the Weary" and other HYMNS
They often urged him to let them hold
a prayer meeting in the dance hall, but
Allen drew the line at that.
When Dyer published his article
there ensued what became known as
the John Allen excitement" Re
ligious workers focked to the Bowerv.
as did scores of the merely curious,
many of them society folk Converts
were made here and there among the
men and women Of the district and the
dance hall business began to expert
ence falling off.
On August 20, 1868, "the wickedest
man in New York" himself profcssed
conversion and closed the doors of his
dance hall for good. For while he
threw the premises open to PRAYER
meetings, and evaneelists came from
ali over the city to preach at them.
Shortly afterward Kicking Jack" an
other Bowery character, took over 3O4
Water Street, and opened another
dance hall there. Allen went into the
grocery business in Roosevelt Street.
The mission which had been started
at No. 3o4 after Aliens conversion was
then moved to SIC Water Street. where
it was firmly established.
1t was there Jerry McAuley. cx-con-
Wet, bounty broker and river .hief. first
gave testimony that he had seen the
error OF his life and where nc suisse
qucntly started tho McAulcy Water
Street Mission.
The McAuley Mission proved for
midable enough foe 10 the vicious re-
sorts 70 put number Of them out Of
commission, but on the whole condi-
tions did not materially improve be-
tween 1863 and 1880. This statement
OF fact Is In nowise intended To under
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

the federation, and their subsidiary
locals. Some Of these internationals
and many of the locals were strongly
Socialist and anti-war. The Ger
man element as we'll as the pacilists
who honestly opposed all war saw in
them an opportunity to hinder Amer
ica's preparations for war if not it's
actual entry into the struggle. By
sending the question Of where labor
would stand to referendum they
would at least secure delay, and in
the end present the spectacle to the
world of divided America.
This referendum they expected to
secure after war had been declared.
That was their position when in
March, 1917, Gompers issued a tele-
graphic call for the heads of all of
the internationals to meet in Wash
ington. At the same time he invited
the "big four" railroad brotherhoods,
not members of the federation, to
join in the conference. When this
was called to order Mr.. Gompers ex-
planned that, as the country was on
the verge Of war, it was fitting that
organized labor should declare it's
stand with the government. To this
end he suggested that statement of
principles which had been declared
be signed by the heads Of the various
organizations.
"Immediately,' in the words of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

er, and he had all the faith in the
world. He did not have any money
of his own, and the organization did
not have much more. Many's the
time I've seen Gompers come into
town, plug hat and all, work for
few days and then, getting one of
the boys to one side, borrow ten
spot to get to the next town. The
ten always came back. So would
Sam, for he sure was a persistent
cuss.
''He was game, too. More than
once he went into halls where he
was promised a beating if he dared
show his nose, and on at least one
occasion that | recall he faced
gun in the hands of a hired bully.
Sam didn't yell for a cop or take it
on the run. He just walked up to
the lad and made him hand the gun
over, while his companion, there to
fix Sam if the other fellow failed,
retired to what the Germans would
call "a prepared position Had he
as much as batted an eyelash he
would have been little more use in
the labor movement, whether he es-
capped with his life or not. AS it
was, the incident helped make him.
Cup to that time folks, at least
some folks, were inclined to say
Sam was good talker, but that he
stopped right there. When they
found he had CUTS they were
stronger for him. There were not
as many white collars in the labor
movement then as there are now.
The movement was primitive, and
it appealed to the more primitive
passions Of men. That man
would fight was a point in his
favor"
Those who knew Gompers in
those DAYS agree that ne was
more often than not in need of
money. He had large, growing
family-he married very young
his union activities cost him both
money and the opportunity to earn
it, and they brought in very little.
The balance, as a rule, was alto
gether on the wrong side of the
ledger. This poverty, oldtime
friends say, offered Gompers's oppo-
nents among the employers whose
men he was organizing another
avenue of attack. They had no
better luck than with hired gun
men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

by the following night There were no
passenger trains that would get hin,
there in time, so he boarded a FREIGHT
tram. All night and half the next day
he spent seated in foot of snow in an
open coal car.
AT half-past two Sunday afternoon he
was conducting street corner meeting
IN Rochester. At half-past seven that
night he had been arrested bv the
Rochester police. Monday morning he
was sentenced to ninety days in jail.
Joe the Turk" one of the most
noted of Salvation Army officers and
now holding the rank of staff captain
has been jailed over fifty times for
his lnsistence upon spreading the
Gospel in his own way.
Colonel Brengle, we'll known as q
writer and evangelist, was so ROUGHLY
handled by mob on Boston Common
during the stoning of Salvation
Army band that it required five years
of continuous medical care before he
In Minneapolis lassie was knocked
to the pavement and kicked by ruffians
being so injured that she died about q
year later.
One of the worst riots ATTENDING
Salvation Army gatherings occurred in
skating rink at Danbury, Conn.
about 1886 The day the corps was
ordered to establish post in that
city arrived, their coming was widely
heralded in the newspapers, with the
result that 5000 jammed their way
into the auditorium, while thousands
more thronged the surrounding streets
The city's whole police force had been
marshalled on the scene and the warn.
ing had gone forth that the Salvation
lists would be arrested If they at
tempted to hold their meeting.
Tho threat did not deter them. But
barely had their service got under
way, amid tho kissing and catcalls OF
the audience, when gang Of dis.
turbers extinguished tho lights and
then blew tho gas pouring from the
Jets back into tho panic stricken
crowd. Horrible scenas ensucd
Women tainted, children wore trampled
upon and verltablo riot took place IN
the dark, gas-hlled hall. Many OF the
lassles and their malo companions
were beaten severely,
Yet that night In Danbury they con-
yerted sixteansYnar-old gIrl.. now the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
The Little Giant
Takes a Chance

"Finally, Gompers took the bit in
his teeth and played his last card.
No one knew better than he the risk
Of what he was doing.
"'Gentlemen,' said he, this coun-
try is on the verge of war. The
place of organized labor is behind
the government. l have pledged the
American Federation of Labor to
support the war to the ultimate end.
You must either approve my action
or place the American Federation in
the position of not being with the
country in it's hour of danger. That.
in my opinion, is not the position of
the labor movement. You must
either stand by me or be prepared
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Riot Creates
A Sensation

This was intensified when a husky
police officer struck lassie in the
breast with his clenched fist.
ooh, you hurt mel" she exclaimed.
but her cry was drowned in the mad
dened roar from the onlookers. Thew
rushed the police and it was not until
several heads had been broken that
the "enforcers" of law and order were
able to hustle their prisoners into pa
troll wagons and take them to Jail.
This riot created n sensation all over
the United States, and sympathy nearly
everywhere was with the Salvation
Army. George S. Graham, former
District Attorney, defended the Saliva
tionists when they wero brought to
trial and he experienced no difficulty
IN arousing the sympathy Of the jury
toward them.
This Is the city of PHILADELPHIA. )"
he said. ut is tha cradle Of liberty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Progress OF
Fnfy=f0ur Years

Compared with now, the labor
movement il this country fifty-four
years ago was puny infant. There
were many trade unions local in
their extent; a few that were more
pretentious. Of great national
unions there were none, perhaps be-
cause there was no real need of
them. The nearest approach would
be sort of working agreement
trade freemasonry would be better
term-whereby the wandering me-
chanic in one town would find well
come in the association of another
town, perhaps hundreds of miles dis
tant. This was particularly true Of
the shoemakers, who, by the way,
had the first strike in America; the
carpenters and shipwrights and the
men of less numerous trades, such
as the cigarmakers.
1t was the shoemakers who
formed the first big union-thc
knights of st. Cyispin. This spread
after the Civil War until it became
a national institution, but failed for
various reasons, only to be succeed
ed in the late '70s and early sos by
the powerful knights of Labor.
This organization fell of it's own
weight and because of inherent
flaws in its structure about the time
Mr.. Gompers began to be recog-
nized as coming man in the labor
movement, through his work in or
ganizing the cigarmakers as they
are now organized and his fight to
make the famous blue label of the
union stand for something in the
eyes of the consuming public.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
fitting at the
German Dragon

Within the labor movement
Gompers found opposition at times
as bitter as in the ranks of the en-
ployers. 1t came sometimes from
those merely seeking power and the
opportunities power would give, but
more often from what Gompers
himself describes as "the reds"
AS is well known to all labor men,
MIR. Gompers, as president of the
American Federation of Labor, has
less actual power than the walking
delegate of the newest union. He
cannot, as president, order strike,
nor can he order men not to strike.
That power is vested entirely in the
international unions, which make up
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
TraiIed BY
Persecution

There, briefly sketched, is the his
tory Of slum evangelism up to March,
1880, when Commissioner Railton and
his seven English lassies landed at
Castle Garden. Their introduction to
Bowery conditions through the chance
of their first Sunday night meeting in
Harry Hills; their determination to
concentrate their efforts toward the
spiritual reformation and physical
comforting of these outcasts, and their
defiance of the persecution to which
they were subjected by the authorities
and those whose profit from vice they
threatened to destroy spoke we'll for
the heroism of old General Booths
eXpeditionary force.
But not in New York alone were the
Salvationists bounded and harassed
Persecution followed them from city
to city. Yet nowhere were they
routed. Wherever they went they "due
in" and remained. Ard always they
progressed, gradually and by ever so
little, in the estimation of the public
ne pOllCc III one hdlSdS comm unity
arrested Salvationist for persistinc
in conducting a meeting after they had
forbidden it. They hung him up by
the thumbs. After enduring the ex-
cruciating pain Of this mediaval tor
ture for half an hour, he was locked
up with Migrants and common Grim
inals.
Captain Ida Bennett. lassic noted
for her piety and zeal, was one of
the founders Of the corps in Spokane
Wash. One evening the Salvationists
there were greeted In the hall they
had engaged for meeting with an
immense throng. Captain Bennett was
closing It with prayer, though her
suppication could hardly be heard for
the din raised by the toughs In tho
audience.
Hardly had her "Amenl" sounded
when the report Of revolver rang
out. Captain Bennett fell to tho plat
form dead, shot through tho heart.
Tho career Of Colonel Clifford and
MIA wifs, now engaged In Salvation