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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-03-15
COUNCIL FIGHTS MUNICIPAL
VOTERS LEAGUE AT MON
DAYS CITY NcIl
MEETING.

The Municipal Voters League and
similar organizations were linked
with charges that wealthy interests
were seeking to gain control of the
city government through bills recon.
mended by the City Council commit.
tee on legislation.
The measures would provide:
Nonpartisan or partisan election OF
fifty aldermen for fifty wards instead
OF the present number OF seventy for
the thirty.five wards. and the recall
of aldermen.
Appointment of mayor, city treas.
urer and city clerk by the Council.
Four year terms for aldermen at a
salary not TO exceed $4,000.
Alderman John II. Lyle. reform
leader. led the attack on the meas.
ures. He said:
These bills are another example
Of the efforts OF wealthy private In.
terests TO run the city's affairs. They
were not Matched In the City Council,
but were offered here for approval
before they are sent to the Legisla-
ture.
They would centraliZe the govern.
ment into the hands Of a few. or
course, you can see how easy II
would be for these interests to have
a majority OF the council meet In the
Union League Club and there make
selection of the mayor.
THAT Is just what they want.
They can more easily handle their
hand.picked mayor than an eXecu-
tive selected by the people. They
smack of the tactics of the Municipal
Voters League. Let me tell you my
experience with that organization.
Shortly after came to Chicago
| got a job with the league. They
sent me out TO look up a candidate
for alderman. asked whom should
see TO learn who and what that can
didate was. They told me to drop
into a certain saloon.
After looking around the place
called up the office and asked who In
the saloon should ask for. They
told me to ask for Mr.. Porter (mean'
ing the saloon porter).'
Congressman Neils JUL happened
to be sitting on the rostrum with
Mayor Thompson. Calling the coun
ellis attention TO the visitor, Alder
man Lyle continued:
There is a man who was maligned
and slandered by a few narrow
minded. pin.headed men who called
themselves the National Security
League, Because the congressman
and several others did not vote the
way this league wanted they started
out to ruin his reputation. You have
noticed, though, that Congress has
just exonerated him and exposed his
attackers"
After Alderman Lyle had made ref
erence to Alderman X. II. Mccormick
beneficiary OF the Mccormick estate
Mccormick, pointing at Lyle, shouted
II am just as much on the square
as Lyle and even more so. His ref
erence 10 me Is unfair and uncalleC
for. When he talks of exclusive cir
cles he must have been shut up in {
room surrounded by a stone wall"
Alderman Coughlin asserted;
These bills merely show the pow
or Of corporations. They are beinl
fostered by men drunk with success
and money. They want everything
centralized because they can deal bet
ter with a few than with many"
Alderman Richert interiected tina
the measures would save the city
100000 annually in election expense
Democratic government is higl
but IL is the government by and fol
the people don't forget that" re
fninpd vla
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-03-15
The 7 CENT FARE

A statement declaring that the Chi.
cago Association OF Commerce has
taken no stand on the merits OF the
Chicago Surface Lines 7-cent fare
application was issued by President
II. II. Merrick of that association. He
said that Il resolution protesting
against the reported intention OF the
state public utilities commission to
modify the 1907 ordinances to the ex.
tent of using the renewal fund for
operating expenses has been adopted
by the association and will be pre-.
scented to the state body Tuesday.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-03-15
EAGLETS.

Joseph Pionke, defeated candidate
for the Democratic aldermanic NOM
nation in the Twenty.fourth, won
the right to recount before County
Judge Scully. Alderman Frank F.
Roeder won the nomination by SO
votes.
~e
Michael l.. Igoe, Democratic leader
of the House of Representatives, an
nounced that the Sweitzer bill enfran-
chising soldiers returning too late for
registration would be reported out by
the committee this week and would
get immediate passage.
-
Joseph Triner, well known and pop
lar business man is making great
fight for Alderman of the Twelfth
ward as an Independent.
~
Henry Stuckart turned over all the
interest to the people as County
Treasurer. Vote for him for City
Treasurer.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-03-15

Within Following PERIOD
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-03-15
ALDERMEN WILL
FIGHT INSURANCE
RATE Boost

Chairman Matt Franz of the Coun.
ell committee on schools. fire, police
and civil service has called a special
meeting to forestall an increase in
the rate of fire insurance threatened
by the underwriters. Fire Marshal
OConnor denied charges made in
report of the underwriters that the
department is inefficient, but ad-
mitted that It needed at least 800
additional firemen.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-03-15

the intended will
direction the tranmtter the
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-03-15

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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-03-15
POLES FOR SWEITzER

Thomas Kasperski, the well.known
former County Commissioner and
popular Polish Democratic leader in
the Eleventh Ward, predicts a solid
pollsh'American vote for Sweitzer at
the election
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-03-15

Amos c. Ryan, President of the
Central Transfer Company is one of
the coming young men Of Chicago.
He is the leader In theatrical work
and his company furnishes the trans-s
fer service for all of the leading
houses and all of the leading stars.
The Auto Truck Service of the Com.
pany is unexcelled.
James Scala is meeting with a great
success and fine patronage in his
New Italy restaurant on the second
floor of 81 West Monroe street. II Is
very popular with professional and
business men.
julius Oswald. the well known bar.
Der at 154 West Randolph street. 10
very popular with the city hall boys.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-08-27

the city job more attractive but
to make the farm more alluring.
Statistics show that over one
third of the tillable lands in Ken
lucky lie dormant year after year
because there is no one to till
them. These lands with proper
cultivation would be just as pro-
ductive as other lands. and the
reason they are not furnishing
their share of the necessaries of
life may be answered by iIllustra.
ton. We will take the City Rail-
way of Louisville for instance.
Ninety per cent or more of the
Motormen and Conductors EN-.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-08-27

ployed by this concern are lately
off of the farm. Why? Simply
because they can earn more
money wi h less exertion by run
ming a car than they can by fol.
lowing a plow. This is a fact
that none will dare offer to deny
and so is it right for these men
to expect their brothers who re-
NAMED on the farm to sell their
sweat to the public in the form of
bread and meat for a smaller
sum than they are willing to take
for theirs? And is it right for
the man who worked eight hours
on the railroad or in the shop to
expect to receive more bread and
meat for his effort than is given
to the farmer who the same day
spent fro n ten to fourteen hours
in the field? No. God created all
men equal, and the sweat of one
man is not worth one cent more
than the sweat of another. And
again we must realize that the
farm is the stone foundation up
on which all wealth is builded;
that the farmer should not be ex-
pected to give more to the pub
lie than he receives in return,
and that no man is worth more
to his employer or to the public
than he earns for them. And it
is high time for the public to be-
gin to realize that the day is past
and that it will never return
when the farmer and his family
will dress in homespun and ride
in a cart which is drawn by a
yoke of oxen, while the city peo-
pie dress in silks aud ride in auto
mobiles and airships. For the
farmer is awakening from his
lethargy at last aud for the first
time in life is realizing his impor-
lance to the nation. And in or
der to hold the place in society to
which he is entitled he is de-
handing and receiving the recg-
milton to which he is entitled.
There is also another principle
which is allied to each of the cues
lions discussed, that is adding to
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-08-27

the general unrest and to the
high cost of living. 1t is the
failure of the people to realize
that capital and labor are Co
equal. For it is a fact that it is
just as impossible for labor to ex
ist without capital as it is for
capital to exist without labor.
And this proves again that
Gods decree cannot be overriden.
And therefore capital is just as
much entitled to fair return
for its services as is labor. For
it is impossible to run any
business without capital. The
farmer for Instance must first
have capital enough to purchase
the farm, the stock, the neces-
sary machinery and to pay his
help for at least six months be-
fore he can engage in the business
of farming. Therefore is it not I'M
reasonable to say that labor is en-
titled to all of the earnings of the
farm without giving any consid-
Grafton to the amount of capital
invested? And capital cannot
claim any advantage over labor.
For it would be just as reason
able for a man to expect to grow
a crop without a farm as it would
for him to operate farm without
labor. Therefore it would be
utterly impossible for either
capital or labor to exist without
the assistance of the other. They
are co-equal and neither is en-
titled to any advantage over the
other. And so the man who invests
his money in business is just
as much entitled to expect a fair
return on his investments as is
the man through whose labor the
business is made successful.
And so unrest and high cost of
living must exist until these two
forces signs a truce aud each side
is willing to acknowledge and re-
spect the rights of the other.
AS far back as history goes it
has been the tendency of the
strong to Cypress the weak.
And these tactics are now being
played by capital and labor. but
IL is now cropping out That when
ever either side tramples upon The
4
toes of other the public aud che
public alone will be called upon 4
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-08-27

capital has not been and is not
today as clean as it should be.
For when man or body OF men
forces prices down until they
have cornered the market and
then will release the necessaries
of life only upon the payment of
exhorbit ant prices they should
be pla ced in the same category
as the highwayman and should
be treated accordingly.
And now in conclusion let me
assure you that when the cause
of the unrest among laborers
and the high cost of living is
probed to the bottom it will be
found that the blame will lay
equally at the doors of the
money king and at those of
organized labor. For it seems
that each of these forces are
trying to practice the theory of
the Chicago railway men, and to
thus profit at the expense of
each other. 1t will be found
that in attempting to hold a
position in mo Mans Land"
between these two forces the
farmer has been practically
annihilated. And so regardless
of what Congress or the investi-
eating committees may do or
say the present high prices,
especially of foods, will have to
prevail until the farms can
again be populated. And so if
you would reduce the cost Of
living and thus put business
upon normal basis you must
consider the farmer as you
would any other business man..
You must make farm work just
as attractive and as renumerative
as work in the factory or the
shop, You must build roads
that will give the country folks
good ingress and egress to and
from city markets. And last but
not least you must provide the
same class of amusement for the
"Backwoods Ike" that is pro-
vided for the Dude" of the
town or city. And then when
you stop the cities stores, factor
lies and shops from treating the
boys and girls who grow up on
the farm like Chicago treated
the Southern Negroes high cost
| of living will cause to be a topic
| of discussion and business win
run just as smoothly as it did
before there was ever q labor
eruption.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-08-27

For we must not lose sight of the
fact that the law of supply and
demnnd is going to rule the price
of any commodity. For this law
of supply and demand is just as
invaluable as is the law that water
will always seek its level, There
fore if you wish to buy cheap food
you must of necessity increae pro.
duction and the way to increase
production is certainly not to make
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-08-27

suffer. l believe in unions be-
cause in union there is strength.
But of late there is a tendency
on the part of organized labor to
abuse its right to recognition by
the public. Take for instance the
Chicago railway men who were
willing to say: ITO hell with the
public. Such a spirit is nothing
more nor less sthan Anarchy or
Bolshevism, and is the spirit
which has wrecked Russia and
will wreck this country if tits not
arrested. For the principle upon
which all civilization is built is
that the public is entitled to
recognition before individual.
And any principle which would
give the individual recognition
before the public cannot but
undermine civilization. For it is
just as impossible for two prin-
ciples to exist in the same
country as it is for fire to burn
in a powder magazine without
igniting the powder. And no
country can long exist that
does not recognize the import
ance of both capital and labor,
and that is not strong enough to
curb either of these forces that
may try to trample upon the
the rights of the other. For
neither of these forces can go
beyond the bounds of its right
full sphere without causing the
public to suffer.
AS said above | believe in
unions because in union there is
strength. But it seems to me-
that at least a few branches OF
organized labor are showing a
tendency to trample upon the
rights of the public. / think
that it is right for any man or
or body of men to refuse to
work where the conditions
under which they are expected
to work or where the renumer-
alton is unsatisfactory. But
when any body of men say
that they will not work and
that no one else shall work at a
given place under the conditions
or for the remuneration offered
then they commit an offense
against civilization and shoulG
| be punished as criminals. And
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-08-27
The High Cost OF Living,
BY r. L. CAMPBELL.

Continued from ast.week.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-08-27

CameIs are sold every
wherein scientifically sealed
packages of 30 cigarettes or
tenpackages( 200cigarettes)
in a eIassine-paper-covered
carton. We strongly recon-
mend this carton for the
home or Office supply or
when you travel
r. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Winston-Salem, N. c.
The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1919-03-07
Sergt. Reginald Hinde.

On the United States entering the
war, Reginald, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. b. Hinde, Of Oregon, was a student
of the State Agricultural College,
at Manhattan, Kansas, and there
was something in his makeup that
loyalty and love of country called him
TO answer his country's call, and the
result was he went forward and en-
rolled his name as a defender of the
best country on the earth's surface
He chose the signal service branch
and in January 1918, he went "ovsI
there" TO do his part. Sine. this time
he has been continuously in active
service, and has had hard time all
the time, having been badly gassed
and put out Of business for a time
but was in due time returned to duty,
The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1919-03-07


We feel grateful TO Mrs. C, ID. Zook.
of this city, for permission TO copy
the following letter from him, which
is written from Vallendar, Germany,
on the Rhine, near Coblenz, and dated
January 25, 1919:
Dear Mrs, Zook: Received your
card some time ago but failed to write
you, although | did sent a post card.
Haven't heard from old friends in
Oregon, except very few, and when
! do certainly enjoy them. Receive
The Sentnels, "IIome Town Bugles,"
as we call en-, which mother sends
to me, and you can tell the world that
enjoy reading them and wish WIS
back amongst you all again.
We are stationed at Vallendar a.
Rhine-about miles from Coblenz,
with the 23rd U. 5. Infantry, we have
been with the infantry all through the
war, keeping up telephone, radio, 4.
=. s. and other forms Of communities
ton. The 23rd infantry, as you know,
belongs to the Second Division, and
Third Army.
The 1hird Army holds the bridge
head at Coblenz and the surrounding
territory. between the British and the
French.
Germany is pretty place as far
as scenery and such a. that goes, e..
pecially along the Rhine river. Tire
castles along thct Rhine are sure there
aud the only realistic thing Of my
Imagination before We hit here wa.
those castles. pcrchcd way up there,
on the tops Of the bluffs overlooking
The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1919-03-07

US TO ride on fast train, SO We al.
ways had to ride on a slow local
freight-one that stopped at every
road crossing and travelled about %
miles an hour. And il was always
necessary to change about every 09l
kilometers.
In August we finished our work and
returned to the division. Then vel
did some real work, for orr division
was ready for anything that might
happen. My regiment was at the
front when | got back and reported
for duty in the trenches.
II was my first sight Of No Man's
Land, my first real sound Of whistling
shells and the roar Of their explosion.
! began to think my "time" was near
at hand. My company commander
took me TO the observation post and
showed nc our front line, where our
men were watching Fritz. But ]
could not see any place where man
could stand, or sit, or lie, for | saw
nothing but torn up earth, broken
trees, wire. and every other thing
imaginable. He showed me where the
lIoche line was, away up on the crest
Of the mountain, and We were away
below them. | saw nothing then, not
a living or moving object. | heard
not sound. Everything was appar-
emily dead, and there was reason for
It.. because IL was wrecked earth a,
that particular part Of the Sector.
My company commander had only
one lieutenant, save myself, and he
had been in the front line for about
,i,,h, Iaya q, a, ,,,I.J m F,af III,
asked me II ! wanted TO take the
front line that night. knew nothing,
! had no Instructions. did not even
kno" the directions, but told him
was willing to 30 anywhere, 10 that
same night ! took over my first duty
in trc front line.
had twenty men under my direct
control. although | was In charge OF
our whole company line. We relieved
the old relief about dark. We got 70
the post through long winding, COW
cred trench. Was more like tunnel
than u trench. We walked very quiet
ly and was very careful not 20 be
noisy--but gee! We made moro noise
than u pack Of cattle on a pavement.
hut We reached our q. {. (known
~ q. e. or combat group, post in
the front linc). II was merely shall
low dugOut about three hundred met.
crs from the lIochc line, which was
above ~. ] got my orders from the
lieutenant ! relieved. They were sim.
ply, Hold this g.. {. ut all costs"
And | had no rcinfofccmcnts. | was
TO expect no aid. was merely the
front line and not the main line Of
IsIanAn Mo 4. ha af.aftft.WI ~
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-07-31
THE PRESIDENT BEFORE THE
SENATE.

President Wilson was under no
constitutional command and bound
by no moral obligation to explain
or defend before the senate his
course Nm the peace conference or
his part in creating the League OF
as he told the senators, to report to
them what was attempted and done
at Paris. Yet, he has given to the
senate-and through the senate to
the people-an eloquent and con-
vincing argument and justification
for this %cOuntry's continuance in an
iternational partnership to preserve
four years OF sacrifice, starvation n
#. as his critics contend, he said
nothing new upon this subject, GER
tainly all that he uttered was true.
The business of keeping the peace
belongs to every nation whose inter-
ests and safety will be threatened by
world. And in fulfilling this duty
the nations can have hereafter no
more success, acting s%everally, than
they have had heretofore. They
must be brought into concert; into a
coalition that will pledge their moral
and material resources to the com
mon task of safeguarding them
selves ny pIOIcCLluS IuelF ..
The president was under no ne
cessity Of proving the obvious. The
senate knows that a League of Ma
lions is imperative; that it is an
inherent, inseparable part of the ar
rangement and maintenance of
peace. There are those who are OPP
posing the League in spite of their
knowledge. They pretend to see in
doubtless to such that the president
addressed at least one sentence OF
his address: Statesmen might see
difficulties but the people could see
and could brook no denial"
If republican DIRECTORS and cavil-
lers have not been enlightened by
what President Wilson has said it
is only because they have closed
their eyes to the light. The people
understand his language and share
his hopes and approve his purpose.
They demand the League of Nations.
The senate cannot deny them.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-07-31
A CHANCE FOR A WORLD PEACE.

President Wilson's return to
America bearing the worlds great
est peace treaty, together with the
covenant of the League of Nations,
has started the battle that will de-
eide whether the United States wfll
make possible the most ambitious
and only practicable attempt to keep
the world at peace.
Although the senate has debated
and wrangled over the League of
Nations for months these affairs are
now considered as skirmishes and
attempted ambuscades. Then the
opponents Of the League were learn
edly discussing a matter of which
they had no official knowledge and
little information of an unofficial
nature. That situation permitted
flights of fancy, such as the predic-
ton that Uncle Sam would have to
patrol the world and walk a beat in
the Balkins or Kamchatka, or be
governed by the black, brown and
can an" non.partisan" enemies Of the
League have the official treaty be-
fore them and must discuss it's pro-
visions, thus being curtailed in the
fireworks of pure Americanism."
The president has reported to the
S idasls tb bgief ay;na telling gne of fr the high q
aNOots not oSIuoLCu CAC IidAAOAo VI
the treaty. %reserving his heavy am
munition for the real battles to
come. Confident of eventual sue
cess he has challenged his oppo-
nents to summon him for first-hand
knowledge of the inside" doings at
Paris, and, with the reluctance born
of chagrin, they will do so.
The getting from under" method
of complete surrender is now work.
ing nicely. Many of those anti
Wilson choristers known to history
Is the round robins are perfectly
we'll aware that they will vote for
the ratification of the League cove
nant or reservation. So, paving the
way for their submission to the man
date of the nation at large, they are
preparing mattresses in the shape OF
reservations" to break their fall on
the day the final vote is taken. If
each and every reservation fails the
alibi of the hopeless fight is at hand,
and further consolation will be
found in the probable announcement
that 1.-The business interests of the
country demanded that peace should
be formally declared"
ability to arouse the people by tours
of the country before this. He is
the ayowed crusader for the League
of Nations, and when he touches his
lance in rest for the combat, with
his gift of idealism deftly welded
with practicalities, many a partisan
enemy in the senate will roll in the
dust of public condemnation.