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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-01-24
INSURANCE PACT
OPENS CAMPAIGN
Starts Early in Attempt to Head
Off Passage Of State In
SuranCe Bill
Continued From Page ID

law are in most cases entirely made
quate. They should be higher. but
they cannot be much higher without
penalizing the industries within the
state, that is if private insurance
companies are to continue drawing
their big slice of the money that en-
ployers pay tor protection.
Has Nothing Against Agents..
Union labor has nothing against
persons engaged in the insurance
business. We don't like to fight them.
We wish we did not have to take issue
with them, but it is plainly evident
to every person who has ever: studied
the question Of >workingmen's com
pensation that there can never be a
square deal given to labor so long
as any person is permitted to make
profit out of the administration of
the law. Insurance companies are not
in the business for their health. They
want dividends, and they are paid
at the expense Of human cripples.
If the money that is now being paid
by employers for insurance could be
deposited with the state acting as
trustee for the employees in the dis
tribution of the funds so collected
thus saving the cost Of soliciting and
maintenance of private insurance COM
panies, together with their profits
there would be sufficient to adequately
compensate every man and woman in
jured Or killed in a Minnesota in
dustry. It would cost employers no
more money. but it would give relief
where it is now most needed, and
which cannot be given with the law as
it is written or with the system under
which it is sustained.
The question is purely economic. 1t
is one of "save the waste" Divert the
money now being paid to insurance
companies, pay it into the state trea-
sury instead, eliminate every element
Of profit and the legislature can in
crease the compensation under the
present law without placing an ad-
ditional burden on industry. It is a.
pure business proposition and is recog-
nized as such by every forward coun-
try in the world, save the United
States.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-01-24
B0URb0NISM IS
Menace TO j. S.
Senator France Issues Timely
Warning TO Over : Jealous
t.. Government Officials. i.

WASHINGTON Jan. 22.-Bour-
bonism in public office is as great
menace to the liberties: of the people as
is bolshevism, declared United States
Senator France in a statement on
present-day tendencies.
Il have come to the conclusion
said the Maryland: law MAKER that
bourbonism and what we generally
understand as bolshevism are but diff
ferent manifestations of the same di-
sease, the principal symptoms of
which are stupidity and intolerance:
Bolshevism and bourbonism both
practice tyranny of the majority over
the minority, which respects no law
and disregards personal rights. Both
believe in the rule of force rather than
in the rule of reason. Both dote upon
reaction and revel in repression.
Edmund Burke said: 1T is right
that there should be clamor wher-
ever there is an abuse. The fire bell
at midnight disturbs your sleep, but
it keeps you from being burned in
your bed. The hue and cry alarms
the country, but it preserves all the
property of the province
with this your bourbon disagrees,
because he thrives on abuses. He
hates free, fearless and Vigorous
speech. He resists all changes, defends
existing conditions and seems to dis
credit or persecute those who demand
reform. He distrusts plans for uni
versal education because he has a
secret contempt for the minds of the
masses of the people.
'The progressive man, on the con-
trary, defends free speech and uni
versal education because he has faith
in the intelligence and trusts the mo-
tives of the masses
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REAL DEMOCRACY
SEES. No&DANCER
!|N(.FR /: |: SPEECH

...l.tG!ss..-.sSSt

WESTINGHOUSE Jan. 22.-The DEM
ocratic foundation Of our country is
so rugged that tt does not need gov
eminent denial Of free speech and free
press, declared United States Senator
Norris in 4 speafhs,x in the senate
against ceusorshirs:st+ ~:
Instead otAefaSpinINa man, from
making asp9e$ha S1treet corner"
said .5thes tNehf$ lAW maker: ~
would boy hin8 $Apther soap box and
put it out reet:and tell him
to go to it. I have faith enough in
the principles Of our, government and
in its very foundat ton, stones, that it
can withstand the attacks Of crazy,
nonsenical anarchists and others. I
believe that we ought to be careful
lest we sow the seed that will bring
forth more anarchy, more bolshevism,
more sovietism."
In answer to the claim that the
men who are urging control over free
speech and free press are patriotic,
Senator Norris said:
Every man who ever lit a torch
that burned witch at the stake be-
lieved that he was doing the right
thing.
':As Washington said in his fare
well address, even though you might
accomplish good in one instance you
set a precedent that future man hav-
ing authority will use to do evil, to
suppress the rights of the people and
deny them their liberties. and in the
end bring down upon their heads the
destruction of the government itself.
1T is said that these men will abuse
the right il you give them free speech.
That is true; they: will. Give free
press, and the press will abuse it.
Of course it will. They have in the
past always-not all papers, not all
men, but some in every class.
Then you say, ought we not sup
press that abuse? My answer is that,
following the doctrine laid down by
Washington, history shows from the
beginning of civilization that it can
not be done without bringing on a
greater injury: So our forefathers
said that; we will suffer this abuse
rather than interfere with the right
Of free speech and: free press; that =
you place in any mans hands the
power. to suppress, you eventually
bring upon your heads the destruc-
ton of free government.
If your doctrines are right, If our
country is founded upon a system en-
bodied in the truth-and:I believe it
is-then we need not fear any debate,
any discussion.'' ...
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! 0STER~LAUCHS..:
i: 4: lat: JUDICIARY:
Says Unions Have Taught Steel
Trust That lis Power
Is Falling.

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 22.-The "a
international unions will stand their
ground and fight Judge Gary every
foot OF the way. says w. z. Foster,
secretary OF the steel strikers COM
mittee, in statement issued after
the steel strike was called off.
''In the face of the supposedly lost
strike,'' said Foster, 1T would seem
strange to speak Of the high prestige
that the steel unions have. But such
is the fact, nevertheless. The steel
strike leaves little or no sense Of de-
feat and bitterness with the workers.
Oppressed and downtrodden as they
have been for so many: years, the
trade: unions were, the first to make
a.: real fight for them. 1t is true the
strike did not lead to q clear-cut VIC
tory. But what of that?
"A wonderful thing has been done.
The great steel industry, the despair
Of unionists for years, was organized
in the face of the steel trusts bitter
opposition. Every big mill in the
country came to a stand still on Sep
TENDER %.
Inc lmpOSSlO1e mas OeeH aCnleVeu.
The citadel Of the United States steel
corporation was captured, even
though it could not be held for long.
And what has been done once, can be
done again, and more effectively.
"No one familiar with the situation
can deny that the prestige of the
unions is now higher than ever be-
fore in the steel industry. Mr.. Gary
may claim the material victory, but
unions"
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after SHERIFF;
OF :KoocH|CA|NC
Sheriff Mcintosh Goat; Backus
: Crowd Files Charges
Against Him.

Continued From Page H.
sheriffs side of the story has put the
governor in bad with the people of
the north country. The sheriff didn't
play good ball." and now it is pro-
posed that he be removed from office.
Leave Out the Strike.
It is true that no reference is made
in the complaint against the sheriff
that has any bearing whatever to
the strike situation at International
Falls, but If the sheriff had taken in
structions from Backus, it is a safe
bet no charges would have been filed
against him.
It is alleged that he has been neg
ligent in the enforcement OF the law
against blind pigs. Well, what do
you know about that? The governor
of Minnesota has known for some
time that blind pigs were running
openly In certain parts of Koochich-
ing county. Why didn't he remove
the sheriff before? Why did he wait
until now, after the prohibition
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States has become effective
Prior to January is, 1920, the sheriff
might have been responsible for the
enforcement Of the blind pig law. but
now it is the duty of federal. state
and local officers to enforce the anti
liquor laws.
Knew About 1t Before.
During the war a number Of reports
were made to the governor alleging
that blind pigs were running openly
in the north country. That would
have been good time to remove a
sheriff, but none was removed, and
it seems strikingly strange that the
sheriff Of Koochiching county should
be attacked at this particular time,
when all the nation has become dry.
and when, If he does not enforce the
law, there are federal officers to do
it for him.
The Labor World holds no brief for
the sheriff Of Koochiching county,
but we feel mighty safe in asserting
that had he stood pat, taken orders
from Backus and permitted himself
to be the goat for Burnquist's
blunders, he would not now be called
upon to show cause why he: should
not be removed from office. Nc
charge Of any character would have
been filed against him. The charge
that he has failed to enforce the anti
liquor law is a mere subterfuge, and
every honest thinking person in the
state who is familiar with: the situa'
tion believes it. +,
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w southern localities where con-

few southern localities where con-
tracts are yet in force. Wage increases
are also general. In New York city
the photo engravers have established
a $44 weekly minimum while the
average weekly wage of 1900 photo
engravers in commercial shops is SIS.
In Chicago the $44 minimum pre-
walls, with an average of $3.50 for
$50 members employed in commercial
shops.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-01-24
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
C0NVENES IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-Presi-
dent VOL Of the International Photo
Engravers' union reports that this
craft has made the 44-hour week
universal in this country except in
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-01-24

The union label is an appeal to
principle-principle that is above
price; the principle that a dollar ex-
pended in the maintenance of fair la
Dor is worth more in the end than
dollar saved at the bargain counter.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-14

dict such rumors as are TO be circulat-
ed regarding Gov. Cox it is quite pos
sible that the republicans may win
votes in the state. The traditions and
precepts of the United States are
broadly shown to oppose any union of
church and state and they are just as
strongly opposed to religious intoler-
sance, or bigotry. 1t would seem a con-
temptible bit of politics to undertake
the stirring up of religious prejudices
in Florida, and yet the men anxious
to secure federal offices, should a re-
publican administration follow. would
evidently stoop to any trick. This year
the republicans are understood to plan
a story for Florida democrats that viii
be as ridiculous and unworthy Of ac-
ceptance as the first-but the people
who heard the first story are now fair
ly wise, and not to be caught again by
such mischief. The president of the
United States has never made a differ
ence in any act on account of the re-
ligious affiliation of those affected; no
president of the United States ever
will.-Times- Union.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-14
DELAYED PASSENGERS
BREAK UP THEIR TRAIN
(ey Associated Press.)

Buenos Aires. Sept. "a train or
the Southern railway which usually
makes the run from Taheres in Is
minutes, but was delayed recently foI
an hour and a half, finally arrived al
the BuenOs Aires terminal with two
cars missing and the furnishings OF
the others completely wrecked and
their windows broken. The damage
expressed the displeasure of the pas
sengers over the delay. The coaches
missing had been set on fire.
After venting their anger in this
fashion, most Of the commuters got
off and walked until they reached the
trolley and taXicab zone. The rail-
road company hearing of the trouble
by telephone, called police reserves to
the terminal to protect their offices
against the ire of the remaining pas
sengers and those of other delayed
trains.
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age in Florida already having in
creased from $4,000 in 1919 to $1,000 in
1920. Latest reports from the sugar
cane crop in Louisiana show that the
total cane acreage this year, as esti-
mated July 1, aggregates 285,120 acres
of which $4,000 acres will be used for
the manufacture of sugar as compared
with 231 900 acres used for sugar in
1919 and ga, 900 in 1917.
While Louisiana has been decreasing
her acreage, Florida has been increas-
ing. and farmers in all sections of the
state are planning to plant cane.
The Pennsylvania Sugar Company,
the largest investors in acreage for
sugar cane, have made another pur-
chase of Everglade land, which is par
ticularly well adopted to the growing
of cane. The total amount involved in
the deal just contaminated is $685.
900. The latest purchase covered a
tract of $4,000 acres.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-14
Magazine and
Book Notes
Reviewed by William r. BigeIow, Ed
tor of GOOD Housekeepinn.v
VALLEY of Silent Men"


I've been asked TO write something
about James Oliver Curwood and his
newest novel THE Valley Of Silent
Men" 1 had the privilege of reading
the novel as it came fresh from the
typewriter, and am fairly sure it will
be long time before another manu-
script of a novel will glow of fire and
freshness. 1t just happens that a year
before l had read the manuscript of
Mr.. CurwOod's other great novel, The
Rivers End and at that time / said:
This is the best CurWOOd novel vet
There never was another like it. There
probably never will be another with
such magic, with such an inspired com
bination of love and adventure, real
ization and enchantment"
The great reading public evidently
thought the same, for the magazine
jumped up by tens of thousands.
month after month, and when The
Rivers End" was published in book
form it became a best seller at once.
and for seven or eight months was
among the first three in the best sell
ling list.
Then came the manuscript of The
Valley of Silent Men"
And 1 hardly knew what to say
had said it all about the first novel
So just lay down and said, "A story
as good as The Rivers End is some
story, but here, it is" Readers seemed
to think 1 meant only as good, and
have jumped all over me. Oh, well,
that's what an editor expects.
How that man Curwood can write!
He knows the Far North as perhaps
no other writer does, and he makes
you want to know it. He couldn't do
that if he did not actually live his
stories before he writes them. He has
seen the wonderland he paints for US
he has met the men and women who
live under his pen. He has come close
into the hearts and understanding of
men and women and little children Of
what he calls Gods Country" That
is why in The Valley of Silent Men"
you will find Jim Kent so real, and
why Marette- the mystery girl. will be
beautiful creature of flesh and blood.
Do you want a hint of the story?
Dying, Jim Kent, the best man
trapper in the Royal Mounted, tells a
story that brands him as a rnurd arer
doctors diagnosis was wrong: death
by hanging grins in the troopers face.
Love Of life and Of a beautiful ,ays-
terry girl who had laughed at him and
called him a liar now makes him a fu-
gitfve-a hunter become the hunted.
With him, down those tabled rivers
flowing north to the. frozen Arctic
speeds the girl, whose own secret
winds like a thread ofswiId magic TO
the hidden Valley of Silent Men.
I'm not going TO tell you any more
OF the story, but IL you know Curwood
at all you can well imagine the ire
mendous epic Of the Canadian North
west, the last outpost Of civilization
which he develops from this dramatic
situation. The Valley of Silent Men"
published by Cosmopolitan Book Cor
poration, is surely due to be the novel
everybody will be talking abou. this
Fall.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-14
TAKE PHOSPHATE
WITH MEALS IN
SUMMER TIME
Your Nerves Demand II, Your Blood
Needs IL, Say Physicians.

There's not enough phosphorus In mod
srn foods to benefit nearly one-han Of
the men and women Of America. scien-
lists declare.
To overcome this lack Of an element
Of your body that Is necessary TO your
health. your happiness and even your
rundown people are advised by W. DIAL
emberte and all good druggists to take
Bltro- phosphate as dispensed In leading
drug stores in the original package.
Speaking Of people who are easily IA
tlgued who lack ambition, nerve and
are ofttfmes thin, weak and sadly lack
ing in firm. healthy flesh, Joseph ID. Har-
rigan, formerly Visiting Specialist North
Eastern Dispensary. y. Y. says:
Patents who We're apparently physi-
cal wrecks. who fOolishly thought they
needed only a blood tonic 20 enrich the
blood have come for treatment fremb-
Ding and shaking their nerve force all
most exhausted and in many such cases
they produced seemingly magical results"
People who feel the heat OF Sumner
tire easily and often become irritable and
depressed, win find Bitro- Phosphate an
inexpensive and helpful friend
Druggists report a wonderful increase
In the demand from men and women who
are anxious 10 renew old time ambition
and who are making an honest effort 20
become vigorous and KEGS minded with
power Of endurance that denotes almost
perfect health.
They ask for Bitro- Phosphate because
they know they need an inexpensive ore
ganic phosphate.-Adv.
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Press Comment
COLLEGES Incapacity.

| Although gratifying as an idex to the
interest that is taken in higher educ5s
| ton, reports coming from colleges AMI
professional schools everywhere thar
applications for admission are beine
! received from far more persons thar
can be accommodated are disturbing
as disclosure of the institutions ca
pacity. The rush of prospective stu
dents to matriculate is bewildering
Their number exceeds all calculations
and appears to be at least partly due
to other causes than increase in popu-
lation and the decentralization of the
army.
One suggestion is that the interest
in learning is the manifestation. of a
reaction from the mental distraction
produced by the war. On the other
hand.~the struggle served to arouse
thousands from lethargy and kindled
ambition in youths who were content,
prior to our entry into the conflict, to
live humdrum lives. 1t is noticeable
that institutions in which instruction
is given in the learned professions are
among those which are compelled to
turn away the most applicants
II IS so greatly IN the interest or the
public welfare that all who desire
higher education should be afforded an
opportunity to get it that not only the
colleges but the people generally have
cause for concern over the situation.
Rather than deny any considera BILE
body Of young men and young women
the chance that they ask, recourse
should be had to what under other
circumstances might be undesirable
eXpedients. If lack of space is the
principal cause of the difficulty, let
frame structures Of the kind thrown
up so quickly by the war department
for the accommodation of recruits a
couple of years ago be erected on the
campus; they should suffice until more
substantial and permanent structures
can be built. If there is a lack of in
structors, let small classes be combined
into large ones.
If earnest attention is given to the
situation by the colleges and univer-
stiles there is no reason why any eligi-
BILE youth who wants to enter this au-
tumn should be deprived of the chance
Tampa Tribune.
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then?"

them?"
Then, as remained silent, You
agree with me, of course?'
Il am sorry to say l do not" 1 said
firmly, for her absolute air of finality
irritated me. "Of course. it is unfor-
tunate that the entrances had to be
above ground, but as long as there
has to be some sort of an entrance
way, l think these Turkish kiosks are
the best things possible. 1 have heard
many people of good taste say that
they thought they added a pictures
que touch to the streets"
They ought to go to school," was
my mother-in~law's acid retort as we
entered the subway
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-14
WILL WOMEN VOTE FOR GOOD
ROADS?

Jacksonville and several other Flor
ida cities are keeping their books open
for registration every day in the week,
in order that every woman may have
an opportunity to register. This is
considered necessary if women are to be
fully registered in time for the Novem-
Der election. How much more neces-
sary. then. that the registration books
be kept open every day of the week
in Escambia county, If the women are
to qualify in time to cast their vote
for good roads for Escambia county.
That the women Of Escambia will vote
for good roads, is the opinion being
based on the fact that the develop
ment of roads, schools and the rural
communities are so closedly linked.
The woman vote of Escambia county is
an intelligent vote, for not only in
Pensacola but throughout the rural dis
tricts women are well trained in club
work, and we'll acquainted with public
affairs.
greater number of women's clubs than
Associations, which are almost en-
tirely composed of women, being par
ticularly strong organizations.
These women keep well abreast of
the times. That they intend to vote is
evidenced by the response they have
made to the obligation of the ballot,
in promptly registering, and that they
will cast their votes for the things that
count. no one can doubt, who is at all
acquainted with the work of the wom-
en- in this county in the past.
AT all times they have stood for
progress, but particularly during the
war did they show an ability and de-
votion that made the record of Escam-
bia one of the best in the entire United
States. The women made a record in
Red Cross work, which was officially
recognized, in war savings drives they
led the entire state. and an official of
the Federal Reserve district publicly
stated that Pensacola had made the
best Liberty Loan record in this dis
trict. The woman's division of the
Liberty Loan Committee was RESPONSE
BILE for at least fifty per cent Of the
success of those drives.
1t has been said that if women were
given the ballot, they would take an
active and intelligent part in city
municipal and county affairs. Now the
opportunity has come to prove this
claim. In a few days the women will
be called upon to cast their ballots for
or against the two million dollar bond
issue for good roads. Their vote may
carry or defeat this bond issue. 1t is
the most important measure which has
come before the people for many de-
cade. And it is believed that The
women will realize its Importance and
will vote for the bonds.
Every woman in the county should
register at once, in order that she may
be qualified to vote in the coming cleo
ton, which is only two weeks distant.
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ALONG THE WAY.
BY Frank L. Stanton,

The way no more is lonely,
Though one must walk 1t only,
With the red thorns keen and cruel. al
his breast:
Though the skies are dark above
him
And there be no heart to love him,
Yet the evening shadows whisper
sweet Of Rest"
OF rest there is no dreaming
Where dying stars are streaming,
In valleys Of the Silence sweet and
blest:
With just the sky for cover
And lily for a lover,
And the evening shadows whispering
sweet OF Rest"