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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Making Wisconsin Great.

It's politicians do not make Wiscon-
sin great state although they like
to think and say So The workers of
Wisconsin. the farmers, the manufac-
turers, the business men, the mechan-
les, all industry, has made Wisconsin
a wonderful state. This in spite of
rather on account of the politicians.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
The DAYS Work.

Some people carry an air of injury
because they think the world has
cheated them. Our own honest con-
clusion is that the world in general
treats us better than we deserve and
gives us more than we pay back. We
believe every man should be content
with his job and do it we'll no matter
how humble it is, because when his
ability demands better position the
door will open at once. We get all
that is coming to us and often quite
little bit more
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
LincOln's Birthday.

February IL is the birthday of Alb
raham Lincoln. In the way of tribute,
nothing could be said of Lincoln that
has not been said and said better than
we could say it.
We often think that Lincoln would
be the first to laugh in droll, nin-
steal way if ne was alive and could
read of some of the enconiums heaped
upon his memory First of all Abe
was a simple, plain man of the peo-
pie He had no love for pomp and
pretense and in fact, delighted at
times in puncturing it.
But the stage was set to make Lin
coin a great historical figure. His rise
from poverty, his trials, defeats and
triumphs, his summons to the pres
idency in the country's hour of peril
and last of all his heroic death when
his work was finished-these things
melt our hearts and bring tears to
our eyes as we read them.
Lincoln was man and not god
or demi-god. Therefore he had his
faults as all of us mortals have But
if we read Alright he had kind and
sympathetic heart, good common
sense, courage and rectitude. His
real greatness is perhaps best shown
by his immortal Gettysburg address.
Like all great documents it will stand
reading again and again. AS a gem of
pure English it is flawless AS an ap-
peal to the people it is compelling AS
a tribute to the dead of that SCARED
battlefield, it is complete. Read it
again:
-Four score and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth on this con-
tinent a new nation, conceived in Lib
erty, and dedicated to the proposition
that all me are created equal.
"Now we are engaged in a great
civil war, testing whether that nation
or any nation so conceived and so
dedicated, can long endure. We are
met on a great battlefield of that war
We have come to dedicate a portion
of that field, as final resting place
for those who here gave their lives
that this nation might live. 1t is alto
gether fitting and proper that we
should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not
dedicate-we can not conservative
can not haIlow-this ground. The
brave men, living and dead, who strug-
gled here have consecrated it, far
above our poor power 10 add OF de-
tract. The world will little note, nor
long remember, what we say here,
but it can never forget what they did
here. 1t is for us the living, rather, to
be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here have
thus far so nobly advanced. 1t is rath-
er for us to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before us-that
from these honored dead we take in
creased devotion to that cause for
which they gave the last full measure
of devotion-that we here highly re-
solve that these dead shall not have
died in vain-that this nation, under
God shall have new birth of free
dom---and that government of the peo-
pie, by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Judge StOIen's Expose.

Judge o. A. Stolen, Madison jurist,
has shocked the capital by declaring
that the city is vice-ridden. The judge
is quoted as saying that sixty percent
of the young men of the city are or
have been infected with social dis
ease. He claims at all-night parties
in the university section girls have
been carried out in blankets, too in
toXicated to stand up.
Shocked people are jumping all over
Judge Stolen, claiming that he is ruin
ing the fair reputation of the capital.
The judge replies pretty brisk, saying
that he was not only quoted correctly
but expects to have more to say. He
claims that he has his figures from
reliable scientific authority and that
the ones giving Madison a black eye
are those who seek to cover up in
stead of seeking a cure.
One doubts if Judge Stolen's expose
will have much effect. Young men
are young men the world over wheth
er they live in Madison, Lancaster or
London.
Judge Stolen is in charge of a mum
icipal court and sees the seamy side of
life 1t may be that he forms his con-
illusions about young people from the
ones he sees daily. If he is mistaken
Madison will not be injured by his
charges because the truth will come
to light in the long run. If he is right
the town needs a housekeeping and
covering up will not further that end.
Natural resentment has resulted in
Madison from Judge Stolen's state
ments. Without a doubt cases of drink
ing and moral delinquency occur
among the student body at the state
university just as it does at every 9th
er school of the kind. The judge takes
no account of the thousands of hard
working and clean-living young stu
dents who consider education as a
serious business and go about their
tasks accordingly. For that reason a
sweeping condemnation seems unjust
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
They'd Spend it All.

Defenders of the wisconsin Idea"
say that an income tax is necessary
to keep down taxes on poor people.
They say also that advocates of no
income tax wish to throw their bur
den onto the small home owner and
farmer And that is exactly where
they are wrong.
The people who advocate giving
Wisconsin business men a fair break
do not wish to increase the taxes of
the small payer. What they want is
to do away with the unnecessary eX-
pense, tightening the general burden
and not increasing taxes to anyone.
1t is Absurd to assume that any group
would be favored by reduction in
general expense. Every man who
owns a home is a general taxpayer
and would benefit.
The fact is that defenders of high
taxation including income taxes spend
millions now. They continually find
new ways to spend the peoples mon
ey. Given a hundred million dollars a
year they would find new offices for
unproductive people and spend it all.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Like tine Old BOurbons.

Gov. Blaine reminds the Herald of
the old Bourbon kings who knew it
all but knew it all wrong and never
learned anything Eventually they had
their heads chopped off.
There is nothing personal in this.
We like John as a man immensely.
But when he talks of getting rid of
Knockers" meaning people who dis
agree with him he reminds us of the
old Bourbons who talked the same
way and that was like little boys fight
ing.
One would think that after the
Clementsor episode John would have
learned something. But no-he is as
bad as Louis the Sixteenth.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Conservation.

Because of the foolish cutting away
of timber the very best of our top
soils has been washed away to the
ocean. What is gone is gone and may
not be recovered. We are now in the
stage where conservation must rule
to keep what is left. Conservation of
timber to store rainfall and the dyking
of farms are coming 1t will be slow
but the price of good land is gradu-
ally going up Independent of periodi-
cal advances and depressions. And
it will pay to save good lands. Up
land farms can be dyked to prevent
soil wash This has been practiced for
centuries in countries where good
land is scarce. Only prodigal America
could throw its good land away.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Amusing.

1t amuses the Herald to notice
newspapers whose editors have ac-
cepted favors from the present state
administration defending it. Thei1 dis
course is so naive and child-like.
We would like to ask them why the
state of Iowa with a population equal
to Wisconsin, a larger rural popula-
ton and larger valuation, is able to
get along with a state budget of
$15000,000 when according to pub
lished reports this state spends around
S40000,000? We would also like to
have them tell us why the state OF
Iowa allows corporations to pay taxes
to the local units where in Wisconsin
the corporations pay taxes direct to
the state thereby depriving the local
units of local corporate valuation?
The Herald has its own answer.
Neighboring states are not blessed
with a bureaucracy which has the
supreme audacity to call itself pro-
gressive. They seem to get along very
nicely under the home rule system
and don't have multitude of office
holders to carry on their backs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11

Adolph Anderson killed a big Wild
cat on the Joe Clark farm in Alanla-
kee county last week. The same gay
another was killed near Gunder anu
it is believed the pair were mates.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11

After all, the average man only has
one biz problem-how to make SUIT
able living for himself, family ana
car.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
ProfitS on Wheat.

Profits on W nedts
Wheat scars due to a Wofld snort
age and possible market manipulation.
The farmer who raised the wheat VIII
not benefit He hasn't any wheat
Spectators, those able to buy Wheat
in volume, do benefit. They toll not
neither do they spin, but certainty Can
array themselves like Solomon II they
see fit. The farmer who raised the
wheat wears overalls as his best duus'
This is an age-old story OF grating
in food commodities, beginning, we
believe. when Joseph corraled the corn
sunnly in Egypt and later sold 1t 10
bis brethren at a good price. The pro-
ducer GETS what he can when ne
dumns his product on the market, me
consumer pays the market price Whlch
NAV be far above the producers price.
Sneculators in between benefit. This
Is an old problem and legislation Will
not solve it.
Perhaps a day will come when the
farmers can market comparatively ana
take full advantage of rise in world
nrices This is the just solution Inc
farmers must work it out themselves.
10000
L NHlIdtIVH'
At Herrin, H., khan gunman meets
an anti-klan gunman and they shoot
# out. Both die. Big funerals are
held for each. Optimistic ones pre-
dict the deaths of the principals will
mean peace for bloody Williamson
county. -
Maybe so and maybe not. More than
likely friends and relatives of the
dead men will take up the fight ana
kill each other as the occasion merits
THAT has been the experience at Her
rin-murder after murder, since the
scab riots a, couple of years ago when
men we're hunted and shot like rats.
The lesson is obvious, Good VIII
and understanding settle all problems.
Hate and suspicion settle nothing, we
suspect those we do not understand
and fear those we hate. Fear breeds
determination. &c
| There is a way out OF Herrln I'LL
! fculties. But it means going back 10
I he cross roads for new start. The
we'll intentioned people there always
in a majority must be the leaders and
not the followers.
/ Dob
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11

What is more melancholy than
pile of Cancelled checks?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-17

pressure on the Gales government to
break up the more militant unions and
to suppress strikes among the oil
workers.
Sheffield Not Wanted
The Mexican government does not
want ambassador Sheffield to return
TO Mexico, it is felt here. Sheffield
made the report to the president
which prompted the Coolidge admin
STATIONS note.
Action and not words is what the
United States wants from Mexico. :"
was the reply to the Mexican note in
high administration circles, intimating
that Coolidge will continue in his de-
mands that Gales obey the will of the
Standard Oil company.
Borah With ImperlaIIsts
The progressive" Senator Borah,
chairman Of the foreign relations com
mittee of the senate, took part in the
conference at the White House at
which ambassador Sheffield painted
Mexico as a land of banditry and at
which the Kellogg note was framed.
Borah agreed to the sending of the
imperialistic demands.
The Mexican government has not
paid its interest on the Morgan loan,
and 1t is thot in some quarters that
Coolidge is helping Morgan to collect
his money, at the same time that he
aids the Standard OILS drive against
the trade unions.
The Washington Post, in an editor
ial a column long, states that Gales
must put down Communism or face
revolution by Mexican element that
Will be stable and reliable" showing
that Coolidge threatens to promote
an uprising against Gales unless the
present government bows to Wall
Streets demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-17

to carry it out unto death.
Starving Women and Children Join
Food Raids
The area of disturbance is widen
ing and the wives and children of the
miners, gaunt, pallid and dressed in
cast-off clothing sent them by relief
workers or in clean but ragged gar
ments, join with the miners in raiding
the company stores and carrying off
food and clothing they so sorely stand
in need Of.
In Sydney, the fire and police depart
ment was called to a remote part Of
town to put out small fire. When
they returned the large company store
Of Besco's was in the hands of several
hundred miners and their families.
The chief Of police tried to interfere,
but was overpowered.
Wagons of the company were re-
QUESTIONED to carry of the loads Of
goods. These wagons were loaded and
then men and women pulled and push
ed them away. Boots, shoes, clothing
and foodstuffs all went.
Only Two Stores left
A summary of the damage done in
the southern colliery district indicates
that only two company stores are left.
The rest are cleaned out entirely.
Although 500 more troops have ar
rived, they are powerless to stop the
miners unless they begin battle
which may mean the determination Of
thousands. This is the outcome Of the
attempt by the British Empire Steel
corporation to cut the wages Of the
miners Of District 26, U. M. w. Of A.
below the level Of existence and to en-
force the cut by lockout from the
mines and cutting on credit at the
company stores.
An Attempt to Out Wages
This conflict has been going on
since March 9Th, when 10000 miners
were driven to strike against a lock-
out. Earlier, the company had shut
off credit at the company store, as a
measure deliberately aimed to starve
the miners to submission to the wage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-17

cut by putting their children and
wives into starvation conditions.
Two days before the strike, even the
premier of Nova Scotia, E. H. Arm
strong, had interceded verbally, by
asking Besco not to shut off store Gre
dit, telegraphing r. M. Wolvin, presi-
dent Of Besco, as follows.
Premier Protests Shutting OF Credit
"The present situation coal mines
particularly Cape Breton occasioning
great personal and provincial concern
and evidences of acute distress are &C
cumulating intensified by company's
recent action stopping credit at stores
at a time when further distress must
follow, and your action cannot be ex-
planned or understood.
Submit original purpose Of COM
pany store was to meet an emergency
Of the character now existing and If
any expenditures necessary to main
tain organization or prepare for sum-
mer shipments those for keeping
workmen alive are not only justifable
but compulsory.
with this in view, seriously sug-
gest that you arrange at once to bank
out even limited quantity Of coal for
shipment next summer and thus as
sists in further employment and con-
tinue policy that has been followed
in the past with satisfactory if not
profitable results.
Quite apart from the respective dis
putes re new wage scale I submit you
should extend your credit at stores
and not further pursue course that
is disturbing to the public and Great
ing suffering which l am convinced
now exists at your coliieries."
While Armstrong in the above said
clearly enough that the keeping alive
Of the workmen by the stores was
compulsory nevertheless he called
out no troops to compel Besco to do it.
But the troops are out now when the
miners have undertaken the task of
making compulsory" the right they
have to preserve their lives and those
Of their dependents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-17
Fire Fighters orqanIzIno.

WASHINGTON, June 15-Fred
baer, international president of the
Fire Fighters, announces that state
districts Of that organization are be.
ing formed in Washington state, Iowa
and Missouri. Four affiliated locals
and delegates from membership at
large In We other Washington cities
VIII meet June Is in Spokane. On the
same day seven locals and individual
nremen from Is towns will meet in
sioux City. On June 80 seven Mis-
souri, cities will have delegates in the
conference at Kansas City. These
state groups will promote organize
ton OF all fire fighters in their dis
tricts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-17
Capitalists Now Hunting
for Plan to Put Over
the Morgan-Dawes Plan.
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY Washington reports that the of gold pour
ing into the United States greater than ever in volume
More than billion dollars for the II months ended June
This is shown in Americas balance of trade totaIIng
$oaeoooooo for this period establishing record for post
commerce with exports of $4540 o4 900 and imports
$soOOooOooo
This compares the much smaller excess of exports
over imports TOR the same period in 1924 Of $726ooooo
which made up of $780, 100000 incoming commerce
and $4oo4oooooo outgoing America still sells than
it buys.
This for instance that Western European cap
ta is ncapactated still more In its efforts to pay the
debts owing to the United States that the Dawes Plan still
further crippled in its futile attempt off capitalist
chaos only Germany but in those countries depend
Ing on Germany for reparations gold.
This situation will occupy the principal discussions at
the meeting OF the International Chamber of Commerce this
worlds big business interests that claims credit
ing the Dawes Plan But financial wizards admit
they are still at loss how to carry successfully.
Sir Josiah Stamp, of the Noble Industries Ltd of Eng
land going read paper to his fellow business bandits
at Brussels but all that he has offer urge
dial American cooperation, which pouring more
loans and credits into Western Europe into GERMANY
especially to Duttess the now totterng industrial
year OF the Dawes Plan, during the first six months of
which German exports 727 per cent to
the same period in the previous year, German capitalism is
so anaemc that needs injection of Wall Street bullion
Whatever success Germany has had In meeting her
obligations under the Dawes Plan been at the expense
the nations she supposed to benefit GERMANY either
sells to the countries to which she eparatons thus
Paayzng industry in these nations GERMANY sells to
other countries thus stealing the as to
her creditors they to her. The famous Sir Stamn
ohers no escape He merely confesses that:
The way Germany eec
CAL ron steel and miscellaneous Industries peoples who must
receive reparaons also manufacture these countries like
sraz and Argentina the problem would fairly
they are so like Germany how the Difficulty
arises they receive all the German
manufacturers will be assrisved 80 thew are
sent to neutral markets send food and raw
materials to the Allies the edge Of difficulty gone
but THE EXPORT INDUSTRIES OF THE ALLIES ro
NEuTRAls WOULD THEN BE AFFECTED"
The task OF the meeting of the international Chanber
OF Commerce to find plan make Dawes plan work
IT sucn plan offered will be about successful as the
capitalist promise that the last war was to end all ware
capitalism marches to it's doom in western Europe as
eveywnere else Communism comes quickly on its heels
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-17

murder tho the underworld is cover
ed with stoolpigeons from the office
OF States Attorney Grove.
Money In Booze.
Since the death of Dean O'Bannion,
several policemen and gangsters have
been laid low and no doubt the death
harvest will continue to be reaped
after the present furry blows over.
There is money in peddling booze and
1t will be peddled. The capitalists
need the gangsters and they will
dodge the rope, except when they
shoot policemen. And even then as
long as they have money, there is We
ry little danger. Only a few colored
unfortunates have passed away on the
scanold in Chicago in recent years for
the crime Of taking life illegally.
The capitalists need the gangsters
IN labor struggles. But the gangsters
must be taught that they cannot take
the lives Of the capitalists police
with impunity. This will never do
The politicians must also make a lot
OF noise occasionally to keep the
moral reformers from butting in. It's
dangerous life but there is money
in 1t.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-17
ANOTHER LABOR
CANDIDATE WINS
IN MINNEAPOLIS
Cramer Shifts Blame for
Defeat on Van Lear
(speclaI 70 The DaIIy WOrkerl

1
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, June 49,
The official report Of the canvassing
board to the Minneapolis city council
shows the election of Theodore Jen-
son, the labor candidate from the 18th
ward, elected by sixty votes. The un-
official returns showed his defeat by
one vote.
His capitalist opponent has fled
notice that recount will be institut-
ed Immediately. If the recount fails,
the election of Jensen will give the
socialist-labor combination nine votes
in the council to seventeen for the
open shop" gang.
! The after election statements Of the
local papers give some interesting
sidelights on the cause for labor's de-
feat
Reactionaries Praised.
The Minneapolis Tribune editorially
says: when the more sober and rep
resentative element of local labor mo-
bilized its strength and reconstructed
the central deliberative body so as to
make it conform more to the STAN
dards and ideals advocated by the
late Samuel Gompers, that action was
fortokening of what was to happen
at the municipal election Monday"
The Minneapolis Labor Review,
edited by Robley D. Cramer, has the
following editorial comment: "The
most disgusting feature OF the cam
paign was the betrayal Of the work
ers by newspaper (the Minneapolis
Daily Star.-Insert ours) which the
workers and farmers had put hun
dreds of thousands of dollars into that
their ideas and ideals might be given
broad expression. They found in this
election that instead of founding a
newspaper for their advancement
they had bought whips which in
treacherous hands were laid over the
backs OF the workers in the attempt
to bring advantage to their oppon-
ents. Men and newspapers can
only be used in such an unworthy ad-
venture once. Thereafter they are
despised by those who have used
them and discredited with those they
have attempted to betray."
The capitalist press thus publicly
acknowledges its debt to Robley D.
Cramer and the labor right wing for
their aid in destroying the unity of
the local labor movement and Cramer
in turn attempts to clear himself by
pointing to Van Lear who for the time
being appears the blacklist.