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not see him thru nights spending
in south side cabaret.
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TIM was labor leader" It is not
clear whether he was against So
cialism or Communism. I do not be-
lieve he was, for the good reason
that he could not comprehend the
meaning of the terms. But he was
against anybody who dared to take
his leadership away and many a
shaky undertaking business was put
on its feet by the custom brought its
way by Tins revolver. To shorten
what could easily be a long story,
Tim was sent to Leavenworth for the
sake of appearances, but so great
was the power of his personal mag
netism, and perhaps the appeal of his
pocketbook, that he is said to have
spent most of his sentence in dental
chairs and Kansas pool rooms. He
is now back in Chicago running a
| flourishing gambling house on the
North Side. At least that is what
heard from Chicago acquaintance
who keeps me tipped off on doings
in the underworld.
WE HAVE nothing against Tim-in
w fact he is rather interesting in
dividual and certainly generous to the
needy-but he serves to illustrate the
folly of doing things by fractions.
Had Tim devoted his business ability
to stealing pennies from blind news
vendors, his bones would now be
moulding in some prison cemetery and
Chicago orphanages now flourishing
as result of his generosity would
be cherries wastes or untenanted
rookeries. There is also the case of
Mr.. Hecksheker, Jr., who was recent
| ly declared bankrupt, with Liabilities
amounting to S5,000000. This money
was never his own. He got it from
thrifty citizens who had confidence
in his business ability. He would
invest it for them and all concerned
would be happy and rich. But this
millionaire took care to hold on to
over one million and half which is
enough to keep good battery of
! lawyers busy for few years and
should enable him to stage come
back. 1t was also enough to induce
a Follies chorus girl to marry him.
Yes, Messrs. Mitchell and Moore were
pikers and are now paying the price
QLIGHTLY irritated because he was
~ convicted of bribery in office, the
mayor of Indianapolis, instead of
stepping on the sawdust trail or or
! dering his tailor to put stripes in his
next suit of pajamas, decided to ap-
point his wife to his vacant execu-
tive char and keep the business of
running and running the city in the
family. The mayor had more to lose
than his honor, in losing his job. Not
only was his own salary depending
on the retention of the job in the
house of Duvall, but had he quit as
he was expected to, eight members Of
his family would have hit the slave
market with him. Whatever may be
said against the mayor of Indianap-
oils, it must be said in his favor that
he loves his family. Greater love
hath no man than that he should
sacrifice his honor for the sake Of
his household"
OUT while Indianapolis is giving an
~ exhibition of political turpitude
that may cause patriotic citizens to
let their chin whiskers recline on their
breasts, another Hoosier city is
whooping it up for Old Glory. Gray,
named after the late lamented head
of one of our biggest and best trusts,
has broken into national prominence
with the news that several hundred
white high school students have
struck against the admission of Ne
groes. This patriotic strike has been
engineered by the Ku Klux Khan,
which was behind and in front of the
scandal in Indianapolis. And no
doubt the Steel Trust looks on the
movement with a benevolent eye
! since it is to the interests Of the
slave drivers to keep White and black
workers divided on racial lines, the
better to exploit them. How long
are the workers going to be the vie
Tins of the capitalists and their
agents in foolishly falling for this
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