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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-02-14
Francis L. Moore, Aged 81,
Passed Away Sat. Feb. z
Born in New York State-Located
in West Union Township
in 1872

Francis L. Moore died at the
home of his son George Moore in
West Union township, Saturday,
Feb. 2, at the advanced age of SO
years. Mr.. Moore has been in poor
health for the past two years and
became seriously i'll the week be-
fore his death.
| Francis L. Moore was born in
Oskine, Allegheny county, New
York, on January 1, 1886. He
lived there and in Livingston coun-
ty and later moved to the town
of Jesup in Pennsylvania where he
married Charlotte Blaisdell and in
1866 they moved to Minnesota, set
thing on land in West Union town
ship that he homesteaded. Mrs.
Moore died in 1872 and is buried in
Ashley cemetery.
There were six children born to
this union, four of them living.
George Moore, of West Union, Mrs.
Alice Chamberlain, of Ogden,
Utah; Mrs. Jane Duncan Of Kalis-
pen, Mont, and Mrs. Melissa Til
VII VI A1dIillIOIi, HuolI. LAVA Iu dHo
Charles died number of years
ago. There are also a number of
grandchildren and great grandchil-
dren to mourn his loss.
MIR Moore saw a great deal of
the hardship of the early settler
He was good neighbor and in the
later years of his life was known
by all as Grandpa Moore.
The funeral was held Wednes-
day from the farm home and bur-
ial was in the Ashley cemetery
Rev. J. A. Johnson, pastor of the
Gordon churches, officiated. Three
sacred songs were sung by Mrs. L
D. Warner and Mrs. C. J. Palmat.
Ter. The pail bearers were the fol
lowing old friends and neighbors
IL. P. Dedier, John o. Olson, Johr
Cooper, David Beck, Nick Eft
groth and Nick Dedier.-Osakis
Review
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not improbable that the bill will
go through, for after the recent
raise in the street car fares in the
twin cities there is rising tide of
resentment against the Brooks
Coleman act, which took the con-
troll of the street railway from the
municipalities and placed it in the
hands of the state railroad and
warehouse commission. AS the
vote on the Youngdahl motion is an
important test vote, I'll publish the
roll call.
Those who voted in the affirma-
tive were: A. G. Anderson, G. "A.
Anderson, Atwood, Chilgren, Dam
mann, Davidson, C. i. Davis, r. R..
Davis, Day, Deming, Emerson, En-
strom, Erickson, Finstuen, Gehan,
Gilbertson, Hart, Hastings, Herfin-
dahl, Hofstad, Holm, C. Johnson,
D. WI johnson, G. w. Johnson, H.
A. Johnson, Jordahl, Kennedy,
Herman, Knudsen, Kodiak, Kram-
er, Lager, Lagerstedt, Lewis, Light
ner, Lodin, Loftgaarden, Lundeen,
McDonough, McNulty, Masek, Mel
by, Mum, j. A. Nelson, Nolan, Oh
SON, N. A. Peterson, C. A. Peter
son, Quinlivan, Reed, Rosetter,
Salmonson, Samec, Schmitz,
Schneider, Sribner, Spelbink, Stark
eyey, Stockwell, Sweitzer, VAIL
strand, Youngdahl, Zech.
Those who voted in the negative
ware. Adams tAldrich. Arvik, Berg,
Blodgett, Blum, Brophy, Camp
bell, Christensen, Council, Cullum,
Dahl, DAZZLE, Dahlmeier, Dilley,
Dunn, fischer, Glende, Hazel, Hell
geson, Hitchcock, Hompe, Hubert,
&c. M. Iverson, /. G. Iverson, R. G..
Johnson, Keller, Kempfer, Kern,
Kolshorn, Lamb, Lever, Lowe,
Merrill, Merritt, Morton, Moser,
Mulin, Naylor, N. J. Nelson, Neu-
man, Nordine, Norton, Odegard,
Opsahl, Paige, Parks, Payne, Rem
lex, Retrum, Richards, Roden-
berg, Rohne, Sanger, Scallon,
Strandemo, Swenson, Therrien, H.
H. Weeks, j. A. Weeks, White,
Wright, Zimmerman.
luGTS nave UScu III lliiPol
ant developments in the fight be-
tween the Big Three and the
senate finance committee the past
week, nor between the University
and the Big Three. The senate
proceedings have been very quiet
and uninteresting, with no impor-
tant test votes. Senator Rockne is
preparing for big fight in behalf
of the states wards in the state in
situations and will in all likelihood
have the backing of the senate fl
nance committee and a majority
of the senate membership.
On motion of o. K. DAZZLE, of
Spring Grove, an administration
floor leader, the house remained in
session both Friday and Saturday,
but as today is a legal holiday, it
took a recess from Saturday to
Wednesday, with committee meet
ings scheduled for tomorrow. That
was good procedure. The senate
adjourned from Friday to Monday.
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and up at factory

Standard spheelbase
Coach, $1oo5: Standard Sedan
SITS; Coupe. $1195, Road ter,
$125os 5-pass- Phaeeon. S1SSSl
Town Sedan, $1375; ConvSrt
Coupe, $3.50; Land . Sedon,
$500: Victoria, DISCO
Long r-he ie
5-Pass. Club Sedan, $1cro, 7.Pasa
Sedan. 5000; 7.F.-s. Liz -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-02-14
Ore Royalty Taxes Worth
1851, 900 for State in 1928
Payments Under Private Leases
of State Land Placed at
$14,350,0OO

Minnesota's 6 per cent iron ore
royalty tax at which is aimed two
bills now pending before the Leg
islature produced approximately
1851 900 for the state in 1928, the
State Tax commission reported
Saturday.
The figures are based on royalty
paying returns filed with the COM
mission by operating lessees. The
royalty payments under private
leases of iron ore lands in Mime
sofa in the past year totaled $14,-
$50, 900, of which 6 per cent will be
collected by the state. The tax is
levied against the royalties paid by
iron ore operators to concerns or
individuals from whom they lease
their lands.
One of the measures under con-
sideration by Legislators proposes
repeael of the royalty tax law. The
other proposes reduction of the tax
from to 6 to a per cent.
Although aimed at the owners OF
the land leased, IRON ore mining
operators pay the royalty tax in
nearly every instance, recent cases
brought before the State Supreme
court revealed. This is because
most leases executed in the last
quarter of a century provided that
the operating company would as
sumo the burden of all taxes or
binary and extraordinary.
The largest royalty payment re-
ported is that for the Oliver Iron
Mining company, under the lease
of the Missabe Mountain mine at
Virginia. This property is owned
in fee by the state and is leased
on a royalty basis of SO cents per
ton of which rs cents per ton is
paid to the state and 25 cents per
ton to the Neville Iron Mining COM
pany.
The report shows payments to
the later company of 81, 185 $780,
SO, based on 4,743,5 63 tons mined.
Payments to the state are of equal
amount.
Next in line are royalty pay
ments reported by the Hanna Ore
Mining company under the Wabi-
gon Mine group lease, wherein the
Arthur Mining company receives a
gross of 81, 0t3,337.
Payments by the Oliver COM
pany to the owners of the Adams
Spruce group of mines in Eveleth
amounted to $948,735. Owners of
the Hull-Rust mine in Hibbing re-
ceived from this same company the
sum of $938,908 as royalties from
the mining of 3,753,515 tons. The
Mahoning Ore and Steel company
operating the Mahoning mine ad-
joining the Hull-Rust paid the
Grant Iron Mining company 1884,
059 as royalties on 2,832,474 tons
mined.
The commission has approx
mately Ats reports before it for
examination. The final royalty fig
ures will not be arrived at for
several weeks.
The 1923 royalties apparently
will be the lowest since 1923 when
the law went into effect, with the
exception of 1925 when the total
tax collected was $845,072. In
1923 the greatest amount was col
! lected, S1,527,847 In 1928, $780,
924 was collected on operations of
1927. Tie total in royalties re-
ceived by the state excluding those
which will be paid this year on
1928 operations is $4.596,205.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-02-14
4OOth Year of Luther's
Activities to be Observed
Church Authorities Have an Ex-
tensive Celebration Plan for
1929 Prepared

1929 marks the 40Oth anniver-
sary of Martin Luther's activities.
Many celebrations of this anniver-
sary will be held in America and
in other countries where the Luth-
eran church is represented.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-02-14
KILLS HUSBAND; PENsIoNED

The house pensions committee is
in favor of granting $50 a month
to Mrs. Minnie V. lStahl, who killed
her husband, a Spanish war veter-
an, and was freed on the ground
that she acted in self-defense. The
pensions bureau and the secretary
of the interior have refused a pen
sion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-22
BY JACK STACHEL

In all struggles in the present pc
Rod the workers are faced by the
solid front of trustified capital, the
capitalist government and the social
reformists. Every important strug-
gle in the recent period has brought
convincing proof of this. .Gastonia
is the most recent case. Here the
American Federation of Labor Off
cialdom, he socialist party, and the
liberals are very active at the pres
ent time trying to undermine the de-
tense of the Gastonia strikers, thir-
teen of whom are to be tried on a
murder charge. Their attacks are
particularly vicious here because of
the leadership of the Communist
Party in the struggle in Gastonia.
The usefulness of the socialists
and liberals for the capitalists in
this situation is to be found partic-
ularly in their work of, trying to
confuse the workers, and in trying
to create and maintain illusions in
the working class. Posing as friends
of the workers they. do everything
possible to disarm the workers and
make it easier for the capitalists
and the state to deliver blows
against the workers.
Reverend Norman Thomas, the
outstanding leader of the socialist
party at the present time, and one
of the organizers of the Conference
for Progressive Labor Action
(which effectively plays the same
role in. the U. S. as the left social
democrats of Europe) in the recent
issue of the New Leader writes as
| follows:
"At least it looks as if North
Carolina was spared the disgrace
of furnishing the United States
with another Judge Thayer.
Judge M. B. Barnhill, by grant
ing to the Gastonia defendants a
change of venue and by admitting
the women defendants to reasona-
BILE bail, lives up to his former
reputation which was for fairness
"A reputation enhanced not long
ago by his decision that the North
Carolina Bus Company must pro-
vide decent accommodations for
Negroes. :. When the Daily
Worker headlines news of decent
act by the Judge as "a trick to call
trial fair, pack jury it feeds our
suspicious that some Communists
are more anxious for martyrs in
this case than for a victory of
justice and the acquittal of the
defendants"
The aim of the Reverend here is
very clear. 1t is to create the illu-
sion among the workers as to the
fairness of the judge and the court
and to hide completely the class
character Of the trial. 1t is to con-
fuse the workers with empty talk
of abstract justice-capitalist JUS
tice. 1t is to prevent the workers
from organizing . broad nationwide
defense which alone can ssave the
Gastonia defendants from the cleo
trio chair. It separates completely
the struggle Of the workers to or
ganize themselves to defeat the ra-
tionalization Of the textile bosses
from the murder charges that re-
suited from it. 1t is to make the
workers believe that the Commu-
nists are playing with the lives of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-22
The Socialist and Liberal Front
Against the GastOnia Defense

being served by the International
Labor Defense, a Communist or
ganizatiOn, and by the Communist
press"
The position of the liberal Baily
and the position of the socialist
Thomas is the same as the New
York Times, organ of big business
and finance capital. Both speak
about the sincerity of the judge and
the fairness of the court. Both hide
the fact that the entire government
machinery is controlled by the tex,
tile barons, the trusts, etc. Both
hide the fact that this case is an
attack of the capitalist class against
the working class. Both hide the
fact that the government and its
courts are the instruments of OPP
preston of the capitalists against
the workers. Both Thomas and
Bailey are uneasy as to the conduct
of the case by the international La
Dor Defense. Both are uneasy as
to the exposure of capitalist democ-
racy and capitalist justice in the
Daily Worker. Both regret the fact
that this case is under the leader
ship and conduct of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and not the
liberals and socialists. Both regret
the fact that they can not be of full
service to the capitalists as they
would be if they could be in charge
of the defense. Both see their NOR
tai enemy in the mass workers de-
tense organized by the International
Labor Defense. Both regret that the
growing disillusionment of the work
ers in capitalist democracy, the
state, and the courts as a result of
the defense organized by the Inter
national Labor Defense.
The Sacco and Vanzetti case fur
nishes an important lesson for the
working class as to the role of the
socialists and liberals, and the i'm
portance of organizing the broadcast
possible mass movement of the
workers which alone can save the
Gastonia victims of the class strug-
gle.
The Gastonia murder charges grew
out of the struggle of the Gastonia
workers to organize themselves into
the National Textile Workers Union
for struggle against rationaliza-
ton, and the unbearable conditions
under which the workers in the
newly industrialized South must
live. Phe struggle in Gastonia is a
symbol of the awakening Of the
workers in the South, not only in the
textile industry, but the unskilled
workers as a whole. Not only that,
Gastonia is a symbol of the growing
rehabilitation process now going on
among the workers in the United
States. The fascist methods used
by the textile barons of the South
is an answer Of the bourgeoisie to
this rehabilitation process and is an
attempt to defeat the efforts Of the
workers to organize. The repeated
brutal attacks against the workers
in Gastonia and against the tent
colony of the international Work
ers Relief showed that the capital
lists are determined to drown the
movement of the workers in blood.
The attack on the tent colony on
June 7th found the workers ready
and determined to defend themselves
and their families and their organ
ization. The Communist Party
stands for the right of the work.
ers to defend themselves and their
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organizations. The socialists and lib
erals who now speak about the fair
ness of the court and the judge see
only a frame-up in this case. They
do not speak of the workers right
to self defense.
1t is interesting to note that the
renegades, Lore, Cannon and Love-
stone take the same position. Lore
in the Volkszeitung, Cannon in the
Militant, and Lovestone, in a series
of mimeographed circulars, speak
about the narrowing down of the
defense. What they mean is that
they are against the class policy of
the defense and for a liberal policy
that does not undertake the creation
of broad mass movement, but
gives the leadership of the defense
to the liberals who pin their hopes
on the fairness of the capitalist
court and capitalist justice. In the
New York Times of Aug. is there
appears an editorial under the cap
ton Communist Defenders" in
which the policy of Thomas, Baily,
Lore, Cannon & Co. is endorsed.
This clearly exposes the role of the
socialists, liberals, and renegades,
and shows that their policy aids di-
rectly the bourgeoisie to carry out
its attacks against the workers.
Only the working class can save
the lives of the 10 accused of MUIR
der and secure the release of the
other defendants. Only a powerful
movement of the workers will stay
the executioner's hand. The capt.
talists will not stop at executing the
Gastonia defendants unless they
fear the rising power of the work
ing class. Let the socialists and
liberals talk about the methods of
the I. l.. D." These methods are the
only methods that the workers must
follow. The workers can have no
faith in capitalist justice, in capital
list fairness. Capitalist justice is
class justice directed against the
workers. Capitalist fairness is like
deck of stacked cards against the
workers.
Every worker and every working
class organization must rally to the
support of the national campaign
for Gastonia workers, build a pow
erful united front mass movement
for the defense of the Gastonia de-
PENDANTS. Organize the movement
for the right of the workers to or
ganize to defend themselves and
their organizations. Raise funds
that ARE needed to carry on the
work.
Support the Workers International
Relief that is bringing relief to
hundreds of families in Gastonia.
Build the Daily Worker and sup
port it financially so that is may
continue to print the kind of news
and material so irritating to Thorn
as, Baily, and the capitalist class,
because. it enables the workers to
build its organizations and fight the
capitalist class, it's government and
it's socialist liberal lackeys. Help
the National Textile Workers Union
in the campaign to organize the
million textile workers.
Support the Trade Union Unity
Convention to be held in Cleveland
Aug. 81. Help create a national
center that will direct the struggle
for the organization of the morgan
lied, and against capitalist ration
allzation. .aa4,Evx4.-....A.x .l-A !. aussls..
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ideals. 1t is to sow doubts in the
minds of the workers as to the abil-
ity of the Communists to organize
the defense. It is an attempt to
separate and create dissension be-
tween the Communists and non
Communist defendants.
In all these attempts the Rever-
end, like all social reformists, car
ries out the aims of the capitalists
and the government. The capitalists
are also trying to create the impress
sion of fairness. They also want
the Workers to look upon the state
as an institution standing for alb
stract justice, and not a government
of the ruling class.
Incidentally the Reverend Thomas
also exposes his agreement with the
oppression of the Negroes in the
South and his approval of Jim Crow
ism. The Reverend praises Judge
Barnhill for his decisions instructing
the North Carolina Bus Company to
provide decent accommodations for
Negroes. 1t does not even occur to
the cleft socialist" Thomas to de-
mand race equality in the South. It
does not occur to him to demand the
abolition of Jim Crowism. 1t does
not occur to him because he is
against race equality, because he
stands for the oppression of the Ne
groes, for Jim Crowism and segre-
cation. His stand on the Negro
question is the same as that of
Judge Barnhill, the same as that of
the capitalists and land owners of
the South, the same as that of the
capitalist class of the United States.
This can not be otherwise because
Mr.. Thomas stands for capitalism
and defends every institution Of cap
italism and capitalist oppression.
Similarly Mr.. Forrest Baily, direc-
tor of the American Civil Liberties
Union, in the August 18th issue of
the New Republic tells us about the
action of Judge Barnhill, that
From time to time when he in
structed the grand jury on the
functions and explained the atti-
tude of the court on the necessity
of a fair and impartial trial, no
intelligent observer could fail to
be impressed by his force and his
sincerity"
and further along in the article he
makes the observation
There has been some uneasi-
ness in the minds of many as to
the effects of the International
Labor Defense over the defense
policies and strategy. There
are many sympathizers who would
feel greatly cheered if some form
of intelligent control could be ex-
ercized over what the Daily
Worker prints about the case DUR
ing the next few weeks"
The New York Times in an edi-
torial Aug. Is, under the caption
Communist Defenders" endorses
the position of Baily in the follow
ing words:
mot the least of the hazards
confronting the defendants in the
approaching trial of the Gastonia
strike leaders at Charlotte, N. c.,
is the 'stratel.' of those in charge
of the case. In quarters eager to
assure fair trial for the prison.
ers the opinion is openly expressed
that their best interests are not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-22

broad daylight hang sky would
plains points where lights fell earth like clustering
consultations the nests of fallen
though ful shot light into his SOUL though
guns vbraed through him. he happy
and happier still, to think of Clara.
MIGHT dwellings where
lodged among paths of silence Threading
maze, to the lairs of his
nick for the fatigue party said the N O,
by short of "Take spade and hey
there alive! Look though you're bit squffy Well
stop
Somewhat abashed only happiness
stopped But he couldn't stop when he wanted to- What is
the which, he started out had been much
of him his SOUL still sounded from this throat
little digger busy with soft black things
stretched out under cold black things and again. he began hum
like purring cat before the fire
N c. o.
greater Clara the seemed
him. pluck his heart the wonderful the good times
they together Lightly he strobe the black and rugged
of the night Radiance poured down from the falling
towering his What there hold him back?
Life quite good His throbbed forth again.
wv at first, loud.
"stow growed comrades under their breath
THE him. night him that
danger imminent the front lines still good off,
the officer still commanding the detachment
and he always stopped doing at given moment And then again
keep glued wall of silence like schoob9y in disgrace
He the victim his simple heart and his voice sang on of
itself, regardless of time and place
feel frightened of this strange fell
singing They too far to send
halted dsordery fashion, panstricken
up mind howl" said the officer trembling
with fury doubt-to N. c. O.
stned his grunted furious dash into
the highland deep widespread silence came the plain
dawn brought fatigue party
and confronting the captain said There's missing"
"Thats annoying" captain his
He noticed there blood the N. c. O.s stripe
"Wounded?" he asked
No, sir it's only my knife"
"Ah, good" said the captain guessing gallantry.
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FURTHER on at round meeting point in
the trenches, where the parapet was flat
tened out, tree, standing out, was suddenly
blasted; close at hand, came the shells ter
rifle iron thresh; you saw the flash, like
clenched hand, shaking, smashing, rending.
In this uproarious din, to counter all the
noise, the singer-pipe in teeth-sang out
loud.
On and on he sang as he climbed uphill,
down-dale on the mountainous plain now be-
fore him. Sometimes, for a few seconds,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-22
I SAW 1T HENRI s 81
Translated b, H''-" H',. Myself
r. & New York.
Song of a Soldier
Translated by Brian Rhys

This the tale obscure soldier utterly Insignificant
filler who constantly logged By ortme His ent'rs
changed during visit home srdGy eGVe the
gentle affection Thereafter goes along his
duties singng-singng in the thick of battle.