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6 SABRIB G. AKIN, The L&bor Wolrd A BI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Office, 215 Wpodbridge Bldg., Duluth. SUBSCRIPTION: One year, in advance $1.00 Six month, 50 Three month 25 Single copies, 5 cents. Advertising rates made known on application Editor and Publisher. betters and articles relating to the social problem are solicited. Entered at the postoffice at Duluth, Minn., as second class matter. Labor Day September 7. It is amusing to hear old partyites talking reform. Put on your fighting clothes and make Rome howl from now on. Free silver will not make a free people—not by several jug fuls. Altgeld's handiwork is plain ly visible in the platform adopted at Chicago. That was a grand speech of Bryan's and should be read by every American citizen. In the death of Lyman Turn bull America loses a noble man and the people a friend. Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is by far the most dangerous. What good will free coinage do us while the corporations can buy out any man we elect? The democrats at Chicago stole a lot of the Populists' thunder. Read the platform adopted by them. The Labor World is rapidly increasing its subscription and is the best advertising medium in the Northwest. The majority of labor and populist exchanges that come to our table—and they number up in the hundreds—are op posed to fusion of any kind at the coming populist conven tion at St. Louis next week. THE LABOR WORLD A canvass of 31 labor votes last week demonstrated the fact that 26 of that number were for free silver. The only over-production we have in this country is of broken promises and fools that want more of the same kind. Don't let the glitter of gold nor the sound of silver divert us from the other monopolies that are robbing the people. No people can be self-gov erned who are denied the right to vote yes or no on every law by which they are to be gov erned. Now is the time to organize for active work in the coming campaign. Every man can as sist in disseminating reform literature. Debs has come and gone and we don't care a cuss what hap pens now we have seen the savior of our country.—Bir mingham Advocate. Laboring men who vote the party tickets of the bosses are "scabs," it matters not how many labor unions they belong to.—Appeal to Reason. The plumbers are discussing the advisability of electing their national officers in future by direct vote instead of through delegates to conventions. The power of money will be exerted as it never was before, and a campaign of corruption and bribery is before us such as this country has never seen. The party bosses start the people after false scents and laugh in their sleeves while the voters put men in office who are owned body and soul by the corporations. Cleveland tore the soverign power from Governor Altgeld during the Debs strike, but Altgeld paid Czar Cleveland back with compound interest at Chicago last week. Communications received by labor organizations should be read carefully and acted upon intelligently instead of rushing them through in a half under standing^ way. This is the time for Populists to keep cool and not let the ex citement of the silver racket in duce them to say and do things for which they will afterward be sorry.—Industry. The democrats have been systematically stealing the people's party platform, plank by plank, untiJ now they hope to "get away" with the whole concern—people and all.—La bor Advocate. The silent factories, the dying industries, theunworked mines all send up a silent prayer for united action against the Brit ish system of gold that has rob bed the masses and impover ished the country. Read the article on our first page by George C. Findley. It is well worth your careful con sideration. Mr. Findley is a writer of merit and gives you sound, logical argument on the financial question. In Glasgow, Scotland, 39 per cent of the street railway fares are one cent, and the average of all fares is under two cents, yet the city roads made a profit of $110,000 in the first eleven months of municipal operation. Don't be too sure of victory nothing is so dangerous to suc cess. It is well to be alive to the dangers ahead, and not to suppose that because the ma jority of the people are in favor of the free coinage of silver that we will have a walk-away. Members of labor organiz ations must attend the pri maries and see that your best old and tried workers secure nominations or sent as dele gates, or you need not be sur prised when the anything-for office people get in their work. The People's Party has been jeered and scoffed at all these years, but the coming conven tion of that party at St. Louis will see men from both the old parties in attendance who will get down on their knees, so to speak, before the Populists ad journ. The coming convention is of much greater importance than the two previous ones, as time will prove.