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THE LABOR WORLD. I'LItLlSIIKIl r.VKIiV SATVRKAY. A continuation of TLIU HUHIIW. Dnlulh Citizen, Dnluth Preen nnd Mountnm Iron Manitou. Office: 215 Woodbridge Bldg., Duluth. Telephone, 276. SUBSCRIPTION: One year, in.advance. -SI .00 Six Months, •Three ihonWs, Single copies, ii cents. Advertising rates made known [on application. I -7. CiTR AD £sj°Tt? "ICOUN CILI3 'LumM SABRIE G. AKIN, Editor and Publisher Letters and articles relating to^the social problem are solicited. Entered at the postofRce at Duluth, Minn., as second class matter. "The 'labor day,' which will be of greatest interest to labor organized or otherwise, will be election day."—Social Demo crat! If Alderman Sang's state ment concerning extravagance in the purchase of supplies for the fire department be true, and so far it has not been de fied, it is little wonder that there is not money enough in sight to pay the firemen decent wages.' According to the Minneapo lis Tribune a West Virginia judge has enjoined a Methodist preacher from holding relig ious services in the camps of the striking miners. Why don't he enjoin God Almighty from allowing his sun to shine on the poor devils? .Serious complications are likely to arise between this country and Russia over the titiprovoked slaughter of sever al of her citizens during the JjHazleton massacre. Russia is .a semi-civilized country hu !.man life in her borders is a Mrery cheap commodity. But the government that will per mit^outrages like the Hazleton affair is several degrees lower down the scale of barbarism The New York Journal well says that the responsibility for the miners'strike rests entire ... ly upon the operators. Mani festly the only basis for a fair and reasonable settlement was upon the uniformity basis, and since the Columbus conven tion expressed a willingness to go to work at the operators' figures, 65 cents per ton, &nd leave the main issue of*the strike to arbitration, only those operators who stand in the way of a uniform scale can be held responsible for any further calamities that may grow out of the strike. The LABOR WORLD does not condemn the oligarchy charter commission law because of any lack of confidence in Judges Ensign and Moer: On'the con-, trary, we have little doubt that they will select 1 fPremier excellent men for the commission. It is the principle of the law that we object to. We. may be sure thaf its administration will not always be determined by the will of such safe men. The law is a crevasse that will widen and deepen until all of the little that still remains to us of honest city government tumbles in hopeless ruin. Greenway is said to have been successful in financ ing his proposed air line from Duluth to Winnipeg. It is also said by the same author ity from which comes the fore going, that John D. Rockefeller is the source from which is to come the cash. We thought Greenway's road was to be an anti-combination route that would restore competition in ^ates between the head of the flakes' and the great North western regions. If Rocke feller has got a finger in the pie the people of Western Can ada had better get along with what they've got. Rockefeller's first move will be an agree ment on rates, and while the Canadian Pacific may be a robber, its present rates will be found exceedingly reason able in comparison to what they'll be after its officials have had a few lessons in arithme tic from the Standard Oil Sun day school superintendent. How cool we all take this Hazleton massacre? There is Phillips, or Sumner, or Greely or John Brown to bla^e with righteous wrath at this monstrous display of inhuman ity. The American people are hardening to scenes of car nage we are callous to the pitiful woes and brutal wrongs inflicted by tyrants at home on the ignorant and helpless. A few months ago our big dailies were lurid with justifiable in dignation over the wrongs of Cuba and Greece. -v The faint est murmer hardly rises from the most pretentious of them at this slaughter of unarmed men, in our own land, in the midst of the very cradle of Liberty. Is there no hope?. Many there are who would gladly, even at this day, bare their breasts to the carnage of war in defense of human rights but they are as but one among a thousand. Injustice, com mercialism, animalism has eaten out the heart, of Ameri can manhood and left in its stead an empty shell that shel ters the soul of a pig. Eat, drink, and climb, if necessity says must, the weary tread mill that leads us towards a plenty that we can never reach. That is the life of millions, and as the wasted years slip swiftly by, each one of them leaves us as a whole less anxious about the institution, the traditions or the hopes of our country's founders. The old lire-eaters of the South, whom we found later could fight just as hard as they could talk, used to call us in the North a race of traders mercenaries, who had no stom achs for anything nobler than a bargain counter. They were right as to New York and some other commercial centers where the real spirit of our revolutionary ancestors was on the wane they made a mis take, then, though, when by the standard of their New York acquaintances, they judged the common people of the whole North. In the thirty years that have passed since human rights were made the target of tyranny's bullets, has the ^rhple country, clear down to the. last industrial level, been Gotham ized? LOSING- I1ITTI1E TIME. Mr. Debs' Social Democracy counts that day lost whose low descending sun sees not fifteen or twenty millionaires slaughtered in hot blood.—News Tribune. It seems to differ from the millionaires, supposing the above to be true, in that the latter's victims are always slaughtered in cold blood. And the millionaires don't lose near so many days, either. TRAITORS TO POPULAR GOVERN' MENT. The petition for the oligar chy charter was presented by Mayor Truelsen to Judges En sign and Moer Thursday. It contains only 328 names and was circulated among the busi ness men exclusively. The law under which this charter is to be devised is the one alluded to heretofore in these columns, that introduces life-tenure in office, subverts majority rule, and establishes class distinctions based on property rather than personal worth. The Sheehan charter law is a backward step that is both undemocratic and un American, and that reinstates the worst political iniquities of the middle ages. The man who supports it either directly or indirectly, is either a tool of corporation and special inter ests, or is too ignorant to vote intelligently, let alone be en trusted with any responsibili ties in the management of public affairs. Believers in popular government should spot every man who lends his aid to this conspiracy. AN IMPENDING MALADY. The organs of the bank trust are jubilating over the return of confidence as indicated by the increase in deposits in the national banks. According to the report of the comptroller of currency there has been an increase as compared with last year, of $102,000,000. Just where the cause for rejoicing comes in, however, it is diffi cult to see. It is true that the increase stated has been re ported, but the banks of New York City alone show an in crease of $116,000,000, so that outside of the financial me tropolis there has been an actual decrease of $14,000,000. The same is true of the loans and discounts. While New York alone shows an increase of $66,000,000 the net increase is only $7,000,000, so that for all the rest of the country there has been an actual decrease of $59,000,000. If this means any thing at all it means that, as in panicy times, money is still piling up in useless hoards at the financial centers while the industries of the country are running, or rather stagnating, along on less money than ever before. Money is often said to be the blood of the economic world In the case of a human, being such a congestion of blood at the vital centers of the nervous system, if prolonged to any ex tent, would result in brain fever. The illustration iis apt the only difference being that in this case, the result when it reaches its final climax is most likely to be in the form of the ''braining fever." STILL TRYING TO DECEIVE. The gold press is persistent in its efforts to humbug people 'into the Belief that the rise the price of wheat kills the sil ver argument that cheap wheat was the result of cheap silver. The New York World comes at the question with this sophistical query: "If short crops in competing countries produce high prices why do not large crops in com peting countries produce low prices." In other words, "Why were not low prices produced by large crops in competing coun tries?" They were. The World has completely obscured, in its query, the argument of the sil ver men. Present high prices for wheat, instead of destroy ing, emphasize the claims of the silver advocates. It is,our contention that the large crops of wheat in India was the di rect result of cheap money. In years gone by cheap silver brought about an abundant production of wheat, and this increased supply of wheat de pressed its price. The present situation instead of overthrow ing our argument, emphasizes it for it has only been when nature steps in and by destroy ing the wheat crop in the sil ver countries, breaks the rela tion in the world's markets of wheat to silver, that the prices of those articles part company. That man is powerless to de press prices who has nothing to sell. MURDER AT HAZLETON. Again the hands of the plun derers who masquerade behind the cloak of law and order have been bathed in the blood of in nocent suffering humanity The wolfish hearts of plutoc '*y 1 racy must have leaped with joy at the whiz of bullets of their soldiery, as, at the sher iff's command, with the scythe of death,' they mowed down human beings because they dared to exercise their right to travel public highways. The heart of the patriot stands still as he essays to tell him self where all these things will end. We, who haVe declared our fealty to the eternal prin ciples of the brotherhood, of man, as we ponder on our in action, feel like guilty cowards who hesitate to strike the death blow when treason t© all that is worth saving in modern so ciety, stalks boldly red handed through the land. Ah, but some one says, the Hazleton victims are ignorant foreigners, what difference does the life of a dozen or two of such cattle make? No matter. They were hu man beings, members of the brotherhood of humanity, Americans from choice, not by accident, and entitled-to all the consideration of him whose progenitor signed the declara tion of independence. They were not shot down because they were foreigners, nor be cause they were bad or danger ous citizens. Their crime was sympathy for their fellow workmen. In spite of the fact that they were foreigners, even though to that had they added the grossest ignorance, the most revolting customs, the most debasing opinions, not in the least would they have been molested so long as they evinced no interest and no con cern about the mutual prosper ity of their fellow toilers. They had committed no crime. Not even in Pennsylvania is it con trary to law to walk the. high ways accompanied by one's neighbors they were' not armed, even the Associated Press, the most malignant foe of the common people, admits that there was not a weapon on all the victims of that mas sacre more dangerous than penknife nor, if we are to be lieve the same "unbiased" au thority, is there any truth in the sheriff's tale that he was roughly handled. Since when can a mob of Poles and Bo hemians jump all over a man and leave not eyen a dust mark on his clothes? No, the slaughter was cold blooded, premeditated and who knows that it was not ordered beforehand by that subtle power that for thirty years has been gradually sapping and mining every valid stronghold of popular liberty? The end is not yet. As man lives the day of retribution shall come "They who take the sword shall perish by the sword The generation now passing away has had burned into its imagination the most vivid pictures of how Justice avenged the crime of chattel slavery. Is this generation to see, in redoubled horror, the punishment of the nation for the more monstrous crime against nature industrial slavery." Are You going to buy a Range, Heater or Cook Stove? If so, Don't Fail to Get Our Prices. We carry a full line of "Coles" Air Tijlt Heaters. R.R. Forward &C STATE OF MINNESOTA, O. Hardware Hustlers, 2023 WEST SUPERIOR ST. Voluntary Assignment, As signee's Notice. KH COCNTY OF ST. Locis. 1 District Court. I11 the Matter of the Assignment of The Paddock Manufacturing Company, Insolvent. Notice is hereby given that Tlie Paddock Man ufacturing company of Duluth in said county and state, has by deed in writing, dated Septem ber 13th, 1897, made a general assignment to the undersigned, of all its property not exempt by law from levy and sale on execution, for the benefit of all its creditors, without preferences. All claims must be verified and presented to the undersigned for allowance. Dated Sept. 15th, 1897. W. P. LARDNER, Assignee. ^hillips & Just Received Hen's Heavy Sole Calf new fall shapes, union made, a pair. IF YOU WISH A Delicious Wbolssorr)* Palatable CALL ON. ORDER A CASE OF HOES To make room for our Ele gant Fall Stock 0o. A LINE A^eij's, Ladies' Children's Sboe?. We Have Union Label Shoes: Needs Protection. DULUTH, Minn., Aug, 31, To the Editor of the Labor World:— I went with my horse and buggy to Superior last week across the newDu luth-Superior bridge, which is indeed a a grand structure, I found on going over that the Bridge company had given the people the privilege of paying toll, whenever they go over the bridge, in re turn for the fifteen or twenty thousand dollars which the city of Duluth spent in condemning right of way and making streets to get to the bridge. This privi lege is highly appreciated by everybody. It brought to my mind very forcibly the fact that the Duluth Street Railway company has what the lawyers term "vested rights" in Duluth. I don't exactly know what they mean by "vested rights," neither am I certain that the lawyers know, but they call them "vested rights." I do know, however, that they have good tracks, good cars and good service, and it occurred to me that it might be well if the council would pass an ordinance compelling the people to use these good things, for there area good many people who walk on the streets where the good cars run, some ride bicycles and a few ride in bug gies and carriages, and it don't seem right and fair that the people should be allowed to use these streets and not pay the Street Railway company, when they have their good tracks, good cars and "vested rights." On second thought, it might be better if the Street Railway company would go to the courts and get an injunction against the people using the streets without paying the company for doing so. Not being a lawyer, I do not feel competent to state which would be the best course to pursue, but some thing ought to be done to protect Gil Hartley and his pals. of Pingree & and Schwab Smith's Bros.' UNION MADE SHOES. 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