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tV Ifc J:', 1i & ,3 THE LABOR WORLD Published Brtrr Saturday. Batabllshed In 1896 by Sabrle O. Akin. Business Offleet 626-627 Manhattan Bldg., Duluth, Minn, Zenith Phone 68. SUBSCRIPTIONS! One Tear In advance.......... Six months. In advanoe Three months, In advanoe Advertising' HateB Made Application. WILLIAM B. McEWEN, Publisher. HARRY H. TURNER, Editor. IT'S YOUR LAST CHANCE TO GET CLERK'S HOLIDAY Are you doing your level best to bring that Saturday half holiday matter to a successful issue? If you have been lukewarm on the subject hitherto, although mildly in favor of a Saturday half holiday for the clerks in Duluth retail establishments, it's up to you to get out now and boost the game. Probably you are in some busi ness where Saturday is an off day and you can get away at noon to go fishing or to the ball game, or can put in the afternoon planning for an early getaway Sunday morning for a day in the country far from hot streets and business worries. If so you're lucky. But what about the man or woman who has to work till near midnight in stifling atmos phere which only swirling crowds of shoppers can bring about? Have you no regard for their pleasures or health? How much energy would you have for a fish ing trip Sunday if you did not get to bed Saturday night until title wee small hours, after being on your feet behind a counter fifteen hours on a sweltering hot day? You'd want to roll over and stay in bed all day, you know you would. So put yourself in the other fel low's place and leg for Saturday closing. You won't be injuring the merchants for they'll sell just as much stuff in the balance of the week as they did before and the nine half holidays given in the next two months will be repaid them many times over by their grateful employes. So do it now-—today—for it's your last chance. Boost and boost hard. Get your name on the clerks' petition and go individual ly to every retail man you know and tell him to get into line. STERLING INTEGRITY BEST ASSET OF JUDGE JAQUES "The most important issue now •before the country is the re-estab lishment at Washington of a really free and independent house of representatives. The present congress has been bound and gagged by a relentless and arbi trary machine which attempts to dictate its* action. It has been controlled by leaders who are lost to all public considerations. If it continues to submit to this un American system of dictatorship, it will cease to be a house of rep resentatives any true sense. Partyism, which interpreted by the leaders of the majority, with a very few exceptions, is stand patism, seems to have gone mad. I believe in parties, and within iright limits, in party govenment. B^t I do not believe in party slav- !§§These- are the opening remarks with which tfydge Alfred Jaques, pl#in citizen of Duluth, makes an nouncement to the public cf the eighth Minnesota congressional district of his candidacy for con gress oil the Democratic ticket The clean cut, plain, straight-' forw^rd sentiment conveyed in thpse words needs not that atten tiqp. be drawn to it. ^fpiWrnl^ ts* name of Judge Alfred Jaques has penetrated, his words stand for the public interest as do the heart and soul of the man who gives them utterance. Judge Jaques needs no commendation •1.00 .60 Singie Copies, 5 Cents. Known on Entered at the PostoSloe at Puluth, Minn., as aeoond class matter. Word of from the Labor World. As an eminent jurist, as a pri vate citizen pf unblemished rec ord, as a member of the commun ity whose interests are indis solubly linked with those of the head of the lakes and Northern Minnesota in general, he is known and respected wherever known. The need of a man of the stamp of Judge Jaques to represent the eighth Minnesota- district is ap parent to all in this northern country. Betrayal of the interests of the people who comprise a large por tion of the wealth producing sec tion of the state has become com mon. So common as to cause in the mind of the most intelligent voter a doubt as to the man of his choice, at all times. The -promises made on the stump in the free-flung air of the Gopher state became, at Washing ton, transmuted into blind alle giance to party or to party leader. Men who went east filled to the guards with good resolutions to do James Oppenheim has a remark able article in a recent number of the American Magazine upon "The Hired City." It Is about Pittsburg, a city whose people are hired hands. It is a very striking article by a singularly able young •vvriter. Oppenheim is a poet with gifts but I am glad necessity forces him to write at times short stories and other articles. In this particular article, "The Hired City," Oppenheim speaks of the terrible conditions suffered by the workers of the steel trust and the worst of all is the twelve-hour day. "Twelve hours every day or every night these men work," says Oppen heim, "and the twelve, hour day means on the average something like this: 12 hours for labor. 8 hours for sleep. 1% hours for meals. 1 hour to go to and from meals. 22% hours routine. "This leaves a margin of one and a half hours and of what use Is that margin to an exhausted man? "Will he go to the Carnegie lib rary? Will he enjoy his friends? Will he go into politics? Will he make his home life beautiful?" An hour and a half of life for twenty-two and one half fyours of routine. A fag end, a tatter, a ragged fringe of life—-one hour and a half out of a long day that means all work or preparation for work. The men of the steel works are slaves. For such food, clothing and shelter as they receive they give all their power, energy and brain. For mere material existence these men barter away twenty-two and a half hours each day of* life. Ah, brothers of the marble church es, ask yourselves, does man live for the belly in this life of ours? Ask the steel workers, the two hun dred and more thousand of them. Don't worry about materialism in Marx or In the millenium. Ask the steel workers. Today, here and now, under Morgan the plate or die in the interests of the peo ple who trudged through Minne sota sand or Minnesota mud to en compass their election, became weak-kneed as the train bore them into the national capital. On the way from the Washing ton depot to their hotel they col lapsed entirely and the party whip who called on them the next morning found them subservient to the will of the powers that be. Or if he didn't find them subser vient when he called he left them that way and they stayed sub served. No one believes that Judge Jaques can be induced to cast to one side pre-election promises. The very character of the man is proof against su&i thought. On his merits and on his merits alone he deserves the hearty and, un-partisan support of the freed men of Duluth. Margin: One Hour and a Half While running as a candidate on the Democratic ticket it is pro phesied by Judge Jaques' friends —friends of all olitical affilia tions—that in his election to con gress all party lines will be oast aside and he will go to Washing ton as a representative of the people of Northern Minnesota as a whole—speaking not for gftie party or the other but for the fceMt good sense and fundamental, rat proof honesty' shall dictate. Keep your eye Judge Jaques and when the time comes give him your support, whether you be day laborer or skilled mechanic. Your little home on the hillside is as sacred a trust to him as the $12,000 residence in the east end. Its interests will be as earnestly voiced under the shadow of the national capital. BETTER KING LOG THAN KING STORK There is good reason to fear that in the name and behalf of democracy, and with the support of masses of genuine democrats in all parties, Theodore Roosevelt may again be called out of pri vate life to a term as president, and this time under circum stances more favorable than our country has ever before experi enced for a Napoleonic personal ity to seize upon Napoleonic pow er, says Louis Post in The Public/ We trust the alternative of Roosevelt or Taft will not occur at the next presidential election^ But if it should, better King Log than King Stork. Though Taft slumbers while plutocrats intrench themselves, taxation under popular control passer—at your nose end. Ask them. TPhejr have orie hour and a half to look at the skies, to study the stars and to tramp the fields. One hour arid a half for a full breath, for thought, for politics, for books, for art, music. The rest is for .the belly, and for Morgan, and for slag and steel ingots before Hell's fires. The rest is for Carnegie's libraries, and hero funds and preachers' pen sions, and research. All else is, men of the cloth, for the belly—Morgan's belly and your belly and the steel workers' belly. Ah, but that precious fag end, that tatter and fringe—that's for the soul. That blessed /bne hour and a half in Pittsburg! Or perhaps it's for drink? Well, then, it's for drink and bless ed oblivion, in Pittsburg! "It Is not because of his toils," says Carlyle, "that I lament .for the poor we must all toil or steal (howsoever we name our stealing), which is worse no faithful workman finds his task a j&stlme. "The poor is hungry and athirst but for him also there is food and drink he is heavy-laden and weary but for him also the heavens send sleep, and of the deepest In his smoky cribs, a clear dewy heaven of rest envelops him, and fitful glitter ings of cloud-skirted dreams. "But what I do mourn, over is, that the lamp of his soul should go out that no ray of heavenly, or even of earthly knowledge, should visit him, hut only in the haggard darkness, like two spectres, fear and indigna tion bear him company. "Alas, while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated "Alas, was this too a breath of God bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded! "That there should one man die Ignorant who had capacity for know ledge, this I call a tragedy, were It to happen more than twenty times in the minute, as by some computa tion it does." would serve at any time as a wea pon to pierce even the thickest fortifications of "vested rights.'' But if a Napoleonic character like Roosevelt* once seized the government to administer it ac cording to his own notions, of what is for "the benefit of the governed," the damage would be irreparable. No doctrine more dangerous to popular liberty has ever been formulated than this of the Roosevelt cult, that "just governments exist for the benefit of the governed," when that oth erwise true doctrine is isolated from the balancing principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." TAKE $1.65 A DAY NOW REELECT US THIS FALL The freight handlers of Du buqUei, Iowa, have gone out on strike, and the Times-Journal of that city says that public sym pathy is with the men, adding that "it is not easy to withhold sym pathy from a man trying to sup port a family these times on $1.65 a day. The shippers sympathize with the strikers because they be lieve that if. the men were better paid the fowessat the freight houses wouj& iie galore permanent The public tf sympathizes out of a sentiment of humanity for men overworked and underpaid by comparison with their more fortunate neighbors.'* The idea of paying men with families only $1.65 a day, and then going before these same men with the kind of political talk which will be given out next fall, is ex ceedingly grotesque, says the Su perior Telegram editorially, These men should not be bur dened with such laws as make their expenses of living greatly above their ability to earn. Pro tection is necessary and all right when it is so framed that there is proper distribution of its benefits —but when it is framed to benefit only the few, it is wrong. The people Want a protective tariff, but they do not want it framed in the interest of monop oly. That is where the dispute is. There is no longer any opposition to protection. Even the Democrats have abandoned free trade. But this wage scale of $1.65 for men who in many instances have fami lies, has a bad appearance. When the man who works wants to buy anything he inquires how much he will have to pay—and when he wants to sell something, and his labor is all he has to sell, he inquires, "What will you give?" Whether it is buying or selling, the other fellow fixes the price. The laboring man needs favorable laws more than anybody else, and has more trouble in get ting them. P. T. BARNUM SAID: Last Friday and Saturday sev eral thousand dollars was carted out of Duluth and Superior for "value received," and what did Duluth and Superior get out of it? Ringling Brothers, the greatest amusement monopoly the country has ever seer^ ordered a twientietb part of their monster outfit to the head of the lakes and in conse quence the people here were treated to a three ring show os the stereotyped kind. How many people in Duluth and Superior left their grocery bills unpaid ancl the mortgages they placed on t^eir homes to buy an automobile working over time, to pay their way in to See the big show is impossible to estimate. The fact is that the semi-occa sional circus of nowadays, like the Fourth of July, is a luxury the ^.meriean people could well do without. Both eat up funds that could better be applied to the proper care and raising of healthy fami lies. The annual circus and fire work bill of the country, footed up, would astonish the most con servative and patriotic citizen. A well-fed, well-clad child is a better and more intensely patri otic reminder of July Four than a Ipt of empty Roman candle shells. A home, paid for and well estab lished, will pay better dividends in the end than fifty cents ex pended in a ticket for the bleach ers at the .circus and a dollar in pink lemonade and stale peanuts. £he American people must wake up and bring about a revo lution of their own, independent of the one which the Big Interests are steadfastly nursing to a finish. The American people must cut out hero worship, circuses of the Monopoly order, and Fourth of July extravagances You can't live fan automobile life on a wheelbarrow salary and the sooner the bulk of the people find this out the better. There were two big hoaxes in the year just passed. That is counting up to the adjournment of congress. Dr. 'Cook discovered the north pole and Senator Aldrich revised the tariff downwards, Frankly speaking this compari son is pretty tough on Doe Cook. Doii't knock a fellow behind his back. Remember it's the lion that faces you and the cur that a at -Have you resolved to demand the label on all purchases here after If not, do it now. $ lfP§l %U, S, POSTAL SYSTgar THING TO BE PJtOTO OF? Among the many American in stitutions of which Americans like to boast on their trips abroad or when in the company of for eigners is the U. S. postal system. If they looked close they would see the polite foreigners turn away for a momentary smile— but they don't see it. They are too busys extolling the virtues of our wonderful republican form of government to see anything. The fact is—and it has been said a hundred times before Uncle Sam's postal system is a joke. And yet when you come to think of it not a joke but a seri^ ous matter—mighty serious to the people who foot the bills and who annually malse up that deplorable deficit. The IT. S. postal system is no longer operated as a public in stitution. The Big Interests oper ate it to facilitate their letting' of blood from the public veins. Do you know, Mr Boastful American, that to send eleven pounds of merchandise by mail from your town to the next town ten miles away, you must divide it into three packages and pay $1,76 for the service. But our government permits an Austrian merchant to mail eleven pounds from Austria to that same town in one package for 36 cents. You- may believe your presi dent and congress, that make these rates, are honest and not in fluenced by the express com panies here, but many there are who don't believe it. No honest official would give his consent to such extortion to favor the express companies. Even a president is only a man, and the one we have, while big in avoirdupois, is of course very human. The millions here are compelled to use express companies at ex tortionate rates, because the gov ernment refuses to permit them to use the postoffice facilities at any rate at all for eleven pounds, 'and only for four at prohibitive rates. \v.. Serve the people No, they were elected to serve the. corpora tions and no act of theirs has shown that they have any inten tion of serving anybody else. You Americans aire so ignorant of the conditions prevailing1 else where that you do not know to what extent you are robbed. LIFE'S HORSE RACE GETS MANY FLAGGED Don't be an afeo-ran. Get under the wire a winner or put the whole track on the bum trying. Don't linger back among the tin horns and would-be's. Put all your nerve into one bunch and make a dash for your life when you feel the time has come. Make everything else on the track look like pikers at a futuri ty. Never mind the handicap for get it. Break loose on the home stretch and get your nose in first. Think about how you did it af terwards This life is a horse race, and we guys are the plugs. It is full of surprises and some crooked races, too. Don't figure on the Wrong dope sheet. Get the straight tip and freeze to it until there is ice in hades. Be sure you're right and'then go to it. Leave the bunteh at the quarter post. Be a winner. —:".i' .—_—• You don't have to tell what a good union man you are just play the part. There all the honor lies. When things are too high, don't reach for them—^they will come down later. ... The man who has never been tempted deserves no credit for be ing good Mauy an actresp keeps a press agent, who can't afford a hus- If It's from Gaiety's It's Correct 4 M' NO COLLECTORS Three Reason*— Price— Quality— Credit. BUY YOURSELF Grays—:fc~Fancy Blues Shirts, Collars——NecUibear, Underwear. $15, $20 or $25 Footwear— —Headwearl Odd Paufs-fROM —Fancy Vests A Little More Quality for a Little Less Maney. We sell Women's Outer- Wear. Our Twin Port Stores, 1410 Tower Avenue, Superior W~ Our Twin Port Stores, 8 E. Superior St., Duluth. Homm vow own Is a pleasuT* when ron ean hold It la th« brewing of Imw tluit will eompet* with th* b«at br«werl«a In this country or Buropt la thr.manufacture of pur«, rich and creamy bottled beer, that pbe •essei the qualUlea of aU with the palatable flavor and strengthening Spetlaerof alltles the bat beer. Try it am an aud tonlo—It to good. EITBBB •raOKB 941. This satisfied smile is thev result of the cook hav ing used "DULUTH tJNIVEBiSAL" Flour in the makr ing of her breads biscuits and cake.. ''DULtTTH-teriVERSAI,' Pure Spring WheatvFl6Ur and is so marked on ever^ sa&k. E FLOUR THE BEST COOKS frgfr.* IF:'