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ipytjv1 BIG TIM SULLIVAN" ON TAX QUESTION "Big Tim Sullivan," whose reputa tion is not that of a reformer, is evidently a man with brains. He has put them to good use in observ ing conditions in the crowded Bow ery district of New York city, which he dominates. He has observed so well that he has been able to trace the cause of bad conditions there and has a rational remedy to propose. "People in my district sleep three and four to the room," said he, "and many of the rooms have never had a ray of punlight in them. They have to live that way because the rent is so high. The tenement owner who is willing to tear down his old build ing and put up a new one with, sun sight in every window and a bath In every flat is afraid to do so, because ne knows that his taxes would gp akallyhooting up. The poor devils who rent his flats would in the end pay for that higher rate of taxation. Every eighth child born in New York city dies because its mother has to go to work or starve. At the same time there are 40,000 acres of good land lying idle within the city lim its." Therefore Sullivan has a plan to cut the taxes on iimproved real estate, and increase the taxes on vacant property. He figures that owners would have either to buld on their land—which would relieve the down town congestion—or go to farming it, which would indirectly have the same effect. "A watch dog on a farm lives" better tha nmany of my con stituents," he declares, "and yet, aft er an experience of a life-time down there, I have yet to find the equal of the families on the strec. near the Bowery for industry and economy and courage. Maybe my land tax plan is Bofvery political economy, as hts been charged. I like it all ifio better for that fact. The Bowery has had to put up with Fifth avenue political economy for a good while." Mr. Sullivan has no doubt, heard of Henry George. He probably re members him as a man who made Tammany politicians lie awake at nights trying to devise ways and means to keep votes away from him. But It Is very doubtful If he knows the principles for which Mr. George stood. He will no doubt be surpris ed to learn that when his T&mmany crowd fought against George's elec tion, it fought against the very plan he is now advocating. Now, if "Big Tim" will just keep on striving in behalf of hs "Bowery political econ omy," he wll, with all his Tammany affiliation, be a far more useful cit izen than all the goody good reform ers combined who refuse to attack fundamental evils. "Fifth Avenue po litical economy" to which he so con temptuously refers, has had much to do With The MefjroiKUsjpf_gi^Cuyuna Iron Rangd Choice Business Lots for Sale. Within two blocks of the new Soo depot. Now is the time to buy as those lots will soon be worth many times what is now being asked for them For Prices and Terms See Geo. H. Crosby DULUTH, Minnesota. producing the mal-odorou* political gang with which Mr. Sulli van is said to be allied. If he fights it very strenuously he will And his former associates lined up against him shoulder to shoulder with the "F|fth Avenue political economists," includ ing some college professors, preach ers and other holier-than-thou re formera. CERTAINLY A "PEACH" FOE MODERN THEATER The following letter from a theat rical agent to the manager has been Intercepted by wireless: "Dear Max: "I've got the winner spotted for you this time sure. She's a peach, a fancy-looker, built like a selection from three Junos, and the dear pub lic will turn out in regiments to see her. After we've hired her you'll havA to order a fresh invoice of a. o. signs. "There isnrt a thing wrong with her she has all the requisites for our line in uplifting the drama. She has been the common playing of one half the men living within a hundred miles of her home,. the recognised cause of one murder, two suicides, eight divorces and twenty-nine ruin ed homes,. Oh, I tell you she's a scream. We can't do business with out her, and you take it from me that we must seize her before some- other enterprising manager gobbles her. Send me immediate wireless and I'll arrange the details. "J°HN." The answer was not intercepted, but it's dollars to doughnuts that the "peach" soon will be featured QQ the bills of that manager, for have we not all watched the game a# it is played? Lots of things w#^|i&|$jpthitt]i cost more than those we buy. Minnesota, Crosby, or Minnesota. THINKS KIRBY SUFFERS FROM INTERNAL HEAT Mr. John Klrby, Jr., president of the National Association of Manu facturers is becoming a butt of ridi cule. The Boston Globe, one of the best known newspapers In the United States, in an editorial characterized him and his recent utterances''thus: "Although the telegraphic report of the U. S. Weather bureau gave the temperature at St. Paul on Tues day as only 62, or 14 degree below summer heat, the thermometer in the hall where the National Laundry men's association was holding its con vention in that city must have reg istered a much higher mark, or else Mr. John Kirby, Jr., was suffering from excessive internal heat. Mr. Kirby, who is president of that well known benevolent organization, the National Association of Manufao turers was entertaining the laundry men with his familiar medieval views on the relation between capital and labor, and in the course of his re marks he said according to the As sociated Press report: Organized la bor as presented by the American Federation of Labor is the gateway to the nation's ruin. Labor unionism of the American Federation of Labor type is to my mid a greater menace to Christian civilization than the an archist, the Black Hand, the Molly Maguires, the Mafia, the Ku Klux Klan and the night riders.'. *n hls seal f°' the welfare of Christian civilization Mr. Klrby ap pears to have neglected all mention of the Camorra, the Janizaries, the Goths, the Visigoths and ostrogohs, the Huns Tartars and Vandals, the head hunters, the cannibals and thd man-eating sharks. His list of the enemies of mankind is very lncom- RESURRECTED RIDDLES. „JrhaiJna,*es more no,8e than under the fenc?? a Pis 8 Answer: Two pigs. When a boy falls out of the win ow, what does he always fall against? Answer: Against his will. How many eggs can a man eat on an emty stomach? Nono when he *^1* 8 begins to ®tomach is no longer empty Why does a tall man eat less than a short one? lmf*n83fd: H® makea a 1Ittle go a long ways. Why is the clock the most modest Piece of furniture In the house? COVers its ,ace *Kh its hands and runs itself down A farmer had 20 sick sheep and one?°f them died. How many had he H^?fWer: *ineteen- giving this riddle speak the word "sick" so quickly that it win sound like six.) Why was the deatli of John Huss, who was burned at the stake, pre ferable to that of Charles I, who was beheaded Answer: A hot steak is better a cold chop. May this day bring my work near er to a successful rendering. Grant me patience for my task cheerfulness in difficulties, entire loy alty to my employers, frlednly help fulness to my companions. Keep all error and imprudence from acta teach me to avoid the hurried mood that results so often that may harass and annoy, help me to hold a serene and hopeful spirit. Make my lips silent as to the faults of others, to gossip, to the re' petition of hurtful rumors, to the af fairs of others, to idle talk. Make my hands deft and quick in the performance of my duties. Oive me mind to plan for each emergency and to find a path through all tangles. Let kindly feeling pervade my day's work. Let me be thankful for it and give to me that pleasure in Its doing that Insures the integrity and proper fulfillment of all enterprises. Guard me from a too selfish inter est In my own advancement as part from my employer's projects. Help me to avoid all quick temper or Larsh criticism, or the wish to gain on my associates through deceit or false dealing. Save me from the vice" of over sensltiveness, the feeUng t|tat Any one wishes to injure me. Make me remember that each human heart Ms Its own burden and that to others I I give out shall probably receive. Let truth, simplicity and faith* be my watchwords. Ani may. the days end bring joy 4ft my *work well done, hope for to morrow, reit and healthful sleep, MEN AND RELIGION FORWARD MOVEMENT These great religious, or quasi re ligious movements, invariably make their appearance when coming events cast their shadows before and the shadows are recognized as the reflex of a menacing reality. In times of prosperity the business man, like the rest of us, is liable to be given over mostly to worldly considerations and speculations on future' prosperity. THOUGHTS AND IDEAS WISE AND OTHERWISE Pertinent and Live Topics Analyzed and Discussed Eccentric's Point of View. But when the economic clouds gather on the horizon his spiritual nature awakes, and he is the first to be recalled to a realizing sense of the duty he owes to himself—and others. Strikes and threats of strikes mul tiplying everywhere. Growing indig nation of the workers against capital istic conspiracies, thugs, strikebreak ers, private detectives and the kid napping of labor leaders, with a view to their murder. These are some of the conditions which resolve themselves Into a pos sible "wrath" to come," which busi ness men like Morgan and others not being able to flee from, must attempt to avert with a religious movement. Something must be done to quiet these dangerous elements. The sol diers, the militia, the police, may not prove sufficient. The judiciary is be ing held in growing contempt as a class institution and religion ap parently is the only hope left. A political Socialist movement is also growing with enormous rapidity. Its capture of several cities, its inva sion of national and state legislative bodies, its ever growing press and capacity for the distribution of liter ature and the restless activity of its continually Increasing number of speakers and agitators are significant of the times. ON HIGH PRICES That reciprocity would have aided the American family in its fight against high prices—-as its adherents claimed—Is proved by the action'of the wheat and flour markets since the news of Friday morning surpriMd the nation. Flour on the Minneapolis market jumped 30 cents a barrel at once, and flourmen predict a greater advance and that this food, necessity will be higher for at least a year. This advance is partly speculative, is the result of the assurance of free dom from the competition of Caa adianwheat which the vote gave the American traders. And it is partly the result of natural conditions in the American market, condition* which Importations of Canadian wheat would have relieved. But it means that the American family must, as a result of this action, pay more for Its bread. It also means, grain men in all the big markets, increased prices for all grain products Including prepared breakfast foods. And the stock men say that It will also affect live stocks." So ^whether reciprocity would have reduced food prices or not, its rejec tion Is already increasing them. Why? Probably by giving those who control the markets for such things a greater opportunity to control the price situa tion. It would be interesting to know just how much of these advances are war ranted by conditions and how nftueh are the result of power to make them. As the failure of reciprocity took nothing out of the market the Ad vance "was not the result bi actual conditions, but of freiiiom from a threatened condition. Which brings back the old qu6ttloh, how much is natural aftl hoir much is artificial, forced, in BT SANDIB McALISTER. The religious revival financed by the great business men of the nation Is 4 standing disproof of the state ment sometimes made in times of prosperity, that there is no sentiment in business. No one is quicker to see than the business man that sentiment—re ligious sentiment, preferably—is in times of trouble or expected trouble an indispensable auxiliary for the pro tection of business interest, the senti ment being for particular application to those from whom the trouble is expected. And well it is for society that the business man Is the first to see this need, for he alone possesses the necessary finance to set the remedy in motion. And it is not one moment too soon in the present case. "The Men and Religion Forward Movement" has no time to lose before getting into ac tion, for there are a thousand signs on the political, industrial and finan cial horizon of a troublous time ahead. Right ahead of us lie the follow ing conditions: A concentration of wealth in the hands of the few and a concomitant pauperization and expropriation of of millions of small producers. A constantly rising scale in the prices of the necessaries of life and a stagnation or falling in wages. A universal feeling of unrest and insecurity pervading all classes. A condition of unemployment grow ing from day to day. A general tendency to discredit "big business" and its representatives "and to look upon them as thieves, rogues, liars and extortioners. A growing hatred of "capital," by which word is meant the possessors pf great capital. by pointing whloh is to walls. From an out the true remedy batter down all tariff The following Uttle po^ra by Priscilla Leonard So thoroughly accords with my own views that I CHARLES B. ADAMS, reproduce it for the beiiefit oi readers of the Labor World. SANDIB McALISTER. A Memory System. Forget each kindness that you do As soon as you have done it Forget the praise that falls to you The moment you have won it Forget the slander that you hear Before you can repeat it Forget each light, each spite, each sneer Wherever you may meet it Remember every kindness done To you, whate'er its measure Remember praise by others won And pass it oh with pleasure Remember every promise itiade And keep it to the letter Remember those who lend you aid, And be a grateful debtor. Remember all the happiness That comes your 'way in living Forget each worry and distress, Be hopeful and forgiving! Remember good, remember truth, Remember heaven's above you, And you will find, through age and youth, True joys, and hearts to love you. THE OTHERWISE. Some people always expect the Worst of it and then growl when they get it. i.. Lots of people are leading automo bile lives these days on Wheelbarrow incomes, of course not here in Du luth but down in Indiana. About «ofte man In a thousand can stand prosperity the other 999 can't even understand It, alas, Sandie be longs to the 99 class. The world would be greatly .im provel if some of its people would change their dollars into sense. The secret of happy matrimony consists largely in giving the woman what she wants to wear and the man what he wants to eat, and further more give her the pocket book. The world owes everyone a living, but the lucky ones collect it. C5A3Wnr» Charity begins at home, Who says so it does not. We drive the poor from our very door And give to the Hottentot. PACIFIC. There are three things, which, If you're wise, You'll find that true contentment lies Keep on good terms throughout this life With your stomach, conscience and your'wife. A woman gets ho fun in telling a secret to anyone ehe thinks will keep it. Lots of fellows who tell what fools they used to be haven't changed WOMEN'S WORK. A year boook published in North field, Vt., has the following rhyme on the cover:* "Men work from morn till set of sun" They do. "But a woman's work is never done." Quite true. For when one task she's finished something's found. Awaiting a beginning all year round. Whether It be To draw the tea. Or bake the. bread, Or make the bed, Or ply the broom, Or dust the room, Or floor to scrub. Or knives to rub. Or table set, Or meals to iet, Or shelve* to scan, Or fruit to. lean, Or seeds to sow, Or plants to grow, Or llnefti bleach, Or lessons teach. Or buttor ctairn. Or jackets turn, Or polish glass. Or plate or bras*, Or clothes to mend. Or children tehd, Or note* indite, Or stories write-*' But I must atop, tor really if «boa|fl Name an the ore, take ma a dar tt would. iretfee ef NQTICE IS *«ere is ole*n)ied' duo bum due at the date of this notice the sum of One ThouMad/Klne Hundred Sev enty-seven and 10-100 ($1,977.10) Sol lars: as prtajnpscl anft interest upon a certain mortgage given by H«nry Hera and ttattle Horn*hit Mt*. 35* ra- it ber four Eighteen tin 61 PTTOE conditions? An anewer to tftle qum tion by competent iriveiti gator# have the confidence of the country would m^tfrtftJly h«lp tti# «ltu4tieii wen that due aid there is kt gagors to*e¥|Tfe"%t mertg gee dated Janu&rir 8fd, lilo, wfcleh id and red mortgage is, upon re|fi«ter« which mortgartdtfir in the office of the Reglatrat •treat, let merit of One thoueand eight hundred on acoordlngto the condition* of one promissory.-note for that sum due On or before four (4) years from Jan uary Srd, ltlO, with interest at six per cent per annum, payable semi annually. That the default' in the bondlttons of said mortgage consists of the failure of said mortgagors to pay the Interest due On said note July 3rd, 1910, and also all subsequent In terest. Notice Is hereby given that said mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale of said mortgaged premises at public Auction to the highest bidder for cash, by the sheriff of St. Louis County, Minnesota, at the sheriff's office in the County Court Hduse in the City of Du luth, St. Loui's County, Minnesota, at ten o'clock In the forenoon on the 13th day of November. A. D. 1811,. to satisfy the amount then due on said mortgage, together with Seventy-five ($75.00) Dollars attorney's fees as pro vided in said mortgage and the fore closure disbursements. FRANK Li. RITTEL, You are hereby summoned and re quired to answer the complaint of the plaintiff in the above entitled action, which complaint 1B on file in the office of the clerk of the above named court. In the Court House in the City of Du luth in St. Louis County, Minnesota, and to serve a copy of your an'swer to the said complaint upon the subscriber at his office at 414 Manhattan Build ing, in the City of DUluth, in said County and State within twenty days after the service of this summons upon you, exclusive of the day of such serv* ice, and If you fall to answer the com plaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said complaint. Dated Sept. 15, 1911. CHAS. C. TEARE, Attorney for Plaintiff, 414 Manhattan Building, Dated. September 16, 1911. CHAS. C. TEARE, Attorney for Plaintiff. 414 Manhattan Building, Mi Mortgagee. Attorney for Mortgagee, 515 Torrey Building, Duluth. Minnesota. the W. Sept. 30. Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 1911. SUMMONS. STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF St. Louis. District Court, Eleventh Judicial Dls trlct. W. B. Getchell, Plaintiff. vs. John F. Wheeler, James H. Hetherlng ton, Catherine Leslie, Harvey Noble, Frank P. Greene, Thomas Hannibal, Albert Amundson, Ellen Maria Mc Elligott, also all other persons un known claiming any right, title, es tate, lien or interest in the real es tate described in the complaint here in. Defendants. The State of Minnesota to the above named defendants: with fituRMrk eaa 1a fonlsbad IMP Axa mag* BhM hi Duluth, Minn. NOTICE OF LIS PENDENS. STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF St. Louis. District Court, Eleventh Judicial Dis trict W. B. Getchell, Plaintiff. vs. John F.'Wheeler, James H. Hetherlng* ton, Catherine Leslie, Harvey Noble, Frank P. Greene, Thomas Hannibal. Albert Amundson, Ellen Maria Mc Elligott, also all other persons un known claiming any right, title, es tate, lien or interest in the real es tate described in the complaint here *?•.. .Defendants. Notice is hereby given that an action has been commenced in the above named court by the above named plaintiff against the above named de fendants, the object of which is to ob tain a judgment that "Said plaintiff Is the owner in fee of the premises here* inafter described, and that said de fendants and each of them have no estate or Interest therein or lien there on. The real property referred to here in_and affected by said action Is the following:. Lots numbered eight (8) and nine (9) in block number two (2). and lots nine (9) and ten (10) in block fifty!-three (53) in Kimberley & Strik ers Addition to Duluth lot eleven (11) In Mock six Of Dodge's Addition to Duluth lot twenty, two (22) In block twenty-six (26) In Duluth Heights, Fifth Division lot eighteen vAn thirty (80) in Duluth Heights, Sixth Division lot one (1) in block three (3) In Macfarlane's Grassy Point Addition to Duluth, and lot nine (9) in block three (3) in Sharp's Addi tion to Duluth, according to the record ed plats of. said several divisions, in St Louis County and State of Minnesota! 0 0 tt 2 Duluth,Minn. L.^W.^Sept. 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov. mm Do You Want Taxes? A few people in tins City are still talking in favor of a mun icipal electric plant, with the mistaken idea that they are "furthering the interests of the taxpayers." YOU think it is "furthering the interests of the taxpayers" to make TAXES CLIMB HIGHER ALL THE TIME FOE THIRTY YEARS? A municipal plant cannot be built without a new bond issue of many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Such a bond issue will im mediately and inevitably raise the tax-rate—4here is no other way. A municipal plant oannot meet the rates of the Duluth-Edison Electric Company without losing money on all the business at those rates. Is it any advantage to YOU to buy light from a municipal plant when you have to pay a higher price for it? There is only one way for a municipal plant's losseg to be made good, and that is by soaking the taxpayers. Every bond issue for the Water and Light Department of Dulnth runs for thirty years. Thirty years would also be the mpst advantage ous period for which this City could issue municipal plant bonds. But, the average life of electrical machinery is only about years. Electrical equipment depreciates faster any other w^a, Long before those thirty year bonds expire (and they are a constant burden on the taxpayers until they are paid off—with the taxpayers' money) long before they are paid off the Whole plant will be worn out and its obsolete and useless equipment will have to be replaced with new. How can a municipal plant be rebuilt and new equipment be acquired? There is only one way: by issuing more bonds, plunging the City deeper into debt, and^making taxes higher all the time—for, the City must lock to its t*^y^ |o pay its deijta. On the other hand: if a new contract lor the City lighting is awarded to the Xhduth-Edkon Electric Cfoiipaiiy, taxes will not be any higher than they are now, and for the same amount now $aid for eleotric light the City tiriH get 93 MORE ARC LIGHTS S S A S $ 3 0 0 0 0 E A S QV LIGHTING BHJi8 Let yenr aldo-maa ksow wUdi it time mMsitioni YOU think best "father th* intonate of the tupayan." We dull have more totell yi* afcott tUs in next week's paper. Duluth-Edison Electirfc Company &»"£iljfa First National Bank OfDuMh. Capital $500,000. Surplus and Uocfinded PraGlk $1300,000. U. S' GOVERNMENT DEPOSITARY. A. L. ORDEAN. Pre* W. J. JOHNSON, Am\ Cubia. David WiUiami, Vice-Ptet. W. W. WelU, A-'tCuhia J.H. DIGHT, CuhHb 3 per cent (Merest paid tin Savings asd Ifcw Deposit^ And Lynn Haines' wonderful book of 128 pages telling all about the graft and plunder in Minnesota legislature of 1911. Apply to or Address The Labor World, Manhattan Building, Dnlnth. ALL FOR ONE DOLLAR MUSICAL MERCHANDISE Ptsnoe, Victor, Edison. Talking Machines. Violin Repairing Spe cialty. NMLM SHEET M0SI8 Duluth Fashion DBLICIOU8 *MOKB8» LUXURIOUS AND DAINTY ELCORA pip ADC Havana VlUill\3 Made upon honor trUffled workmen, from beet grade of Havana Leal Brand*: SScora, Duluth Fashion and New Phone 918. Old Phone 1008. DULUTH CIGAR CO. «S&£S?TST. 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