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I !i IV 11^' Ifc JT THE LABOR WORLD Published Every Saturday. Established In 1896 by Sabrle Q. Akin Bnilneii Office 604-7 Manhattan Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Zenith Phone 65. SUBSCRIPTIONS! One Year, lii advance fl.QO Six months. In advance .80 Three months, In advance 35 Single Copies, 5 Cent?. Advertising Rates Made Known on Ap plication. Entered at the Postoffice at Duluth, Minn., as second class matter. WILLIAM E. M'EWEN, Editor and Publisher. 138V1 S3C3VMJLfr lioNnoo Mr. Union Man:—Notify Tour Clgai Dealer that the Bell 'Phone is Unfair. THE MAYORSHIP. This is not selfishness in any such sense as that term usually implies. We must first be just to ourselves, and no frothy sentimentalism can justify a departure from the rule. No law human or divine requires an Individual to turn himself out of house and home in order that a neighbor, jWho already has a house and home, may acquire a double possession. No one but an insane man would do it. With Mr. Haven already selected as the choice of the Republicans, and Doctor Cullom about as well as select ed by the Democrats, if the character of the two men shall be permitted to a ,, ine ca influence the campaign, Duluth will y-~ have one of the cleanest and most marily on account* of the highly effici ent and satisfactory administration he has given us, but for his own sake, we are glad, since he is to have an opponent at all, that so estimable a gentleman as Mr. Haven is the man. WE DON'T WANT ASIATICS. The sinew and "Back bone of the land is made up of the wage earners, and this Is why that labor is more respected and more powerful in this country than anywhere else. Labor in the United States is an es sential factor In the nation itself—a part of It. The laboring class who come to us from other countries are welcome, so long as they come under conditions that make it .possible for them to merge themselves with the rest of us, into the heart ef the great est republic the world has ever shown But, "self preservation is the first law of nature" with nations as well as individuals, and as the rule of safety in foreign admission is the measure of our ability to effect assimilation it follows that the admis sion of persons, who are at radical ra cial variance with our people is. en dangering to our institutions. Persons who must of natural neces sity remain foreigners, we must in Justice to ourselves exclude. Nor can we eflmit them even temporarily. There c£§i be no considerable body of mere denizens working in our coun try without confusion in the land, and without a corresponding amount of harm to the solidarity of our own people. Each individual is in duty bound to protect himself against unjust aggres sion, and a nation is but an aggrega tion of individuals, to whom the same rule of duty applies, in a more and enlarged and more imperative sense. Let the Asiatics stay at home where ?they belong. CAUSE OF NEW YORK PANIC. Now that the financial excitement has practically subsided, it may b® profitable for all of us, to look the situation over, and ascertain, if we can, what caused the commotion, that we may prevent its again recurring. The Labor World is an uncomprom ising supporter of Dr. Cullom, pri- .umospnere, and eiim marilv on'aoonnnf* nf tha hiahhr .lnat,ng First, let us survey the conditions existing on the very eve of this finan cial flurry. There was not a single thing about the banks in New York, or anywhere else, to justify any ap prehension of disaster. Everything was booming in trade centers so far as money was concerned. In the country crops were abund ant and prices high and remunerative. Wage earners everywhere were re ceiving fair compensation for their labor. The country throughout was in a prosperous condition, and there was of the parabola, and when in ascend ing, prosperity attains to the vertlx its next movement is downwards to erly mathenfetical calculation. Some In our power, ,which h$d been subjected to an investigation of any description proved to he full of corruption. From the beginning of the insur ance Investigations in New Torfc un til now, there has been an uninter rupted course of revelations 6f dis honesty on the part of the manage*? ment of these corporations. The whole trouble then, was due to tlje entirely justifiable expositions of the new financial methods of some of the practitioners of high finance, and fortunately for the nation, be yond a trifle of inconvenience, by the wisdom and honesty of the bankers throughout the country, the panic hardly spread beyond the gambling district which clusters abound the United States sub-treasury. So far as Duluth was concerned, its only effect was to increase our circulating medium, by the addition of "white backs" to our already good/ stock of "green backs". THE PRIMARY ELECTION LAW. This law *s another illustration of a measure that may be admirable theory but a lamentable failure* in practice. The motives which prompted its en actment were praiseworthy enough. The caucus system had become sub 80 respectable election contests that It Passage o( has ever witnessed. 0 1011 gav0 promla! accomplishing such wonders in purify ing the political atmosphere, and elim- unfalr methods in securing party nominations. It has proven, however, to be a clear case of "jumping out of the fry ing pan Into the fire". The great ob jection to the caucus system was its liability to become controlled by ma, chine rule. This feature the primary law reduced to a minimum but, it has created other conditions, that give rise to new abuses, infinitely more harm ful to good government and the pub lic weal than machine rule ever was. The new law has, measurably, put a rein on machine rule, but given un bridled license to the unqualified, to the demagogue and to the chronic office seeker, nuisance® to which the so-called machine rule, in its worst foi*m, never, gave countenance. We have to deal with human nature as we find it, and not as it may be after a decade or two of the ftiilllnium shall have passed. Those who are best qualified to fill an offi-ne are fre quently the most reluctant to run flr It, while the unqualified office seeker we always have with us. Abuses under the old law were, pet haps, rife enough, but the people could correct tln.m and almost invariably did so. Und«?r the new svstem abus es have assumed another form, one that completely baffles any attempt at correction. G\«?ry Tom, Dick and Harry can have'his name on the tlcJret, the more the merrier, and by conniving and confederating together, as well as by the confusion a.nd uncertainty occas ioned by such an array of candidates, the most worthless Character on the ticket is even more likely to get the nomination than the best o\ie. The staple vote of the ward or pre~ cinct, will split up on several compe tent and eligible candidates, and as a majority of the votes cast deter mines the choice it can readily be seen how the preferences of those having the best interests of the people at heart can be thwarted. Candidates outwardly hostile can be In secret co alition to dei'eut the will of the ma jority. Io w© remember correctlv. the su premo court was called^ upon to to cal1 nothing to indicate the. approach of- inefficient, and un-American a financial storm unless, as some peor, Pursued by the land depart pie, believe, business follows the rule. m?nt point on a line perpendicular to the directrix. The secretary of the interior in 1901, The parabolic illustration. Tyon't do: the Northern Pacific Rail The collapse was too sudden for 'prd- way make say the responsibility rests With the.. newspaper clamors, and .the, 'trust. A ftUCCEaaFUL ftPeriA. bus,tinff declamations of the president.. |3^" specialist oni disease* of, We do not think, either of ihena aah. a .t We do not think, either of these cot* tentions is sound. ouuuu. ««. ow« urrows diocjk^, win. oure^ any 7 l' r™. pass upon just a case from our own coun ty. We have noticed that the Republi can party of this city are, in a meas ure, reinstating the old caucus rule. In an effort to obviate the abuses to which the new law inevitably leads. If then 'he primary law, so called, cannot be successfully administered without^ the aid of the, caucus, and we all know that it cannot, there is no sense whatever in burdening: the people with the expense, of it, and it ought to be repealed at the first op portunity, and the former method: re stored. Looking at the old method in the light of our experience with the, n$w, we have a firm conviction that the old way was., a thousand times more, preferable. LAN,D DEPARTMENT DELAYS. In a recent issue, we had occasion Public attention to the arbi- at Washington in administering the land laws. Here., Is a further illustration of Its a peculiar methods and exasperating de» C0Vnpaxiy WfS not authorized to selections in the second indem- t- the' eye, ear( nose, throat, located! at 608 urrows Bloqk^ will oure^aja^ ot Judgment, the whote troflBljfe Hfli cur^is |K)». hey charged up to the fact, that i*lble: haA been ally Ifcglt, for alleged losses^ w4ttilti the withdrawal for the Lake* Su^d & Mississippi Railroad company! Action upon this decision was sus pended on the ground t&%t the same question was Involved in a case which would be determined in the United States supreme court. That case was the Northern Lumber company (a Wey.erhauser concern) against Wil liam O'Brien and others. In October, 19.06, the supreme court rendered a decision by which the ac tion of the secretary was fully sus tained accordingly, Mr. Secretary Hitchcock caused the decision can-, celling the invalid railroad selections to be promulgated, and the^rt'were all cancelled in March, 1907. In April 1907, Mr. Secretary Gar eld caused an order to be made sus pending all action affecting the dispo sition of the lands in question—a pe tition for re-review of the department al decision having been filed. ThCugb common sense as well as common law teaches that such a peti tion should have been promptly de it .i^.sstiljt n^dAng^nd und^term 'Ined, and whether a decision thereon shall b» reached before the dawn of the millenium no mah having any knowledge of the dilatory tactics of th$* |depar]^|[$|it:.cwould undertake to say. Talk about the proverbial delays of the English courts of chancery. They were mere "babes in swaddling clothes" compared with our land de partment officials. These delays are very gratifying to the Weyerhausers and railroad com panies, but they are hard, desperately hard, on the struggling homesteaders on those lands. DELEGATE TO NORFOLK. Mr. W. E. McEwen, managing edi tor and publisher of the Labor world, has been selected by the State Fed eration of Labor, as the Minnesota delegate to the annual convention of the, American Federation of Labor, which convene at Norfolk, Virginia, beginning November 11th and con tinuing until the business before it !s disposed of. MEANINGLESS SUGGESTION. "What the country needs is more money."—Senator Elkins. You are all wropg Mr. Senator. There is ^plenty of money. To tell a sick man that what he needs is health, or a hungry man that what he needs is food, may be true enough, but it does not contribute one particle to bringing, about such conditions as will give the man -the necessaries men tioned. Let the Labor World tell you some thing, that the country needs very much more than it does money. It needs better laws which will not per mit the "kings of finance" and "gam? biers of Wall street," to monopolize' our currency for their own aggrandize ment. Strange that the most rascfdly fin anciers our country has ever known were the loudest in shouting for hon est money in the Bryan campaign. No doubt they were putting Barnum's philosophy into practice. John Mitchell,' president of the Uni ted Mine Workers of Amcrica, 'has just received a gold medal from the International Exposition of Social Economy, which recently met at Liege, Belgium, in recognition of the Service which 1\is book, "Organized Labor,"' Is to students of social economy. The. medal is accompanied- by a. diploma speaking of the excellence of the book. The trusts and railroads have been taught that public opinipn is an im mense and irresistible^ force when it really moves against any specific ob ject, and in the future they, will treat it with mo^e tender respect than, was, their practice heretofore. They haye reaped the reward of the philosophy, embodied in the sentence "the public be. damned." The man who is worthy of being- a leader of men will never complain o£ the stupidity of his helpers, qt- the of mankind nor, of' t^e. i.n-r. appreciation of the^ public. These things are all a part ot the great g^me of life, and to meet them: ^nd not go, down before them in discour agement a,nd defeat is, the final proof of power. This is. the way, the, striking teler graphers feel: We'll sjticl& we'll stick, pf course we'll stick, Welre going, to stick like, glue. jpon't think we're "SiAa^l", No, net- at all. We'll make the trust "skidop." Oppression lias always been lnten submission. The employer, who can- do a» he pleases with his, me?i. very seldom dpes. w^at hi« men de* s)r ef Every: liberty- which, the. m&ss ot me^ jwssess: was., won by. or^inlzed rer" iaistan?e„ to tyftaiiny. 1% all i^en were l9- wonderfully Aucr oon^Wne, and, refuse to be wronger ithe last. slave, drfeej^ \?fOjuld disappear.' ^ancial4 Situation itv New York tMfip. becomipgf npwnaj, an^ t^ere Flaaten's Orchestra -T* THE POINT OF VIEW. This world is as we make it, I often hear them say, If we are said and tearful, The world wlll seem that way, And if we seek the dark side, Where everything goes wrong. And mole hills seem as mountains, Our lives will seem too long. But if .we seek life's sunshine, Sweet joy to others give. And SaMy, climb life's* mountains. As though we're glad to live To overcome disaster And sunshine round us shower, To riiake our dear friends happy, Then joy will be our dower. The world is but a mirror, Reflecting each one's mind. If we look at it crossly, To us 'twill not look kind But if we smile upon it, It will be joyous, too, No matter how we see it, 'Twill give us our own view. So when the world seems dreary, And life seems bitter, too, Jusk ask your disposition If it can better do And if It turns to sunshine, The, world will look so bright That you will be forgetting How dark has. been the night. Martha Shephard Llppincott^ from. "Visions of Life." VOICE OF THE POET. Evidently a "P.oet laureate" must be a sojourner in. the Minneapolis, Baker Union, else wh'o could prod/uce *so unique an invitation as the folowing, which we copy from Labor Review. Ot^elg gfo w^y back, and sit dow% bqt Yourself and Ladies we cordially in vite Tp attend pur dance on Saturday night. The ninth of this November, So don't forget, but be sure and re member To take your girl to Kraft's Hall The night the Bakers' Union give their ball. Freeman will furnish music galore, Tickets (as usual) we'll take at the door. The price of which is 25 cents, "We charge for ladies as well as gents So come and dance the "Light Fantas tic" If you should feel at al elastic. ONEVERYBOTTLE This Handsome Dresser Wafersr—Edch Lady a Beautiful Souvenir Ot^i^tranjE^ar. osf-pwftj H«p'«rBeei.if Y«i.j clUncc»VjfctWxPP Hiwm'i,, HMMLI (dfiOt emy ttquircncet cl pqfoa .beer, I A 0 Odtf Order fron» Jfo W. 'Andersra^ And they're mighty good yalne top-rrfine quartered qak finiah good aBtd itygmyy have Reveled French plate mirror—ra b*esser that could not be dupUcisited elsewhere for less than $12 or $13. Better have one. Our Annual rail Opening Vpll Occur Tto&d&y^ November 7. Victor Concert—Hot Coffee and THE MAN WHO WINS. The man who wins is the man who works The man who toils while the next man shirks The man who stands in his, deep dis tress With his head held high in the deadly press— Yes, he is the man who wins. The man who wins is the man who knows The value of pain, and the worth of woes— Who a lesson learns from the man who fails And a moral finds in his mournful wails Yes, he Is the man who wing- The man who wins is the man who stays In the unsought path and the rocKy ways. And, perhaps, who lingers now and then To help some failure to rise again, And he is the man who wins! And the man Who wins, is the' man who hears The curse of the envious In his ears, But who goes, his way with his head held high, And passes the wrecks of the failures by— For he Is the man who. wins. LOT SOMBTH{N.G(. GOOD BE SAID. (By James Whitcom.b Riley.), When o'er the fair fame of friend or foe The shadow of disgrace shall fall, instead Of words of blame, or proof of thus and so. Let something good be said.. Forget not that no fellow, being yet May fall «*p low but love may lift his head. Even, the cheek, of shame with tears Is wet, If something good be said. No generous heart may vainly turn aside In ways, of sympathy—no soul so dead But may awaken strong and, glorified. If something good be. said. And so I charge thee by, the1 thorny crown And by the cross, on which the Savior bled, And by your own soul's hope of fair renown. Let something good be said. I Order. Limiting. Time to File Claims*, and for, Hearing Thereon. STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF St Louis—ss In Probate Court. In the, matter of- the Estate of Minnie Gramp Decedent. Leters of administration this, day having been granted to Porter J. Neff. It is ordered, that the. time within which al credltQ.rs/bf the. above, named decedent may present claims against her estate in this bourtv be, arid' the same hereby Is, limited to six montlis from arid after tlie date hereof and that Monday' the, 11th day of Miy, 190®, at ten o'clock A. M., in the Pro bate Court "Rooms: at."the* Court House at Dul,uth In said County, be, and the l^tne 'hereby "is, Vixed end. appointed as, t'e time arid place for hearings upon the examination.' adjustment and al lowance of such cl^Im^ as shali be presented within" the" time aforesaid. Let notice hereof be given by the publication- of- this order in the Labor World as Provided by lisiw.' Dated at Duluth, Minn., Nov. 6th, 1807 By the Court, J. B. MIDDLECOFF, Judge o{ t?rob,ate. (Sear, Pr,obate Court St Louis, County, Minn.) Labor World-—Nov. 9, W. 23. Order, of Heidug on Pctttlos, f^r He-. enjMBi to Seill IMortge^ W: Mni JSTATE- OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY- OF St. Lojils. In Proba^fce, Cou^t, In,. the. mater of tha estate Minnie, (jranip, alias' Minn.1.^ ^rwipp. The petltiori of Porter J: Neff. as i^epreseritative of the above named de-„ statfed in saio peiiti^, ft riecesary\ ari£ for the. best- Interests of e?l#te of- saidi Minnie O^ajqap andi & all persbrisc Interested- to sell certain^lahds df said depedent In said petition describea, arid^ praying Oiat license be to him granted to sell the said lan3fe*. T. in Duluth in «frld Coimty on Monday Ethe 2nd dcu? oft December, 1^07, at^ ten jOfclOQk A M.. wid perfons, Int^r .ested' th said hearing and In said mat- ?tar, ttsl- HerehS' Cited and required at said time aitdr plape to show, -c$use, 1§ Siny, there, be, why said petition should 46b be granted. Ordered further,' that this order be rveAp. by publication io. the Labp& S^d^^BttfiltS l^nn./Nov. "7th, mIA (Seal, £robate Court, fit. Louis County, Minn.) Lal-Wr'World, Nov: ». 16, 23. ORDER FOR HEARING ON PETI TION FOR ADMINISTRATION. STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF St. LouiS^ In Probate Court. In the Matter of the Estate of Matevz Lozekar, Decedent. The petition of Adeli Lozekar, hav ing been filed in this court, represent ing, among other' things, that Matevz Lozekar,' then being a resident of the County of St. Lpuilt, State of Minne sota. died iitfestatSrin the County of St. Louis, State of- MlnrieisbLta. on the 8th da^" 6' "October, 1907, }e&vlner es tate in the County of St. Louis,' Stato of Minnesota, arid-that said petitioner is the widow of said decedent, and prayirig that letters of administration of "the' estate of said decedent be granted to her. It is Ordered, That said petition be heard before, this cojut,at ,$He, TProt bate Court Rooms in' Cne Court Xlouse, in Duluth in said County. ofl Monday the 2nd day br D^teriiBer," I907. at ten O'clock, A. M., and all persons, inter ested in said hearing and in said mat ter are hereby cited arid "required at said time. and: plac^ to show cause, if any there be, why said petition" should not be granted. Ordered Further, That this order be served by publication In the Laboi' World, according to law, and that a copy of this Order be served on the County Treasurer of -St Louis County not leSs thari ten days' prior to said d^y of hearing, '"Dated at' Duluth, Minn., Nov 4, 1907. By the Court. J. B. M1DDLECOFF, Judge' of Probate. (Seal Probate Court. St Louis Co|, Minn.) All invited. Labor, Worldr—Nov. 9. 16, 23, 1907. ORDER OF HEARING- ON PETITION FOR ADJUSTMENT OF FINAL ACCOUNT AND FOR FINAL DECREE OF DISTRI BUTION STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF St."'Louis.'' In Probate Court.' In tlie Mattei of the Estate of Robert "Stdne Deceased. The petition of Geo. W. A. White as representative of the above named de cedent, together with his final account of the administration of said estate, having been filed in this court, repre- seritirig, among other things, that he has fully administered said estate, and praying that said final account of said administration he examined, adjusted and allowed by the court, arid that the court make and enter its final decree of distribution of tTie residue of tlie estate of saijl decedent to the persons entitled thereto, arid for. the discharge pf the representative and the sureties It is Ordered. That said petition be heard, and said final account exam ined, adjusted and allowed by the coprt, at the Probate Court Rooms in the Court House* in the City of Duluth in said County on Monday the 2nd day of December. 1907, at ten o'clock A. M., and all persons interested in said hearing and in said matter are hereby cited and reauired at said time and place io show cause, if any there be, why said petition should not be granted. Ordered Further, That this order be served by publication, in the Labor World according to law. It. is Ordered," That said petition be heafd before this cburt. at the Probate Court Rooms in the Court, House, in Duluth In said County on. Monday^ the 2nd day of December. 1907, at ten o'clock A. M..*" and ail persons inter ested in said hearing and In said mat ter are hereby cited and required at sajd time, arid place to shaw^ cause. If. any there be, why' said petition should not be granted. Ordered Further, That this order be served by publication., in the Labor World, according to law,- ahdi that a copy of this order be 'served: on the County Ttreasurfer of St. Louis! Coiintv not, leas. th,ah ten :. Dated at Duluth, Minn., Nov. 4, 1307. By the Court, Ji B. MIDDLECOFF, Judge ot Ifrobate. (Seal Probate Court.' St. Louis Co., Minn.) Labor World—Nov. 9, 16. 23, 1907. O&DER FOR HEARING ON PETITION FOR A DMINISTRATION: STATE OF.'MINNESOTA. COUNTY OF St. Louis, in Probate Court, In the Matter of the Estate of Chas. (Kalle) Mattson, Decedent. The petition of John Miattson having been filed in this court, representing, among other things, tha.t Chas. (Kalle) Mattson, 'then being a resident of 'the County of: St Louis, State, of.'Minner spta, diedj intestate, in the. County'of St, Louis, State of Minnesota, on the 10th day of September, ldt)7, leaving estate in the, Gouhty of St. Louis'. State of. Minnesota, and:xthat said petitioner, lis, the brother of said diecede.pt, and praying that' letters of' administration of- the estate of Said decedent be granted- to him. days prior- to said day of hearing. Dated at Duluth, Minn., Nov. 1, 19Q7. By the Court, Jr B. MIDDLECOFF, Judge of Probate. (Seal Probate Court. St. Louis Co., Minn.) La,bor World—Nov. 9, 16, 2 1907 PH0D4 12ZB. 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