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ft PtkUikci Bvcqr latuia^. ft Established la 1898 by Sabrle G. AM*. BUImm OfflW 164-7 Manhattan Bid*. Dttlttth. Vina. Zenith p^jone W. SVDSCRlPnoKSi Ota* Tear, in advance- JJ lilt months. in advance.......... .g Three months, in advance........ Single Copies. 8 Cents. Advertising Rate* Made Known on Ap tion. pUcati Entered at the Postoffice at Dulutb, Minn., as second class matter. WILLIAM E. M'EWEN, Editor and Publisher. TRADES Iffljjffl) COUNCIL 10 "If some despondent soul to hope is stirred. Some sad heart made to smile, By any act of ours, or any word, Then, life has been worth while." OUR LEADER'S CRITICS. The Republican leaders and their party organs throughout the country are trying hard to misrepresent Mr. Gompers, and prejudice his fellow un ionists against him in the present campaign. They know that he is an acknowl edged leader in the labor movement, and that by exercising his intelligence and thoroughly informing himself on current political events, he cannot consistently do otherwise than repu diate a rarty whose candidate in augurated the pre version of the in junction process in labor disputes, and whose legislators refused labor a hear ing and laughed at its plea for relief against oppression. These are the things that are wor rying the Republican managers and their subsidiary newspapers, and they very much fear that unless something is done to discredit Mr. Gompers or ganized labor in this campaign will support the Democratic ticket, and thus protect its own interests and cease to be the tools of designing politicians. When Mr. Gompers announced that he would cast aside his partisanship and stand squarely by those who have evidenced some regard for the toilers, a lot of papers having political axes to grind shout that "Gompels says he will deliver the labor vote to Bryan" 'V* Mfe* The facts in the case are that Mr. Gompers has at no time promised to "deliver the labor vote" to Bryan. Mr. Gompers knows full well that he has but one vote he can deliver, and that vote is his own. But after view ing the situation thoroughly and hav ing posted himself on current poli tical and industrial history, Mr. Gom pers has decided in his .own mind that the interests of organized labor demand that organized labor support Mr. Bryan, and having so decided in his own mind he is bound to tell the members of organized labor how he thinks they ought to vote if they would benefit themselves. As the head of the American Fed eration of Labor it is not only Mr. Gomper's privilege but his bounden duty to advise unionists to lay aside partisan bias and vote for the men who come nearest to representing thfe hopes and aspirations of union men and women. He went to the Republican national convention and asked that men who work for wage be put on the same level of justice as the men who toil not, nor spin upon the same level as the men who pay the wages. His answer was a sneer and the result was a calm ignoring of the just demands of organized labor. Then Mr. Gompers—who is himself a Republican—went to the Democratic national convention and asked for the same thing. The Democratic convention gave heed to the petition and gave organ ized labor the planks it wanted, and which it was well within its rights in asking. Why therefore should not Mr. Gom pers and every other union man sup port their friends for office as against their bitterest foes LABOR DAY OBSERVANCE. The Labor Day committee are w.orking with a will to make Labor Day celebration this year an event worthy of the great cause which it represents. Every union realizes that the proper observance of the day means much to organized labor in this city, and for that reason the locals have en tered actively into the work, and are pushing the preparations with enthus iasm and spirit. The committee aTe determined to leave nothing undone that will con tribute towards rendering the pro gram and exercises of the day a credit to our people, and in this they hayie the hearty cooperation of the member ship of all the local unions. Let every one parade and show our friend*, and our enemies also, that recurring yearsshows a decided IncnMuw of the sftwiifiir'of'or3*:i*ed' labor, notwithstanding adverse condi ,v tions. NEED NOT WORRY. An exchange very property observes that "the editorial writers of some of the great American dailies, always unfavorably disposed toward the or ganized workers, are using up col umns of space to show that the rank and file are dissatisfied with. the, atti tude of Samuel Gompers on the in-, junction plank in the Democratic platform. How awfully worried they are about us. They "fear" the beginning of the end of the American Federation of Labor. But don't let those editorials cause you the loss of any sleep, brother trade unionists? "You may gamble if the writers thought we were going' on the rocks they wouldn't be hanging out danger signals. They'd just keep mum and let us slide to our doom." Those papers from necessity draw their financial support from sources comprising within their ranks our strongest opponents and enemies and cannot be relied upon to set forth our views, rights, purposes and deeds. In the first place, but very few of the editors, publishers and news gatherers hafe any distinct under standing of our needs, desires, thoughts nor deeds, and in the second place, their advertising space, the source of profit of such newspapers is filled by the interests gnerally hos tile to all that our movement stands for. Union labor has the intelligence to use its own judgment in such mat ters, as it does in directing its course in the field Of industry, and it is not going to be misled by the crocodile tears of a subsidized partisan press. KNOWS IT8 FRIENDS. Republican leadens have failed to measure the breadth of trade union thought on the question of politics. They evidently have not considered how grossly apathetic has been a lie publican congress to the appeal* of labor. They purposely conceal the mean ingless injunction plank in the plat form of their party, knowing that its construction was |t the bidding of labor's organised foe, the national as sociation of manufacturers. They forget that their candidate for the highest office .within the gift of the American people Is best known to the labor world as the pioneer abuser .of the power,of the courts in injunction procedure. Union labor has been compelled to do. some thinking of late, and it h'as theintelligenceto know to what party to look for a redress of its grievances. It has been kept fully informed of the attitude of a Republican congress and a Republican party convention, and it will govern its action at the polls next November accordingly. STATEMENT BY BRYAN. The following statement was made by William J. Bryan when he received the announcement of his nomination as the candidate of the Democratic party for president: "The presidency is-the highest-posi tion in the world and no one Occupy ing it can afford to have his views on public questions biased by per sonal ambition. Recognizing his responsibility to God and his obliga tion to his countrymen, he should enter upon the discharge of his duties with singleness of purpose. Believing that one can best do this when he is not planning for a second term ,1 announce now, that if elected I shall not be a candidate for re-election. "This is a nomination as purely from the people as can be, and if elected, my obligations will be as purely to the people. I appreciate the honor the, more because it came not from one person or a few persons, but from the rank and file acting freely and without compulsion." ON RIGHT PLAFORM. The Kansas Union Journal ex presses our sentiments exactly when it says that, "Republican newspapers and politicians are doing their utmost to sow seeds of dissension in the ranks of union labor. "For the first time in his career aa president of the American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers has public ly declared his preference for a can didate for office, and has asserted that he will support'the candidacy of Wil liam Jennings Bryan for president of the United States, for the particular reason that the Democratic nominee stands upon a platform thoroughly' consistent with the policies of the American trade union movement." r"' GOMPERS MISREPRESENTED. Th* yellow journals and pluto cratic pre* of exploiting corpora^ tions and trusts, are endeavoring to mislead organized labor, and seeking to sow the seeds of dis sension hi the rank# by represent ing that Mr. ©owpeM is attempting to deliver tit# labor vote to Bryan, old Why shouldn't the "grand advise udion men, to consider their own interests and that of the totting atlllionif and vote tor Wtifc term thoroughly consistent wffh the aims an4 policies of the trades Union movement? The laboring classes and ttadea unionists fgr* not as* «s*ily misled now as formerly. They mov what party is moqt MWy to Record! labor the recognition It d^erVejf from swch a government as ours. They know' too, tfcat Mr. T*tr« reoord, and that ott his party in the con gress of the nation. furnish no basis upon which the suffrage of union labor can be claimed for the Republican party at fibis election. HOPE FOR* THE FUTURE, With our position so often empha sized and so generally known, it is nothing less, than wilful untruth and misrepresentation for any one to de clare that it is the purpose of labor to obtain any special privilege, par ticularly the undesirable and unenvi able liberty of creating a privileged class of wrongdoers. When the real purposes and high aspirations of our movement and the legislation it seeks at the hands of the law-making power of our country shall be better understood by all our people, and the great up-lifting work which we have already achieved shall find a better appreciation among those who now so unjustly attack and antagonize us, our opponents will be remembered for their ignoble work and course. SAMUEL GOMPBRS. RAVAGES OF TUBERCULOSIS. The chief medical officer of Maine, in a report issued not long ago, stated that sixty thousand peo ple, now living in the state of Maine, are destined to dl* of tuber culosis, unless some steps are taken to curb this disease. Me further stated that the cost to the state In the loss of the productive ca pacity of the sufferers was $20, 000,000 each decade, or $2,000,000 ,a year, and in this estimate no consideration is taken of the Agony of the sufferers, or of the anguish of those to whom they are near and dear. But this, disease will con tinue to spread. It will el&ftii a large percentage of our population year by year* until we ckwe the sweatshops and eliminate child sla very. THE LABEL HABIT. Get the label habit. It's a godd thing to carry around. We h£ve known people who weire so sensitive a«d shame-faced courageous enough to spend" their money with the men they knew ought to h&ve it by reason of their friendH« ness or for what they want, for fe&r of being given the rinky dink by the smart clerk. It's your money, you worked for it, and you certainly have a right to buy what you want—not to have the clerk Sell you what pleases him. GOOD FOR OKLAHOMA. The new state of Oklahoma has added another radical law to its progressive legislation. Recently the Howje and Senate enacted a law which provides for -a penitentiary tetf-m for any employer who refuses work to an employe on aooOunt of 1&4 latter belonging to a labor un ion. The bill prohibits Pinkerton defective* from working fn the state, tf some federal court does not butt Into Oklahoma and knock out some •of It* labor laws that state will be a «retty decent plaice to live in. BfitfAiCD T&R LABEL. Demand the label, cards and stamps. Tho poor emaciated gar ment worker, living and laboring in tenements under unsanitary con ditions, underfed and poorly paid, Is o^itled to our assistance. De mand the label, the only emblem fair conditions and fair in the workshop. OUR DETERMINATION. Not only. in our own interest, but in the interest of all the people of our country, for the preservation of real liberty, for the elimination of bitterness and class hatred, for the perpetuation of all that is best and truest, we can never rest until the last estige of this injustice has been removed from our public life. SAMUEL GOMPERS. Tfc* ccniAiration protects the vested of property, whether gotten by ft*«rd or jumeprily, and does not bother itself vwyt interpreted about the rights of Ood#s children. These i%tit» have not been defined by written corurtitu tions and statutes. Vh«y are (Supposed to live only in the bmtii» of a few harmless but emo UNSial fdteuists who talk fnately about the brotherhood of man. BRTAJr Otf THETABEr.. William J. Bryan: The tralon label is humanity's emblem forglnr it* way into workshop.: factory and mill. bearing opon-. its wings sweet messages of peace. Machinists'* locals of New England have begun an agitation to have labor men nominated for the various elec tive office* in every city and town. j- 1j wff *sb htatob. Mrsi. Garrie- Nation Is Credited with having made (one -could hardly say earned) about $200,000 going about the country smash'ihgbars and. costly saloori fitting* with her little .hatchet. Makingthe material thatevil Is said to grow out of is generally a serious occupation. But ju«t think of the: fun this old girl has: beta having in getting intd the Rockefeller ranks'.-"-Union Labor Journal, Brie, Pa. Jacobson is attempting to hog the situation and run the: Republican campaign to suit himself. If he per sists in his present tactics the so called Republican harmony will re ceive another severe jolt this fal!.— Iron Trade Journal. Duluth is discussing the advisability of moving its red light! district from St. Croix avenue to Twelfth avenue west. A befitting place to locate such an abomination would bis in Lake Su perior.—Bob Dunn in Princeton Union. Twenty-five cents admission will be charged during1" the campaign to the If&Us in which' prohibition spellbinders dilate upon the party's doctrine, for the prohibition national committee has So decreed. If the wind Splitters have to depend on the gate receipts for the liquidation of their expenses we fear they will:.fate very badly. There are but few people who will pay to hear the spellbinders of any political party ^Princeton Unions The trades unions ask for no spe cial right .or privileges not accorded to or enjoyed by* any individual citi zen. We insist Upon freedom of ac tion always within the law and invite punishment by .due legal process of law if We. transgress. We object to and emphatically protest against gov ern by injunction, which is another nkme for industrial slavery and a hollow mockery on our boasted dem ocracy. We want and demand free speech and free press, both of Which are guaranteed by the constitution but denied us by injunction judges in some cases.—Labor Leader, Baltimore. A paper in a good-sized town in Michigan recently published this item. "The business man of this. town who is in the. habit of hugging his typewriter had better quit Or we Will publish, his narrie." The next W business men called at the office paid up their subscrip tions and left behind them 3? columns of advertisingi, and told the editor ndt td pay anyattAritioii to foolish stories. Grand Ri^^? i^ess. ,!:v The above is dn a par ^ith- the story wfcere th¥ hostess at a banquet' announced thiltt the" best looklh^ gen tleman had forgotteh' to put on his neektie,: w'hereupon the eleven -meH at the tabie immediately felt" for their :ties! A Tfivesty on Unionism The" admitting of Judge Taft, thie Republican candidate for the' preSfc deftcy, ihto the International Steam Shovelers" Union, is a travesty on unionism. l^ren if it should have been any other judge, lawyer or W. J. Bryan, the union that would take such person or persons in, should be ashamed of themselves. Such meth ods will Soon put unionism "on a low, plane."—Union Labor Journal. Lies From Washington. Fearful that the results of the Un ited States supreme court decision in the hatters' case and the refusal of congress to amend the Sherman law may be reflected in this years' cam paign, the lying buretaus in Washing ton have started to grind out a lot of dope calculated to show that the trade unions are-in no-danger because of tbat Infamous court decree. The petty politicians are receiving instruc tions to assure the workingmen that the unions are not aftedted, that they are recognized as lawful combinations, that only boycotting is daciared ille gal by the court, etc., as though any union could live that was denied the right to ^refuse to purchase unfair products and request others to do likewise. However, these same poli tical tricksters are careful to say no thing about the supreme court's de claration that blacklist (the .employ ers51 plan to boycott union .men) is perfectly Just and legal. In order that none may be mislead' by the hired liars who declare that th unions are not in danger because of the siipreme court's decision in the hatters' case, we euote the language of the court, which reads: "In our opinion the combination de scribed in the declaration (united Hatters of North America) |s a com bination in reStraint of" trade or com mefbe among the several states, in the sense in which those! words are used in the act (Shennan anti-trust act), arid the- action can be main tained accordingly.—Cleveland Citizen. Praotice What Your Preach, The man who condemns the manu facturers who employ female and child tybor ait less than living wages and who purchase goods produced by such labor is .no better than the manufacturer himself. In order to wipe out the evil it must be attacked from every quarter. Buy Only union goods and hit thiS unfair manufacturer in his weakest place.— Steam Fitters' Journal. LABOR UNION GUSTS OUT AN INJUNOTION "What's .sauce for the goose ought riot to be distasteful to the gander," sb think the members Of a Detroit, Mich./ union: The usual Order of things in labor injunction cases Was reversed in the Wayne" circuit court Detroit. Mich., When the:Metal .Polishers, Buffers and and jPlaters union No. 1 secured a temporary injunction from Judge Hosmer restraining te police depart ment from interfering with them on the street in their peaceful solicita tion of c.employed of the ,Art Stove company to join thqir union, setting up .that it threatened the ruin of the union. Judge Hosmfer warned tlie rit^n' thit h¥ War riot ftuttyfrfeltig ftriy plcketliigr that T-T-TWO OF A K-KIND. A tall man .Impatiently pacing the platform of a wayside station, ac costed a red-haired- boy of about 12. "S-s-say/r h# Said, "d-dO yOtT know ha-ha-how late this train is'?*' The .hoy grinned but made no ret^y. .The man" stuttered out something about^ red-headed kids in general and passed into the stattori. i- A stringer, overhearing the one sided conferSatlon^ asked the boy why de hadn't' answered the big man. "D-d-d'ye wanter see me get me fa-fa-face punched?" stammered the boy. "D-d-dat big gUy*s think I was mb-mO-mocking him."—EJVetrybody's Magazine. Daughter—Yes I have graduated, but now I must inform myself in psychology, philology, bibll— Practical Mother—Stop right where you are. I have arranged for you a through course in roastoiogy, boiloio ky, StitchOiogy, darnology and general domestic hustleologjr.' Now get on your working clothes. OUR COTTAGE HOME. Nestled well batik on the hillside, O'er looking the swift flowing stream, Winding ''round meadows arid islets, O'er which the bright moonlight doth beatn, Is the sweetest arid cosiest cottage, Under Shelter of elms and of pitte-s Backed with a thick vefdarit foliage Of hazel and wild running vines. It's a haven of love and of pleasure. Where minds that are tired seek re pose It's the summer-time home of the weary, Where forgotten are life's cares and woes It's there where is breathed a rich fluid, With a tonic of visor for a base Wliere health arid the roSe red color Ai*e restored to the careworn face. There is music in all of the tree tops, Where proud robin is king of the air Whose chirp little song all the day long Lightens hearts laden with care There's a perfume so rich and refresh ing, With the cbming of each gentle breeze It's fragrance puts iife in the languid As it's fanned by the wind through the leaves. Come to this home for the weai^y, You Who are WCfti out with ^re, Relax 'heath its shadowy piii^ tre^s, Arid breathe deep its vigorous air. Then fefel the nerve force retiirriing. Arid h6pe cOiiiifig back td your: br^^4f. Oh, come to this haVeri of pleasure, This piace of true cotrifort and r^st. w. e: M'fiJWEkl Torid dU Lac. -"nriHi"ir-l'r--"-rn CITY OWNERSHIP WELL IN GREAT BRITAIN According td reports transmitted by United' -^t4tei| jSoUsuI Halsted ah^t pub lished by the' Department of Commerce and Labor at Washingtoft, municipal enterprises in Gr^iHt Britain show re markably efficient .mafi'agement. The Birmingham gas department last year turned over $298,378 to the gen eral funds of the city,, besides putting $166,872 in the sinking fund' This wis in spuite of a great Increase in the cost Of coal. The street railway department turned over $13i 28i to the general funds of the City,' put $180 242 iiito a reserve fund, and paid $238,826 on debts incurred for the acquisition and equipment of the lines. The average: fare charged was less thah two centi different fares,' from one cent up, being charged according to distance. The electric supply department, which furnishes the municipal street railways with" power and also sells light and power to private establish ments, i?aid $121,074 on the iebt in euifed in establishing it. The Water department is still a source ot expense, on account of the enormous cost to Which the city went in constructing the plant, going clear to Wales to get a Supply of pure water. Th#- deficit l&st year Was $358,766, which is less by $17,880 than the previous yeir's deficit. GARPJSirfERS TO PLAN FOR OLD-AQE PENSIONS One of the principal matters and most important features ot the next convention of... the United. Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joinieris, Which meets in Salt Lake City, September 15th next, will be the plan to start an old-age pension/ similar to the pro cedure of the International Typo graphical union. OKLAHOMATAKESSTAND AGAINST THE PINK£RT6NS The house and senate of Oklahoma has passed a bill which provides for a penitentiary term for any employer who refuses work to an employe on account of the latter belonging to a labOr union. The bill also prohibits pinkerlOn detectives from working in the state. Okiahomn is taking the lead: of all the states in enacting legislatiori for the people, arid the corporations Will receive' what thejr arie justly entitled to, and no more.u, BUDWEldER. The most popular beer in the world. Th^re is lesS profit to the dealer Who sells it, because it costs most at the brewery, yet sales eseceed those of all other Bottled -Beers Which proves that its superiority is recognised ev erywhere. PERSONAL. Mr^ W. H. Wiener, national organis er for the United Garment Workers of America, iS in the city and will remain for a few days to look after matter connected with the welfare of the or ganization. MM, rr WHO PLAYS "MADGE," "IN OLD KENSttJqKr." AMUSEMENTS. It has been the fortune of few plays to receive such high commendation from all classes of playgoers as has been given "In Old Kentucky," which Will be seen at the Lyceum Monday matinee and night. The piece con tains just as much of heart interest, pathos and humor today as it. con tained when it first saw the light 16 years ago, and like old wine, it1 im proves with age. The jolly little pickaninnies are just as comical as of yore, and one's pulses throb as Of Old over the splendid race track scene and the other notable episodes of this Stirring American drama. It shows no signs of deterioration as the years roll by, and is always a welcome ofter irig in. any theatrical season. The Mack-Leone, players will ap peal next wee^c commencing Tuesday August 18" iri a' splendid three act Comedy, of: Washington society life, "A Diplomatic Tangle." The play is very-similar to "The Man on the Box" Which was^. so successfully produced by this company several weeks 'ago. The -play will be Under the auspices of the Normanna Singing Chorus, Who will render selections between acts. THE OTHER FELLOW SLEEPS. A Iottg after dinner siesta' is most exhilarating' to a theatrical official, the functional unity of whose nervous or ganism is sorely depressed from a too long indulgence the night before, in the exuberances and ecstacies and in expressible delights of ah endearing Courtship.. ••That's all very nice and poetical. But where does the sooth ing syrup'or confectionery' come in for the: fellow who, like "Carter's Little Liver Pills" works While the,Other fel low sleeps? That's the question pro pounded at the box office and to which Cupid's answer is not immediately forthcoming. KELLOGtG COMPLETES THE PETITION IN OIL CASE ST. PAUL, Aug. 12.—Frank B. Kel logg, special counsel for the govern ment, announced- today' that he had completed the petition for a re-hearing a necessity to every business man. Digesto is Efficient and Pafatfltilt /It all Oru* Stores MALT VW/4 4 zh A, y'-s 7/ -i. z^ fj vjM, 'y A in the case of the government against the Standard Oil company of Indiana, a.nd the petition will be filed in th« ,tfri|ted States circuit court of appejil& Aug. 20. ^r. Kellogg stated that the petition had been examined sosd. proved by Attdrhey^^ G^eS^/j^ii|fiaSkrte. Mr. Kellogg was in cSisQl^ttioB:" wflh Assistant District Attorney WilkerSpn of Chicago the greater part of the day in connection, with the case. CHICAGO OlftSAT WESTERN BAd&S tTiP ON GRAIN RATES CHICAGO, Aug. 12.—The Chicago Great Western railroad today with drew a .notice of, a cut in grain rates: which it had filed a few weeks ago. The new'tariffs!-were to have estab lished equalized rates from Omaha to St.- Paui, and. .from Qm&ha to Ohica^D, and it Was ipredicted by traffic, experts that tlie-mpve wojild reStiit in a Wide spread rate war. The"Withdrawal of. the new rates, hoWever, renders this contingency remote. HARVEST HANDS NEEDED IN CANADIAN For thc Business Man Mental concentration and overwork means the lq& of vkalityl Digesto. with its food tonic Qualities, WINNIPEG, Aug. 12.—The provincial department of agriculture Is flooded with requests for farm help" f6r ill Over .the province. There remains Between 500 and 600 districts t0 be heaird from and it is .expected that by the time all reque'sts"" are in there Will be betW.een 11,000^ and i2,00p men needed iri western Canada's harvest' fields. THE BttBR *•. riRiu OF THE PEOPLE BBBWiD' FORTHEPEOPLl^ BBLISBBO BY THE PEOPLE make this Malt Exttact