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Published Every Saturday. Established in 1896 by Sabrie G. Akin. Business Office MC-627 Manhattan Bldg., Duluth, Minn. Zenith Phone 65. SUBSCRIPTIONS! One Tear, in advance Six months, in advance go Three months, in advance Single Copies. 5 Cents. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. Entered at the Postoffice at Duluth, Minn., as second class matter. WILLIAM E. McEWEN, Publisher. HARRY H. TURNER, Editor. +ABOR Are You On? On the authority of Robert Hunter, well known writer on po litico-economical subjects, who tried and was unsuccessful in lo cating a copy of the senate com mittee's report on conditions of labor in Charles M. Schwab's prin cipality of Bethlehem, Pa., the document was evidently suppress ed on orders from higher up. About the only people who don't believe that there is a fine job between Schwab and respon sible government officials are Mr. Schwab and those officials. They wont admit it because it isn't desirable to terminate it just yet. And there are good thinkers in this great country of ours who wonder why confidence in the trustworthiness of officials is fail ing. The government was created for the people by the people, and everything that transpires in gov ernmental business is the property of the people. But the people are not taken into the confidence of the govern ment, through fear that they might get to thinking and de mand action of a kind that would extirpate the evils on which men higher up fatten their purses. The men "higher up" by whose orders the Bethlehem report was suppressed are the same men in Washington who want to see Eb erhart the next governor of Min nesota. Tiiey-know he is pliable and men of the pliable kind are the ones that Taft and his "stand pat" crew want to see in office. The senate* committee charged with the investigation of the elec tion of Senator Lorimer of Illinois has at last decided to go to work. It will probably make a report some time next winter. The congressional committee appointed to investigate the con duct of Secretary Ballinger closed its hearings some months ago, but the "regular" Republican mem bers, who form the majority of the committee, refuse to make public their findings until after the elections. The special congressional com mittee appointed to investigate the McMurray Indian land con tracts in Oklahoma and Senator Gore's charges of bribery, after a partial inquiry, has also post poned further sessions until after the elections. The congressional committee which was to investigate the friar lands scandals in the Philippines and the sale of large estates to agents of the Sugar trust has done nothing. Its report will not be made, if ever, until after the elec tions. All of these committees, which are controlled by the Republican members, are engaged upon & common policy—to prevent, if possible, the airing of the various scandals they were directed to in vestigate until after the Novem ber elections. Congressman Clarence B. Miller was a member of the congression al committee to investigate the MoMurray Indian land contracts in Oklahoma. He too, is pliable and so got his appointment at the hands of Czar Cannon. Taft and his "standpat" crew want to see Miller returned to Washington 1 '"fa T, about as bad aa they want to see Eberhart made a ftal governor. Can you imagine anything worse for the chances of the com mon people getting the legislation that is coming to them-—either state or national—than to have such tools of the "big interests" elected. The railroad-brewery combine and all other leeching corpora tions are already tapping kegs to ensure the election of men to do their bidding. Are you on? FIGURES DON'T LIE ON HIGH TARIFF'S RECORD Figures are stubborn things. They are frequently used to prove both sides of a ease, but there are times when they cannot be dis^ puted. The twenty-second annual re port of the Rhode Island bureau of industrial statistics shows these faets: "Wages of operatives in woolen and worsted mills are from $7 to $9 a wek 80 per cent of opera tives are foreign born. "Wages in silk mills, $7 to $8 a week 80 per cent of operatives foreign born. "Wages in cotton mills, $7 to $8 a week 80 per cent of opera tives foreign born. "Wages in rubber factories, $8 to $9 a week 70 per cent of oper atives foreign born."' And yet with all this evidence, duplicated many times, we hear and read that American labor must be protected from competi tion with the "pauper millions of Europe," and that the wages of the "free born" must be kept up! President Taft, when he signed the tariff bill, admitted that the rate on woolen goods was too high. Pennsylvania illustrates the fal lacy of the doctrine that a high Governor Eberhart Is now calling himself a "Progressive." He lias for gotten his interview in Washington last spring in which he assured Presi dent Taft that the people of Minne sota were beginning to like the Payne Aldrich tariff he has forgotten that during that same visit he took partic ular pains to get Secretary Ballinger to address his Conservation meeting of March last. He has forgotten that he then gave assurances that there was "no insurgency in Minnesota." He has so completely forgotten that he went down to Beverly to invite Mr. Taft to speak at his September Con servation meeting, that he couldn't remember his name in his keynote speech. He has forgotten that during the primary election he did everything possible in the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth districts to nominate "Standpat" candidates to congress and to embarrass and defea£ Progressives. In fact he is playing that old, old game of "running with the hare and hunting with the hounds." To show how Mr. Eberhart's tactics are regarded outside the state, we reproduce the article from Senator La Follette's publication, together with the information that it received editorial endorsement from the sen* ator: "The Conservation Congress to be held in St. Paul beginning Sept. 5 has suddenly become charged with large meanings. Originally designed to con sider the somewhat limited problem of the public land policies of the na tion, it now promises to be the forum for a titanic struggle between the supporters of the people's rights on the one hand—the Progressives or Insurgents—and the defenders of spe cial interests—the Standpatters-—on the other hand. With most of the notable political leaders of the coun try in attendance, the Congress can not fail to have a profound political significance. "No sooner had the Congress been announced for St. Paul than the In terests began to move upon it—either to destroy it utterly or to dominate it. As customary in such cases, a local board of management was appointed to make the necessary local arraQge meats, .including the choice of an audi torium and the raising of mosey for the immediate expenses. In no case formerly has a local board ever had anything to do with the arrangement of the program, the appointment of speakers or officers, or with matters of publicity. But no sooner had this particular board been appointed, with Governor Eberhart of Minnesota at its head, than it began to move se cretly but with determination toward the control of the Congress itself. "In order to understand the rea sons for this particular action, cer tain underlying causes must be made plain. For years the Republican party machine in Minnesota has been the creature of the Qreat Northern Rail road Company For a time its reign was threatened and it fits baft to ac Pr-'fT +r •J&& Eberhart's "Progressiveness" Huge Joke of the Campaign tariff protects.'' Her eoal and steel trusts are known of all men. Massachusetts cotton mills are a further example of low wages, cheap and child labor, and the general exploitation of all that is supposed to apply to American labor. A high tariff is monopoly's right bower. It is the first aid to scientific robbery of the citizens. Until the time comes when the people decree there shall be no more trusts, and that the tariff shall not be used to swell private fortunes, we shall have to protest as best we can, and make that protest count. ORGANIZED WORKERS! Whom will you choose for gov* ernor of Minnesota? An '•er rand boy of, the bis Interests* or a plain man out of the rinks of the common people? The choice will soon toe np to you. Post yourselves. PRICE OF CLEANLINESS SOARS WITH LIVING COST Soap bubbles skyward rise and prices heavenward soar. Cost of living has be*en aviating of late, and now comes the an nouncement that the price of cleanliness is to go up kiting. Cleanliness may be next to godli ness, but it is a whole lot more costly. It is heralded that the price of soap is to join the climbing con test of the necessities of life. The price of soap, plain, decorated and scented, is to be increased. What a blow to the Saturday night clean-up institution! The big spap manufacturers are practically unanimous in their de mand for more money for soap. It is generally agreed that the price of a 5-cent cake of plain, proletarian scrubbing 60ap may be doubled within the next few weeks. Colgate & Co. were the first to cept a man like Senator Clapp in the United States Senate, but its 'hand upon the state government in Minne sota ever since Governor Johnson's death has been very heavy indeed. The real governor of Minnesota is not Eberhart, but Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad. Eber hart, now nominated to succeed him self as the Standpat candidate for governor, is really nothing more than a railroad errand boy. Interests Against Conservation. "Now, the railroad interests of the Northwest, and Louis W. Hill in par ticular, are against conservation, against people's government, against the Progressive group of leaders. So Eberhart's committee began to inter fere at once with the plans of the Conservation Congress. They ob jected to certain speakers, notably Louis D. Brandeis of Boston, and they interfered so actively that Mr. Pinchot and his associates threatened to re move the Congress to Kansas City This the Interests did not want they wanted it in St. Paul where they had greater powers of control than they would have in Missouri. So they quieted down, but they did not for a moment stop their underground work. "As soon as the presence of the Congress in St. Paul was assured, they began again to work for a change of the program. It was found that the governor was in constant communica tion with President Hill, and that every effort was being made to change the Congress from a conserva tion meeting into an anti-COnservation meeting. By pressure exerted in high places they succeeded in getting the names of Senators Cummins and Clapp 'removed from the program, and of adding the names of number of Western governors known to be hos tile to the national conservation n* oar resources. They have refused to give reduced railroad fares to dele gates, knowing that this will tend to cut down the attendance of delegates from the East "Exercising, also, his great influence upon politics in the Far West, w^ere his railroad runs, President Hill has been most Active in his Jgtorts. A conference of Western 'governors called together at Salt Lake Cijkfr will plan a definite campaign and appear In the Congress with a full quota Of delegates. The policy which will prob ably be adopted will be the 'demand, not national, but state control of pub* lie lands—which would utterly defeat the conservation movement. The eld selfish theory of states' rights is to be injected into this question as it was injected into the political discussions previous to the Civil war for the de fense of the privileged class of slave* holders. "As it now stands the program of the congress is divided into two parts. The anti-conservationists will be given the first chance: the Western governors will speak. After that the national conservationists will appear: Roosevelt, Pinchot, Garfield, several notify the groeew of th« mertate in pri^e* They advanced the price of their laundry soap from 50 to 60 cents a box. Kirkqian & Sons followed with the announcement of an increase to 60 cent* box, and it is under* stood that Babbitts intend to fol low suit., The teaaotia givon for the in crease in the cjMit. of the instru ment of cleanliness ia the advance in the priqe of raw materials used in the making of proletarian yel low and tar soap and bourgeois tinted and scented *oap. GRIM RKAPER'8 HAND IS FELT BY WHOLE FAMILY The person injured or killed in an industrial accident is always a worker, an income producer. No helpless children, no feeble old men, no idle women perish in these disasters. So nearly every work accident leaves a problem Of poverty behind Of the 526 men killed in the year '9 accidents in Pittsburg, 258, or almost one-half, were married men regularly sup porting their families (more than 470 children under 16 were left fatherless by the fatalities of the year) of the single men and boys killed, only 38 per cent were quite without dependents. Among the families of married men killed, one-half got from the employer either no compensation whatever, or merely funeral ex penses. Only one-fourth of these families got more than $500. Among the families of single men with dependents, 65 per cent stood the whole loss, and only 17 per cent got more than $500. The following figures give some Idea of what a work fatality means in the home: Among 132 families where a husband and father had been killed, fifty-three of-the widows went to work, twenty-two children were taken out of school and pat to work, and nineteen families moved to poorer quarter#—all this within a year after the accident. Organised labor through trades unions will ultimately control eco nomic conditions. It ia therefore our duty not only to ourselves but to coming generations that we build wisely and well. The satis faction and beauty of the trade union plan is that we are able to help ourselves, to better our pres ent conditions as we build for the future* The price of all food products has gone up. We even get a smaller hole in the doughnut now. When you get so old you can take things easy, there is nothing left to take. POTSHOTS WTO THE POLITICAL FLOCK Throughout his.tour ofvthe range this week Labor Commissioner Mc JSwen took especial pains to point out to the working people, of whom his audiences were in the main part composed, the record established by Governor Eberhart and his advisors Senators Smith and Dunn as "friends of the working man." The vacillat ing and jellyfish attitude of the gov ernor during the recent etrilCe of railroad switchmen was not allowed to pass unnoticed and promises were made for James Gray, Democratic nominee, that under his hand the in terests of the working classes would have first call. An humble worker himself,. Mr. Gray's sympathies are at all times with the men who pro duce, the men who are so brutally and so gluttonously exploited by the interests- Who are now ready to spend huge sums to maintain their lackey in the capital building, at St. Paul. The triMining ciarsnce B. Miller got at the hands of his Republican opponent. Alex McKnight, during the primary campaign was but a flea bite compared to the gruelling *hioh is being /meted out to him daily ih his addresses by Judge Jaques. Dur ing the past w^ek the eloquent and fearless Diiluth lawyer has figurat ively put Miller's hide on the fence stretched forty toys for Sunday. And in this limelight campaign he has ho better ally than the congressional record. It's all there in black and white, how Miller bit the hand that handed Cut the plum. And the con gressional record, while It may ab breviate or on the order of ingress may leave out undesirable passages altogether.'has not yet been placed in the Ananias class., It looks as if Harry Cheadle, in entering the race for representative of the {let district had with his *eu*l Ittck, landed right aide upper most, "He has a 'pudding'" said a Republican yesterday, "And." with a deep sigh# "It looks as if would LAND SNAPS on French Rtver tine 5 runnifc* water Ideal jjfg* for wmmtr oomt terms to W. H. LOCKER certainly does look as if the party, in allowing Representative Laybourne to again make the race, had com mitted a considerable amount of po litical suicide. How noUbte events do crowd each other, to be sure. Following hard on the heels of Gov ernor Eberhart's "keynote" speech in that fair city, Mankato reports the birth of a two-headed pig. if that pig follows the footsteps of some illustrious representatives of the porker family and becomes an "edu cated pig," he will need both his heads and then some to grasp the full significance of that Republican plat form which Mr. Eberhart says he stands on.—Minneapolis Daily News. These death-bed repentances are all right, if the patient dies, but suppose he recovers? As a case in pfcint, there is Julius Schmahl, candidate for sec retary of state on the Republican ticket We all remember how Julius broke into print just after the passage of the Payne-Aldrich bill and informed the people of the Northwest that Min nesota had at least one congressman who would not be apologising for his vote two years hence, and he regretted that tliere was only one. Again when Mr. Taft came to Winona and "boost ed" for Tawney, Mr Schmahl swelled up and said, "I told you to" Then Mr. Roosevelt came to Minnesota and took a shot at the man who, according to Julius, had no apology to make on his tariff vote, and Julius said:. "Oh, Roosevelt is hot because Tawney wouldn't let him squander all the money in^the treasury pn battleships." Then came the New York convention, at• which the "Old Guard" was scat tered like chaff. Jnlius made up his mind he was in wrong, and he shout ed: "Hurrah for Teddy didn't we put it to them," and ever since he has been a vociferous Progressive, as has -MMe-Too-Eberhart." But the people have memories. Mr. Ballinger is truly a consistent "conservationist" He doesn't over look anything, even to the beer busi ness. On Thursday last he revoked the Order of the Indian department, by which all saloons in the Indian country were to be closed on Oct. 15, and the brewers are naturally jubilant over their victory. Governor Eberhart and Secretary Ballinger are again to gether in perfect harmony in the great conservation chorus. Verily, he who puts two saloons where one flourished is a benefactor of the brewers. Governor Eberhart says that the Democrats have "painted the pump to purify the well." But, my dear gov ernor, you purified the waters of the Democratic well, so far as the liquor crowd is concerned. You have lifted the whole liquor bunch bodily out of the Democratic party, and enrolled them under your banner. It is "busi ness" with them, governor, and tfe don't know that we blame them for the ewitch, but what did you promise them—under the rose? "The Minneapolis bartenders have organized in behalf of Governor Eber hart. Their organisation is known as the Aegis Circle. What is the matter with calling it by its right name? Is the governor ashamed of his new-found support, or do the promoters fear to indicate the character of their occu pation in their official title? The gov ernor seems to be "taking the schools out of politics," but putting the bar tenders in. Of course it is possible that all those Democratic brewers and saloon keep era are supporting Governor Eberhart because they believe be will enforce all laws—including liquor laws—more rigorously than would Gray. Do you believe it?__ The man who can be need to get through petty grafting can be de pended on for big steals. You remem ber, perhaps, how Governor Eberhart was used in the Seabury graft? ME AND ASSY AND JOHN. Me and Andy and John Are givin* a lot away To colleges here and libraries there-— We're helpin' 'em every day. There's John—he's smilin' a happy smile And wrltin' the checks against his pile And Andy—-biddin* the world have peace And wishih' the wars would some how cease And me—I'm doin' my hours o' toil To pay the bills for the steel and oil. John and Andy and me— We're ceirtainly helpin' some With money, for this and money for that As fast as petishuns come. There's Andy makln' 'em carve his name Upon the libraries for his fame And John-—he's teachin' the young to save An' givln' advice he always gave. And me? I'm helpin 'em meet both ends By chlppin' in on the dividends. Andy and John and me Hold wealth as. a preshus trust We're helpin' 'em here an* helpin' 8 East Superior Street. Suits, Fall Overcoats, Black Raincoats Convertible Dress Overcoats, Winter Overcoats. Your Credit is Good By shovelln' out our dust. There's Andy-—bpsy as he can be Considerin' plans for a library And John a-whackin' a boundin' •ball And lettin' his words o* wisdom fall And me! I'm payin' my small ac count To help 'em both to a bank ac count. Me and Andy and John. Are givin' our money free The colleges here and libraries there Are gettin' -it from us three. There's John-—he's happiest when he gives, And he^l be doin' that while he lives And Andy—-makin' 'em raise their part To build the houses for books and art, And me? By ginger! 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