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THE PEOPLE MAY KNOW
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DO YOU KNOW what is meant by
1.000 cubic feet?
DO YOU KNOW that It would take
an ordinary gas burner almost 60 days
to burn $1.00 worth of gas?
DO YOU KNOW that the average
family gas bill paid in Lincoln for the
month of February was only $3.00?
DO YOU KNOW that this means a
cost of less than 9 cents a day for each
family using gas? That many families
get along on even HALF this expense?
DO YOU KNOW that it is actually
cheaper to cook with gas than with
coal, wood or gasoline?
DO YOU KNOW that a Gas Range is
cheaper than any other range you can
purchase cheaper in first cost, cheaper
in last cost?
DO YOU KNOW that no woman who
has ever used a gas range would care
to go back to a coal or wood range?
DO YOU KNOW that a modern gas
range will do ALL the work of a coal
range and do it with HALF the labor
and HALF the cost?
DO YOU KNOW that a regular fam
ily dinner can be cooked on a gas
range for about SEVEN CENTS a
breakfast for TWO CENTS? .
DO YOU KNOW that you can buy a
modern gas range on terms as low as
$5 down and $2 a month?
DO YOU KNOW that we will connect
ycur gas range free of charge, no mat
ter where you buy it in Lincoln?
DO YOU KNOW that we maintain a
free exhibit room 'where a complete
line of gas ranges and heaters are
shown in actual use, with gas turned
on?
DO YOU KNOW that, you can heat
water in your bath room by simply
lighting a gas jet down stairs?
DO YOU KNOW that you can have
hot water all summer without building
a fire?
DO YOU KNOW that you can have a
hot bath at any hour of the day or
night by simply striking a match?
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THE WAQEWORKER
WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Published Weekly. One DoHar a Year. Advertising Rates on Application
Entered as second-class matter Ap ril 21, 1904, at the postoffice at Lin
coln, Neb, under the Act of Congress.
A WORD ABOUT THE COURTS.
There is published in Chicago a weekly magazine known as
Public Policy, "dedicated to the discussion of public questions as
moral and economic propositions." The quoted wordf are from the
magazine itself. Public Policy is a worthy newspaper, and it
shows every evidence of a desire to, treat fairly and fully all questions
coming before the people. Cut like many another publication it
shuts its eyes to real conditions and deludes itself into the belief that
the conditions are as they should be. Public Policy quotes from
the Ohio State Journal an editorial entitled "Clean Hands," which
editorial is re-printed elsewhere, and then adds of its own account :
An article in this issue under the title of "Clean Hands" gives
encouraging evidence that some labor leaders at least are learning
that the courts can be depended upon to do justice. They are dis
covering that their troubles with the courts have been caused by
conduct for which they did not want justice. When labor organiza
tions generally recognize the fact that they have nothing to fear from
the courts so long as they keep their hands clean, we shall hear less
about "intimidation" and correspondingly less about government by
injunction. We repeat what we have said many times before, the
need of the hour is intelligent enforcement of existing law, not more
legislation."
If there be demanded of organized labor that it have "clean
hands" when it goes into court, then let it be demanded that the
courts have "clean hands" when it sits to hear the cases bro.ught
before it. There has been more incentive to anarchy and riot from
the outrageous betrayal of justice at the unclean hands of impure
judges within the last decade than there has been from the overt acts
of organized labor. Federal judges appointed at the behest of giant
corporations who demand their appointment as the price of their con
tribution to campaign funds, are not subject to the people. They
own no responsibility save to the influences that secured their ap
pointment. And with their pockets full of railroad passes these
judges sit in cases of controversy between organized labor and rail-j
road corporations and demand of labor that it "come into court with
clean hands." How about the "hands" of the other. side of the case?
How about the "hands" of the judge who owes his appointment tc;
the railroad that is party to the case and whose pockets bulge with
passes from that same railroad for himself and members of his
family?
Certainly organized labor should go into court with "clean
hands," but why does not Public Policy make the same insistent de
mand that the other parties to the case and the judge himself come
into court with hands equally clean ?
In a federal court room not an hundred miles from Lincoln an
incident happened recently that bears upon this case. A member of
a jury hearing a case in that court borrowed a dollar from an attorney
appearing for one of the parties to the suit. The fact was called to
the attention of the federal judge presiding, and he discharged the
jurymen with a scorching reprimand. It was a railroad case, mind
you ; and the judge who so severely denounced the juryman who
sought to borrow a paltry dollar from an attorney in the case sat
upon the bench with his pockets lined with passes over that same
railroad. Time and again has he traveled in the private car of the
general manager of that same railroad, and every member of his
family rides whenever they please upon that road without paying
fare.
A few years ago a federal judge sitting in Omaha issued an order
restraining the employes of a great railroad from quitting work.
Several of the employes ignored the order and quit, and as a conse
quence were thrown into jail. This1 brought about some disturb
ances and a little rioting that the police easily quelled. The organi
zations to which these men belonged protested, and they were told
to come into court with "clean hands" and they would be given a
hearing before that federal judge, who was notoriously a tool of the
great railroad corporations and who traveled thousands of miles
every year as the honored guest of the railroad having the. trouble.
What show has organized labor with hands clean or unclean
before judges like that? The striker finds himself confronted with
laws made from the bench and is thrown into jail without warrant for
violation of those laws.. The constitution guarantees the right of
free speech, yet men have been thrown into jail because they had
the temerity to converse upon a topic placed under ban by a federal
judge. The constitution guarantees religious liberty, yet men have
been enjoined by federal judges from meeting and praying with men
who peaceably assembled and whose only crime was having refused
to work for a corporation at the starvation wages offered. Is it any
wonder, in view of all these facts, that men who toil have lost faith
in the integrity of the courts and in their despair have resorted to
violence to secure rights denied them by unclean judges? 'What
show has a maimed brakeman in a suit for damages against a rail
road before a . judge who owes his appointment to the managers of
that road, and who holds his job only by the sufferance of those same
managers? Public Policy knows, if it knows anything at all about
public affairs, that the bench is crowded with just such judges. And
not only are federal judges subject to this influence, but elective
judges also. The Wageworker ventures the assertion that there are
not more than two district judges in the whole state of Nebraska who
do not carry railroad passes. Every prosecuting attorney in the
state carries them. Every sheriff carries them. Four-fifths of the
lawyers at the bar carry them. Railroad and corporation influence
predominates in all branches of the courts, and yet Public Policy de
mands that labor "come into court with clean hands."
The Wageworker, too, insists that labor "come into court wijh
clean hands." But it insists, also, that the other parties come into
court with "clean hands," and that the judges and the other officers
of the court come in with "clean hands. "
Maimed and crippled for life, the poer brakeman goes into court
without a dollar and seeks to secure justice. He finds himself con-
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Easter Mtire for Men of Taste
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HE matter of selecting a satisfactory garment at the right price
is easy indeed with such a stock t choose from. The man
who has never examined one of our high grade ready-to-wear
suits does not know the perfection which has teen attained in
the art of "tailor-craft Do not wait until the last minute before
buying Your Easter AppareL Take time to make a careful
selection and look into the merits of our offering.
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Easter Sale of Suits, Top Coats
and Rain Coats
The entire power of our buying and selling organization has been directed towards producing for this Pre-Easter Sale
garments which in the usual way would bring $20 and $22.50. All the fashionable Suitings are here, including the light
and dark greys and gun metal, also plain effects and overplaids. Either single or double breasted sack style with the best
of hand tailoring and finishing. Top Coat'4 in light or dark, Tan Coverts or plain black and Oxfords either short box or
iridium lengths. Rain coats of genuine Cravenette cloth, in plain tan, oxford, black and also fancy effects. There's a saying
,of money to those who buy here at this sale. .
The Price is $5 00
Our Finest Clothing in Suits, Top Coats and Rain Coats at
$18.00, $20.00, $22.50 and $25.00
I Suits and Overcoats Generously Good at $12. 509 $ 10, $7. SO and $5.
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fronted witlrthe millions" of the company he is suing, with a judge
whose pockets are filled with passes, with lawyers who travel on
passes, with lawyers who travel on passes, with a jury that came to
the county seat on trip passes, and with sheriff and baliffs who have
traded off their manhood for railroad passes'. Is it any wonder, We
again ask, that laboring men who realize these conditions often
undertake to secure by brute strength' the justice that is denied them
in the unclean courts of the land ? ; -.
By the time the courts are "clean" we guarantee that' the hands
of labor vill be clean.
Trades unionism teaches patriotism, better citizenship, better
home life and better service. ' It does more to assimilate the hordes
cf foreign immigration than any other influence. ' It improves the
conditions of all those who toil. It inculcates charity and mutual
helpfulness. It cultivates the mind as well as the hand. It safe
guards the home, the unit of society. And yet there are those who
denounce trades unionism as anarchistic and contrary to the teach
ings of the Bible.
If there is such a thing as a "Labor Newspaper Editors' Union"
the editor of this paper wants to get in. Certainly the member of
such a union would not "scab" on his brother unionists by stealing
his original matter and palming it off as their own. If there is
such a union we know labor paper editors who ought to quit "scab
bing" and get in.
A Los Angeles minister recently preached a sermon on the sub
ject, "Can a man be a Christian and belong to a labor union ?" Some
times we feel like preaching a sermon the subject, "Can a man be a
minister' without making an occasional monkey of himself?" Of
course he can, and all but a very few of them do. But a little more
of "Christ and Him crucified" from the pulpit' would help some.
The union man is always able to frame up his own arguments to
defend his unionism. The non-union man always depends upon his
employer to defend his positiop as a "free and independent work
ingman." Funny, isn't it?
. .The easiest and safest way to boycott non-union goods is to in
sist upon having union made goods. Look for the label ! Ask for
the label! . '. '
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