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The fuel problem is always pressing. First you pay to have the coal put in the shed. Then you carry it to the house or more than likely forget it
and let your wife do it. Then she sweats over a red hot range. Two-thirds of the coal is wasted getting the range hot enough to boil or bake. Then
more is wasted after the cooking is done. Then comes the work of carrying out the ashes. It takes time and money to get the kindlings. The coal
range makes a furnace of the kitchen and makes cooking a misery to the housewife. Coal is expensive from every point of view wastes' money, time
and health. " '
Why Not Consider the Comfort of the Housewife!
There is a. way to do it. There is a way to make cooking a pleasure. A way to conserve the housewifes health. A way to save money. A way to
save time. A way to save worry. The way is pointed out on the opposite page.
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THE WAGEWORKER
WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Published Weekly. One DoHar a Year. Advertising Rates on Application
Entered as second-class matter April 21, 1904, at the postoftice at Lin
coln, Neb, under the Act of Congress.
THE PROBLEM OF IMMIGRATION.
It behooves the union men of the country to give some atten
tion to the problem of immigration.
The huge corporations are importing foreign laborers faster
than we can unionize them, and faster than the country can assim
ilate them.
The corporations have a two-fold purpose in this.
Firstly It tends to batter down the average of wages, thus
allowing the corporations to make larger profits.
Secondly It helps in the scheme of destroying the labor unions,
which will permit the corporation a still wider margin of profits.
A few years ago comparatively we were howling strenuously
against the' importation of Chinese cheap labor. A few thousand
Chin.-.men came into the country and made things bad for a com
paratively limited area. Of course the Pacific coast workmgmen
kicked. The cry was taken up all over the country, and labor
everywhere howled for an exclusion act. The daily press carefully
iostercd the discontent, and the great corproations helped jt along.
m while we were giving all of our attention to the Chinaman
the corporations were importing hundreds of thousands of ignorant
and degraded Europeans through Castle-Garden and flooding the
country with a class of labor as bad or worse than the Chinaman
The corporations played us for suckers on that Chinese exclu
sion business.
Now there is a great howl going up against the importation ot
Japanese labor. The corporations will help us howl, for they don t
like the Jap. He catches on to American ways too readily, bo the
corporations help us howl ourselves hoarse against the Jap, and
while we are doing it the corporations are importing a worse ele
ment at the rate of 10,000 a day. . . ; .
The minute, however, that a man protests against this flood l
immigration he is called a "know-nothing," and men whom he is
trying to help join with the I'arryites in cursing him. The Parry
ites carefully foster the "know-nothing" idea. It help them m their
business. '" .". '
As long as it was a question of helping Europeans to a mgiier
order of things by giving them the glad hand at Castle Garden,
everything was all right. ' '
Now it is a question of keeping ourselves from being dragged
down by the flood of cheap labor being poured into the country.
Sentiment is all well enough, but it is well to be practical at
limes. .
If the flood of immigration is not dammed up it is going to sub
merge the American workingman, and in a few short years labor
conditions in this republic will be on a par with labor conditions in
Europe. '
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lhis would suit me i'arryites to a uoi. i ney are working iu
that very end, and as long as they can keep us excited about the
"vellow peril" and forgetful of the "white peril," the nearer they
will come to achieving their object. - ...
The foreigner who comes to this country to become an Ameri
can citizens to adopt American manners and customs and enjoy
the American standard of living, will always be. welcomed. But for
each one of such there are a thousand who never become American
ized and who are content to. live as they have always lived just so
they escape military conscription. That class of immigration is a
menace to our free institutions.
. One can travel for davs through the mining regions of Pennsvl-
vania and Virginia and never hear the English language spoken. In
those regions squalor reigns supreme, ignoTance is fostered because
education would mean protest; political corruption runs riot and
American ideas are hooted and reviled. The same is true in many
sections of the great cities.
The wares of the great manufacturers are protected by a tariff,
but the American workingman must compete with the cheap labor
.imported by the thousands into the country. .
What arc we going to do about it ?
Will we continue to howl about the "yellow peril" while the
corporations bring in Europeans on the other side?
Will we continue to be hornswogglcd by the astute Parryites?
Will we ever wake up?
The enemies of organized labor don't give a tinker's dam for all
our protests and resolutions and complaints. As loner as they can
keep us busy, protesting and framing resolutions and complaining
they will have us where Caleb had the hen.
What they are afraid of is that we will wake up some day and go
to voting as unanimously as we are now complaining and "resolut
!ng" and protesting.
In war it is a maxim that' it is best to find out just what the
enemy expects you to do, ind then do something else and do it
quick.
Let's do "something else."
Let's go to voting right for a while.
SOME ADVICE.
If you are interested in hampering- the work of organization here
is some good advice. By acting oft the advice here given you can do a
great deal towards hindering th$ cause, and be of material assist
ance to the eminent gentlemen wfto are banded toeether for the our-
post of knocking out the labor unions. The Parryites carefully nur
ture tne union men wno assisi mem.
When you see a union man exerting every effort to advance the
cause ui uiiiiuiaiti, juai iMi up on your ninu legs ana noiier
, "Grafter!" J
Whenever you hear a union , map protesting against existing
You
Jidmire a Well Dressed Man
Why not be one Yourself?
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HIS QUERY is addressed only to those who are not already numbered among our patrons. To
be an Armstrong patron means to be well dressed. We have made it so. We make it a point
.to have every garment that leaves our establishment correct in every detail and a perfect fit.
lo do this costs us much in time and money, but the cost to you is the same. We operate our
store the same as some of the great railroads are operated, spending money here and there for better
ment, but asking nothing extra in return. Take, for example, the B. & M. railroad it is about to spend
upwards of $75,000 for a new depot for Lincoln. .After thi3 depot is erected it will not cost you one cent
more to traveLover its lines than it did before. The expenditure was made for betterment. Same way
with this store. To start with we give you the most comfortable, well lighted room to be found in this
section of the country,. It costs more than some others, but we have it for your benefit. We. give you a
stock to select from easily three times larger than the next largest. This is for betterment. We give you
quicker and better service than other stores by' maintaining a force of help larger by one-half than any
other clothing store. This is for your convenience and comes under the head of betterment. After night
we give you the best illuminated store in the west, in order that you may see and know what you are se
lecting, and this, too, is for betterment- In addition to this we maintain a large force of expert tailors to
make needed alterations. We do not do this simply for the love of spending money, but for the reason
that we want our garments worn by well satisfied men it's simply betterment. To buy clothes here
costs no more, and in most instances less, than you will pay in stores where convenience, service and bet;
terment are not taken into account. ' 5 ; ; , " V
Our Stylish Hand Tailored Suits Cost You
$10, $12.50, $15, J8, $20, $22.50, $25
They are not equaled in tailors' shops shorfe&f double our pr?ce and cannot be duplicated ready; to .
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jolitical conditions and purging working men .to get together at the
polls, open up your vocnerous yawp him j v.- - '
'i!'.f .. ..;in ian trvinff to how his I. fellows the
folly of bigoted partisanship, get red in the face and. shout 1
1 in horn politician. - ? .
mi ,n in (.rrhimcr the' free and easy
V nenever you ace a. uni"" . .--
,tVir,fle of unionism and insistine upon business, methods, get right
out on the floor of the meeting and holler
"Knocker!" 5 ; c '
Whenever you see a union man fighting the battles of unionism,
don't rush to his assistance, but stand oft witn a sneer on your umS
snd tell everybody you meet that he is ' '
"Making a good thing ott ot tne unions.
T. f..n.. rii..:- tuin ilnJi-o vnn will he of material assist-
ance to the enemies of unionism, and at the same time you will
achieve the reputation of being "too conservative to agitate."
You can accomplish a whole lot . by doing these things but
what you accomplish will not be beneficial to either your union or
. te .. . - -
io yourseir.
The rich men of Lincoln have acquired their wealth by reason
of the toil-and sweat of the men who have remained poor. This is
not to the discredit of the rich men, nor to the poor -men. But
couldn't the rich men, in order to show their appreciation, be willing
to pay taxes for the purpose of benefitting the men who have made
them rich? Lincoln must have a city park worthy of the name.
.. The man who starts otit looking for
trouble .'usually finds it just about to
enter his own door. ' . ' .. ; '
The son of a Chicago millionaire got drunk on champagne one
.lay last week, and while in a maudlin condition was relieved of , his
watch and chain. The striking teamster who- bought the young
man the champagne, and who is therefore'' responsible, will 'be ar
rested as soon as he is located. . -'
A kitchen range in a Chicago millionaire's mansion exploded
one day last week, doing considerable damage to the kitchen and the
imported chef. The striking teamster responsible for the awful
crime is known and will soon be arrested.
The man who has nothing to arbitrate is usually the man who
ip so badly in the wroner that he is williner for the oublic to know the
real facts.., r
IWra. Roy AI. Rhone.
Mandolin and Guitar Instructor
Studio, 1332 j Strt
Formerly instructor in the State Univer
sity School of Mnsic, Lincoln, and Wear;
leyan University, University Place.
Call at Stndio, or ring up Autophone 1332
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