THE WAGEWORKER
WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR ANP PUBLISHER
Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th St., Lincoln, Nebr. One Dollara Year.
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Entered as second-class matter April 21. 1904. at the postoffice at Lin
coln, Neb., under tho Act of Congress of March 3rd, 1879.
PUT THIS IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT.
Perhaps you have a religious friend who is opposed to labor
unions on what he calls religious grounds. . We have heard that
there were such people in the world.
"The labor union weans a man away from church," says your
fffend.
Well, if it does.; it is the fault of "the church, not of the labor
union. If the churcli were doing its whole duty there would be no
Ialxr unions. J Jut that is neither here nor there. This is while
the church has been paying ?. whole lot of attention to the future
welfare of man's soul, the labor unionsvhave been paying as much
to the present welfare of man's stomach. And while the church
' has been sending missionaries to China and Egypt and India to
save the benighted heathen, the labor unions have been diligently
laying right here at home and rescuing little children from sweat
shops and mills and mines.
"There arc so many sinful men in the labor unions, and a Chris
tian can not yoke up with such."
Better thahu Jesus of Nazafeth, eh? He didn't stop to find out
w hat a man's moral character was before working with him and for
him. Jesus ate and drank with publicans -and sinners. But these
"sinful" men" as you call them have been doing some mighty good
work, haven't they. The labor unions of Pennsylvania secured the
enactment of a child labor law that took 12,000 boys under 1 year?
of age from the coal mines and put them in school. Did you ever
.hear that the church engaged in any such utilitarian work as tha.3
The church saved perhaps 100,000 heathen last year. But the labor
unions have taken fully that many children out of sweat shops and
miyes where they were being dwarfed and stunted and ruined, and
has put them in a position to become .useful Christian men and wo
men. And won't Cod give the unions as much credit for saving the
loo.ooo boys 'and girls as He gives the church for saving the 100,000
vcllow strangers ten thousand miles away?
. We've heard, some rich men pray in church, and we've seen the
labor unions corn-pel those very men to put a few windows and doors
in. their factories so that their employe could get an occasional breath
of Cod's fresh air. '
"The labor unions are antagonistic to the church and church
influence." ....
" That is not.true. You have the proposition reversed, that's all.
A majority of unionists are believers in God, and a very respectable
.minority perhaps a majority are church members. If they work
harder for their union than they do for the-church of their choice
;t is because they think they can do more good for their fellows that
way.
This would be an almighty poor country to live in if there were
no churches. We admit that. ' But don't forget that the church has
not been the- pioneer in all the great reforms. We haven't heard of
iny big preachers" thundering against child labor and the sweat
shops. Wc caiv't forget that the church counseled submission when
Wendell Phillips was thundering against slavery. The church has
denounced sin and corruption in general terms, but it has fallen all
ve'r itself to secure the contributions of the highwaymen of finance
r.nd never a word-has come thundering from the pulpit against Rock-
fellerism and Carnegieism.
. The church is "doing a splendid work, my brother, but it isn't
doing all that it could do if it would. If every professed Christian
h America would do his whole Christian duty for one year every
day and all the time for one single year my, but wouldn't there be
i a change? There would be a lot of vacant pews, too.
The church and the labor union are working for identically the
amc ends, only along different lines. Both are headed for the same
Roal. They should be mutually helpful and mutually progressive.
"Hut the Hible tells us not to be yoked with unbelievers."
Yes, and the. Hible says to take a little wine for the stomach's
!-aki but you don't preach that, do you? And Paul says something
;ihout women and their headgear, but you don't pay any attention to
that. And the I'.ible says some very strong things about the marriage
lie. but you don't lay very much stress on that, do you? And the
Bible tells you to give to Cod's work as God has prospered you, but
you usually sift the dollars through and clutch the dime when the
collection basket conies 'round, don't you? If an unbeliever came to
you and asked you to help him in rendering aid to a widow or an or
phan you would hold aside your skirts and refuse to help, would you?
Be sensible, dear Christian brother. Study up a little,'-both on
Biblical and labor tin ion lines. You've got a whole lot to learn about
' Iwrth before you will know very much about either. '
JUST THINK OF THIS A BIT.
William Rockefeller is one of the Standard Oil Kings and has
more money than he could haul in a hay wagon.
Oliver Lamora is a backwoodsman, scout and hunter who has
lived in the Adiron'dacks for sixty years. He was born there, and
owned a little cabin on the side of a mountain.
William Rockefeller wanted a ''game preserve," so he bought
up all the surrounding land, and finally seized Lamora's little patch
of ground through legal action. Lamora fought as best he could,
but he lost and officers of the law dispossessed him.
Lamora sat on a-big pine block in front of his cabin door when
his lawyer, W. J. Saunders, of Dickinson Center, came to notify him
of his defeat, and to tell him he must sell his little claim and patch
f ground to pay Mr. Rockefeller.
"It's all over, Oliver; they have beaten us," said the attorney.
"Don't joke with me that way, squire. It's all right now? I can
go out there and fish and hunt now, with no wardens to lay hand on
me, can't I?" pleaded the woodsman.
Hie lawyer told the old man that he must never again hunt
or fish in the forests he had known since childhood. Lamora ap
peared to be stunned.
"The law says' 1 can't climb that peak over there, does it?" he
finally exclaimed; "And must not follow the deer through the forest
nor fish in the. streams? Well, squire, that may be the law; I know
you wouldn't lie to m'e, but it ain't right. God never made all these
things for one man."
No! A thousand limes, no! God never made alb those things
for. one man. He made them for all men. But a few men have
grabbed them and hold them by virtue of laws they have bought
and paid for.
Such laws arc infamous and ought not to stand. The land be
longs to all the p'eople. No man should be allowed to hold more than
he. can utilize. The man who tries to speculate in land is a public
enemy, although neither he nor the public may realize it. The land
should be as free as.the air and the water.
God never made all those things for one man, nor for a half
dozen men. ...
God made them all for the benefit and use and enjoyment of all
of Gods people everywhere.
The Panama canal has already" cost us $:0,000.ooo and not a
spadeful of dirt has been thrown. Coolies and Jamaica negroes are
being employed at starvation wages aM worked ten hours a day in
violtion of law building little palaces for the engineers and commis
sioners. The Panama canal is a big graft amfthe wage earners of
the country are footing the bills.
The Lincoln Distraction company has curtailed the transfer priv
ilege and we are glad of it., Ve hope President Scudder will kep
right on walking on the necks of the poor and humble and cowardly
citizenship of Lincoln until they revolt in sheer desperation. "Wait
ami. see Scudder."
With his scalp bleeding from a ragged'eut, with .his lip split bv
broken glass, and with his body covered with blood, the lii-year-oVi
victim of a Lincoln Distraction company accident was approached
by a legal represcntat ve and asked to sign a release of all clains for
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the paltry sum of But the boy was game. It took sixteen
stitches to close his wounds and he is still in the hospital, but he is
not waiting to see Scudder. He is allowing Scudder and his mali
ngers to do all the worrying. . .
The appellate court of Illinois says there can be no such thing
as peaceful picketing. Judge Holdom bas cited a lot of Chicago
printers for contempt on the charge that they have been guilty of
violating an injunction by peacefully picketing some Typothaete
shops.
The capital stock of the Lincoln Overall and Shirt factory has
been increased 100 per cent. The miserable wages it pays have not
been increased at all.
Help inject a little ginger into the Central Labor Union. Xo
matter if you are not a delegate, come up to the meetings and help
the good work along.
Hearst is gaining in New York, and the chances are that he
will be declared elected mayor. And here's hoping that it may be so.
Remember the meeting of the Central Labor Union next Tues
day night and be there to help inject some ginger itno it.
It is time for the Typographical Union to. sit down on Hayes
and IJerger, and set hard.'
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, Wigg "Harduppe is always going
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With the opening up of the section
of the Province of Ontario in the
neighborhood of North Bay, a couple
of hundred miles directly north of the
city of Toronto, all sorts of tales have
drifted down out of that country
about the mineral wealth it contains
and the lucky "strikes" that have been
made by prospectors. One of the
most romantjc of these, and one that
has the merit of having real wealth
to show for it, concerns Tv. G. Trethe
way, now a resident of Toronto, who
is the possessor of a mine that has
already paid him a small fortune,
which he found simply owing to his
lazy habits.
At the time he made his "strike"
fretheway was. a traveling salesman
tor a. wholesale shoe house and was
possessed of a certain amount of
knowledge of chemicals and ores of
various kinds. Two years ago his
business route carried him to one of
the new settlements on the Grand
Trunk railway, in the North Bay dis
trict, called Cobalt, from the deposits
of that mineral that had been found in
the neighborhood. Tretheway, who
was always keeping an eye out for
something in the way of a "strike"
for himself, took a walk out in the
forest around the place, and strolled
along a beaten path because it made
the easiest walking. He came to a
place where a big tree had fallen
across the trail, but instead of walk
ing around the tree, as every one else
had been in the habit of doing, he
ducked under it to save himself that
much distance.
As he bent his head to pass Be
neath the . prostrate trunk ' his eye
caught something that had been root
ed up by the fall of the tree, and he
dropped down on the ground. He
gathered up some of the earth, put it
in his pocket and returned to the
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he went through the necessary for
malities to get possession of the land,
and with the little money he possessed
he began to work the claim, which
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years he has cleared-, nearly $200,000
from the mine and has reduced the
price of cobalt about 40 per cent. And
all because he was too lazy to walk
around a fallen tree.
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McClure's Magazine. Never before
nor since has mail been carried so
last, so far and so long merely by
horse power, and if I am not in error,
never elsewhere have horses been so
steadfastly spurred in any regular
service. The Pony express carried
mail between the east and California
(at $5 per half ounce) for about two
years. It ran from Independence to
San Francisco, 1,950 miles. Its time
was ten days and it never needed
eleven. It employed 500 of the fast
est horses that could be found, of
couse, all western, horses, 200 station
keepers and 80 riders. It had 190 sta
tions crowded down the throat of the
wilderness, 65 to 100 miles, (or even
more) apart, according as water
chanced. Tho rider was allowed two
niinuten to change horses and mails at
n, station.;, 4 ? .;" -
William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," was
the most famous of the Pony express
riders and as a 14-year-old "kid" got
his first "job" from the man who in
vented the Pony express. Cody made
the record here a round trip ride (ne
cessitated by the killing of his relief)
of 3S4 miles without stops, except to
change horses and to swallow one
hasty meal.
Another of the Pony express riders,
Jack Keetley, made a run of 340 miles
in thirty-one hours; and another, Jim
Moore, rode 280 miles in fourteen
hours and forty-six minutes. '
Such men got $100 to $125 per month
and "found." Their mail was limited
to fifteen pounds. Postage was $5 per
half ounce for some time; then the
government ordered it cut down to $1
per half ounce, at which figure it staid
till the completion of the overland tel
egraph to San Francisco (Oct. 22,
18G1), 'ended the life of this gallant
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