THE WAG EWORKER
OUR GREATEST JANUARY CLEARING S A
WILL M. MAUP1N, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
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Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th St, Lincoln, Nebr. One Dollar a Year.
Advertising Rates on Application.
Entered aa second-class matter April 21, 1904, at the postoffice at Lin
coln, Neb., under the Act of Congress of March 3rd, 1879.
PUT THIS IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT.
The editor of this humble little labor publication has worked on
some big metropolitan newspapers as printer, reporter, desk man and
editorial writer. He rather prides himself on being familiar with all
branches of the daily newspaper business and able to make a pretty
good hand at anything from police reporter up to editor-in-chief or
down rather. Good reporters are a blamed sight scarcer than good
editorial writers.
Perhaps the daily newspaper experience of the editor cf this lit
tle labor paper has caused him to think more of a certain peculiar
situation now existing in daily newspaper circles than the average
union man would. It is a very peculiar situation, but it deserves the
thoughtful consideration of unionists everywhere, because it empha
sizes something of vast importance to men who earn their daily bread
by manual labor. In order to make the points clear it will be nec
essary to recount a little recent history.
' A few weeks ago the daily newspapers were full of the story,
about President Corey of the steel trust and his liasons with Mabelle
Gilman, a chorus girl. Corey deserted his wife to carry on an in
trigue with this painted siren of the comic opera stage. The steel
king had married his wife in the old clays when he was poor, and the
wife had stood by him and, helped him and advised him until
l:e became a powerful factor in. the financial world a multi-millionaire.
Then he deserted her to revel in the fresher charms of the fas
cinating chorus girl. Very justly the daily newspapers have been
denouncing Corey for his scandalous desertion of his wife. They
have printed long editorial homilies upon the subject, and Corey has
been held up to public scorn. ;, ,
A few days ago there died in Xew York City a man whose finan
cial career was little short of marvelous. His name was Yerkes. He
began life in Philadelphia, and went wrong. He was sent to prison,
but the, faithful wife stood by him and greeted him when he was re
leased' He kissed her goodbye and went west to retrive his for
tunes. .! Back home the faithful wife waited and prayed for him.
Yerkes had the touch of Midas, and gold poured in on him in a flood.
But he forgot the faithful wife. He divorced her to marry a younger
woman. This woman in turn was discarded in order that he might
u-vel in the charms of one'still younger: ;He died reviled of all. right
thinking men, and noteven the great fortune he left to public 'institu
tions will -save his name from being execrated as long as men and
women regard the marriage tie as sacre'd and woman's honor a pearl
beyond price.. Since Yerkes died, and even before, the daily news
papers teemed with editorial denunciations of his lecherous career.
But here is a point that must not be overlooked. Neither one of
these men Corey and Yerkes were heavy advertisers. They were
not patrons of the daily newspaper business offices. Their relations
with the business offices were not such as to yank any strings leading
to the editorial rooms.
But there are others besides Corey and Yerkes.
, Have you ever seen, in any daily newspaper an editorial 'roast"
of Charles V. Post?
Not on your tintype !
And yet Charles W. Post so treated the wife who had toiled with
--liim and suffered with him in the days of poverty, that in the days
of Insert at prosperity she was forced into the divorce courts to seek
a separation, and it was granted to her on the grounds of cruelty. And
before the ink was dry on her decree Charles V. Post had married
his stenographer.
But unlike Corey and Yerkes, Post has very intimate relations
with the business office of every daily newspaper in the land. Xot
only is he a heavy advertiser, but he is president of the National
Association of Advertisers.
Does it begin to dawn upon you?
Good heavens, fellow unionist, will a brick house have to fall
on you before you grasp the fact that the modern daily newspaper js
but a reflex of the business office, and that the businses office is con
trolled by the men who put up the money to buy advertising space ?
Can you not readily see why the daily newspapers arc constantly ex
aggerating every little labor trouble into riot, arson and murder?
Corey, the man who doesn't advertise, deserted his wife to revel
in the charms of a chorus girl, and the daily newspapers roast him
to a frazzle.
Post, the man who controls and places millions of money in ad
vertising every year, got rid of a faithful wife and married a sten
ographer with indecent haste, and the newspapers not only remain as
mum as oysters about it, but actually at his command exaggerate
tverything in the labor field into riot and assassination.
Stop and think about it for just a minute or two, and then ask
yourself this question : -
"Do such newspapers deserve the patronage of union men?"
And yet there are union organizations right here in Lincoln that
refuse to take this humble little labor paper, although its cost doesn't
amount to the cost of the froth on one glass of beer every two weeks.
If we could locate a big daily newspaper that would roast Charles
W. Post as the big daily newspapers have roasted Corey and Yerkes,
we would put up the cash for a year's subscription.
But we never expect to find it. ?
SONGS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW.
Up in the little town of Battle Creek
There is a gripe-nut sho-o-o-p.
Postum and all thatsort of fool dope.
If eating it you don't sto-o-o-p.
cPstum and all that sort of fool dope,
Stale bread and glucose vile ;
Rat it and you will lose all your hope,
And dry up after while.
O, Post, at you we've laughed.
We've punched holes in your graft.
Charley, Charley, O, Charley Post,
Your stuff will make one look like a gho-o-o-st.
Postum slop and gripe nuts galore
But we don't eat no more.
TAKE THE SENSIBLE VIEW.
Look here, Mr. Non-Union Man ! The Posts and the Parrys .are
telling you that the unions are bad things for the workingmen. Now
just stop and use your gray matter a little bit if you have ar.y.
. . If,' the unions did not better wages and shorten hours, do you
imagine for a minute that the Posts and Parrys would be fighting
them? , f, the unions were bad for the workingmen, don't you sup
pose that .the Parrys and the Posts would be favoring unionism?
; ' Now just think a minute or two if you can.
The Posts and Parrys are not humanitarians not by a-mill site.
They are out for the stuff. And they fight the unions because the
unions stand between them and the full realization of tneir greed.
They tell you they fight them for other reasons, but they lie like
thunder when they say it.
After you have thought this over, try thinking about something
else.. It's a good habit to get into this Habit ot thinking.
THEY ARE ALL ORGANIZED. ,
When you hear a physician arguing against trades unions, gent
ly elongate his ears a foot or two and breathe into tljem the fact that
IllS proiession is oiganiicu iiiuic ciusciy man any irauca uiuuu m wc
country. Physicians call their non-unionists "quackle."
And if a lawyer tells you that trades unionism isywrong, just get
a mallet and pound into his thick head the astonishing fact that the
lawyers are organized wondeiAlly well. They do not call their non
unionists "scabs." No, the them "shysters." 11
' - If you do not tninK tne' iicians are organizcL just ask one ot
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HEX we looked over our stock books January 1st, they showed how the lack of snow
had kept back trade. We face the figures, bow to the inevitable knd make a quick
move to right things cut prices early enough and low enough to make the men in
Lincoln even more eager to buy than we are to sell. You can do your friends no better turn
than to tell, telephone or write them about this sale.
Men's Suits and Overcoats
Divided into Six Great Lots
Men's Suits snd Overcoats, O I Q Qfl Men's Suits and Overcoats, C Q f
worth $30, $27.50 and $25, now . ..OlOitJU worth $12.50 and $10, now. .......... ...0 0uU
Men's Suits and Overcoats, ft I n Q n Men's Suits and Overcoats, t C 0 fl
worth $22.50, $20 and $18, now . . ..... vlwlvll worth $8.75 .and $7.50, now ..i.... .......... 0 1 U U
Men's Suits and Overcoats, ((100 Men's Suits and Overcoats, ftil QA
worth $16.50, $15 and $13.50, now OOlUU worth $7, $6.50 and $0.00, now. ........ MTlUll
Odds and ends of Men's Suits, worth $5, $G, $6.50, $7.50 and $10 some' in only coats and vests, all made of splen
did, honest, material . and- . t- .-;...,... -i ! -:s- .,t,u.t,. ... .... ,. ffcfY
cut in right style, now. vlKj""
Jill 'Black Suits are Reserved
jfflrmstmmg Clothing Co.
Good Clothes Merchants.
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them to advertise. Then watch him swell up like a pouter pigeon
and spout a lot of rot about the 'code of ethics."
Organized? Bless your soul, the physicians have got the trades
unionists skinned both ways from the middle on organization.
The Gilhooley case in Chicago is ended, and several members of
a union have been found guilty of murder and sentenced to the peni
tentiary. There is no going behind the jury's verdict at this stage of
the game. The men have been proved guilty. If they are, we are
glad they must go to the penitentiary. They have brought reproach
upon unionism a reproach that it will take years to live down. The
one union man who goes wrong works more damage to unionism
;han the good that a million true union men can do in a decade will
repair. There is no place in modern trade unionism for the thug
and the slugger.
A union man slugs the man who took his job and is sent to the
penitentiarj'. The manufacturer who takes a thousand jobs away
from toilers and starves them to death in order that he may make a
fortune manipulating the stock market is hailed as a financier and
looked up to as an exemplary citizen. That's the way of the world.
John R. Walsh, who bought and maintained a Chicago daily
newspaper in order to help him break down organized labor, went
broke. And his daily newspaper was union from cellar to roof all
the time, too. That's rubbing it in.
The Standard Oil Co. pays its Chicago teamsters $2 a day. They
make less in a year than their chief employer makes in an hour. But
they evidently like it, else they wouldn't vote for it every time they
get a chance.
Do not forget that in the great battle for industrial betterment
the other fellows' label is just as important as your own. If you fail
to ask for the other fellow's label, don't grumble if he fails to ask for
vours.
Every union man who resorts to slugging ought to be put behind
the bars twice once for slugging and once for bringing disgrace and
shame upon unionism. If we can not win peacefully let us lose gracefully.
The only man who thinks that the printers will not win their
fight for eight hours is Mr. Mclntyre, and Mr. Mclntyre draws a big
salary for thinking the way he does. 1 he men who pay it know better.
It took the unionists of the country about a year to get next to
the Parry-Post union busting game. But now Post and Parry are
sparring for wind. The next round will be a finisher for that bunch.
Steel King Corey might have avoided all that publicity by pat
enting a new kind of sawdust food or anti-coffee slop and advertis
ing it heavily in the daily newspapers.
HUMAN FACE FORMED IN ROCK
Remarkable Natural Curiosity hi
County of Massachusetts.
Unknown to thousands living with
in a radius of ten miles from its talus,
the above sphinx-like rock overhangs
from a bold cliff more than 100 feet
above the level of the rails near the
little railroad station at Assonet, Bris
tol county, Mass.
Considering the fidelity of its por
traiture of the human face it seems
incredible that it had not long ago
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The way to make Lincoln a big and prosperous city is to secure
factories -that pay fair wages and work fair hours. And union fac
tories guarantee both of these things. -
The "daylight factory" is still advertising for help. It means
employes now, but it will be advertising for financial help if the
unionists of Lincoln do their duty.
There have been scores of breaks in the ranks of the United
Typothaete but not one in the ranks of the International Typograph
ical Union. Lest we forget.
The meanest "scab" in the industrial world is the alleged union
man who is so careless that he neglects to demand the product of a
fellow unionist's toil.
Detroit Typographical Union will go down in history as "Stone
wall Detroit." The boys have been out nearly five 'months and
haven't lost a man. U
Where labor is best organized there is the" least trouble. And
where labor is best organized there is the most of prosperity for all
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Joshua of the Mountain.
outranked in fame New Hampshire'
Old Man of the Mountain, whose rag
red lines need distance to lend en
chantment to the view, and they
leave much to the imagination.
The photograph is from an unre
touched negative of natural rock for
mation, or rather of the colossal
Egyptian monument nature, and un
aided by mortal hands, has modeled
in the hard granite gneiss by the pro
cesses of erosion and cleavage.
It is ten feet from the forehead to
the point of the beard. The profile is
almost perfect in proportions, and un
like other more famous "rocks," it
shows the facial characteristics in
arying forms from many points of
view. At the point from which this
picture was taken the contour of the
firm mouth and strong lower jaw give
a tense sternness to the features, and
there is just the suggestion of a stark
fixedness in the stony stare turned to
ward the north. . ,
THE FIRST CUT...
This is the "Different Store," you know. We do not "cut prices"
at the end of the season, but at the beginning. We make the first cut
big enough to give our customers bargains and ourselves a moderate
profit. Of course we make a profit. Couldn't do business without it.
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Suits from $5 to $18
Good suits, too. Good material, well made and stylish. Made to
wear and look well white being worn.
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Furnishings
An immense line. Hats, ca'ps, shoes, shirts, underwear, ties, sox,
overcoats, overalls, suspenders everything.
LINCOLN CLOTHING CO.
10th and P Streets
WITH THE MOVEItf WHALERS
A Tree House.
A summer boarder in the little vil
lage of Springtown conceived the idea
of making a tree house of this old ,
maple. Beneath Is a door, which opens
into a little room, from which steps
lead up to the house. While forming
a resting place the maple throws out
shade for a considerable distance,
which makes it an ideal spot for those
romantically inclined.
Nodd Why did you have your tele
phone changed from a direct wire to a
party line?
Todd -My wife complained she
couldn't hear a thing' the neighbors
"Thirteen American whalers of the
San Francisco fleet, operating in Beau
fort sea, to the north of Alaska, are
frozen fast in the ice floes there,"
writes P. T. McGrath to the Daily
News from Newfoundland. "This
fact is occasioning no little comment
among those who know w,hat this sim
ple statement means. For when, in
the past, whaling vessels have been
engirt there and held for the winter,
grewsome tragedies have resulted.
Once a herd of reindeer had to be
driven from Alaska to the whaling
rendezvous by American government
officials, the animals being then
slaughtered to keep the 'crews alive.
Another time a number of Crews win
tered ashore' with the natives, and the
contact with dirt and squalor gener
ated a plague from which white men
and brown men alike perished whole
sale. Tragedies equally appalling be
fell the Atlantic whaling fleets which
usually wintered in Hudson bay and
which almost invariably met some
such misfortune until now that inland
sea is almost deserted. Scarcely a
whaling vessel is found there to-day,
where once were mighty fleets. ' The
American whalers resorting to Hud
son bay have been reduced to a hand
ful, and the British whalers have'
abandoned it for the Greenland seas
again. .
"There are, however, three or four
whaling stations along the shore of
Hudson bay. In these a number of
natives are employed for the purpose,
of killing whales. There are OJW or
two white men at each 'factory,' act
ing as overseers to the natives, who.
are employed to kill whales, when
whales are to be found. The Eski
mos are admirably suited to this work. I
They have become as expert as the
average white man , and handle the
white man's weapons and manage his
boats as skilfully as he does himself.'
These stations are cheaply run. Only
the smallest pay has to be given to
the natives. A single whale a year
makes the station a paying venture.
A, supply ship visits the station once
each . summer, receiving the products
and landing food and other necessi
ties. -
"Scoteh whalers now'flsh chieflr
on th Greenland- coast. Their ' e2
f orts this year promise 'to ,be mor
successful than for many seasons past
The Eclipse has been reported home-
ward bound with seven 'flsh yielding
five and one-half tns of, bone. The
Morning is reported with three; -the
Balena with four, the Windward with
two, the Diana, with two and the Sco
tia with one. The principal article of
commerce obtained from, these arctic
whalers is the famous" 'whalebone,'
the flexible substance in their lower
jaw3 which serves them for teeth,
and this is at present-., worth about,
$12,000 a ton or $6 a .pound. It can
thus be easily seen what" splendid'
result has been achieved v by the
Eclipse for her season's fishing."
The Clergyman Do you mean to
say that your wife goes to church
every Sunday without you? .
, "Well, it isn't my fault. I can't per
suade her to stay at home."
Self-interest is the principal!!!;
ent in the interesting things
Even busy men are
to stop and look at
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