THE WAGEWORKER
WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR
Published Weekly At 137 No. 14th St., Lin
coln, Neb. One Dollar a Year.
Entered a second-class matter April 21,
1904, at the postoffiee at Lincoln, Neb'., under
the Act of Congress of March 3rd, 1879.
BROTHER ORR MISSED THE POINT.
Rev. Mr. Orr, of this city, in last week's issue
took exceptions to the Chicago Public's indict
ment of the pulpit, and proceeds to show what
every unbiased man will admit that ministers
as a rule are deeply in sympathy with the work
ing man. But we greatly, fear that Bro. Orr
missed the point. We have heard hundreds
yes, thousands of ministers denounce wrong
doers in the aggregate. We have heard them
denounce corporate greed and rapacity as a
whole, and we have heard them denounce po
litical corruption as an abstract proposition.
But up to date we have heard only one or two
ministers who were specific in their denuncia
tions. Fifty years ago there were thousands of
preachers who upheld slavery as a divine insti
tution, and thousands of others who opposed
slavery as a system. But how many preachers
thundered against that system like Beecher
did? Has any. one in Lincoln ever sat in the
pew of a rich and fashionable church and heard
the minister denounce greed and corruption
and while pointing his finger at the corrupt
financial gamblers in front of him shout, "Thou
art the man, and thou, and thou, and thou!"
We have Jieard preachers denounce violence
perpetrated by workingrnen, and that, too,
when the denunciation could apply locally to
men who were crazed by injustice. But up to
date we have never heard a minister specifi
cally denouncing the crookedness of some well
known members of the congregation whose
whole business careers were strewn with hopes
they had wrecked and lives they had blighted.
I. is easy enough to denounce wrong in the
iifcgregate, but what the Chicago Public meant
was that the ministers as a whole had never
dared to be specific when the object sof denun
ciation were the liberal corporationists who
occupied the most prominent pews.
We do not blame ministers as a whole. They
are creatures of environment like the rest of us.
The average minister leaves the public schools
at an early age and enters a theological semin
ary. There he is practically .secluded from the
workaday world. ' His study carries him away
from ewryday affairs, and after he actively
enters the ministry he gets still further and
further away from the matters which materi
ally concern the men who must toil with their
hands in order to obtain a livelihood. Very
naturally he becomes more concerned about
the life to be than about the life that is. This
is not through inclination or considerations of
self-interest, but wholly through environment.
The editor is not very old, but ,he can remem
ber the time when preachers specified when
they went after wronir and wicked men. They
grabbed the evildoer by the. nape of the neck
figuratively speaking and held him over the
yawning pit of hades. And those were days
when religion meant something, weren't they,
Brother Orrf
Nowadays it's different. The rich, sum? and
aelf-complacent manipulator, of public funds,
or the gambler in the necessaries of life'.'sits in
a front pew, drops a ten dollar bill in the bas-
ket and then lolls back on a comfortable cush
ion and listens to a sermon that wouldn't rufiie
the breast of any human being.
Remember, please, that we speak generally,
not specifically. We 'have hundreds of minis
ters, arid some of them right here in Lincoln,
who do not do that sort of thing. They are
plain and outspoken, and among them is
Brother Orr.
But it is not true as a general proposition
that the ministry has seldom been in the lead in
the accomplishment of great economic and so
cial reforms? Is it not true that the ministry
has produced the staunchest defends of existing
abuses? It was so in the days of slavery. It
was so in the days of the revolution. It is so in
these days of so-called "vested rights."
There are evils right here in Lincoln that our
ministers could root out if they had the nerve.
It would rejoice us to' see one minister espe
cially; right here at home, get down to brass
' tacks , and denounce specifically one "sweat
hop" manager who is loud in prayer and then
v-fjays a woman $2.42 for fifty-nine hours work
with, a sewing machine.
: WftSVjre want, Brother Orr. is specific, not
generalllenunciation of existing abuses. We
hope, we have made our meaning clear.
ARE YOU LIKE THE ELEPHANT?
' The elephant is the largest beast on earth,
and is accounted the most intelligent, next to
man. It possesses tremendous power, which if
exerted to the full would make it a terror.
But despite its boasted intelligence the ele
phant is the most foolish of beasts.
. A little man whom it could crush like a boy
crushes an eggshell rides it with a bit of wood
reinforced with a sharp hook, and the slightest
motion of that iron hook frightens the elephant
into submission. As a result this powerful
beast tremblingly performs the hardest kind
of labor, and endures without resistance the ill
treatment of its master.
Now don't go to making fun of the- ele
phant's foolishness.
Perhaps you are just as foolish as the ele
phant. Better stop add investigate a little bit.
The wage earners of America form the great
majority of the voting population, and there
fore possess a strength compared to which the
fttrength of the elephant is as nothing.
But what of it?
Their strength does them.no good. Either
they lack the intelligence to wield it in their
own interests, or they, are content, like the
beasts of the field, to toil from day to day for a
miserable pittance of what they create.
Have they any reason to make fun of the
foolish elephant?
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j low loug woiiui varnegie s larnr iomtsreu
monopoly of.the.iron business have lasted if the
wane earners oi tne country naa usea tneir coi
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ctive BirenKVii u uemruy iubi couosai irraj.ii
low long would they continue rJaying trib
ute to Rockefeller if they combined to crush
that despotic king!
How long could some pimply-headed politi
cal manipulator use them to his own selfish ad
vantage if they awoke to a realizing sense of
their power and used it to advance .their collec
tive interests?
How long would a lot of subservient tools of
great corporations be living in high state in
Washington as congressmen and senators if
the wage earners of the country quit "playing
the elephant" and exerted their strength to
secure justice for themselves and families?
Why even a donkey balks once in a while
against ill treatment.
And we claim to be intelligent men. yet we
endure a thousand and one wrongs when the
remedy lies within our. own hands. We laugh
at the foolish elephant and wonder that he
stands for it.
Wouldn't it be interesting to know what the
elephant thinks of his even more foolish human
brother?
There are two sides to this elephant business.
Suppose we pause and study over both of
those sides for a little while.
of the National' Stone Cutters' Society against
the associated building trades, therefore be it
Resolved, By the members of Local No. 1813,
P., D. & P. of A., of Lincoln, Nebraska, that we
most sincerely appreciate the action of Judge
Gary and his moral courage to carry out his
conviction in behalf of justice and freedom.
Be it further
esolved. That these resolutions be made a
part of the minutes of this local, a and that a
copy be offered to the press for publication;
and that a certified copy be sent to Judge Gary.
DID SECRETARY KINNEY SAY IT?
Secretary Kinney of Omaha Typographical
Union is quoted as deprecating the "Omaha
plan" of boosting the union label and saying :
"How does it benefit the printers it one more
Elgin shirt is sold?"
We do not believe that Mr. Kinney said it.
We give him credit for more intelligence. But
if he did say it the sooner his services as a union
official are dispensed with the better it will be
for the Omaha printers. Such a doctrine as
that, carried to its logical conclusion would dis
rupt every labor organization in the land.
Surely Secretary Kinney has intelligence
enough to realize that fact.
As we said before, we do not credit the asser
tion that Secretary Kinney made any such re
mark. We prefer to believe that he was mis
understood. But if he did say it we unhesitat
ingly declare that he is not a union man. that
he is a detriment to the union cause, and that
he does not reflect the views of an infinitesimal
fraction of 1 per cent of the genuinely' union
men of the country.
When the Carpenter of Nazareth saw that
the money changers had converted the temple
into a den of thieves he didn't content Himself
with general denunciation of them. Not He
The Master knotted a whip of cords and the
way He went after the thieves was good to see.
Wouldn't it make a woeful decrease in church
membership in the large and fashionable city
churches if all the corporation. Wall street and
insurance thieves were lashed out with whips
of cords.
Judge Sears has modified his injunction
against the Omaha printers. But the mere fact
that he issued the injunction in the first place
is sufficient to damn him in the eves of all jus
tice loving men. What the workingrnen ought
to do to Judge Sears when' they get a whack at
him through the ballot box would be a plenty
The Parryites would have us -believe that
President Mover and Secretary Ilayward of
the Western Federation of Miners framed up a
plot to have Orchard assassinate Steuenberg,
and then wrote Orchard a letter telling him
just what to do and how to do it. And there
are a lot of damphools who believe it.
lhe daily newspapers are using: up columns
of space to tell all about the nasty details of the
Mizener-frkes case. But neither Mizener nor.
Mrs. Yerkes-Mizener are b advertisers. They
ought to take a few lessons from Post. The
daily newspaper never dared to expose the in
side details of the Post divorce case.
President Eliot of Harvard savs the law
a&ainst contract labor should not be enforced,
and that it should be repealed as soon as pos
sible. The trouble with President Eliot is that
he is using automobile oil to think with.
Judge Gary is one of the few judges who be
lieve that the laws were enacted to secure jus
tice to all men instead of special priivleges for
a few men. Such old-fashioned ideas are se
verely reprobated in Parryite circles.
i on can t get squarely into tne union game
by walking in a pair of scab shoes, nor can
you talk straight unionism out of a mouth
under the brim of a scab hat.
If it is union made it will have the union label
on it; and don't let any clerk convince you to
the contrary. ' ' '
MR. PLATZ "RUBBERED."
Omaha Printer Man Attended the Nebraska
Press Association Meeting. .
G. L. Platz, of the Omaha Bee, ajid one of the
old time printer men of this section, attended
the session of the Nebraska Press association
this week, and looked up a few matters per
taining to the strike situation. He found sev
eral of the newspaper boj's with old-time cards
in their pockets, and he found a. whole lot of
others who were in sympathy with the Typo
graphical. Union. He also found that the coun
try newspaper men liad, as a rule, beeii discour
aging the country printers from seeking work
in the struck shops of the cities.
COMMEND JUDGE GARY.
Lincoln Painters Say He Is Right on the Ques
tion of Injunctions.
The local Painters, Decorators and Paper-
hangers' Union has expressed by resolution its
commendation of Judge Gary's recent decision
that he would not issue and more injunctions
until he had summoned both sides before him.
By this action Judge Gary took a sarcastic fling
at .Judge iloulom, and at the same time showed
himself to be a just, judge who is more intent on
doing justice than he is on doing the bidding
oi a lot of selfish schemers. At its recent meet
ing the local adopted the following resolutions
Whereas, Many judges of late have been try
ing to outdo one another in granting injunc
tions at the behest of employers and others who
saw fit to ask for them, no matter how trifling
the plea or inconsistent the argument in favor
thereof, restraining workingrnen from congre
gating, , from picketing, from persuading and
iroti what-not. and-
hereas, Judge Gary of Chicago recently re
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sucn an injunction to ana at me request
KEEP THEM OUT OP COURSE.
Lafe Young Tells a Few Things About the Pro
teges of Dave Parry.
Hon. Lafe Young, editor of the Des Moines
Daily Capital, was a member of the Taft Phil
ippine party, and made a long visit in China.
This week Mr. Young addressed the Nebraska
Press Association, telling about his visit. He
said :
'Morally the Chinaman is the most unclean
thing in human form. His moral filthiness has
been ingrained into him through countless gen
erations. It will take countless generations to
change him. As a laborer we do not want him.
As a social compeer he is unthinkable. As a
citizen he is impossible. To those who say that
we need him to pull weeds out of beets, pick
fruit, clean our stables or do our menial work,
I will say that before I will let a Chinaman do
any of these things for me I will clean my own
stable, curr yniy own horse, pull my own weeds
and let mv fruit rot upon the trees if I can not
pick it myself, before I will employ a Chinaman
to do any of these things for me. Foul morally,
filthy personally, dishonest to an unthinkable
degree, superstitious beyond conception, the
Chinaman must be kept out m self defense.
"China will remain the same superstitious.
poverty-stricken dangerous country that it is
today for centuries to come, and then its better
ment will result in changing the Chinaman.
"This is a nation made up of different na
tionalities. but practically all Anglo-Saxon.
am eternally and everlastingly opposed to mix
ing it with Chinese. They must be kept out. "
TRADES UNIONS IN POLITICS.
British Workmen Show How to Secure Results
. That Will Surely Count.
The trade unionists of this country heartily
congratulate their brethren across the sea in
wresting from, the aristocracy forty, or possibly
nity, seats in the House of Commons. Thev
have achieved a wonderful vietbrv for indus
trial freedom, and it is hoped that the intro
duction of trade union influence in the Com
mons will be powerful enough to wipe from the
English statutes the unjust features of the com
bination laws which have seriously impaired
the prosperity of organized labor and been a
great injury to English workimjuie. Such de
cisions as that in the Taff-Wla CP.-e aroused the
trade unionists to the i jiporiance of securing
representation in Parlit.Tiient, and the election
shows how energetically they have "worked to
arouse public sentiment in their favor. The
revolution will resnlt in the retirement of manv
members from the Ilousa. of Commons who
have represented only the aristocratic point of
view in industrial legislation.
To, the American trade unionist the English
election furnishes much food for reflection and
opens up possibilities of a "political overthrow
in this country it th,e rights of the -w-orkmgmeu
are unheeded by the moneyed aristocracy
Avhieh too often controls, much of our legisla
tion and the decisions of our courts. Wood
Carver.
SOMEWHAT SARCASTIC.
Minnesota Union. Advocate Refers Thus to a
' Noted Employer of "Scahs."
The name of John B. Stetson will not sound
strange, at least to a few of the most active and
intelligent men in the ranks of organized labor.
It is that of a . hat manufacturer of Philadel
phia. He has just departed for the other world
at his "winter home" in Florida. He was one
of the great' champions of freedom in other
words, of long hours, small pay and resulting
semi-slavery for working people. He was, of
course, as a result badly abused and oppressed
in his day by tyrannical trade unions and trade
unionists a circumstance that, no doubt, ex
plains his being forced to live in Florida in the
winter season. So great was the oppression
practiced on this poor man during his life that
he was known to have declared that he would
make arrangements to haye his factory ran as
a "scab" concern after his death. It is now
being so run, and the Stetson hat will probably
be found on the head of more than one scabby
unionist. Pity He could not take the factory
with him where he. is gone, and where the sup
ply of "free drudges is, no doubt, large
enough to suit him. Minnesota Union Advo
cate. i
LOOKS RATHER . QUEER.
"Wor,ds are Good When Backed Up by Deeds,
and Only So," Says Roosevelt.
The Lincoln Commercial Club is doing a
wonderful lot of talking, about "building up
Lincoln, patronizing home industry, and
all that sort of thing. If the gentlemen of that
club saw an opportunity- to secure a factory
employing fifty or sixty men ,;t would go after
it with a vim. But it is overlooking an oppor
tunity to boost something that would furnish
employment for that many, u not more men
although they- would be distributed among
several factories. .
lhe Commercial Club maintains a cigar
stand. In that cigar case are displayed a doz
en or. more boxes of cigars, ror every Lin
coin made cigar sold from that case, a hundred
cigars made elsewhere are sold. There are
ten boxes of foreign made cigars for each box
of Lincoln- made cigars in .that case.
The Commercial Club ought to practice
what it preaches. Here is an opportunity to
boost a home industry to treble the number
of cigarmakers now working in Lincoln. If one
half the cigars smoked in Lincoln were Lincoln
made, there would be more than 100 cigarmak
ers at work, drawing wages that would be
spent right here in Lincoln. As it is there are
less than 3o cigarmakers at work in this city.
Wake up, gentlemen of the Commercial
Club, and do p. little less preaching and a lot
more, practicing. v .
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In order to familiarize the people of Lincoln with the wonderful Crown Collar Buttons, we
will sell 20,000 this week at half price. Every button is guaranteed. A new one FREE for any
that break. The Crown Collar Button Co., makers of these well known buttons, have allowed
us to sell 20,000 of these at the low prices wc quote. They are willing to lose more than their
usual profit for the purpose of advertising, and we are willing to do the same to introduce these
buttons. . ' . i .'
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29 Styles to Select From for
Men, Women and Children
Carpet Sized
...Rugs...
200 carpet sized rugs at present
on our leaf-turning rack, ..with
something to: suit every taste
artd every purse. Medallion
centers surrounded by a body
of solid color.
Fine allover Persian, geometric
anil Paisley centers.
Bokhara, Herman, and other strict
ly oriental designs.
Floral patterns for the many who
prefer thein to any other.
Colors to harmonize with any fur
nishings all brown rags, all bine
rugs, red rugs, pink rugs; green
rags and rich combinations of every
description.
AH the best ' guaranteed .-makes-r
velvets, Wiltons, Axminsters, Tap
estries, Body Brussels, etc. "
Rugs Made S
to Order
among the
standard sizes 'of the ready-mado
rugs, we make rags of any propor
tions, or odd shape from carpets
with ljorders. We bave new spring
lineH of these in ' Beattie plushes,
Wiltons, ' Axminsters, Velvets and
Brussels. We make rugs that lie as
flat as a board, without a tack.
. ' V ' 50 new ingrain
1 Og 13. Ill 'art squares have
RlISTS j"t been open
. ed and placed
on sale. These, with what we
had on hand, make a fine col
lection. They are seamless,
reversible, easily bandied and
cared, for, and conic in a great
variety of patterns and color
ings. :.'
MILLER & PA I N E
The Winter of Our
Discontent
COL. Bill Shakespeare made one of his ehar-- ; '
acters speak about "The winter of our
discontent' That's what this winter has
been. We put in our usual line of winter goods, .
and it's been summer all winter.i - Had a day or , -two
of winter, but it didn't help much. But we've
JUST GOT TO SELL 'EM
. We mean the winter goods. Can't carry them
over until next winter because that means too
much expense. We'd rather give you the benefit.
So we've shaved a bit more from our already
attentuated profits. . "Attentuated" means thin
and that's what our profits are. We've got any
thing you want from hats to shoes and all between '
Suits from $5 up, and all good ones. Overcoats'
from $5 up, and they are bargains. Shoes from
$1.50 to $3.50, and worth more money. Help us '
get rid of these winter goods. You'll profit by ' ,
-v it more than we will and we assure you that
we are not doing business at a loss. :: .:: :: :i
Xfncoln Clothing Company
" TENTH AND "P" STREETS . '
Madsen's Market
1348 0 STREET
GOOD MEATS
, Cheap for cash
Will Move
to 1127 O street aborat March 1.
, Twenty per cent discount on
all work to March 1.
J. A. Haydcn 1029 0 Street
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Lincoln, Nebraska ,
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. . ' DEALER IN
Fresh and Salt Meats
Savsage, PovlQy, Etc
Columbia National Bank
LINCOLN
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
Telephones 888-477. 314 Se. IHh Street
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Good for Tonci litis.
Office of W. M.' LINE, M. D. -Germantown,
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I have had most excellent results
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Cure has proved to me its value and I
can heartily recommend it to all as a
disease it is recoti
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