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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1906)
The Trades Unions and the Chtfrcn WAS ONCE A HERO. ooooocoooooooexxxxxoexooooex UNION LA will choose them for exactly the same reason. These suits sell at this store all the year around at the same prices. Come and look at them. All the new fall styles are in stock. Prices range from $7.50 to $18 for Suits and O'coats 104-106 North 10th St. Three Good Rules to Follow First When Traveling between Omaha and Chicago, use. The Overland Limited leaving at 8:35 p. m. from Union Station. Second. If you cannot use The Overland Limited, use The Eastern Ex press leavins at 5:45 p, m. Third. If you ennnot use eitner 01 leaving a t 7 : 55 a. m. In tliesvj three trains the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway offers an excellence in service between Omaha and Chicago not obtain able elsewhere. All trains arrive in Union Station in the heart of Chicago. All trains are protected by block signals and run over a smooth track all the way. Low Rates to Many pastern Points F. A. NASH, General Western Agent. YELLOWSTONE PARK drand tourist resort of the people and one of the most beautiful parts of the American continent VERY LOW ROUND TRIP RATES TO YELLOWSTONE PARK . have been put in effect this summer bv the UNION For Yellowstone Park literature and full infor mation in regard to rates, route, etc., inquire of E. B. SLOSSON, x stands for so much that is dear to the heart of the staunch Union Man that it is little wonder he insists on seeing this label in a suit of clothes before he buys. ''Wear Well Clothes" are so thor oughly well made that they sell strictly on their own merits. We chose "Wear-Well Clothes" not merely because they have the Union label, but be cause we could not find as good garments anywhere for the money. And you We Save You Money "Just )OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOCKXXXXXXOOC me aoove, lane ms i-mrasu caicoo 1524 Farnam Street, OMAHA. PACIFIC General Agent i : g UNION MADE I tmon Around the Corner A SHOOTING IN CEDARVALE. In a Quarrel About a Liquor License a Physician Was Killed. Dr. E. M. Donelson, a prominent phy sician of Cedarvale, was shot and killed by Frank Pattison, a son of G. W. Pattison, d: druggist. . Pattison was hurried out of town and taken to the county jail at Sedan. The trouble grew out of the hearing of a liquor case at Sedan. Pattison applied for a renewal of his permit to sell liquor and was defeated in his ap plication by the testimony of Dr. Don elson. All the parties returned home to Cedarvale. Frank Pattison met Donelson on the street and a quarrel ensued. Pattison drew a revolver and shot Dr. Donelson through the temple. Dr. Donelson was 60 years old. He leaves a family. Pattison is 26 years old. A Friend of Lincoln's Dead. E. S. Wills, 73 years- old, died at Atchison. He was superintendent of the Atchison Water company for more than twenty years, the first railroad ticket agent at this point, ex-general freight and passenger agent for the Central Branch, one of the flr3t civil engineers for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and a friend of President Lincoln, when both lived in Spring field. 111. Chancellor Strong Back in Lawrence, Chancellor Strong of the University of Kansas and Mrs. Strong have re turned from Colorado, where they spent the summer. Dr. Strong has completely recovered from his recent attack of typhoid fever and will as sume his duties immediatel A Pardon for a Dying Kansan. William Dean, convicted of burglary in Wilson county, Kansas, in 1905, was pardoned from the penitentiary by Governor Hoch. Dean is now suffering a severe attack of tuberculosis and has not long to live. The prison phy sician urged that the pardon be grant ed. Prof. L. I. Blake, professor of elec trical engineering at the University of Kansas, who has been managing the submarine signal station at Boston, sent in his resignation of his position in UX l ( 5 EM g Continued From Page 1 result in opening those islands to the light of the gospel. I submit in all good faUh that if we shall , condone opening ' the way with musket and sword for the light of the gospel, we shaH also condone the use of the cob- tlcstcne and . the loaded gaspipe in opening the way fcr the light of trades unionism. For my part I am opposed to both. If I were asked to diagram any essential point -of difference be-tv.-een the trades union and the church I would say that one teaches the doc trine of every-day reward, while the other inclines to the future reward. In other wtords, the church may be charged with teaching that God does business on a credit basis; that it teaches that God promises a great re ward sometime in the dim and distant future if we do the right thing during the present. I do not believe that God does business that way. He does busi ness on a cash basis. Let me illustrate my point by a little story. My father is a minister of the gospel. During his long service in the ministry in Illinois he became the friend of a man named Tom Snell. Snell was a rich man, and he had paid a large percent age of the first cost of every church in our county. He was liberal to a fault; the poor never appealed to him in vain. Yet he was what some church members would call a Godless man because he drank heavily, swore like a pirate and was accounted one of the best gamblers in the country. One day Snell met my father and' said: "Parson, you preachers are making a great mistake by teaching that God's rewards are in the hereafter. It isn't so, and I can prove it." "Go ahead, Tom," said my father. "Well, I own two ICO-acre farms in McLean county, one in the north end and one in the south end. They are exactly alike in soil, in improvements and in general appearance. I can sell the north end farm for a hundred dol lars an acre any day in the year. I can't get an offer of $75 an acre for the south end farm.' Do you know why there is this difference? '"I do not," replied my father. "Well, I'll tell you. Those people in the north end of the county have sung and prayed that farm up to a hundred dollars an acre, while the people in the south end of the county have fid dled and danced the property in their section down to sixty or seventy dol lars an. acre." Trades unions teach that trades unionism brings its present reward in the shape of better industrial condi tions, better, wages, shorter hours of work, more enlightened citizenship, happier children, happier homes and better fellowship. Without trades unionism the industrial condition of the workers would be even worse than the spiritual condition of those who have never had the joy of hearing the gospel of the Nazarene. If the church and the trades union were to join hands and work in har money, each helping the other, the progress of mankind toward the ideal life would be a thousand times more rapid than it is. I know of no forces working for more beneficent ends. I know of no greater forces in the work of uplifting humanity. What is a doer of the work? ' James says that "Pure religion and undenled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, "and to keep himself unspotted from the world." I believe from the bottom of my heart that the trades unions of today are doing more in proportion to numbers to further the work of helping the fatherless and the widows, to visit the sick and af flicted, to help the poor and needy, than are the churches. -And I do not believe that keeping oneself unspotted from the world means that one is to wrap his religion about him like a clcak and seek the seclusion of some retreat afar from the haunts of men, there to live a hermit. The Christian's place today is in the marts of trade, in the great centers of manufacture, in the counting room, there to teach by the force of his every-day example the joys and the pleasures of the Chris tian life. The trades unionist's place is in the great industrial world, there to teach by the force of his every-day example the benefits of co-operation, of mutual helpfulness, of that love which reaches down and lifts up to a higher level of usefulness and citizen ship. In these great works may not ,me trades union and' the church join hands? The church carries hope and cheer to those who sit in darkness. It sheds the light of regeneration upon the sould of men. It lifts up those who sit in darkness, and it comforts the widows and the orphans. That such a forie should have survived so long and accomplished so much for better ment of mankind is proof sufficient of its divine origin. But logic is logic, my friends. The church has not been alone in this sort of work. In seven teen centuries the church did not wipe c'it as many evils that oppressed the laborers of earth as the trades unions have in the last one hundred years. Your missionaries carry the light of tho gospel into dark lands. Our trades union missionaries carry it into the ncisome sweatshop. They take the little children from the stunting and demoralizing mills and mines and give them sunshine and playtime and schooltime. They give the husband into the bosom of his family at least a portion of that family's waking hours. They give the wife and mother to the home by enforcing conditions that make it possible for the husband and father to earn enough to support his family instead of calling upon the partner of his bosom to become a breadwinner. Our trades unions have builded for better citizenship by en forcing conditions that made it pos sible for hundreds of thousands of children to acquire an education in stead of toiling in the mills and mines. Are these not great and good works, vorthy of being placed alongside the works of the church? As trades union ists we are striving to create condi tions that will make it possible for our children to enjoy better conditions than their parents enjoyed. And I de clare here and now that child labor is the greatest curse of this country, and I call upon you as Christians, as church members, to join hands with we of the trades unions in an effort that will effectually wipe it out. The worst murderer is he who -kills the innocence of childhood, and deprives the child of the playtime and the advantages of youth. ' In the very shadow of the richest churches in, New York, Chicago, Bos ton, Philadelphia and other great cities, there exists more of human woe and misery than could be de scribed by tongue or pen, and men re sponsible for these conditions sit in their comfortable pews and take upon their lips the words uttered by the workingman of Nazareth. Into the contribution plates are dropped the golden coins wirung from the tears and sweat and blood of childhood and womanhood and manhood offerings to the Man whose every utterance wa3 an indictment of the industrial condi tions eforced by these rich men and women. With here and there a nota ble exception, the pulpit is silent on these things, or if it does speak at all of these things it speaks in glit tering generalities, instead of pointing the finger at the guilty ones, saying, "Thou art the man, and thou, and thou!" In view of these admitted facts, can you blame the workingman for the prevalent belief that the church ia not doing its duty? , Into these foul tenements the settlement workers are crowding, but wherever the settlement worker goes he or she finds that the union agent has been before them ministering to the sick, helping the afflicted, clothing the naked, feeding the hungry and burying the dead. The first glimmer of hope entering into these dark places was brought by the unions. I shudder to think of the sights I have seen in the East Side districts of New York sights I could not begin, to describe if I would sights that could not be more than hinted at in the presence of refined women and men. Poverty, filth, dis ease, crime the fruits of a perverted industrialism wlhose only god is gold. Sixty thousand tenement rooms in New York City alone which have only one opening, the door, and these sixty thousand rooms sheltering 300,000 peo ple, an average of five to the room, and these rooms at once sitting room, work room, dining room and bedroom. Against these conditions unfonism is fighting a slow, unequal but at the same time a successful warfare. Will not the church help' us? In God's name I ask you to help us put these helpless and hopeless thousands into a fit physical condition to listen to the words of the gospel. I have an abid ing faith in the final victory, both for the church and the union. The closer the two get together, and the quicker, the sooner . will all the wrongs be righted. The unions are not perfect, for per fection can not be achieved by man, But if at the end of nineteen cen turies the church still makes mistakes. we are profiting by our mistakes, just as the church has profited. I believe in my union because I be lieve in God. I believe true unionism is God's work. My faith in God has never faltered, and I believe that in His own good time God will bring to both organizations the final victory. Prof. Blake- of K. U. Resigns. Every joint or saloon in Dickinson county, Kansas, was raided by the county officers. Twenty-five joint keepers were arrested, each charged on several counts with violating the state prohibition law. Four Fell Through a Kansas Bridge. Matthew Wagner, his wife and two children, while driving across a bridge near Leavenworth, were precipitated a distance of sixteen feet VETERAN IN REMINISCENT MOOD TELLS GOOD STORY. Owes His Life to Gentle Hearted Southern Lady Who Used Heroic Methods to Cure Him of Pneumonia. "I've been in tight places in battle," 6aid the G. A. R. man in reminiscent mood, "and generally acquitted myself honorably. But once I was yes, a hero! "Several youngsters of us, wild with enthusiasm, had gone into the army from college. Such ? trifle as consult ing our families couldn't stop us. After some rough experiences in camp, there was a skirmish In which several were wounded. These and others of us, sick from exposure, were deposited in an improvised hospital in a small village. "Medical supplies were few, there was only one doctor, and some officers' wives, left at the place, did what they could in nursing.- The dangerously wounded got the attention, the rest of us fared anyhow. The doctor had given me about two- minutes and rushed away, muttering something about pneumonia. "As I lay on my hard couch, forgot ten, despairing, my thoughts were not according to romantic ideals 'sol dierly.' I had enlisted without con stilting mother! Boy as I was, my fear of death was not so much the fear of actual dying as it was that of the naughty child come to grief in his naughtiness and now about to be found out. "A slip of a girl who I learned later was a colonel's wife was giving me a drink of water when the doctor dashed by. 'My dear child,' he expostulated, 'you shouldn't be here what will the colonel say? T don't care,' she retort ed, spiritedly. T've got to help these poo' sick boys you can go' along, doc tan, an' the colonel, too!' , "So here was another young thing, out of place, threatened with rightful authority! I opened my heart to her I .was going to have pneumonia, no one was doing anything for me, and it I died, what would my mother say! " 'Poo' boy,' she cooed. T reckon the doctah hasn't a minute foh yoh. But I'll cure yoh. If you'll jus, do what I say.' . TI1 An rtl...r T MnVW ised, and off she went, all important with her charge, returning presently with something in a cloth. " 'Yoh mus' keep it on two houahs,' he said, Impressively. 'It'll hu't awful but yoh promised.' . "She shed tears of pity, as with the help of an old negro, she wrapped me, front and back, in a mustard plaster me ii Ke oi wnicn never was. jroo boy, I jus' feel how It ' hu'ts, but re membah how mad youah mothah "Did I keep it on I did, for. two 'houahs,' manfully remembering moth er and hearing my little nurse's 'You promised!' "And," concluded the veteran,- "I'd give a great deal to see my nurse again. She not only saved my life, but, made me a hero for once perforce!1 Besides, I've always wanted to find out If the colonel was as mild with her as mother was with me when she found me." New American Industry. The infant industry of raw silk pro duction gives promise of developing Into sturdy and vigorous manhood, even though protective duties and the aid of state or national bounties be denied it. The father of the present! movement to establish serf-culture as a permanent and profitable branch of A mar1nn inriiiatnr In Tallin RnrHa Ma. gid, a German by birth, an Italian by descent and an American by choice and adoption. At Tallulah Falls, Ga., he owns 3,500 acres of land, on which he has planted more than 200,000 mul berry trees, which are now irom tnref to five years old, and which are de signed for the feeding of millions of silk worms. The land will be subdi vided into many small farms and, leased or sold to persons willing, to engage in silk culture. Mr. Magtdl has proven that Bilk can be produced as cheaply In America has In any oth er country and that the $100,000,000: or more expended annually for foreign' silks might just as well be kept at home for the benefit ot American farmers, workmen and manufacturers. Technical World. Why He Married Her. A country justice ot the peace, when upward of 70 years of age, mar ried a girl about 19, and being well aware that he was likely to be rallied on the subject, he resolved to be pre pared. Accordingly, when any of his intimate friends called upon him, af ter the first salutation) were passed, toe was sure to begin the conversation by saying he believed he could tell them news: "Why," said he, "I have married my tailor's daughter." If asked why, the old gentleman replied u i"Why, the father suited me so well for 40 years past that I thought the daughter might suit me for 40 years to come." American Civility Criticised. Owen Owen, a dry goods man, who is in a large way of business In Liver pool, tells in the Draper's Record of what he saw on a recent visit to the United States. He speaks with wonder 'of the many attractions and conveni ences American dry goods - men fur nish for their customers, but remarks: "One hardly ever hears the phrase 'Thank you' in an American shop. Without being actually rude, the as sistants seem to lack some of the pofc. ish which is expected from them in this Qoutnry." , .
