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Important to every man who is within trading
distance of this store because the sale takes in
our complete stock of men's, boys' and chil
dren's clothing, caps and furnishing goods and
places the best class of merchandise on a price
basis which is a help to the rich, a wonderful
saving to the great middle class, and an abso
lute blessing to the poor. Everyone may
rightfully reckon themselves in on this sale
and the amount of benefit any particular in
dividual will secure for himself will depend
wholly upon hii needs and his ability to satis
fy tiiem. One thing, no matter how little
your needs may be, in justice to yourself, you
should not spend one dime outside this store
WEiiie This Green Tag
Sale is in Progress.
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Green Tags on RJen's Suits and Overcoats
What They Are and What They Mean
All Men's Suits, Fancy Blue and Black (Full Dress Suits and Uniforms excepted) and all Men's Over
coats worth up to $27.50 are divided into five lots as follows:
Grcon Tag Lot No. I
Choice of any $27.50 and $25
Suits and Overcoats
$16.85
Groon Tag Lot No. 2
Choice of any of our $22.50 and
$20 Suits and Overcoats
$13.85
Green Tag Lot No. 3
Chice of any of our $18 and $15
Suits and Overcoats
$10.85
Green Tag Lot No. 4
Choice of any of our $13.50 and
$12.50 Suits and Overcoats
$7.85
Grcon Tag Lot No. 5
Choice of any of our $10.00 and $8.50 Suits and Overcoats
$4.85
Special Assortment Men's $40.00, $35.00 and $30.00 Overcoats, Green Tag Price, $20.00
Special assortment Men's Broken Suits, largely Coats and Vests, values $18 and $i5, $12.50, $10.00
$7.50 and $5. QO. To close out quick, $3.40 for choice.
All Men's Fur and Fur lined Coats go at 20 per cent discount.
All Men's Heavyweight Pants go at 20 per cent discount.
Armstrong '.Clothing Co.
GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS
statement of some worxingmen make
one impatient. It is undoubtedly a
great mistake for the workingman to
say unkind things about the rich and
prosperous, especially when they are
untrue, but it also behooves the other
fellow to guard his speech when he
discusses the workingman.
What is the conclusion of the whole
matter?
"Judge not, that ye be not judged.
For with what judgment ye judge, ye
shall be judged, and with what meas
ure ye mete, it shall be measured to
j on again. And why beholdest thou
the mote that is in thy brother's eye;
bu' considerest not the beam that is
in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou
say to thy brother, 'Let me pull out
the mote out of thine eye,' and be
hold a beam is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast but the
beam out of thine own eye; and then
shalt thou see clearly to cast out the
mote out of thy brother's eye."
of uninterrupted connection with the
union there has never been a charge
of .any kind against him, either as a
foreman, journeyman or member, and
was always a faithful attendant at
union meetings. Active from the be
ginning of our organization up to the
present time for. the good and welfare
of the I. S. and E. U. This unassail
able record of our oldest member may
be taken for a little brief history, and
will serve as a good example for all
who da not take any interest in the
union's affairs, even enough to attend
meetings. Stereotypers' Department'
Western Laborer.' . ..... .
Typographical Union Ball, Monday,
February 25, Fraternity Hall. Quick's
Orchestra. '
Typographical Union Ball,
February 25, Fraternity Hall.
Orchestra.
Monday,
Quick's
CREDIT WHERE PROPERLY DUE.
PRESIDENT HARTZELL HERE.
President Hartzell of the Interna
tional Union of Bricklayers "and Ma
sons was in Lincoln the firsl of the
week, visiting with President Bowen
of the local union and informing him
self as to conditions in this section
of the country. He ' was entertained
by the local members and given every
opportunity to see that the local brick-"
layers have been wideawake and full
of union enthusiasm all the time.
Labor Papers and Orators Long Ago
Attacked All Sorts of Corruption.
If it is given to the departed to look
down upon the affairs of earth, the
faces of labor's old worthies Richard
Trevellick, George McNeil, P. J. Mc
Guire, John Swinton, Thomas Arm
strong, Henry George, John Siney.
John James, Mingo Parks, Uriah Stev
ens, Edward Gould and hundreds of
others must be wreathed in smiles as
they view the trend of present events.
Long years before Miss Ida Tarbell,
Lincoln Steffens, David Phillips,
Thomas Lawson, Upton Sinclair, - or
any of the "muckrakers," called, by
their writings, public attention to mat
ters which have brought ineffable re
proach upon the American name, the
orators and writers of trades unions
pointed out and held up to public gaze
with photographic fidelity the matters
which have recently caused the Amer
ican heart to blaze with indignation.
Every civic corruption, every corpor
ation greed, every public land steal.
every sweatshop evil, the padrone sys
tem, the Standard Oil iniquity, the
workings of the coal ' trust, every
wrong which has wrought up the pub
lic mind of late, stands exposed in
the cojumns of the labor papers and
in the speeches of labor's orators of a
generation ago. They read like an
epic of villiany a very Iliad of wrong.
Labor's heroes' trod a thorny path
to the stars. Their courses were
marked with blood, hunger, the siini
of human Woes. It was the Pinkerton
thug here, the praetorian guard there
and, like the "men of '98,"
"If they missed the judge,
Then they met the dragoon."
But the Tarbells and the Lawsons
Have misplaced the source which fost
ered and protected the wrongs. These
things are not due but in a slight de
gree as much to a treasonable senate
as to a corrupt and pliable judiciary.
The future historian of the affairs of
the state will read the expose of the
present festering corruption and then
seek why it flourished ' unchecked.
They will find that , every effort of
congress, legislatures and efficient
prosecutors was baffled by an iniquit
ous judiciary, and then its name will
be blistered with infamy. No more
vivid example of the sublime faith the
carrion trust, the Standard Oil trust
and the poison squad have and are re
posing in their protectors, the judici
ary, than when they clamor for a
"court review." Mine Workers' Jour
nal. ...
READS LIKE ROMANCE.
Yet
It l What Will Surely Happen
After Conference.
To get together and talk it out as
men. That is one of the things to be
striven for. Not as officially repre
senting any particular organization,
while feeling is strong, but before the
occasion for such feeling arrives.
Something like this happened re
cently in Scranton. The writer was In
vited by the Second Presbyterian
Church in that city to address the
regular Sunday evening audience,
which was composed of all classes of
men. Among the officers of that
church are Mr. T. H. Watkins, appoint
ed by President Roosevelt a member
of the famous anthracite strike com
mission of 1902; Mr. E. L. Fuller, pres
ident of the International Salt Com
pany;! Mr. Henry Belin, Jr., president
of DuPont Powder Company; Mr. T. J
! Foster, the founder and president of
the ' International Correspondence
Schools; Mr. T. E. Clarke, general su
perintendent of the Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western Railroad Com
pany; Mr. W. H. Gearhart, a large
Independent coal operator, and Mr
Jame9 H. Torrey, who represented the
coal-carrying railroads before the
strike commission. Within the church
there are many mine owners, repre
sentatives of the large railroads and
, men .of big manufacturing Interests.
Also there are miners, machinists,
molders and laborers of all grades
within the organization.
After the formal address, about
two hundred men adjourned to the lec-
turo room of the church to partake of
lefreshments, and there occurred what
the local papers called "the most novel
scene ever witnessed in this commun
ity." Large and prominent coal oper
ators were shaking hands and eating
and drinking with union officials whom
they had fought for years but had
never met; Mr. T. E. Nicholls, the
president of District No. 1, United
Mine Workers, and recently elected
as a labor representative to congress,
came in touch with the forces that
had opposed his election most strongly
and bitterly; officers of the Molders'
Union (at present on strike) were
found chatting with the ironmasters
and owners of foundries from which
they had withdrawn, their workers;
Hugh Frayne, known throughout the
labor world of America, was seen on
the best of terms with the attorney
representing the great cpal-carrying
railroads who has been trying for two
years through the courts to break up
the Mine Workers' Union. It was a
novel sight.
An open parliament was conducted.
It was carried through with the utmost
good nature. Representatives of both
sides expressed their views and it
was my privilege to act as meditator.
The ethical basis upon which both
sides must rest their cases, was dis
closed and misunderstandings that had
been a chronic source of friction, were
explained away. Class distinctions
were faced and discounted, and what
was best of all the human element was
kept constantly to the front, so that
mechanical arrangements of labor aud
capital seemed to fade and the con
testants regarded themselves as men
dealing with men of like passions and
simiiiar prejudices. Rev. Charles
Stelzle.
CHANCELLOR DAY CHALLENGED.
Rev. Charles Stelzle Pulls the Figures
On a Union-Hater.
The president of an eastern univer
sity recently declared that "these op
pressed workingmen support 10,000 sa
loons between Harlem and the Bat
tery in New York City." Incidentally,
in this conuccticn, he paid his re
epects to organized labor, forgetting
that the trades unions arc- doing more
f.r the cause tf temperance than all
the universities combined. This very
astute college president seems to imag
ine that workingmen have a monopoly
of these 10,000 New Y.:rk saloons. As
a matter of fact, there are just a few
university' men w.io are helping f
support them. Possibly our college
friend would be surprised to discover
that there are more saloons to the
population in the Fifth avenue dis
tricts in New York where the work
ingman does not live than there aro
on the lower east eIueN where he
makes his home. This is hot a state
ment ventured at a mere guess. It is
based upon an accurate census. Here
are the eact figures:
Number of persons to each saloon
license on the east side, south
of Fourteenth street ,. 375
Number of persons to each saloon
license in the Fifth avenue dis
trict 280
These figures include the licenses
issued to hotel bars, where the Fifth
avenue constituency can do it3
chinking unobserved.
Accoiding to these figures, the peo
ple in the Fifth avenue district drink
more beer and whisky than does the
workingman. If one were to follow
the example of this college president,
and loosely employ the statistics fur
nished, one might 'say that this state
ment were true. No doubt this is
true with some individuals, but these
statistics do not prove it. It must
be taken into account "that others be
sides those living in this district pat
ronize the hotel bars, although this
same rule applies to some saloons on
the lower east side.
Sometimes one becomes tired of the
,oose talking of some . professedly
learned, but profoundly ignorant
"scholars," just as the unqualified
Typographical Union Ball, Monday,
February 25, Fraternity Hall, Quick's
Orchestra.
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A GOOD BILL.
Senator Joseph Burns on Wednesday
presented an amendment to the city
charter to create a board of plumbing
spection. The board is to consist of
four members, including the city
health officer, a plumbing inspector,
who is to receive a salary of $1,500 per
year, one journeyman plumber and one
managing plumber. This board is to
have jurisdiction over all sanitary
construction. i
EMPLOYE AWARDED DAMAGES.
Company Which Blacklisted Him Must
Pay Over 2,000 Damages.
Because it influenced the discharge "
of Robert Summers from the employ,
of the Mehan Boiler and Construction
company, of Youngstown, O., the Co
lumbus Iron and Steel company was
held liable for f 2,000 damages to Sum
mers by a jury in common pleas court
at Columbus, O. Summers had been
employed by the Columbus Iron and
Steel company previous to his employ
ment by the Mehan company and was
alleged to have been concerned in a
strike at the former's plant. When he
was employed by the Mehan company
he was sent to Columbus to work on
a building being erected for the Co
lumbus Steel company when the latter
influenced the Mehan company to dis
charge him. .
Typographical Union Ball, Monday,
February 25, Fraternity Hall. Quick's'
Orchestra. '
SUNDAY BASEBALL BILL.
Measure Is Killed in Kansas Senate by
a Tie. Vote.
The bill against Sunday baseball is
dead. The Kansas senate killed it by
a vote of 17 to 17. It did not come up
for final passage, but on the motion of
Senator Simon that it be printed and
placed upon the calendar in spite of
he report of the judiciary committee
"that house bill No. 23 be not passed."
There was a satisfied look upon the
faces of many of the senators when a
contrary report was read from the ju
diciary committee on the anti-Sunday
baseball bill. This, it was thought,
had put the bill in a permanent
tose condition. But Senator Young
and Senator Simons, advocates of pre-
i.. -i i i li i
vvjiuiig ouuuay uureuau, gui vusj'.
They counted noses and just at noon
Senator Simons-made a motion, that
house bill 23, generally -known as the
upon the calendar in spite of the ad
"Skiddoo bill," be printed and placed
verse report of the, judiciary commit-'
tee.
Those who were against the bill con
cluded it was a proper time to fight it
out and a roll call was ordered. Those'
voting aye were supposedly against
Sunday baseball. Following is the roll
call: - - -
Yeas Blaker, Caldwell,. Dolley, Ful-
ton, Gilbert, Griffin, Hodges, Hughes,t
Tower, Martin of Woodson, . Miller
Quincy, Robertson, Simons, Stannard,'
Tucker, Young. 1
Nays Benson, Buschow, Chap.nan,;
Conner, Fltzpatrlck, .Getty, Harrison,-'
Haskell, Haydeh, Huffman, Porter of.
Crawford, Porter of Montgomery,;
Smith, Stewart, Stillings, Waggener,'
Wilkerson. ' ' ;
This kills the bill, as it cannot, be
revived except on a motion that the:
vote by which Simons' motion was lost'
be reconsidered. This will take a two-'
thirds vote.' ., . -- -
. A special from Morgantownj - Ky.,'
says: "Thirty masked -men called
T T! 1. . . 1 -. kin Vknmn n .1'
whipped him severely. Phelps waa
accused of cruelty to his three-year-old
child and was out on bail. It is
claimed he stuck pins in the child and;
burned it with, a hot poker."
Union
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The Lyric has an unusually good bill
scheduled for next week.
ELECTRICIANS.
Electrical Workers' Union of Detroit
has decided to give a series of social
sessions during the winter, to which
the wives, daughters, sweethearts and
friends of the members will be invited.
- The strike of electricians against
the Chicago" Telephone company has
been settled and the men returned to
work. The men secured recognition
of their union and a wage Increase of
50 cents a day. Under the terms of
settlement men are to be paid a mini
mum scale of $3 a day and the cable
and switchboard men $4 a day.
STEREOTYPERS.
New York, No. 1 claims Brother
James Pettiner to be the oldest active
member of our craft; Mr. Pettiner Is
76 years old. In his forty-three years
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Fresh and Salt Meals
Sausage, Povllry, Etc
. Staple and Fancy, Groceries.
Telephones 888-477. 314 So. litis Street
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