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WAGEWORKER
WILL M. MAVPIN, EDITOR
Published Weekly at. 137 No. 14th
St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year.
Entered as second-class matter April
21, 1904, at the postoffice at Lincoln,
N'eb., under he Act of Congress of
March 3rd, 1879.
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SPEAKING OF YOUR RIGHTS.
"Its nobody's business if I want to
go out and get drunk." declared a
trades unionist the other day.
That depends, brother.
"I've got a right to drink when I
please, or get drunk when I please."
he asserted with great earnestness
and bravado.
That depends, brother.
If your drunkenness casts discredit
upon the wholebody of workingmen
then it is the business of your brother.
And you musn't forget that your
rights end just where your neifcubor's
begin. If your drunkeness injurc-s a
fellow workingman Vy briusnng into
disrepute the trade of which he is just
ly proud, then you have no right, moral
or otherwise, to injure him. There
fore you have no right to get drunk.
The trade unionist who presides over
the destinies of The Wageworker has
reached what people call "middle
age." He has had his share ol life's
experiences some of which be is
proud of, and many of which he sel
dom refers to in public. But there is
one thing he learned long ago, and that
is that it doesn't pay, physically, men
tally or morally, to assert a right th.u
brings no other returns than an ach
ing head, a trembling hand, a be
numbed brain and an empty pocket.
"Do you never take a drink?" you ask.
If he wants to the man at the helm
of this little labor paper does. But
thank fortune he has learned not to
want to quite so often as in the old
days.
But If the presiding genius of this
little paper thought for a moment
that the exercise of his right" to take
a drink if he wanted to would cast
discredit and shame upon the craft
he learned, or the whole body f or
ganized labor, he would be the most
contemptible wretch on earth if he
exercised that right.
We have a sympathy for the youu,.
man who is just recovering from jJs
first drunk. Natural curiosity may
have impelled him to tank up just to
undergo the experience. But having
tanked up once and undergone the re
sultant experience, the young man is
a blankety blank fool for doing it the
second time. He hasn't any excuse
for it.
If there is anything on earth that
makes a decent man tired it is to
hear a bunch of fellows boasting about
the "big drunk" they had a day or
two before.
"But haven't I right to get drunk
if I want to?" you ask.
That all depends, my brother. Le
gally, no; for the law says you are
guilty of a misdemeanor when you
tank up past the limit. Morally, no;
for you have no moral right to injure
yourself mentally or physically. From
the union standpoint you have no such
right, for your drunkenness brings re
proach upon the union you have
sworn to defend and discredit upon
your fellow craftsman whom you have
sworn not to wrong.
"O, you are one of those fool pro
hibitionists, eh?"
No, brother; not in the sense you
mean it. There are few worse things
than drinking to excess; there are
many things worse than an occasional
glass of beer or a little' dash of "bit
ters" now and then. We are not rais
ing any objections to your taking a
drink now and then; it is to your
beastly habit of soaking your hide full
of whisky that we object. We object
to it because It injures you, but we
object to it chiefly because it injures
the rest of us.
You can't see It that way?
That may be due to the fact that the
booze has filled your thinkery with
cobwebs. Or, it might be better .to
say that the fact that you glory in
getting beastly drunk every time oc
casion affords is proof that you never
had any thinkery worth mentioning.
You are so jealous of the honor of
your union that you wouldn't give aid
and comfort to a "scab," but you will
go out and discredit your craft by
getting drunk and causing the general
publio to believe that the general
average of organized labor is repre
sented by your besotted condition.
It isn't right for you to do it, my
brother. And you ought to be smart
enough to see it and manly enough to
cut it out.
If you can't go up against the booze
or the beer without loading yourself
above the plimsoll line, stay away from
it altogether. The man who makes
his living by selling it to you will
think more of you for It. You will
think more of yourself, and your
union will benefit by your action.
The Wageworker is not fighting the
saloon as a saloon. It is a legitimate
business just as legitimate as bank
ing, or running a newspaper or selling
drygoods. The saloon is an effect.
not a cause. It is a compliance, not
a demand.
The man who takes an occasional
glass of beer or whisky may be none
the worse for it, but that is not the
question. The question is, is he any
better off because of it? But The
Wageworker is not going to criticise
the workingman who drinks beer or
whisky in moderation. He might be
doing a whole lot worse. But when he
drinks it to the extent of injuring
himself, his family, his fellow crafts
men and the state, then The Wage
worker is going to protest. You hav
en't any right, my brother, to do it.
THE ASININE FRED GRANT.
Frederick Dent Grant, general in
the United States army by virtue of
the fact that he is the son of a great
father, has been talking again. The
ass that disguised itself in the lion's
skin might have escaped detection had
it not brayed and wiggled its long
ears at just the wrong time. Ered
Grant might reflect credit upon his dis
tinguished ancestry if he could only
refrain from braying. As it is he
makes a Jerusalem pony of himself
on every conceivable occasion. The
other day Fred Grant, by virtue of the
fact that he is a general in the regu
lar army, attended a banquet. He
took occasion to deplore the fact that
President Roosevelt saw fit to hold a
consultation with Mayor Schmitz of
San Francisco over a question so im
portant that Fred Grant's mind could
not grasp its fundamentals. And then
he sneeder at he "indicted mayor"
and referring to the consultation de
clared with great fervor that "such a
thing could not have happened at the
White House during the years be
tween 1869 and 1876.
Frederick Dent Grant never dis
played his asininty to a greater degree
than when he made that remark and
dragged the name of his distinguished
father into the discussion. To the
glory of the American commonwealth
be it said that the happenings during
the Grant administrations have never
been repeated. During the eight
years that Ulysses Simpson Grant oc
cupied the presidential chair, Wash
ington was the seat qf a saturnalia of
graft and a riot of thievery and job
bery. It was during the Grant admin
istration that the great "whisky ring"
fraud was perpetrated upon the peo
ple. It was during the Grant admin
istration that a secretary of war, Wil
liam Belknap, was detected in perpe
trating gigantic frauds upon the peo
ple and literally forced into oblivion
through the pressure of public opin
ion. It was during the Grant adminis
tration that the credit mobelier frauds
were perpetrated and hundreds of
millions stolen from the public and
the public treasury. If every charge
of graft and corruption made against
Eugene Schmitz were true, the whole
would not be a drop in the bucket
compared to the graft and the corrup
tion that reigned in Washington dur
ing the eight years that Frederick
Dent Grant's father was president of
the United States.
In view of these historical facts it
ill becomes the man whose only claim
upon fame is that he is the son of his
father, to draw any invidious compari
son;; between things as they now exist
in the white house and things as they
existed in the early 70's. And above
all does it ill become him to make
con parisons between conditions as
they are said to exist in San Francis
co under Mayor Schmitz and condi
tions that were known to exist in
Washington under President Grant.
No cne charges President Grant
witn having personally profited by this
riot of corruption. And f& it not
possible that Eugene Schmitz may be
equally innocent? At any rate it looks
almighty bad for the son of Ulysses
Simpson Grant to be passing judg
ment upon Eugene Schmitz before the
evidence is in.
We hold Ulysses Simpson Grant in
much higher esteem when we can
forget that he was the father of
Frederick Dent Grant.
Secretary Shaw says the govern
ment's bureau of minting and: cur
rency it a "sweat shop." The differ
ence between Shaw and the other
sweat shop employes is that Shaw
could quit his $8,000 a year job and
get one at $50,000 a year when he
wanted to.
Mr. Post's "Square Deal" enumer
ates a lot of wage increases in var
ious branches of industry during the
last three months.. Strange to say
these increases are made in indus
tries that are pretty thoroughly un
ionized. .
It is all in the label.
UNION MADE STUFF.
Manufactured in The Wageworker
Shop and Neither Patented
Nor Copyrighted.
William Squareman Cable.
There is a man in Lincoln town
Named William Squareman Cable,
Who always is a looking round
To find the union label ..
A thing he says that must be found
On body and on table.
And when the label isn't there
He passes up the stuff for fair.
When William lights his fav'rite pipe
He always pulls a sack o'
Good, old, fragrant union made
And cleanly packed tobacco,
And fragrant, satisfying 'smoke ,
Is left along his track-o.
And if the label isn't there
He blows no smoke into the air.
When William takes a chew o' plug
You're always safe in stating
That is union amber juice . .
That Bill's expectorating.
And that it isn't a demand
For "scab" stuff he's creating. .
For it the label isn't there
Bill's teeth the stuff will never tear.
When William Squareman Cable buys
He always boosts the label;.
He has it on his hat and shoes,
His suit, his shirt, his table.
He takes his union pledge to heart
To him it is no fable.
And If the label isn't there
He passes by with nose in air.
Come all ye union men and do
Likewise and do it daily.
Demand the label all the time,
And life will pass more gaily,
Besides, 'twill be a body blow
To "open shoppers"' scaley.
And if the label isn't there
Say, "Not for me; it isn't 'square!'"
Balked.
The proud .and conscienceless mil
lionaire manufacturer was angry.
And he had a right to be.
He had just read a scientific article
which proved that Mars is inhabited.
"And lack of communication pre
vents us from securing the labor of
the children of the Martians,", he
moaned.
Realizing that he was up against it
he went out and posted notice that his
free and independent workmen would
have to stand another wage cut of 25
per cent. '
Uncle Eben.
"There's one funny thing I've notic
ed about this union labor business,"
mused Uncle Eben as he looked up
from his paper.
"What is It, Eben? queried his good
wife. ' '
"I've noticed that when the union
men need a defender they can find
one right in their own ranks, but when
the free and independent fellows, as
Prsident Eliot calls 'em, want a de
fender they have to go to th' boss and
git him to hire a lawyer t' do their-de-fendin.'
"
Limerick.
There was a young man in Eau Claire
Who kept his card paid up and square;
Eight hours made his day,
Eight for sleep, eight for play,
And the wage he received was quite
faire.
Cards.
If a man is a true trades unionist
his acts will show it better than his
words can tell it.
Gosh, what if our wives should
strike for the eight-hour working
day!
Every time a union man buys a non
union article he violates his union
obligation. No getting away from
that fact. '
"Your grandfathers worked fifteen
and eighteen hours a day," says the
opponent of the shorter work day.
Correct, and most of our grandfathers
are dead, too.
The genuine union man is always
ready to give a reason for his union
ism. The non-union man is a carbuncle
on the neck of industrial progress.
Union talk that never comes till
it floats out on the top of a tank full
of booze isn't worth listening to.
The union man helps himself; the
non-unionist is always asking for help.
Every family is a closed shop or
ganization or ought to be.
We know that Jesus of Nazareth
was a unionist, for he went about do
ing good.
Tho A J JEJOflY E.
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