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LINCOLN. NEBRASKA
WAGEWORKER
WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR
Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th
St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year.
Entered as second-class .matter April
21, 1904, at the postofflce at Lincoln,,
Neb., under the Act of Congress of
March 3rd, 1879.
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Jt "Printers' Ink," ; the recog-
jl nized authority on advertis-
jt ing, after a thorough invest!-
Jt gation on this subject, says:
Jt "A labor paper is a far bet-
Jt ter advertising medium than
Jt an ordinary newspaper in
Jt comparison with circulation.
Jt A labor paper, for example,
jl having 2,000 subscribers is of
Jt more value to the business
Jt man who advertises in it
Jt th an ordinary paper ftth
jl 12,000 subscribers."
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UNDESIRABLE CITIZENS."
It seems that President Roosevelt
would class as "undesirable citizens
all those whom he can not use to
further his own plans and purposes.
For President Roosevelt's personal
honesty we have the highest regard.
The trouble with him is that he is too
excitable. He lacks balance. And
when he makes a mistake he is too
bull-headed to admit it. , This was
clearly shown in his letter to Honore
Jaxon, who protested against the presi
dent's prejudicing the case against
Moyer and Haywood by designating
them as "undesirable citizens." He
jumped onto Engineer Wallace for re
signing from the canal job to accept
a better job, and praised to the skies
Paul Morton who brazenly admitted
that he had violated the anti-rebate
law. He prates loud and long about
taking the people into his confidence,"
but here is a letter he wrote to E. H.
Harriman on October 14, 1904, less
than three weeks before the presiden
tial election;
"(Personal.)
'October 14, 1904.
Mr. Dear Mr. Harriman A sugges-
tion has come to me in a roundabout
way that you do not think it wise to
come to see me in these closing weeks
of the campaign, but that you are re
luctant to refuse, inasmuch as I have
asked you. Now, my dear sir, YOU
AND I ARE PRACTICAL MEN, AND
YOU ARE ON THE GROUND AND
KNOW THE CONDITIONS BETTER
THAN J DO.
'If you think there is any danger of
your visit to me causing trouble, or if
you think there is nothing special I
should be informed about, or no mat
ter in which I could give aid, why, of
course, give up the visit for the time
being, and then, a, few .weeks HENCE,
BEFORE I WRITE MY MESSAGE, I
SHALL GET YOU TO COME DOWN
TO DISCUSS CERTAIN GOVERN
MENT MATTERS NOT CONNECTED
WITH THE CAMPAIGN.
"With great regard, sincerely yours,
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
Then, after accepting Mr. Harri-
man's contribution to the campaign
fund. President Roosevelt turns around
and condemns Harriman in unmeas
ured terms, and in order to make- him
more odious says he is "as undesirable
a citizen as Debs, Moyer and Hay
wood." This is what Theodore Roose
velt calls "square deal" taking a
man's money and then throwing him
clown, and using his high office to
prejudice the case of two men on trial
for their lives.
If this is the "square deal" of which
we have heard so much, then heaven
save us from the "square deal!"
TIME TO BRING ACTION.
When the city settled its tax case
with the Lincoln Traction Co., the
representatives of that . corporation
agreed, in order to secure settlement
in its favor, to donate $1,000 to the
park board. This promise has, in ef
fect, been repudiated by President
Scudder. The $1,000 donation was
really a part of the settlement, and if
It is not paid the tax case is still sub
ject to re-opening. .
It is high time that this man Scud
der be brought to a realizing sense of
the fact that he must treat this city
fairly and quit his narrow, selfish
pisayunish policy. The propjer city
officials should at once, bring suit
to the limit. President. Scudder will
have difficulty in getting that case in
to the federal courts.
The park commission needs and is
entitled to that $1,000, and the citi
zens of Lincoln who need the park
should arise as one man and insist
that, it be paid. a
The Wageworker never advocates a
boycot not because it disapproves of
the boycot, but because the same
courts that have legalized the black
list have declared the boycot illegal.
But unless the Lincoln Traction, Co.
changes Its, policy Lincoln citizens
who patronize its lines ought to have
their heads bored for the simples- If
you can not patronize the Citizens'
Street Railway, just remember that
waKing is a mighty healthful exer
cise, and you need exercise. ' y
MAYOR BROWN'S ENDORSEMENT.
'fhe re-election of Mayor Brown is
not only a handsome endorsement of
the1 splendid business administration
he has given the city of Lincoln, but
it is a tribute to the good sense of the
voters of Lincoln. This city is known
the country over as a "hide bound"
republican center. That a democrat,
running on a democratic ticket, should
first be elected mayor and then re
elected, shows the growing indepen
dence of the American voter, and po
litical independence is the only thing
that will save this country from ruin.
Mayor Brown has given the city his
clost and unremitting attention, sac
rificing his own business interests to
that end. His administration has been
marked for its cleanliness, for its good
orderi and for its economy. It will be
remembered as long as Lincoln exists'
because of the ?act that it saw the
inauguration of a park plan befitting
Lincoln's rank.
The Wageworker congratulates
Mayor Brown upoh this evidence if
the confidence of the people, but it
congratulates the people more for
having the good sense to re-elect a
mayor who has made sudi a good rec
ord. , .
It takes the average school teacher
longer to prepare herself for the work
than it does for the 'average mechanic
to prepare himself to be a journeyman.
The school teacher- works for about
one-half what the mechanic gets, be-
rcause the school teachers are a little
too good to organize like those ''common-mechanics."
Ex-Governor Taylor would get as
fair a trial in the courts of Kentucky
is Moyer and Haywood will get in the
courts of Idaho. But we haven't heard
of President Roosevelt demanding Tay
lor's return to the Blue Grass state.
Taylor, fugitive from Kentucky jus
tice, Is evidently a "desirable citizen."
Gigadier ; Brindle Otis of -Los
Angeles, who fought manfully from be
hind a. desk in Manilla during the Phil
ippine insurrection, dearly - loves' : to
libel the mechanics who had ;'ta do
their fighting- in the swamps and
jungles.
Governor Buchtel o Colorado was
elected because laboring men did not
do their duty. And Governor Buchtel
is handing the careless laboring men
the very packages they deserve. Let
them take their medicine without- a
murmur.
Andrew " Carnegie is a very liberal
man with his penshjns, but up' to date
we haven't heard of his paying pen
sions to the widows of the men who
were slaughtered at Homestead. '
Having opened his mouth too wide
in his letter to Mr. Sherman, Presi
dent Roosevelt proceeded to put his
foot in it when he wrote that letter
to the New York union men.
Mayor Schmitz under indictment
was such a desirable citizen that
President Roosevelt Invited him to
come clear across the continent for
a conference.
It has been a long time since Charles
W. Post yawped that we are compelled
to believe that the ex-stenographer has
kept him jumping sideways to get the
money.
The state bureau of labor and sta
tistics has been removed to the third
floor of the state house. With' Despain
in charge it is also a long ways up in
the air.
And don't '.forget that the "open
shop on government work was
brought about by the official proclama
tion of President Roosevelt.
It seems that Mr. E. H. Harriman
raised $250,000 with whiqh to purchase
a very beautiful political gold brick.
Ttai nuin & Bailey's circus uses "rat
printing and refuses to use any otuer
kipd. Crawl undeV the canvas!
if things don't go right in your
union, make your "kick" in the' meet
ing, and not on the corner.
Eugene V. Debs is making a lot of
friends who love him bechuse of the
enemies he has made.
We are i"atienly waiting to hear
what kind of an a&jedtived liar Samuei
Gompers is.
Universal demand for the label wll'
solve nine-tenths of the labor troubles.
STUFF.
Cnococted in The Wageworker Shop
and Neither Patented nor
Copyrighted.
Trigger-Mouthed Ted. .
With a hair trigger mouth always
ready,
And adjectives gathered with care.
You bet your sweet life that our Teddy
Will stand in the spot light for, fair.
If you cross him he'll eall you a liar
And through his white teeth he will
hiss;
Of the truth he is slow to inquire,
But jumps at the thing, hit or miss.
On race suicide he's specific,
And writes of it page upon page.
At scolding he's something terrific;
He's the champion scold Of the age.
The "square deal" he says is" his
motto
A feeling that all of us share v
But, say; don't you think that he
: " (Slight tO ' ,v j ..
' Give Moyer a deal that Is square?
He says it is his great endeavor
To keep men from "stacking the
deck," ' - ,
And make 'em deal fairly or sever
Their heads at, the base of the neck.
But with all of his loud moralizing,
And talking of "dealing 'em
straight."
To save us we can't help surmising
He's been "dealing seconds" of late.
Kismet.
"Bankerly the professional strike
breaker is working in a closed shop
now."
, t many saw tne error or nis way
and joined the union, eh?"
"No, he embezzled some funds given
him to employ thugs and they put him
In the penitentiary and set him to
making shoes." ,
The Big Stick.
"Say, old Charley Spaceband is get
ting to be a regular Roosevelt." . .,
"How's that?".
"He's using the big stick in fine
shape." "
"Explain."
"Never sees a job of printing with
out the label that lie doesn't get busy."
" Deserved It.
He bought some "scab made clothing
Because they sold it cheap.-
Twas of the purest shoddy -,-
And it never saw a sheep.
They said he had a bargain.
The choicest of the lot,-
But after he had worn it .
These were the' things he got:
Diphtheria, bacteria,' " " -
Sciatica and mnmps; ' ' :
Locomoter ataxia
Tou bet he got his bumps. -
He got appendicitis, 4
The smallpox and la grippe;
A bad case of mengitis, '" '
Of itch a seven year trip.
He got the scarletina,
And rheumatism's twinge;
Prairie mange and scratches.
And pains to make him cringe.: '
The microbes and bacilli-
They "pestered him full sore,
nd of the "scabby" clothing -
You bet he'll buy no more.
Cards?
A man on the fence is never on the
square.
Men w'ho habitually need a bracer
generally look to others " for support.
Tlje man who is in the union for
money should get out of it for good.
You have as much right to demand
the label as the merchant has to put
his price upon the goods.
The unionism of some men is con
fined to yelling "graft" at those who
try to move forward.
Some member are never for-sure
unionists until their wives bury them
with the death benefit money.
The genuine union man explains
unionism to his wife.
'A vote properly' placed on election
day is better than 'steen miles or par
ading on Labor Day.
John S. Whalen, secretary of state
for New York, has ordered that all
printing for his office must bear the
union label. .
Henry Pfeiff
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