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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1908)
Electric Brougham L- A. DICKSON, Manager Member Local No. 265 I.' B. E. W. Auto 4531 Bell A7 NIQHT STAND AT THE LINDELL HOTEL QUICK SERVICE. REdULAR CAB RATES Party Calls Given Special Attention WAGEWORKER WILL M. MAVPIN, EDITOR Published Weekly at 137 No. .14th St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year. Browns Business College Teaches simple, easy system of Shorthand. Business men pre fer our graduates. They are more thorough than other stud ents. Twenty years' experience. WRITE NOW. 1519 0 STREET. LINCOLN. NEB. Entered as second-class matter April 21, 1904, at the postomce at l-mcoin, Xeb., under the Act or congress oi March Ord, 1S79. J J J J J J ! PREWITTSS $ f PHOTO GALLERY J 1214 O STREET X Whw you Trant a soos photograpk call and Me my York. Satisfaction guaranteed . . . jt jt j j J J "Printers' Ink," the recog nized authority on advertis ing, after a thorough Investi gation on this subject, says: "A labor paper is a far bet ter advertising medium than an ordinary newspaper in comparison with circulation. A labor paper, for example, having 2,000 subscribers Is of more value to the business man who advertises In it thi an ordinary paper with 12,000 subscribers." I ' We are expert cleaners, dyers am lalshers of Ladles' and Uen tlemen'i Clothing of all kinds. Th' finest dresses a specialty. raa NEW FIRM J. C. WOOD & CO. AoiC FOR PRICELIST. 'PHONES: Bell, 147. Auto, 1292. 1320 N St - - Lincoln, Neb. Henry Pfeifi DEALER IN Fresh and Salt Meats Sausage, Poultry, Etc Staple and Fancy Groceries. Telephones 888477. SI4 Se. Illh Street M III I ,J ' I II I OFFICE OF Dr. R. L. BENTLEY SPECIALIST CHILDREN Office Hours 1 Offl 2118 O St. INTpLERANCE INTENSIFIED. We hardly find it possible to muster - i e: .1 up sympatny ior our guua menu, Judge Hainer, who was so discour teously treated by the people wao hart advertised a meeting ior me discussion of ' the liquor problem Judge Hainer has been in public life for many year's; he served a couple ot terms in congress, and he has prac ticed at the bar. Surely he has been in public life long enough to have made the discovery that most people very soon mane wnen iney uuuei- take to discuss the saloon question with the political and sentimental prohibitionist. In the firm opinion of this cult and they are as unchang ing and unchangeable as the laws of the Medes and Persians those who do not believe just exactly a3 they believe are "saloon supporters," "in league with hell," "rum advocates, devourers of our boys," "sots," and a few otner tnings too numerous iu mention. Your political and senti mental prohibitionist never gives those who differ from him credit for being either intelligent or conscien tious. He is going to correct Human nature by legislative enactment and supplement the teachings of the Xazarene with a writ of subpoena and a constable's club. Judge Hainer cer tainly must be aware of these very patent facts, therefore we can sym pathize but little with him in the present trouble which his too-confiding nature brought upon him. He might have known that a meeting for the discussion of that particular question and made up of that class of people, merely meant a meeting that would listen only to one course of dis cussion. Your political and sentimental pro hibitionist is always Intolerant. Did he dare, he would use the rack and to 4 p. m. line inumuscrew uu an wiiu uppmw Both Phones hls Pet theories, and the horrors of 1 v.ash his hands. Just iiKe Fiiato washed his. The Wageworker believes in pro gressive restriction, keeping in view justice towards all parties. It be lieves and is prepared to prove that there is not a city of Lincoln's ize In any prohibition state that can show the same high moral stand ard, the same freedom' from crime, the same freedom from drunkenness as shown by the police records, the same low cost of police protection, the same low expense of charity work or the same high standard of citizen ship as shown by city government, church activity, school standing or social cleanliness. The Wageworker believes that Lincoln Is progressing along the proper lines whereby to reach" a commonsense and practical solution of the problem. It believes that if prohibition carries the work or true temperance will be retarded and the cause set back a decade. Intolerance is neither Christian nor temperate. Intemperance in language is as bad in a way as intemperance in drink. And for intolerance of the honest opinion of others and intem perance in language. The Wageworker will choose every time the political, piofessional and sentimental advocate of prohibition by legal enactment. Let those who would really like to have an honest 'discussion of this perplexing problem remain away from he advertised meetings of this class of reformers, for those who honestly differ from them will have no chance to talk and will only receive dis courteous i treatment and be dubbed some hard names that sound not well upon the lips of those who profess to be followers of the Nazarene. The Wageworker here and now commits itself to an effort to remove the saloon evil, not only from Lincoln but from the republic, .but it reserves tte right to work to that end along lines that experience and observation have convinced the editor to be the best. And the-editor is quite willing to be roundly abused by those who are intolerant in spirit and intern perate in language. replied a courtier. "Why don't they eat cake if they have no bread?" a3ked the queen. J. Pierpont Morgan and his fellow millionaires are respectfully cited to what happened in France very shortly afterwards. Just now congress is striving to re vise the penal code so as to make it possible to reward a capitalist for do ing the same thing that a workingman must be sent to jail for. , The workingman who blindly votes the straight republican ticket or dem ocratic ticket has no kick coming if partisian congress fails to enact rem- idical legislation The Butterlck company is hawking its bonds all over the country, vainly trying to interest investors at any old price. There is a reason. Voting your party ticket straight si d cussing the courts will not help our cause any, Mr. Union Man. Rev. Mr. Pritchard of Bethany is in danger of being denounced for heresy. Merely to forestall criticism of its pesition on the prohibition question The Wageworker here and now state: that the daily advocates, of prohibi ticn, the Lincoln Journal and the Lin coin Evening isews, have each re ceived more money In one week for advertising beer and whisky than The Wageworker has in all the three years and nine months of its humble, ex- existence. Mr. Union Man, you have no legal recourse if an employer boycotts ' yon because you are a union man. But if you boycott an employer you go to jail. Hush, now; you must not show disrespect for the courts. ' That would be anarchy. ' Rev. Mr. Pritchard of Bethany- seems to be imbued with the idea that it is a minister's duty to acquaint himself with modern conditions as well as with future life. This may not be exactly religious, but it surely is unristianlike. LINCOLN. NEBRASKA Wageworkers, Attention We have Money to Loan on Chattels. Plenty of it, too. Utmost secrecy. KELLY A IS ORRIS 70-71 BROWNELL BLK. HAYDEN'S ART STUDIO New Location, 1127 O Fine wtrk a Specialty. Auto 3336 Phones: KSMS? s John H. Graham, D. D- S- Llneoln, Nebraska DENTAL 0EFICES Holmes-McDonald Lincoln Dental College CLINIC Open for Patients Every Afternoon lAlh and O St. F. M. BnUdlmc the Spanish inquisition would be a children's tea party compared with what he would do to those who differ from him were he not restrained by physical fear and moral fear of the law. The Wageworker wants It under stood here and now that it holds no brief for the defense of the saloon. The American saloon has absolutely no defense. It is an unmixed evil. and sooner or later the saloon as a public institution must go. But The Wageworker does contend that com monsense should rule in the handling of this tremendous problem, and not sickly sentimentality or moral dys pepsia miscalled religious zeal. There are a whole lot of people who claim to be advocates of temperance. and who are honestly and earnestly striving to promote It, but. who do not believe that prohibition is the proper solution at this time. They know from experience and observa tion that the saloon is an effect, not n cause, and that it exists in response to a demand that cannot be .obliter ated by legislative enactment. It is all easy enough to talk about voting the open saloon out, but vot ing out the open saloon and suppress ing the bootleggers, the holes-in-the- wall, the whisky drug stores and the so-called clubs is quite another mat ter. It is quite easy and often very profitable to stand forth upon a pub lie rostrum and hurl invectives at the traffic and at those who cannot coincide with the prohibitionist's views, but it is quite difficult to per suade that speaker that having voted the saloon out It is his personal busi ness to watch for violations, to enter complaint, to personally prosecute and otherwise engage in a very dis agreeable duty. The man who votes for prohibition may think that he has done his whole duty, and ha may All the proposed labor bills have been referred to the bouse judiciary committee, and by that committee to sub-committee whose chairman representative Littleneld of Maine Query: What will become of the labor bills? J. Pierpont Morgan says the work ingman will either have to starve or submit. By the way. didn't the French bourbons say something like that short time before the bloody revolu tion? ine woriungman mat violates an Injunction goes to jail. The beef packer who violates an injunction is merely warned not to do it again What a fool a man is to work for living. In the meanwhile buy "scab" uid cuss the strikebreakers. goous Vote ag you pay dues! CENTRAL LABOR UNION. Use the Rest It ts L IEE1 WW wwm It is made in Lincoln and every sack is warranted to give satisfaction. BARBER & FOSTER Elects Officers and Listens to Labor Commissioner John J. Ryder. The Central Larjor U nion met in regular session last Tuesday evening, and despite the stormy weather the attendance was larger than usual. The chief business of the evening was the election of officers for the ensuing term.the election rsulting as' follows: President, O. M. Rudy, Electrical Workers. , Vice President, George Quick, Car penters' Union. , Secretary, P. A. Kates, Carpenters' Union. Treasurer, T. W. Evans, Cigarmak- ers Union. Sergeant-at-Arms, Alex Weckesser, Pressmen's Union. Executive committee, A. B. Woel- haff. Painters' Union; E. A. Patter son, Barbers' Union; J. P. Kendrick, Musicians' Union. John J. Ryder, deputy labor com missioner of the bureau of labor, ap peared before the body and asked for the co-operation of the union men of the city In his efforts to secure statis tics relative to union conditions and wage in Nebraska. Mr. Ryder, -who is a member of the Typographical Union, is making an earnest effort to make the bureau over -which he presides of some actual service to the wage earners of the state. He was assured of the cooperation of the cen tral body. The amalgamated window glass workers of Ohio asked for assistance and $2 was appropriated for them. The secretary was ordered to forward six months' doies to the Ameican Fed eration of Labor. A petition to have all future battleships built 'by union labor under conditions similar to those surrounding the battleship Connect! cut was handed around and unani mously signed. It was decided to take steps to re organize the Label League if possible, and that will beoneof the things that the new administration is expected to handle. President-elect Rudy was not pres ent owing to sickness. The regular committees will be appointed at the next meeting. There Is 'plenty of work for the new administration and its committees. There are a dozen crafts that need organizing, a dozen already organized that are never rep resented in the central body's meet ings, and great need of arousing some interest on the part of the Federation officials in this section of the country, The Dr. Benj. F. Bally Sanatorium Lincoln, Nebraska . . T For non-contagious chronic diseases. Largest, best equipped, most beautifully furnished. ' Perhaps the local morning paper sees a lot of water in the Citizens' Railway stock because of the tears in its eyes over the decreased earning capacity of the Traction Co. The Lincoln business man who in vests in Labor Temple stock will get dividends in more ways than One. So will the workingman who invests in the stock. P.y the way, will somebody please point out a raw granting a special privilege to a corporation that was ever declared unconstitutional ? PUNCHED A STRIKEBREAKER. For attacking Lacey Anderson, a pressman at the Rees Printing com pany, who had continued work when the others had quit, Andrew Pezdirtz, of 1942 South Twelfth street, was fined $25 and costs Thursday. 'Ander son and a companion dismounted from a car at Twenty-fourth and Lake streets Sunday afternoon and Pez dirtz, who used to work at Rees and who struck with the others, a couple rof months ago, accosted him. Then it was stated that he struck Ander son, badly bruising his face. Pezdir'z asserted that he thought Anderson was going to draw a gun. Omaha World-Herald. Quite a number of Lincoln men are willing to vote for prohibition as long ae they can retain a key to the club house door. And just to think that Mr. Stillings was the secretary of the high and holy Typothaete! This is too much! "What are the people crying for?" asked the pretty French queen. "They are crying for bread, your majesty," START ONE HERE. The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Stereo- typers' and Electrotypers' unions growing1 in membership, and is doing splendid work on behalf of the union label. Cincinnati Chronicle. KANSAS DEMURRAGE LAW GOOD, In the case of William M. Patter son against the Missouri Pacific rail way the supreme court reversed the decision of the lower court and sus tained the Kansas freight demurrage law of 190o. This imposes a penalty of $1 per day on each car for delay in furnishing freight cars ordered. Q9OcMooeososooOQOSoo9oeoMeo8oeoeoeo$ooeo0OtKH Your Cigars Should Bear This Label.. mt nr mmn m i i rrM.n a. by Awftway tat CiW Mjfcett Men TTntrm-mni It is insurance against sweat, shop and tenement goods, and against disease, , . . TO LABEL The Lincoln WaHiaper gPalnt Co. A StffctJy Ur'an JgSgg Modern Decorators Masonic Wall Paper Mouldings, Etc Tecipf 230 S. 11th St Art Nesse 1975 nnij . HARDWARE W 0 SOU STROPS AN! HARDWARE, STOVES, SPOUT- RAZORS, RAZOR AND CUTLEfiY At Low Prices Hoppe's Hardware, 100 North lOlh OJK0(K3Jl Bell Phone F30O8 Auto Phone 6334 Henderson & Hald Jewelers and Opticians 132 North lfjth St. - LINCOLN, NEB. j WORKERS UWIOH J I UNIOp STAMP I M factory jjo. J UNERSTAND BROTHER UNIONIST .... . . . . .... , That the beet made shoes uhoes made under the beet manufacturing condition the shoes that best stand . the wear bear the Union Stamp as - shown herewith. Ask your dealer for Union . Stamp Shoes, and if he cannot supply yon write Book and Shoe Werkers Union ; 2 46 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. .