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VOL. 5
LINCOLN, NEBBASKA, OCTOBEB 17, 1908
NO. 29
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To What Brotherhood
Does This Man Belong
Walter Wellman. the Chicago Record-Herald's
political corespondent, is
traveling about the country with a
view to ascertaining Just how wide
spread is the labor revolt against Taft.
Writing from Cincinnati Wellman,
among other things, says:
"One brotherhood official, a man of
high rank and soMd judgment, said
to me: 'I am myself a Republican. I
am for Judge Taft for President.
There is nothing in his record which
deters me from voting for him, and
I think It would be better for the coun
try it he were elected. But I must
say to you that I am afraid he is in
dancer of being beaten. I believe
Ohio. Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin
are all doubtful states. My opinion is
based upon infromation as to the
trend of the railway Vote and the
votes of labor men in genera", through
out this part of the country. I wish
It were otherwise, but such are the
tacts as I see them." "
A Brotherhood official of high
rank." eh? Why not tell us what
Brotherhood it is?
Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers, the organization that Judge
Taft called a "band of conspirators'
and whose grand chief. (1S!3) Peter
M. Arthur, now deceased, said, speak
lug of Taft:
"W cannot acept Judge Tart's de
cision in any other light than treason
to Republican institutions and the
liberties of the people. It is. will be
and ought to be. denounced and re
pudiated by all liberty loving men. If
' the decision stands . as the decision
of the highest tribunal of the land, it
will be defied and violated by the
highest earthly tribunalthe people."
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, another organization
that udge Taft called a "band of con
spiractors, and whose grand chief
(1833) Frank P. Sargent, said, speak
ing of Taft:
"The strike on the Toledo, Ann
Arbor A North Michigan railroad had
no extraordinary features, but' the In
terferenc of the United States judges
have given it national prominence, and
if the dictum of these judges (Taft
and Ricks) is to stand as the law, the
dearest rights of the citizen are swept
away and an autocracy established."
We beg of Walter Wellman that he
give us the name of this "Brotherhood
official, a man of high rank and solid
judgment," who says that "there is
nothing in Taft's record to deter mt
from voting for him."
What Is needed to deter-a man from
voting for Taft? He called this
"Brotherhood offlicial's" grand chief a
"conspirator,' his organization a
band of conspirators, usurped the
functions o fthe officials themselves
and used the machinery of the organ
tat Ion to work injury to its members
Yet this "Brotherhood official" says
says there is nothing in Taft's record
to deter him from voting for Taft.
This "Brotherhood official of high
rank" quoted by Mr. Wellman says
"there Is nothing in Judge Taft's rec
ord to deter me from voting for him."
Is he a member of the Brotherhood so
long and so successtuly presided over
by Peter M. Arthur? Grand Chief
Arthur said:
"JUDGE TAFT'S DECISION PUB
LICLY PROCLAIMS THE MEMBERS
OF THE B. OF L. E. A BAND OF
CONSPIRATORS."
This "Brotherhood official of high
rank" will find that exact language in
the Journal of the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Engineers, issue . of May,
18? 3.
Or. perhaps this "Brotherhood of
ficial of high rank" is a member of the
Brotherhood so long presided over by
Frank P. Sargent Grand Chief Sar
feat said of Judge Taft's decision In
the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Mlcht
gaa railroad case:
"IF A JUDGE OF THE UNITED
STATES COURT MAY ABOLISH
THIS RIGHT (the right of the em
ploy to quit work) OF AN EM
PLOYE. HE REMANDS HIM. UN
EQUIVOCALLY, TO A SERVITUDE
AS DEGRADING AS THE 8PARTANS
IMPOSEO UPON THEIR HELOTS."
This Brotherhood official of high
rank" will find that exact language in
the North American Review, issue of
May. 1893, over the signature of Frank
P. Sargent.
In heaven's name what would deter
this "Brotherhood official of high
rank?"
But it may be that this "Brother
hood official of high raak" belongs to
neither of the Brotherhoods above
mentioned. He may belong to the
Brotherhood in which Frank Phelan
held membership. Phelan is the man
Judge Taft sentenced to imprisonment
for six months on the testimony of a
hired spy a man known by Judge
aft to be a spy furnished to the re
ceiver of the Cincinnati Southern rail
road by the Field Detective Agency of
St. Louis. If this "Brotherhood of
ficial of high rank" belongs to this
Brotherhood and can not see in Taft's
treatment of Phelan a reason that
would deter him from supporting Taft
well, in that case he is hopeless.
put an end to that sort of thing for
a long time to come, and do labor far
more good in the long run than suc
cess could possibly do for it. In my
i tour this week I am going to say this
to the workingmen whom I address,
that their worst enemies are the few
of their own number who would moid
them into a sort of bludgeon with
which to strike down any and every
one who dares disagree with them."
There is a lot of food for thought
in that interview. It isn't just what
Judge Taft thought it was, however.
Judge Taft says his election will put
an end to labor's efforts to secure the
righting of wrongs at the ballot box
He doesn't say it just that way, but
that is exactly what his language
means. And he is about right.
. If organized labor does not take ad
vantage of its present golden oppor-
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atle ' as The Wageworker hopes it
will be, Mr. and Mrs. Fulton will havs
to get a nay wagon to haul their
money home.
THE BARTENDERS.
Follow a Brother to His Last Long
Resting . Place.
Onj Friday, October 9, the members
of the Bartenders' League of Lincoln
consigned to their last resting place
the mortal remains of Samuel Landis
a member of the League. The fun
eral services were conducted by the
Eagles. The story of the sad ending
of Mr. Landis' life was told in last
weeK's issue.
, Herman Sundean returned last week
fiom his trip to Dallas, S. D., where
he took a chance in Uncle Sam's land
Gompers Makes Plain
Statement to Judge Taft
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor has
dealt nominee Taft some telling blows
squarely from the shoulder. He is
sued a statement last week in which
William H. Taft, Republican candi
date for the Presidency, is bitterly ar
rainged because of the laters charge
in a speech at Denver last night that
the labor leader was "lying to his fol
lowers." "It is quite evident that Candidate
Taft is losing his temper as well as
his manners and his dignity," asserts
Mr. Gompers. "He cannot meet the
truth and the justice of labor's con-
FOOLISH MEL
Senator Albert Jeremiah Beveridge of Indiana is
stumping the country for "William II. Taft. Senator
Beveridge is a lawyer and therefore feels competent to
inform laboring men how they should vote in order to .
protect their own interests. As proof of his competency
he can exhibit callouses worn upon his jaw try' his hercu
lean task of working for the workingman. At Pueblo,
Colo., the seat of big iron and steel industries, Senator
Beveridge recently spoke on "Labor." He asked:
"Is there bread for laborers to eat in a single line
of Mr. Bryai's platform?
"Are there clothes and shoes for his wife and chil
dren in a single proposition Mr. Bryan makes in his
speeches!" ,
Before answering Albert Jeremiah Beveridge 's ques
tions let us ask him a couple:
"Are the tides influenced by the moon or by the
Dingley tariff law?"
"How can a workingman. sentenced to jail for ex
ercising his rights as a citizen, earn money to buy food
and -clothing for hm wife-find little ones?"" ' " -Platforms
do not supply food and clothing. The
principles enunciated in platforms may or may not, if
framed into laws, afford a worker an opportunity to en
joy the fruits of his labor. A principle that affords
equal opportunity is better than a principle that de
prives a portion of the people of their opportunities. A
law that will prevent a worker from being sentenced to
jail without a trial by jury certainly affords the worker
a better opportunity to provide for his wife and little
one than a judicially enacted law that prevents him from
exercising his rights under penalty of jail for contempt
without a trial.
"All the rights labor has, or will have, we have given
and will give," declares Albert Jeremiah Beveridge.
Either Senator Beveridge is knowingly talking non
sense or he takes the workers to be t pack of fools.
The right to work is not a privilege granted by any
party. The inalienable right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness was acknowledged while Albert
Jeremiah Beveridge and his party were eventualities of
future time. The Carpenter of Nazareth plied his trade
two thousand years before Judge Taft forged the
shackles of the injunction that were to be placed upon
the wrists of honest toil. Paul the Tentmaker plied his
trade nineteen hundred years before Albert Jeremiah
Beveridge 's party turned a deaf ear to the just demands
BEVERIDGE
reiterates much which he has pre
viously said in editorials and on the
p' at form about the failure of the Chi
cago convention to grant the demands
of labor, and also the attitude of con
gress toward the labor movement.
"In so stating have I been lying
or have I told the truth T inquires
Mr. Gompers.
"Did not Candidate Taft read. 02
did not some one tell him, that
neither by word or action have
we assumed that we had the
right to the power to deliver the
labor vote to any candidate? Does
he not know that upon every
occasion in the campaign I have
emphatically declared that I did not
presume either to dictate to, or de
liver the vote of, any citizen of the
entire country, and having known this
fact, is it fair for Mr. Taft to declare
and reiterate so palpable an untruth?"
of ! honest toilers at Chicago and listened to the siren
voices of Post, Parry and VanCleave.
Senator Beveridge talks like a ninny' when he says
"his party" has given labor all the rights it has, and
will give them all the rights it can ever hope to have.
"We also have given to the laborer food for his
table and a roof for his head. -
'. For downright silliness this takes the premium.'
Labor asks no man for food ; it asks no political- party
fop a roof over its head. Lebor simply demands an equal
opportunity to earn these things. Men earned and ate
and slept under roofs before "political parties were orga-
nixed. Equal opportunity is not a gift to be bestowed
it is a right to be exercised.
The republican candidate has given, and Ms party
convention has endorsed, a principle that deprives the
worker of a constitutional right that is never denied
the commonest thief a trial by jury. His party has.;
degraded the trades union, made up of men with brains
and souls, to the level of corporations that deal in mat
ted and merchandise.. Under the plea of "protecting
American labor"- it has set the palaces of millionaires
on the hills, and the hovels of the workers in the miasma
tie hollows. The only weapon by which the worker can
protect his rights as a worker the union has been
decided by his party to be an unlawful trust.' The
worker's right of self-defense has been taken from him
by the injunction writ.
"We have also given the laborer food for his table"
and fifteen thousand school children in Chicago going
to school hungry every morning.
'.'We have also given to the laborer a roof for his
head" and thousands of homeless men tramping in a
vain search for work while wives and children swam
like flies and die like flies in the noisome tenemtnts
of every large city.
The sublime assurance, the unparalleled cheek, of
Albert Jeremiah Beveridge is a spectacle' calculated to
make men and angels weep.
"I want the workingman to consider the answers
to my questions before he votes," declares Albert Jere
miah Beveridge.
The workingman who has to take time to consider
the answers to those fool questions is certainly the only
kind of a worker who believes that any political party
grants the "right to work' or that any political party
"puts food upon the worker's table" or a "roof over
the worker's head."
CENTRAL LABOR UNION.
at
Takes Steps to Be Represented
Federation's Convention.
President Rudy was not present iX
the meeting of the Central Labor
Union Tuesday evening, so Vice Presi
dent Quick presided and wielded the
gavel in an artistic manner.
It was the unanimous sentiment of
the delegates that the central body
ought to be represented at the Denver
convention of the American Federa
tion of Labor, so T. C. Keisey was
elected delegate and George Locker
alternate. The matter of financing the
matter will be taken up at the next
meeting.
Label Booster Peate of the Typo
graphical Union was . present, and
called attention to the fact that the
Majestic theatre programs were minus
the label. The delegates were in
structed to report the fact to their
locals and see to it that the locals get
busy. i, ,. ... . ... ,. . .
The Musicians delegate reported
negotiations under way to straighten
out the Elite theatre difficulty.
The Bartenders" League delegates
were asked to take notice of the fact
tiat the printing of the "Model Li
cense League," with headquarters iu
Louisville, was being done in an un
fair oflBce. The License' League's of
ficials will be notified that until such
time as their printing is done in a
fair office it will be a waste of time
and money to send their literature to
union men in Lincoln.
A delegate from the Plumbers com
plained that a lot of defective plumb
ing was being put in, despite the pro
tests of the plumbers. The local will
be asked to furnish the central boJy
with specific cases, and the central
body will undertake to prosecute un
der the ordinances.
We can not imagine anything that
Taft could do that would alienate the
support of such a "Brotherhood of
ficial of high rank."
Mr. Wellman, in adition to giving
us the above valuable information also
gives us the following Interview with
Judge Taft:
"If I am elected president, as I
have no doubt I shall be," he said to
me today, "I shall treat all organized
labor with exact justice, precisely as
if a part of it were not opposing me.
But 1 feel very keenly that the best
thing that can happen to the labor
cause in this campaign is that it meet
with defeat in its efforts to prevent
my election. Only a small part of
organized labor is against me, and if
that part and its spokesmen fail of
their purpose I believe that will be
the end of efforts to have labor swing
the big stick and beat every one who
refuses to meet all its demands. The
American people do not want to be
tyrannized in their political activity
by a class or an organization, and it
doesn't matter what the class or or
ganization is. I believe my election,
despite the opposition of a few who
would like to exercise a sort of veto
power over men and measures, will
tunity it need not waste time trying
it again.
THE FULTONS.
Popular Artist Return to Lincoln for
Another- Long Season.
Tne always popular Fultons JesB
and his talented wife are again in
Lincoln, again surrounded by a ca
pable company, and again booked fo.
a long season in standard plays. This
is welcome news to Lincoln people.
Beginning Monday the Fulton Stock
company will open the winter season
at the Lyric, the first offering being
"The Devil," a play that has taken
New York by storm. This will be
followed by other high class offerings
presented by a company selected wit'n
a view to giving the theatre-goers .(
Lincoln the best possible entertain
ment.
As usual, the Fultons will play at
popular prices but the admission
price will be the only cheap feature
of the season. Everything else will
be "way up." Union men and women
reed 'not be told that "Jess" is on
c.f them. If the season is a-s profit-
lottery. He reports enough fun on
the trip to repay him, even if he
doesn't get a look-in on a piece of
land. The regular monthly meeting
of the Bartenders' League will be
held tomorrow (Sunday) and it is es
pecially important that there be a full
attendance. Matters of importance
will be brought up for consideration.
THE BUSINESS BRIBE.
The promise of plutocratic manufac
turers to raise the wages of their em
ployes, if Taft carries the election. Is
toth criminal and mean. .It is as
clearly a bribe as was ever a two
collar bill at the poiis. It is besides
as certainly a fraud as was ever a
three-card monte game at a county
fair. If manufacturers can be sure
c raising wages after election they
chn raise wages now. If they can not
raise wages now, they can not be
certain of raising them after election.
What they are at is trying to Influ
ence hard-working and poorly paid
voters to vote against labor interests
by offering them bribes that are never
to be paid. Chicago Public.
tention as regards bis injunctions, his
party's refusal in congress to accord
the relief from discrimination in de
cision against the workers in the in
junction abuse and from the Sher
man anti-trust law under which the
voluntary organization of the working
people are now held as trusts. I as
sert he cannot meet these issues and
he therefore undertakes to resort to
the well known ' policy of the petti
fogger who has a bad case, that is,
by abusing the other side.
"The working people,of the coun
try know that 31r. Taft's . 'ridicule
and rasping sarcasm.: are not aimed
at me but at them, for there is not
one thought I have expressed or one
step which I have taken but had
their initiative in the rank and file
of the American masses, unorganized
as well as organized.
"But Mr. Taft, departing from his
lighter vein of attack, accuses me of
lying. In what have I lied in regard
to any matter, at least in regard to
judge Tatty mose who Know me
will attest my dependability and my
veracity. Judge Taft is the first re
spectable man to question it."
In language as vigorous as that
used by Mr. Taft, the labor leader
PRINTERS' MODEL TENT
tea to Tu-
Highly Praised by Delegate
berculoaia Congress.
At the international tuberculosis
congress in wasnington ine exnimi
of the International Typographical
union from the printers home at Col
orado Springs, Co., attracted much at
tention and received great praise from
visiting delegates and the medical fra
ternity in generaL
Dr. Livingston Farand of New York,
executive secretary of the National
Association for the Prevention of Tu
berculosis, asked SnpL Deacon to pre
sent the model tent of the printers
exhibit to his association, so. that it
may. be added to the traveling exhibit
shown by the national association in
the various cities of the country In
connection with illustrated lectures
designed to educate the people to the
necessity of engaging' in a crusade
against tuberculosis. fi
KILLED BY THE CARS.
1 ;
Brakeman Ware of the Burlington
Met Death at Pleasantdale.
W. E. Ware, a Burlington brake
man, was killed at Pleasantdale. Neb.,
last Monday evening while trying to
board the train when it was going at
a high.- rate ,.of - speed. His foot
slipped on the rods and he was thrown
under the wheels..
Mr. Ware came to Lin&ffc from
Dallas, Tex., some months :ao. and '
roomed at 1422 O street, lfc'hd bo
relatives In this city, and ili identi
fication card named Mrs. EL Stover of
'Dallas as his next of kln -
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