WAGEWORKER
WILL M. MAVPIN. EDITOR
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Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th
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OUR TICKET TO DATE.
Vor President
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
of Nebraska.
For Vice-President
JOHN WORTH KERN
of Indiana.
For Representative, Lancaster
WILLIAM C. NORTON
' of Lincoln.
INTERTESTING, BUT UNTRUE.
The Lead. S. D., Register, a social
ist organ, reproduces one of The
Wageworher's editorials on Taft and
Taftisra, and after giving its approval
asks: "How much better is Bryan
than Judge Taft?" The Register then
proceeds to answer its own question
by saying:
"Go ask Bill Haywood, Charley
Mover and the widow of George A.
Pettibone. When the three Western
Federation men were in need of a
friend with an eloquent voice and a
trenchant pen to keep them from be
ing murdered by as vilainous a crew
as ever cut a throat or scuttled a ship,
their friends Implored Mr. Bryan to
invoke his voice and pen against the
consummation of the dastardly deed
planned by the mine owners of Colo
rado and Idaho and their wicked al
lies, the Pinkerton thugs. But their
supplications were vain, for Bryan
had previously been silenced by the
campaign funds contributed by the
very mine owners who were trying to
kil Moyer. Haywood and Pettibone."
All of which would be interesting if
it were not so silly, and worthy of
thoughtful consideration were it not
as false as it is silly. It is quite true
that Mr. Bryan did not froth at the
mouth and talk about a "million men
with rifles," like the Register's can
didate for President did. It is equally
true that Mr. Bryan did not Indulge in
frenzied ravings like some of the fool
friends of the accused. But in a quiet
and dlgnlOed way Mr. Bryan, by voice
and pen. did demand that the accused
should be given a fair tria!, and be
did roundly criticize PresMenl Roose
velt for his cruel and unjust "undesir
able citizens" letter.
The editor of The Wasreworker is
In a position to know something about
these facts, because he happens to be
an associate editor of The Commoner
and reasonably well acquainted with
Mr. Bryan, his editorials and bis
speeches. The flies of The Com
moner, which lie upon The Wage
worker desk as the editor writes, bear
out the statement that Mr. Bryan edi
torially Insisted Upon a fair trial for
advantage taken of them, and did re
sent President Roosex ell's attempt to
pre-judge the case of the accused.
The charge that Mr. Bryan " had
previously been Bilenced by the cam
paign funds contributed by the very
mine owners wbo were trying to kill
Moyer. Haywood and Pettibone" is
such a palpable lie that it will receive
no thoughtful consideration, even froni
advanced socialists.
The Black Hills Register is enjoying
a silly season.
man in the state running for the legis
lature. John M. Tanner is a candi
date for the senate from Douglas
county, and he, too, is a Democrat
The Wageworker hopes that both
Norton and Tanner will be elected.
Not because they are Democrats, for
The Wageworker doesn't care a rap
about their politics. Their unionism
is enough. At this distance the elec
tion of "Doc" Tanner seems assured.
So, also, should be the election of
Norton.
Mr. Norton is the peer in intelli
gence of any candidate aspiring to a
seat in the legislature. He is a level
headed, thoughtful man who has
studied conditions and is acquainted
with the needs of the people. He is
not : a lawyer anxious to enact com
plicated laws for the purpose of mak
ing litigation expensive. He is a me
chanic who wants some radical
wrongs remedied. He is a devoted
unionist. He is the head of a family,
a taxpayer and a toiler. He did not
ask for the nomination, and he made
no effort to secure it. If elected his
acceptance of the office will mean a
pecuniary sacrifice for him. But if
the union men want him to act for
them, and express that fact by elect
ing him as they can do if they will
he will accept and do his best. It is
up to the union men to decide. If
they waat to be represented by one
whose cause is their eause, whose
ideas are their ideas, whose hopes
and aspirations are their hopes and
aspirations, they have the opportunity.
If they prefer to be represented by
professional politicians and lawyers
whose only concern for the laboring
man is their votes, they have plenty
of candidates of that class to choose
from.
The union man who runs this
modest little union paper would
rather be represented in the legisla
ture by one union man like "Billy"
Norton than to be represented by a
dozen partisan Democrats or a dozen
partisan Republicans. As a matter
of fact, the union man who edits this
modest little labor paper can not be
represented anywhere by a partisan of
any kind.
In view of past experiences The
Wageworker sorrowfully confesses that
it sees almighty little hope of Norton's
election. There are enough union
men in Lancaster county to give
him a good majority, but there is a
vast difference between union men
and union voters. But the union votes
that Norton gets will be the measure
of the devotion Lancaster county
union men have for the real principles
of unionism.
THE TREACHERY OF DAN KEEFE.
The treachery of Dan Keefe need
surprised no one, least of all the union
men of the country. Indeed, it would
seem that union men have become so
accustomed to being sold out by their
trusted leaders that they really like
it.
Keefe entered heartily into the po
litical plan of the American Federa
tion of Labor. Only a week or two
ago he signed his name to an execu
tive committee report re-endorsing the
Gompers plan." That plan is too
familiar to need explanation here.
Then Keefe was invited to the White
House. A few hours, later he "saw
a great light" and announced that he
is for Taft. Coincident with his con
version is the report that he is to be
made commissioner of labor by ap
pointment of Theodore Roosevelt.
The desertion of Keefe is only an
other one of the long list. He is only
one of a large number who have sold
labor's birthright for a mess of po
litical potage. He will not be the last.
T. V. Powderly is now holding a
federal job and Powderly has lost in
terest in the welfare of the worker.
There are others who might be
named, some living and some dead.
Keefe's treachery is not surprising.
But what about the man who tempted
him with a mess of political pottage?
Speak up, Theodore Roosevelt! '
Yes, it was a Democratic president
that sent federal troops to Chicago.
But it was at the request of men who
are valiantly supporting Taft today,
and over the protest of a Democrat
who was not only ji. true friend of
labor but also one of the greatestanJ
best men this country ever had John
P. Altgeld.
Among the reforms attributed to the
present Republican administration of
Nebraska, but not enumerated by the
State Journal, is the garnishee law.
Did the Journal Intentionally omit ref
erence to that "reform?"
"BILLY NORTON.
The union men of Lancaster county
will have the opportunity of voting for
only one union man this fall William
t Norton, Democratic candidate for
the legislature. There is not a union
man: on either Btate ticket. There is
only pne.on the two county tickets
Norton. So far ' as The ' Wageworker
knows there is only one other union
Judge Taft insists that he Is not a
devil who eats a union man for break
fast every morning. Of course hot.
Instead of being the eater these days
Judge Taft is the eatee.
vorced the wife who helped I him
achieve wealth in order to revel in
the charms of a younger female. We
have grave doubts about Judge Taft
being ready to appeal for the votes, of
men who have divorced faithful wives
in order to marry blondined stenogra
phers and calsomined actresses.
Governor Hughes says, "Don't ask
who the crooks are for just watch
v;ho they are against." The "publican
who went up into the temple and
thanked God that he was not as other
men must have been running for gov
ernor on a Harrinian-Morgan-Morton-Carnegie-Perkins-Gould
"reform ticket-
Governor Comer of Alabama may
uot get what's coming to him in this
world, but what he is deserving of in
tfce next could be explaned in one
vord of four letters.
When Charles Wifedeserter Post
cries "look under," he does not mean
for you to look too closely. You might
see the record of the divorce courts.
One labor paper in Illinois has sud
denly switched to Taft, after several
months of support of Bryan. The
consideration has not been stated.
UNION MADE STUFF
Ground Out in The Wageworker Of
fice by a Card Man.
It remains to be seen whether the
labor vote can be coerced, intimidated
or purchased. They may purchase a
few "leaders," but they can not pur
chase the rank and file.
- - President Corey v. of .the- steel trust
is also for Taft. Corey, like Post, dl-
Who Paid the Bill?
New York, October 9. The fact
that Andrew Carnegie has contributed
$20,000 to the campaign fund of the
Republican national committee was
announced today by State Chairman
Woodruff. Associated Press Dispatch.
Twenty thousand dollars that is but
a little dab
Andrew Carnegie has given Mr.
Taft.
Just the profit of an hour of his tariff
grabbing power,
Just a sample of his lucious tariff
graft.
Twenty thousand families go hungry
for a day
To help the "Laird o' Skibo" work
his will;
I? ut amidst our toil and sweating
there's no dang'er we're forget
ting That those who died at Homestead
paid the bill.
Twenty thousand "dollars there's a
red-brown, dirty stain
On the money that can never be
erased.
'Tis the blood of honest toilers shed
by greedy, trust despollers
Who at vantage points their Pinker
tons had placed.
Just the profits of oppression wrought
by those who had possession
Of the power held by kings to save
or kill;
But the third day of November let the
toilers well remember
That those who died at Homestead
paid the bill. ,
The martyred dead at 'Homestead
green the grass above their
graves
Green the memory of how the mar
tyrs died
And again we see the battle; hear the
rifles' crashing rattle, '
See the blood of workers flow in
crimson tide.
Aye, upon that contribution is the
stain of destitution
Hungry children, hopeless widows
wan and ill
Woe and want the worker pinching
gold the tariff baron clinching
And those who died at Homestead
paid the bill.
Will M. Maupin.
'
Different.
"Call the jury for the next case,"
sa id the judge.
'May it please the court," said the
prosecuting attorney, "the prisoner at
bar is not entitled to a jury-. He "
"Why, even the oneriest chicken
thief is entitled to a trial by jury,"
exclaimed the judge. "It is the in
alienable right of every man charged
v.ith "
"But this is the union man charged
with having violated your order not
to approach a strikebreaker with In
tent to influence him."
"What? Prisoner, stand up! You
have committed a crime which is so
much worse than murder, rape, in
cest, arson, infanticide, homicide, pat
ricide, matricide of fratricide that you
have forfeited all right to a trial by
jury. Solitary confinement for . six
months. Call the next case!"
Cheerful Task.
"Hello Sexton! What are you
doing?"
1. "Digging a Post hole."
" "Looks like a grave."
--.!' Yes; going to bury a victim of
gra-pe nuts and postum" '
Several so-called labor papers who
are opposing Bryan on the ground
that Democratic Georgia has a vicious
contract labor lease system should
take note of the fact that Democratic
Georgia has reformed, while Republi
can Nebraska still leases her convicts
to private individuals.
General Otis of Los Angeles, the fa
mous friend of organized labor, is Mr.
Taft's chief supporter in California,
and one of the Republican candidates
for presidential elector. The man
General Otis supports certainly de
serves the support of every union
printer. Like hell!
If "Billy" Norton is elected to the
legislature and he should be there
will be one man on the spot to see
that the child labor law is not emas
culated. He will be right there, too,
to see to it that the infamous gar
nishee law is repealed.
Organized labor only asks that a
union man be allowed to do as a union
man what he is legally entitled to do
as a citizen.
Mr. Taft says he merely executed
the law as he found it. Well? And
he objects to changing the law thai
he found.
For Taft Post, Parry, Van Cleave,
Otis. For Bryan Gompers, Mitchell,
Morrison, Wilson. Choose how, Mr.
Union Man!
Mr. Post has broken loose again.
We commend his utterances to every
union man who is thinking of voting
for Taft.
THEY CALL US A TRUST. THE
TRUST IS SO FORMED THAT YOU
CAN'T BREAK INTO IT WITH AN
AXE. WITH THE LABOR ORGAN
IZATION IT FINDS NONE TOO
LOWLY IN ITS RANKS, AND WE
WELCOME TO OUR ORDER MEN
OF EVERY TRADE, OF EVERY
RACE AND CLIME. TRADE UNIONS
STRIVE FOR MORE OF THE PROD
UCTS OF THEIR LABOR MORE,
MORE, MORE, AND WHEN THEY
HAVE ACHIEVED THAT THEY
WILL STILL SEEK MORE. SAM
UEL GOMPERS.
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
Mr. Bryan says, "Keep the Chinese
Out." Mr. Taft says, "Is it not the
duty of members of congress and of
the executive to disregard the unreas
onable demand of a part of the com
munity deeply prejudiced upon this
subject in the far west, and insist upon
extending justice and courtesy to a
people from whom we are deriving and
are likely to derive sach 'immense
benefit in the way of international
trade." In other words Taft says let
the Chinese In. Dulnth Labor World.
WHO ARE PROSPERING?
Times are Improving; no doubt
about that.. Witness the increased op
portunities for "prominent (and also
expelled) labor leaders" in the indus
try of "denouncing Gompers bargain
to deliver the labor vote." Be It noted,
further, that tne pay, whatever it is.
is a good deal more than the work is
worth. Clothing Trades Bulletin.
GARMAN A "LABOR EDITOR."
Harvey E. Garman is now editor
of the Denver Independent, a nice
meaty, seven-column, four-page week
ly. Garman has. in oor presence,
sworn by the "Garden of the Gods"
that he would never, never; never
edit a labor paper, but there he is
rooting like a loyal fan for Gompers
and Bryan. Garman will get out a
good labor paper in Denver, but will
he eat? Western Laborer.
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