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I OFFICE OF Dr. R. L. BENTLEY SPECIALIST CHILDREN nttti- Hncn 1 ta 4 Dl. m. MB. -US O St. Boih rhono. LINCOLN. NEBRASKA DR. GHAS.YUHGBLUT DENTIST ROOM 202, BURR BLK. ftSSS- UICOLI, IEB. HAYDEH'S ART STUDIO New Location. 1127 O Ftae vvk m Specialty. 72evcrkers, Attention We have Money to Loan on Chattels. Plenty of it, too.' Utmost secrecy. KELLY &NORRIS Uo So. lit St. ' DISEASES OF WOMEN All rectal - diMaaos such as Piles, Fistula. Fissure and Rec tal Ulcer treated scientifically and successfully. OR. J. R. HAGGARD, Specialist. OfSce, Richards Block. INSTANTANEOUS BED-BUG KILLER If you have need of a reliable bug killer of any kind, especially Bed Bugs we have one that is ScfCi If it fails, come and get your money back. It breaks up nesting places and kills the eggs. Put up in convenient squirt top bottles. Dig Coillos 25c RECTOR'S 12th &o Wallace LCrandall Repabticaa Candidate loDCoaaty Clerk Asks your Support at Primaries r August 17 MARRY G. ADDOTT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR REGISTRAR OF DEEDS Prunaxtoe Aajrast 17th 17. A. Lloyd Horscshocr Horses called for and delivered THONES: Anto. 137S Bell 391 lew Lteatlu: 420 S. Ilth WAGEWORKER WILL M. MAVPIN, EDITOR Published Weekly at 137 No. 34th SC. Liueolr. Neb. One Dollar a. Year. Entered as second-class matter April O, 1904. at the postofflce at Lincoln, Veb., under the Act ot Congress of March 3rd. 1879. Announcements. I hereby announce my candidacy tor the nomination for county treas urer, subject to the republican pri maries to be held on August 17, 1909. PHILLIP A. SOMMERLAD. I hereby announce my candidacy for a second term as sheriff of Lancaster county subject to the decision of the republican primaries. August It. HENRY V. HO AG LAND. Clark Dalley. a member of Ihe ma chinists union, is a republican candi date for the nomination of county com missioner. Your support trill be ap preciated. CLARK DAILEY. I am a republican candidate for county register of deeds. Primaries August 17. First term. ANDREW J. MORRIS. Wm. C. Severin, the present depu ty county treasurer announces himself as a candidate for county treasurer. He is thirty-seven years of age. born and raised in Lancaster county. Louis Helmer announces himself as a candidate for county treasurer, sub ject to the republican primacies, Aug ust 17. If elected he promises that he will give his whole time and atten tion to the office and that it will be conducted to the best interests of the taxpayers. I am a candidate for the office of county commissioner, subject to the will of the republican voters. Primar ies to be held August 17. CARL. O. JOHNSON. V. W. Mattthews is a republican candidate for the nomination of cor oner of Lancaster county. Mr. Mat thews is asking for a second term. Minor S. Bacon is a candidate for re-election as justice of the peace in the city of Lincoln precinct. Mr. Ba con is a friend of organized labor and will appreciate their votes. O. C. Bell, candidate for county clerk subject to the decision of re publican primaries, August 17. Your support solicited. C. E. Morse is a republican candi date for the office of sheriff of Lancas ter county. Mr. Morse has lived in Lancaster county forty years and is asking the nomination to this impor tant office on his past record. A. L- SULLIVAN, a former county treasurer, is a candidate for the Re publican nomination for that office now and appeals for votes on the strength of his past record. W. T. Stevens, justice of the peace, announces his candidacy for re-nomin ation by the republican party. The dockets and records of the office are open to all alike and I hope are such as to secure an endorsement for an other term. THE NEW TARIFF LAW. Trades unionists ought to devote a little time to the study of the new tariff bill. If they are wise they will not swallow the plumduff given them by the political orators, but will look into the schedules and determine for themselves just how the law affects them. The claim that the law is a fulfill ment of the promise to "revise the tariff downward is one of those half- truths that is worse than a lie. The average of revision is downward. No doubt about that. The things you buy a little of are reduced greatly; the things you buy a great deal of are reduced very little or net at all. Lum ber is still taxed for the benefit of the lumber barons. Sugar is still taxed under the guise of helping the Ameri can sugar industry. Wool and cotton goods are taxed to the limit. Knit 30ods are "protected till even the most greedy manufacturer can not complain. The man who says the Payne tariff law is a benefit to the consumer is either woefully ignorant or is willfully falsifying. That the Payne tariff was framed for the purpose of "protecting . American labor" is the claim of some. but the claim is baseless. It requires but little study to bring forth the proof. The workers engaged in the highly protected trades are the poorest paid workers in the country. The workers engaged in the unprotected industries , are the highest paid workers in the I world. Carpet manufacturers receive j a high measure of protection, but their j employes are perhaps the poorest paid skilled workers in the country. Print ers are not protected by any schedule of the tariff, and they are the best paid mechanics in the country. Cot ton manufacturers receive a high measure of protection, but cotton oper atives receive miserably poor wages. Plumbers are not protected by any schedule of the tariff, yet plumbers average $3.50 a day cf eight hours, and cotton mill operatives average $1.03 per day of ten hours. The trades unions, not the protective tariff, have made the American work- in gman the best paid and the best treated mechanic in the world that and his superior skill. The American mechanic is the best paid mechanic in the world so far as day's wages is concerned he is below the me chanic of Great Britian when output is considered. In other words, while drawing twice as much wages as his British cousin he performs from three to four times as much work. The protective tariff has made Car negie and Pricks and organs by the scores and the hundreds. It has made hovels by the thousands. When the American workman's knowledge of political economy is equal to his skill as a workman, the day of the tariff grafter will be at an end. FIFTY-FIVE YEARS OLD. Last Monday President James M. Lynch called to order the fifty-fifth an nual convention of the International Typographical Union of North Amer ica, the convention being in session in St. Joseph, Mo. We trust the readers of The Wage worker will pardon the editor for be ing just a little bit proud of his mem bership in the L T. U. That member ship has covered a period of almost one-half the life of the international. We are proud of that membership for the reason that the International Typographical Union has a record of service, of accomplishments, that stamp it as one of the greatest organi sations in the world. It has been a leader in the industrial reform move ment. It has furnished the inspiration and oftentimes the money to help make some great reform movement possible. i It was the first trades union to es tablish a home for its disabled and in capacitated members, and that home is one of the prettiest spots on the American continent. It was the first trades union to es tablish a pension system. It is now investigating with a view to establishing an insurance system. It gave the eight hour day its great est impetus, and in making the eight hour day the standard in printing of fices it expended four millions of dol lars, raised by 2S.000 printers in less than two years. The industrial world has never seen such a record of devo tion to the principles of unionism. It has established a trade school with a view to making better printers. It has an arbitration contract with the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, and the next move will befor an arbitration clause in con tracts with employing job and book printers. It enforces equal pay for men and women for equal work performed. Taken by and large, this organiza tion stands the peer of any. Study its record and you will be able to understand why we are so proud of our membership. And because of that pride we are hobnobbing with the old pals at the convention this week, and we don't care whether The Wagewcrker comes out or not. Before expressing our real opinion of Elbert Hubbard we would like to hear the opinion the discarded Mrs. Elbert Hubbard has of the man who deserted her in order to wed a "soul affinity. After her opinion was heard perhaps other opinions would be unin teresting. Does opposition to trades unionism breed immorality? Looks like it. The two chief opponents of unionism to day are Post and Hubbard. Both of these men discarded their first wives in order to wed affinities. "We will manage our own business,' shouts the manufacturer. Then he rushes off to congress and gets a law permitting him to tax all the people who support his business. The columns cf this paper are open to any man who has a grievance, pro vided he will limit himself to reason able space and couch his story in re spectful language. Douglas shoe advertising is agaic showing up in the labor papers. It has not yet showed up in this humble Uttl3 paper. Get things arranged so you can make Labor Day a real holiday and hear Mary McDowell. "The American Flag" is the name of a magazine that reaches The Wage- worker desk every now and then. It is the organ of the grafters who are seeking to foist the ship subsidy graft upon the people. The publishers of "The American Flag will save money by ceasing to send their magazine to this office. The Labor Day Edition of The Wage worker will be the handsomest labor paper ever published in the United States. This will be going some. but The Wage worker is a going con cern. Senator Burkett rushed home to tell us why he opposed government own ership, and he talked so much about that subject that he couldn't find time to explain his support of the out rageous Payne tariff bOI. John Kirby's organ says a compul sory closed shop contract is unlawful and the parties thereto guilty of crim inal conspiracy. Yes, that's what the trust-controlled judges have declared. Elbert Hubbard is now. throwing. fits about the outrages of organized labor. The chief of the roygrafters hasn't got over the bump Humphrey O'Sullivan gave him. Tell all your friends that Miss Mary McDowell will be the Labor Day ora tor in Lincoln, and that she will also speak a couple of times on the Sunday before. Getting ready for Labor Day? Pity the poor farmer. FRED BECKMANN. From information which we have received it looks very much as though Fred Beck man n will be nominated for county treasurer. The people of Lan caster county have evidently not for gotten the good service that Beckmana gave them as county commissioner. He it was who, after a hard fight, made it possible to break up the bridge com bine. He started a line of reform in the court house that accomplished a lot of good and saved the taxpayers a good deal of money. It seems that the people remember this capability of his to save the taxpayers money and are therefore giving him their vote for treasurer. JOHN R. BERRY. Republican Candidate For Justice of the Peace. Mr. Berry has been a resident of Lincoln twenty-one years. He was in the state university six years, three years in the ' academic college, and three years in the college of law. He has been in the practice of law for four years, in which he has met with some success; but he was formerly employed in the railway service for nine years, in which service he sus tained the loss of one hand, and thu office would be a great help to him. He has spent ten years in hard strenuous study and practice, and he trusts the people will consider him (iuahiied for this office, and he earn estly solicits your support, trusting yen will appreciate his integrity ana qnai:tications. Primary election Aug ust 17. 1903. E. J. Stoil. a former Beatrice boy. who has been located at Omaha as traveling freight agent for the Nickle Plate road, has been transferred to Portland. Ore., where he will have charge of the Pacific coast states for that road. 'He is spending his vaca tion in Beatrice with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stoil. He will assume his new duties August 20. Prof. Howard Jones, for many years one of the leading educators of south eastern Nebraska, but who was forced to retire from school work by ill health about three years ago, died Thursday at the home of his mother, Mrs. Nancy Jones, in Nevada, Mo. UNION PRINT SHOPS. Printeries That Are Entitled to Us the Allied Trades Label. Following Is a list of the printing offices in Lincoln that are entitled to the nse of the Allied Printing Trades label, together with the num ber of the label used by each shop: Jacob North & Co", No. 1. Chas. A. Simmons, No. 2. Freie Presse, No. 3. Woodruff-Collins, No. 4. Graves & Payne, No. 5. State Printing Co., No. 6. Star Publishing Co., No. 7. Western Newspaper Union, No. 8. Wood Printing Co., -No. 9. Dairyman Publishing Co., No. 10. George Brothers, No. 11. McVey, No. 12. Lincoln Herald. No. 14. New Century Printers, No. 17. Gillispie & Phillips. No. 18. Herburger. The Printer, No. 20. Der Pilger, No. 25. x , . A X'- vt-- mm iii 5 f5 . .tullilTrr. 4 jffjsjmi BSBS ANNOUNCEMENT We wish to call your attention to the opening of THE NEW IDEAL LAUNDRY cur new Sanitary Bunding; at O and Nineteenth Streets. We are now ready for business with the best np-to-tbe-minute modern equipment in the entire West. -The active management and superintendency will be under the "direction of Mr. A. E. Evans, whose sixteen years' practical experience in high elass laundering en ables us to guarantee the "BETTER QUALITY" of laundry work which may be had at the usual prices. Hand Work . . . All our Shirts will be ironed by hand at the price yon have been paying to have them "pressed" with 550 pounds pressure to the square inch. ' Hand-ironed Shirts fit the man they were made for and are not stretched or pulled out of shape to be made to fit the machine on which they may be ironed, and LISTEN, they last as long again by avoiding the rouyh machine usage. Our Collar and Caff Department will be the best in the City in every particular. Ironed on a steam heated ironer, which eannot scorch or burn them, and finished by expert operators on the latest devices known to the trade. Saw edges are unknown in our plant. We eannot help but please the most fastidious dressers with the "BETTER QUALITY" f this department. Laundry Insurance i We shall also have an exclusive Flat Work Department where the particular housewife ean have the dainty and expensive Linens finished by hand and will not need an - accident insurance policy to insure their safe return, so they will be pleasing to use. The additional expense for this class of work will be only nominal. We also have a Flat Work Department which is "as good as the best and better than the rest" at regular prices. Our Family Wash or Rough Dry Department will be in charge of expert operators and is guaranteed to please. We 'use only the best grade of supplies and do not turn out any sloppy or half finished work. REMEMBER our motto, "The BETTER QUALITY." Our service is of the best and "we strive to please" everybody, whether they have a small paekage or a large one. Calls by telephone or mail promptly answered. We hare the same number on either telephone. Learn to remem ber by practicing on our number1 3036. TRIAL ORDERS SOLICITED. NEW IDEAL LAUNDRY CO. 19th AND O STREETS A. E. Evans, Manager. . Ik JiCr 4saaa - "SkS 0080S0S0000S00S0S00QO8O$0S0S0&0SOS00t90Q0SOSO First Trust S Savings Bank Owned by Stockholders of the First National Bank 9 I THE 'BANK FOR p INTEREST PAID Tenth and O Streets o r.r CAPITAL BEACH "Cooled by Lake Breezes' EVERY EVENING AT 8:45 FREE VAUDEVILLE AND Lake View Ordiestra Concerts SALT WATER BATHING Fresh 'Water Showers tUU Mile of Sandy Beach Private Urusiuf Rome ofafcy Bathing Suits for Hm EXCELLENT FISHING Delightful Boating and SaxEe BEAUTIFUL PICNIC GROVE Parties CorcfiaUr Incited 100 ATTRAC riONS 109 Grand Night II nm aaticas Dane ng UauU 11:15 Aimilt.ncc to Gate. Tea Grots THE WAGE-EARNER 3 AT FOUR PER CENT Lincoln, Nebraska 6