THE WAGEWORKER.
By Wageworker Publishing Co.
Will M. Maupin - - Editor
W. P. Hogard - - Manager
Entered a aecond-dau matter April 21, 1904, at
th poatofBc. at Lincoln, Neb., under the Act of
i of March 3rd. 1879.
FOR A BETTER LINCOLN.
Self-interest, if nothing else, ought
to be enough to laduce every wage
earner in Lincoln to vote for the park
and high school bonds. Votting tb9
bonds means, in addition to better edu
cational facilities for our children and
recreation places for al of us, more
opportunities for work, more money
In' circulation, more business. The
success of the bonds means that $315,
000 now tied up wi'.l be let loose in
the channels of industry', and that
mean 8 work at good wages. It also
means that those who have profited
from the toil of the worker will have
to give some of it back.
Vote for your own best interests by
voting for the bond Issues.
air and more fresh air. Less praying
for and more opportunities for doing
things. We believe in the efficacy of
prayer, but prayer without works is
like a balloon without gas, a ship
without a rudder, an automobile with
out power, a locomotive without
steam.
Prayer wiJ not lift the mortgage cn
the Labor Temple, nor add a third
tory to provide a recreation hall.
It takes dollars to pay freight and
the same kind of dollars to pay inter
est and running expenses. You people
who pretend to be so wonderfully in
terested in the welfare of the toilerj
ought to make good on your pre
tenses and your promises. The work
ers can not carry the lead all by them
selves at this time. They expect to
carry it alone after a while, but in
view of all that has passed and gone
they have a right to expect that the
good people of Lincoln will help them
over the crest of the hill.
If you are not willing to do some
thing practical in the interests of the
toilers, for heaven's sake shut off the
hot air cock! If you can't help, in
heaven's name get out of the road and
give the workers . a free rein.
If you really meant what you said
a couple or three months ago, and
were not talking for effect only, now
is the time to prove it by making
good.
SPEAKING OF RECIPROCITY.
The only excuse afforded by the
"Lincoln Trade Boosters" for ignor
ing the claims of Lincoln musicians
and hiring a cheap country band to
accompany the "booster" excursion is
that it is a reciprocal deal. We con
fess that "reciprocal deal" sounds
good, but we must at the same time
confess a measure of intellectual den
sity that prevents us from grasping
its meaning.
Does it mean that the candy mak-
ers and others on that excursion want
the trade of Hestron and don't give a
continental about the trade of the
3.000 workingmen and working women
of Lincoln? ' Does it mean that the
"boosters" think it is all right for
them to get their music where they
can get it the cheapest and air wrong
for the Lincoln wagearner to buy his
goods from a Chicago mail order house
because he can get more for his
money there than from Lincoln mer
chants T
This isn't wholly a matter of the
Lincoln musicians; it interests every
wage earner in the city. If it is all
right for Lincoln business men to hire
a country band because ft is cheap,
then it is equally all right for Lincoln
business men to import cheap carpui
ten, cheap bricklayers, cheap painters
and cheap mechanics of every other
craft, and let the taxpaying, home-
building mechanics of Lincoln starve,
And if it is a.l right for Lincoln
business men to patronize a mail or
der music concern, then it is equally
all right for Lincoln wage earners tc
patronise sears, Koebuck & Co. or
Montgomery Ward, and boycott the
Lincoln business man.
We opine, speaking of reciprocal
trade relations, that Lincoln musicians
spend dollars with Lincoln merchants
where Hebron musicians spend pen
nies. Tet the so-called "trade boost
era" show by their actions that they
think more of the 'Hebron musician's
penny than they do of the Lincoln
musician's dollar. We wouHdn't blame
Lincoln mechanics if they absolutely
boycotted every concern Aat is con
nected with that so-called "trade ex
tension" excursion. It would simply
be a return in kind.
THE 8AME OLD 8TORY.
A few months ago they were aw
fully interested in the moral and spir
itual welfare of the workers. They
were deeply interested in seeing to it
that the worklngman had a decent,
healthful, moral place in which to
spend hit leisure hours. Tiiey were
determined to rid him of many of
the temptations that bese'. his path,
They were going .to help the work
ingman in every possible way to bet
ter his conditions. They held meet
ings and discussed the matter, and
they prayed earnestly and devoutly,
That was two or three months ago,
But what have they really done?
They have left the worklngman to
struggle along as brst he could to
maintain his Labor T-u:;.-Ie the hand
somest of its kind in t'u west, and the
best moral and phyulal asset that
Lincoln possesses today.
They haven't contributed a blooming
thing but hot air. They knelt and
, prayed for the workingman, and then
got up from their knees and went
tight out to continue preying upon
the worklngman.
What the workingmen aid work
Ingtvomen of Lincoln need is "?9 hot
tinel has entered its eighth volume,
looking fine and feeling fine. The
Sentinel should receive the hearty
support of organized labor in its com
munity. The Wageworker wishes for
the Union Sentinel many long years
of usefulness in the cause of organized
labor.
Make 'em sit up and take notice of
organized labor by voting solidly for
a modern high school and an ade
quate park system.
There ought to be a lot of politics
in the labor unions, but there should
be a total lack of partisanship.
Those who can take their children
to the mountains or the seashore for
the summer are enabled to do it
because they have, waxed rich from
the toll of those who must keep their
children at; home during the hot
months of summer. Make the rich
men help provide recreation grounds
for the children of the men who have
made them rich. Vote for the park
bonds, and urge your fellow workers
to do the same.
"Really, you Lincoln workers ought
to patronize home industry and help
build up Lincoln institutions," said the
Lincoln candymaker as he lighted a
cigar made in the east and dug down
to help pay for a cheap country band
to accompany tthe "Lincoln boosters."
Isn't that a joke?
If you have to furnish the children
to keep this republic going, make the
fellows without children help you byr
the burden of educating your children
so they may become intelligent, use
ful citizens. Vote for th high school
bonds. '
Mr. Post offers Col. Roosevelt
$100,000 a year to head an organiza
tion that seeks to unite capital and
labor. Mr. Post must have been
guilty of the foolishness of filling his
belly with his own imitation food.
The men who have made Lincoln
have the least to show for their work.
Let them get together and work to the
end that they have a modern high
school and decent parks as a part re
turn for their toil and sacrifices.
The men who have waxed rich from
the toil of the workers should be made
to. come back with a part of the ex
pense of educating the children of
the tollers. Made them disgorge by
voting the high -school bonds.
Boosting for a better Lincoln takes
more than mere lip service, and the
men who work for wages are the men
who are delivering the real goods
The bunch out with a cheap country
band are mere imitations.
Mr. Workingman, make the fellow
whose family consists of a wife, a pug
dog and a syringe help you educate
your children the children who must
be depended upon to save the republic,
The office boy informs us that if
the people will help him make his
leisure hours pleasant he will attend
to the matter of making his working
hours profitable to his employer.
While the Lincoln "Trade ex
tension Boosters" are out with their
little old cheap country band, the real
boosters for Lincoln are at home and
right on the Job.
Smoking eastern tenement house
cigars and hiring a cheap country
band is not a good way to "boost for
Lincoln."
Teddy has landed, and strange to
say the west end of the country didn'i
fly up when he stepped on the east
end.
Vote for the park and high school
bonds and help make Lincoln a bet
ter city for all "of us to live in.
A fine park system Is a measure of
economy. The better the parks the
smaller the doctor's bill.
The Fort Smith, Ark., Union Sen-
Let's all work-together for Lincoln!
On the square, and not like a lot of
imitation boosters.
Don't be a "piker". Vote for the
bonds, and thus vote for a bigger and
a better Lincoln.
CAPTURING THE CHURCH.
How Organized Labor Can Seize a
Mighty Force for Uplift.
In capturing a fort, the commander's
aim is to get the men Inside rather
than to continue the bombardment
from without. This is a principle
which applies to every kind of war
fare, and it is good strategy in any
case.
In the battle in which organized la
bor is now engaged, it needs all the
fortresses that it can command. I
qestion whether any power could be
greater in behalf of workingmen than
the Church; but what the Church
needs is intelligent and honest direct
ion. There is a latent power in the
C'hi'.ch whica is readv to flo-opera'.o
in s program which will mean great
things for t:ie workers. The ques
tion is, how shall the workingmen
avail themselves of this power. They
certainly cannot do it by bombarding
the Church from without. NWhen a
man or an institution is assaulted, the
natural Inclination is to fight back.
It should be the aim of labor not to
raise antagonisms within the church
against labor, but to enlist its sympa
thy and co-operation. It is not a ques
tion of winning in an argument, but
one of winning the church.
There is no institution which may
be more easily captured than the
Church; for it is democratically or
ganized and the will of the majority
rules. It is simply impossible for a
modern church to be controlled by
any one man or any set of men. Iu
the church, the voice of the people
is the voice of God. It is -logieal,
therefore, that if labor is to capture
this great force, the thing for 4the
workingman to do is to become identi
fied with the Church as an institution.
There are some workingmen who,
becoming impatient with the Church
in the matter of social reform,- have
gone outside to work out their plans,
arid usually these impatient ones have
assumed the position of dictators to
the Church, after they have left It
They seek to whip into line the men
and women whom they profess to
scorn. They seem to forget that in
leaving the institution, they forfeited
all right to demand of the Church
those measures for which they, them
selves, stand; for no man qutside of
the Church has the right to dictate a
policy for Its guidance, because the
Church is purely a voluntary organ
ization. If the Church Infringes upon
the rights and attempts to restrict
the liberties of others, then those in
jured have a right to fight the Church
in its operations. But the Church as
such has the privilege :aap out its
own social program as it maps out it.-:
own religious program, and to do pre
cisely as It pleases, provided aa in-
tlmattw sucli pi .-gran: does not in
jure anybody else. ' f
However, those identified with the
Church who are in accord with the
general purpose of the organization,
have the privilege to suggest to the
Church the policies which should be
pursued In connection with its gen
eral program. It is logical to assume
then, that if workingmen desire to
have the Chursh come out even more
strongly in behalf of the things for
which labor standB, they have it in
their power to say Just what ' the
Church shall do. They can make the
Church whatever they choose.
REV. CHARLES STELZLE.
Buy a
Hoosier
Kitchen
Cabinet
for
OK
Summer
We sell Gas
Stoves. Gaso
line Stoves
Refrigerators
Hammocks
and all kinds
of Furniture
for the out
side of the
home as well
as the inside
TIT saves a working day out of every week. It
gives a rest when you are tired. You can
sit down with this cabinet in your kitchen arid
work at ease. The extra leisure you will have
will put vim and vigor into your daily tasks and
make them pleasant and interesting. You can
do your work in so much less time that the sum
mer heat will not greatly oppress you.
We will sell THE HOOSIER to you on payments
Everything
for the Home
BENWAY'S
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food and don't have to have it done
for me in a factory." The doctor also
handed out the following package,
which certainly applies aptly to print
ers: "The trouble with us in this day
and generation is that we get too.
much hot air and too little fresh air."
ONE FOR POST.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the
bureau of chemistry of the national
department of agriculture, was one of
the chief speakers at the Minnesota
conservation congress held recently in
St. Paul, and he certainly took a
sound rap at C. W. Post and the oth
ers of his kind who impose- on the
public an alleged breakfast food. Doc
tor Wiley said: "There Is more nu
trition in 1 cent's worth of corn meal
thap in 10 cents' worth of any pre
pared breakfast food on the market. I
thank God that I can still digest my
BE A BOOSTER.
Do you know there's lots J? people
Settin' 'round in every town
Growlln' like a broody chicken
Knockin' every good thing down?
Don't you be that kind o' cattle,
'Cause they ain't no use on earth
You just be a booster rooster,
Crow and boost for all you're worth
Boost for Lincoln!
N
If you town needs boostin,' boost 'ei
Don't hold back and wait to see
If some other feller's willin'
Sail right in this country's free;
No one's got a mortgage on it,
It's just your's as much as his
If your town is shy on boosters,
You get in the booster biz.
Boost for Lincoln!
lp ..'.'.vga don't seem to suit you
1 And the world seems kinder wrong,
What's the matter with a boostin'
Just to help the thing; along? .
'Cause if things should stop a-goin
We'd be in a sorry plight,
You Just keep that horn a-blowin
Boost 'er up with all your might.
Boost for Lincoln!
If you know some feller's fallln's,
Just forget 'enj, 'cause you know
That same feller's got some good
points
Them's the ones you want to show.
"Cast your loaves upon the waters,
They'll come back," 'a a sayin' true.
Mebbe they will come back "buttered"
When some feller boosts for you.
Boost for Lincoln!
The Booster's Boy.
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Read THE WAGEWORKER
THINK IT OVER.
- "How may times has a Maufactur
ers' Association ever established a
shorter day. Increased the pay, or bet
tered conditions in any trade? Not
once in ten thousand years. Only labor
uions do that. Iron Trades Journal.
A large number of paper box mak
ers have won recognition of the union,
Increase of pay and better hours in
New York City.
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