FAVOR REFERENDUM
LABOR UNIONS NOW ADVOCATE
THIS GREAT REFORM
New Jersey Federation Decides That
It is the Best Means of Driving Graft
Out of Municipal and State Govern
ment '
Three years ago the American Fed
eration of Labor, with its membership
of about two million, representing
one-eighth of the people of this coun
try, adopted a . program for a non
partisan movement to Install the op
tional referendum and the direct in
itiative, declaring that the establish
ment of the people's sovereignty is
the dominant issue. To teach the
members the real scope of this politi
cal movement, which has required
considerable work, has steadily pro
gressed, however, until practically
every member of the labor unions
heartily favors the program and is
prepared to carry it out, even to the
severing of party ties if necessary.
The latest state federation of labor
to take up the work is that of New
Jersey. At its annual meeting dur
ing the last week in August a reso
lution was adopted declaring,
Calls It a Most Vital Reform
Resolved, that "The initiative and
referendum is one of the most vital
reforms now being demanded by the
working people in the interest of the
masses and indeed of the entire com
munity." Another paragraph says:
Resolved, That "we heartily en
dorse the program of the American
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federation of labor, the Pennsylvania
state Grange the People's. Sovereignty
League and the National Direct Legis
lation League fo rthe establishment
of the advisory initiative and ad
visory referendum in national affairs
as the result of next year's cam
rialen. the majority vote in the house
to be secured through the questioning
of candidates fdr congress and the
majority vote in the senate by pledg
ing the candidates for the legislature
that, if elected, they will vote to in
struct the holdover senators and will
vote only for such candidates for the
United States senate as are pledged
to the system." , ,
Will Destroy Corruption
That is a political program that is
far reaching and when placed in op
eration will wipe out the corrupt
party machines in national affairs, also
private monopoly In interstate com
merce. The convention did not stop
there, but added:
Resolved, "That the incoming exec
utive board be Instructed to have in
troduced in the legislature a bill for
the immediate establishment of the
initiative and referendum in municipal
affairs, also a bill for the immediate
establishment of the advisory initia
tive and advisory referendum in state
affairs and a bill for direct nomina
tions for public offices."
That program will revolutionize
New Jersey's corrupt city govern
ments, while the advisory system in
state affairs will overcome the delay
that an ' effort to directly amend the
state constitution would entail.
A Silent Revolution
The , proposed changes to the peo
ple's sovereignty In1 New Jersey and
throughout the country that is being
pushed by the non-partisan question
ing of candidates of all the parties,
is a silent revolution which, when ac
complished, will effectually reform
the abuses that have grown up un
der our representative system. It
will abolish corruption and private
monopoly and secure equal rights to
all.
THIS POOR WOMAN HAD NO PASS
Only One in the Car and State
Official Reformed
For years this scheme of bribery
has been growing and becomeing
hurtful to the Interest of the people
at the time.-
A government or state official (now
dead) said to us two years ago: "One
night coming out of Austin during
the sitting of the legislature, the car
In which I was seated was crowded
with members of the legislature and
other officials. I noticed one old lady
shabbily, . dressed who was sitting
near the center of the car and only
a few feet from me. When the con
ductor came through collecting tickets
every man in the car had a free pass
and that poor old woman was the
only passenger who presented a ticket
she had paid for" This, the state
official said, disgusted him with the
free pass business and If he had to
live to see the time when his pass
expired he would never accept an
other. ' . ..." ,
Our contention is and has always
been for a quarter of a century, that
the official who accepts and uses a
free pass is in the pay of the corpora
tions while he at the same time pre
tends to serve the people. Hence so
much class legislation, and the peo
ple must rise up in their might and
retire to private life the gang who
have continually sold their Interests
to the corporations for the privilege
of riding free on the railroads. Let
the people begin today to mark for
political slaughter the men who have
thus prostituted the confidence re
posed in them by a confiding public.-?
The Watchman, Cleburne, Tex.
STANDARD HOUNDS A PEDDLER
Drivers For the Trust Followed Him
And Cut Prices -
Cleveland, O., Sept. 3. Frank H.
Lewis, the oil peddler who is fighting
the Standard Oil company, today for
warded his statement to Commissioner
of Corporations . Garfield at Washing
ton with a request for an investiga
tion. . '
Lewis formerly drove, one of the
wagons of the Cleveland Oil Delivery
company, a Standard- Oil concern.
Only recently he went into the busi
ness for himself.. -
"The first day T was out for my
self," he says, "I noticed the delivery
company wagon on my route with
five men on it These men followed
me around my route,' going into the
homes of my customers and asking
them not to buy oil of me. They
still have the wagon and men follow
ing my route. Recently they cut the
price of oil and gasoline one cent un
der my prices. I was told by men
on the wagon of-my competitors that
if I persisted in trying to dispense
oil on my route I would have to give
it away. One of the foremen of the
delivery company told me after I
started that he wished me good luck,
but-he would hate to risk what I
was risking. The delivery company
men have secured many of my old
customers. . :. - ,
- "There are but two Independent oil
companies that I knowof in Cleveland
from which I can purchase oil I get
my oil from the Columbia Refining
company." . ' , . . "
Lewis says that when he drove
the Cleveland Oil Delivery company's
wagon he was instructed to say to cus
tomers that it was not Standard oil
they were getting. ;
speech referring to the friendly rela
tions between the Chinese nation and
America. , , , 1
, Notice of Incorporation
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned have associated themselves
together to form an Insurance Com
pany. The name of-the company Is
Endowment Health and Accident In
surance Company. The principal
place of its business is at Lincoln,
Neb. The general nature is insur
ance on the mutual assessment plan
against loss of time caused by sick
ness or accident or accidental death.
The business of the company to com
mence June 1, 1905, and terminates
in 99 years. The affairs of the com
pany shall be governed by a board
of directors, a president, vice-president,
general manager, secretary, and
treasurer. :
W. E. Unland, M. D. Wilson, L. E.
Wetling, W. J. Adamson, T. C. ln
ler. - ' I
The Taft party arrived at Canton
on Monday and proceeded to the
American consulate, where its mem
bers were met by a battalion of the
viceroy's guards. After a reception at
the consulate, the party became guests
of the New Canton railway, covering
its entire distance. At 1 o'clock the
visitors were entertained at luncheon
by invitation of the viceroy, who,
however, was ill and unable to be
present His representative made a
NOTICE.
Notice Is hereby given that by vir
tue of a chattel mortgage, dated May
14th, 1905, and duly filed In the orace
of the County Clerk of Lancaster
County, Nebraska, on the 8th day of
June 1905, executed by William A.
Robison, by the name of W. A. Robi
son, to A. Heater to secure the pay
ment of $183.75 to become due on the
24th day of June, 1905, and upon
which is now due $129.75, default hav
ing been made in the payment of
same, and no suit or other proceeding
at law having been Instituted to re
cover said debt Oi' any part thereof,
therefore I will sell the property there
in described: one rubber-tired road
wagon, one grey mare, weight about
1300 pounds; 1 gray horse, 950 pounds;
two wagons with box, two sets of
double harness, one single set of har
ness, one disk harrow, one pipe har
row, one Piano binder, one iron beam
plow, at public auction at the farm of
L, L. E. Stewart, in section thirty-one.
Township 10, range 6, in Lancaster
County, on the 13th day of September,
1905 at 10 o'clock a. m., of said day.
A. HEATER, Mortgagee.
Lincoln, August, 21st, 1905.
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