Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 129, Hammond, Lake County, 17 November 1910 — Page 4

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Thursday. Xov. 17, 1910.

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MR. Koontas should stick to his

plasters.

MARSE Henny Watterson has not got through crowing yet. . . - DOWN at Anderson they just gasp when they think how Gary does things. IF Harper's Weekly Is so good at predicting, let us have the name of the next president.

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LOOKS GOOD TO REPUBLICANS. Sifting it down to a few words. The democrats have nothing to b proud of in the Indiana election this year; neither have the republicans anything to be ashamed of. Take these things into consideration: It was an oft year. The republicans lost many states. In Pennsylvania the republican majority fell from 300,000 to 30,000. Yet here In Indiana the democrats only carried the state by 12,000 odd, a handful of votes more than they carried it by in 1908. It looks mighty good for a republican victory in Indiana two years hence.

A POWERFUL POLITICAL FACTOR. Congressman Crumpacker becomes, because of the fact that he will be the only republican from Indiana in either branch of the next congress, a powerful factor politically and a figure of much more than state wide inter

est If the prevailing custom is followed by President Taft the Tenth dis

trict congressman will have the last word in the disposition of all federal patronage in Indiana. The naming of presidential postmasters, revenue officers and various other federal appointees will be up to him. In eo far as 4

patronage is concerned Congressman Crumpacker will have even more at his command than Senator Beveridge has so far had, for with the senator there have been two districts with republican congressmen. South Bend

Tribune.

ALDERMAN Castleman cannot expect to get through with such a poor equilibratcr ea he has.

THE Gary police judge, whoever he

is to be, will kindly have patience

until next week at least.

-4Jt - THE democrats seem to be finding

the speakership question in Indiana as warm as a hot poker.

LET us forget that the conservation

of the coal supply in our own bins is the burning question of the hour.

GETTING enough coal to keep the

kiddles warm is going to be a prob

lem in a lot of homes this winter.

.

THEY are going to increase the

postal rate for magazines. This is

what the mags get for muckraking.

. DOCTOR says cats cause paralysis

They also cause profanity, stubbed toes

and other things along about 3 a. m.

e YOU can depend upon Captain H

S. Norton to represent Gary beauti

fully whenever the city needs repre

sentation.

HOWEVER, we do not believe that

Colonel Roosevelt has said all that he

is going to say on the subject last

Tuesday week.

jaft

LET MR. CASTLEMAN GO.

While seemingly under the influence of liquor Alderman Castleman of

Gary resigned his seat In the legislative body of the municipality. The peopie of Gary trust that his fellow councilmen will not move any mountains to

get him to retain his seat. Castleman now demands the privilege of withdrawing his resignation

It is to be hoped that the aldermen of Gary have some self-respect for themselves as well as for the city. Do they want to transact pressing and important business, dealing with municipal affairs, in company with a man who, while in his cups, creates such scenes as did Castleman? An alderman is a public official. A drunken man cannot serve the public. An alderman

ought to have some sense of dignity and decorum. Can anyone accuse Castle

man of possessing either virtue? Mayor Knotts, Aldermen Rowley, Bowser,

Baukus, Gibson, Szymanski and Siemiasko have a duty to the people to per

form. Mr. Castleman is at last pro aris et focis.

JOHfJSTOf CALLS

SPAOEJ SPAOE (Continued from page One.)

VOTIITG MACHINES IN LAKE COUNTY. Why cannot Lake county have voting machines, like other advanced communities? The laggard returns of the last election, have demonstrated more forcibly than ever the necessity for these devices. The increased vote in Lake county and the unwieldiness of the ballots, with half a dozen or more parties almost Invariably on the ticket, demand that voting machines be installed. These would not only expedite the official count, but would make the count more trustworthy. There can be no doubt, that many questionable practices are indulged in toward causing the vote to come out the way some of the men who count the ballots, want it to. .... In these days of rapid transit, the telephone, the telegraph and the many devices contrived to reduce "waiting" to a minumum, it is pretty hard on a candidate to be obliged to wait two days after election before he knows whether he is elected or not.

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HERE IS A KNOTTY PROBLEM. There are several reasons why the young men should marry. Then, again, there are several why they should not. To remain single is to grasp with the problem of the cost of .high living, whereas matrimonial ventures call for the solution of the question of the high cost of living. For instance, coal is to rise once more and bacon is 40 cents. Now in no way does a rise in the price of coal or the choice parts of porker affect, a bachelor. It is true he may get less of the latter, but the difference is not much. On the other hand rises in such commodities affect the high cost of living as a married man feels the pinch in such cases. Yet, with the bachelor, restaurants and boarding houses, he believes, are the principal scources of the cost of high living. . x

The problem is a weighty one and one that will require deep study. But the first distinction that must be made is the difference between the

cost of high living and the high cost of living.

ENJOYS GREAT POPULARITY. The great popularity manual training is enjoying in the various school

where it is taught throughout the Calumet region, is a thing to be reflected

upon. Here in this region, where so much depends upon the cunning of skilled workmen, but so many of whose skilled workmen received their training in other lands, there 6hould be an extra incentive to learn to work with the hads. And there Is that extra incentive. The dearth of skilled American workmen Is a thing to be deplored throughout the length and breath of this land. But every year deducts from this scarcity' of home talent among the followers of the manual trades. Skilled labor receives more and more dignity each year. The producer, now more than ever before, is recognized as one of the most potent forces that makes for the prosperity of a nation.

OKLAHOMA seems to be determ

ined also to keep the negro down, dis

enfranchising them by the "grand

father" clause. - 44

YES, just as the water gets so it

can be used, the government starts in

vestigating the bath tub trust. Always

something, eh? :."

ONE thing above all others makes ;

the people like Senator Beveridge, he has taken his defeat like a gentleman. You remember how Kern whined , WONDER how Colonel Abe Slupsky of St. Louis, got along with drinking twenty pints of beer daily? He ought to do well with a name like that. THERE are other places where gambling is carried on in Lake county, Prosecuting Attorney Greenwald, besides East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, !

44 THE Minnesota political campaign

is more like play than real earnest.

It's down in Indiana where the real western fight is. Duluth News-Tribune.

YES, honey, it wes some fight.

4 THIS is the season of the year when

it is necessary to try about a dozen

remedies for colds before nature herself gets busy i;nd puts all the medi

cines on the blink.

TENNESSEE man suicided because

he was defeated in a corn-husking contest and a contemporary naively remarks that "Another one is gone to a country where there isn't any corn to husk."

PEOPLE in these parts who have

lead of the Baltimore woman who ad

vertised for a husband and got one

for $200, must not get it into their heads that this is the regular rate by

any means. IT looks like intimidating Gary voters, doesn't it, when a republican candidate's auto tires are slashed with a knife and brick bats hurled at republicans? We suppose the- republic

ans are doing that, eh? AS we came home we visited between trains at Fort Madison, among others we met Mr. Pollard, the next congressman from this district, he laid v big dollar in our hand for the Cyclone one year. Vote for Mr. Pollard and vote right. Stockport (la.) Cy

clone. IT was a prohibition campaign. The "wet" orator lasped from the altogether serious. "This provision that liquor may be sold under. the prohibition act for medicinal, scientific, or 4 mechanical purposes reminds me of the old story about the man who went into a dru&

velopment of their respective towns he-

cause It would Increase values and consequently increase taxes.

We have not yet secured this exag

gerated power In Hammond and most

of ours, when properly and persistent

ly approached by the improvement organization have been willing to modi

fy their old fogy ideas and make fairly presentable Improvements. We are still, however, struggling with some of our most persistent ones.

I had almost said that the tightwad

is a hopeless dead weight proposition,

and with us we find it so until we con

ceived the idea of an investigators' and

investors' council and sold stock in an

industrial building which gave the

tightwad an opportunity to help the town and at th same time reap immediate and direct returns from his investment. This,. I believe, has start

ed some of our less exaggerated tight

wads on the road to reformation. "We have some,' however, we have about

concluded, are hopless; these are the ones that won't contribute to our in

dustrial fund, nor do anything to aid!

in the development of the city that costs money or effort. Thes particular ones are in the parasite or barn

acle class, and all we can do with them

is to pull them along, unless we can induce them,, to move to some other town. We have a few of these pronounced cases, and if you know of any city that is paying a bonus for such citizenship we should be glad; to enter into negotiations with them and prom-is-e that the bonus asked will not be large. The grafter Is another class of dead weight which we have found encumbering the efforts of our development crowd. He is usually found in the city offices and is against the granting of franchises or making of needed public Improvements until he has been seen, and he does not care what kind of a franchise he votes for, nor what sort of an Improvement is made so long as his individual rakeoff is sufficiently large. j We have found a good sized committee of business men sitting in the council chamber when improvement matters are considered has a very wholesome effect on the grafter. He realizes he Is being watched and usually becomes a grandstand player, and is for what he thinks will be popular; he has

no moral courage to parade before the public openly with his hands behind

him. Just try it In your town when some Important franchise is being con-' sldered; see how beautifully it works. You will pardon my profanity, but the next great retarder of which I want to speak is what we have been accustomed to call "The give a damn," the public service corporation. This is one that gives a minimum of service both in quantity and quality and choses a maximum price therefor. A bad thins to get. Sn "your development wagon Is a street car company

thut refuses to extend its lines to carry employes to and from your new industries until they-Wave" been in operation a sufficient length of time to demonstrate that they will be permanent, thereby forcing the manufacturer to work at a great disadvantage until the lines are extended. We have had more or less trouble with this condition and are still spending considerable time each year trying to imbue a co-operative spirit into our public service corporation. We have had some trouble with our steam railroads because of the poor depot facilities which they have afforded us and the unkept appearance of their property extending clear through the city. We have found in the State Railroad

Commission a splendid help in brm,;nt,

our steam railroads and interurbans

into line. If you feel that you are not

getting a square deal from any of the

lines running through your town, just take the matter up with Judge Woods, chairman of the Indiana Railroad Commission and I am sure that your trouble

will be settled to the entire satisfac tlcn of all concerned.

Electric companies that are not in sympathy with the efforts of your commercial organization to develop the town, and that cannot back up your efforts by charging exorbitant prices

for power current and refuses to cooperate with any special lighting and advertising scheme, are of the'Give a dam" type, and will be found to be first class dead weight. People you know can live In towns that are interested in making them comfortable and public service is of vast importance. Make your light companies, your telephone companies, your street railroad companies, and our steam railroad treat your citizens well. If you do not, nothing in the world can interfere with your progress as much as to have it generally known that your public service of every kind is of an inferior type. The hold up landlord is a constant thorn in the flesh of the organization. After you have worked long and hard to boom your city and finally have things going as you like them, your hold up landlord awakes to the fact that all of the houses and offices in the town are filled, and directly begins to boost rents out of all reason and your

boom gets a set back. We had a season of that sort of thing and a great many of our manufacturers for that reason will not turn their hand over to assist us in our development

work. These reasons and the securing of Just a few new industries will put the hold up landlord again in a position to raise rents and thus deprlce him of his best help, or make it necessary for him to increase wages in proportion to the increased rnt. In other words, he is taking money out of his own pocket when he helps to Improve conditions in his town. These landlords are indeed short sighted, because the reaction sends rent below normal and everybody is damaged. You will need to do a lol of educational work, with your hold up landlord so they can stand a reason of prosperity without losing their men. And now we come to the two worst of all, but for the great retarding jnflu-

estate owner, and the business agent the "Dor Jn the Manger- of the real or walking delegates. To the man seeking to develop his town, these are devils with cloven feet, horns, long tails and all of the other accessories. By a "Dog In the Manger," real estate owner, I mean one that owns a quantity of the

best vacant property in the lty and J

absolutely refuses to Improve It or sell it at anything like a reasonable price to some one that will. He discourages every capitalist you try to get to come to town to build homes for your people by putting upon his vacant property an entirely imposible price, and If you cannot build the homes for the people to live In, you cannot get additional factories, so your town development wagon is stalled. You will )ia.ve your work cut out for you to unload this bit of dead weight. And now I come to what I consider the worst, the business agent. He is the supposed representative of union labor in your city and in my mind he is a trouble maker; he is the man that spends his entire time tending to the business of other people; he is the man who in ninety cases out of a hundred is responsible for the idiotic rules and regulations of the labor unions; he Is the man that every union man hates and fears, and every business and professional man and manufacturer in your

town heartily despises, he Is the man who walks the streets of your town.

and brands this man or that man as unfair or this politician or that politician unfriendly to organised labor and

bullies everybody so far as possible into catering to his demands, and under those conditions we cannot expect help from the politician, because politicians have come to believe that no man can be elected to any office unles he swallows union labor bodily. He dare take no exception to any rule which the unions may promulgate nor deny them a single demand; If he does, he Is unfriendly, unfair and marked for the slaughter. Relief from this end must come through the commercial organizations of the country; must come through the business and manufacturing interest. I do not believe that there Is a fair minded man in the country who Is opposed, to the organization of labor for its protection in the matter of securing adequate wages and proper conditions under which to work. On the other hand, I do not believe that there is a fair thinking man in the country be he in- or out of a union that does not

Etrenuously object to the absolutely childish and foolish rules and regulations of some unions. In view of the fact that we have some very strong organizations In Hammond, where they practice their unionism in

its most exagerated form. I am going

to cite you to just a few of the un

reasonable demands that I know personally have been made during the last

season in our town.

Just a few weeks ago one of our large property owners desired to paint an old brick building and when the painters came to work he said he would like to have some of the old holes in the walls filled with putty as they went along. The painters promptly informed him that their organization had recently passed a resolution to the effect that such work was not up to them and It would be necessary for him to hire some one else to putty up the holes. The man was willing to do this and so informed them, and said he would send some one right up to do the work. He was Immediately informed by the painters that the man

doing the putty work could not work on the same scaffold with them, as that was also contrary to the rules of their

organization.

This nonsensical rule of this union

no doubt originated In the brain of some irresponsible business agent or

walking delegate, and put this proper

tr owner of our city to the expense of

putting up an adidtional scaffold upon

which the man doing the puttying might work, and adding materially to

the cost and annoyance of the Improve

ment he was trying to make, and add

ed abnolutely nothing to the benefits

derived from the painters upon the job.

It seems absurd for the union man to take such a stand as this, that I do not see how they can possibly expect

to benefit their position.

This summer the owner of one of our buildings under construction found a

plumber in the middle of the afternoon sound asleep in the building. Upon his

waking him and Inquiring why he was

not at work at that time of the day, he informed the owner that he had completed all of the work he was allowed to do in one day and if he did

more than his allotment he would be subject to a fine. Here was a case of a man seeking to Improve the town by the Investment of his money in a building proposition, paying a man 75 cents an hour for sleeping. Wholly due to the absolutely Insane rule of a union that claims to be merely seeking the protection of honest laboring men. We had another case where the owner of a building under construction had his janitor connect a radiator or something equally simple and every steamfitter and plumber on the job Immediately walked out. This Is only one of a hundred similar examples of his same man, and he swore that if he had as much money as John D. Rockefeller and the best corner In town he would nver attempt the erection of another building so long a present conditions exist with organized labor. Not long ago I wanted a sign painted upon a window and, all of the aign painters in town being extremely busy and none of them could promise to do

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work that can be done In a particular fifty years. He said:

length of time, and if they are caught "All I have to say about the labor

hustling on the work they are prompt- question Is that it ha to be settled ly fined. An honest union man regrets otherwise than by the bludgeon. That this condition as much as any one else, the laboring men have- rights no one

I am sure he Is as eager for emancl- can doubt. That they may organise

patjon as are his employers. The trou- and form a union, no sensible man

ble with organized labor Is that it has should question. They may act tofallen into the hands of soldiers of for- gether. go on a strike together and In tune .who are seeking by subterfuge that or any other legal way serve to to control the union man to his own increase their wages. But whenever disadvantage, and the annoyance of they come with the mailed fist, then everybody else. . the whole strength of the nation should We could increase our population five be put forth to stop them. There should thousand within the next twelve be arbitration between the contending; months If we could build the homes for factions. One side or the other may be the people, but these absurd rules and entirely wrong, or they may be parregulations of the labor unions have so tially right on both sides, but whatever disgusted our people and so increased is right and Just should be settled by the cost of building that people can- an Intelligent board of Impartial arnot afford to build for themselves and . bltrators."

capitalists cannot afford to build to rent. I do not care to go on record as being antagonistic to the honest effort of the honest laborer to protect himsel fagainst unscrupulous employers, but I do propose to go on record as being opposed to the unfair methods of business agents who are constantly prating of the unfairness of other people.

Again he said: "There Is nothing more wholesome, I believe, than the gathering of laborers Into a union, with the collective bargains which they can thus make with their employers. It tends to secure higher wages, to give them a better standing, and that I most heartily approve. But when any body of labor

ers, says to one of the same kind of

The man who enacts in making laborers, "you must join this organlzaarbltrary rules for the regulation of tion or you can not be permitted to everybody without in any way ascer-1 work, and resorts either to violence taining whether or not these rules can OT boycott, to shut that man out of the be 'reasonably complied with by the liberty of pursuing his work in his own

other party is not lair ana is not in a individual way, I say that organiza

tion is also an enemy of American liberty. If there are one hundred men that are plumbers, let ninety nine form

!a union; let them care for each other

position to say to any other man you are unfair. I want this association to go upon record by the passing of a proper reso

lution as being opposed to the time n time of want or poverty (and their wasting, hair splitting methods of the noble motto is "Each for all, and all for present day trades unions and as being each"); let them do what they can to willing to help the honest tradesmen elevate the tone, the character of the to emancipate himself from tyranny of individual members of the union, let Ignorant, unscrupulous business agents them do evetythlng Just and, fair to

and walking delegates. (Improve their own condition; but when I want It to go upon record as being they say to the one man, "You cannot willing to support any politician when do piumbing unless you Join this orhe takes a stand for a square deal for ganization; w.e will drive pou out of everybody, and has the morai courage town"; that conduct Is disgraceful. The to criticise what he knows to be an truth is that the black' list, not the Injustice, whether it is done under the cases, of giving Information to one in-

guise of organized labor or by some

one elst.

terested In knowing the character of an employee who may have left you

store in a dry state and asked for a this tlme at least fivenousand more

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gallon, of whiskey.

population than it has. I have in mind

.With malice towards none I want 1 er of a merchant or laborer doing something done at this meeting that something of which pou do not apwill make the union people of our prove, and In ensequence whereof you cities and towns understand that the do not dare to "have "anything to do with development of those cities and towns him but this circulation of a black Is as Important to them as to other men list to prevent men from getting emof the community and that they are by ployment, of the establishment of a present ; mehods proving a serious boycott are alike and equally damnable, stumbling block in the way of town de-, I want that every American citizen who velopment. (hears my voice shall appreciate the Now I have held up the mirror to the ' fact that there is in this somethir.SC labor unions, so they may know what that Is not mere theory. It is not mere people think about their actions and are fancy.' It is a living fact that faces saying about them. I expect them to the American people everywhere in the "deny ,the allegation and defy the land, and it is a danger and wrong that allegator," but if the opinion is wrong, you have to meet, and might as well It is up to the union man to set right meet it fairly and squarley. Madame the opinion, but if It la right it is up Roland well said 'Oh liberty! What

In they name.

each man the

the imposible conditions that confront freedom Of the individual against "all the builder. Whether this is bogle that companies and organizations, you are exists only in the mind or is a real con- endangering the future and the glory of dition, the result is the same. De- this great country.' velopment is seriously impeded and a Come on brother union man, the

condition confronts us that must be greatship of slate is yours as well as

me ur, io , ! ;Ct to the union man to get himself and his crimes are committed in cept one fellow WV1 vi' ' organization right. They are blamed for And unless you reserve to

I arrived at my office Monday morning the work had not been done. By way of explanation the sign painter said he could not find the business agent on Sunday in order to get a permit to do the work. I do not know whether he had a permit from the business agent to eat his Sunday dinner or not; I hope he did, because if he did iot he probably went hungry. About a year ago I listened to an able address given by the vice president of one of our colleges upon the high cost of living, and In this address he gave as his belief, and gave figures

in support of the belief, that the labor i"r juomo mo

unions with their time wasting methods were largely responsible for the high cost of everything. 'It Is a much talked of matter that all classes of tradesmen are limlt'ed to the amount of

met squarely. The union man has the same right to the pursuit of liberty and happiness as any other citizen no more, no less.. Some will no doubt say I am not informed on both sides of the question, and that I am not an authority upon such matters. That being so I want to quote from an address made by the

United

States Supreme court in Milwaukee In July 1008 and again in 1909. No man as probably better informed upon

ours. We cannot afford to quibble while she is running on the rocks. There is a power drunken business agent at the wheel. He must be replaced by a sober one or required to

take the Keely Cure. Working in harmony, we can build great cities and all be happy. Why should you seek to have all men fear you and your power? If they fear you they will hate you and try to destroy you. You must carry your points because they are reasonable and right,

matters of right and wrongs he hadnot because you are In a position to

occupied judicial positions for nearly force them be they good or bad.

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