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The Workers Cannot Be Free So Long As The "A People Cannot Remara Half Slave, Half Free. Abraham Lincoln. Own Their Jots, PRICE FIVE CENTS jorv YOITR LABOR UXION. KANSAS, XOVKMHEK 1, IOLA, JOIN YOUR LABOR PARTY, VOLUME 2. NO.

05 CHURCH STANDS SOCIALISTS GAIN OPPOSED TO i YIELDS-EDEMA! FREEDOM'S BANNER. URNQ SURVW VOLT GAS if THEY'D IT. LABOR Fjiblished Every Saturday by CHURCH OF OF SOCIALISM Publishing MED Socialist Co-Operative GET IT, APPROVAL OF THE CHURCH II ft Iola, Kansas. SCHOOL AD THE MINISTERS EXP Aid TTnem Berlin Municipality to CONGREGATIONAL AT11TUDE. ONE YEAR 50c SIX MONTHS 25c Four Yearly Sub.

Cards i-i-v. sv Months Sub. Cards Oklahoma Men Tell of Millions of Feet Near Pipe Lines. ploypd. Many Believed Their Relatives Were Ghosts When They Met Again.

NEW YORK. There was an echo here today of the recent disaster to the steamer Volturno, which was "For His Reward Ke Shall Have Barthon Declares French Govern- Anglican Church Congress Derotes Session to "Social Unrest" at Which Possible Remedie. Are Dis mmt Win Defend Educational Adequate," Was Dr. H. A.

Atkin-son's Plea for Men and Women Who Work for a Living. System Against Interference. O. S. Roily and George E.

Black, BERLIN. The Berlin has yielded to the Socialist demand that emergency work be undertaken for the benefit of the unemployed. Orders have been issued cussed. Club of Four Yearly Subs. Entered as second class matter January 27, '1912, at Postoffice ol Iola.

Kansas, under the Act of Marci Ird, PARIS. Whenever the opponents nf Barthou's government have burned at sea, when forty-six survivors of the ill fated vessel were brought into port by the steamer i Labor and the Congregational made things difficult for him by accusing him of reaction and cleri BRISBANE, N. S. W. (By nail).

Socialism is making inroads into the church in this country as every Carmania. They were rescued by the otoamor TiAvntiian and taken to Church plighted their troth at the Labor Temple yesterday afternoon. aoma City men, who are interested in oil and gas wells in the district, declare that enough gas is going to waste on their land alone to supply Kansas nty for years. "I went through the gas fields of calism. It has been usual for him to at once begin work on all proposed public buildings and other work, wherever this is possible.

Among the many new and reconstructed buildings that are already where else, At the Anglican church Liverpool, where they were trans ferred to the Carmania. A cross hers uana year iubscrlptloa pirps rpxt week, to rally the less uncompromising radicals round his ministry by dilating on the absolutely orthodox that is, congress just closed a session was devoted to "The Social Unrest," and There were numerous dramatU Oklahoma with an expert last sum- oh HhoHrinff and a crowded hall listened to an. indict from the radical point of view attitude of the government towards Address all communications to It was the labor mass meeting held by the social service department of the Congregational council. The audience was made up of laboring men and laboring women, and they came to hear the message of the church delivered by the Rev. Henry Atkinson of Chicago, who not onlyvls a minister, but holds a card providing thousands with employment are national schools, public swimming baths, a big fire depot, hnanitala.

official dwellings and ment of possible remedies. mer whoestimated that there waB Ald Society's building enough gas in our district to supply, the new arrivals came face to with reasonable conservation, Kan-- face with othera of the yolturno's The discussion was opened by the dean of Melbourne, who said the Co-Op. Publishing Iola, Kansas The Weekly Kansas City Star and Freedom's Banner bothj for one year others. For these the municipality working man saw that there was an secular education and its firm reso-l lution to defend it against the attacks of the church. The long summer vacation brought a lull In political strife, and as the essential has granted $2,400,000.

Further sas City and all the cities aepenaeut gf yed previouslv brought here by on the Kansas Natural Gas Com- other steamers A bride who had pany, with the best grade of natural I bccomp separated from her husband unequal distribution of wealth, and, more, a sum of $1,350,000 has been being shadowed by the uncertainty In the typographical union as wtll. "The church is realizing more ev gas for twenty years," Mr. Black set aside for street and pavement i in the rescue at sea and believed him of employment, he therefore be improvements in various parts of ery day that organized labor is not said here yesterday. screamed in fright: "It is his Kelly, and own one wnen she -beheld him and 11 -1 1700 A nrVv i nVi 1 fl came restive. Moreover, the workers no longer owned the means of measure, the three pears' service bill had been passed, public opinion was content to leave the discussion of political questions to the party composed of obstructionists," said for 40c.

The Kansas City Star is a capitalist paper, the Banner is a Socialist paper. Yes we believe with Thos. Jefferson, "Error is not dou-gerous if the press remains free to combat it." We are ready to place Socialism along side of the that capitalism lias to offer, and leave the good sense of our readers to de Berlin, and in addition to all this a large number of new streets are be Doctor Atkinson, "but of men who wen aiune uwy, vnv uen fainted bkwing off gas at the rate of 32 r.0Rsman of pMla. have a definite purpose and who are striving to attain it. newspapers.

ing commenced and others extended, projects that but for the necessity of supplying the unemployed with work flpinhla. with three children was This week, however, after a long production and were constantly handicapped In their life struggle in every direction with disease and death stalking around. The educational advantages might be opened to them, but there was the gulf of among the Carmania's passengers he had been brooding over the sup- silence, the president of thet council, million feet a day. In one county, less than sixty miles from a 16-inch main and forty miles from a 12-inch main of the Kansas Natural thirty wells have been capped, capable of would have remained in abeyance who is also minister of public in for some time longer. Dosed loss of her husband and a struction, has made av important A sum of several million mark3 child and was overjoyed when in poverty to bridge before they could Dolitical speech which appears to cide for themselves.

This is just the combination you need to get right down to the bottom Of the question and learn the truth. Read Both Sides. is the oportunity of a life producing one-half billion feet of formed ttot they arrived here last The Adequate Reward. "Two million men are being seriously Injured In our industrial machine each year. My church is going to do its best to see that that stops.

We are striving to make the blood of the worker a part of the price of the commodity. We stand for cleanliness and sanitation In the avail themselves of the opportunity has been granted for expenses connected with these thoroughfares, week and had gone to Philadelphia of the benefits of education. every day. une nunarea more the same county are blowing off Two of the passengers Mr. and have had as its object the rallying round the government of the largest possible number of republicans on the educational question.

The occa which is to be increased when considered advisable. Unemployment a Curse. Mrs. Levi Subchien appeared happy in the belief that their two children The workers considered the pres Kippel, aged 16, and Henry, aged 14 ent economic system unsound he' WHEN A PRIEST KILLS. the air." Kansas City Star.

"We are air discovering that Socialism is a movement to enable the industrious, intelligent, honest, to protect their earnings and savings from the wile3 of the sly and the cause of present-day developments, time. Everybody' you ask will want this combination. Send in a list at once. Don't wait, but do it now, and get everybody READING BOTH -SIDES. FREEDOM'S BANNER tf.

Iola, Kansas. are on the La Touraine, which is due here tomorrow. They are doomed sion was the congress of the Ligue de l'Enseignement at Chambery, of which the president of the republic has consented to become honorary president. and Socialism was therefore put for to sorrow, however, for when the French liner reaches port they must The November International Socialist Review contains an article on the Father Schmidt murder case that workshops and the elmlnatlon of industrial diseases. We stand for the shorter working Our slogan is, 'For his reward he shall have William Shaw of Boston, national secretary of the Christian.

Endeavor Society, scored philanthropists who thievish." David Graham Phillips. be told that the two boys were lost In his inaugural speech M. Barthou said that the republic and secular ward as a remedy by some. Every page of history shows that social unrest is no new phenomenon. For one thing the working man sees an excessive inequality in the distribution of wealth, and this inequality Is not in the disaster.

education was inseparable. An at Three classes are not ready for So- No, Brother Worker, we do not has so suddenly and mysteriously faded from the columns of the Pope-subsidized capitalist press. More than one Eastern capitalist newspaper reported that the literature of OIL KING'S MONEY IS NOT ABLE TO RESTORE HEALTH TO HIS WIFE. tack upon the one was bound to mean to "divide up." We have been dividing up for a long time and we cialism. Those prejudiced who will not see, those ignorant who cannot see, and those who are in a kind of menace the other.

The government was attached to a policy of national proportioned to the service rendered to the community. give to public institutions the money which they get in return for the work of the laboring people. "The average wage of a worker, want to quit. We want every one to have a fair and equal chance to work concord, but such a policy was incon Socialism was responsible for the degeneracy of this Catholic priest. It lethargy and who believe better of The curse of unemployment is a continual menace.

Under the pres the present system than it deserves and then pay each one his entire social share of the product. And af The latter class to be more de ent capitalistic system there must ceivable without the union of repub-1 licans and without a firm and loyal application of the fundamental laws, which were the "raison d'etre" of the republic. It was time to pass plored than the others. CLEVELAND. All of John D.

Rockefeller's money avails him nothing to restore the health of his aging wife. Mrs. Rockefeller's condition is said to be very serious, though the truth is being concealed by the family and physicians. Rockefeller has abandoned his plan to return to his ter the running expenses of society are paid each will receive'proportion- always be a margin of unemployed labor to be drawn upon in case of sud was hinted and the idea conveyed, that Father Schmidt had fallen from his high spiritual estate through the perusal of Socialist bdoks. In an article in Review, Phillips Russell calls attention to the fact Study Socialism with your brains and not with your prejudice.

Preju from min expressions of confidence according to the United States industrial commission, is $7.50 a week," he said. "Six per cent per annum Is al that anyone ought to ask for the use of his money. The day is coming when -we won't have-immense fortunes, when every boy and girl will have a fair chance in life. The workman who puts his blood into a corporation is going to dice and ignorance go hand in hand. den expansion or and the fear of being unemployed casts Its shadow over the whole of the work ately according to the labor he has rendered, there are some of you who think this cannot be computed.

But 11" "Don't be so foolish as to believe ing' in the schoolmaster and to take action to protect him. It was necessary to enforce attendance at the school and to protect it from calumny and boycott. that not only Fr. Schmidt, the murderer, not interested in aiding the Socialist movement but that' he belonged to an organization whose that a movement with 50, uuu.uuu iyou forget that just such figures This is a symptom of the change New York mansion for the winter, fearing that hia wife would not be able to stand the trip. Mrs.

Rockefeller is now declared to be almost totally deaf. followers is opposed to religion, in have already been gathered by the in the workers' position due to the industrial He no longer 'get a falr Bnare of the proceeds." Census Bureau of the United States. Wo know exactly hov much average purpose was to fight Socialism. This organization claimed that Socialism Speaking for the Industrial Coun-. favor of breaking up the home, and a great many other false statements they make about the Socialists.

Study the literature of this great movement owns the means of production. The laboring class is heavily handicapped labor time it takes to make a plow cil. H. J. Sklffington of the boot and meant free love, crime and violence OURAYLE FOR If there is anything of importance in life's It is deprived not shoe workers endorsed the Congre or a watch.

in this world it is the family, the and its members were sworn to op-nose It on these grounds. A 1 1 kl.V mm Vi Vl 11 oniy oi luxuries, wuiuu uiaj uo nv- and find out for yourself what its object REALLY is. A home, the marriage of true souls, the ful, but comforts, which are desir SILENCE ON SEX DR. SUN ESCAPES TO JAPAN. able.

In theory every man has a cance to occupy any position in the UNCLE SAM NOT A COLLECTOR. gational council's attitude on the liquor question and commended Dr. Washington Gladden of Columbus'. who was present, for his attituda toward labor. Tribute to Doctor Gladden.

"We know him and we love him, It is Interesting to note that Father Schmidt has confessed himself guilty of all the thing3 with which he charged the Socialist party. In spite of all attempts to suppress the facts, the truth about Father equality of husband and wife, the true republicanism of the heart, the real democracy of the fireside. Unless the marriage relation be pure, tender and true, civilization is state, but in practice there is a great Amid all the confusion of con The Bishop Agrees With Professor fllctlng press reports, the article by Muensterherg of Harvard. WASHINGTON" Bills $1,000,000 for jewelry charged gulf fixed between the life of the laboring class and of property owners, and yet in native ability, and in S. Katayama in the November Inter against enlisted men of the army, national Socialist Review on the war Schmidt are pretty well known from OLe end of the country to another.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 26. Bishop Wil have been forwarded to the war de soundness of character the laboring class is not inferior to any other. in China-sheds a great deal of much needed light on a very dark subject.

The misrepresentors of Socialism will liam A. Quayle of St. ram, one oi the foremost men in the Methodist partment by a large installment jewelry concern on the Pacific coast, find themselves unable to saddle his When the primaries were held in Cleveland, recently the Progressives, after waging a strf-yious camr paign, actually polled 62 votes. Episcopal Church, agrees with Prof In spite of all the struggles of the Chinese revolutionaries, Yuan' suc-in outline through hi3 with an appeal for Uncle Sam aid in crimes upon the working class. Hugo Muensterberg, Harvard Uni Man Mere Machine.

Among thoughtful men it is impossible to find a whole-hearted defender of the present capitalistic sys- collecting the indebtedness. The de he said. "He realizes that we non forget God in our councils, Afte the action of the National Council Congregational Churches Saturda in adopting social justice and univer sal brotherhood as a pavt of it: con-stitution, I know that we will see organized labor and the Congregational Church, hand in hand, lead versity analyist, that the inherent partment has declined to act as col SHE LOST IT. WILL URGE THAT POSTOFFICES Mistress (hurrying frantically) lector and the creditor's' only re source is to proceed against the indi and instinctive feeling that public allusion to such topics is immodest is our best guide in the sex question CCUVU. X- SJ schemes for the great Chinese loans from the Five Powers.

Katayama reports that it was foreign money and the foreign armies in China that are resDonsible for Yuan's victory BE MADE LABOR EMPLOY MENT BUREAUS. Mary, what time is it now?" The oconom'st says it is wasteful. The moralist complains that it regards man as a mere machine for vidual soldiers. Maid "Half-past two." and that we cannot hope to improv Mistress "Oh, I thought it was nnrsfiives hv abandoning the old producing weauo. over the Chinese people.

A price was home. The employer ls'enauieu io later! I still have twenty minutes The Christian affirms that selfish The bill will soon be reported from the labor com-iyHHoo nf the house to establish a policy of silence. on the heads of prominent Socialists fill positions with workers closest catch the steamer." ompetitiou for material things is He believes that in speaking or with the result that paid assassins ing the way to human brotherhood." John T. Smith -rot the Industrial r-Council asked the clergymen present to use their influence to suppress the unjust criticism of organized labor because of the lapses of some of their members. He pointed out that men don't condemn organizations of Maid "Yes, mum.

I knew ye'd be the sex question to the young we grew suddenly rich. of the devil. But the property owner for his part, while naturally wish rushed, so I set the clock back thirty Dr. Sun Yat Sen managed to es minutes, to give ye more time. cape to Japan in an outgoing ship ing to retain all the advantages he has gained, is anxious about the fu and is now in hiding in that country national employment bureau under at hand, the supervision of the department Will Protect Girts, of labor, using the postoffices all A country girl desiring employ-over the country as labor employ- ment in the city would know before ment bureaus leaving her home where her employ- Certain first or second class post- ment was to be, her salary and the offices in the larger cities will be character of the work, designated as "central labor ex- White slavers who attempted to -v.

nMDH Mi.trint" use the service would face two pen- ture and fears the program of the BOOK REVIEW arouse in them a curiosity that insists upon finding out for itself with equally disastrous results. In personality and in viewpoint on many subjects these two thinkers are as different as can be, but on this subject they are in exact accord. ministers, bEsikers, lawyers or qoc- with more than one eager head labor party, and still more fearrui A melodrama in five acts and hvn er on his 'trail determined to tors because one of their members goe3 wrong. gaic the $100,000 reward Yuan has tableau JUSTICE at uasi written hv Leon Olsommer. I nave when he sees that the law Is being disregarded, awards disobeyed, contracts repudiated and a low standard A resolution thanking Doctor, offerc-i for the murder of JJr.

bun read it. It is interesting. It is Gladden for the work he has done Meanwhile the entire liberal Chinese of honesty and fair dealing adopted. which will include all the third and altles-the penalty er the ann nresb has been suppressed and Yuan story of real events In Colorado, written in form and' plotted so as to for organized labor was passed by the council. Doctor Gladden- who is Dr.

Mercer, bishop of Tasmania, fourth class postoffices within a given act ana proper purposes. Cape Girardeau, Chilllcothe, City and Bevier, In order named, seems to be firmly established in control of the new government. 7 He is said that it would be fanatical to more than 70 vears received it suit the stage. It is a vivid exhibition of the clas3 struggle and a nations mav The federal department could re- have taken advantage of the new law Kansas City Star. deny that competition had many merits, but its failure must be indi freely giving away to tie ioreign Dowers the rich natural resources of permitting school districts to furn ish free textbooks.

cated. These latter were eating China in exchange, for the support The capitalist class would have us into the hearts of the people, and it file with their local postmaster or, fuse the use of th em- portmlstress an application on a pre- ployers convicted of violations of the kind of po- ordinances prescribing fire escapes, 8Ulo? deS, their qualifications protection of dangerous machinery, and experience and other necessary and so of the foreign armies and for for jj ii k.iuv tiiot thov linvft n. human na wo a cronorai nonceaea luui tuwe irawn happy illustration of Its end in the triumph of Socialism by the election of the Socialist ticket. It is excellent propaganda dope. People will read this well written story of actual life of poverty in conflict with riches who would not be interested in the This paper is published for the eign money.

i vo.n tv-nncrii thov turn that can't be changed. If the must ue uuaugcD. uyou vuvm0u vMV heneflt of the working class. If you Yuan's treachery has probably set aKre'ed that the fittest should sur- capitalist has anything numane in nu. i AH i are a worser suoscriue iui nature, the Socialists do not want to back the progress of China for many years, and it wlllV only a question vive, who were the fittest? change it.

It is their cruel Inhuman Trickery Rampant. of time before he will be forced to This time next year the country brutal nature that the Socialists seek will be in the throes of another poll Frauds resulted through the com to change. realize that he will only be supported In power aB long as he con usual argument for Socialism. THOMAS W. WOODROW, Reviewer.

Justice at Last, copyrighted by Leon Olsommer, single copy, 35 cents, additional copies 25 cents, by tical campaign. petitive system, and trickery was rampant. The London fishmongers SCers in need of workers at the present session, or if not may fUe with the postmas- completed in time then at the sea-ter a statement showing the posi- slon which opens in Dumber Truer word was never spoken. tl0M end of 24 hours a work- "To do nothing to maintain the r' application has not secured him established order. a position in the local 'labor mar- The active opponent of Socialism vet" it is sent to the central labor is not its only enemy.

-exchange for his district and there He who believes in Socialism ut f-LL nt out. to all the does no active work towards secur- As snow begins to fly and we fig tinues to sell his own people into tne bondage of foreign capitalists. The, reading of Socialism will have destroyed tons of fish to keep up prices, though thousands of men ure 'up the costs of coal, those hot days In July and August do not seem a profound and lasting Influence on the public mind and conscience. starved around them. The blame mall postage prepaid.

Address Leon Olsommer, Verdigre, Neb. so intolerable as we thought them. Standing together you are a must be laid on the right shoulders mighty army. Standing separately you are broken reeds. the system.

It would be foolish IB IIWHW" Ing It, is also an enemy of Socialism. Cordelia Killjoy wanted to go to OTHER ORDERS. Dr. Ernest B. Allen of Toledo, postoffices in that district.

to blame the Individual, or even a By his Indifference, he helps to said statistics show the length of Europe this summer, but her "father vetoed the plan. "What," he de maintain the. existing order. group of individuals because they in-fHotfid' hardshin on the community When a man or group of men own 'My wife was to give' a rose tea school life of the average boy in Povertv. destitution, overwork, Goes to Larger Zone.

If at the end of a week he Is still, out of employment, his application (mi to a still larger zone or "depart- manded, "do you want to go to Yur- the means by which others must live, America Is only four years, and that throueh comeetition: the fault lay everything steisted with lack of work, starvation, child labor, they own the most powerful weapon comes before he Is 12 years old. ith th avstwn. "A delicate conceit." rup for? You don't know anybody over there." -i in the world to force others to stand strikes, lockouts, in-JuneSane, military oppression, In comnetltion was a constant strain "Yes; but things went wrong. The and deliver. OITEKR' MAKERS FLOODING ni ment," ana irom mere, hi tied time to the national labor ex- pw'ryl ghange; which under the plan, pro- on the community, and its effect was people in the next flat took that oc- Itswill ILLINOIS WITH BAD NICKELS Scatter Socialist literature, make for Socialism.

sanity, suicide, crime, drunkenness, graft, preventable accidents to life nlain. Statistics showed the Increase casiou to nave omuu uu Awtr Ann and ATI A tf comnetition Everybody knows that the landlord and limb, adulterauou, disease ST. LOUIS. Buffalo nickels are ftivuization was era. and many other good effects.

It furnishes the land, or we would nremature death, mental and moral Te movement is not a i I posed, publishes a weekly or month-- ijr bulletin showing all applicants for positions and all positions open. JTh effort of this scheme gives an t. Mtftatiinp fiolrt ta the being turned out somewhere In south have no land, a that he dls otna-Tifltlon all these flourish De- ern Illinois at the tate of i.ouo a he'll take the land with Mm 03r cause of his Indifference on the highway to destruction. So- is true, that civilisation could not cial forces rather than competition have been brought about withct have brought about better hours of ompetltlon, but the state of compf labor. llahter labor, better tltlon should not he, retained ones low Get your neighbor to read up on day, according to an announcement tnriuv Kv novernment agents.

These Amerlnger. He Is criminal, guilty of all these 1 1 and the employer In which It will Jar the most maii- counterfeit nickels are so near per counterieit nicaem A speaker is worthy of a goo to secure or fin a position. The i. thus automatically placed greater consideration tor the work- tuc cvttiaxUe ts ttta tu villainous-crimes. Are you a hustling Socialist? Or, are ye rv orWaalt feet that they alaost defy detection.

JfereiU, send off by a state i9creUry. 1 rlti tts Is trtttzi his.