Iowa Unionist (Newspaper) - December 21, 1906, Des Moines, Iowa VOL VIII DBS MOINES IOWA FRIDAY DECEMBER 21 1806 No FEW THOUGHTS ON BOOSTING At last flie Commercial Club an i Greater Des Moines Committee ave acknowledged the receipt of the from the Trades aid abor Assembly in which the organiz workers of the city expressed a to cooperate wtih the bus pess interests in the work of boost Bes The assembly had hoped that it might become factor In the enterprise its mem ers are residents of the city and fee I that they are entitled to some consid in winch matters Imagine I their surprise if you can when the reply was received It conveyed tht I Information that the com I had been read before the I Club and the greater Des I Moines committee and that no Iwas taken if ie actual work men had question much thought they need not have been sur prised They no right to expect anything else How would it look to see carpenters and brick lay ers and printers and coal miners seat ed at those banquets being held at the Chamberlain and Savery and on board the Interurban trains touching elbows with the representatives ot the business men It would not do vr they of boosters by advocating other plans of helping Des than merely boosting real es tale prices They might have the nerve to stand up and say that well treated aud well paid working men were necessary for the of a great city It Is true that in Denver where the boosting business bos ob a strong hold on the people the trades organizations have been to tie forces They ore working hand in hand with the man and merchants and profes men But then Denver ia gen regarded as being a part of tne wild and wooly west We must not expect her to exercise that delicate discrimination that comes with exper and advanced civilization We must however give the Dos Moines boosters credit for one thing They nave undoubtedly helped real estate peculators When the of land lumps from 200 to SOOper cent In a few weeks it indicates that some one iu the movement knows business One of the dally papers tie past week contained the following referring to the board of and a proposed site for Jhe county Jail e In every Instance where property owners have filed offers of sites with the board they have asked at least twice as muchas the cash valuation placed upon the ground at the time of the last assessment for in some Instances this cash valuation has been more than doubled The board has used every persuasion to get rea sonable prices quoted but without avail We do not object to paying a little more than fair market price Tor ground said one member recent ly hilt we do object to being hold up because wo have to have the f round We do object to being asked or for ground that only a short lime ago could have been bought by private persons for Just why the greater Des Moines committee should decide to engage i secretary or manager from out of town to whom they propose paying A salary of or a year Is In the nature of a puzzle Doesnt that conflict with the patronise home In Idea The roan they haye en may be capable and but ia It to be published to the that with all the of her schools and nona ot her capable of hoM tai a clerical on Uu booM of Out ham Mar ference in such matters other thingb being equal It the Commercial Club is inclined to favor Des Moines pro ducts or Des Moines labor tie power ot certain of its officers should be cur tailed and the members should insist on outlining a policy that would real ly boost Des Moines and improve the ond lions of her residents W G Water REV WEEKLY LETTER PROPHETS NEEDED By the Rev Charles Stelzle The labor question will never be set tled by passing resolutions Neither will its solution be hastened by mis representation and abuse Nor yet will snobbishness or tyranny bring a more cordial relationship be tween men No temporary advantage the sacrifice of a righteous can permanently benefit the Mon boast of their power and sneer a their helpless opponents but just as sure as there is truth in the world so sure will come the day it reckoning Some there are who seek to put off the evil day but their actions are hastening the time when shall prevail and truth hall conquer Whatever all this may mean to the class it means to the work that the day has gone by when the counsel of the cheap short sighted ignorant blatherskite is to be Statesmanship of the highest rder in the cause of labor is demand ed Far beyond the narrow limits ot he man who has heen bowed like a bulrush or he whose eyes have been dulled by the lurid glare of his own must be the vision of he man who is to be the prophet ind leader of the people Slowly such master minds are merging from among tho masses unappreciated by the very nea whose battles they are lighting and whose destinies they are working ut these men and women must go on us did the prophets of old until the lour shall strike that shall proclaim he victory of the common people For frankly most ther ungrateful to those who are sacrificing most and who are putting their best Into a movement which Is giving utterance to their own ry for help How often do they break the hearts t their idols And yet how frequent y do they make unto themselves goli n calves and bow down before them while their true loaders are toiling In mountain top to secure for them hat which will be of permanent vanie What a responsibility this puts upon ie leader How close he must live to the highest Ideals How free he lust be from Uie petty jealousies In he labor movement not only pon his own tilings nor upon the of hla own craft but seeing he need of the great body of toilers e must dare and do for ten whose needs are just as great as hose who are closer to him Only In this way will the strife mong and very other done away Does this seem like a sermon Call what you please you know Its true A I Is able to be out again J II Wilhelm who was connected ith the Unionist office has accepted position with the Co The Iowa Unionist would to hear from readers of the paper We want your Write a latter on current that you should thort about WO to word and writ on one Hit at toM oe JOTT CHRISTMAS CHIMES Dear are the sounds of the Christmas chimes In tho land of the Ivied towers And they welcome tho dearest of fes tival times In this Western world of ours Bright on the holly and bough The English falls And bright are lho wreathed ever now That gladden our own home walls They are ringing tonight through the Norway firs Aud across the Swedish feJls And the Cuban dreamily stirs To the of those Christmas bells They ring where the Indian gauges rolls Its alood through the wide They swell the far hymns of the Laps and Poles To the praise of the Crucified The years come not back that have circled away With the past of the Eastern land When He plucked the corn on the Sab bath day And healed the withered hand But the balls shall join la a joyous chime For the One who walked the sea And ring again for the better time Of the Christ that is to be NEW RAILWAY LINES BEING BUILT IN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTH DAKOTA Tho new line of the Chicago Mil waukee St Paul Hallway which is wing built from S D to Birtte Montana will open up a large ract of diversified fanning and stock alsing country The new lino will pass through Wal worh Boreinan and Schnasse Coun les in South Dakota and through Het Bowman and Billings Counties n North Dakota and proceed in a vesterly direction to Montana The rich soil of tho country through which this new line will pass ng of a deep black loam with yellow lay subsoil together with the favor ble climatic conditions and an abun dance of water Is adapted to raising all kinds of groin and suitable for eneral agricultural purposes There re till many thousand acres of good lands to be secured along this new line Homestead entries for ands In Butte County may be made t Scim South Dakota There are golden opportunities for he farmer and rancher and for mall merchant in the now towns will be opened along this new ne RB fast as tho railway can be com in Walworth Coun y South Dakota Is the flit station on Ms new line east of the crossing of the Missouri town has recent y been established there and prom ses a great future INEST THING IN CHAIR CARS A triumph ot chair car construction s embodied In the splendid electric glued cars added by tho Minneapolis St Louis Hall road to its night rains running between Des Moines nd Minneapolis These cars arc the nest tiling on wheels They are elec ric lighted and are luxuriously fur as the moat elaborate Pullman ho electric lighting Is brilliantly el and artistic The car furnish ngs are as complete aa the most ex pensively furnished drawing room The cars are equipped wash rooms which are perfect In their ap Electric fans at either nd ot the oar make travel in a delightful pleasure Toe nuke tlw DM on Oa M L tbo n Iowa mu M most aonna tout to CHRISTMAS AND THE LABORING MAN LABOR TO THE FRONT Unto Are Striving For Bet ol Like the Christian religion the fact that organized labor has its foes to contend with Is Indicative of Its value Nu day of Ule eav as u powerful uplifting factor among observed by men hence It Is uot Infrequent that an than Christmas This is natural be n the daj a that intc Old and young ani boomerang often miss their aim j the loor and black see and fee missile taking a retrograde direction Christmas the promise of some lives of the isle a only to make themselves the victims Labor unions enlisting as they do through straightforward methods the sympathy and cooperation of all fair people have nothing to lose but on the other hand a world to gain In confirmation of the truth of labors advancement it Is but expedient to take a retrospective view of conditions of tue past In comparison with the pres eui and iu so doing the efficacy of the efforts df organized labor is vividly manifest From a chaotic state have the tolling classes through labor unions reached the height to which an all wise Creator Intended they should attain However if our antagonists can pro duce argument sufficient to assure us an advancement at a more rapid pace we are ready and willing to give at ear to the same but not then arc we willing to digress from the principle aud methods by which we enjoy the liberty to which American citizens are entitled Tlie of organized labor have arisen lu might and will con tend for those conditions will better enable the workingman to fulfil for which he was namely to perform his duty to God awl man With this purpose ever before him and working to this end nothing but success can crown the efforts of the laborer and iiHisan the end unto which he achieves and the consummation de to be In Atlanta Constitution The Union Labor Exposition The union labor exposition which was planned to be lickl in Minneapolis during the two weeks that the conven tion of the American Federation of La bor will he In session there has been abandoned for the present It was found that a suitable building could not be procured and tue time was too limited to make the exposition a suc cess Now It Is proposed to hold It at Jamestown Va next summer when the worlds fair Is being held there The management of the Jamestown ex position Is ready to give the American Federation of Labor nil the space It re quires for an exhibit and In addition will give it the benefit of the publicity department It thing brighter and better tbi old world affords To the working however Christmas has a pe culiar the man of Naza reth was the son of a carpenter an tilers is a strong presumption tha he himself at one time worked a that trade In all of his teachings h taught that men and women were o the earth to work and in many o them he proclaimed the doctrine that the laborer should full ana adequate for his labor the right of any mai to live upon the labor of another with out compensating him no just in any of the teachings of Jc sus During the three years that h wandered Galilee and Jude he was hardat work healing tlie sic and doing great acts ot benevolence rich men readily gave up to work under his leadership He refused one man a The Philadelphia board of lon has decided to raise the salaries ol in tlie elementary schools a year and to ereale a teachers retire merit fund Tlie Garment Workers union Is the hi the United Slates which is composed chiefly of Among the many measures to ho during tho coming session or Jia Washington legislature the follow ng will he conspicuous Primary election law 1 apportionment Liberal lon for the exposition Depository laws that will enable state Bounty and municipal funds to earn on dally cash balances lieg lation of state hanks through an ex miner Cooperation with tlie nation 1 government or geodetic and geo ogie Revision of tlie state und system so that all taxes fees inca and licenses can be applied hrough the general fund Applica the gross earnings tax le or that of capitalized earnings tax to all corporations enjoying state to lessen tho burden ol irect tax for state purposes Consol dated bureau of information statls ics and accountancy to be ered under an expert to be appointed y the governor Compact board of Ute officers to supervise constantly bo state and public school nd enforce the depository laws More and efficient good roads laws of all funds and of the capital land grunt dent Provision two years Investigation of the lent of public lands and On because he all th money he had Never Jms dor trine of human been as el preached and practised as he preached and practised It In his pic tures of heaven he outlines a place where there shall be work for all and adequate compensation for labor H is time that many of those who lave made their life merely a means to pile up wealth for speculation aud not for use worship at the shrine ot he Christ aud make much of Christ mas but these people can find no in the story that began at and ended at Calvary The rigin of human life Is a what comes after human life Is also a mystery The chief purpose for which man was placed in this world is a dispute the human being finds within himself a great conflict be tween good and evil It has been go ng on so far back as the memory ui man runs we believe thai in tlie be genning tlie creature communed with the creator and was good and true and pure that then the spirit of evil came and the human soul became the scene of a conflict between these contending elements tlie human fam ily bad wandered a great ways from tlie God who had created them and with whom they once communed It was then that God sent a special messenger to lead man back to tlie God that he had not deserted lint who had deserted him So Christmas came and human life took on a now mean ing It was to be a conflict a work shop a preparation for greater and hotter things but nevertheless a scene ot toil incessant foil but with the promise of a glorious reward for tlie toil and trials that await every ear nest working man in tilts transitory world Christmas has but little moaning U tho rich and powerful they the Slitter and the socalled of earth tho pomp of pageantry the arrogance of power What to them Is Iho of a man in a manger life was toll and trial and who ended it upon tlie is nothing In com mon with the of Christ and tne life ot the rich in this world Tho laboring man however can find much iu common lu his own life and in life story of him who spake as never man spoke It may well be said that the man or woman who has never kuown sorrow or trouble and work is in no sense for existence in tho world to come To the laboring man life is real and earnest as the poet has said the grave is not the goal of life Christ was born to point out the goal He went lo pre pare it for tho earnest worker in this world The man who never worked the idler would not himself at home in a heaven where the labors of his life are continued without the en slaving the corroding touch ol sin ha beautiful things in the world to come Christ has so prom ised but they will be useful as well as beautiful Iu this world man la bors and sees the result of his toil gathered in by another This will not be in tile world that Christ has prom ised Exact and eternal justice shall be meted out to the working man and the man for whom ho works There will be no conflicts between capital and labor house not made with hands Christmas bring joy to ail and yet there are those to whom it will seem a mockery who will look sadly ut the joy oft others because joy in their own life hun gry homeless with io a desolate life perhaps they re some merciless master o whom Christmas brings no message yen to these Christmas lias its mes age It throws a light of heavenly adiance beyond the squalor aud shad LV of the deepest poverty it dispels ho darkness of the tomb It lights p a pathway that ends only with res eternal morn It marks the spot tho divine touched the human nd made it blossom into the eternal 11 that the world is today is the prod ct of the workman the manual and 10 intellectual workman knowledge s tho result of labor it ba reason to I ho Almighty to say that ceased with this world If be anything in tlie theory ot volution it proves that there will be death further evolution In Jesus Christ came upon 10 first Christmas morning to pro aim the truth of life eternal He dined it to know God is life eter al the reward of the faithful labor r hero in Ihls world is to be Ige of God to commune with Him s humanity once did line when all were In har when tho animals obeyed man nd did his bidding when tho mur nur of the zephyr and the splash of 10 waterfall made sweet music for lan and woman In a state of Inno and purity We do not know what is to be the ork of the next world but we do now that ho only fulfills his mission tills who labors earnestly in this for his own good the good of Is and the glory of God o know that Christ came with His to tho worker and not to 10 idler and we also know that when ends here tho faithful work r of Ihls world will moot Uto one for bom Christmas Is celebrated In the omo from whence Christ came to his old world on the vary drat Charles Mackenzie H B WYMAN G K MACKINNON Caibier The Mechanics Savings Bank 315 FIFTH ST MANHATTAN BUILDING Capital Surplus d to the needs of Mob individual
