Roaming Editorial Echoes On Labor, Morals And Nation
A 1902 column discusses Congressman elect Williamson's coyote bounty talk before the Eastern Oregon Woolgrowers' Association in Pendleton, critiques Texas Republicans, praises merit over wealth, and imagines Roosevelt joining labor unions. It laments yellow journalism, contrasts urban vice with rural honesty, and extols country intellect over city excess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamson
Eastern Oregon Woolgrowers’ Association
Pendleton
Wari
Tipping Waiters and the Morality of Graft
A critique of tipping culture in hotels and restaurants argues tips corrupt wages and erode business. It asserts tipping fosters favoritism, harms proprietors, and labels tipped workers as grafting. The piece contrasts American ideals with a harsher view of graft and notes an unrelated ad-like mail fragment from Mount Pelee volcanic dust.
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East Oregonian
Mount Pelee
Chicago
California Demo Platform Voices Labor Reform and Immigrant Exclusion
A platform statement from the California Democratic group calls for laws to ban injunctions in labor disputes and extend free speech and assembly rights, while endorsing the immediate construction of ships at Mare Island and an eight hour public work day. It also advocates excluding Chinese with mixed blood, and the creation of a state Free Labor Bureau linked to the Labor Statistics bureau. It criticizes congressional Republicans for rejecting a labor bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
American Federation of Labor
California Commission
Pacific Coast
Mare Island Navy Yard
Free Labor Bureau
State Bureau of Labor Statistics
Amendment urged on state police powers and prison labor
The statement pushes for no private armed police for rail and steamship firms and calls for preventing state procurement from prisons and reformatories. It urges that the union label appear on all state purchases to curb this practice and improve employment sourcing.
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S Tate
Clean journalism with purpose and paid integrity
The Salem Journal critiques modern metropolitan papers for chasing profits over mission. It argues a clean, well edited paper can profit without sensationalism, avoiding lurid pictures and headline stunts, and warns against parasitic, money driven journalism that harms community growth.
Would You Think It About Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
An ad style testimonial praising Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for cleansing the blood and curing eczema scrofula and other ailments. It includes patient anecdotes from J. K. of Herman Oregon and Mrs Jas Murphy of Fonda Pocahontas Co Iowa and promotes Pleasant Pellets for digestion and headaches.
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Pierce
J. K
Herman
Oregon
Jas. Murphy
Fonda, Pocahontas Co
Jaws
Dr. Pierce
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King Morgan
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Roosevelt
United States
California
Democratic Platform
Salem: Journal
Sporting Goods
Winchester
J. C. Taylor
the Hardware Man
Malin
Ely
Tasie
Emirll Lange
Drugg St
Small
Y Brothers
Waeran Sire
New York
Perrins
Brive
Colesworthy AT
Alta Street
Orlan Clyde Cullen
U. 8
Supreme Court
Attiorney
Patent Office
N. W
Washington, D. C
Aiia
Winona
Hee
Neagle Brothers
Sear Main
Pendleton, Ore
Amber
Gray’s Harbor Com. Co
Opp. W. & C. R. Depot
Penne
Onder
Pendleton Planing
Robert
Forster, Prope
Steamshi Tickets
North Germy Steamship Company
Iid
Europe
Salem
M. D. Wisdom
Sec'y
Portland, On
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ColumbIa Lodging House
F. X. Schempp, Prop
Royal Restaurm
Cooper
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