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e RS SRS L i A T O PAGE FOUR B L b, e o e TP g e e How the Ir—zif_e:;'ests Have THE NONPARTISAN LEADER Gagged the M agaZifies" By Charles Edward Russell magazines that were publishing advanced, radical matter and fighting on the side of the people against the inter- ests and the exploiters. Today there is only one. ¢ Inone way or another, the interests have silenced all the rest. The boldest and most conscientious of these ma.gazme assail- ants of privilege-.was Hamptons.n The interests ruined it, ‘de-; stroyed it and bankripted: its proprietor ‘after he had refused' to cease his activities and refused to sell it. Of the others, one of the most pretentious, after making a g’reat demonstration against Big~ Business was silenced through a powerful stockholder who was also a leading member of the hated Ice Trust: - . - Another that began with a flourish of trumpets as a friend sof the people was soon captured by the Magazine Trust, which "was formed by a member ‘of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., and ‘publishes a. seore of well-trained periodicals. This particular one - 'is-now- engaged-in-showing hew- completely Big- Busmess has re- " formed. Others were bought, gagged by intimidating their owners or controlled through: their advertising contracts. Not one of the ‘nine Wll} now say ‘a word against existing conditions. E IGHT years ago there were in thls country ten prominent v A few weeks ago a well known woman writer sent to one of the most pious: of these Kept Magazines a timely and moderate - article about child lafmr. Eight years ago any one of the ten would have jumped at such a story. It was returied to her with a letter from the editor in which he frankly said tliat he was strictly forbidden to pubhsh anything that could in any way offend any business mterest Let the children be murdered in the mills but don’t say a word about it lest our masters should crack the whxp on us That is the size of the case. In Febra.ary, 1911, a.combination of blg .zd\ertxsws was £ formed ‘on an agreement not to advertise in any magazine that - printed radical matter; and since then the soft pedal has been perfect.. All ‘of the popular mag'a.zmes are printed at a loss on their sales and subscriptions: - The average illustrated 15 cent magazine . casts from 11 to 13 cents a copy and brings only 8 and one-half - Cents a copy. The deficit must come out of the advertising and " \_—__—“—__ L WOMENS’ LOW WAGES |received less than $8 per week. : What Is Living Wage? . - ‘There is considerable divergence of opinion as to what constitutes a living wage,” says the report. “The commission sought informatjon on this subject not only from wage- Minnesota has a minimum wage | throughout the state, The employes earners, but from 62 women’s clubs in large proportion considered $10 a minimum, while one-third of the wo- men’s clubs placed it between $8 and $9.00.” The commission concludes: “That a large percentage of the women wage earners of Michigan are today receiving less than a living wage. “That this constltutes a menace to Py A compilation of recent -state re- ports made by the Monthly Review of the bureau of labor statistics of the United States brings new proof that ithe women . workers of this country . are receiving far less than a living wage. * ¢ Numerous mvestxgatxons have fre- quently shown that in the castern states -$8- and in western states $9 is the very lowest sum on" which a . Woman worker can live decently. - The report of the California Indus- trial Welfare commission which tab- ulated the wages of 22,972 women found that 21.2 per cent of those over 18 years of age were rec ceiving less ‘than $8 and that 35 were paxd less - than $9. within “the power of the legislature to prevent.” commission which found that 41 per- cent of the women employed received less than $8 ‘and 68 per cent under $10. An investigation of the cost of living of 6,569 women showed that between $8 and $9 was necessary to secure a decent living. * Store Pay Low “In Connectlcut an investigation by . the bureau of labor statistics’ showed that of 4,208 girls’ employed in de- _ partment and other stores one-half received less than $7 per “week, and that a largé nuniber were paid less ‘than'$4 a week. ; “In considering the weekly wage b " 'says the report “it-must be rememi- bered that in some cases it is not en Joyed for 52 weeks of the year. Some | ' houses give two weeks’ vacation with out pay; others give one week with out .pay; but the majority give two weeks with pay. - Apart from this ' there are rreriods of idleness. due ‘to . dack of seasonal work and to- sick< "~ mess, which materlally deduces the yearly wage.” ... The Michigan state commlsslon ‘of ~ inquiry found that of 50,230 ‘women : employees in that state 51.4 per cent WHY NGNPARTISAN PARTY? When intelligent men want a thmg they league together ‘to get it: The farmers of North Dakota want their own markets, ‘They want Jaws that do not tie their hands. ‘rates that now control both our mar- kets and our laws. . To league. ‘togeth- er to get these vital necessities is To do anythmg else would 'be msan- ity, = : +and a hardy kind of patriotis m. {never be right in his native’ find so long:as a few rich men ‘domni- the social welfare of society that is{ They want] - to reéstrain the rapacity of the pi- the mast natural thing in the; :world.| the . :present sugar:tariff in effect for: § strong lovby ‘already orgamzed and. that rate i that fact makes the edvertiser supreme.- If he docsa’t want any radical matter there will be none. o The one magazine that is still free, untrammelled and fight- ing for the people is Pearson’s and the reason it is so is because of one remarkable young man-Arthur W. Little, prmclpa.l owner of Pearson’s: Mr. -Little has consxderable means and is the owner of ;,: a large prmtmg establishmep He knows that conditions can nate it and impose unfair tefins upon the producer, and his am- bition is to help to correct these evils. When he gained control of Pearson’s it-was like the other magazines, published at a loss on its. sales and subscriptions. One day a big advertiser complained about something that had been printed in Pearsons and threatened to withdraw his ad- vertisement. Mr. Little told him to withdraw and be hanged, but the incident set him to ‘thinking. He saw that so long as the life of a magazine depended.upon. the aomhmu of :agdvertisers and most heavy advertisers were reactlonary the idea of a free : press in America was a -joke. ‘He determined to see if it were not possible to publish one magazine -that- would be ‘absolutely free. He therefore threw the pictures out of Pearson’s, reduced the cost of’ manufacture, re- fused to be dictated to by advertlsers and devoted his magazine to telling the truth. : The public has responded and today Pearsons is the on]y magazine in New York the cireulation of which is notably Ln- creasing. : St Every effort has been made'to crush Pearson’ s. The banks have tried to wreck it by withholding credit, railroads have prohibited its sale on their trains and in the stations, news com- panies have refused to handle it, newspapers- will not notice its’ It continues nevertheless to grow and has become by far the “|most influential magazine in the country, sunply by tellmg the truth and not bemg afraid. ‘Every month it rips into some rotten condmon, attacks soine graft or comes to the defense of some class that is being wronged. In the last three years it has been quoted more often in con- gress than all other periodicals in the United States together, because of the invaluable information it contains and because it is known not to be gagged or controlled. - Nothing succeds like the truth. TO REVISE THE TARIFF/| working vigourously to that end. An- ; other reason advanced is that ‘the president hjmself insisted, when the new law was being framed, upon the sugar tariff reduction. 5 Needs of the treasury for more revenue and the political effect in Louisiana, Colorado California and While the president has not fully | other “sugar”’ states are considera- determined on the sugar tariff plan | tions in favor of modifying the sched it is believed to be extremely prob-] ule, able. It was also reported today that the administration is considering fur- ther slight tariff changes to provide: additional revenue, by increasing du- ties on liquors, and also possibly an extension of the income tax to the smaller incomes, u. s, Agonts Investigators An_investjgation of the sugar im- portations- and: revenue ‘derived dur- ing ‘the last few years is being made by the treasury for the president, it was learned today. sugar schedule for 1913; 1914 and " Facts 'and figures regarding_the the present year are being comp‘;lEd by ' customs officials. A statement whether retaining duty on sfigar solve ‘the revenue situation ‘wil "I'be présented to the white bous? Secretary cMAdoo. It is.also knewn that the pre*t is sounding officials and party lead-| ers regarding the advisability' of re- —_— Washington, D. C., Oct. 6.—The advisability of retammg the present tariff on sugar is being seriously con- sidered by President Wilson. This was definitely learned today. WAR TRUST GROWING Philadelphia, Oct. 6.—The <consoli- dation of independent steel compan- ies jnto two separate and. distinct j corporations—one fostered by the the other by ' the Schwab-Dupont group;—to control the American mus nitions. output, was believed to. bs rapidly shaping itself today. Rumors. are numerous- concerning the steps taken by both interests, of the Baldwin Locomotive works to« day refused to discuss: the teport to the effect that. the Schwab-Dupont | company. As a result of their silence the res port was gen°rally credited in finan- cjal circles, in view of -the numerous conferences last- week vetween Char+ taining the present sugar tariff, @ | les M. Schwab, the Duponts and the : Sugar on Free List Soon 4 Baldwm dxreetors. « Under’the present new tariff law; Bugar goes ‘on the ‘free list May 1, 1916. - The duty has already. been res duced -about- 25 per cent. - - The president is reluctant to keep ¢ The “bankers' certainly ‘must think we are a bunch of chumps. We let {them fix it to get our townshlp ‘and and’ then ‘turn’around: and e several reasons. ~Oneiof ‘these is the} our’OWN mme;i for five (23 He -is-of-an iron determination - | Morgan-Corey-Converse interests, and - but none can'be confirmed. Officials group, have acquired control oi the‘ county funds for about 2 per cenf ° ’». | |