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...American workingman that the Democratic party will not do a single thing that will take from his weekly pay envelope a 5-cent piece. To the American farmer I say that the Democratic party will do everything in its power to put back into his pocket all that belongs there. And we further say that nothing will be done that will embarrass or interfere in any way with the legitimate progress of business?big or small...
...opened with a homily upon the enslavement of the British workingman to Drink and Gambling. Not that Ben advocated prohibition or anything that would throw brewers or distillers out of work, "but," said he sagely, "over ?600,000,000 [$3,000,000,000] are spent annually in Great Britain on these two social customs, principally on the workingman's beer and his bets on horses and dog racing...
...play is largely a talk fest dealing with such stuff as the cruel 'ard capitalists, the workingman's brotherhood, bread and betrayed daughters, etc. ad infinitum...
Samuel Vauclain learned to love locomotives, the way other men love horses, as an apprentice in an Altoona (Pa.) roundhouse which his father superintended. He learned to build them at the Baldwin works in Philadelphia, rising in 36 years from foreman to president. He has never given up his workingman's habit of reporting for work at 7 a. m. But it is as a salesman that he has chiefly succeeded. He sold locomotives in Europe when people thought Europe was too War-poor to pay for anything. He took his pay in oil, bonds. Once he sold...
Detroiters visited the Hanna-Thomson galleries last week for a first view of something they had been hearing about from other cities: the Glorification of the U. S. Workingman by Max Kalish, sculptor. Rich men and poor men went, for a Detroit art critic told them: "He deals. . . in the human symbols for certain sterling human qualities-strength, vigor, integrity, the beauty of a well-knit body and the fundamental character essential to a good craftsman. . . . His bronzes . . . should appeal to a large audience in Detroit, a city where men of millions know the feel of an engine throttle...