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LOCAL LAEOE OEOANIZATIONS.
TBADES ASSEMBLY.
The Trades Assembly of Denver and
Vicinity meets on the second and fourth Sun
days of each month.
J. R. Buchanan, President
C. L. Merritt, Secretary, News office,
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
Montgomery Benevolent Assembly No.
1424 meets every Friday evening, at Knights
of Labor hall, at 7:30 o’clock.
Union Assembly No. 2327 meets every ,
Thursday evening at Knights of Labor
hail, 386 Holladay, at 7 :S0 o’clock.
B ABBESS.
Barbers’ Benevolent Protective Associa
tion meets every Tuesday at 9 p. m. at
Knights of Labor hall, 386 Holladay Street
J. Leonard, President.
W. Newman, Secretary.
TYPOGRAP ICAL.
Typographical Union No. 49 meets on the
first Sunday of each month at Knights of
Pythias half, at 2 o’clock p. m.
O. L. Smith, Financial Secretary.
F. P. Mantx, Recording Secretary.
TAILOBB. 1
Tailors’ Protective Society meets on the
first Monday of each month, at Justice
Jeffries’ court room, at 7 o’clock p. m.
C. Puttkenmeb, President.
T. Hamlin, Secretary.
stonecutters.
Stonecutters Union meets every alternate
Thursday, at Mitchell Guards’ liall, at 7:30
p. m.
IRON MOLDRRS.
Iron Molders Union meets every alternate
Tuesday, at Knights of Labor hall, at 7:30.
p. m. John Gilbert, Secretaiy,
Colorado Iron Works.
LABOR NOTES.
Three KnighUof Labor are aldermen
in Detroit.
With the building trades of Baltimore
business is dull.
Best set of teeth $8; try him; Dr-
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
The Crescent Steel works, at Pittsburg,
shut down until January 2, for repairs
and the holidays.
A reduction of wages 10 per cent was
proposed to the men at Graff, Bennett 4
Co.’s mill, Pittsburg.
The Colorado Rolling mill shut down
last week. It is reported the mill will be
closed for two weeks.
Chain-makers at West Middlesex,
Pennsylvania, are on strike for an ad
vance of 25 cents per day.
A new assembly of Knights of Labor,
composed of house-painters, was organ
ized recently in Baltimore.
The International Union of Bricklay
ers uieetß in Cincinnati on January 14
the second Monday in the year.
It is rumored that the puddlers at
Cohoes, New York, will resist a 50 cents
per ton reduction—from $4.50 to $4.
Fifteen per cent is the cut in wages
given, the laboring men at Moorhead,
McClean & Co.’s Suho mills, Pittsburg.
Carpenters are moderately busy, but
the winter wealher has put a stop to
most of the outside work on buildings.
Best set of jteeth $8 ; try him ; Dr
Drury, dentist, Opera house block.
Several planing mills in St. Louis will
shut down for repairs after the holidays.
They are doing little during the cold
weather. ‘
Hendey & Myres foundry closed last
week and will not open until next Mon
day. The machine department is run
ning short time.
Sewing women in New York are paid
$1 for making a dozen shirts, and in New
Jersey they make course hickory shirts
for 22 cents a dozen.
The miners at the Niantlc mines, near
Decatur, Illinois, have returned to work,
unsuccessful in their attempt to secure,
better screens.
An assembly of Knights of Labor, com
posed ot ladies, and known as the Un
known Assembly, was organized in Balti
more a short time ago.
The Bricklayer’s Union of Baltimore
is run on the independent plan, having
no connection with the International
Union or anything else.
The Connellsville district officers have
again declared war on the Hungarians
who will not join the union and who
live upon next to nothing.
The workingmen of Chicago are or
ganizing for independent political action
next year. One Butler club has been
• formed and others will be.
Robert W. Tinley, treasurar of the Cin
cinnati Entertainment Association, has
absconded with $350. His bondsman is
Thomas M. Tallon, of I. M. U. No. 20.
The Baltimore Trades Assembly, which
has just perfected permanent organiza
tion, is composed of five delegates repre
senting nearly all the trades in the city.
Teeth extracted without pain; go to
him; Dr. Drury, dentist, Opera house
block.
The Typographical union meets at the
usual place to morrow afternoon. Let
all be present who can, as this is the
regular meeting for the election of offi
cers.
About twenty girts employed in the
cotton factory of Heustis & Dusenbury,
at Troy, New York, struck last Saturday
against a reduction of 25 per cent in
wages.
The Whittington Manufacturing com
pany, at Taunton, Massachusetts, reduces
wages 10 per cent January ". Other mill
managers say they must cut or shut
down.
Ninety non-union molders at Troy,
New York, lately joined the union and
struck with the others for higher wages.
The firm threaten to bring on another
installment of “scabs.”
Following are the onlv newspapers in
Pittsburg that employ “fats” or “scabs:”
The Sunday Leader, Evening Lender
and Daily Post. All others employ union
men and pay union wages.
The men working in the Union Pacific
railroad vards and on the gravel train,
under O’Brien, were reduced 25 cents
j>er day on January 1, which makes their
wages now but $1;50 per day.
In England there are women’s ‘unions
of bookbinders, dressmakers, power-loom
• weavers, tailors and upholsterers, besides
a Woman’s Trades Council. They have
a membership of about 3,000.
The printers of the Daily Times, El
Paso, Texas, struck last Saturday, and the
paper did not appear next day. They
had received half their pay. and refused
to work until the Vrther half was forth
coming.
Work continue* doll -in all trades in
this city, with ooe or two exceptions.
Molders, shoemakers, printers, carriage
makers, tinners, carpenters, and in fact,
all trades feel the general stagnation of
business.—Cincinnati Unionist.
Work has been suspended at No. 1
Franxlin Colliery, at Mt Carmel, Penn
sylvania, for the three months, throwing
500 men and boys ont of work. The
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
company operated the colliery.
. The Colorado Iron works has been
closed since December 24, bnt started up
again last Wednesday, and expects to
have a month’s steady work. Last sum
mer they worked sixty molders, but now
they only work aboyt eighteen.
The Workmen in the North Chicago
mill have determined to accept a 10 per
cent reduction id wages, but not 60 per
cent which tbe managers propose. Mr.
Potter enobbishiy says be does not rec
ognize tbe Amalgamated Association.
Several workmen at McCarty’s horse
shoeing shop, New York, refused to reset
machine made shoes, according to the
union rules, last week. They were dis
charged and a strike ensued. The two
Baders were arrested, but discharged by
justice Murray. .
A committee has been appointed by
the Trades'Assembly of Baltimore to
draught and present a bill to the legisla
ture. setting forth the many evils which
are brought to bear upon workingmen of
Maryland through unjust laws, asking
that these be repealed.
Quite a number of the conductors and
others employed on the Pittsburg &
Western road have resigned because of
reduction in wages. The officers denv
that a strike exists, but this carrying out
their policy of equivocation upon the
slightest pretext. The road has ever
been the worst officered and managed in
this vicinity.—Pittsburg Herald.
At a recent meeting of the Chicago
Trades Assemtly it was resolved to send
a memorial to the president of the
United States asking him to inquire into
the fitness and ability of applicants for
public employment before making ap
pointments, and that when making ap
pointments for mechanical positions,
persons skilled in .the trade should be
appointed.
The French Delegatee.
At last Sunday night’s reception to the
French trade union delegates in this
city (New York), the first speaker was
Edward Megv, who said :
“The sendingof a delegation of French
workingmen to this country is the pre
lude of a general uprising of the work
ingmen of all countries. We salute our
brothers in misery sent here from Paris,
to take account for themselves of the
social condition of workingmen in Am
erica. Although fools beliove —and
wicked men pretend—that elective gov
ernments represent the people, the pres
ence of the delegates here shows this to
be an error. While the government of
France is sending armed men and can
non to Tonqnin, the people of Paris
send a pacific delegation to this country.
The great object of the social revolu
tion is to establish peace and prosperity.
The only guarantee for their permanence
when established is the disarming of
the armies of the mercenaries and the
arming of the people. As the despots
will not voluntarily retire, our object
must be accomplished by force. The
time for discussion is nearing its end,
the hour of action begins. And when
it comes the war will be prosecuted with
all the resources of science.”
The first of the French delegates to
speak was Mr. Camelinat, who said :
“We came here delegated by the work
ingmen of Paris, not by the munici
pality. At the exposition at Boston we
studied the state of the workingmen of
America. We want them to join us in
the necessary combat against those who
wrong üb. In France we have every one
against us. We will reorganize with you
the International to make tyrants
tremble wherever they are. The eman
cipation of the workingmen is an inter
national question bounded by no limits
of country. We have seized the oppor
tunity of the Boston exposition to come
here to ask you to form the federation
qGhe International, so as to be ready
for the social’ revolution of the world.”
The French delegates before sailing
for France on Wednesday, and previous
to departing, issued a farewell, in these
words:
“Citizens! Friends! To you all, who
without distinction of nationality or
social creed, have extended a brotherly
greeting of welcome to the sons of the
French revolution, we address herewith
a parting salute in calling out to you,
‘Farewell, dear friends!’ Our socialistic
and international ideas, which twenty
years ago would probablv have furn
ished a sufficient reason for estranging
you from us, are now on the contrary,
the chief cause of your manifestations
of sympathy toward us. Therefore we
will say to our friends in Paris that we
come home fully convinced that the cry
of ‘Vive l’lnternationale 1’ raised by
thousands of American, English, Ger.
man, Italian and French workingmen in
all the American cities we have visited i
shall re-echo throughout the whole
world, and that this great army of the
disinherited marches toward their social
emancipation, toward the conquest of
the instruments of labor held now by
an idle minority. We repeat with you
our war cry, ‘Vive l’lnternationale 1’
For the delegation, Dumay, Sec’y.”
—John Swinton’s Paper.
When the masses observe that the
chief bulk of the men who get into con
gress grow rich, and are always seen to
vote in favor of capital monopoly, they
conclude that the old party politics has
fallen to a dirty, thieving business, and
those engaged in it as a profession, must
be the dirtiest and most corrupt scamps
going. As soon as the people come to
this conclusion there will be a greal po
litical and social upheaval, and this will
be the moment when the socialists will
make their proposition for the introduc
tion of a new system; and the American
Deople will adopt the proposition. But,
before this will be done, the Socialists
will have to agitate, educate, organize.—
Social Bulletin.
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THE NEW RICH.
A of Things Which Hay
Lead to a Conflict of
Classes.
Joe poward In Philadelphia Preas.
There is no doubt about it that New
York is divided into two great classes,
the very ricfi and the very poor, and the
middle class of reputable, industrious,
fair to do people are gradually disap
pearing, going up in the scale of worldly
wealth or down into poverty and embar
rassment. It seems unquestionable that
between these classes exists, and is
rapidly growing, under intentional fos
tering and nurturing of evil men, a dis
tinct, pronounced malignant hatred.
The sneers at Mr. Vanderbilt in the pub
lic press meet the approbation of hun
dreds of thousands of people. Why ?
He is not a bad man, although he never
does any good. To men who are sensi
tive as to what other people should do
with their money, he appears hoggish )
but while as the representative of cor
porate selfishness Mr. Vanderbilt stands ■
supreme, per' se, be is an easy-going, ,
well enough kind of a person, not good
looking, not educated, in no sense re- <
fined, but, on the othpr hand, not evilly i
disposed. But I should be very sorry to
be in Mr. Vanderbilt’s boots if such i
times as we had here in 1863 should be ]
repeated, and Mr. Vanderbilt is a type of j
thousands—l use the term advisedly—who j
are rich beyond their ancestors’ dreams of ]
avarice. There are men here worth $lO,-
000,000 and $20, 000,000 of whom you know \
nothing. I know one lady, living in a mag- |
nificent house, whose life is as quiet as |
that of a minister’s should be, who has i
given away not less than $3,000,000 in
five years, whose benefactions prior to
her death will reach not less than $7,000,- (
000, who has in her home paintings, |
statuary, diamonds, precious ex- (
quisite specimens of gold and silver,
with cosily works of every imaginable (
art, an inside estimate of which is sl,- ,
500,000, and she is not as rich as many :
of her neighbors by several million dol
lars. There are men here who twenty
years ago sold clothes on Chatham street
who to-dav live at an annual expense of
SIOO,OOO, who wear jewels upon their
persons costing in reasonable stores
$25,000.
Come with me in a Madison avenue
car any day, rain or shine, between the
hours of 10 o’clock in the morning and
sor 6 o’clock in the evening, and I will
find you car after car closely packed
with ladies in whose ears are diamonds
worth from SSOO to $5,000 • each, on
whose ungloved hands, red and fluff}’,
sparkle fortunes. Walk with me from
Stewart’s old store, at the corner of
Ninth street and Broadway, to Thir
teenth street and Broadway, any day—l
do not mean Sundays, holidays or special
occasions, but all times —and I will show
you on block after block women in seal
skin circulars down to their heels,
worth from SSOO to $2,000 each, with dia
mond earrings and witli diamond finger
rings, and other precious stones as well,
carrying in their hands dainty pocket
books stuffed with money. They rep
resent the new- rich with which New
York is filling.up. On that same street
at the same tinle, I can show you men
to whom a dollar would be a .fortune,
whose trousers, torn and disgraceful Tn
their tatters, are held about their pinch
ed waists by rope or twine or pins, whose
stockingless feet shuffle along the pave
men in shoes so ringed that they dare
not lift them from the pavement, whose
faces are freckled, whose beards are
long and straggling as their hair, while
their reddened <hands taper at the nails
like claws. How long before those claws
will fasten on the newly rich ? Make, no
mistake about it, the feeling is born, the
feeling is growing, and the feeling,
sooner or later, will break forth. Only
last night I walked through Fourteenth
street, on which there are but few resi*
dences left, and in front of one, leading
from the door to the curbstone, was a
canopy, under which charmingly attired
-ladies, accompanied by their escorts,
went from their carriages to the open
door, through which floods of light and
sounds of music came. I stood with the
crowd—a big crowd —a moment, and
there w r as born this idea of an inevit
able outbreak, unless something is done,
and speedily done, to do away with the
prejudice which not only exists, but is
intentionally fostered against tbe very
rich by the very poor. It would make
you shudder to hear the way the women
spoke, Envy, jealousy, malignant fe
-1 rocity, every element needed was there.
All that is wanted is a leader.
Lodging the Complaint.
In the last issue of John Swinton’s
Paper is given the number of deaths
which have occurred in New Yolk dur
ing a year, and the evidence goes to
plainly show that at least 10,000 die in
that city each year of starvation, but the
“doctors” classify it in their reports as
something else. Following is an extract
from the article:
One of the witnesses before the senate
committee in session here last Septem
ber, after referring to sundry things in
this city, thus spoke:
“Witness—l estimate that of the
deaths here at least ten thousand every
year are bv starvation. I believe that
between 10,000 and 12,000 people die of
starvation in this city every year.
“Senator Blair—You mean a prolonged
condition of insufficient nutrition, which
is equivalent to starvation.
-“Witness—A prolonged condition of
inanition. It is classified in the reports
as ‘febrile diseases,’ as ‘lung diseases,’ as
‘anemia,’ and so forth. It is put under
various fine terms to conceal the ghastly
fact of 10,000 persons dying yearly from
a lack of the supplies needed for the
generation of the forces of life.
Upon the rich jackals of New York
do I charge the guilt of this condition of
things, and this death-rate of the plague.
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'..i 1; ' ' "'Hi/!'!- '-V'"' ■l-l'Wlt:.'!.
Aa owners of tbe land, they have pat
tbe wage-earning pert of the people into
die black-hole barracks of the tenement
quarters. As owners of huge blocks of
capital, they use it to crush and oppress
tbe masses for theft own greed. As irre
sponsible masters of the great powers of
modern mechanism and industry,* they
have turned them against mankind,
squeezed wages with one hand while
patting up the price of the means of lift
with the other. As owners of railroads,
they have ground out of- people the last
possible cent, and called it ‘all the traffic
will , bear.’ As speculators in grain or
provisions, and cornerere of the market,
they have grabbed the loaf from the
poor man’s table, and devoured the meat
that by right and nature belongs to him.
As the owners of courts and legislatures,
they have ordered their hired men to
pass and enforce laws in support of these
things.
During the years in which the masses
have been sinking, a few hundred sharp
ers have been raking in the country's
fruits and gold, swelling to the size of
millionaires, or to the monstrous propor
tions of a hundred-millionaire, or a two
hundred-millionaire, striding ronnd
among the mummies they make, and
caring nothing for the hundred coffins —
verv cheap and plainly furnished, most
of them —carried daily out of the laza
retto of New York.
Look at the official facts here given;
then read the balderdash of the buzzard
press; listen to the oily-gammon of the
pulpit; take notice of the threat of rais
ing troops to keep the peace in the laza
retto.
You yourself are not less guilty than
the jackals if you have stood grinning at
their rapacity, or failed to try to rescue'
their prey from amid this appalling de
struction of human life.
Ominous Forebodings.
The masses of American workingmen
are disconted with their lot. They be
hold the growth of wealth, the continu
ally growing love of display, the 'enor
mous absorption of wealth by a compar
atively small number of individuals, and
yet they cannot get ahead themselves.
Worse, for work as constantly as they
may, live as economically as ever they
can, the struggle to make the two ends
meet becomes graver and more hopeless
day by day. Yes, the American work
ingman is dissatisfied. He feels quite
sure there is something wrong, that it is
not the fair thing that out of the con
stantly-increasing store nothing, abso
lutely nothing, should go to the busy
worker who creates it. But where is the
remedy 7 That is the problem, a prob
lem which earnest men and sound think
ers have worked many weary vears to
solve. We believe they will eventually
find it. In fact, we know, so surely as
we know anything, that the key to the
position will in the course of time be
discovered ; but in the meantime the sky
is dark with threatening clouds, the air
is heavy with the mutterings of the toil
ers who sullenly yet grope in the dark,
wistfully waiting to be led to the light of
a brighter era. We are no alarmist, and
furthermore we are not disposed to fos
ter a spirit which might strive to seek
by unlawful acts a remedy for existing
evils. But that something must be done
is as plain to us as the type in which
these words appear to the world. When
labor is hardly permitted the
necessaries of life for constant toil, when
capital assumes to tie its bondslave hand
and foot by every means, by pauper
wages, by solemn oaths that no effort
will ever be made to organize for self
protection, by a thousand other fetters,
then indeed does it seem that naught
but action, intelligent but determined
action, will prevail. —Craftsman.
Occasionally some friend, desiring to see
the Howitzer better patronized, asks why we
do not enlarge it and thus make it more de
sirable by the general public. In answer to
all such questions we are compelled to say,
it Is now as large as we can possibly afford to
make it. A considerable capital would be
required to print a larger paper during the
time it would require to get it before the
public and obtain tbe needed support. This
we have not. Again, there are hundreds of
papers larger than our’s which fail of sup
port and “peg ont” Their size is no guaran
tee of’life and prosperity. The worth of a
paper should by what it contains, rather than
by its dimensions. The farmer in selecting
land for cultivation, looks at the quality of
the acres into which he puts his plow, rather
than the number of them. A thousand acre
farm, if sterile, is worth far less than forty
of good alluvial soil. And so it Is with
newspapers. The great blanket-sheets filled
with thistles which are only suited to the
taste and consumption of donkeys, may be
sustained by the long-eared race and those
who ride and use them, for frivolous knowl
edge is the nearest kin to ignorance, and “ig"
norance is the mother to devotion” to party.
—Greeley Howitzer.
The Army.
Lately the capitalistic press have been
complaining of continual desertions from
and a general discontent in the ranks of the
regular army. They wonder what can be
the reason for it.. The cause Is that the pri
vate in the United States army ordinarily is
but the servant of the officer. Fatigue duty
embraces all kinds of menial work. The sol
dier lays down his musket to pick up the
pick and shovel. He hauls gravel to make
roads and plants grass in front of the offi
cers’ quarters. He Is utilized as a waiter,
groom, messenger and dishwasher at the
pleasure of the begilt and brass-buttoned
stripling of “good family,” who is placed
over him as his superior. The uniformed
loafer receives 8150 monthly, and the liveried
slave 813. And yet discontent Is wondered
at This way of conducting affairs is typicaj
’ of the vulgar bouigeoise who now rule the
world. Wealthy without refinement, well
born yet still hogs, schemers without fore
sight, aristocraUjbut without the great quali
ties of the nobler bandits of other days, de
spite their attempts to create a wore favor
able impression they enforce a{!on our at
-1 tention the aphorism of Heine: “A hog
i though in armor is still but a hog.” Had the
■ bourgeoise any generous spirit they would
. have made of their soldier a friend and com
t panion. Had they not lost even their an
cient “business acuteness,” they would have
well paid, fed and housed him. Had they
the first glimmering of even ordinary com
mon sense, they would have, at least, so
f treated the soldier that he would have been
. bound to torn his rifle in Arne of danger
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agahist ti»e enemy ana aotacrinat Us oAeere.
TltberttMsa and advice fc given tv this
revolutionary paper becaase m know that
so rile la the bourgeois* character and se
poor its intelligence that even nownoebute
will be made, and that the same ludrieoes
method of'managing will go on np to the
very day of revolution. Then the booigeoise
will fell and fell most justly, proving by
their tumble that they wen vain imposters
when pretending ts the blood of the robbers
ef old, being in truth themselves bnt sneak*
thieve*, ignorant as well as cowardly. The
ancient aristocracy, sullied with crimes but
glorious with many great qualities, has been
destroyed by ttys vulgar canaille. This clam
now preying upon the proletariat, seeks also
to devour it But success has destroyed its
intellect and already the logic of events
prophesies its failure and dooms its ignoble
plans to miscarriage and defeat
Workingmen of the world, unite! You
have but a wind-bag to prick.—San Fran
cisco Truth.
Wages are tumbling in the east.
There ie no other way to meet hard
times, and we are glad that laboring men
are so sensible as to accept lower wages
rather than invite starvation. The time
seems to be coming when labor-and cap
ital will be more in sympathy than they
have been in the past.—Republican.
By the Holy Jumping Moses, that is
good. You unfeeling, cowardly scamp;
so you think there is no other way to
meet hard times than to throw the bur
den onto the workingman, who had
nothing to do with making times hard.
You’re young yet, my gentle gazelle, and
you may live long enough to find there
is another way.
Wm. H. Vanderbilt owns $4-7,050,000
in United States registered 4 per cent
bonds, a draft for the interest on which
is mailed to him quarterly from the
treasury. The interest on these bonds
amounts as follows: Per annum, $1,882,-
000; per quarter, $470,500; per month,
per day, $5,156.16; per hour;
$214.84; per minute, $3.58.
The natural law is that he who works
shall eat, and he wh > produces shall
possess. Existing conditions are exact
ing the reverse of this to-day. Those
who work the hardest eat the coarsest
fare, and those who produce nothing
possess most. There can be but one
cause for this, and that is a false Bvstem
of distribution; in plain words, a robber
system. It is useless to talk of those
who save being those who have, for all
know that it is the non-producer who
most expensively ; and besides, if
production meant possession, labor could
and does produce enough day by day to
enable it to live like a king.—Port Huron
Mail.
A Triumph of Force.
The events of the past few months,
this constant feeling of dread, and the
startling developments in the Colton
trial have made it possible to settle with
the Central Pacific railroad company
upon terms upon which the company do
not appropriate the entire amount at
issue. A case in point comes from Hum
boldt county, this state. Some years ago
a farmer settled on some land along side
of the road, and announced his willing
ness over and over again to pay for the
farm. The company never appeared to
have time enough to make out the papers,
but told the rancher to go ahead and im
prove his property, and they would give
him the deed as soon as some technic
alities hud been complied with between
the company and the general govern
ment. The man was assured that he
would never be disturbed in the posses
sion of his rights, or in any way would
he be asked to pay for the improvements.
With this assurance he improved his
farm until it was worth in the neighbor
hood of SIO,OOO. Finally a Jew pur
chased 1,000 acres of the railroad com
pany, including the improved farm.
Thus, without a moment’s warning, was
the rancher dispossessed of the labor of
years.. He could get no satisfaction from
the agents of the company, and fully and
forcibly he announced that he was going
to San Francisco to demand a settlement
of Stanford, and if he did not get it he
would blow his brains out. He went
down, interviewed th,e officers of the
company, and got what he wanted. It
is said that parties in Humboldt county,
knowing that the man meant to carry
out his threats, posted the railroad peo
ple on what might be expected, and be
cut a pretty wide swath when he hove in
sight. He said that fifteen or twenty
years’ litigation wasn't his idea of the
matter, and he was going to settle the
row in two minutes or have his rights.
He got his rights without trouble. —Car-
son Appeal.
Henry George among many other
fallacies, utters this one: “As wealth in
creases, wages and interest go down.” In
saying this George lays a foundation for
murdering the landlord in order to save
the usurer. It is not correct. As wealth
increases, wages decrease but interest
never grows less. What matter to labor,
if labdr'must pay $1,000,000 in 10 per
cent interest installments or $2,000,000 in
5 per cent interest installments ? • None
at all. The characteristic of labor is to
produde; that of interest is to steal. One
is the worker; the other the robber.
There can be no justice until the robber
is dead. And this, whether be call him
self rent, interest or profit. All these
are rogues born of the same prostitute, a
loafing class. Abolish the loafers and the
workers can secure their earnings. But
never without—San Francisco Truth.
Connecticut newspapers complain that
“tramps are on the increase.” In many
places notices have been posted that the
law against tramping will be strictly en
forced and the itinerant pedestrian will
be obliged to seek refuge in some more
charitable sister state. Thus it is that
the mother turns against her own child,
for is not Connecticut the mother ol
tramps? In her factories have not her
children who should have been at school
been reared at labor while their minds
were untutored, only to be thrown out ol
employment in times of financial depres
sion and sent out as tramps and beggars
‘to seek a livelihood ? Now that Connec
ticut bas done her share in making
tramps, let her do her duty and stand the
responsibility, not shirk the stern reali
ties of life bv compelling her offspring tc
take refuge in other lands.—St. Pan!
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