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FOEOED TO TOHDBAW.
Pittsbubq, December 16 -Referring to thf
wholesale withdrawal of the Panhan die rail
way conductors from the order of railway
conductors, a conductor eaid: "It means
just this: B along to the order and lost your
job or leave the order and keep the job. By
next May I don't expect to see a single con
duotor on the road a member of the union.
The oompany wa afraid to nek running
through next summer with men who be
longed to the order and tby got the drop on
us. I've rot a j b and I guess I kaow how
to keep it." Kansas City S'ar.
It will be remembered that soon
after the Homestead lockout, the Ad
vocatk stated in an editorial upon the
subject, that plutocracy has deter
mined upon the extinction of organ
ized labor in America. The Home
stead lockout was the first effective
movement on this line, and as a re
sult of it the Homestoad mills will
finally be operated by non-union men.
It would not do to inaugurate a gen
eral movement all along the line at
one tima This would paralyze busi
ness in the entire country, hence the
organizations are to be taken in de
tail and literally wiped out of exist
ence. One of the reasons why every strike
is a failure is because it is local in its
character, and limited to a compara
tively few men. , Their places are
readily filled from the horde of idlers
that our industrial system has pro
vided for just Huch emergencies. It is
strange that laboring men cannot see
that it has been the policy of the cor
porations, as a preliminary step in the
plan to control labor, to provide this
idle ho&t from which to draw recruits
in time of need. This accomplished,
whenever a strike occurs, the places
of the strikers are simply filled from
this seemiDgly inexhaustible source,
and that ends the strike. There
might be much more prospect of suc
cess if the labor organizations were
bound together by closer ties, and if
all could act in concert for the good
of each. If, when a strike was
deemed necessary by one of the labor
organizations, the entire force of or
ganized labor throughout the country
would stand at its back and enforce
its demands, even to the extent of a
universal strike that would totally
paralyze businesn, there might be
some prospect of success; but in
asmuch as every strike is local and
limited to a few men, it amounts only
to an exhibition of supreme folly
which simply renders the labor or
ganizations ridiculous.
Corporations aud even large indi
vidual manufacturers have taken the
hint from the failure of strikes through
this cause. They see in the lack of
col usion,and the failure of the various
organizations to support each other,
the weak point at which to strike, and
it has evidently been determined to
take them in detail and destroy them.
The work was begun at Homesteal
The railway conductors of the Penn
sylvania system now have the oppor
tunity to choose between the
abandonment of their organizations
and the loss of their positions. That
thi3 is dimply the beginning of a war
of extermination there can be no
shadow of doubt, and we take this oc
casion to repeat what we have said
several times before, that when labor
ing men learn that the only practical
place to strike is at the ballot box,
and when they learn further to rec
ognize this fact in their organizations,
they will have taken the longest step
in the direction of relief for the griev
ances of which they complain that
has ever yet been taken. The farmers
are ready to receive them with open
arms and go with them in a'l just
demands. Al1 classes must divest
themselves of a large amount of class
prejudice, and there must be a com
ing together of the indas rial forces
ere the demands of any can secure at
tention. No petition is of any avail
except that which is deposited in the
ballot box. Let the labor forces get
together and submerge all opposition
under an avalanche of that force of
petitions.
DEPENDING MES, LEASE.
The following letter from General
Weaver needs no preface. It seems
to have been instigated by the attacks
made on Mrs. Lease by several papers
outside of Kansas, and the Advocate
willingly complies with the request
to publish it:
Deb Moinks, Iowa, DdosmberlO, 18!2.
Mr. Mary E Incize, Wichi'a. Km.:
Deab Madam I have with much regret
recently noticed that your course during the
late campaign is being attacked by certain
parties and journals who impugn your fidel
ity to our oauaa nd your integrity cf pur
pose. They charge or insinuate that you
received pay from republicans for your tele
grams and interviews sent out to northern
papers. I take the greatest pleasure in
stating that in every instance you asked my
advice concerning the diBpatohea whioh you
sent north and submitted the same to me.
Every word you sent was sanctioned by me
and in no instance did you deviate the
slightest from the truth. You did not utter
one single word or sentence either in your
press dispatches or interviews whioh had
not been reiterated ten thousand times by
the more than 400,000 Populists who vottd
our tioket in the south, nor did you state
the matter in as strong a light as is now be
ing published weekly by our press through
out the south. Your statements were not
in any manner more radical thm those
made by General Field and myself in our
address Bent from Pensacola, Fla. You were
making a battle for our oppressed brethren
in the south, and throughout the whole
oountry. You passtd through the ordeal
and knew what you were talking about.
Your eminent services rei.dered to the cause
of humanity during the late ompaign should
at least exempt you from the criticism of
those who claim to be friends of our move
ment, as they certainly entitle you to the
gratitude of all good people. The wonder
ful taot, masterful ability, and untiring de
votion displayed by you during the severe
trials and labors of the campaign were not
surpassed if indeed equaled, by any of your
oo-laborers, and I gladly and unqualifiedly
endorse your wotk ard utttrancea through
out. You pocompanied Mrs Weaver and
myself much agHinst your own wishes and
at our ugent n quest. I can further state
that had yu waLted to turn traitor to our
cause, I happen to know that you could have
reoeived a sum which would hve plaotdyou
in evy circumstances for life one-tenth of
whioh would have purchased any boodler in
the country and yet you spurned it all,
and oh'.se to woik and sutler for the meagre
wages whioh we were enabled to pay you
for your distinguish d Borvioes. Bat you
can afford to be persecuted. It is heaped
upon you because you are struggling for
the outcast and oppressed children of our
blessed Maater. Fraternally ours,
J. B. Weaver.
MISTAKES THE COMPLAINT.
We are sorry to tee so much spleen mani
fested by soms of our good brethren
of the northwest. Bro. Vincent of the Non
conformist, Bro. MoLallin of the Topeka
Auvooats, and Bro. Norton of the Sentinel,
all need a little vacation to restore them to
their wonted good humor. They have all
had a severe attaok of prejudice and it got
a little the bf st of them. Come down to
Texas, brethren, and take a jaunt over the
broad prairies of the Lone Siar state and
you will become so expanded pbyBioally,
politically and fraternally that you won't
reoogniz the old channel in which you once
moved S utbern Mercury, D oember 15.
The Mercury entirely mistakes the
nature of the case and hence its, pre
scription is inapplicable. The case
is not one of prejudice or spleen, but
of utter detestation of hypocrisy and
treachery. Neither the Mercury nor
anv other Daner can explain the con
duct of Dr. Macune and his associates
upon any other hypothesis, and our
good southern brethren can hardly
expect us to forbear when we believe
one who has been so honored and
trusted has betrayed us. We have
no prejudice against the people of
the south. We number many of them
with whom we have met and mingled
in our councils and conventions
among our warmest friends. We are
in no wise influenced by sectionalism.
Traitors deserve the fate of their
tribe wherever they may be found.
We have some of them in Kansas and
the Advocate has not failed to put
the proper brand on them wheneyer
they have ben discovered. It is not
because Dr. Macuno is a southern
man that we have exposed his vil
lainy, but it is simply because he is
a villain, and we have some other
evidences of his crookedness beside
those of recent date. We may have
occasion to use them in due time.
In our judgment, if the broad prai
ries of Texas are capable of accom
plishing such wonderful transforma
tions as the Mercury indicates, they
should be potent enough to remove
the scales from the eyes of Bro. Park
so that he could see corruption and
treachery where they are as notori
ously apparent as in this case. And
by the way, did not Bro. Park gej a
little bilious from l& cross-eyed view
of the character and objects of the
Industrial Legion, and the motives
of the men who organized it? Take
a " jaunt," brother, over those beau
tiful Texas prairies and see whn ef
fect it has on yon. If it is good we
may accept your invitation to take
another one with you.
Those having corn and other grain to
eell wih notice that Ch ilfant. Bunough
A Warrick, of Kansas City, Mo., are so
liciting graio to bell on commission.
They are reliable.
EXTENSION OF THE GOLD BESEBVE.
One of the curiosities of the present
administration is the reported sugges
tion of Secretary Foster to extend the
gold reserve fund of the United States
treasury to the extenTof 20 per cent
The remarkable adjanct to the secre
tary's suggestion is the fact that in
making such an extension of the gold
reserve fund, no addition of gold will
be added either to the reserve find or
' put into the treasury.
Then how to extend the gold re
serve fund without adding a dollar of
gold to it is thus explained: Under
the Sherman law of 1890, the secre
tary of the treasury is authorized to
purchase 4,500,000 ounces of pure
silver, for the purchase of which he
issues what is called silver certificates
or treasury notes. Under the law, it
is optional with the secretary whether
he pays those certificates in silver or
gold; therefore the secretary, keep
ing in line with the intention of the
law, which was to do away entirely
with the silver dollars, redeems all
the silver certificates in gold. Hence
the natural result of such discrimina
tion is seen in the fact that, while sil
ver has depreciated 30 per cent., gold
has appreciated 30 per cent, and as
the certificates under the secretary's
rulings are made payable in gold, and
practically and for all purposes those
silver certificates are gold bonds,
a gold fund for their redemption
should be provided. Thus, by a little
"finesse," the modern alchemist turns
silver and paper into gold, after a
form.
IT HAS COME TO STAY.
The following paragraph is from
the Boston Herald, the Boston organ
of the bondholders:
The Populists are feeling buoyant over the
results achieved by them in the late elec
tion. Summed up, their achievements are
as follows: One million votes in the south
and west for the Weaver el eotors; twenty
three electoral votes obtained by fusion or
otherwise; five Populist senators and ten
Populist representative in the next congress;
Populist state governments in Kansas, Col
orado and North Dakota, and greatly in
creased Populist representation in the legis
latures of these and several other states.
Whether or not this new party has oome to
stay depends a good deal upon the course
of the two great parties during the next four
years.
As nobody expects the two great
parties, as this plutocratic organ is
pleased to term them, to do anything
of course the People's party is here
A Tofbka man who made a recent visit to
the soldiers' home at Leavenworth, says
that since the Eeeley cure was established
there, 277 veterans have been treated for
drunkenness, and forty men are now under
treatment. Only twenty-five of the treated
afterward lapsed. Forty-one of the old sol
diers treated have been so restored to their
former selves that they have left the home
and gone to earning their own living. To
peka Journal.
The above is a really good adver
tisement of the Keeley cure, and that
is undoubtedly what it is intended
for. But is it a fact that drunken
ness really prevails at the soldiers'
home to the extent here indicated? Is
it a fact that forty-one of the old sol
diers treated were only disqualified
from earning a living by drunken
ness? If there is any truth in these
statements, evidently the manage
ment of the soldiers' home is a very
proper subject of investigation.
Thies & Parlin.
In the live stock exchange of Kansas
City no rirm ranks higher in integrity
and honorable dealing than the Thies fc
Parlin Commission Co. Fourteen years
in business in the exchange, and a life
time in the stock trade have won the
confidence of their customers in their
ability to make good pales, as is shown
by the large business they do both in
selling and buying for feeders. The
month of November their business ran
to over 1150,000. The long experience of
the senior member of this firm makes
his services especially valuable to those
selecting good feeders.
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