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JUSTICE, AND NOT POLITICS.
A Trade Union Tlcw of Courts and "Grand
Old Parties."
On Tuesday, the 6th iast, the house of
reprcaautativea passed the McGann res
olution, authorizing an inquiry into tne
recent actions of Judge Jenkins at Mil
waukee, in isauin j the sweeping injunc
tion against th employes on the North
ern Pacific railway. The resolution as
introduced by Repreaentatiye McGann
had a number of preambles; these were
left off and the committee on judiciary
reported as a substitute the order for an
Investigation. The vote for an investi
gation was almost unanimous and those
who voted against the resolution should
be heralded throughout the district from
which they are chosen, branded in the
future as enemies of workingmen and
not willing to grant the laborers any
right, but over zealous in currying favor
with the monopolies. The quicker the
laboring class realize the needs o'tlegis-
lation tor the poor as well as the rich,
and support those who accord justice to
the weak as well as to the strong, the
juicker will the time come, when they
not be over-stepping the bounds of
the rights of mankind, and capitalists
can be respected, yet not step out of
their places to down the poorer classes.
When we go to the ballot box m tbe
future we should go with thedetermina
tion to support the man who is the
friend of the laboring class, and not sup
port the agent of the corporation, simply
because he belongs to and is on the
ticket of one of the "grand old parties."
The time has passed for us to be driven
up to the polls like bo many sheep, and
cast a straight ticket. It has almost be
come necessary for the organization of a
laboringman'a party and it will soon be
started unless there is some assurance
that the rights of labor will be respected.
The last straw has been added and labor
demands some recognition. The invest!
gation of Judge Jenkins is only a starter
of the reform which must oome through
congress. We demand legislation for the
protection of our righta,and must have it.
The legislator who votes additional power
to monopoly must be marked as an enemy
'and boodler, and when election time
comes, regardless of his suasive power
and promises, pass him by. Vote for the
friend who will try to free us from our
Dond of slavery. Representative McGann
has the thanks of the labor world for suc
cessfully carrying the resolution through
congress. Now, it he will see that there
is no whitewashing by the committee
end that the investigation is carried to a
finish, he will continue to receive praise
and will not be forgotten by those whom
he has befriended in time of need. Poli
tics cuts no figure in this case. "All
men are born equal." If the Union Is to
,be continued, then the constitution must
be protected. Duty to country and not
duty to party should be placed on every
banner of the workingman. McGann
and Jenkins are of the same political
faith, but the former is the friend of la
bor and the latter its enemy.
Congressmen, we thank those of you
who supported the resolution for an in
vestigation; follow that up with some
beneficial laws. We do not ask it to be
one-sided and in our favor, but we do
bzI for equal protection. I
The resolution is very satisfactory, as
it commences an investigation. Jenkins
is under legal suspicion, be can never re
cover his standing in th'e legal profession
even should the committee decide that
he should not be brought before the
sanate for impeachment. It Is serious
for him, and the resolution that has
placed him in an exposed position di
rseta the committee to investigate and
report "whether J. G. Jenkins has ex
ceeded his jurisdiction in granting writs
of injunctions; abused the powers of
process of said court or oppressively ex
ercised the same; or has used his office
as judge to intimidate or restrain the
employes of the Northern Pacific Rail
road company, or the officers of the
labor organizations with which said em
ployes or any of them were affiliated, in
the exercise of their rights and privi
leges under the laws cf the United
States, and if so, what action should be
taken by this house or by congress."
The committee is empowered to sum
mon persons and papers and to spend
$500 for expenses.
Every effort was madeby'judgft Jenk
ins' friends to prevent the judiciary
committee from reporting the resolution,
and Senator Vilas even went before the
committee and argued against it. This
failed, and then Representative Scmers,
of Milwaukee, introduced a resolution
extending the inquiry to other United
States judges who bad passed upon the
questions of the relations between the
receivers of railroads and their employes.
The judiciary committee refused to re
port this resolution and it was pigeon
holed. - The Railroad Telegrapher,
March 15.
Prosperity in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Lynn, Mass., March 12. How are
things in Lynn? Thij question was
asked me in Boston last Tuesday. An
swer: "Not a whit worse than anywhere
else." Since then I have thought it
would interest our comrades elsewhere
to read an answer to the above question.
We have elegant churches in Lynn,
about twenty-five in number; we have
some elegant private reeidences; we have
a population of about 60,000; we have
the most beautiful and extensive public
park in the state; we have factories con
taining more miles of floor space in the
aggregate than any other city of its eiza
in the United States; we have a system
of associated charities whose miraculous
method of feeding the hungry is second
only to the historical multiplication of
the loaves and fishes; and finally we have
a citizens' relief committee that has orig
inated a plan that has practically
"solved" the financial problem, and
clearly demonstrates that we do not
want any more "per capita" money cir
culation. Their plan has been approved
from the state of Maine to the Gulf of
Mexico. By this wonderful plan all un
employtd men with families were em
ployed from ' October last to the pres
ent time, that is all unemployed men
who could get registered among the for
tunate ones. The city furnished shovels,
and picks, and hatchets and the scene of
operation was the public parks, formerly
Lynn woods. Under able directorship it
was found that they were doing great
work; moving snow, making roads, eto ,
but alas! It was discovered that the
little hatchets were doing mischief be
sides which Washington's historical
hatchet action paled into insignificance.
The park commissioners discovered that
trees of tender age that had been trans
planted by them had been ruthlessly
hewed down by the army cf shoemakers,
bookkeepers, electricians, etc., who were
valiantly endeavoring to earn the weekly
subsistance sum provided by the great
citizens' relief committee! This army
reported for work one morning when the
thermometer registered 20 degrees be
low zero. The great editor of the re
publican daily paper here commented
on this faot as positive proof that
the unemployed were willing to
work. Great heavens! the "brain"
would "do more!" Now it is a remark
able fact that business with the un
dertakers is extremely dull and there
has been no case of final starvation here.
This is entirely due to the great efforts
of the associated charities and the citi
zens' relief committee. The former have
adopted the economical plan peculiar to
Lynn of collecting the remains of cooked
food not masticated by the families of
affluent citizens and distributing them
in divided portions to thoos who are un
able to procure work from the citizens'
relief comm&cee, and they are many.
The grocers and other retail traders "are
in th.sconaomme" because the relief
committee can only employ married men,
and is not now able to pay them their
usual weekly sum cf $3 each. Now
there are seven days in the week, so if a
man with four in family provides a meal
for them at cost, "per capita" as the
Populists say, of 5 cents each, it would
ba 25 cents per meal for the family of
five, or $5.25 per week. The result of try
ing to purchase food to the amount of
$5 25 with $3, knocks out even the ad
vertising grocer who sells "below cost"
The whole middle class of Lynn are
going to the wall; sheriff's sales and
mortgagees' sales have been the daily
program; property in which I was inter
ested that cost $6,000 sold two weeks
ago for $3,000, and even then it was sold
to the only bidder at the public sale.
Evictions have begun; two families were
evicted last week, and more are to fol
low. The condition of the almshouse is,
according to the city physician's report,
a disgrace to any civilized community;
the roof leaks; sexes intermingle; vice
and immorality prevails there and can
not be remedied until it is improved or
a new one built. All this is known to
the city government, but they do not
live there, and do not care for those who
do.
An enormous bastile or state armony
is now nearicg completion in the center!
of the city, where it is surrounded by
church spires and other results of para
doxical civilization.
The relief committee sent out 8,000
stamped envelopes with a ciroular beg
ging even the smallest sum in order to
keep the army employed at $3 per week;
now that responses to them have not
come in they desire that the cost of
sending them, . $320 may be secured
by each one contributing i cents. All
this may eecm wonderous, but abler
pens than mine can fully prove that I
have not exaggerated the poverty of our
situation. M. D. Fitz Gerald, in The
People, March 18.
The Nebraska farmers who hung a
stiffed suit of clothes and christened it
"J. Sterling Morton," in order to show
their contempt for that pompous no
body, were promptly tried and convicted
of libel by Cleveland's irate hayeeed sec
retary. This is probably the first case
on record where a man in Morton's
position ever noticed such a thing. Car
toons and effigies usually come so far
from the mark that the original doesn't
care. But Morton knew that nt.nffH
and brainless dummy was a perfect copy
or. mm. it ui way nmje.
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