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THE3 tXO'CJiR/Isr.A.Xj: FRIDAY, JDLY 29, 1892.
Ek* $ our mil
isputlislied on Friday morning of each week at
Rising Sun, Cecii, Co., Maryland,
—BY—
E. E. EWING & SONS.
Independent in polities and all other
subjects.
SI.OO A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
Friday, July 20,1892.
“Although we have struck
the chains, the fetters, from
four million blacks of the South ,
there is a monetary system
growing up in America which
will sooner or later fasten the
chains on all the American
peopled —Abraham Lincoln.
Not one act has passed the houses
of Congress in the last fourteen years
for the benefit of the common masses
of t he people.
What valid purpose do cither of
the old parties hold out to us in
their national platforms on this eve
of a national election as an induce
ment for our votes? Notone ! The
masses of both these parties are
honest but their leaders are a band
of scheming politicians.
Harrison and Cleveland are the
candidates of a monied aristocracy.
It is amusing to hear the plutocra
tic press whistling to keep its courage
up. And among them there is not a
better whistler than the Drexel organ,
the Philadelphia Ledger. This paper
is one of the non-partisan, non-politi
cal, Chesterfield, correct speaking,
wave of the hand plutocat journals.
It never permits the ill smelling
cause of the people to come be
tween the wind and its nobility. The
following is a specimen sneer of this
gold bug.
“The People’s Party, with its plat
form of political and socialisms and
heresies, and of no principles or
policies which the wise, just judg
ment of the country can approve,
cannot expect a long life, for as it is
with the man so with the party, the
fittest only will per manently survive.’’
The inference to be drawn from
this is that the great Jew gold bug is
the “fittest.” such as Drexel, Morgan
& Co., of Philadelphia. New Nork
and London. Beside these the
wealth creating industrial American
is an insignificant nothing to be put
out of the way if he shall dare in
trude on the gold nobility, with
Pinkerton rifles. We will see.
Congress will adjourn in a few
days, probably this week. It ha 9
been in session nearly eight months,
and what has it done ? Passed ap
propriation bills reaching in the
aggregate nearly up to SSOO millions.
They, these representatives of the
people, have trifled the time away,
afraid to take any decided step
toward legislating for the country for
fear of compromising the chances at
the coming Presidential election.
Like a pair of dubious and half
skilled chess players, each party has
been afraid to move lest bis opponent
would checkmate him. In al. their
speeches it was the democrat or re
publican party that was to be served.
That was what they were there for.
The people’s interest was never men
tioned or thought of. They were not
there as servants of the pcogle but of
a party. Such men are not wanted
any longer, and are not fit to send to
Washington. An entirely different
cla93 must replace them, if things are
ever to mend. Men to serve the
people must be chosen. A man who
knows nothing but party isn’t fit to
legislate for a drove of cattle, much
less for American citizens. The
whole outfit must be changed. Conk
ling said the two old parties were
two organized appetites, and Cock
ling was right.
Wm. F. liarrity, of Pennsylvania,
has been selected as chairman cf the
democratic national committee. A
short time ago. Mr. liarrity was the
guest and orator at a grand bankers’
banquet in New York, a regular
Wall street, gold ring council, liar
rity made an elaborate speech in
which he advocated a return to the
old State hank system, and a repeal
of all acts making any kind of paper
legal tender. Nothing but gold in
his opinion should ever be received
ns money, and all other kinds ol
currency should be mode payable in
gold. lie had an elaborate financial
and banking plan which he outlined
to the bankers of New York, in
which everything was put under the
feet of gold. And this is the gold
autocrat which the leader of the once
democrat party have installed as
their commander in-chief. Wherein
does the democrat party differ from
the republican, with Whitney, the
coal oil prince and national banker
managing and directing the candi
date at the National Convention and
liarrity the gold bug adviser of the
Wall street bankers heading the
democrat party? What part has the
plain people in such parties ? If it
was not that they must be called
upon to perform the mechanical part
of voting as they are ordered, they
would never be thought of by the
managers and leaders of both these
“seed wart” (as Brick Pornroy has
named them) aristocratic parties.
Just think of old Hickory General
Jackson being groomed by a prince
of national bankers—the institution
he fought against for eight years and
with the people at his back finally
downed—and the manager of his
campaign the advocate of a return to
wild cat State banking, the honored
guest of London and WalJ street
gold ring agents, and us
where the “democrat” comes in.
The Impending Conflict.
The bloody tragedy of Homestead pub
lishes another chapter in the hiatoty that is
being written of the conflict between—not
capital and labor as commonly but improp
erly expressed, but between the capitalist
and the labtyrir. This last chapter more
forcibly demonstrates the mistaken principle
that all trades unions have acted on, and
reveals the weakness and tolly of the strike
as a means to coerce the capitalist, en
trenched behind the corporation and de
fended by law. The capitalist has acted
wisely, the laborer foolishly. Thecapitalisl
has secured the protection of the State in
case of emergency. The laborer has de
pended on his power of numbers disregard
ing law and the power of the State, haviug
only his selfishness in view, which was the
purpose to raise his wages, regardless of the
rest of the labor world. In fact he is willing
to join capital or rather the capitalist in an
effort to trample on the lights of his fellow
laborers, if they happen to belong to a
branch of industry he is not specially em
ployed io, or are willing lo do the work he
rejects for the wages he refuses. The inher
ent weakness not to say tyranny of this
position ought to he apparent to all, hut it
seems not to have been.
This fatal defect in the labor union can
not but become clear to the most obtuse of
the brotherhood of Ihose unions. This
ignorance of results has been taken advan
tage of by the corporations to divert the
unions from perceiying the great strength
that is within their reach, through the ballot,
and to give them into the hand of the trad
ing politicians who have made use of them
to increase and consolidate the power of
monopoly. The labor unions by their
strikes have harassed the corporations no
little and caused them great losses; but the
war between them, like all wars has been
destructive not profitable to either party.
There must be an end to all wars or total
annihilation is inevitable. This end is
reached either by the subjugation of one ol
, the parlies which oppose each olher or a
treaty of peace. All such treaties are sure
, to he broken which are not founded in jus
, tice and the equal rights of all parties to
the struggle. The contentions in the form
. of strikes which have been patched up by
the parties immediately concerned without
■ regard to those —which is the general
public—indirectly influenced, could not
, possibly remain permanent, and hence
i strikes have become chronic till they have
! grown intolerable and public sentiment
’ while on the side of the strikers for the
justice they demand, is opposed to the
; warlike methods they pursue.
This Homestead battle is the turning
point in the long and destructive wars
' which have been waged by the two lions, s
1 for supremacy. The corporation needed but
' a vast aggregation of capital which the
trust has succeeded in {accumulating, as
exemplified in the Carnegie combination,
witli an aggressiye leader like Frick to
force the contest after all necessary prepara
’ tions for the campaign had been made. The
> Amalgamated Association was the most
, powerful organization which labor had
• succeeded. in consolidating. If the corpora
! tion could successfully attack and destroy
' this, labor, on the lines it had laid down to
successfully fight capital would he virtually
vanquished. The corporation had bided its
lime and secured all the laws it desired to
support its cause. Its rights are acknowl
edged in law to be the same as those of the
, citizen, and in case of encroachment upon
l them the power of the state and nation is
pledged to sustain them, the same as the
. home, the property and liberry of the citi
zen are defended and sustained when threat
ened or encroached upon.
This was the condition of affairs when
brick’s campaign was planned against
, associated labor. The public has been
amused and diverted by the question of
wages for the purpose of concealing the true
merits of the case. The Carnegie company
cared little for the diflerence ofa few dollars
: more or less in the matter of wages. Like
all despots they chafe under a divided
authority. They thirst for absolute (lower.
1 Like Ahab they ccvet Naboth’s vineyard,
1 and the corporation daily press, their
Jezebel, is ready to devise means by which
the inheritance ot labor shall be delivered
to the corporations, the Ahabs of our time
and generation.
A high wall was built round about the
Carnegie works, and the laborers were in
■ formed that a portion of them should sub
mit to a reduction of wages, and that future
contracts should date from January instead
; of from July, the busy season. It was
known in adyance that the Amalgamated
Association would object to these terms.
Consequently a detachment of the Pinker
, ton army, which is an unconstitutional body
j of mercenary troops recruited and equipped
. and ready to obey (lie call of the corpora
( tions when the labor organizations attempt
I to enforce their demands. All these prep.
[ aratious for a final struggle were made by
l brick, and tfie war was inaugurated. To
| precipitate just such a conflict was the de
| liberate purpose of monopoly. They knew
l that the blind Samson of labor occupied
1 untenable ground, and if the temporary
I forces of monopoly failed they had the mil’.
! ttary power of the State and Nation at their
t call. 1 his could have been invoked without
i a conflict, but it would not have punctuated
i so emphatically the power of corporation,
* 3 the building a fortress about their works
and garrisoning it with an army of their
owu, aud wholly under their own command.
Ihe battle which was precipitated proved
; t l‘ at ff*e labor forces were too alert and too
; strong for any mercenary armed force that
monopoly could bring against them without
j too open and flagrant violation of law, and
t ,he military power of the State had to be
. appealed to. And this iB well. It shows in
, the most uuinistakahltr manner, how utterly
, powerless and futile till labor unions are
j 10 coerce organized capitalists, sheltered
. under the corporation and supported by the
| military of the State, lithe labor unions
. persist in illegal methods in their effort
i to coerce the corporation, the next step
| will be laws to declare all such organizations
' conspiracies against the peace and authority
t of the Stale. While the State continues to
i sustain the corporations in their steady
I encroachment on the rights and liberties of
1 ‘ke citizen, by dividing their forces between
i two old political parties which are always
ready to grant the corporation and money
classes such laws as they demand, the latter I
have deemed it best to suffer some incon
venience, in order to secure such laws and !
perfect such organization as weie necessary
to consolidate their power and secure their
hold on the goyernment. This has been
almost accomplished, and if they can secure
the election of either Cleveland or Harrison
to the Presidency and a majority of either
party in congress or a majority of one of
them in either house, the legal status as it
exists can be maintained, and the corpora
tions can deal with the labor unions by
refusing to employ union men and contract
ing individually with each man. The Car
negie company has pointed the way by
showing the labor party and also the less
powerful corporations that they have but to
appeal to the Stutt for military protection
and lo the over-run labor market for a
supply on their own terras.
When the unions learn that their orgau
izatiotis have beeu shorn of all power to
coerce their employers and non-union labor
is made sure that a military guard is stand
ing ready lo defend it from abuse and injury
by (lie unions, the latter will be dissipated
like ttie dew of the morning. Its occupa
tion will be gone. It has reached that point.
The corporation has shown to the whole
people that it has the legal right to call
* upon the military (lower of the State to
; guard it for an indefinite time at the tax
payers’ expense.
. With labor organizations utterly destroyed
as a force lo keep up wages, the employe
t will he in the power of the corporation, and
his wages will he controlled, not by the
unions as heretolore to a limited extent, but
f by the labor market, which is being more
crowded every year as the improvements in
i machinery multiply production and is op
. eraled with fewer bands.
There is but one power that labor may
use in its defense, which is the ballot. This
| it has steadily neglected, and has been let!
, astray from by its leaders. It has been
I debauched in the cities by the saloon which
, is an insrument in the hands of the monop
, olieslorthatspecialpurpo.se. Labor must
. cast its vote ill a solid mass for its protection
, by law, or forever sink to the hopeless
, depths of wage slavery. This does not mean
, one class of the great labor army, the hired
t laborer only, but its far-reaching effects
[ embrace all and every class. The small
l employer, the mechanic, the merchant—
> eyery one outside the corporations. The
; corporation is an artificial person, the
l creature of the State, and must be placed
, under State control and supervision, before
> the citizen can breathe the air of freedom
and safety.
s Military Brutality.
5 All who read newspapers are familiar
1 with the scenes at Homestead and all the
■ rapid and exciting changes which have
3 taken place, and they need not be repealed.
i Not less among these events was the brutal
’ ity of Colonel Streator, who had private
' lams strung up by the thumbs till he be
-1 came unconscious from the pain. This
* brutal act created a wave of indignant pro
' test from one end of the country to the
other and a demand for the brute’s dismissal
’ from the Guards. The higher officers of
1 these Pennsylvania volunteers seem to he of
’ the same arrogant type of Streator, General
s Snowden, commander-in-chief, it is reported
’ approved the brutal act of his inferior officer.
The circumstances show unmistakably that
J the officers of these State military orgaaiza
-1 izations are chosen from among the aristo
’ cratic money class who have stealthily got
! this government in their hands unknown lo
’ the people, and are preparing means quietly
to sustain themselves in power when the
aroused people discover that their liberties
1 have been lost. The plutocratic newspapers
1 which have been trying lo carry water on
1 both shoulders, were startled into submission
f by the unmistakable electric shock of indig
! nation which ran from heart to heart though
out the country when the tiger of Plutocracy
’ showed it bloody teeth in the actions of its
; brutal military. There is no use longer
' trying to put the ugly truth aside that
■ Plutocracy is couching for its spring and
i struggle for final supremacy in the great
republic. People would not believe that
1 it was niuking ready for this before the shiv
' ery conspiracy burst upon the nation. That
: was successfully inaugurated by steadily
voting for the old parties. Ano less world
'■ resounding contest confronts us now and the
' way to precipitate it is lo continue voting
for the old parties. Whether bloody or
; bloodless time will show. The contest is
* inevitable and immediately before us.
3
The republican papers were rather dis
gruntled because Cleveland fought shy at
the great spectacular display last week at
Madison Square Garden in New York,
where the imposing ceremony of telling the
candidates they had been nominated at
Chicago, was gone through with. Cleveland
made a little speech, confining bis remarks
| principally to the "tariff,” leaving the
major part of the long platform unnoticed,
or to be taken up at a later date when the
. formal letter is published. The old roosters
of the two old parties want to see how the
cat jumps before they say too much.
The nearness of the two old parties to
each olher was manifest in the loving re
j ports by the republican papers. Nothing
could be more imposing than the arrange
ments for the meeting and the movements of
Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland on the occasion.
To read the loving particulars of the affair
j in the republican dailies a stranger would
5 have thought the whole affair was a repub
( liean lay out. Wall street, New York, and
( Tlireadneedle, London, are drawing their
I two wings very close together in their
t design to crush the people.
i
, “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled
. Peppers,’’ was a line of allitorative nonsense,
| that the children used to say. Nowadays
. they can practice on the Perfect, Painless,
i Powerful Properties of Pierce’s Pleasant
Purgative Pellets. It will impress a fact
which will be useful to kuow. These Pel
i lets cure sick headache, bilious attacks,
r indigestion, constipation and all fetomach,
, liver and bowel troubles. They .are liny,
i sugar-coated pills, easy to take, and, as a
f laxative, one is sufficient for a dose. No
{ more groans and gripes from the old drasic
remedies! Pierce’s Purgative Pellets are
1 as painless as they are perfect iu their
’ effects.
The Humbug of Gold,
j Among the chimeras of gold money
and gold panics there is none more in
structive than that which preceded the
act of specie payment of the United
States after 17 years of suspension
during and immediately following
the slavery war. January Ist, 1879,
was the date fixed by Congress for
resumption ol specie payment, when
the U. S. Sub-treasury at New York
was to begin to pay out gold on
demand for greenbacks.
The alarm in New York was so
great that the presidentof the Nation
al Bank of Commerce in that city,
who was also chairman of the Clear
inghouse Committee, at three o’clock
p. m., on the 30th, with the advice of
other bankers, sent the Secretary, by
special messenger, an urgent request
for the transfer to his bank on the
following day from ttie Sub-Treasury
of $5,000,000 in gold in exchange for
a like amount in United States notes,
to enable the hanks, he said, to meet
their coin disbursements at the end
of the year. To this there could be
but one reply. The Treasury had no
power to make the transfer, even if
it itad desired to do so.
The year, however, closed with no
unexpected excitement, but with tin
pleasant forebodings. The first day
of January was Sunday and no
business was transacted. On Mon
day anxiety reigned in the office of
the Secretary. Hour after hour pass
ed ;uo news came from New York.
Inquiry by wire showed all was
quiet. At the close of business
came this message from the Sub-
Treasury: “$135,000 of notes pre
sented for coin—$400,000 of gold for
notes.” That was all. Resumption
was accomplished with no disturb
ance. It would be difficult to find a
more convincing lesson than this
experience of the arrent bumbuggery
of gold. Gold money is as great a
fraud and sham as the gold idols in
heathen temples.
The greatest political power in this coun
try is in the hands of the labor organizations
1 if they will consent lo use it. They have
been lighting capital as the Lilliputs fought
Gulliver and with about the same success.
If they would let their strikes go and con
! suit together, ascertain what legislation is
' required to mend conditions complained of,
' and then vote together in electing their
1 wisest and most trustworthy men, they can
control and order everything appertaining
to government, state and national, without
the loss of a single day’s work or one drop
■ of blood. As long as they divide themselves
•. up between the two old parties whose can
! didates are always selected and controlled
. by the corporations, they will never achieve
• anything. Their strikes will become an
■ insufferable nuisace, and be suppressed by
the strong arm of the law—law made by
i servants of the T’riumphant Plutocracy
. whom they, the labor unions, are mainly
, instrumental in electing. While the labor
[ unions continue lo help forge the chains
r that, bind them the Triumphant Plutocracy
r will fasten the chains on them with alacrity
! —.
I Labor to be respected must do as
■ capital has done, assert its rights
and its power in congress and the
legislature. In order to accomplish
this it must be hear, not by proxy,
| not by petition, asking as a slave for
’ favors, but by the mouth of its own
representatives, elected by its own
1 ballols. It must stand together as
’ an organized political party, sending
1 to the halls of legislation its best
1 men to speak and vote for it, the
1 peers of the best in the land in power
and influence. Then and not till then
will it sail on smooth seas and under
' smiling skies-
The editorial fulruinations of the
Philadelphia Press in the Homestead
business are a disgrace to American
. citizenship. They point the danger
to linerty which lurks behind the
monopolistic press of this country,
and should be a timely warning to
I tbe people. This brazen apologist
, for corporation anarchy aud corpora
, tion despotism has shown its horrid
1 head in this crisis without its . mask,
and it is a hideous mien. Mark
further. The Press is the leading
republican party paper of the country.
When the prohibition party threat
ened to become a dangerous factor
in politics to the old parties, no
’ slander was too bad for tbe plutocrat
press to publish about it, but since
its existence has proved harmless
they praise its good intentions and
moral worth. Among the good
things it has accomplished they say
1 it has caused the high license laws.
This is about the grimest piece of
' sarcasm since Dean Swilt’s day.
Duntlng Houses.
In ancient Rome, the speculators at
. that time engaged in the strange business
1 of buying houses on tire. Tlie speculator
. hurried to the scene, attended by slaves
1 carrying bags of money and others carry
ing tools, judged the chances of salvugo
and made a bid to the distracted liouso
owner, who was glad to accept anything
as a rule, The bargain struck iu alt
haste, this earliest of tire assurers set his
slaves to work and secured what ho
could. Sometimes even ho put out the
flames and so made a coup. It was a
business for capitalists, but the poorest
who speculated in a small way could
hardly lose if he had presence of mind
enough to grasp the chances. Thus Cato
the elder, and above all Crassus, laid tha
foundations of their great wealth. Tito
hitter had a passion for such gambling.
He gradually collected a force of carpen
ters, masons and such artificers—slaves,
of course—which reached five hundred
men. Not only did he buy houses on
fire, but also, enlarging upon the com
mon practice, he made a bid for thoso
adjoining which stood in danger. Ilia
proposals were commonly welcome, we
learn, so helpless were the people aud so
great ttie peril. By this means Crassus
became the greatest owner of liouso
property in Home,
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I ~ — : *
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the
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hot wave, we still have an assortment left to meet
the demands.
It is always a pleasure to serve our customers
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at this time, as the opportunities are many, and it
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t
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The Camel-skin Shoe you have heard so much about is
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RISING SUN, MD.
DRY GOODS
in latest summer styles, shown with pleasure
Wash Fabrics in whites and fine Ginghams
STRAW HATS
in great variety.
SHOES
Ladies’ fine Dongola Shoes, Oxford Ties in
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FRESH GROCERIES
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COLOR A, MD.