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WOftKMEW'S
ADVOCATE,
Bciw Jtaucu, Connecticut; JSatnvditgr, 35clmuuu 26. 1887
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1,300,000 VOTES!
A SOCIALIST GAIN OF HALF A
MILLICN.
Special Dispatch I'roiit Comrades Si Hir
er ami Liebknecht-Oiir Cousins
(eriiiiin Obi Nobly Itebel
Keeleeted-Victories
in Prospect.
sStx cial Ciil.'lu Disimtcli.)
DUESDEX, Fob. "J'.', li p. in. Ac
cording to returns thus far received
we arc enabled to send our American
Comrades the following reliable in
formation: In the primary election
just passed, the following Socialists
were elected to the Keichstag (Parlia
ment) :
He bel, Hamburg, First llistriet;
Dietz, Hamburg, Second Histriet;
(Ikh.eeniseiicki:, Xurnberg;
Fkojimk, Altona:
SixoEU, Berlin, Fourth District;
ILasem lev El', Berlin, Sixth Dis
trict.
The following socialistic camli
date8 will run in the supplementary
election:
Sa kok, Frankfort-on-Main.
Voi.f.MAK, Munich, Second Dis
trict.
tioKAi', Konigsberg.
Heinke, Hamburg, Third I is
trict. ' '
Schwa uz, Lubcek.
Kaisek, Brosluu (Fast).
Kuacker, Breslau (West).
IIakiv, Elberfeld.
Heine, Magdeburg.
Mkistek, Hanover.
Wiemek, (ireiz.
Sell I'M achek, Solingen.
Heinzel, Kiel.
Ciiiu.stense.v, Berlin, Third Dis
trict.
K A l) EX, Dr esd en - A 1 1 s tad t .
Bock, (iothu.
And probably the following:
'Lie I'. k x e 1 1 t, ( )ff enbach.
Heine, (J era.
Ui.hich, Hanau.
Our chief advantage lies in the
fact that in each Election I listriet
in which osw party had candidates,
there was a remarkable increase in
Socialist votes; and in places where
the Socialist candidates were defeat
ed, it was owing directly to the un
exampled oppression on the part of
the (iovernment, in behalf of the
united official parties.
Sixuei:,
LiEiikXEcirr.
Xo matter what the capitalistic
press may say, our readers can de
pend upon it that Bismarck and the
Socialists consider the result of the
German elections a victory for the
working people the Socialistic La
bor I'urty. The gain of half a mil
lion votes speaks more loudly than
the actual election of candidates in
the stronger districts. It is possible
that owing to the outrageous perse
cution of Socialists by the govern
ment, they may lose a few represent
atives. Certain it is that Bismarck
will 6pare neither boodle nor brute
force to accomplish his ends.
The places in which supplement
ary elections are to be held "are for
the most part liable to return Social
ist candidates.
To those of our readers who are
unfamiliar with the manner of car
rying on the elections in Germany it
may be explained that if on the reg
ular election day there are more than
two candidates in a district and
neither of them secures a majority
vote over all, there is no election.
In this event the two candi
dates having the largest number of
votes are again in the field, and are
voted for in a supplementary elec
tion. Thus, by reference to the
foregoing special dispatch, it will be
seen that sixteen, ami probably nine
teen .socialist eandand urates will
have another chance for election.
The supplementary elections take
place on the third day of next mont h.
THE "UNION LABOR PARTY."
Platform Adopted by the Cincinnati
Labor Conference.
ClXclXNATl, Feb. -.'li. --When the
conventjoii was called to order this
morning by President Strecter, it
was ordered that a list of of all dele
gates be furnished by each Slate
and Territory for publication in the
proceedings. Tin, committee on
credentials made its final report.
On motion of Mrs. Severance of
Wisconsin the rules were suspended,
and Mr. Crocker of Kansas was per
mitted to explain the Oklahoma
movement and to present a preamble
and resolutions in regard to that
matter. Mr. Crocker proceeded to
read a preamble reciting the action
of Congress with reference to the ac
quiring ot that ground, its grant to
the railroad company, and its subse
qnent forfeiture, and declaring that
this land is now in possession of a
vast chattel syndicate, by undue in
fluence in United States courts,
army and other oflicers, and closing
by a resolution severely censuring
the action of the present administra
tion, and demanding the passage of
the now pending Oklahoma bill, and
if this Congress does not pass this
bill, then requesting the President
to convene the next Congress in ex
tra session to pass the bill.
The report of the committee on
platform and resolutions was sub
mitted at the evening session and
was read bv Chairman Schilling of
the committee. A length v nreumblu
sets forth that the name of the
party shall be the Union Labor
Party, rollowmg is the platform:
Every human being possesses a natural
inalienable right to surhcient land for self
support, and we desire to secure to every
industrious citizen a home as the highest
result of free institutions. To this end
we demand a graduated bind tax on all
large estates, especially those held for
speculative or tenant; purposes; the re
clamation ol all unearned land grants:
the immediate opening of Oklahoma to
homestead settlement; the purchase of
all unoccupied Indian lands, and the
settlement ot the various tribes upon
lands m severalty, also Jaws prevemn
corporations from acquiring real estate
beyond the requirements of their busi
ness and alien ownership of land. The
systems of irrigation in States and Terri
lories, where necessary, shall le under
such public control us .shall secure the
f ree and equitable use of the waters and
franchise to the people.
The means of " communication and
transportation should be owned and con
trolled by the people, as is the United
States postal system, and equitable rates
everywhere established.
I he establishment of a national mone
tary system in the interest of the pro
ducer instead of the speculator and
usurer, by which a circulating medium
in necessary quantity and foil legal ten
der shall be issued directly to the people
without the intervention of banks or
loaned to citizens upon ample security at
a low rote of interest to relieve them
from the extortions of usury, and enable
them to control the money supply.
Postal savings banks could be estab
lished. While we have free coinage of
gold, we should have free coinage of sil
ver. We demand the prompt payment
of the national debt, and condemn the
further issue of interest-liearing lnds,
either by the national government or by
States, Territories, counties or munici
palities. Arbitration should take the place of
strikes aiv.1 other injurious methods of
settling labor disputes; the letting of con
vict lalxr to contractors should le pro
hibited. The contract system should be
abolished in public works. The hours of
la'.or in industrial establishments should
be reduced to a degree commensurate
with the increase of production by labor
saving machinery.
AdLASSlCHOMOR.
THE GREAT SOCIALIST CON
SPIRACY EXPOSED.
The "Son of a Millionaire 'MJlves it
Away The 1 "(i Chestnut Ami
I.nlln, Too! Socialists
Have (Jot Their Work
hi.-Ha! Ha!
:1
The little boy who was so inquisi
tive concerning his father's brick
yard has grown older, and is now
sixteen years of age. He has been
attending Socialist meetings, and
his eyes are opened. In fact, he is
the same boy as he was eight years
ago, only more so. The following
conversation between hi in and his
"old man" is reported by .1. .1. Mar
tin in the Denver Luhur FiHitirer,
and shows "which way the wind
blows :"
Son. Father, what are your views
on co-operation ?
Fat her. Co-operation be d d;
why do you ask such a question ?
Son. 1 heard the men in the fac
tory talking about running the shop
on the co-operative plan
Father. 11a ! the infernal scoun
drels; what did they say?
Sim. They said you were worth
millions, and had made every cent
of it off their labor
Father. Ha! Ha! Ha! tho same
old chestnut; what else did they
say?
Son. They said that the buildings,
the machinery and tools of the fac
tory were the result of their com
bined labor, and that if the product
had been justly shared among ' thoau"
who did the work, you would, have
got only your share, instead of a
largo
part ot every other man s
share
Fattier. The deuce !
munism. bv the gods !
Hank com-
Son. They held and maintained
that unless a man worked or per
formed some useful service to society
neither should he eat.
Fat lift; What! Do they mean to
say that I don't work?
Son. Oh, no; they said you worked
very hard stuffing all the money
they made into your own pockets.
Father. The devil ! Anything
else?
Son. Yes; they went so far as to
say th-vt their labor had furnished
the gold and trinkets with which
you and your kind had allured some
of their daughters from the paths of
virtue and made them outcasts.
Faher. This is getting interest
ing. Goon.
Son. They said also that during
the last strike you had defied all law
and justice by bringing an armed
force, namely, Pinkerton detectives,
to intimidate them, and that these
murderous cut-throats were sus
tained and paid out of their earn
ings. Father. (Io on; go on.
Son. They said that such action,
ustained as it had been by the au
thorities, showed that we were living
under a military despotism of the
most virulent type, instead of a re
public, as they had fondly and fool
ishly been led to believe.
Father. Anything further?
Sun. Yes; they said that as long
as tiiey supported you in your pro
fligacy they were jiartire rriminin.
Father. Hold on ! Did they actu
ally use that term?
Son. Yes, sir.
Father. Good God ! I didn't know
they learned Latin at labor meetings.
What next, for God's sake?
Son. They said that the money of
the monctHjIist controlled the public
press, me telegraph and other ave
nues of communication; that the
first thing they were going to do was
to establish newspaiers to voice
their side of the labor question and
thus educate public sentiment.
Father. And then what?
Son. They would then devise
means of establishing co-operative
factories of all kinds and institue ex
changes on the equitable basis, giv
ing to each 1
amount of t
emploved.
due according to the
or energy honestly
Father. This is getting quite seri
ous. Those Socialists have got t heir
work in, notwithstanding the mil
lions we have spent to ridicule and
crush them.
Son. Social sts! I didn't hear
them say anything about Socialism.
Fattier. No; well, that's just
where they have beat us. They
have been inculcating the principle
without giving it the name. When
Socialism first started, we sent up
such a howl against it through the
press that it scared everybody off.
Son. Then you had better set up
a new scare-crow.
Father. So we have; so we have.
We call 'em Anarchists. We put up
a job recently in Chicago vhcre
these fellows were making too much
headway. AV'e set the police onto
them and hired a Pinkerton to throw
a bomb into the police and kill a few
of them to give us a pretense for
jailing these fellows and hanging
them if possible, but the scheme
don't seem to work. They have got
money enough to stay proceedings,
and, by the gods ! I believe the peo
ple are beginning to see through our
scheme, and will demand their ac
quittal. Son. I am told there was no direct
evidence upon which to convict
them.
Father. Well, there ought to have
been; wo paid enough to have any
kind of evidence.
Son. But how about this co-operative
movement?
Father. It's too late now to at
tempt to buy up the brainy men
who are at the bottom of it; besides,
somehow, I like the idea of seeing a
few of those skunks mowed down by
gatling guns. We'll make them
hunt their holes yet.
Sou. Hush, father; don't bo so
blood-thirsty. They are as a hun
dred to one" of us in numbers, and
could wipe us out easily.
Father. Yes, but they are a set of
cowards, and, as Lei and Stanford of
California said, will run if yon shake
a stick at them.
Son. Well, from what 1 sec of
them, I don't quite agree with either
you or Stanford. Custom and re
ligion may have in times past made
the masses subservient to their mas
ters, but times have changed. These
people are indisposed to violent
revolution, and if obstructed and
defeated in their honest endeavors,
they will arise and demand their
rights by force.
Father. Rights! Do you contend
they have any rights?
Son. Well, you know the old saw
about the right of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness guaranteed
under the constitution?
Father. Another chestnut. And
do you take any stock in that kind
of rot?
Son. People must have something
to eat
Father. People be d d. We'll
do as Tom Scott suggested give 'em
the rille diet for a few days.
Son. In my opinion the less we
talk, about hanging Anarchists, sup
pressing labor meetings, and co-operative
societies, and mowing people
down in the streets, the healthier it
will be for us. The old spirit of
1T7G is not dead, and is liable to
break out at any moment.
Father. 1770 ! Fudge, bosh, non
sense, poppy-cock, (iive us a rest !
STRIKING BOYS.
They Want $ Per Week Instead
of $4.
the messenger boys employed in
the .Mutual District offices at 10
Wall street and 48 Xew street, New
York, about one hundred and fifty
in number, went out on strike yes
terday. The two offices transact the
brokers' business generally, and
were left with only a few employes
when the day's work began. The
boys demand an increase in their
wages to 5 instead of 4, which
they are now receiving.
OUR VALENTINE.
Business at Any Price -Sowing the
Seed-An Agricultural Venture.
It is claimed by many that the
workingman has no business ability.
The following correspondence will,
we hope, demonstrate the enterprise
of the Woiikmkn's Advocate, and
fling back the accusation in the
teeth of the calumniators. In re
sponse to a circular sent out by our
business manager, the following was
received at this office:
Mumujer Workmen's Ailrocate:
Dkak Sik-AH our cash advertising for
the season is done, and our money is all
gone. If you care to insert the adver
tisement three times and take f in
"seeds" (your own selection I, in pay, will
send electrotype. Yours, etc.,
Jamks Vii'K, StnlxiiHii),
Rochester, X. V., Feb. 21, 1S7.
In response to this communication
we returned the following icply, thus
demonstrating our eminent capacity
for business as well as our benevolence:
Mr. ,la men 'irk:
IhiAK ttirc Your favor at hand and
your proposition accepted. We will in
sert your advertisement as suggested,
and will take our pay in hay-seed. We
are not particular as to the quality of the
"seed, but let it be such as produces a
long and luxuriant growth. Please wrap
carefully, and forward (express prepaid)
to the General Assembly of the State of
Connecticut. Address I In 1 Ion. Mem
bers General Assembly State of Gonnee-
ticut, care of the Speaker ol the House
Capitol Building, Hartford, Conn.
Forward your electro., and we will in
sert your ad. at once.
Yours, etc.,
WoitKMEN'sAliVOCATE.
New Haven, Feb. 'Jli, IMS'?.
In order to further insure the ful
hllment of the contract, we have
forwarded the following explanatory
letter to our beneficiaries:
7o the Him, Sjieaker of the J mm' of
JCepresentoiiri'it, Jinrljord, I 'mut,:
Dicau Milt-Mr. James Vick, the welt
Known seeusman or ivocnesicr, in, v ., lias
made us a proposition to insert his adver
tisement and take our pay in seed.
We have no use for the seed, but as
we are determined "to do business at any
cost," the contract has been closed, ami
the amount of our bill will Ik forwarded
to the Honorable Body, the General
Assembly of Connect lent, in hayseed
care ol yoursell. Kindly distribute it
where it w ill do the most good, and
oblige Wohkmkn's AllVCM'ATK.
New Haven, Feb. 2IS, 17.
We trust our valentine will not be
mistaken for a shampoo preparation.
PROHIBITING EVERYTHING.
If late press dispatches are hona
tide, and there is no reason to sup
pose that they are not, (I rand Mas
ter Workman K. of L. Terence Yin-
cent Powderly has been smitten
again with the prohibiting fever.
It has been next to impossible to
take up a newspaper during the
past two weeks without finding some
powerful weapon of the Knights
prohibited for the future by the (1
M. W. Thus, last week, the mani
festo was against political action
the K. of L. must not be drawn
into politics. This week strikes
are prohibited, and the boycott is
demolished in a circular to the
"capitalistic press. Mr. Powderly's
reason for prohibiting the ''boy
cott," as stated by himself, is, tliat
"he hates the word boycott," which
ought to be quite sufficient for the
thousands of Knights who realize
that it is their only available means
of temporary relief.
If Mr. Powderly hates a thing, it
must go that settles it. What a
terrible catastrophe would result if
the Grand Master Workman should
suddenly take a notion to "hate"
the earth. We can see no alterna
tivethe earth would have to go.
And the inhabitants? Those poor
creatures who were not caught up
in a chariot of lire with the (J. M.
W. during the last act, might lloat
aimlessly on forever in the realms of
space.
liy the w ay, where was Terence
during the lite masterly effort of
1 "49?"
LIST THEM STARVl
FOOLS KILLED BY THEIR
FOLLY.
What, (ioml Mayor Hewitt, of
York, Thinks of the lleservlns
Poor. How He Proposes
To Kncoiirage Proud
Self-Bel ianee.
Last Fall, 80,000 loyal
backed, "democratic" working
of New York City cast their
for Society-Savior Hewitt, as
posed to Henry George, the im
pendent labor candidate. Previous
Ail 1 . -vr . . .
tome election, Hewitt, in various
speeches, indicated a fervor of anx
iety to aid the workingmen, which
has been seldom equalled and neverl
excelled in the annals of political
campaigning. Upon one occasion,!
he even went so far as to remark as
follows: "I am a workingman. U
have every sympathy with the workfl
ingman. I am determined to use1)
every effort to elevate and improvil
his condition. They say that thijr
campaign will kill me. I welcoffi'
death in such a cause." After suA
an expression of a determination J
"do or die" one would have expecn
something better than thefollowinj
which is his first official act since IK
resigned his bed and undertook tl
duties of his office. I ' 1
Mrs.-J. M. C. Lamadrid,la phill
anthropically inclined lady, pro)poseq
to establish at her own expense1
the poorer districts of New Yoi
City, a number of booths when
poor could obtain food at a noi
price. Permission to erect
booths was granted by the Board
Aldermen, but Hewitt returned the
bill, vetoed. This ia what he Baid
"i return without my approval a reso
lution grant ing to Mrs. J. M. Clementinf
I .aniadrid the privilege to place and taalr
tain at her own expense covered ot
or stands at certain places Rpecit
the resolution, to be used for the ill
ing of meals to the poor at rates il
ceeding one cent for each article ol
so furnished, to be paid by the cons
and at no charge or expense to the
of New York.
"Under numerous decisions of th(
courts I think it cannot be controvert
that the booths proposed to be erectef
are illegal, and would have to be remove
as incumbrances upon the complaint i
any citizen. The only justification f
assuming the right to grant tlnsprml
is to le found in the tact that the
tion of the. grantee is to carry out '
she regards as a charitable sehenil
the bet of the poor. But, ii
judgment, o far from improvingl
cnn.litinn of the noorpi' classes of I
l liy, il would leuu io iiinr ucuiuiai.
tion and to the increase of the numl
who would come to hxik upon food si
at nominal prices as a means of suppr
If there were any great exigency atf
present time which required the diL
bution of food at merely nominal rat
I would not lie disjwsed to interpose
position to any plan by which the suit
mgs of those in want might be iia
ished. The elfect of supplying food at.
nominal rate of one cent per meal wou
unquestionably be largely to increase
number of those who would rely ur
chance for procuring the means of y
hood.
llow is this tor a goon onu
ioncd "united democrat"? EJ
Mr. Hewitt's objections h a siJ
fusre. The only exception
would hold for a moment, is 1.h;j
the illegality of the erection of I
but what of the hundreds ol n!
stands and licensed vender's boot
which crrace the curbs of the cit
If these are not illegal, how canr
food-booths be illegal? 1
The fact is, Mayor Hewitt 1
dyed-in-the-wool hypocrite, who j
lose no opportunity to put a nail
the laborer's coffin" But it could
expected from a man who gave utY
ance to the following expressior
opinion in a public speech at ll
more thirty years ago, when lur
longed to the Kuownothings: i
"Anieiica was made by God Allmw
for the Americans. We want no dirtl
shiftless Ins' emigrants; no irowzi
beer-drinking dernuins; no Italians? i
Poles; no Swedes ! I hereby place my
self on record as in favor of laws reatricj
ing t-migration ! Let us unite and driy
this nigged, filthy horde back to tlitf
mud-huta in Europe." J