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and a t 0 be has ncy : an !ER use and and the leer, and ited imp K o . and NS rth 3ts. $3, ley s if any S, THE VOL. II, WHOLE NO. 54. RAY TROY. N. Y., MAY 7, 1887. $1.00 PER ANHEM. THE CREAM OF SOCIETY. QBEAT AND (iOOI) PEOl’I.E WITH PI.ENTY OF MONEY. Alt thp CaHli and Ili)n<ls TUpy Foftsews Arc tlio Result of Very 'Wise Tn- vcntinouts Ai'oorcllns to T-aw. During my cinneotion with tho hack ing busincas it waa my good fortune to coma in coniaot wiili what is koo«n ua the ere iHi of society ; thit is, those g n at and good p. opie who have at all times plenty of money, both in piCKet and in 'bank. Tiiey are tliorouglily honest, for they conduct their business s'rictlj according to the law, in wiiioh they are Arm believers, All the cash or bonds that they possess are the result of wise and judicious investmeuta, btriclly according to law. Of course it is true lual they bud the biggest say lu ttie making of the law, but then they are possessed of a superior education, and as law is the oflspiing of colleges nowadays who h .s a belter right to euuaue in its manufacture or see that it is properly pervetuated. The mierest on those mvestinents arc daily ac- oumulalmg. la many cases it is com pounded. Those luves'ments are chiefly muUo la railroad stocks, in telegvaphic communications, in real estate, and in all the avenues of commerce and iiisurai ou. The rights uf the invesiors are properly lockel after and well protected by the powerful trm of oar free government. Naturally enough Chose good eadgreit men attended to this, as it was to their :*tetest to do so. Now, Mr. Editor, it is said by this communistic, or eocialistic, or Knight of Labciristic, or anarchistic element—let me say this grumtiUng or dissatisfied element iu society that are entirely iguoiant of the great benefit professitms of all shades are to tie com- runnity ul large—that this railrouu s'ooa has been watered, that the stoesholdcrs have Ix en robbed. In f. ct they are so outrageous in ilieir demands that they insist that curporations lie destroyed; that tho government take hold and run thi railroads in the interest of all the people. Now the euforcemeut of this demand would result in bringing more cl. sely together the producer and consumer. I t would abolish this particular sort of interest and destroy tne oppor tunity tor wise and jndicious investment in this iine of busiues-. Indeed none bat mud men would make such a demand as this! They also claim that while pri d ice exchanges and chambers of commerce are pc-rmitti d to exist and do buduess that tho pn.diicer and consumer will alike be robbed. Theiguorsnt and de uJed people caniiot underslaud bow a few hundred or a few thousand wall eductted. well bred, thoroughly cultme I genllemen can go down town to their offices for a lew h uirs each day and ri le Lome to their mansions in the eveuiog in a cab, as they Lave often done in mine. Their tnaosious are, of course, elegintly fnruisUed. It b necessary tl. lit they shoul i b« to accom-. odate geiit'omen of such standing in iciety. Now this is all 1 gitimaie, and I n often inclui.-d to forgive tliose^po. r the liw. am often inclined to forgive ignorant and deluded people, that they c-annot understand 1 a t'cji’eJ a met ling the other night and a few of those b' odiums (acy iuiellig. nl or law-abiding citizen wiio appreciates the Beauties <if ait or the neces i'y tor and the inanoiflcencf of p'alnccs cinuor call tuein anything ebe) were di-ou sing the land question. Non, I would iiki- to know what this land q lestt-in h is got t.) do with them ? It is well enough iu Ireland, tint it has no bu iness lieie. The people of Ireland caun t live wl bout the land, but we can go to work in factories or become the coachmon of i hose gentle men. Our s sters and our duughteis cao become their se'Vdiits If wc are to.i long out of emploimimt we don’t need to starve, «c can beg, and if we get ibe door closed in our lace wi- c m go to the asli barrels. If we don’t like to do that we cm go to the do;k i.nd pimp r: bo.ird—provided there ,s no r-preseuti of5f thee laww arr 'und.und. Iff ourur daughterughters th la a ' I o da i r lur sisters cannot get emplojm'Ut, that 18 , if the market U- overstocked, ihey don’t need to starve: they aie i.t liberty to prostitute themselves and get a' loast a bite to cat for their honor. Some crank may rise up iu horror at this i lea, but I ask. is it not true and p rfeclv legal ? \Where then is the use in us discussing this laud question when we know we Truthful tVordK. I often reflect upon tho traihofthe words of the poet who wrote “T’was fate, tlieysiy, a wayward fate, Out web of discord wi’Ve, And while our tyrants join d m bate ; We never joined in love.” Let ua thee unite in love and wc shall be able to overcome all who unite in hatred.—Putman. THAT OFFiriAl, (TlUl LAR. A coi respondi'ut sends us the following circular, as it appeared in a number of the d ii'y papers; To the merabiTs of our Or Ji r wherever found—Gceeliiig: At a conference of all District As't m- I'lies, through their repres'at ilivcs, in Hie State of New York, held at Stephens’ Hall, Troy, N w York, in February 22, 18S7, the following resolutions were adopted: Whi re IS, Ttie capitalistic press of New York bus tor the p'st sev-n weeks us°il all its iufl lenoe to destroy the homes of the coal handlers and their suinorters while they were manfully ttruggliug for i-xisbnce, and at the earns time resisting the com'iined powir of despotic mon opoly; and Wh< r. as, Tho New York Sou has been 'he most cowardly and vi'ulcnt iu its at tacks, its sole otijcct being to breakup our org inlzation; therefore, belt Res lived, That we pledge ourselves to abstain Ic future, and reipie-it all organ ized labor throughout tho c mntry to ab stain from purchasing or having any di al- in, B with the person or pi r-ons who pur chase the New York San; and be it Eur- Resolved, That a copy of these resolu tion! be sent to oTpfj, organized Ass-im- bly of the K. of L and every known or ganization of wo'kiiigmen in the country; and be it still fuaher Rcs lived, That we concentrate our ef- for's 0 I the New York Sun. D.^^A. 147, 102, 7,5, 40, 128, 40, GO, 104. We will now conclud.i by saying that when we had only l.'i tOO organized meu in this Stale every similar resolution was effective. To-day, with 100,000 < rganized oioa Hud W'lm-n in this St.te, iith i se rrsoluiiims are not cff.ctive in a few mom 's it is tne u-e you have not done yi’Ur fiity. Ri nienib'T that ti ey who 'voui.l '>e free them-elves must strike the blottl We request that these lesoluiion? be lead at every meeting. LK'ENSE IS NOT I.IBEKTY. Buntou IJborty on the sliiimoful Now York Sun. That vigorous ard sharp anti-boodle paper, the New York Leader, reports a boyc. tt against the Sun instituted by eleven Dhtrict Assemblies of the Knight'! of Labor. Tho Sun fr.mtically calls upon the press to protest ag.iinsl this iitrfectly natural and wi-e act of passive reeist.ince to its ma icions ai;d ooDfemptih'e course in the tieatmeat o; every progressive move on t o part of the victims of Tammany Hill thieves and tricksters, and makes Usilf ridicu'ouB by its mad ravings of assassiu-ition and dynamite. \The press ma t be free!” ex' laims Mr Dana. Cerli ii.ly, The press is (r. e, but It hag abused its fri ed im most shatue- fully, because Hie workingmou w. re not free and intell.g- ntenough to te ch it that the exercise of frei dom is bad at its own cost. Free men will suppon a free prers as long as it is fair. When the free loiss choo-es 10 adopt a f.-lse and desi i ablt- policy, liie pations are fre ■ loexjresa their . mpiialic disapproval by flnni'Cialiy reckina the {to iitute who abuses his lliisbaiulH o f Their Wives. But even a more eiciting ihcatiica' event is anticipilfd. Ariangcmenis arc iu progress under which wo are to I avc ft leuval of the famous farce cf “Box and Cox,” lie title rol< 8 being filled by Jlr. Langtry and Mr. Brown Potter. It is ex pected that the appearance of these gentlemen, so much talked of imtsu little known, will cause great interest ; but, in a'lduiou, strenuous exertions arc heiiip maue to iu'iuce an 111 str-s Pers-ee to take upon bimsvlf the character of Mrs. Bouncer. ‘‘Ce bon Eatl-sn brilliant succ as r London World. ay be looked for.— Claudius: Ho.vfottH. The followin:{ are standing boyco’ts in force: The Andover Shoe Co.’s shoes ; Champion machines, Spricgfiild, 0 : all meats packed at Ohieago ; Star Ruiiher Goods, Trenton, New Jersey; the Cahimei Iron and Steel Co.’s noils; Fnl^-r. Warren & Co.’s stoves, Troy, Conimonced to Boom. Organized labor throughout tne country has begun to boom the knit goods label. All the reform papers fr.im Maine to Texiis and irom Oregon to Florida wre j'lining the boom. There will s'lon be money for someone in manufacturing 'ahelhd knit goods. Keep at it boys. Boom the label.—Labor’s Stage. THE rOATRACT liltEAEERS. AN ADVERTISEMENT WHICH W GIVE THEM GRATCITOrSLY\. Antipfttliy of tho People to Scab Goods Wl il Evontnally OblUorate un Erst- wUtli* IIlvo oCIudustry. “C'laiiog events cast their shadow be fore.” In my previous letters I predicted that the main object of the Stove Manu facturers’ Doteuse Association was to do e a'i the lotindries in the country solely to aid the Fuller & Warren Co. to dispose of thrir scab goods. Mouths aj’o the idea was conceived by the Fuller i Warren Co. and their hirelings that their only salvation lay in the tie- up of the stove foundries ot the United States, and S'. Louis was selected for the st.iUlug point. Tlie events of the pa-t week plainly and clearly demon strates the truth of my assertion. They were determined to close the foundries wlittter the molders male the scab patterns or not. In Erie, P a , the men all rem iiued to work but seven, and were willing to raiJce the work, but when the bo'-sts found that the meu would not strike they locked them out. When the scab patterns arrived iu Troy the men, aft't due deliber.itioa, agreed to work on the patterns, and when they went as usual to their woik on Wednesday they were looked out, and no remon was given for the action takeu against them by the m innf.icturers. Heretofore when the workingmen went on strike the first cry heralded through the prostituted press by the manafaoturers was conspiracy. But DOW, when the s'ove manufacturers have without cause or provocation locaed ■ 'lit th( ir molders 88 well as the rest Oi f'uir employes, we hear not a word. Ii is .1 blessing to the Fuller & Warren Co. to gi t some kind of a pretext to close their works, for every ilay the works ari it 18 at a gigantic loss lo the concern. It is suicide for them to run their works and manufacture goods for which they have DO maiket, tor besides the many thousand stoves they now have stored away in their various s'ore bouso-i throughout the country, their goods arc ?ry year going out of date and will only he fit for so much scrap iron. Repeatedly this infamous firm of coutract^rcaker- liaye sent circulars throughout . the Country denying that they broke their contract with the General Executive Board, or th.it they ever used their em ployes other than in tlie kindest manne’'. Does the locking out of their employes show any respect for them ? OJi, how the scab concern of Puller & Warren love organized labor, and the Knights of Labor in pirticnlar ! The following decision w.is handed down to D. A. 68 tiy the Gineral Executive Boird, and -how.s plainly whether they broke their agnemi'Dt with the General Executive Board or n o t: PniLADSLPuiA, July 17, 1886.—Dear 8'r and Brother: The General Executive Board, having fully condJered the case of ihe Fuller & Warren Co, decide thai. the agreemeut entered into between said company, ouraelves and your District has been brokenID by thee saidaid Fulleruller & Warrenren by th s F * War Co. We therefore place the case buck in same position as it was previous to 1 agr- ement. By order ot the Gene cutive Board F keoehick T ubnt Secretary General Exe live Board. The Fuller & Warren Co. have hingly stated that tho tioycott did not hurt them, while on Wedne-clay, April 27, a barge load of stuvos was returned to them from New York. Will the Fuller & W rcen Cn. deny tnis? We think not, and this is only the vanguard of their foul wares which will be returned to itiem in the near future The Puller & Warren Co. say there is no boycott on their goods, und almost in the same breath say it is only advertising their scib wares. At the last session of the .State Workingmen’s Assembly, held in J muaiy at .'Albany, the boycott oil their firm Was reapplied, and bas only got to working nicely at present. And now, in coQolusion, let the Stove Minnfaciurers’ Defense Associatiou tie up all tho fouudiies to oid their sister firm of contract breakers to evade the ioi vitable destruction which now menaces them. Should Outstrip .Secular Slu-cts. There are said to be 16,000 Knights ol L'lbor in this city, and we have no doubt this figure is too low. If this number all Bubscrilied for a labor paper they would ste t'vo or three first-class labor papers that would cn’strip the secular »heets. Labor can never succeed until it fully supports its own press. It cannot claim p iiity in any newspaper until it snpports it, and then it can command i It wit. then be eutiik-d to it« j'let doser and will get them.—Labor Herald. CRiriCON HENRY GEORUE. A CORRESPONDENT’S IDEA OF WELL-KNOWN WORK. Ho Attrecs to Disustree with Certain Theories Advanced In Protec tion and Fi^ee Trade. To read a book by Mr. George is al ways to spend some pleasm;; hoiii uncommonly clean and beautiful diction, uuited with new and refreshing ideas. The pow.-r of using at the i time refined and popular guage without dropping into trivialities, ipiced with brilliancy und liniuor are some of the features of Mr. George’s style, the book referred to the uleis'iro in its merits are not so abundantly curtailed by that overfiowiug depiction which is no where more out of place than in a worn treating on political economy. Little fault is to be found with Mr. George as a critic. Some narrow views may be due to the fact that be ai-ver extended bis Studies beyond American and British au thors. The United States and the united kingdom are for him the whole worLl. Besides Mr. George is a writer who .lotsn’t draw his conclusions from the phenomena; be selects such facts as are at hand to verify his premises. The minor utterances we have to find fault w ith are Mr. George’s notions about money. With him money is nolhi. g tlse but the means of circulation. To recog nize any othtr money than that issued by the g.ivernment is app .rently above his horizon. The wealth emerges, ac cording to bim, from land, labor ami c.ipitat. Adam Smith calls labor the only source of wealth. Later on tlie classical school of p'llitioal eooBomy amen-led it 10 labor and raw matciia!, a deSnition which Karl Marx accepted Capital is not ung else but accumulated, stored-up labor of the past, (though ne more iu the h.inds of its original producer). Mr. George’s definition is simply a pleonasm With petty exceptions we indorseevery word Mr. George said in his first twe’ity- tbiir chapters ; especially “ the real we'ik- of free trade and the real strength of protection” we can com mend highly. But afterwards Mr. Georg ■ becomes positive,and he has a remedy on hand after the fashiou of patent me li cines curing everjlhing. It is wonderful bow Mr. George, the clear and logical tbiuser, gets inconsistent and self-contra dicting as soon as be points out his favor ite scheme—taxation of land values- A reel free trader in the broadest sense of the word in favor of any tar ncs only his match in the staunch champion ot free competitl.iD, advocating stale munopoly in railways, telegraph'', etc,, both of which Mr. George does. If, as we pointed out before, Mr. George would not confine his studies to English and Americ.in affairs solely, he woul t know that a large portion cf the German che.ip labor, rivaling the most underjaid and want stricken toilers, is due to the people owniug small land, railing their own potatoes, turnips, car rots, beets, etc., and therefo’e Vieing able low.-rk for a trifle, which makes even the E g yptian‘ Fellah” wring his h.mds in despair. Mr. George says liimssU: ‘‘If vore to eiiact th-at every car driver should be paid a dollar a day additional tiom publicfund8,tbe result would t-implj be that the meu who are anxious to get p'aces us car drivers for the wages now paid would be as anxious to get them at je dollar less.” Why not apply this to land taxation if rent would be It sseoed by it ? and this is not indisputable ; bnt even iu this case the wages would sink just as if workingmen were paid bounties directly. As adherents of unhampered free trade we me, of course, for fn e land (Without any taxation though) as well as for free money and free everything. But free land without everything else free would be a !:alf way measure, not uf more avail than, for instance, the abulisliiiig of custom house duties, with the rest changed; nor would free bankkig do while land and state monopoly would still grind the people beneath its heels. Could the workingmen get a factory tu produce for themselves if the present tax uf the building were changed into a t on the Value of the land it stands upon, would the lucky owner not only have lo divide his profits with the government in stead of with tbe landlord, os he now does? After, as before, the non-possesor had no choice but to sell themselves. \Vhile Mr.George ran for mayor his party wis anxious to start a daily. Hud it been for the helping hand of a Gera socialistic journal they could never have edited a campaign paper, for tbe lack of money to buy the pr-ss, etc. with ; and what had it mattered If idle lots were taxed at this time or not? It’s impossible to see how a tax on land or any other value can help a party into the posses- lion of certain machines. Socialists will have a ready answer: Let the state take hold of all maolilD'S. But this would, by no means, be encouraeing for an op position newspaper. Tbe real free trader says .- It people are fully at liberty and such a capal'le body as the united trades unions would issue money they could buy or hive built ma hinery, presses, etc. to start \8 manv papers as they liKe. But Mr. Ge-Tgo doeen’t see all this. He’ll fight landlordism and nothing bat land lordism, Which is with him the lion in tho way. No sir, the liou in the way is the slate, or out government if you chocss so. I Where would the landlords be, where would moDopuly be but for the seal of the magistiatc, tho club ol the policemau, the Winchester rifle of tbe chait red ^inkeitons, the gatling gun of Ihe mibiia. Tru free trade is not the rcstrielion uf the tariff, it is not the im- poBiDg of a tax o n ’audowners. It is first and 'oat tbe abolishina of tbe ttrottliug of ■■|ecur^e ot mankind—the government. Mr, George is by no means a socialist, e speaks of Ibe school of Karl Marx . a high purposed but incoherent mix ture of truth aud fallacy, the defects of which m.y be summed u • in its want of ratii-ali-m—that is to Say, of going to the oot. C'Tttuiily Karl Marx never tiiought d reinsfalliug the disinherited by taxa tion. In this respect he never went to the “root.’’ But ihnugh wanting of radi calism he never oast his hope iu tbe bal lot as the ra'iieal Mr. George does, as if u unable to control his bread could ol his vote. He never championed i! g interest, and bo never wa-. uud innocent as tu believe in lest Bovernuieut orge from being c as from the platform ol understauding of iney bear! childlike Jj trly, as from tbe understanding le free trade. What would happen ttiC individual if all the functions of tl body were planed under the ooultol ot the coDScieuce ? and a roan cou'.d foraet lo brea'lie or mLcalculate the amount of gastric juice needed by his st‘>mach, or bluuderasto what his kidneys should take from the blood is what would bap- •■en to a nation in which all iudivijual :tivities were directed by the govern- lent. This is tea! Lee trade talk. But, jusistent aud logical, Mr. George wauls, uotwiiiiatauding, telegraphs and railways under state m'liiagemeiit aud he docs not hesitate to furnish lo the government all means its hunger requins, by taxation on land value cf course. Perhaps the lime will come when Mr. George will do less Bibic quoting, will not drag his reli gions sentiments into strictly scientific m.Iters, when be will n c- guize tbe taor that free money isju-tas es-cutiai as free land, and reich the conclusion that he was “ barking up the wrong tree’’ and we will bail the moment be sends his sharp ar- rowsagainst the true oppressor—the state. T oknado . STAND llY YOUR COI.ORS • , tVhy Sliojild the NVorld Not Henv Fconi MttUarvect 1». I learn that the committee having charge of the late coal strike, which originated under the jurisdictiou of D A. 4S1 and D. A. 103, and ex eoded to other D. A.’a, have now mide their official report. Ou acc.iuot o t the nature of tbe stiike and the enormity of the interests involved, this would certiinij make iuteie'-tiog r. ading. I therefore hope that th.! General Executive Bo:idmay send it in pcmpliiet form lo every Assembly in tbe Ord>-r. so that liny may have a clear ondcr standing from the only reliable soarpe of the greatest struggh- between the I^iorei' an-1 the capitalist the world ever saw. What is the ma'ter with Di'«trict 49 that she does not do it? It would ccrftinly be to her intere.it, as she is the most interested ami tbe most miligued. Stmd by yonr colors. No. 49! Now that the pi'ers has exhausted k-elf, let 118 hesr from you! I hope, Mr. Editor, that the readers of Tns R at will have anoppnrluui'y of realing the official report in your columns. Y' ankee . New York, April 30. The Gist ortho Matter. One might judge by the reports of the p;ist week in t!ie daily papers that there had been wUolesa’e desertions from the ranks of D. A. 91 (shoemakers). But the Tls arc fa’se. The diairict is intact, ill full strength. Ex-Mistcr Workman Campbell, formerly of L. A. 389S of TarrytowD, altaclied to D. A. 49, and who 18 foieman in the scab factory of H inan i Son. has deser'cil (he Order and <rgaiized his tools in the factory as ‘ MibufacturiDg Shoemakers’ Protective •ind Benevolent Union No. 1.” That is tbe whole of the imnpus, which has looked so big when telegraphed over the country.—Swinion. Tho Card Withdrawn, The car.l issued by the Brewers’ em ployes has been withdrawi. pending ne gotiatioDs with their bosses. AS ISTERESTISi; HISTORY. WORKINGS OF THE INTERNATION AL CIGARMAKERS’ UNION. Series of Papers < I the Turpitude of Selfish Mieu Who Abuse tho Cou- fldonce Reposed In Them. Adolph Strasser made the tenement house system of making cigars possible and destroyed all organization among the cigarmakers. Wages were so reduced in New York city that the cigarmakers could not live, and in desperation entered into a hopeless strike which ended with his betrayal ol them and the destruction of his foul co-operative factory scheme, which he has never satisfactorily explain ed or reported upon to those entitled to the information. So bad was his reputa tion in the trade and so bitter was the feeling among the cigarmakers against him that they gave ) ' ' ' rike all that they gave him very little assist ance iu the stiike above mentioned. The cigarmakers of twelve or fliteen years ago remember and know to their sorrow Adolph Strasser, the scab leader of the unfortunate and deluded Bobemim clgar- mukfrsot New York city whom he used to destco.? Ids tiade organization; and from among its ruins be stalks forward as a obampioD to lead the cigirmikers to ' perfect organization, provided, however, that he shall rule them. He has rnled them by adoptiug an outrageous policy and with bis low cunning roanagesto re tain his [-osilion as president of his union. Lately be endeavored to make terms with the Knights of Labor, offering tbe Gen eral Executive Board to make the Inter national union a National Tnde District .Assembly, provided that the present offi cers and eonstltutirui of the union should he accepted by the General Executive Board. Did tbe cigarmakers of the coun try giye him the authority to make this proposition ? No, they were not con sulted ! He was looking out for Adolph Strusser. When his proposition was re fused then bo inaugurated his fight against tue Knights of Labor, abusing its officers, boycotting Knights of Labor goods and using every means in his power lo disrupt the Order. It is well known that members of his union were sent into the L icM Assemblies to disrupt them if ihey would not assist him In hie work to subordinate tbe order to the International union. Look at the men that surround him and that are Lis friends ! Every one of them ate expelled Knights and de nounced for their glaring acts of treach ery. PowderJy bow to such a man 1 If he was capable of such an act, he should be impeached fonh’vith; andanyofflier or member of ihe Knights ef L.bor that will iu any manner eonmenance the or- , ganizatioD that npbold such men (?> as ' leaders are unfit to be Knights of Labor. . The Knight that would smoke their ci gars ought to be stifled by them. It is time for General Master Workman Pow- derly to apeak to tbe Order and deny the statements made and repeated byttilsclass of men - “That he is afraid o( them and wuicn, oy me way, ue nas no power to rescind. Sustain tbe friomis of the Order, th - faithful Knights that are willing to '■t ind by it to Ihe last. Push tlie trade jarka and labels of the Order to the front aud use no gorids that do nut bear them, thereby keeping the Knights at work and commandiug the markets of the country. Our labels are ths most power ful means to compel tbe employers of labor to deal justly by their employes. State Elevatora. The bill to provide elevators at Buffalo and New York, owned by tbe S;ate, is now pending iu the legislature. Its op ponents, instigated by the elevator rings, hold up their hands in holy horror against idea of the State entering into private business. The Slate built the can Js; tbe State owns und operates dredges and scows and other appliances to mMutam their efficiency. It can, with equal pro priety, build a few elevators to facilitate :sl traffic. It seems to be tho only way to break the elevator rings at tho termini of tbe caual. It i« currently reported and generally believed that these rings have beaten, by the use of money, tbe me>8ures introduced in the legisLtue to secure more reasonable elevator charges. They bave bad their hands on the throat of the Erie canal too long already. The people of the State did not make the canals free lo enable combinatiuos a the two ends to take excessive loll aud the members of the li gislatui e who have voted half a milliou of doll rs to securea higher degree ot efficiency in canal navigation will be in c .nsisteut and derelict in their duty if they do uot vote for the bill to CODSt'uct enough State elevators to de monstrate what the actual cost of eLvat- ir.g is, aud tbas fore*! tbe combiDH'ionsto work for a re isonable compensation. _ American Grocer.
