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f e ! $1.50, Tty-five ERS,” SB In N! frieods educs Ont. itW.Va will^ be VOL. I, NUMBER 8. TROY, N. Y., JUNE PRICE 3 CENTS. ‘TKO BONO PUBUCa\ TaOT, N- Y-, 121^1 Jute, 1886. Tala poem Is muc respeeituBy d«aic»Md tc oeneril M»si« Workuiio T, V. Powderlr, by L A. No. 6«e, Of Tn)7. N. y. ITbe rab}ector ibe poem isthe coDdeoBediiis- tory of t i e p u t and present coodlElon and fatnre proepecte of the worxicg men and someo of Amenc?.lD th s r miggiea for irne liberty ana freedom, Of equauty, to U»e ana let Bve. Hojrttg that they -siu t.kecoatsel and adv.ce from their Chiefs and leaders, aid ase mmual forbearance towards each other, and be cool and temperate while advocating and adjusting theti deinanda betweencspiuiand Ubor,and that no diasen- sione or oormption «haii enter or pereads oni ranks, is toe chief wish of the autbor.1 Our sires o’erworked through laws unjust Pormeo of specout'ot, And often needed looa andjibat, And time for recreation. The Taunted boast ol lib -rty Tirongboui columbU'shatioc, n trampled quite unto the By her sad administration. ToBgbt Klngiieonre In that drsadhour, Wereii’nton r-roluilon. BraTewsablrgtoo.wboied theTU, with ihe s'gaers of d*ciaritMn, Had inmed a most Important plan: A total Bepirat’oo. i.'olumbia had eome ware, but few compared with older natione; Togoardher rlgttta t e r sots weretrao lo all ner tribulations, s-ne freed her suves b u left instead A w!d“ Spr*'d de'Olation. TO the frleibls of all who fought and bled. Anddiedios.re theirnat’os. 'oe pen 1« migoilvr than the sword, 10 one grand coffibiua> Ion, NO power on earth snail then decline TO do them justlBcation. wioa vi.s»r Powaerir aen'rvee the palm, <iur great chief organlz-r, He'S laid oor claims before the grandma'sm, That all sbou d be the wls'r. Columbia's sods both brave and bright, Place in her their consolatioii. Bold cieveianl he has accedrigct In commending arbitration. The Astors, vanderbJis and Gouils Have no commlsseratlon. Like vultures, they are acting cold, vntnooi rhagldaratioo. They imported trahsports, as U tools, The iti'ighs of iitbernatloas, and tboughtlre honeat men, like tools, ‘Would stand the indlgoatloo^ Old tlmee have p u i and are bygone When kings could riue the mUlloos; we see it every d ly that comee- Prfsh trouble lo t lelr doralelons. 'I'he shylocks who are dead to ahame, I'Dlhk this a mere senaatlon For honest workingmen to claim The lights of civilization. Columbia's dsughters, too, hsva joined Outranks which we call legte; They Bay they are too much coallofd In Bhops-lher- Is contagion. The f ictory hours are rather losg. They need more r-l»xatlonj Tls wis' that tney have joined our throng, in this great d«mo:strztloo. That laborhsKlta rights'rlsknown Is proved by Bible pag s, To S-’. oald b fore the suo went down, w» ^isw n h a n e i>ntB g e a . Oormpt. ■^'o'ersprad tie land. With a ll. vJ'gr.dailo:, It takes a motto, you undentand. Ween paid by corporatlocs The war that we are wag.i g, drMd, !'■ KOI a war ot r4C‘s; we ilrsw so U«e ot • innrch or creed. U laa war of waiiee. Bigbt hours loi work, eight hoore iu rest, Bigot hoaislm r creation; we'il fior'ir gam our Just rrquest, By this grand o'gasizuioa. With toe powertul ballot lo onr hand We'll make eome good 8Bi°ctloaB, Tc msice good Uws ’tween min and man we'U cice ly atund t o n ctlois. r. Y. Pwtheoapl'allststhBre’SBO excuse, There miut be retormatloo, To settle this much vexed abuse Bylhsald of Pglelillon. fk. Knight of Labor Fable. (Prom the Craftsman.) There is one place at least where per sons of socialistic tendencies can realize their dream of ecj'iality and enoal diatri- bntion—the State prison—T^oy Tele- This is the sentence that caught tiie eye of a valiant Knight one morning as he was on bis way to enter upon the pur suits of a day. He was wondering about the impo'.t of the words, ■when suddenly turning a corner he came upon a gather ing of people lisetning to the words of a man who was speaking to them with great enthusiasm. And the multitude ofthem that believ ed, the speaker was saying, were of one heart and one soul; neither aaid any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was bis own, but they had all things in common. Neither was there any among them that lacked; for as many as were possessors of lands or bouses sold them, sad brought the price of those things that were sold, and laid them do-wn at the apostle’s feet; and distribution was made unto every man according as be had need. At this juncture a poheeman, who had been listening with the rest, rapped with his club upon the stones of the street, and then making a rush at the speaker, grasped him roughly by the throat and hurled him violently to the ground. The act was witnessed and applauded vehemently by a party of journalists,who, with a platoon of police answering the signal of the guardian of the law, bad ar rived simultaneously 'with the downfall of the person of socialistic tendencisB. Encouraged by the presence of sup porters, the guardian of the law renewed his grasp upon the throat of the person of socialistic tendencies, and raising his club brought it heavily down upon the head of his captive. The eyes of the person of socialistic tendencies started from their sockets and his blood poured from the wound which the policeman’s club bad made. •'Bravo!’’ shouted the journalists in chorus : \hit him again officer I social ists must be put down I ’ “May God bless your efforts to sustain the law, my friend,” paid a reepectable looking individual wearing a white neck tie, as he picked up the hat of the guar dian of the law from the street where it bad fallen, and replaced it upon the head of its owner. Bnt the vabant Knight, pledged as he was, to befriend the op pressed, could not behold the outrage un moved. “Stop 1” he shouted, pressing towards the officer, who was raising his club to bring it down upon the bead of the per son of socialistic tendencies. “In the name of common justice and common sense, stop: Would you club a man for quoting Scripture?” “Watch that men T’ shouted the guar dian of the law to his brother officers, “Men do your duty I He is in active sympathy with socialism.’’ The police immediately surrounded the valiant Knight and one of them, put ting his hand on the Knight’s shoulder, advised him to be very careful about bis words and acts, as the temper of the people was such that officers of law could not submit to the slightest degree of in timidation. “Yonng man,” said the individual with the white necktie, shaking bis linger in the face of the valiant Knight “I be lieve that you ere a very dangerous character.” \Be assured of that I” cried thejonr- nalist, looking bard at the valiant Knight. “Socialism has its birth in Knighthood. Does not Knighthood peek to break the strength of power ?” The person of socialistic tendencies was now moving nis lips. “Why did they strike me?’’ be moaned. “Why did they strike me ;’’’ “Wliatishe saying?” asked the indi vidual with the white necktie. \He 18 saying something about a strike,” responded the journalist. “Ha;’’ exclaimed the guardian o f the peace. “Planning a strike under the very eyes of the kw. We must make the socialists sick of the striking busi ness.” So saying: he clubbed his cap tive, and then threw him upon the pave ment qilieterl and weltering. “Thus be it ever with disturbers and incendiaries !” said the individual with the white necktie, going around among the journalists and shaking them each by the hand in turn. But the person of socialistic tenden cies bad now revived again, and his lips were moving. “They have killed me,” he whispered, weakly, “and without cause. I die, and I might have lived but for this popular frenzy,” he said—going over the words, “I die and I might have lived. Idle and I might—” here bis strength failed “What does he say ?” again asked the individual with the white necktie, “Be is talking about dynamite,” res ponded the journalists bending over the person of socialistic tendencies and writ ing down bis words. “Officer?” shouted the individual with the white necktie, jumping up and down in as ecstacy of fervor, “I exhort ymi in the name of liberty, in the name of law and in the name of order to suppress that socialist.” “That will 1,” said the guardian of the law as bis club fell in a sbower of blows upon the head of the person of socialistic tendencies. The captive gave one more gasp and was dead. Socialism was suppressed,and liberty, Uw and order reigbed supreme. P. P. W illiams . WHEN TO STRIKE! Let every laboring man prepare to strike at the ballot-box. Strike at double taxation, that compels the debtor to pay not only his own tax but the tax upon the mortgage which is owned by somebody else. Strike at the system of land grants that give millions of acres of the land which belongs to our children to railroad corporations. Strike at that system of banking that gives a monopoly of money into the hands of tbe banking corporarions. Strike at the silver policy of the gov ernment which jnsr piles up the silver dollars in the vaults and refu‘ them out. Strike at tbe bond system of the gov ernment which is making out puhllo debt perpetual in order that a few untaxed miiliooaires may live off the interest. Strike at the exhorbilant extravagance of public officials who look upon the public treasuries as the legitimate o 10 :: ect Then strike at that system of railroad pooling and stock watering that compels the producer te pay three times as much as he sbonld for transportation, and the laborer lo 'work for much less than he ought to in order that large dividends might be paid on fraudulent stock and bonds. Strike at the system of transportation that compels the people to pay fifty per cent, more for a short haul than a long Strike at the root, eradicate the cause of tbe trouble, and there will be no use for slrikes, and boycotts, and riots. What labor needs just now is educa tion on the question of labor, and then action at the ballot-box.—Independent Am?riean. fuses to pay THE AMALGAMATED SCALE. In spite of bluster and indignant threats ol never, never, no never con senting to sign so unjurt a scale as pre sented to tbe iron manufacturers by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Bteci workers, they scratched their signa tures to tbe document last Wednesday. The action on the Nailers’ scale and that of tbe roll turners ■was postponed until next Wednesday. We do not know why, but are satisiied that the Amalgamation cannot afford to permit manufacturers to separate the scales of what was formerly the United Nailers, Heaters and Rollers from the special scale of the Amalgamation. Tbe difference of price in beating and rolling is too great, between that offered by the manufactarers and that of the Amalga. mation. It would really only be a par tial signature, and as such, an element of weakness under tbe new conditions. The manufactarers will do no more for love of the Amalgamated Union than for the United Nailers, Heaters and Kollers. If they can continue their old game of playing one against the other it would be their heart’s delight, and their pocket’s PASSAGE OF THE N. P. FORFEIT URE BILL. The bill forfeiting the unearned lands of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company as passed by the Senate declares for. felted so much of the lands granted to that company as are coterminous with that part of Its main line which extends from Wallula Junction to Portland and that part of the Cascade branch which shall have been completed at the date of the passage of this b ill; and makes tbe right of way in the Territories subject to taxation. Nothing in the act is to be construed to waive any rights of the United States to forfeit any other lands granted to them, for failure, past ture, to comply with the comlitions of tbe grant. THE CAPITALIST. BURNING W O ^ S IN LABOR’S BE- Let us lock back throngb centuries and iron s ssrmoa by D^ut TumagA find where this man and the obnoxious i Last Sunday Rev. Talmage delivered system that creates him had their birth, j on® of his characteristic sermens in Our thoughts mast carry us back far be- I Brooklyn Tabernacle. We make tbe yond the ebristian era ; watching the j following extracts which, for pathos and progress of our race all through tbe j f*ofs b » « » r e ly been excelled, various vicissitudes, up through the dark ! They come from a warm heart and should ages when men were bound together by j be rfcd by all. ignorance, superstition, creed, or greed, I “^ n may do your duty toward your by oath or nationality, and led by cun- employer, but many do not, and the blp- niog, unscrnpalons rnlers, coutinually at , gestffwsinees firm to-day in America is war, the one with the other; and when j Grim, Gouge, Gnnd & Co. not engaged in actual war, internal strife ] Look for instance, at tbe woes of wo- was the price of peace, for Ihe conquer- I manly toilers, who have not made any ing law give's were always at hand to I strike, aud are dying by tbe thonsands, impose burdens npon the rank and file [ aod dying by inches, of conquerors and conquered alike. The | I read a few Mnes from the hft labor ruler, his reiaiuere and lawgivers must!report, justont.-as specimens of what be supplied and supported ; they framed ! female employe* endure, laws to soit and protect their own inter- \ ‘ Poisoned hands and can’t work.”^ eats, and tbe vassal and serf bad to foot the bills. Law makers then favored the few at the expense of the many, jnst as they do at the present time. Under this form of government, century after cen tury, magnified aa time advanced by a prophet, a Saviour, a sage, or a patriot we have lived. History does not tell nor can immagination conceive the crime, the shame, the want, and Buffering with all Its kindred ills, that the human fam ily have endured, and what for ? Just to allow these gentlemen to ride who were standing ready booted and spurred for the occasion. Under this form of government, under this same corrupt system, have we lived from generation to generation, up to this year of enr Lord eignteen hundred and eighty six. 8 o we find tbe first person that proved by force that might was right was capitalist num ber one. After this the capitalistic class grew in proportfon as their victims in creased in numbers. He U first the leader of a few conspirators, then the chief of a tribe, or the head of a nation ; and swarming nround these came their army of retainers, tbe grand army of capital, all eager for the spoils and the appointments: the clergymen and law makers, tbe captain and ell the titled and honored classes necessary to support so yieious a system, stealing from the poor and weak, aud distorting even na ture itself. Oar capitalists of to-day then, are tbe direct lineal descendants of this brutal and most abominal system. But their weapons of destruction have a much milder outward appearance than those of their ancestors. Their silken faced laws mislead the common mind, and under their splendid coyering fester ing upon the poor, flattering, but at the same time binding them fast with its silk-like threads. Our capitalistic class of ; 0 -day is jnst as brutal and abominable as it wss thousands of years ago, taking into consideration that we are living in the nineteenth century of Christianity. There is not a particle of fiction abou this, it is tbe truth, aud it requires a lie to refute it. The law-maker and ruler, the capitalist, lived in all times, first he caused money to be made of leather on the biser metals [for he found it a splen did method for accumulating wealth for selfish parposes] silver and gold, bnt when he found that all the silver andt gold discovered wonld not span the wealth the laborers were producing, he set to work and bad beuk notes and paper money manufactured for himself for the purpose of retaining bis power. Under this corrupt system we are cheated and starve! to-day. The better element (a name dubbed by sud upon themselves) are exclaiming there should be a better understanding brought about between capital and labor, for their interests are identical. Not under your system, gentiemen, they never were, and they never can be. We must ha-ve other laws and jnst ones, laws for the laborers’ benefit as well aa for tbe rich, a few good laws will quickly settle this much mooted question, as yoa are pleased to call it. Capital is holding a false position at j present, as a wooden kg answers to re- “Had to sue a man f«w 50 cents.” Another : “She now makes wrappers at f l per dozen.” Another; “About four months in the year can, by hard work, earn a little more than three dollars per week.’. Another; \'We girls in oor eetabli«h- ment, hav-.> the following flues imposed: For washing our hands, 25 cents. Eating a piece of bread at your loom, Also tor sitting on a stool, taking a drink of water, and many things too numerous to mention; similar fines ate impoved. Some of the worst viiHans in onr cities are the employers of these poor women. They beat them down to the last penny, and try to cheat them out of that. The woman must deposit a dollar or two be fore she gets the garment to make. When the work is done, it is sharply in. spected, the most insignificant flaw is picked out and the w ^ es refused, and sometimes tbe dollar not ^ven back. The Women’s Protective Union repor a case where one of the poor souls, find ing a place where she conld get more wages, resolved to change employers and went to get her pay for work done. The employer says: “I hear you are goin o leave?”— “Yes,’’ she said “and have to come to get what you owe me.” He made no answer. She said: “Are you not going to pay me V' ‘ ‘Yes, ” he said, and he kicked her down stairs. I never swore a word in ail my life, bnt I confess when 1 read this that I felt a stirring within ms that was not at all devotional. By what principle o f justice is it that women in many of our cities get only two- thirds as as men and in many cases only half ? Here is the gigantic injustice —that for work equally well, if not better done, women receive far less compensa tion than men. Start with tbe national gOTernment. Women clerks in Washington get S«00 for doing that for which men receiye 81,800. The wheels of opniession are rolling over thb necks of thousands of women who are at this moment in despair about what they are to do. Many of the lar gest mercantile establishments of our cities aie accessory tothoseahominations and from their large establishments there are scores of sonls being pitched off into deatn, and their employers know It. Is there a God ? Will there be a judgment? I tell you, if God rises up to redre* woman’s wrongs many of our large es tablishments will be swallowed up quicker than a South American earthquake ever took down a dty. Gofi, will catch these oppressors between the two mill-stones of his wrath and grind them to powder. Why is it that a female principal in a school gets only 8825 for doing work for which a male principal gets 81.950. 1 hear from all this land the wail of womanhood Man nas nothing to an swer to that wail but flatteries. He says she is an angel. She is not. Sue knows she is not. She is a human being who gets hungry when she has no food, and cold when she has no fire. Give her no more flatteries; give her justice 1 There place a natural limb, which might be i are 65,000 sewing girls in New York and j shorn from the human frame, jnst the ^ Brooklyn. Across the sunlight come ' same relation capital bears to the body , their death groan. It is not such a cry • politic, and equally as artifieial. We are . as come from tho.se who are suddenly ; apt to look upon capital as a little d ivin-' hurled out of life, but a slow, grinding, -ity, but do not let us be fooled in this , horrible wasting away. Gather them be- manner any longer. Let us pull it from | fore you and look into their faces, pinched under the lions skin, and show the world j ghastly, hunger-struck. Look at their to its everlasting surprise, that it is only I fingers, needle-picked and blood-tipped 1 a jackass after all. 3275. [ See that premature stoop in the shouldersl i.'ear that dry, hacking, merciless cough ! At a large meeting of these women held in a hall in Philadelphis, grand speeches were delivered, but a needle woman took the stand, threw aside her laded shawl, and hurled a very thunderbolt of elo quence. speaking out the horrors of her own experience. Stand at the comer of a street in New Ti ork at 6 or 7 o’clock in the morning, as the women go lo work. Many of them hid no breakfast except the crumbs that were left over from the night before, or the emmbs they chew on their way through the street. Hero they come I the working girls of New York and Brc.ekiyn. These engaged in head-work, these in flower making, in millinery, paper-box making; but most over worked of all and the least compensated, the sewing women. 'Why do they not take the city cars on their way np? They cannot afford the five cents. If, conclud ing to deny herself something else, she gets into the car. give her a seat. You want to see how Ijstimer and Ridley ap- peareil in the fire. Look at the woman and behold a more igonizing death. Ask that woman how much she gels for her work, an'i she will tell you six cents for making coarse shirts, and finds lier own thread. 1 speak more fitly of woman’s wrongs because she has not lieen heard on the present agitstion. You know more of what men have sufferei. I said to a col ored man who, in Missouri, last March, came int-> my room in the morning to build my fire; “Sam, how much wages do you people get around here?” He replied : ‘‘Ten dollar a month, sir I” I asked, “Have you a family ?” \Yes he said, \wife and children.” Think of it, $12(1 a year to support a family on. My friends, there are somethings in this world awfully atwist. When I think of these things I am not bothered as some of my bretnern with the abstract ques tions as to why God let sin come into the world. Theonlywonder with me is why God don’t smash this world up and start lother in place of it.—People’s Advo- anotbe rwsnbscrtne for tne clarion , « a ye»r. HOWLINCOLN USED AN ALMANAC AN ASECDOTB OF “ OLD ABE” THAT HAS FLOATED TO THE SLTIPAOE, In his boyhood Lincoln was befriended by a family in bumble circumstances, who generously aided him in the effort to attain advancement in life. He after ward left his little town to seek a wider sphere of action, with a mental vow to repay tbe kindness of these unselfish friends, After many years he retnrned to the scene of his early struggle a suc cessful lawyer, with a name olready known to fame. Tbe community was agitated over a mnrder committed in its midst by one of its townsfolk. Lincoln was requested to undertake the defense; the partioulara were furnished him and by a strange interposition of fate he saw the way to repay his early debt—for the accused was the son of his friend. There was little chance to refute the evidence against the young mao, for two respected ciiizens swore to the recognition of his face by the light of the moon as they surprised him at the aide of his victim. Lincoln arose to open the denfense. He carelessly asked for an almanac, which he saw lying on the clerk desk’s simply for tbe sake of gaining time, while he soogbt in bis mind for a clew to the sympathies of the jury—a cild, hard set of men with convictions already formed. As he abstractedly flattened tbe leaves of the book his eyes, even at this trying moment. lit up 'with something akin to that keenness of humor so characteristic ofbim, and he began his speech. His words fell like the rattling of artillery upon the astonished, spellbonndaiidienoe aud without leaving the box the jury re turned a verdict ot “not guilty.” He y o f p e r j ^ . to keep that while, and to carry It out of court with me—There was no other copy there.” “What had the almanac to do with it?” questioned my friend. “It wai a year old,’’said Lincoln with a vinkle of humor in hiseye, “andproved inclusively that the moon did not shine I the night of tbe date of the murder — When the truth try the man over again, and wisely icluded that silence is golden.—At- :a Constitution.
