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l e ! OM Secr- »ly $1.50, #enty-five IS8, IBBS,” BMH S t . N. Y. rase In N! IP E K •,mber of f IrieudB educa- ON at ims giv- it goes ^ wages trkmeu EiAKIO 1 VOL, I, NTJMBEE 9. TROY, N. Y., JULY 3, 1886. A BOHEMIAN'S HAMBLE IN NEW YORK TIE llfU u d Broadww'E splerdor Its s-lOso walk docs I SS8 tbs ldc«i ol tbe poor omtd iliat noteiT Aid aitbOdstk ■wee'17 ncsBg witb neuow roe jewels I d nrarladr's Mrs woTd dotlMtUs po rgia WHO sal«r» in n« oblUos bli8t,pem»ps mj lUe DTiUwatlreon «T hfiirttdcea uptbe aid retrain and bMtsln m'<MimdUme * wnn c&imiBg bellB nblcb « « « u> M7 Wo, Tant and (.'rune. wnere me d-mi monde wittt opsn arms tae Me;.dli'aB oD's receive, Wbere dl.moods gli ter on tbe leeua wblie women pluck my eieefe. T»e 6 Rare IB lie diftace now and raiitirli Yetclear.reUU u»ej a untorlrgWo, w a it and TblBlEttiecltd'a m»rK.t pUoewWrecis»..lylB Tkeae glided bells are na»«a where ibe crowded out have fled, I woman’s vlrcm torbre.d. 'toe oft m Is tne price toa vs paid lowtncurios tocea lo eedtoentn pralisg out AO,wau Atd ringing c( lactr cbime, A tbonaand beUa andCflme. From Broouyn Brings at lengtb i a e u>e Ugeta on BUckweiVa isl^ And wol U I U Its iDicaies are all wicked, bid 91 was It tsreads ot circnmBturs tbat wove tnelr webeoi tate And seottbem in its meebea bound terongti Blackwell’S prison gate. Acron tbe water cenr s tbe notes and monrnTal la tnelr cbime Uncbjmg-d ibat loucSing melody td wo, want and Clime. Tbe law Is d eatne judges say and jusUcsbas WbiJe Clime oftMi does conceal a crook in sale dUgula*. TbeOnAncier may piuader all tbe world wiu him smile, Black we 1 turn to BediONi island where Barthotdi'sstatae And aek that mocklig itUnb there pMcetul boors, Or say bo w long will men sobmlt to b leg sbom like sbeep. HowlODgwmlawleMnesiprevail,bow lo gwUl Justice sleep. Tbe tMcboc Liberty grove dim tbo ite statues tyessbonldablnr, IdtthAt gravi'en and crime. Image standa to mock Wo, want I'gen day must have an end, tbe longest Tet ibeloi'i T ab uecbw to sucks tbe urebioodtow wiaearc, It brain wou't do there's brawn enough unUw mat blood W m lk And ToUers u k e oellgbi la rags wLUe droocs a n clothed In silk. 'I'ne city bells may ring oot a menance In tnelr For Revoinuon le the fruit ot wo, Want and —8Bsuainttn>. THE MAIDEN STARTED. llerin'.itlng steel-ajn'uig bed. —Saratoga Eagle. Bbeitarted rrom her slumber Alts acitzy little 'itm, AS she gaz-.d in mnte wo der At toe juilow in ner ano. —Industrial News. Sie acaited rma her slumber With a Kreecbbke a Iloa roaring, And bean a voice beneatn the window Bayligshut op andit (9 your snoring- L'ttlese al! signs (ail, the volume of trade for autumn, 1886, will be tbe largest of aoy period since tbe great boom of 1879 and 1880. There will be this diflerence. however. Tuan it waa purely apeculetive; this antama it will be purely legitimste.—Dry Goods Chron- A WOMAN TO HER SISTERS’. KrODi John S’winton's Psp'r. A righteous indignation prompts me lo addreee yon, and I hope Ibe attention ot the pnblic may be called te tbe outrage which I am about to report. A few days ago I heard a conversation 1 etween two ladies, or rather working women (I believe tbe capitalist piess ex clude all such from the title cd ladies), in regard to a certvia 8nit Company in Fourteenth street. Previous to the month of Ju'.e the “girls” had received from BO cents to $1,50 fer an entire suit, and 65 cents fur ladies wrappers. Tbe quantity of work on one of these wrappers would keep an ordinary dressmaker in a private establishment bnsy for at least a day, and a customer there would pay for tbe mak ing of it from $2,50 to $3, and gel no different style or better work. When the employes received their pay for tbe flr-t week of June they found a reduction of 20 per cent, had been made, and this without any rotifleation whatever. The tears stood in the eyes of the girl IS she told her story, and she »sid ; “I don't know how I can ever live and pay board now,—It B>emsimpossible.” “Why don't jo a ,'’Iaaked her, “al! refuse to accept such prices, and especially for the past week’s pay, as you were not notified of any reduction?'’ “Because,” she re plied, “they would only aay to us ‘Go if yon are not satisfied,’ and many of ns are so poor tbat any pay is better than none at all.” Must these oppressed women, with thomanJs in similar drcumstances, wait until State or nation can inttodnee new bilK and amendments, only to be put over from one session to another, to be debated by glih-tongued, gold-bought lawyers, and finally voted down year after year; or must they wait until tbe high standard which the Knights of Labor bold aloft is universally adopted and lived up lo I What can be done ? They must oot strike, for labor organizations condemn strikes. They mast not boy cott, for tbe press condems boycotting, and a prison cell awmts those who under take It. They dare -t complain in per son, for then they ar-^ discharged. Onr Order sais: “Educate! educate!” and all the lime thousands are weekly coming to our snores to be eduesUd over and over again. I d the meantime,what can onr oppressed . women do who are working for prices they cannot possibly live on ? Shad they starve ? Shall they sell their souls to the tempter ? (Not even this is possible to all.) What is to be done with tbe thou sands of friendless yenng women who are thrown upon tbe world to earn a livelihood ? If we may not strike with the sanction of onr Order—if we mnat wail till all the stupid and ignorant who swarm our shores and fill our streets are educated up to a certain high stindard, of what use is out Order to us ? We do not doubt tbe grandenr or tbe nobility of its purpose. It is a grrnd idea this edu cation ; but how shall we, the American- born citizens of the United States, who can read| write, think and work, if we have the opportunity,—huw shall we subsist on the wages we now receive ? How tolerate the wrongs to which we are subjected? Is there no wuj to solve this problem, and that speedily ? or mnst we starve while monopolists roll in wealth and eat oar substance? Perhaps ten thou-and sbonld be willing to starve body and soul while watting for this grrat clause to advance, tbat tbe millions to come may profit by onr efi'oits; but where are the ten thousand willing mar tyrs ? Ate you and I, brother Knight, ready thns to perish ? How many clear-headed, true-minded men and women might live to dev as i>r- namt nif of society but for the long hours of grinding toi! and care, which unfit them mentally and physically for any thought save how shall we earn bteiul to feed u«, clothes to cover ns, and rent. How many a noble intellect is clouded by tbe care and weariness it cannot gbakt off, which, with proper food, i-horter hours and an extra dollar fu’ books and papers, might outshine tbe stars I Why do lewd women walk our streets ? I t it not because unable to live upon tbe wages yon offer tbat their eouls were bought with toe neb man’s gold! Think of this, brother men ! when yon hire cheap labor; think of it when yon rednee the wages ot tbe women in yonr employ I Think of it, ye women leading luxurious livfs or happy in your com fortable homes. What brought these creatures from whom you draw aside your skirts in the streets, into the depths to which they have falle i ? If you were to vi«it tbe evil bouses which abound in onr cities, or inquire of the wrecks in onr strcits, how msny do yon think would choose a long dsy’s work at fair pay in preference to the life of gilded vie* ? I warrant yon nine-tenths would take fair wages and an honest home. Te muds and matrojs of high station, living amid all the luiury tbat wealth can bestow, who tread on velvet or recline on satin, whose soft eyes rest on costly paintings and peichblow vasjs, whose mirrors reflect silks and iaoes given you by adoring husbands or fathers, do you realize that the money that bought them comes not oot of the overflowing coffers of these same husbands and fathers, but out of tbe life of .heir employes? Do you realize that yonr houses are adorned at the expense of human souls ? O ye dainty crealmes, sitting in sott- CDsbioned pews on Sabbath days, bewieg flower-bedecked heads before the Mercy seat, thanking God for the luxury bought by contract labor and watered stocks, and casting yonr dime into tbe poor box, do you ever think of tbe poor women in down-town tenement bonses wbo work gix'y or seventy hoars in a week for $4.50, perhaps helping to support a widowed mother ot a large fcmily, striv ing against fate, and looking foiwsrdto nothing b ut aweary round of dsys, hard toil and nnjust remuneration? Wuat woald yon do in like drcumitanees? Would yon thank Ood fee' an existence jike this ? Help Q8 Bisters I help ns to obtain hon est work at honest prices. Help us to stretch out white bands to Ood! Speak to your husbands and fathers with one- half the witchery and earnestness which you use to obtain some golden toy, and leceive the grateful thanks of an over worked sisterhood. Give us one more thought. When you see the almost teebtless advertisement of our great retail houses, with “special sales at unheard-of r?duclions,” think that tbe reduction does not affect the dealer cr the manDfactnrer, but the women who stitch, stitch, stitch, all tbe weary day at reduced wages. Remember “ Speci«l Sale” means starvation, and boycott the bargain counter. A WoBKiso W oman . N ew Y ork , June, 1886. EXECUTION OF A PRIEST. DEORAPATION, COKntS TRIAL AND EXECD- CUTION OF THE PRIEST WHO KILliID TBS BISHOP OF MAnBin ON , PALM SUNDAY LAST. The following are the details of tbe crime and coming trial and exeention of the priest Galeote, who assassinated the bishop of Madrid^ In the cathedral of San Isidoro, on Palm Sunday last. The trial will commence on tbe 24th instant, and not the sligbteA donbt exists as to the sentence of death which will inevita bly be pronounced agunst tbe priest Tbe last'time a priest saffered capital punishment was ‘n 1852, when tbe Padre Martino Merino was garroted for his at- teo.pt lo murder Qoeen Isabella. Im mense crawl’s are expected to be present attheexecatiou of Galeote, who previous to his bring delivered into the hands of tbe executioner, will be soiemnlj de* graded from tbe priesthood on the scaf fold, and in sight ol all the people. This ceremony of degradation will be per formed by two bishops and two priests, who will solemnly remove one by one ail sacerdotal ornameats aad vestment, and then with a kn fe scrape bu shaven crown and fingers ostensibly to remove every trace of consecration. While this IB going on the “Brothers of Mercy,” their beads covered with cowls drawn right down over the face with only two little peep boles tor the eyes, ohant the dirge and ofilces for tbe dead. The exe cutioner will then sieze Galeote, seat him on a chair, the back of which is formed by a stout poet and will fit the steel col lar around his neck. Having drawn a black veil over his face the executioner will then give a few sharp turns to the screw which rona through the post, and at tbe same moment, as tbe steel band tightens around the throat, a knob or pin is forced against the spinal column in such a manner as to break it. The death . is very quick and is fitr more expeditious j than by hanging. The body temaius un- touebed in the chuir the whole day long until the sun goes down, when it is en trusted to tie “ Brothers ol Mercy” for Galeote, who is a tall, beetle-browed man, with a somewhat sinister cast of countenance, is 47 years old, and was bom at Velez, Malaga. Coming to Madrid he was appointed curate of the church of San Marco, but after eeveral warnings was prohibited by bis recier from officiat ing St tie altar in consequence of bis liv ing openly, on one of the principal streets with a lovely Audaluaian girl named Traneils Durda, wbo, since his arrest has visited bim everv day in bis prison. After threatening*0 shout bis rector he finally decided to appexl to the bi&hop. As, howover, the latter w.i8 determined that the clergy of tbe metropolis sbonld lead blameless lives he merely confirmed the sentence of suspension, thereby de priving bim, not only of all eocial status, but even of his means of hvelihood. Gale ote tbereapoD decided to revenge him self, and prccuring a six-ebamkered re volver of large calibre, he posted bimself near tie entrance of tie citbedral, out side where a vast crowd waa waiting for the bishop to bless the palms. SUortty before 10 the biviop arrived. Scarcely hud he left iis carriage when Qaleute dressed as a priest, advanced and making a lowly obeisance, drew bis revolver and fired ihree ehota at the venerable prelate, who fell back into tbe arms of those be hind bim. Bathed in blood tie bishop was removed to tbe saeristy and laid on a mattress, while hie assassin was with difficulty saved by the police from being lynched by the people. The surgeons at once made up tbeir minds that it waa homeless to make any attempt to save tbe bishop’s life, one bullet baving lace rated tbe spinal cord, the second having pierced tbe liver and the third tbe groin. His tufferinga, which lasted over thirty hoots, were terrible, and he liogerej on nntil 8 o’clock on Monday evening. When the last agony commenced all the church belts in the city began to toll, all tbe shops closed, and while the church dignitaries in tbeir vestments assembled in the cathedral to say the last prayers for tbe dying, immense crowds of nota bilities and common pecqile collected in the adjoining siteeia, tbe men with their heads uncovered, the .women kneeling and weeping. For tbe bishop was greatly beloved by all classes. Although dibtiogui-'hed by his adhesion to the lib eral cause, yet eo excellent waa his repu tation that Canovas, the late eonservative Prime Minister, selected him to inaugu rate and mould the newly formed Bisho pric of Madrid. He was a most brilliant orator and administrator, and in fact a noble specimen of Catholic priestood. Both the Prime Minister and the Papal Nusolo where with bim when he died. The funeral was most impressive, and it seemed as if all Madrid aocompamed hia body to the last resting place. No car riages were aUowed. Every one followed bareheaded and on foot. The Pnme Miniater and the Nuncio, having between them the two brothers of the dead pre late, dressed in the ordinary Salamanca peasant costume, walked immediately be hind tbe hearse. THE POWER OP FARMEBS. 1. They have ten votes to seven of all other occupations. (2.) They have votes enough to carry an election. (3.) They can effectually put an end to the extortions of railroads. (A) They can put ten farmers in Congress and the State Legislature for every one they now have. (5.) They can make their own laws in all the states. (6.) They can secure tbe same payment per hour for hard work tbat is demanded for brain work. (7.) They can have all the com forts and luzaries now enjoyed by those classes which prey upon them. (6.) They can combine themselves in a com pact body. (9.) They can co-operate, can stand by one another, and if they will do so, can run the world—or (10.) They can continne to be the dull drudge they have been, the prey of every cun ning politician and speculator in the Patronize those firms only that tho'W tbat they want yonr patronage by adver tising in your paper. ONE BOLD SENATOR. IZTBAOT FROIC A SPEECH IN THE SENATE BY VAN WYCK OF HEBEABKA. It ii SO seldom that a United States senator has tbe boldness to declare bis position on any question of interest to the country and the people as against capital, that it is with much pleasure that we give below an extract fro n a speech lately delivered in tbe senate by tbat bold and tearless fighter of coempt corpora tions, Senator Van Wyck of Nebraska It was a noticeable fict that tbe money- bound, fubsidlsed daily press ot the coQDtry contained but s mere mention of this abtesenator baying made a speech, he says; “In this government of the people, by the people, lor tbe people, the people have really but small voice. True, they have tbe right to vote, that is, for the men whom corporations, through the machinations of ring politicians and manipulations of county and state con ventions, put in nomination ; and then the same corporations ebirk tbeir honest portion of taxation by owning and con trolling state boards. At the first dem onstration sgainet their robberies tbe civil power must be called, then the mili tary ordered out to protect their stolen millions; and all this expiense, even tbe transportation of troops over their own roads, must be borne bv tbe toilisg mil lions who cannot shirk the hardens of taxation. Every year, by slow st^es, the op posing ideas, forces and camps, are near ing each other. For years capital has been organized, nnscmpulous, rapaciou«, law-defying, moving as did Gould, ac cording to his sworn testimony in New York, and Huntington, by evidence of hiB own, upon state teglaiatures, the courts and congress, unblnshingly pnr- cbss’ng judges and legislators, They despise the people and control their rep resentatives. But the impending crisis is coming. As there was in the days of slavery and in ail tbe past, so in the future there ever will be, an irr^aislible conflict between freedom and slavery, right and wrong. The greater the effort to smother and subdue tbe demand for justice and right, the more certain and determined the struggle, and, no matter at what cost, the final victory. The feeling of injustice and wrong in the heart of one or the multitude can never be quenched. The heavier the burden the more! violent will be tbe outbreak. As well expect the hidden, seething fires in the earth’s bosom to be restrained from eruption by piling mountain after mountain upon them, ss to attempt to deaden in the heart tbe fires kindled by extortion and avarice by piling up a greater volume of afrociries. The dynamite thus gener ated in the human heart will explode by reason of the burden by which you seek to repress it, and will produce the very dis asters you pretend to fear- Can you make the men of this nation or any other believe that the four billions —a Sinn greater than ever was our na tional debt—of watered stocks and bonds are honest property, really deserving protection from courts or legislatures? Can you make tbe men of America be lieve tbat tbe three hundred millions claimed by Vanderbilt or the two hun dred millions claimed byGonld were hon estly obtained ? This fiction of property above all things need that protection which can only be secured by concessions to other interests tbat are real, and to labor. A huge volume of fictions, printed on paper by conspiratorsa^nst the nation^s prosperity, and then c ^ e d valoes, prem- erty, inverted and standing npon the PRICE 3 CENTS, —tbe owners of these fictions, ot all men ibouid accord decent treatment to tbe gains alw ^ s piesnme that aggressive conduct will insure abject Eubmiesion. Slavery made that fatal mistake. The glish lords who stole Ireland’? male that mistake. Now the plutocrats of America wilt not profit by each ex amples. Do not say tbat I judgeharshly for the senate committee have incorpor ated tbe facts substantially in their re port. But they fail at the point where the monster evil should be grappled by the strong arm ol the law.—Labor Ad- stole Irelffi Now the p T. V. POWDERLY’S PICTURE FREE Ttie publiahers of the American Labor Budget of Manchestir. HiJlsIwoug county, N. H., tbe iavincible and cham pion labor jonrnal < i *he United States, and whose editors sre now under bonds to appear in court, charged witli crimi nal libel try the agent of tbe largest cot ton maDufacturiog corporation in the known world, are givingiiwar and send ing b^ mail postpaid to every yearly subscriber, aliandsotue crayon lithograph portrait, size 14x18 inches and all ready for framing, of T. V. Powderlv, General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor. The Budget is a profusely il- Instrated, eight page, forty-eight column paper, published weekly at $1 a year. Sreetmeo copic a sent free. The publish ers also offer the Powderly picture free of oba'ge 10 all K. of L. local asBembhes that will agree to have it neatly framed > avoid impof rr-8ab»2ilb« lor lie fLARlON, $1 a rear, mt “WE ARE LOST, HOXIE.’' Q' uid—I ee that the K. of L. is guing to try its hand at the ballot b x. Hozie—Yea, but it will amount to nothing. We eon'rol the party ma chinery. Should some of these labor idiots get enough of the Cubwebs brushed out of their brain to see tbe power of the ballot to do us np, we can easily circumvent them. Gonld—What is yonr plan '! Hoxie—Should euougb of them co operate to elect whichever candidate the? pleased m adistfict. wemust change our tactics. Instead of looking out for the nomination and election of a friend on either one ticket or the other as here tofore we must make sure of the nomin- alion of friends upon both tickets then let the labor fools fight over which of our friends shall go to Congre's. Gould—That will leq lire us to spend our money to secure the nominations of onr friends inslead of their elections. Hoxie—Precisely. Gould—Bat don’t you know tbat both parties will then b]*e<l ns for campaign money. Hoxie—Well, don't they both bleed us anyhow, and what can they do if we re fuse them ? One of out friends will be elected anyway, Gould—I am fearful tbat these Knights are working a bigger deal than we sus pect The news I get are very discour aging. The organization has doubled since we commenced our fight on them. AU onr schemes to disrupt it have been miscarried. The taffy we gave Powderly was all wasted. Our scheme to pack their assemblies with our agents and finally get enough of them into the Gen era] Supreme Conclave to kick up a row and secede, have all failed, been exposed ^nd resulte<) in putting tbe head officers and the members on their guard. The querrel between tliem and tbe trades uniODB amounts to nothing, it is like the itemendons rackets among tbe cats. Our own ranks are full of Iraitora Almost everything we do and say is pubhebed in tbe Toledo News. What is it all com ing to, Hoxie '! Hoxie—Damfino. History shows that the few Euoh as us have always ruled the many. The average workiogman is d e ficient in brain, tbat is, the brain to combine with one another. I am of opinion tbat your fears are entirely un founded. The corruption of the age; the ambition of leaders, aud tbe jealous ies that always exist among ignorant men will yot split it into a thousand atoms. Don’t be scared. Jay, Gould—I always feel reassured after I talk with vou. I hope jon are a prophet. But I mas: confess I have experienced a good deal of aanoyauce. Only think of Powderly for President, Weaver, Secre tary of the Treasury; Frederick Turner, Secretary of State; Ben Butler, Attorney General; Dick Trevsllick, Secretary of the Navy, and Henry George, Secretary Ot the Interior, to pass upon titlee to our land granta. It makes me “tired” to think of soch a thing, no matter how re mote the possibility. But I shall rely upon you, Hozie. Xn truth your name ought to be Foxy, eh ? Hoxie—Perhaps, and yonr name ought to be “Gold.” Gonld—Ts, to. Be good to yourself. Workingmen subseribefortheCLAKiox It is yoQT paper. It is devoted to your interest, and yon should support it,
