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T H E C L A R I O N - TBKM8 OF 80BSCB1PT10N: sdvanoe ...................................... 1 1 ■ TROY, SATL'RDAT, SBITEMBBR 11, 1M8, No M ore G allaktry . Tbet« is a preraleut uleA amoug paUODS of tlje borse cairi that U 18 geutlemunlj to keep seated while a has to Blaud. Ttie idea is founded ( chivalrous anxiety to appear =• male eyef, aad la perhaps ooi But tnere an ' ' ' tnere are objeciloua to be njen.ioned against its general adoption. .1 have seen men ridiug up town (rum the milis and foundries, b kek with the grime of smoke, wornorn outut andnd atoopiugtoopiug withith theh toil oi w o a a w t e __ _ the day and of years of such days, and I have sern those men allowed lo stand ail the way up-town to their humi'S wbili women, fastnonibly dressed, aat witi their skirU ......................... _ _____ .j ___ sed, aat ___ well spread out three in a the calculation is for five, the politeness, the consideratencss to sU a little more closely together so that there might be a seat or two leftfor those worn outout menen too re-tt-tt theirheir bodiesdies afterfter a dayy m t re t bo a a da of toih I have seen this often, and doubtless shall again. * *■ * and 1 have resolved that I will not in future re linquish my seat in a horse car to any but and old and feeble woman—that the girl ot the period, who shows so little sensibility iu such matters when her t u p is served, had b k te r be allowed to try the experiment of standing once in a while, :d how she likes the exercise that ‘8 othersthers go Cbronghrongt with such she aees o go Cb happy uncousciousness on he: The above we clip from the Standard of a recent date. There is a good deal of truth and a good deal of sophistry contained in it. I f there is anyplace where the innate seldshuess of men and i 18 sure to show itsel! it is in street and stoam cars, steamboats, and in traveling generally. U uqueationably many women forget to demonstrate that they are ladies In such places, b u t it will not mend mat* ters to suggest Co men that they should c ase to be gentkmai,ly. The true and just way is that the young and the strong r^«rdleta of sex, should yield their place iu a crowded car to the old, the in firm o n i the weak. It is not possible at such places and times to make compara tive tests of individual strength and pow ers of endurance in order to settle the question as t> which person, a mau woman, is entitled to a seat. But a gen- tlemao in ordinary health and strength will always yield his place to a lady. A gentleman will do this, a boor will not. There is reason in this, arbitrary as it may seem at first sight. It is generally conceded thai a man is better able to stand than a woman. Then, too, women who pass throjgh the ordinary experi ences of a woman's life have many rea sons for weariness and weakness that men have not. A considerate man will recog nize this fact, and rvill act accordingly. We do not want less gallantry on the part of men, but less aelfisbuese on both sides. The man who rises when a young, pretty and fashionable girl enters a crowded car, will all too often keep bis scat if the new comer should be a woman old and worn, dressed in the garb of pov erty, and bent with weariness. The rich madame who is wcatkd only from hav ing to little to du, never lacks for a seat, aU the men in the car will vie with each other in yielding up theirs to her. Bat the working girl tired with her day's labor, or the sewing woman with her bundle is generally given the privilege of standing. The trouble lies partly with the women themselve8,but they are not as guilty as they are sometimes represented. There are probably tea women who thank a mau for relinquishing a seat iu a car In their favor for one who receives it with thankless indiflerence ; yet to hear men talk, one woold believe the grateful wo men were a very snull minority. We do not need less gentlemen, but more ladies. In those nations where the men show the least consideration for the other sex and manifest the least gallantry, women are the most degraded and have the heaviest bnrJens placed upon them. In the United States women enjoy the great est liberty, and privileges undreamed of I d other countnes. The chivalry of Am erican men has been the pride of Ameri can women. A lady and a gentiemau went out rid ing. When they returned, the gentle man said to the lady: “Yon are able to get out of the carriage yonrself; you do not need my help,” and turned to his horse. The lady replied: “Come back I; am perfectly able to get out without as- sistasce, but for yonr repnlation as a gentleman you can’t afford to let mo do it.” So it is in this matter of street cars. The women of America may be perfectly able to stand while the men occupy the seats, but the latter on tnrir reputation as gentlemen cannot afford to let them A N ew P olitical P arty . The Knights, Grangers, and Union and labor men generally of Indianapolis and vicinity, held a political conferei to discuss the feasibility of organizing a new political parly. They issued cuiar in which tber siRte that the objects and purposes of the government when it was established was : “ 1. Toformamorc perfect union. 2. To insure domestie tranquility. To promote the general welfare. 4. To secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves und to our posterity.” These obj cts, they declare, have Uuriug the last quarter of a oeutury “beeu shame fully ana ticasonably overlooked by both the Democratic ana Bepublican parties, who have vied with each other in lietray- iug the interest of the people, aod ad- miuisteriug the government iu the mter- est of corpurations, riugs and cabals who have fattened upon the sweat aod blood of the nation’s toilers. They have Ig nored every principle npon which the govercimetiC was fouoded, and eubKiicu- ted systems aud methods whose essential features are borrowed from the feudal ages; placed under monopoly, beyono reach of individual enterprise, uatural resources and means of life, lib erty and general prosperity. They aim to protect and legalize wrongs, and in stead of natuial rights have established class disiinctions, founded on wealth in stead of social equality; have given to money cabal the monopoly and control of the medium of exchange, that it may control the harvest of labor lor the use of the must vitLatiog element of ludustiy; have shamelessly squandered the public dumatu upon soulless corporations and syndicates, thereby creating and festering the most stupendous landlordism m the worid; have granted to their courtiers and conledeiates an absolute monopoly of the transpottatiou of persons and property, as well as electric communica tion between distant persons and locali ties, thereby subjecting both i roduoers and consumers to extortionate tribute, of-en beyond all reason, justice or ueces- eitj; they allow bribery to control elec tions, thereby making it well-nigh impos sible for any but the rich to hold office, as they make the possession of wealth, aud nut ability aud moral worth, the chief r.quiiemcnt for obtaining office; have trampled npon the rights of labor- iug men and women, and by their aggres- avaiice and relentless tyiaunyover the producers of wealth and man's natu ral rights, the mass of the people are be- iug reduced to hopeless poverty and ser vile depenJeuce; through a permciuus system of finance, have foroed tue people into hopeless indebtedness then denied them the means of payment which have so teduosi Che value ot products and wages of labor as to make it ixupossible for the ten millions of producers to eman cipate themselves from a condition bor dering on slavery,except by means which the oppressors term repudiation.’' They theretore, as the representative of labor and productive industry sever their alliance with both the great politi cal parties, aod pledge themselves “ to unite for the overthrow of the pernicious and oppressive system which they foster and promote to the end that legitimate industry may be emancipated from the bondage under which it has been placed by unjust class legislation, and the gov- ernmenl restored to the people, to be administered by the people, for the ob jects and pnriioses for which it was orig inally eatablished.” Tbey further say that feeling the time has arrived for the formation of au indus trial party, tbey unite to organize such a party. They ask the alliance and co-op eration of Koighrs of Labor, agricultural organizations, Oreenbackers, soldiers’ organizations, “anti-monopohsts, trades unions, people's parly, temperance formers and individnals who pathy with the objects sought, and have lost confidence in the sincerity and disposition of the dumlnant parties to afford that relief which the people de mand and which the constitution guaran- ThiiB the new party—tho patty of the workingman—is otganized. Like the cloud no larger than a man’s hand, it may seem iuslgniffcant to-day. But os the cloud spreads until it finally covers the entire heavens, so will this party speedily reach from one side of the coun try to the other. The time has come for united practical action of all producers. United we stand, dirided we fall. and who Tax telegraphic dispatch to the effect that General Master Workman Powdcrly had had serious differences with the ex ecutive board of the K. of L., which had resultea in his resignation from bis posi tion, 18 utterly without foundation, bo also is the despatch to the effect that Mr. Powderly had decided to have his name used at Richmond, as he is about to leave the order. These reports are both de vices of the enemy, who do not scruple to concoct lies by the wholesale hoping to injure the order. H b . B enedict , the new public printer, takes occasiou to state that he bears no untrlendly feelings to the Typograpbici rother,other, Mr. Gilbei Union, and that his br Benedict, who has been appointed chief clerk, is a member of the union. L abor D ay . Labor day was observed quite generally throughout the country, though there was DO special observance in this city. In New York there was tbe largest labor demonstration ever seen in that city. The building trades headed the procession followed by the tobacco traders, then came the textile trades and the clothing trade section, tbe printing trades, tbe fruit prodneers and the iron workers, the fnruiture workers and the miscellaneous trades and mixed assemblies of tbe Knights of Labor btinging up the i The procession was renewed by Mr. Powdetly, Henry George, and a number ot otliers. The laborptocession in Brooklyn num bered 13,000 mCn. At Newark there were 15,000 me line—the largest parade ever in the city. Nearly 100 labor organizations took part. Two members of the grand marabal's staff and several of tbe subordloate i aUaJs were women. About 40,000 peo ple were present iu Caledonian park where the speaking took place. Henry George was tbe orator of the day, and in tbe presence of the well know politi cal economist, Governor Abbett and other politidins wereeuilreljoverlooked, and seemed to feel the slight put u{>on Two thousand Knights of Labor and trades union men of Elizabeth, N. J., observed labor day by a parade and an open air meeting. Tbe Knights of Labor held and an nual reunion at Peoria, 111., iu which 4,000 persons touk part. The uniun mm snd the Knights of Labor o f lUlwaukee, Wis.. to the num ber of 6,000, paraded on labor day. One thing is worthy of mention in conneotion with tbe Milwaukee celebration and that u that not a policeman or officers was on the grounds during tbe entire day, and nut a row or disturbance of any Rind oc curred to mar the festivities. From Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, and in fact from all the principal cities of the conntry, come reports of monster labor demonstrations. T he British colony of New South Wales is preparing to celebrate itsceu- teuuary lu 1883, and the Troy Frees is a good deal worried in mind about the mat ter. It says This colony was founded as a pen_ statiuD, and a great many of its present iahabitauts are disc( ' luts are disceodants of felons isported from Gre. the New South V om Great Britain. What . o f to-day 18 the grandson of a transported statesman’s ancestor can the New South Wales orator say c the men of 100 years ago? He may fee a jwide ID the f-act that this millionaire c thief, that this able statesman’s ancestor Was a pirate, that this cultured divine has for his ancestor a street pad,that this emi- apected pliyaiciau ; jrmg grandsirc, but if the orator feels pride in tfaesi reminiscences be is not likely to speak it. Why not? It seems to us there is far more to boast of in the fact that from an ouUaw ancestry has sprung a generation of honest respected and honored men —that tbe progress has been upward— than to be compelled to admit that from worthy sires there has come a race of de generate sou‘^; that from patriots have have decended stuck gambleri^ monopo lists aud railroad kings; from austere puritans au adulterous clergy ; from fathers of integrity and high moral eianding, eons who are public robbers, New York aldermen, Troy school and fire commiseiooers, and high-toned emigrants to Canada. It is snrely something to boast of when tbe people in a hundred years show a progress from bad to good. Let New South Wales have its centen- O nb of the by-laws of D.A 61 provide that wheu an applicarion for membership is received in any L. A. from au appli cant whose trade is already organized in tbaC jarirsdictiou, the oommittee on propositions shall aecertsin whether he is or has been a member of said trade anion. If so, he must be required to furnish proofs of his good standing be fore he can be admitted. If socb a rule had been enforced in D. A. 49. the dis agreements leading to open warfare be tween the Knights and tbe trades unions in New York city might have been avoided. The trades unions are the older organizations. They already em brace within their membership the beet and moat reliable workman. Tbey have already webbed men in tbe balance and found them either up to tbe standard or wanting. And when a local assembly admits a mau to membership who is in ill-repute with his own trade union it makes a m ist^e in two ways: first, it has sown the seeds of diasenrion between assembly and union, when, if any good is to come from organization, tbey would work in harmony ; and second, a bad man for the union is not a good man for the assembly. A traitor to one is sure to prove, sooner o r later, a traitor to tbe other. The assembly weskens itself—it builds the edifice of labor organization out of crumbling stone aud rotten tim ber—whenever it admits such a man. T bot baa a liquor salooa for about every sixty-four voters. Aud yet tnere are those who will maintain that the E. of L. has no work to do in this city. E bnxst SoEtULiNO, tbe ci*divant hus band of the fair but frail Victoria, Is bearing his domestic trouble quite man fully all things considered. He has bis weaknesses, however, but they are truly masculioe m their nature, la one little matter, at least, he has not yet reached the ideal standard, nob necessarily of a gentleman, but of a true man. He tells us that Victoria has robbed him of SI, 100 of their united earnings, Scbilliog rs, we believe, a street car driver with an come of perhaps $12 per week. WiH some practical financier figure out how long It will take a man on $600 a year, in New York city, with a wife to support, to lay up $1,100? It surely can’t be done in tue leas than two years which have elapsed since the famous elopement took place. It is a man's business to support his wife, and Ernest expresses his will ingness and ability to do that. If there Were $2,100 in bank, placed there Victoria’s name, U was Oecause Victoria herself had laid by that amount from the Wages she received from the Casino, and tb belongs lo her and to nobody else; and not even the man who had the miafortune to marry her, aud tbe lack of delicacy not 8»y dishonor, to tell the public just how it came about—.that Victoria did ail the luTif-making, and forced him to tue elopement bythrtaM of suicide—had any diim upon it. But men of bis class find it difficult to get rid of the idea that what is his is bis own, aud whut Is his wife's is his too. CoHHBNTi.N'O on marriages of the Mor- osini-SchiUingcUaracterthc Budget says: ‘Sooner or later the person of superior intellect b^ins to chafe under the redraint of such nncongeuial companion ship, etc.'’ It seems to us that in this special marriage theabove quoted remarks like the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la. Became the father was a wealthy bauker, it does not ncoeesarily fuUow that Victoria’s intellect and educa tion are in any true sense superior to Chose of her plebeian husband. The ac- compliahments which belong to girls of her class in life cannot in justice be said to taka the pJaoe of education. And if she had really possessed the intelligence which tbe Budget gratuitously bestows upon her, the chances are a thousand to one that she would never Lave tak»‘n the step she did. Preach against unequal marriaiics, Mr. Budget, but put it os i other ground than this. Intelligent and cultured girls otteu made ill-assorted and unhappy marriages, but never mar riages of this sort. The ignorant and fool ish ones do that T he Owl is a scurrilous sheet publish ed Jn Albany, which is sold upon the streets of Trey every Saturday, Mid which fluds a good many purchasers- Iis only claim to attention is that it deals in ‘-personals” of the most unjustifiable character, aud furnishes its readers with anonymous scandal and slander. There means of defense against its at tacks no matter how unjust or untruthful they may be, for the m«n or woman who attempts sneh defense is met with tbe jeersof a tboughtles public who regard this very defense as a sort of confession. Let res| wide bi ■espectable people in future give it i T he 13th of September being Mr Drexel's birthday, is the day set apart for all the printers west of the Mis-iissippi valley to donate the price of 1,000 ems toward increasing tbe Childs and Drexel fund of the Typographical Union. It is also proposed that each local onion draw from its treasury a sufficient sum to pay for each member not actually at work that day, to add to this fund. The suggestion is a good one, only the money should first come from the pockets of the members. T he disorderly dens of tbe city were raided on Sunday night. At Timothy Casey’s, on State street, above Fifth four young women and twenty men were found indulging in a drunken carouse. The names of the four young women given to the public, and they were sentenced to jail for 59 days each, in de fault of $500 bail for good behavior. But not a man of the whole twenty was ar- W e have received a copy of the report of the legislative committee appointed under the instructions of tbe general as sembly held in Cleveland. It contains much important information as to the action of Congress in regard to the de mands of labor. We have no time to re view it for this week's C ii A bion , but shall devote oonaiderable space to it next T he C labion office is the first in the citvofT royto carry out the principles of the K. of L., aud adopt the eight hour rule for its workmen. Which office will be the next to fall into linef T hebe are in Chicago three district as semblies and one hundred and fifty-six local assemblies, including every occupa tion. Besides these, there are thiity trade aod labor unions. Is it Schilling oi Hulskampf Won’t somebody please toll ust THE BANKRUPT STOCK Elllford’s IS BEING SOLD AT THE BOSTOK STOi At Half the Original Cost Corsets ■ - - 12 l-2c Lisle Gloves - - 9c Kid Gloves - - 25c Ate a few of the Bargains to be Obtained FESSENDEN, LAMBERT A TOWER. 306 Sr 308 River-St 323 Pulton-St. A LABOR SERMON. Walter W. Vrooman, a young western er, is one of toe most stirriog orators and energetic workers in the cause of labor. He has just finished a series of open air meetings in Kansas CSty, Mo., the effect of which is a general revival among all classes in that city for the cause of labor and mankind. At various places the “law and order leagues\ have tried to prevent him from speaking, but the people followed in such cases intu the oods and fields and heard him gladly. On Sunday afternoon, August 14, be preached a labor sermon to a crowd ot 2,090 people at Kansas City, Mo., from which we make the following extracts. He took his text from Isiiah Ixv, 22,22 ; And they shall bnild houses, and is they shall plant vint habit them; and ___ ,, yards, and eat the fruit of them. 'They shall not build, aud ano t e . - habit them; they shall not plant and another eat, tor as the days of a tree are the days of a people, and mine elect shall long enjoy Uie work of their hands, The people are to-day crushed down by au unjust social system, which not only robs the majority of the pleasure of tbisjlife bntj which degrades t'lmr souls id implants in their breasts the germ of vice, crime, prostitution and drunken- Aud it is not only our duty to pray that God will hurry up the millen nium, but it is our duty to seek to be in struments in the hand of God iu execut ing his designs. When Fred^Douglass was a slave he said that he prayed aud prayed and prayed that he might be free, but tbe Lord never answered his prayer. But just as soon as he began to pray with his legs the Lord answered him right away. fLoud laughter.] Now, frlendH, when we repeat the Lord s prayer and say “ deliver ns from evil,” we not only want to pray with our months but with oar lege, and we will be delivered from the evils of which we now complaio. If of you here missed his watch aud gUdSenly looked around and saw me with it in my hand running around the oor- about to get away, you would not be liable to kneel down on yonr knees, shut your eyes and pray that God wonld touch Walter Vrooman’s heart so he would bring back your watch. If you did your prayer would not be answered. You would oe a great deal more liable to pray while running after me that the Lord would enable your right hand to get a good grip on my coat collar, and your prayer would be a great deal more liable to be answered. [Applause.] God helps those who helps themselvee, and there is do use asking God to do something for that we are too cowardly to help him dbriet never preached contentment to apty atomachs and bare backs. After he hod talked to them until wearied and they became restless and hungry and a few of them complained, he did not tell them in an angry voice to keep quiet, that spiritual blessings were more im- portan-tban material, and to let their stomachs go empty while he was feeding their souls. No, but be went to his dis ciples and had them skirmish around for some victuals, aud after physical wants were cared for h e began to supply their mental and spiritual needs. We must unite, not to kileel down on our knees and wear out the only pair of pants we've got begging and petatiouiug the so-oalled better classes, those with soft bauds and soft brains, both softened for lack of exercise. We must units, not to beg charity, but to demand justice. Christian philanthropy giving work! ng people old clothes and scrap victuals will not settle this question- Charity is rob bing the working classes of tbeir self-re spect, and taking the expression from tbeir faces. If we bad justice we would not need charity. If we had what was our own we would want nothing o( any body else. This is what we are fighting for, this is what we are praying for, this is what we are going to have. THING & Co.’s AUGUST CLEARING SALE E X C I T E M E N T U N A B A T E D . mon Sense $3 Button Boot to close tbe lot. 1 Kid Com- >ts at $2 s pair, Five cases of Ladies' Newport Ties and Opera Slipper.^, worth 75 cente and $1, to close at 50 cents a pair. :^rg»in No. 3,—A big job lot of Child ren's Slippers and Ties at 50 cents a pair just half the former price, and thousands of new Bargains at S. B . T H I N G - & C o .'s MID-SldlMER CLflSI\G SILE Shoes M Sliors 328 and 330 River St. and 23 4th St., TROY. N. Y. BEOTHEE KNIGHTS A T T E N T I O N ! Buy ih f N A T I O N A L K . o f L . Linen Collars and;Cuffs Mode by Brother and Sister Knights at Waterford, N. Y. Ask for them. As good aod cheap as any in the countrr. Mrs. M.P. Acker Frencl lliDery 18 King St.. 1’EOY- K.Y. F u r n i t u r e ----- A N D ----- C a rpets For the next 36 ila-'s A T COST To make room for our F all S tock Best bargains ever offered in Parlor Suits, Ohamloer Suits, Marble Top Stands, Extension Tables, Beds-Springs, Mattresses, etc., a t M. Doyle’s Sons 176 178 A 180 RIVER St. July s-m 3 THE NATIONAL BANKS. Some of the editors of country news papers are worrying'themselves and their readers with speculations as to what is to become of the national banks when “all the bonds of the United States are called in and the bank circulation based cm then, is retired. They seem to be firmly eonrinced that banks cannot exist with out ciroulation, and that the whole na tional bank system muse come to an end unless the iostitutions organized under it issue circulating notes. We do not see the matter iu that light. The legitimate business of banks is to receive deposits and discount notes, and it they cannot live on that they have no right to exist. The privilege ot issuing notes to circulate as money should he reserved exclusively to the national government, and that is what is going to be done very shortly.— N. Y. Sun. Now it is reported that the treasury department proposes to call in all the outatanduig three percent, bonds within a year. This is a great deal more than contemplated by the Morrison resola- tioD, which the President pocketed and which Assistant Secretary Fairchild aud Treasurer Jordan argued before the CoDgressional committee meant national dishonor, repudiation and eventual bank ruptcy. Were they mistaken then or did tbey lie about it in order to get all the credit themselvee without the inter- meddliug of Congress?—Troy BndgeL Workingmen subscribe for the C labioh . It is yonr paper. It is devoted to utersts, aad yon should snppwt it. C l Of all 1 at prices Can _a£Toi Free a Sot Commei at 10 lit] a J TAN, FLO^ Am 299 Sells G R the Teat Troja market oldfiitn
