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' l l ' ' iss’ .E VOL, I, NUMBER 21. T R O Y , N . T ., O C T O B E R 2, 1886. PRICE 3 CENTS. STS. 36 In lIlbtT of t Iriciids educa- ON 1.25. 1*13. $1.60. 3 t ., WOMAN'S TRIBUTE TO THE E A tboiuoua timcEtbe tiume w«a wraiii;, :ie for uomaiiK;. Wbere’cr toe d< spot nuuujnoti bolds Bis gUve of boi Wbers’ertbls oct Lkbor wi Jiln lU gi eedy puc. To are a im , alive, aware, •truing for treedom ever/wbr/e. vtewleeB,ret vr.tQ all potent poirer, Te claq) in alienee all ibe eattb, One golden cbain of UborA dower, Ooebrotberbood of tnman wonb. HOC witn the ooortler^ bended knee igbts old, Irat to deride, TO give her egoal rigbts tnetead. An eijaal place Equal rewar And When proud Molocn would deepoll, ,n equal <aown lor viotorr ww, mother, $ater, mend and bride, ' at man's iide. Only wben industry sball be Released Irom maimnon’e galling cbain. Can woman'! Croe equality A real recogntuon gain. Not man’s di pendant wUl she be But ni8 c(vwoi%er, equal tree Arhei aewAveeapoo the shore, United with their daollng create: Arise I as life lore vermore Obeye the luh-god'a strong behests, Te Knlgbte of lAbor r.ee, unit , TOOT armament Is troth and might. (From the Labor Free Press.) A Tale of Two Boycotts. “ UNKNOWN\ K .O F L. CHAPTER XXII TH» END OP CLARA’S LITTER. liOM^herd upon that picture and on this. Tberp are more things in heaven and earth, Uoratlo, Than arc dr.-amed ol layourpblloeopby. —Hamlet “ Yon have he.trd the story of Captain <itey from himself, but he could not, in so abort a time, tell you all the moan lit tle persecDtions be has bad to p ut up with from Rear-Admiral Jobmll. How the latter bas, by some itiflaence, brought to bear iip-tn the different Secretaries of the Navy, kept back Captain Grey, wliile others n o t eotitled to it have been pro> moted over his bead. I t has been so openly done that at last the bravest offi- oers compliiined about it, and got up a petition to Oougress to have Captain Grey promoteil. aad offered to waiv« their right of seuioriiy in the line of promotion to see justice dona to ao braTc an officer—the real hero of the battle of the Mentor and the Mermaid. Superinteod’-ut Jobnell could not help knowing that mach iil-feeling and blame was att che<l to him about the way Cap tain Gz^j had been tre..oJ ever since the war. He took hie time and said nothing, except when CongtesA omoted Captuin Grey to his present rank of Cap tain. In a short time all those officers who bad openly interested tbemaelTes for Captain Grey—my husbant among the number—bad cause to repent of their generous action, for they were sent out of the country for three years, and to the most dreary and out-of-the-way places, nnder the most disagreeable commanders that could be fonnd. Captain Grey himself was iit one time kept—against the law—away from home years in stead (rf three. Others, when three yeeiB were out, would be sent to some Btstion on our own coast too dreary or nnbeoltby to take their families and risk their lives. W h it can our officers d o ? The navy department has at its head a civilian picked out from a horde of politidaos, not for ability or honesty, or any known It for his money, because the politicians know he is the 'Virtue, out for his money, too often dis honestly gained. Such a man is chosen right man to get up a big job, to get Congre-'B to lavish millions of the peo ple’s L ney to repair ships, or to build new iron-clads. I will tell you how these big steals are managed. A large old wooden vrar-ship is banled up in the dock at Norfolk navy yard for repairs. The last sea voyage showed the officers in command her total worthlessness; and so they reported, giving as their opinion that she wonld not be able to make another ocean trip. She was n ot s sfe; and had required the constant overhauling of the carpenter to keep her from leaking badly; that if the voyage had not been an unusually calm one they would not have been able to reach land in safety; flnallv that by slight repairs i t might do some years as a coast survey ship, o r a practice ship in some navy yard. The Secretary receives the report and in a short time names an officer to go to iBQiect the condemned ship. The officer perhaps is young, ardent and means to be honest, does not know the ropes,’ or the varioos and wonderful ways of .be Becrelaries. He is elated at the honor imposed upon him; he has an added sense of his ownn importance,nporta and with a ow u wiser ait and a hangbtier carriage of the head, he at once sets out to inspect must carefully the ship entrusted to his able scrutiny that be might give his opinion whether it is worth repairing and what will be the cost, if undertaken. He, of coarse, does not know anything of the report of the officers, home from the lost cruise. This young officer does his work thoroughly; amves in Wsshington late at n ight; hurries as soon as he thinks be can be admitted to the secretary; sends his name m with pnde; and—with his papers all prepare.l with plans and esti mates for inspection—makes all clear to the silent secretary. Then he conclndes : “ Yonr ezceilencj, I have fulffiled my mission—satisfactorily, I hope, to you. Bat 1 must candidly give you my private opinion ; the old ship bas seen her best days. It has been repaired, and mended and patched so often that I was aston ished how she has weathered the storms and the oceans so long. I wonld not waste any more mouoy on her. Too see, it will take a large sum of money; at the closest estimate, it will take $60,000 or $76,000 according to which plan is fol lowed. Of course the oostllest plan would be the best for the safety of the officers who will in the future command her, Bad the men op board.” The secretary looks up with an inscru table expression of face and says; “ Is your report finished, sir ?” The young officer taken aback, stam mers o n t : “ Yes, sir ; unlws yon have anything to question me n p o s.” \Nothing sir. Good morning.” And the secretary bows bis dismissal in a cold, formal manner. The poor young officer is chilled and alarmed, \w h u t bas he done? He is conscious of having done his best. How has he offended!” Two or three weeks elapses, and he gets orders to repair to some out-of-the- way port for three years. He feels he is being p u n ished; hot, for what ? Another officer is chosen and sent to the old ship lying on the docks at Nor- If he has cut his eye teeth; if he bas been wise enough to have taken a lesson from the fate of the last sent officer; or he has some experience in such little affairs under other secretaries; or he happens to be a man on the pattern ol the secretary himself and believes in the principle that “ to benefit himself at the expeos- of all others is the first law of nature’’—well, so good. He amves at Norfolk ; visits the ship of coarse for futute piO'if, if anything should arise exert himself to go over a musty leable. But to be such a fool as old hulk to find out what it needs (for ndeed it needs eyeiytbing}—be is not When he feels like i t he reports after some days to the secretary. He takes the time and chooses the hour when the secretary is surrounded by navy people. He hands bis written repurt. The sec retary reads it; then smiling, motions him to a seat; and a long and animated talk ensues. ■ Wuat has made this change? The estimate has been made up by the astnte officer a t $100,000 at least. Bis report makes it appear that the old wooden structure can be made as good as new, and with all the \memories associated with it from the last century ” such as being \ i n the famous battles with the French, or the British on the lakes,”— it ought to be preserved. Now, Ibeo, the house are all landsmen ; so ate the senate. They have an idea a ship Is like a bouse, can be b uilt on the old foundation, and none the worse. B a t the officers know better. The new piank and paint often only conceal the rottenness beneath; that p'ves way io he woise hour, and lets them in the dark, rushing waters. The money is granted. The ship is patched up to last a year or so, at the enormous ooetr—for such useiees work— ' of $20,000 or $80,000. B u t the balance ol the $100,000 goes where! The sec- reUriea can best answerr. So i t goes on each year with a dozen ships, docks, wharfs, hospitals and schools, buildings of all kinds belonging to the government and nnder the sontrol of the navy department. Each seoretary grows rich. Some favored few eff the navy have all their own way; remain on land with fat berths: get promoted and receive big p submit to abuse and wrong, and maksi a fuse—either the navy department coolly and entirely overlooks their tool and favorite; or finds means to bush the complaints if they are too mneh in earn* eat or exclaim too loudly about their wrongs. The rules aod regulations are—for ex ample’s sake—strictly enforced on these officers that have little inflaeuce, or are too honest to suit the knavish secretaries. Rear-Admiral Jobnell—1 have fonnd out—wrote the endorsement himself againsr Proleasor Melville. He has placed it so, that every one in the navy at least, knows the nature of i t He has done all he could with the officers, and esp -eially with Rear-Admiral Roderick, his succes sor, at the Naval Academy—to injure your husband. If I am not mistaken Professor Melville will have a hard time getting justice from the navy department, as Admiral Jobnell is one of the inside His name—as the ‘‘conntry’s naval hero \ —is worth much to each secretary in getting more from congress. He is worth pleasiDg, and worth keeping in good humor by over-lioking bis \little peccadilloes,” as the nivy department would style them, Experience here in the navy, bss taught me, Tbeo, that there are many ways for some m authority to evade the law, and to do as they please. Others are always in fear of the law ; and others again are made the scapegoats and ex ample of the lav. But, dear, I have come to the end ol my paper, and must come to an end with this rambling narrative. Pray God it mav do yon some good; and I earnestly 'wish for the saccesa of both you and your husband, out of the bands of that man who is more of a monster than human. Let ns from time to time bear «f yon and how you will untwine the serpent of slander around your husband. Good bye, dearest; I kiss yon again and again. Yonr true friend always, C lara B bunswiok . [ to b e OOHTINUED.'} PINKERTON’S STANDING ARMY. The Amencane boast of tbeir’s as the land of the free. As far as freedom to the dtizens is concerned, it can't hold a candle to this country. How long would Canada p u t up with a private Rtauding army like that nnder the coiSiand of Bob Pinkerton! This is actually a stand ing army, fully armed, and thoroughly disdphned and enrolled for what? To be hired by bloodthirsty monopolists to crush poor workingmen striving to better their condition. This army is for hire, and for so much a day they will go the United Statea and down inoffensive people. This Pink non mob is a fool blot on Ameri can ciyilazatioD, and the sooner it is wiped o ut the better for the reputation of Americau freedom, so called.—P a l ladium of Labor. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF WEALTH. We bear a great deal, from people who posMSB an abnodance of this world’s goods, of the responsibilities of wealth, itil we are sometimes well nigh satisfied that the care of money is more bother than it is worth, and are ready to add an other beatitude: \Blessed be nothing, for it cannot decrease.” The cares of property are undoubtedly manifold, and of a nature not always to be realized by the man upon whom they have never devolved. He who speaks of the wealthy class as an idle one, confess es to the world tnat he has never belong ed to it. Froper'y needs constant atten tion, to see that it does not deteriorate in valae. Rents must be collected, repairs made, tenants looked alter, the stock market watched, sometimes an extensive business superintended with all the re sponsibility incident thereto; all this, and much more, fiequently resulting in a wear and tear o f body and min d of which the working man, who receives a week’s wages for a week’s works, and sleeps the sleep of the just, has not the remoteet conception. But, as important and as general as they are, these*are not the responsibili ties to which we propose to devote this article. AU these centre around one point, and that a selflib one. Alltheen- ergies of the rich shoot I Workingmen aobeeribe f ortheOLAsioM it is your p^>er. It is devoted to your Interest, and yon should support it. The weekly payment law in Hsssa- chusetta went into effect the first of An- gust. are devoted, first to preserve intict the property he has al ready acquired, and secondly, to add to it. Sometimes, but not always, there is ird purpose, that of a p'-rson'al enjoy- it of the means at bis disposal. Eve rywhere, and by everybody, it is recog nized that ‘'the chiel end of man Is to keep all he’s got, and to get all until be who professes to act from any other motive is regarded as either a luna tic or fool. A man may afford to have mg most antagonistic to institutions. A rich man cannot coapoi conscience byby neglectingeglecting hii mnd with hie n h ward his fellow men during his lifetime, and at his death leave legacies to charity for Iiis heirs to wrangle over, and bis ex ecutors to misspend. What be does, if he doee bis duty, be must do himself while he is still alive. We have said that it is not the rich man’s duty to give in charity. But he it not exempt from giving, nevertheleu. As he has drawn bis money from the public, so his giRs should be to the pub lic. He snould establish aud beantlfy parks, and throw them open for general use. He should endow public libraries, that the toiling masses through whose labor, or through whose expenditure, he has acquired his wealth, may have a ra- tum for what they have done for him. He should contribute to the support of schools and colleges. He ahoold build comfortable bouses for workingmen, and rent them at reasonable rates. Oppor tunities he in every direction, and where lies an opportunity, there lies a duty for the man of means. U neno ' wx E niobt . UNIONS AND KNIGHTS OF LABOR Many do not slop to consider what they are talking about when they apeak of the onions. They certainly cannot e by becom- ithrenl of the help the workingmen’s cause antagonistic to their bre ;he onions. workin( onietic Not very long since I was ap proached by a man who asked me my opinion ahoui trades unions. I was but - prised to learn his state of feeiirgs to wards them. \ They are trying to down tbeK . of L , ” was his defense. Now, how this can b e is more than I can figure o u t Tneir members are men who have fought capital which oppressed them for ^ears; they are men who have kept up their wages, when other workingmen had aaid and done should be passed over the interest of the order. If the brothers would follow the rules, advice and precepts laid down by Mr. Powderly from time to time, many nn- ' ■ be avoid^. seemly occurrences would b R ambler . principles so long as they do not stand in I to work for what they could get, or the way of h is money getting and money ^ whatever the employers choose to give keeping. But wben money is in one | them; they are men who have bad to scale, and the good of his fellow men and centeod agiunat the workingmen as well regard for his own soul in the o tjer, hu- aa the capitalist. This may seem strange manity and religion kick the beam as of j to many who have n o t intelligently con- feather weight, and the gold comes down. I sidered the workings of the trades Yet acquisitiveness is not in itself a [ uoions. But uutil workinj Properly eounierbalanced. it is very desirabl all be decided] Without it we should ‘shiftless.” What duties and responsibilities which should rest upon the rich man, bat wbicb are so seldom recognized end acted npon. fnlly organized the anions bad to watchful, that non-union meu did not into shops and work nnder wages, compelling others either to work, for wages than their scale or leave their work. They naturally would not allo'W themselves to be ousted from their trades O a PITAL a n d WAGES. Capital is draws from the product of labor. Capital Is the sccumulated pro duct of labor. Hence there must be la bor before there is capital. Labor pro duces; capital does n o t Seta million dollars down in the wilderness, and come back in ten years and you will find just your million dollars, no more and no less. Bnt p u t a hundred men in the wilder ness, give them not a cent of capital, but bid them go to work. Come back in ten years and you will find comfortable homes, busy workshops, end accumula ted capita], all the result of labor. Each man can go on producing after the manner allotted to him, and the wealth of the cemmunity is constantly added to by means of this produotioo. All he needs is an easy and practicable method by which he can exchange his own prodnetiODB, the snzplus over what he needs, for the productions of others which he needs. Coming back again to first principles, be wants to exchange his own fish for another's venison. And if the venison man is not m immediate need of fish, he wants a medium of exchange by which, passing his fish to a third per son, he can yet obtain hie venison. Be wants, in fact a certificate that he has performed so much lor the common good, which will be honored at tight by every member of the commanity. That is all the use there is for money. On the false basis on which society I now rests, the full prodnctive power of j the coELmunity being brought into power 'means siibseqaeot idleness and \th e ; evils oi overproduction ”—that is, men and women going hungry aud half-clad, whilst the products of their own toil are locked np in storehouses out of their reach. Is that reasonable ? Is that just ? Is it a right principle npon winch the more meu work Ibe less they have? The more the? put into the common fund of the wealth of ths world, the more they No man bjm « n « of hooett labor .lone I ' ' “™\«“ »> ™ acquire mote tb .nam o d .at oomoe-j 1” tence. If be has more than that it has Q who laid the foundation for come lo Wm b j mberlbmee, b , apeenta-K- L « bnild npon. i a HdllM . o r t .. . . . ' men their whrrlA interAAts Are verved hv should be enabled to take out. Wages are the earnings of labor, not i the advances of capital, tbougn to facili- I tate our civilization capital not infre- ' quently pays these w ^ e s before labor bas firiehed its production. But be cause capital does this, and then takes a heavy percentage for so domg, it doesn’t make it any less a fact V enerable 8 a « e . lion, b j emmlmn a p.roent.|,e on the la- i » « ' “ >• \ • >>J bot of others or b , diahonomr ol eome ' \'•'t “ 3nd a t sort B at let him have wealth as he will, for all above yond that required for his personal needs, be is in the eye of heaven only a steward entrusted with this wealth to use for the best interests of fais fellow men. He has plenty given bira, that he may help those who have none. This does not mean indiscriminate alms giving. Io fact it does not mean alms giving at all. The man who by means of his capital carries on an extensive es- tablishment o f any sort, giving remuner ative employment to large numbers of workmen, and seeing to it that their oon- ditions of life are favorable to physical and moral health, is doing better service to God and to humanity than though he built a church. The obligations npon a rich man do BOt demand a limited pereonai expendi ture. It is his duty to spend, bat to spend judiciously, that those ahall be most Deoefited who are the most needy. The larger bis retinne of servants, the more costly house he builds, the more expensively it is fur nished, so that bis purchases are of American wares, the more are the people berefited, for the more money u brought into circulation, and passes, at least a portion of i t into the bauds of the labor ing classes. Tuere is no more fallacious cry than that of extravagance, as directed ^l^n s t the rich. So long as they do n ot exceed their income, and involve others in their financial downfall, lavish expend iture an their part is a blesting to the world. It tends to an equalization of money, a state the reverse of which we have most to dread in this country as be- •ithour belong to both the nnion and K. of L. if they so elect. Homeol those who are so decidedly oppo^d to trades union men belonging to the K. of L should remember that when a man becumes a member of the K. of L. be is supposed to embrace the irinciples of the order. They mig well try to prevent men who beloi other orders from being covereu wii shield, as to oppose the entrance of the trade union men. Their is another thing that cannot be denied, and that is, that, wben tried these men are not found wanting. They have ever stood by their organizations, and know what it means to be faithful and loyal All this hue and cry should be stopped. It is all wrong and very hurtfnl to both unioDiste and knights. Our interests sreideniicsl and we should work together. Again, the works of the union men will compare favorably with those of the knights, and this throwing mod is in very bad taste to say the least The knights should remember that the E. of L. is nothing more nor lees than a union of all trades, and union brotners should be treated with the same feeling oi respect that any K. ofL . member is en titled to. If we want snccese we mnet cease to ostracise brothers of other labor organi zations outside of our own. We want all laboring men, skilled, and unskiliedyto become united in the cause of honest pay for an honest day’s work. We al^ make mistakes and bluBders in onr lives, and no doubt the knights have made their share of them. We are all human and liable to err, and many things that I eonsider drunkenness a serious and unoatnral vice, but believe that poverty and over-exertion ore more to blame for its existence than all other causes com bined. Abolish poverty and want, and drunkenness 'will eventually disappear. The use of liquor has comparatively no effect in the contests of tabor with capi tal. Good-for-nothing drunken wretches have very little inflaeuce. Liquor deal ers can n o t become Knights of Labor, principally because they would only join to catch customers. The Knights of La bor have done more for practical temper ance reform among the workingmen, tosn all the prohibitiou organizations that were ever formed. If oar iniquit ous system of business and production was obsoeed, so that poverty was made impossible, most ol the existing drank- onnese would disappear.—Robert Ster ling. Dlaaentiona occur in all oiganlnations, even in chorches. I t is not to be won dered at, therefore, that the Knights of Labor, with their present enormous membership, should have their share of disagreements among themselvea They would be more than hvman if they did American dtizeos have two important constitutioual rights—the right to vote andthe right to petition. A judicious use of the first preclodes a necessity for the second.—Memphis Record. Don’t let us expect everythiug from organization, or look to the officials and leaders to accomplish marvels and prod igies while they receive only a half hearted and apathetic support There are 20,000 Knights of Labor in westen Peunsylvuiia.
