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Litchfield enquirer., 1870-02-17
BRooKFIELD, Feb. 4th, 1870.

MIR. EDIToR:-Whiles so much is said about the evil effects eff 4driaking spiritu- ous liquors and such stupendous efforts occasionally made for it's suppression, and
 very properly too, I wonder that some eff ort is not made for the suppression of an
 evil which I firmly believe in it's ruinous effects upon the mental and physical or ganization stands at the head of the list.
 viz:-The use of tobacco. How wide spread this evil is everybody knows. Iris not confined to any class of society, nor. I
 might say, to any age; but old and young, rich and poor, high and low seem to vie with each other in the quantity of this
 loathsome weed that they can consume. If it were harmless in its effects upon the human system, we might pass it by as a very vulgar kind of amusement, which, for some incomprehensible reason had become tolerated in society, but when we have abundant evidence that tobacco in it's nat ural condition. saying nothing of the rank poisons that are mixed with it more or less in its manufactured state, is deadly poi son which has most deleterious effect up- on the nervous system andt trough that to the whole human organization, producin 2 diseases of mind and body whose fearful rav- ages are not confined to the present gene ration, but entail legacy of misery upon succeeding ones, is it not time that steps were taken to combat this evil? The fol- lowing are some of the experiments made by celebrated French surgeon: "I made. he says, a small incision in pigeons leg and applied to 1t the oil of tobacco, and in two minutes it lost the use of It's foot. I repeated this experiment on several other pigeons with similar result. I made an incision in the pectoral muscle and ap- piled the oil to it and in three minutes the animal could not support itself on its feet, dipped thread in the oil and drew it through wound made with needle and the animal died in seven minutes. Two drops of the oil applied to the tongue of a cat killed her in fifteen minutes. The same experiment tried upon dogs and oth- CT animals cauaed death in fifteem min utes." If we had no other evidence that tobacco was an enemy to human life, the above would be ample. That the human body can continually absorb and digest so deadly poison without harm to some of it's functions is simply absurd. But we have the testimony of the most eminent physicians of the present and past that the habitual use of tobacco is ruinous to health, undermining the constitution, and the parent of a host of diseases that are yearly sending thousands to an untimely grave. Is it not our duty to pause and look this monster in the face, and if we have no regard for ourselves, at least to have some respect for our posterity who will atone for our sins and misdoings, visited upon them even to the third and fourth generations ? ... .......
 .. A, LAX.
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-02-17

We noticed in one of our exchanges this week the statement of Dea. John Hodg- kins, of South Jefferson Me, whose son was cured of incipent consumption by the use of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. We refer to this at this time as tending to cor roborate the statement we made last week in relation to this Liniment as applied to consumption.
 If Congress had employed as much sci entifc skill in the arrangement of its ssRe. construction Policy at the close, as the War Department did in the beginning of the war, in arranging for the manufacture of what was called Sheridan's Cavalry Con- dition Powders for the use of the Cavalry horses, no doubt the Union whould have been restored long ago. Erchange.
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-02-17

The following conversation between two pitmen was overheard, says an English pa per, not long ago by Ia gentleman: |. aa,a "Aw, say. Georgie, man, aw here thou. been maxim fule O theseI.'' -
 sAy, man, auve gotten wife.'' 14a17t
 Wy, dis thou know auv dune the sam. thing mesel. Wat kind o''body hast thon got, eh?" s.n .....', a.r, "A parfect deeyal, mana parfect dee val.'' a .s" a>s s' iaA X t'1@a 3o,7
 ''Smash me, man Law wish mine wa nae warse than that - so., .,.,. ''Warse than that, responded Georgie how can she be worse than that? Is'n ] Bselzebub the warst critter a man coof have for an akwentance i this world?"
 "Nought O the kind, man-nought O the kind. Dis'nt thou knaw what the Bi ble says (and thou knaws it cannot b, wrong)? It says. Resist the deevil, ant he'll flee from you:' but bless thee, simpl, soul, if ye resist my wife, she'll flee a ye." .a ta. ~ q 0ls
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-02-17

J. B. Baker, of Danbury, who has had lame arm for two years without knowing tue cause, last Tuesday felt pricking sen sation in his shoulder, and, barring it the point of needle was discovered protruding from the flesh. It was extracted and it is thought the lamness will cease. Mr. Baker don't know how the needle got into his flesh. gi4
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-02-17

Terre Haute, Ind, Jan. 27, 1870.
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-02-17
Pennington Savings Bank.

EPOSITS made in this bank on or before date. 'AA'
 interest at the rate of six per cent, free of ess eaxes has been paid on deposits for the last nleeen years. T An, extra dividend of one per ra Gent has been declafei for the last sixmonths. anls bank holds. a large surplus fund, us a guarantee to its depositors. Amount of funds Seps; l. 1869, $1 ,0l2, ,596. Business hours from SAMUEL s. CoWLES, Treasurer.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-11-05
THE MINER.


FATAL ACCIDENT.-On Monday, Oct
3lst., an accident occurred at Eckley
Luzerne county, Pa, by which two
miners were injured, one of than ia
tally.
MINERS wanted to open six new
places in the Diamond Mine. Apply
to Seth Turner, Superintendent Dia-
mond Mine, Braidwood, Illinois.
MEssRs. james & Moony have com
entitled the Festsrn Miner, at Braid
wood, Illinois. We trust success may
crown their efforts.
THE anthracite Monitor Of Nov. 5tb.,
in referring to the visit OF Mr.. Trevel-
lick to the mining regions Of Penpsyl-
vania, says:
The admirers of this gentleman wll
be pleased to hear that it is his inten-
ton to visit this region in about week.
We are requested to announce that he
viii lecture in Hazelton on Friday, ! lth
inst, ana in Jeddo on the 1ah. We
suppose that his services will be re-
quired IN some other districts. Those
districts who have not yet had the ser
vices Of this distinguished champion
Of freedom will do we'll to secure them
now.
Two miners were walled in at the
Bloomington, ILL.,, mine, IN the Gath
ult, by the falling of thereof Of the
shaft. They were rescuedafter several
hours confinement.
The AiaLhrGcite .Jonito calls atten-
ton to an abuse that is vry general in
this State as well as in Pennsylvania
the paying but once a ninth, and then
retaining it until fifteen lays after the
pay roll is made up. Isiot the interest
upon money so retainsa species OF
robbery?
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-11-05
FROM ILLINOIS.

81. JOINS, PERRY Co. Nov $3.50
70 the Editor q me woRzIsssAsa Arvoe.ry
Allow me a small space IN your
valuable paper. Walls Mines, Du
quolL, are standing idle-one shaft and
one slope. Tie men are on strike
Mr. lyon, Superintendent Of the mines,
opened out a slope few months ago,
and wished 10 have tile coal weiggd.
instead Of blasting, Offering to pay So
cents per car. This offer thc 1iggers
accepted and worked on steady until
Oct. 1T, 1870, when they expected ali
advance of one half cent per 5ushel,
making eight cents and one-third ad
vance on the car. This Mr. lyon,
Superintendent, refused to give, offer
ing only Fix cents and one third al
vance on the car, and at the same
time offered 10 advance ten cents per
car in the shaft. The men in the slope
resolved To quit working until they got
their demands. Mr.. lyon positively
said he could not ray their demand,
but resolved to close the slope for the
winter months, promising ~ employ
the men in the shaft but instead Of
closing the slope, engaged new set "a
men 70 work it, who were miSled as %
the proposed advance but as soon a.
they fully understood their position
they resolved not to work tor under
price, the men IN the shaft having turn
Ell ont until these men would guit work
ng for under price. But on the slope
being closed again, the shaft men we're
ready to resume their work again Al
the advance promised by the Superin-
tendent, but to their surprise instead OF
paying ten cents, az he promised, he
would only pay eight cents and one
third. This offer the men refused ~
accept hence a strike The district
have closely examined the ca e, and
pronounce them to be legally on
strike, and promised % support them,
with strict Injunction not IN 70 m I'M
ill they ct the ten cents advance on
the car. We hope the fraternity viii
not trouble these mines, seeking work.
The brethren at Mnrphysboro have NV
ready sent Sl4s.s0; a.'o the brethren
1t St Johns have paid $3.50; both
Lodges having agreed ~ pay 5O cents
per member 70 the men On strike 80
long a. they are out. The men On
strike have already received s23 per
man, and we expect y RS able M make
another payment u them wv Nov. 9th,
1870, which will far exceed az per
man. Yours il union.
FAIR PLAY.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-11-05
The Tin.Pail Brigade.

Some Of the PARTISAN press, in referring
TO the nominees of the Labor Reform Party,
because many of them have been heretofore
unknown, except as honest, hard-working,
intelligent skilled mechanics, come to the
sage conclusion that they are unqualified
to I'll the positions, to which they have
been nominated. Now We look upon these
statements as the greatest compliment which
could be paid them. The very fact that they
have been unknown in the wire-pulling cir.
cles which now claim to run the city,-is,
in itself, strong recommendation. Their
appearance on the political stage means that
the reign of the bummers and political
tricksters, who heretofore have controlled our
conventions and flled our Offices of public
-rust, is about drawing to q close.
Work;ngmen, in whom have you the most
confidence, the men who make politics a
profession, who are all things 10 all men,
or the workmen taken from the bench Ur the
case, who is pledged 70 represent yos~ IN
terests, who consider your welfare paramount
to the deuasds Of party, and who is pre-
pared, under any and al circumstances 10
advocate your claims? We leave the re-
spouse in your hands
THE above appeared in our cam
paign edition.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-11-05
LABOR ITEMS.

The miners old and we'll tried friend,
John Hinchclife, has been elected TO
the Legislature from St. Clair County,
Illinois.
The moulders of Chicago have
made their organization an oath bound
society.
Two Councils Of the Order Of
United American Mechanics were Or
gained in this State, in September /:
Bay State, No. /, in Boston, and
Bunker Hill, No. ?, in Charlestown.
Its objects are protective and benevo-
lent.
Tex custom booth and shoe manu-
facturers, Of Philadelphia, have con-
coded an advance of wages to their
workmen.
J. G. HOREY, of the committee. OF
organization of, new party in Wiscon-
sir, desired all the friends of the new
Labor Reform Party in Wisconsin to
send him their names, for the purpose
Of making nominations for commit
tees.
He Also names a few persons whose
names have been stricken from the
rolls, for violation Of their obligation
and for non-payment of dues; and
hopes they may have the manliness to
pay up, and return to duty and fidelity,
and faithfully help on the good and
noble work of Labor Reform. If some
men will spend less money and time at
the drinking saloons they can do better,
and the cause will flourish.
Address, Black River Falls, Wis.
THE workiDgmen of Kansas City,
Missouri, are taking steps to establish
a Mechanics Institute.
CHINEsE.-Another batch of cheap
John Cinnamon passed through this
city, on The ~ Y. Central r. r., last
Saturday for Mass. We suppose they
are to lake the places of men who dare
express spirit Of independence and
are unwilling to submit to the behestc
of the more fortunate possessors of thl:
worlds goods. but unprincipled crea
lures, WAC would, if in their power
enslave and degrade the laborer ten
fold more than that Of the African
slsve.-ROme Rising Sun, Nov. ).
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and whose pest cosdues fuFuishSd d
guarantee for the future. Yet, in the
face of their qualifications and guaran-
tees, men were elected whszA1axears
have been the consistent eaImiSs Of
every demand ofthe producing classes.
aud elected too BY che votes Of work
ingmen.
Unless we are much mistaken en-
ployers have had their eyes opened.
The railway corporations have already
opened the ball, and before the advent
of spring these same men will learn by
a bitter experience that the "wages of
sin is death"
To the fifteen hundred honest voters
who had the manhood 10 adhere TO
their convictions, who laid the neucIeus
for that party which is destined to tri-
ump-all honor. Revolutions never
so backwards, and we pledge our CO.
iaborers throughout the country, that
the workiugmen Of Illinois viii never
relinquish ,leir efforts until the goal OF
their ambition is reached, and the toiler
receives Ca fruits Of his labors.
In conclusion, we desire to say that
the entire receipts for the campaign, in
a city containing 100000 inhabitants,
amounted to but $500. Our friends : :
a distance can best appreciatelthe DIFF
ficulties with which we had to contend,
when we state that over $3.50 900 were
lavishly expended by our opponents.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-11-05
FROM THE OIL WORLD.

THIRD ANNUAL ooNoeEs8 OF TRADES
COUNCILS AND TRApss SOCIETIES CEN
ERALIT.
The blowing are tb subjects to be dis
cusssd at the COngres, which is to meet in
London, next spring;
l Trades Unions md Legislation.
Minesr' Regulson Bill; the Truck
System and tb Weekly Payment Of
Wages
Employment ofWomen and Children in
Agriculture, factories and Workshops.
4 Convict Labav. Free Labor,
5 Application oArbitration and Concilia-
ton in Trae Disputes.
6 Reduction ofthe Hours Of Labor.
CO-operatiOs and Industrial Partner
ships
8 Taxation, hperial and Local.
8 Educatiom Primary and Technical.
10 Direct REPRESENTATION of Labor in Par
lament.
IL Internatinal Fraternisation Of Labor,
War, Sanding Armies, and their in
jurious sffeet on industry.
II Utiliza6o Of Waste Lands and Uuem-
ploye1Labor.
IS EmigrsOn as affecting The Working
IA The bmnission appointed to enquire
intolae working Of Friendly Societies
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FROM MISSOURI.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. Sd, 1879

1T. LOUIS, NOV. 81, ~.
70 TIE EDITOR Of the WoHKSGEANs ADVOCATE
1t may he Of interest to yourself and
readers to know something Of the pro
gress of the National Labor Reform
Party in this city. Men Of intelli-
gence are daily becoming more enlist
ed inthe cause. and are pushing il on.
Yet any reform has It's enemies, and
this is no exception. We are told by
some Of the leading papers here, Or
those that control them, that tins is a
party without influence or money, and
that they work for both, especially the
latter. Now other parties may have
both Of these and yet lack that more
essential element, principle, without
which party cannot long exist. Our
Central Committee had been told by
one Of the County Judges, Mr.. Daley,
that the use of the Criminal Court
room could be had for the purpose Of
holding a mass convention, TO put in
candidates for county and
officers.
With that understanding they an
nounced, through the press, that the
conv ention wouid be held at the above
mentioned place. Subsequently they
we're told by the rest Of the Comfy
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-11-05
TO WoRKrNGMEN

Across the ocean you remember
there once lived Yn Emperor called
Louis Napoleon. While we were busily
engaged in fighting to maintain the
right of every man to the soil, and to
enjoy the fruits of his Labor. this
crowned despot joined England IN %ot
haste to proclaim the doctrine Of bel
MIGRANTS, and sent an army Of obser-
walton TO Mexico-sfter having done
his share in depreciatinP our credit--to
plumber us, and he was ready to help cut
our throats. Since his exit out Of Mex
leo, King William started out net for
the french people, but for Louis Ma
poleon-he now feeds his royal guest
and butchers the French labor people.
These King Williams, Napoleon's, Bis
marks d Co., through our financiers-
got our paper principal paying bonds
at forty cents on the dollar, and they
want one hundred dollars and six per
cent. interest in gold to enable these
benevolent gentlemen to finish up the
job OF cutting the throats Of European
laborers+helots or slaves, and gen
tlemen Trumbull, Farwell & Co. are
very tenacious in holding that these
currency payable bonds should be paid
in gold. These patriotic gentlemen
tell us to do otherwise would be repu-
diation. They have perfect horror
of irredecmable currency. Having re-
duced your labor from % and s5 per
day to $3.50 and So, they propose to
keep labor down to this point, we sup
pose, for the purpose of being able to
pay their European deposits with the
pure gold thus wrung out of labor by
enormous taxation. But workingmen,
this gold base currency and specie re-
demption bond and MONEY cry is to put
into the harness the American laborer,
along with the European,in supporting
the home and foreign nabob in luxury
and idleness. What have you to gain
by this gold bond and specie redemp-
ton system? When YOU sell one
thousand bushels of wheat or other
commodity, or perform that amount OF
service, you want not the gold interest
bond secured-money of the capitalists
but a government legal tender mo-
ney in exchange for your wheat or 9TH
er property. 1t is your property or la
Dor which you wish TO exchange or
obtain compensation, or an equivalent
or, and not the Bankers. 1t is your
property which makes your mon>y
good, too, aud not his. Do not be de-
ceived then-these gold bond money
advocates mean the enslavement OF la
Dor the world over, and nothing else.
See 10 it then, workingmen, that this
special bank sgent,C. B. Fsrwell, does
not 70 TO Washington 70 fasten this
bond specie paying money system upon
you--that he may ill his palatial Bank
building, No. l57 and l59 Washington
street, with solid gold ont Of interest
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There ears but few persons in this
country who have any accurate Hles OF
the character, sxtsns asa real osjsu
connected with thh Coous Importafcn
business. Most persons hsvs hara
that these coolies Gre cheep or Does
laborers who have come here rom
China. But few indeed have Looked
down into the bottom Of this system.
The war wiped ont Afticsi lsrery.
The money changers Of the large cities
had the wild cat money, and through the
slave holder had mortgage on. the
black men of the South. Although
different system in form prevailed in
the West, yet it was substantially the
same system. The war abolished the
slave system, but inaugurated . Ma
tional Banking system which has
merged al the conflicting State 6nan-
cial laws into a national one. II has
untitled the stock and bond interest of
the States by the overshadowiug
amount Of the national bonds, The
whole labor interest Of the country is
controlled through the bond and stock
system of Wall street.
The inevitable effect has been, that
large interest discounts and other taxes
of the system demands at least fifty
million more laborers to gil the insatiate
nav of this corporate bond monster
Hence instead Of African slavery comes
the "coolie." The national Legislation
pledges the property of these unfortu-
nate "coolies," while their families are
mortgaged and sold into slavery in
China. The law is therefore intended
to suit the insatiate demand of this cor
porate capital, but the laborers in the
towns are justly hostile to the system.
They instinctively feel that it will de-
grade free labor lower down if possible
than African slavery.
But there is also another phase of the
question to he considered. Congress
has granted out a large share of the
national domain to railroad and other
spectators, and those connected with
these land grants are sending out
agents in every part Of the country TO
select eligible sites for towns. On the
Pacific coast there is complete system
of land monopoly.
This bank monopoly railroad land
grant system will soon absorb the most
valuable portion Of the public lands
And these bond, bank and railroad mo.
nopolies now unquestionably mean
not only to make the "coolie" open up
these lands, but eventually the whole
labor syste N Of the country is to be
revolutionized and reduced to the
"coolie" level And workingmen must
look this question square in the face.
1t is either the reduction of labor to
the "coolie" standard, or the introduc.
ton of national money, under the
control Of the people, and the declara-
ton and enforcement of the sound doc.
trine that the government cannot
create a corporate taxing government,
which shall override the sovereign
rightsNQf the people. The labor class
are entitled 10 protection by law, and
they cannot have it under the present
system. WorkiDgmen then 20 the
polls next Tuesday and vote to de-
throne King Monopoly.
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FROM WASHINGTON.


IA the Editor u tue W1RKivGMtS's ADVOCATE.
By the Advocate OF the 20th ulL |
see you notice Tie correspondence
BETWEEN Gen. Winn and myself, with
q column Or more, ana III your criticism
or structures you say many true things
in regard % the delinqucneies hitherto
shortcoming ~ both the Old parties,
and without radicals and complete
reform neither vi them Are worthy the
support Of workingmen and we hold
the dominant party up 10 accounta-
bllity and censure, more Immediately
and directly because II II IN power, ana
has been in both Executive and Con
gressional branches for several years,
during which time il has allowed,
which II could have prevented a. il has
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As our campsisn edition Of $4,000
copies last week was purely Of q local
character, few if any Of cur readers
outside the State received copy In
the presen; issue. however, we have
given an extra amount Of reading
matter. and az election is now off our
hands, we shall again devote our I'M
divided efforts to the columns Of the
ADvOcATE and the interests of its sub
scribers.
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An schange says: The most un
necessG strike on record is certainly
that nbv in operation at Worcester,
Mass. In a certain wire factory the
work1hn took it into their reads to
makeil point that the scales : 1uld
standn one particular locality a the
sbcPf while the owners thought it more
convtIient TO put it in another. On
this POUND Of difference, touching no
qne4 on of wages or work, or anything
eIseFital or important, the strike took
plad, and every wireworker in the
conisrn quit. Not only this, but all
Of he craft in Worcester struck too /;
aniat this time some 200 men have
thbwn themselves ont Of employment
odihe edge Of q hard winter.
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fhns wrung ous'of your hall pad, and
ill-fed labor. Now is the time to root
out this European bond dynasty. viii
yen do itf. E Il
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are quite. There islActhisrrN orth men
tiOning % to the wa meeting, and poks-
, ,s " RS, ,.t oSss s1 minds asa.
C. C. y, I',,,'y,S-:r''T'''' '''''

line most Of the wholesale manufactures
have their country aud southern orders made
up, and ara now busy supplying the city
trade. The same may be said Of the other
business departments Of the city. The bust
ness nsn Of this city generally are determ-
ined to make a grand push for the southern
trade, and steps tending that way have al
ready beea taken Baltimore may yet be
what she long ago should have been, the
great mart for the southern states. ~.,
NER,IAs.