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r, en- MASSACHUSETTS.

From Boston we learn that wing Of the
placed the following ticket in the tield-the
majority not deeming it expedient at
present to make any distinct nomina-
tons
For Governor Israel W Andrews
For Lieutenant GOVernor-Caleb Ham
mond.
For Secretary Of Richard Hinch-
clitfe
For Treasurer George Clark, Jr.
For Attorney General-P X. Quincy.
For Auditor Charles J. Goodwin.
The resolutions, as reported, favor cheap
transportation, law making secret ballots
at election compulsoi Z, and general sus-
pension of business on election day, 50 as
to enable every citizen to vote If the
foregoing comprise all the reforms that the
aspirants demand, we wouldn't 60 across
the street to cast a bushel of ballots for
them. So long as the representative men
in that State consider the money question
a secondary consideration, bawbee is
the worth Of their platform.
Since the foreg ing was written we have
received copy Of the resolutions passed,
and candor compels us to say that they
are broad, catholic and comprehensive,
have the ring Of the true metal, and advo-
cate the issuing Of national currency,
directly by the Government to the PEG
pie. We take pleasure in making this cor
rectiOn.
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wire-pullers Of the Democratic party are
confederated with Wall street and the Ell
ropean capitalists your vent eneinies.
Do not think that in this voting you aid
the National Republican party; that is as
certainly dead a. that there il g-God. Our
great work day is to make certain and
secure our own salvation, as well ~ that
of the whole country, by using the scat
tered fragments of these old, rotten par
ties to aid ourselves. If YOU have any
doubt of the correctness of my advice. and
do not wish a. embarass your local coun-
sellers, write to Schilling, Fehrenhatch,
Siney, Foran, Trevelhck. Cameron. John
son or Troup, or any of the old, well-tried
friends Of our cause | feel sure they will
agree with me, and give you the same ad-
vice as to our duty Of his hour in Penn
sylvanla kemcni ~, the final, national
issue on tie financial question under lies,
and for the moment, uyertups all others III
its bearings upon our prosperity a3d the
CARRYING ut PennsvivauIa IA TINS issue will
strike iron into the souls ~ the specie ba-
SIS monopolists, who are our only enemies,
and who alone Cypress us.
Believe me truly. your friend,
HOkAcE ri Day,
Vice President National Labor Union, and
Member of the Industrial Congress.
New York, Oct. %. 1874
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TO ALL The WORKINGMEN OF
PENNSYLVANIA.
Vote Your Own BeneEt To-Day.

will not take space to argue that which
must be self-evident to so many. The
time is upon us when party wants are of
no possible consequence. The issue for us
is starvation and death, under the plan Of
specie payment, such as is proposed by the
Democratic party leaders Of Pennsylvania,
an~the Belmont Rothschild democracy Of
New York, with which the Pennsylvania
Democratic leaders are in confederation.
The opposite, and our salvation, is in the
ample supply of currency, such an advo-
Gated by the labor reformers from the
first, and which, in a measure, is to-day
proclaimed by the Republican p rty of
PENNSYLVANIA. / ask you to accept my
advice. You know me to be true. have
studied this subjec. for many years. |
have looked over the whole field. | am
as sure that AN right in your interest as
of my very existence My advice to you
is that il, this election, wherever your labor
party has candidate in any part IT the
State, vote for him! In all other cases,
vote the Republican ticket. 1t was the
Democratic party in Ohio and Indiana
that adopted our financial system in part,
and there our people voted with the Dem
ocrats but in your State the leaders and
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To ths Editor of the WoRKIxsxAK's ADVOCATE.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 10, IL
The great American swindle, the Ma
tional Banks, has been receiving some
heavy blows within the past few weeks,
with fair prospects that they will think
lightning has struck them, before the LIST
Of December. The crusade against this
great iniquity would have far better pros
poets for early success, if there was greater
unity among its Opponents. All are
agreed that National Banks, on the system
now in vogue, must be driven out Of ex-
stence, but as to what shall be substitu-
ted and how the currency necessary TO
carry on the business of the country shall
be supplied, there is almost as great q
difference Of opinion among the oppo-
neuts of National Banks as there is be-
tween h rro ant anti-Bank men.
The people are rapidly falling into line
against the Banks. but the destruction Of
the system will avail us nothing unless
the people are as one man prepared tn
supply substitute. No doub. the Ma
tional Banks scent the storm afar of, and
are even now preparing to take advantage
Of the want Of unity among those who
oppose them. OF what avail would it be
to destroy National Banks and in their
stead have another system forced upon
us equally as bad :
If Congress should, in December next
in sudden spasm of virtue, repeal the
National Banking law, what plan would b
unanimously supported by the friends O
greenbacks and low interest
Numerous plans have been proposed il
Congress. Kuykendall, Cary, Butler
Kelly, Fields, and others, have prepared
plans, each tenacious Of his own views, al
bitter opponents Of the National Banks
and vet so radical in their views as to thu
remedy as will undoubtedly ruin thu
effects Of their victory over the Nationa
! Banks when won.
Pcndle on, Trevellick. Hinchc life
Campbell, Foran, Fehrenbatch, ETC., al
earnestly fighting the Banks, but have NJ
fixed plan Of operations when the
topple them from their foundations.
To make the war successful and not los
all the fruits Of victory, there must be
platform built upon which every friend O
the movement can stand. The people
want to authoritatively know what they
are to expect when the National Bank
20 down, and when they know that tn
war will be short, sharp and decisive.
Hence, as one of the people, hearth.
favor the suggestion of r. F. Treyelllck
that there should be a convention of tn,
ablest opponents Of the Banks, and lie
all crAictirg views I've harmonized, $
thae thee v.il be but two sides To tn
question Of National Banks.
nave read in various papers that t!
opponents Of National Banks desire I
return to the old wildcat State Bank
currency. This lie must be nailed. An
plan or platform agreed upon by con
vention, as suggested by "Trevelllck,
that looks to a greenback currency. an
low interest, will, in my opinion, hastel
the day Of the peoples delIverance frou
the 30 per cent robbery Of the Nationa
Banks. III. j. WALL.
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The Crispins
Important Deelsion Affecting the Legality Of
Trades UmIOnR.

The Supreme Court Of Massachusetts
has Just rendered a decision, in which
every trades uni onist is directly Interested
In 1869, Lodge %, Of the knights of st.
Crispin, Of Brookheld, authorized Daniel
w. Wheeler and others to deposit the funds
Of the Society, amounting to $500 in the
Peoples Bank, Of Worcester. The bank
however, refused to accept it in the name
of the Crispins, but placed it to the credi-
tors Of the deposltOrs, as trustees. Suisse
auently the lodge instructed Mr. Wheeler
and the others to withdraw the money from
the bank, but they refused to do 50, taking
the ground that the Crispins had no legal
existence, and were an unlawful body.
Hence the suit to recover the funds The
court in its decision says
The object and purposes of the Association
which the plaintiffs represent are shown by
the constitution and by laws of the Lodge,
which are made part Of the cause, and these
are subscribed to by each member at the time
Of his admission, with an additional agree
nIent, mot to teach, or cause to be taught, to
I any new hand any part or parts Of the boot
G"u - - an, nn.,nber IL noar,
=. I'll. ,,-,,-,',sod - ind;,,;drals ~,
~ -, -. - ,,,,, II Tie nannfact1re u
p'o! "a ~ - ~ dnes not ;nclnde nronris.
ooo's A, Nv - 4, = ;nSi.taJ HI. ILL.,
1ois VI 'ne" 'oi Una" .LI;"hnI L..,. 80 ~
'nus ~
OF trade, and therefore illegal, as being ;ainst
/ Int IN. no e th.
H. uomo 49, t LII taIan Tbe relations ax.
49, pO h,,. LAIR ana canitaI ~ attsmnt
h'. -o',sra,;nn m H. ona s,de ~ incraasa
~ >,,,,,.;,,s,, ~ -, ~
Wages oy uinl'iiSli,s H., ~ a.,u III ~
"the. w increase 'ile P,outo "u o"Pis"i' =
"llhih CERTAIN nihi's' ia"i S'u P,oPe'' ~
ceases TO be so when unlawful coercion Is EN-
ployed 70 control the freedom Oh the lndiNla-
ual IN disPoslng OF ms labor OF capita; IL Is
not easy 10 give dominion "hlch shan IN IN
cluue every lorHl vi suou ooeio'"n' "ut III 'nis
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FROM MICHIGAN.
PoSTIAC, Oct. 19, 1874.

LIBERAL

PoSTIAC, Oct. 19, 1874.
To the Editor u the wosEssnAS's ADVOCATE
Among the various remedies offered to
better the condition Of mankind, Hon. T.
Wharton Collins puts forth " Charity as a
scientific principle Of political economy. z
He considers the Christian Gospel as all
sufficient, If men will obey its teachings,
and ascribes the failures Of political econ
omy as due to the ignoring the lessons Of
the Gospel Now. as these doctrines have
been continually enuncisted for eighteen
centuries, and 40, priests Of all demon
nations are hard at work among US to- lay,
at salaries from two to twenty thousand
dollars year, expounding the Gospel with
out any visible results or growth Of chart
ty, 4 may fairly be inferred that the mere
inculcation q charity, unAccompanied BY
s,cial machinery a. enforce it, is labor in
VAIN. IL is utter falsity to expect that rich
men can ever become sufficiently Chris
tanned t. share their wealth with the
poor.
Mr.. Collins, like hundreds o. others,
expect to remedy defects without touching
causes. Instead Of beseeching rich men
to share their wealth with the poor. we
must change the social and financial ma
chinery which inevitably engenders rich
and poor. A properly regulated society
should contain no poor man but so long
as, through interest and profits, some men
monOPolise tie earnings a hundred
workers, the workers mrs. rer--a poor
What can he worse than the condition
Of labor to-day, more than q year after
the 'panic ?" Neither work nor income
for hundreds Of thousands. And what is
the remedy Of the manufacturers Re
ducing wages and production, bringing
down production to the requirements Of
the impoverished workman, instead Of in
creasing the purchasing power of the work
man 10 the highest limits of production.
livery workman has an equiva ent in his
abor TO pay for all the necessaries and lux
lries OF life, but our present social and
financial arrangements bind him hand and
DOT, and he has no power TO use his labor
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NEWS FROM THE OLD WORLD .
strikes LOekouts Progress or the Labor
Movement. etc, etc.

Movement. etc, etc.
From our Foreign Exchanges, Oct. 81
Mr. G. w. Milne, Exchange Buildings,
Birmingham, has received note from
Hull stating that Belgian firm, the Acoy
Plant Company, has carried off from Eu-
glish competitors contract of 1000 tons
Of iron for Rotterdam. and that other
Belgian firms have received orders for
1000 tons Of machinery plant, also for
Holland-the whole Of which, according
to precedent, should have been ordered
from English houses This diversion Of
trade is attributed to the still unsettled
state of the English market.
Mr.. Dodson, NJ p, presiding on We'd
nesday at the Barcombe Harvest Home,
said he had seen it estimated on good au-
thority that the dispute in the coal and
iron districts Of South Wales last ! car, in
consequence Of which between 1000 and
60, 600 men suspended work for three
months, had cost the country e., 600, 900,
Of which $500, GOO would have been paid
in wages to the workers in coal and iron
The closing If the Atlas Works, Shelf
field, to-day, will throw 600 steel rail ma
kers out OF employment.
The blast furnace proprietors of North
Staffordshire have intimated an intention
to reduce the wages of their wor kmen by
10 per cent At Sheffield the closing OF
the Atlas Works will throw a great many
men out Of employment. From that town
we have an announcement that the Board
of Guardians mean to expend $50, 600 on
a new workhouse What will the ratepay-
ers sayl Surely the building is to be on
an enormous scale, or the cost is exor-
hitant
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come that firm or corporation which will
refuse to submit labor dispute, in com
mon with their employees, to an arbitra-
don tribunal, would be regarded with pos
tive distrust In Northumberland and
Durham, as well M in Scotland, lock~outs
and strikes which have sell nigh brought
ruin to all parties involves have been am
icably settled through this medium, and
to-day, 20, 600 cotton spinners are at work
in Bolton, which, but for its agency, would
be walking the streets in idleness. BY its
adoption, the influence of the better por-
ton of the American press would be Sc
cured, and even where the cause of the
employers was sustained, the public would
be enabled to Judge of the merits of the
contest for themselves, instead Of accept
ing rs a foregone conclusion, as they have
invariably been led to believe in the past,
that the claims Of the miners are prepos-
ferrous and unjust.
Such, in brief, are q few of the more
prominent questions which present them
selves t. our mind as worthy of the espe-
cial attention of the Convention, and
which, whether accepted or rejected, we
trust will be received in the same spirit i'll
which they are given.
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The Result in Ohio

One Of the most pleasing results Of the re-
cent contest in Ohio. is the Overwhelming de-
feat Of the Hon. aohn Sherman. which is due
70 doubt to his corrupt alliance with and
championship Of the bank and bondholder
nng We believe a quietus has also been
placed on the political aspirations of that
arch trimmer Senator Thurman. The peo-
ple want no such leader We should not be
surprised. if Geu Thomas Ewing than
whom no more able honest or fearless ex-
ponent Of the financial principles Of the
Industrial Congress lives. is the next Senator
elect from the Buckeye State Wash. Nc
Lean, Of the Cincinnati Inquirer deserves the
thar every labor ReforIner, for the
faIth'ri service rendered during the campaign
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LABOR ITEMS.

THE Coopers of Union ! of La Fayettc,
Ind, have succeeded in their strike, but
modified their original demand, which
they did by yielding one and one-third
cents.
The Coopers Of St. Louis-having seen
the error of their ways in allowing their
Union to go by the board-are thinking Of
resuscitating it. About time they did.
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IA New Invention raoR0raHLy TESTED and 20
cured BY letter. Patent
R.-Aakes perfect srrCH, alike on both side-,
on all kinds u goods
3-Runs LIeHT, SN1orH. Noi-ELEss and RArtn be-
combination Of qualities.
A-DURABL Runs Tor yetrs without Repairs.
S-Wil 90 ali varieties " Work and Fancy Stitch ng
In superior mAnner.
as most sasIly managed by the operator. Length
Of stitch may he altered while running machine can ~
threaded without passing thread through holes
T-DeSiAn simple. ingenious, elegant, forming the
stitch without the q Cog Wheels Geers Rotary
Cams or Lever Arms. Has the Automatic Drop Feel
which assures uniform length N stitch At any speUd
Has our neW Thread Controller, which allows easy
movement u neei bar and prevents injury % thread
a.-CONsTRCrIoS most careful aud FNtsHEn II T.
manufactured bY the most skfu and experie nrcd me
chAnics. At the celebrated kemlmgtOm Armory,
nfon, N. Y.OhiOAgo OMO@ 331 Sta &c. u.
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Invitation to Wendell Phillips

We are pleased to state that the United
Congress Board. the official representative
Of the organized cooperative societies Of
England, including several hundred as
sociations Of workingmen, have sent an
invitation. through their general secretary,
Mr. Van SIttart Neal. to Mr. Wendell.
Phillips, Of Boston, to visit England, and
be their guest at their Seventh General
Congress. to be held in London, IN 1875.
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The FALL EUFr DIs,SrFr disclosed the
fact that in Granite Mil 81. /, large num-
her Of children under 10 years Of age
were employ "a, notwithstanding the existence
of a state Law prohibiting the employment n
operatives under that age in factory work
Sore Of the children killed were mdey TIN
years, and for their deaths. if not for the
deaths 81 al the victims. some one should be
held responsible
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New York Coopers.
A telegram from New York of Friday
morning last contained the following

A telegram from New York Of Friday
morning last contained the following
New YORK, Oct 22-The principal boss
coopers Of this city yesterday informed their
foremen that after Saturday night any of
their employees who did not renounce the
Coopers' Union would obtain no further en-
ployment from them. The effect will be to
lock out all the members Of the coopers' so
ciety, numbering over 5000 men.
Now why don't the capital press set mp
a howl about the tyranny of bosses unions
Here are class of men inaugerating a
strike needless and unprovoked-a strike
too i'll which their employees have had no
part in bringing about, and yet not a word
of condemnation from journals which can
growl by the hour whenever working
mans strike is announced. But then it
makes all the difference whose OK is gored.
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To the Miners of Indiana

We direct The attention II the Union
miners # Indiana g. the official call
for their State Convention published in
another column Y possible, We propose
to meet with them
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The accounts from the 9TH Congressional
District are Of the most cheering character,
and foreshadow the election Alex. Camp
bell beyond { doubt.
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Iron Manufacture of France.

The official statement in reference to the
iron trade o. France, in the first six months
of 1873 and 1874, says The foundries
produced
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Put This and That Togethea
We think there is food for reflection in
the following Paragraphs

tht ifGoWlHR bafaGfaDh>
Aoeordir. tl -. tlEr geo journal there
arr " ths- NY 81 three persons
rhase 7por.ea aes'tf seds 81 000. OOO
sptsee.
rfis "a a city too aa-r las substituted
Nvusalian cisaP a rr n AMY trades for
.stt labor 81 t- skilled 4g rcan, and viz
sfasiiy driven him from .r ,urders. The
other reads
CO.. "a firking is nov Ia f1l blast in Fesnc
,3Gfty. caiifeIms ln muvt instances
Chlnsse locrsrs are pressed into the ser.
-yies shat being the only treeies Of help oh.
e4ipss q
M Va ; 1T in TIE dark a to the nature
a tks4 y sure" brought q bear on these
Chs = laLo Is, but cal guess
:. fares tsfanrd 70 h-sssbing Ills a prev
Nase weaatb attsaulatss sad men lecny~
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\ - estimatel mere see fifty thonsaud
wa q 81 ,1s-T y eruplny.nait in New York
rstt1inis pear box "a. ~ the long,
3Fepas mo S.s n ~snzer
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FROM ONO.

I'VE do GOT hold ourselves responsible for a
expressed BY our Correspondents.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-04-11
Crops that Repair Rich Land.

1t is an important point for farmer
to ascertain which of his crops requires
the richest land to produce a maximum
growth and it is often still more i'm
portant for him to determine to what
crop he had better apply his manure
If farmer had all the manure he need
ed to enable the soil to produce the
largest weld that the season was capa-
BILE of organizing, the first question
would be more important than the
second. But such is seldom the case,
and we have often to ask ourselves
which crop is the best to plant on the
richer and which on the poor fields.
Mangel-wurZel, carrots, onions, and
rutabagas must have rich land to pro-
duce maximum crop. So must In
dian corn. Barley requires richer land
than winter wheat. But this does not
tell the whole story. As rule, those
crops which require the most labor in
planting, cultivatng, hocing, and har-
vcsting, should be sown on the richest
land. To spend as much labor and
manure in preparing a field for a crop
of buckwheat as for one of Potatoes is
manifcstly absurd. If the season is
capable of producing 800 bushels of
potatoes per acre, we should aim to
bring the soil up to this degree of pro-
ductiveness, because a potato crop re-
quires a good deal of labor, and it is
nearly as much for small crop as for
a large one For instance: Take two
adjoining acres, one rich enough to pro-
ducc 800 bushels per acre, and the
other only capable of pro lucing 100
bushels; the expenses and receipts
would be somewhat as follows:
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In the case of the potatoes we get
SOB per acre for our manure, and in the
case of wheat So
We believe i'll making the land rich
for all crops: but as this is not an
easy matter, we should aim to manure
or otherwise enrich the land most for
such crops as require the greatest
amount of labor. This is the reason
why nurserymen, seed growers, and
market-gardeners can afford to pay so
much more for manure than ordinary
farmers.
OF course there are many things to
be taken into consideration in the APP
plication of manure. 1t may not be
best to apply manure directly, for in
stance, to potatoes; but at any rate we
should aim to make the land ts rich for
these as the season and variety will
bear without injury to the quality of
the crop. With mane cl-wurzrl and
corn, both Of which require considera-
bic labor, there can be no doubt that it
is desirable to make the soil Us rich a.
circumstances will allow. These crops
will admit Of using enough manure to
make the land rich enough for the fol-
lowing crops of barley, wheat, and
clover, without injury.
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american Agriculturist.

ADVANTAGES OF HoEING.-As a
writer i'll The Garden remarks, too
many persons who use the hoe suppose
that the chief benefit derived from it
is killing the weeds That certainly is
an important work, and one greatly
neglected Weeds are not only in the
way of cultivatn@ the crops which we
plant but they rob them of much of
the nutriment which they need. Hoe
ing, then, is an essential service in
respect to destroying the weeds. There
are othc: advantages, however, which
are commonly overlooked. !. The Ioos-
ening of the soil in the operation of
hocing is beneficial to the plants as
much as the destruction of the weeds,
or more So , Moisture abounds in
the atmosphere during the hottest
months and is absorbed and retained
most abundantlv by a soil which is in
the most friablc state Prof Schluber
found that 1000 grains of stiff clay
absorbed in twenty-four hours only
thirty-siX grains of moisture from the
air, while garden mold absorbed forty
five grains. and fine magnesa absorbed
seventy-six grains. B Then again,
pulvcrzing soil enables it better to
retain the moisture absorbed The
soil in order to be healthy and active,
must breathe. A light porous soil
admits the air and thus it is fed and
greatly invigorated by the atmosphere
5. The suns rays heat hard soil more