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Awom.n Near the Edge.

JOnn SWlnUOI
A friend of mine, an old settler, brings
me your papers to read, and l like them.
have had some curious thoughts about
the letter you printed from General
Sherman. My first husband was SOL
dier under Sherman, fought as hard as
any man, and was wounded as bad. One
leg was cut clean off, and he got bullet
in his body which the doctors never
could get out consequently my husband
came home great sufferer. not able to
support himself or me or the children.
He got the wound on l.. the march from
Columbia to Greensboro. Anybody
knows how little $S month will do to-
ward paying rent and buying meat,
bread, clothes and coal for family of
seven. We h. six children, all girls,
except the two littlest I helped all /
could. sewing out by the day, while
John John was my husband minded
the children at home Then / sewed on
my machine every night till midnight,
and in this way kept along: but after a
while Johns wound got worse, and he
took TO his bed and lay there suffering
fearfully for nearly nine months, when
he died After that we kept on at hard
. work, living in two little rooms in the
the thirttstory my eldest girl helped
sew, and she ran the machine so con-
stantly that it brought on weakness of
the chest, and the doctor thinks she
is threatened with consumption.
NowsJ John, had a cousin, a carpenter,
who was always good to US and the chill
dren, and, for the sake of John, he
wanted to marry me and help care for
the children. When he asked me / told
him would lose the pension if l mar
ried ,he said he could make as much IN
two days as the pension. So Imarried
him. and for about a year he was a great
help to us and very good. One, day,
, whilelat work on church, the scaffold
broke, and he fell down and hurt him
self 80 that in three days he died.
Since then-but can't talk about it.
1t makes me hate tie world. I feel like
taking all my children and going down
\to the river and getting out of life. My
ealth is broken my eldest girl suffers
her chest all the time, yet runs the
Shine from morning till midnight.
Sometimes when go out TO sew or get
! in work, pass by General sherman's
fine house that the people of this city
gave him. / see his wife and daughters
wrapped in furs getting into their fine
carriage, and ] can't help thinking about
the difference betwixt the way in which
General Sherman and my husband we're
paid for serving the government Yet
my husband suffered thousand times
more in the war than General Sherman.
John has often told me how. on bitter
cold niiAt he stood guard before Shst-|
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thaF WsatSto slad because. he says it.
They have had glimpse of his soul
through his ideas. He is to them liv-
ing personality, not a many-headed
machine .0iaJ sss ifssd stss ilr ii4s
He can do more good, too, when, he
writes as his own master. He will be
honest; he viii be at his best; he viii
not u q As = now, 1 namsless hired
mafksnan' ifine anothers ammunition
at the enemy through the impeponal
port-hole of the editorial plurality. S
We cse have mo really great news
papes until the enslayed ''T' takes the
place Of the arrogant and absorbing
"We.n - -. - ,.ss:s.5... sl.sss5.s5
'We, the people Of England 2 said the
three tailors Of Tooley street. We, the
editors of America say half dozen
owners of big newspapers !
great army Of unknown tolls behind
the walls of the big newspapers
army which knows not its own strength
and yetiis bound by thongs IS unbrak-
able as these that held sPrometheus to
the rock. 1t WINS the ideas; but, un-
fortunately, few capitalists own the army.
: "The idea must go before the act" you
say. Free the ideas, free the writers.
Let them no longer be mere numbers;
let them no longer be JONES' scribes or
K .lly's scribes."
sFree the writers, John Swinton, and
You will have freed the country. :
The paper that has every article in it
signed by the name of the writer, and is a
newspaper in the broad sense of the
word, will be the great paper Of the near
future.
One way-but that would be regular
Jordan in this country of big newspaper
Influence would be to do as they do in
France, make it obligatory by law. :
Free the writer's. Let them sign their
names to their articles"
BROTHER RAYNAL..
!, Which is, not my ;name). !
z = ~ ~ -
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mans tent while he was wrsRped in
blankets, FAST asleep; how he marched
on foot under the burning southern sun
while Sherman rode good horse. and
men waited on him like he was lord.
Now, the goVernlnenta which pays Gem
eral Sherman 81, 200 every year gives
the poor soldier, crippled for life, only
IS . month, and, when he dies, gives
nothing to his children. Aat
xS4I AARY Am slirsos
ST. IoUIs. February.
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Knight. Of Labor Organizer.

The organizer for the Knights of Labor
in Colorado can be addressed through
this Office. Those desiring to form an
assembly or wishing information con,
corning this great order, will recsi1
prompt attention.
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Bismarck has insulted the American
minister. but no excitement is created by
it in congress. If it had been the
American hog, now, congress would have
been thrown into such commissions that
the appropriation for the flood sufferers
would have been forgotten. America
feels proud Of her hogs in congress. =
Unionist. rs
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eening the supply, not reducing Ing
wages, is the only real remedy to infuse
into them healthy tone and thereby
enhance the pricee. When capital
clothes itself in iron mail, and with .
hard hand crushes labor down to starya-
ton wages, it is killing the goose that
lays the golden egg. Reducing the
wages cripples the purchasing power Of
people and turns the wheels Of civiliza-
ton backward. carrying in its trail
poverty, ignorance and crime, and lower
ing the people to condition little better
than that of the southern slave before
the rebellion. One singular fact in con-
nection with this reduction ls that the
girls who worked for Is cents day, have
had their wages reduced, while the
treasurers, superintendents and over
seers, who receive from $40 to $25 day,
have been passed yerwithout any reduc-
ton being made in their salaries. Oh!
Justice, thou hast fed! What sacra-
fee at the shrine of ayarice lin this
boasted land of freedom, where children
have to work from morning uHtil night
for those who care not how soon their
weak and tender frames are stretched to
breaking for such miserable wages. The
twin element of this country's greatness,
are labor and capital, working in har-
mony; but how can harmony exist IN
face of such injustice? If we. submit TO
this reduction our employers say that
they then may be enabled to get employ
ers in other, places to run their mills less
time until trade improves. Cold COM
fort, this, to those who can barely make
their present wages meet the wants OF
their households. If short, time had
been adopted at first, reducing wages
would have been rendered unnecessary,
for we produce three-ifths of the entire
production of print cloths in the country,
and the reported stock on hand at the
present time, at all eenters, is only 7O0,7
600 pieces, or less than FIVE weeks pro-
ductioH for this city alone. Regarding
our,down manufactures, they have on
hand only about two weeks production
|In 1882 the stock; on hand at all centers
was 100000 pieces; in 1888, 72l, ,OOt
pieces; in 1884, 100000 pieces. In the
face of these figures it must be eviden,
to any practical business man that the
curtailment of production for few
weeks would have enhanced the price o.
goods, and reduced wages would have
been obviated. The mills in this city
nearly all made moderate dividend for
the past year, A considerable number
of them have added to their plant by
introducing new ring frames and looms
The Union mills divided 20 per cent
Wampanoag. II; Granite, 12; Barnard, s.
Border City, 8; Stafford, s; and a great
many others and per cent. There.
fore, in view Of these figures, and con
sidering the high rate of rents and nee
essaries, we feel that we are justified II
the stand we have taken against reduced
wages and in the hope of obtaining jus
tice. Trusting that our fellow workers
throughout the country will aid us in
our struggle, l am, on behalf of th'
Spinners' Association of Fall River
Massachusetts,
ROBERT HOWARD, Secretary
Postoffice box 203.
ALI mule spihners are requested tc
keep away from Fall River during tht
strike.
Endorsed by Spinners' committee
| The Craftsman.
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HOW TO ORGANIZE.
The Most Honest System Of organiza'
ton Ever Presented to the
People,

ENQUIRER: The Rocky Mountain d.
vision Executive of the I. W. A. desire
the publication of the following article
on organization. 1t fully explains the
International system of connected
groups, Salut! - OIL,
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.Tramps.r

-
Until the "gslloping consumption" of
corporations and greed-mongers of all
kinds seized upon the republic there was
no such word and no such thing. Now
in the streets of the New Jersey capitol
achain-gang a of homeless, disenherited
men-homeless because they are disin-
herited-are at work, each with yard
long iron chain fastened to his limb at
taehed to an eighteen-pound iron ball.
MANY citizens" it is said, stopped to
look at them and approved of the treat.
ment."
What made those men homeless
Monopoly of the lands which, if God
reigns, they were equal inheritors. What
were they tramping for2 For work. In
Ireland when a mechanic came out of
his apprenticeship he went on "tramp''
to improve his knowledge of his trade
and of the world. To accomplish this
he asked for work as he went into every
successive town. If he got work, well
and good; if he did not, he was suffered
to tramp on in peace even if he. asked
sustenance on the way. The thought Of
putting ball and cham to his leg, and
compelling him to work in that equip
ment for nothing, is a new thought,
the anti-monopoSst paper Justice asks;
|-"How would il do to try and remove
the causes that make tramps ?" To
which we add, remove the one cause =
disinherisance-and all the other causes
will gradually but very steadily remove
themselves Begin at the foundation
Irish World. i L @ 4.l .,.5 ~ S. gz
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workiagmsn Of Ameris..

You are slaves to Shylocks, and your
fchiIdren are. becoming greater slaves
than yourselves, and your posterity will
bite the dust in the agonies Of starvation
/ if you do NOT arise and rescue your and
their birthright to land from robbers
and thieves. Circulate at once petitions
or orders to the thieves in congress for
the following laws, viz: First, law
that no more land shall be given to
schools. colleges, churches, railroads, or
any other corporations. Second, a law
that no man shall ever hereafter come
into legal possession, by purchase, will,
or bequest, of more land than he and
his own family can cultivate say
seventy-fye acres, more or less, but not
Overcome hundred Third, a law that teyery
man who desires it for cultivation shall
have one such lot Of what is called the
public lands, by paying only the price Of
surveying and fixing the bonds. Fourth
law that such farm lot shall be inalien-
able to himself and family, as a. perma-
nent and perpetual inheritance, never to
be taken by debt. Fifth, law that
when large landowner dies, each oi
his heirs may take enough of his land
for one such farm lot, and that the bal
ance be returned to the government al
the price he gave for it, or sold at auction
in farm lots only to those who own nc
other land. Sixth, a law requiring rail,
roads and other large landowners to sci
a price on their land, and the govern
ment have the option either to- buy the
land or else tax it at the owners price
The moment these laws are enacted
the speculation in land will be killed, as
as it should be, and land will be worth.
less las it should be) to all who do moi
need it to cultivate. Every man will
have an opportunity to secure home
thousands will 60 to farming from cities
and manufacturing districts where they
now have to underbid each other in
selling their labor, and those who remain
will command better wages, instead O.
selling their wages at half price, as they
do now; while q bloody war for natura
rights will be avoided. ..-
But the workers are yet in the ma
jority, and you can have these laws i
you will; if you do, your children anc
their children will "rise up and call yor
blessed" if you neglect this duty, they
will curse your memory with bitter tears
Circulate petitions for these laws an6
shower them upon congress, and if th'
present members will not grant you
petition, elect men who will, and give
yourselves no rest until you restore the
stolen birthright to land. And now
readers of the Truth Seeker, farewell
you may never again find my name il
this paper.-J, Hacker, in Truth Sc eker
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ForRent.

The Knights of Labor hall, 1856 Holla-
day street, on the third Tuesday and
every Saturday in the month. Inquire
at The LABOR ENQUIRER office.
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OF ie6lSi6uCt 10 tuUSc Muo are luCd4sdUle
of labor. h.. ...s.-
Absolute justice is the right of every
being. The law is the free and sol
emn expression of the public will, and
it must be equal for all. Society ought
to favor with all its power the progress
of public reason, and place instruction
and recreation within the reach of every
citizen. The people is the sovereign.
Government is its work and its property !;
the public ft1nctionaries are its agents
and officers, and the people justly should
have the power when it pleasesto revoke
| its manufactures or recall its servants.
The law can forbid only what is hurtful
to the people and can prescribe only
what's useful. Every law which violates
or infringes the imprescriptible right of
man is void.
In every Just government the law
ought above all to defend public and in
diyidual liberty against the authority of
those that govern. Every institution
that does not suppose the people good
and the magistrate corruptible, is vicious.
No part Of the people can exercise the
power of the whole people but the wish
it expresses ought to be respected as
wish Of part of the people which is to
concur in forming the general will.
Every act against the imprescriptible
rights Of man by whomsoeyer exercised
even in the name of the law itself and
within the forms it prescribes- every
such act is arbitrary and void. The very
respect due to law forbids submission to
it, and if the attempt be made to execute
such act by violence or by artifce, it is'
not only permitted but enjoined upon
every individual to repel such assaults,
even by force. Resistance to oppression,
! is necessary consequence of the other
rights of man. There is oppression
against the social body whenever one
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1t does not fear suppression, because it
has millions of members, as we'll quail.
fed as the leaders to assume direction
should those now at the head be re-
moved. - 80
II does not fear failure because it
knows its own power and strength, and
the Justice and truth of its cause. t-.'
Suppose that you call together eight Of
your friends some evening this coming
week your own home. Read them
this article, then form yourselves into a
group according to the above PLAN Then
forward an account of your meeting to
the Division Secretary. You will then
receive proper documents and each man
of the group can go out and organize a
group of his own and so on. Let US take,
say a limit of three months, to perfect
each group. IF you alone should follow
out the plan, what would be the result Z
Let us see: InIthe first series OF groups
there would be yourselfand eight others,
9; in the second series. 70; in the third
series, 64s; in the fourth series, 5,832.
That is to say the ball thus set in motion
by you alone would within one year or
ganize effectively nearly 5000 men.
It is work of this kind that has UNDER
mined all the thrones of Europe, and
which in but a few years more will make
American workmen ready to clasp hands
with their brothers in other lands, to
topple to its fall, tie whole mighty ineu-
busof wrong that now threatens the
whole world with death and desolation.
EAddress Division Secretary and en-
close In an envelope directed to the
sditos Of this pepss.1
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GRAND MEADOW.

p. A. Huss of Crookst0n, D. IT,, was
in town last week.
r.. W. Ferrie is exhibiting the biggest
hens egg. 1t measures 81 by 81.
Several persons hailing from Grand
Meadow took in Forepaugh's circus at
Albert Lea.
Tom Hagerty's horse took first money
at the races on the Fourth and Warren
Millet's second money.
There are no better uniforms worn
by any band along the S. NJ. Division
than are spsrted by the Grand Meadow
Cernet band.
Mrs. G. P. Gladen started July eth,
for Boston, Mass, and other eastern
points, to be absent ON visit extended
several months.
Geo. w. Dean is building new barn
24x52 it., with an addition 2Ox35 it. Geo.
is commencing as a breeder of fine stock
and wishes to have good quarters fol
them.
w. w. Ranney's Grafton on the
Fourth was fine effort, fully equal to
the productions Of the "crack" speakers.
The people of this village should be proud
of having man in their midst capable OF
delivering an address so instructive and
interesting.-Rec0rd.
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Jail Delivery.

Saturday morning our citizens were
startled with the rumor that the prisoners
in our county jail has made their escape
during the night. An investigation as
to the cause of these reports, revealed the
fact that while the outer doors were firm.
ly secured the iron grating to the win
dow had been cut through, and the pris-
oners, L. P. Schoonmaker, Thos Ward
and Claus Iverson, had made their es.
cape. Sheriff Corey took the matter in
hand and search was instituted. The
sheriff Of Freeborn having been notified
soon discovered Schoonmaker's where
abouts, and having had him arrested mott
fed Sheriff Corey, who proceeded to AL
bert Lea and returned with the prisoner
Monday afternoon. Schoonmaker states
that they made their escape Friday eve
ming about 8 o'clock, and he started i'm
mediately toward Albert Lea, making the
journey in about hours. tits though1
the remaining prisoners will soon be re
!caDtured
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-16
ATTENTION. OLD SETTLERS

OAO
One very interesting feature of the
County History we are now compiling
of Mower county, will be chapter made
up from personal recollections of amusing
or other interesting incidents or yarns"
co-incident with pioneer days. In every
neighborhood, there are always laughable
or touching happening in the early settle
ment of the country; and in order to get
these into our history we are compelled
to solicit such contributions from any and
all who may be in possession of such facts.
In order to bring this about put on your
thinking caps and talk it over in your
neighborhood and then hand your sketch
in to your town committeeman, or mail it
to Box 100, Austin, where it will be fully
written up and for which we will be very
thankful.
This is the only plan by which such
valuable matter can be secured. attend
to 1t at once, please.
INTERSTATE History COMPANY.
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A Startling Discoyerr.

Physicians are often startled by remark
able discoveries. The fact thatDr. KINGS
New Discovery for consumption and All
throat and lung diseases is daily curing
patients that they have given up to die
is startling them to realize their. sense 81
duty, and examine into the merits Of this
wonderful discovery resulting in.-hun.
dreds of our best physicians ,usinn. s. s.
their practice. Trial bottles free at anI
drug store. Regular. size 81. 90. :
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-16
These are Solid Facts.

The best blood purifier and system reg
ulator ever placed within the reach Of suf-
fering humanity, truly is Electric Bitters.
Inactivity of the liver, Diliousness, jaun-
dice, constipation, weak kidneys, or any
disease OF the urinary organs, orwhoever
requires an appetizer, tonic, or mild slim
|ulant, will always find Electric Bitters the
best and only certain cure nown. They
act surely and quic ", every bottle guar
#anteed to give entire satisfaction or money
refunded; Sold at fifty cents. a bottle by
Iall druggists.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-16

LET Us TELL YoU.-Let us tell YOU
that person who is bilious or constipa-
ted is not a well person, and further,
that nearly every one is subject to these
irregularities. Let us tell you also that
Burdeck Blood Bitters are one of the
finest diuretics and asperients ever yet
devised. Sold by Dorr s. Void.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-16

Round trip excursion tickets will be
sold to those atten ding the annual re-
anton of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, at one fare and a fifth to Minneapolis.
Sell July 2sd to July Gath. Return cou-
pons good until July 81. T.. 1..s~: ,.sa
For the Firemens Tournament, to be
held at Faribault, August 9th and 2Sth,
round trip tickets will be sold as follows
To Firemen going in body, in uniform,
at one cent per mile each way To the
general public at fare and fifth for the
round trip: Sell Aug. Goth to 28th in
elusive: Return coupons good until Aug.
3Oth, 1884. G.. III. COLEMAN, Agent.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-16
TRUE MERIT,
A Charming Remedy for Diarrhoea
and Summer COMPLAINTS.

a Charming Remedy for DiarrhOea
and Summer Complaints.
eve have used all your Tonic Astrin-
gent with happy results. Not single
complaint relating to it has ever reached
- Jones & jackson, druggists, Jones,
burg, Mo. .r.'.
"Please send US two dozen Marsh's
Tonic Astringent at once. 1t works a
charm in diarrhna AID summer com.
plant. "-[Ward & Venable, druggists,
Pattonsburg, Mo. -
Marsh's Tonic Astringent is for sale by
Dorr & Void, druggists, Austin. Il
quickly cures diarrhea, dysentery, chol
era infantum, cholera morbus, and the
summer complaint of children. It is
a delightful remedy for old and young
Price so cents. .... 49,
The Marsh Ague Cure is sold at the low
price of so cents-liquid or pills. Il
cures the worst cases of third day ague
and all forms of chills and fever. Fol
sale by Dorr & Void. :.. p.
For. swellings, burns, sores, piles, etc.
use Marsh's Cream Liniment. For sale
by Dorr & Void. 500.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-16

THAT HACKING COUGH can be SO quickly
cured by Shiloh's Cure. We guarantee it.
WILL YOU SUFFER with Dyspepsia and
Liver complaint? Shiloh's Vitalizer is guar
anteed to cure you. &, s-zs "
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, made miserable by
that terrible cough. Shiloh Cure is the rem
edy for you. ,%.. .S8{ 7 ',z s4s s
breath secured by Shiloh'S Catarrh Remedy.
Price SO cents. Nasal Injector free. For sale
by DoRR s VOID. q, 81 s 80
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Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The greatest medical wonder of the
world. Warranted to speedily cure burns,
bruises, cuts, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
lions, guaranteed to cure in every in
stance. or money refunded. IS cents per
box. For sale by all druggists.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-16

OF MATcHLEss MERIT. For the nose
and throat, externally or internally used,
Thomas Electric Oil is matchless.
Asthma, Catarrh, and serious throat af-
fections are quickly amenable to this
efficient remedy. Sold by .Dorr 8 Void.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-16

Work on Park Place building, under
the direction of Joe Adams, was begun on
Monday. The sidewalk has been removed,
and the workmen will proceed to take
out the front foundation back several
feet from the corners, and replace them
with Mankato stone. The floor will. be
let down 10 inches to the level of the side
walk, and 30 feet added to the rear of the
building. 1t will be renovated and made
one of the most attractive buildings in
the city.