The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-06-17

monen - 70 cultlvate in ACQUIRING
skin vompel MN TO put orthintelliqence.
nrac+;nal 8 vigilance, zeal, bring out hi
placlicai qualities, and gradually train he
moral and intellectual powers
THE PESTS OF BUTTE SOCIETY,"
are not the men who labor hn+ +ha -,
scum VINO come here to live in idleness ~
one earnings OF the miners hard toll. t 40
ssnoo presume to advise, but it seems 4o me-
rhere is need OF a union tn protect the fam.
ies OF working men, and oppose acts Of in.
Jusulce towards them, in, go far a. such a
WORK Is possible, persuading the working
man 10 50 use his earnings as shall best
S:r serve himself n those depending upon
nim: Inc dollar a day that 9oes unon the
1amliy table is far better than the "a O a
d uay That goes into the saloon or the
gamblers till. Members oil Butte Miners
Union, l commend the spirit Of your assoc
cation. May success crown your effort in
carrying out the object Of your fraternity.
May you never forget that the action ofthe
INDIVIDUAL or society like that of nations
also' Is constantly within moral spheres.
THE BIBLE is THE GREAT TEXT BOOK
OF morals, hence it's ethics are, or ought to
De the foundation stone upon which
the characters of men should
rest. The Gospel has ever been a blessing
TO toiling men. When Christ came to earth
the laborer was a slave and the artisan
classed with barbarians. He opened the
windows OF heaven and let the light in upon
the darkness OF human life. He entered a
carpenters shop and said, "Come into me
all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and
l will give you rest" He took the laborer
by the hand and made him a nobleman.
He gave maxims which if societies heed and
obey will cause them to be blessed indeed.
He babe men take heed and beware of
envy, ~coYetousness, luxury, veluptuous-
ness, worldly ambition, surfeiting and
drunkenness. If we were to inquire into
the reasons OF individual unhappiness and
national decline. we would find that those
things against which the Gospel warns men,
were the direct means of ruin. 1t is inn
possible to found a society upon the pur-
suit OF pleasure or power. Neither can it
be established upon the maxim of Euripides
SO often quoted with appreciation by
Caesar, violate Justice only for the sake
OF ruling" That mighty Roman put it in
practice himself and his example wa imi-
tated by those whose daggers pierced his
own body a left it bleeding and ~lifeless at
the base OF Pompey's statue.
VICE, LUXURY N AMBITION
so hand in hand, here and everywhere, and
they lead to ruin, though the path may
sometimes climb the hill of fame and gran
deur-may seem to approach the summit
VI pAooISsACJ "Iu pO"SA' AuC OAAG
eagle under Caesar was displayed in the far
thest part OF Asia, along the Rhine, upon
the shores of Britain and throughout all
the Adriatic coast. But it also crossed the
Rubicon, rose over the Pharsalion field that
was red with Roman blood, chased the
shattered remains OF Pompey's army into
Africa, covered with it's wings the throne OF
a prostitute and became at last the =" insig-
! MIA OF a people whose meanness and sever
18th are the contempt of slaves" Let us not
forget that the world moves and the great
God is moving it.. We need to
BELIEVE IN THE RIGHT
and that;the sinews of all contests are in it.
In concluding his Cooper Institute speech
in 1860 Abraham Lincoln said: "Let us
have faith that right makes right and in
that faith let us to the end dare to do our
duty" My friends, in the work you have
to do in opposing injustice, it may require
courage and self-sacritice. 1 pray you in
every emergency, first of all diligently in
quire if your proposed action be right and
if you so determine, then stand shoulder to
shoulder like Napoleon's old guard on the
field of Waterloo. The victories that stand
are won by the men who dare to do their
duty; who dare to die-by the men who,
with right and derision before them see only
the right; with self-denial and a brothers
welfare before them, see only the needs of
Ulelf DfOCnef, WlUn Une CONN anu OOu De-
fore them, see only God.
MIR. LIrcHMAN's ADDRESS.
At the conclusion of the remarks of Mr..
Frost the chairman introduced Hon.
Charles H. Litchman, organizer under the
General Assembly Knights OF Labor. Mr..
Litchman was received with applause and
made a telling and eloquent speech. He
opened with a kind ~allusion to the frater-
nal and hospitable name in which he had
been welcomed by his friends in this camp.
In his following remarks, which might be
Justly termed-as he himself saba plea
for trade unions, he referred to the gradual
change which had taken place. in the manner
OF the employment OF labor, sketching rap
| idly the system of vassalage and the several
steps that nave led up to the present VS.
tem-which succeeded Unknown as the
wage labor system. When the employers,
he said, felt their powers gradually slipping
away from them through the growing indie
pendence OF the vassals they resorted to
statute law to keep the worker in sub
lection. Against this power with
THE INSTINCT OF MISREPRESENTATION
the workers banded themselves into organ
i~zations in which brute force was too often
the moving impulse. This condition OF al
fairs, of course, referred more particularly
to England, and he claimed that all that
the working men Of England enjoyed to-day
in the way of civil liberty or educational
privileges, they nave gained through the
power and influence of trade unions.
HE then proceeded to show that the
causes which made
TRADE UNIONS NECESSARY
in England exists in America to-day, al
though we havein the virtually unrestricted
exercise of the ballot, a fraction OF power
which the trade ~unionist OF England did not
formerly possess, and has to-day in only a
limited sense. In all the various branches
of industry capital had it's combinations,
which were really and truly the trade
unions of the capitalists. What was right
for the employer, he claimed, could not be
WRONG FOR THE EMPLOYED,
And because the merchant called his trade
union a board of trade or an exchange, it
made it none the less a trade union tina
the organization of the miner or the shoe
maker, or the bricklayer, or the thousand
and one organizations of labor which exist
in the land. He Illustrated his argument
with illusions gathered from his experience
both as an employer and a wage worker,
and from his connection with labor organ
| i%zations during the past ten years.. He re-
! ferred to the Miners Union, represented
here to-day, praised the laws under which
| it is managed, and urged the members to be
| answering In their loyalty and fidelity to
their trade union.
After Mr.. Litchman had concluded, the
| audience was dismissed with an invitation
| to come to the grand ball in the evening
| which concluded the happy ceremonies.
THE BALL.
In the evening the Pavilion rink was more
| than crowded by the body OF ladies and
| gentlemen friends OF the order. The pro-
| cramme, which had been arranged, was car
! ried out to the letter, and all present oe-
parted fully satisfied with the days enter
tainment.
Walkerville Items.
+ Broughton'ss store and residence is rapidly
! approaching completion.
John Coleman, on Wednesday, buried his
| third child. who died from diphtherla,