Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-06

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have more enviablo reputation than
Mrs. S. L. NJ. Barlow, now unfortunately
Ill, who is an industrious worker, a hand
some woman, and an admirable HOSTESS
over two beautiful establishments. tbe
purely charitable who visit hospitals.
found them, and live for them. There
are many real saints. perfect Florence
NightiDgales. One OF these nne combina.
tions OF the useful and ornamental il
Mrs Morris X. Jesup, another is Mrs.
Pierpont Morgan, and another is Mrs
Henry Day, still another IL Mrs. Berry |
man, all women Of society, wealth, posi- |
ton and excellence. Ofthe fiirtatious we /
hesitate to speak.
or the Immaculate there is not more
beautiful example than Mrs. LLOYD Aspin. |
wall, the editor, De Wolf and splendid |
beauty, OF whom no one ever heard an
evil word. and Mrs. Coleman Drayton.
Mrs Frederic Bronson, Mrs. Van
Rensselaer,, Mrs. Ward, Mrs. Colgate,
Mrs. Prince, Mrs Fulton Cutting and
many others, women who know how to
be fashionable and of good repute at the
same time.
The weather was bad for the wedding
of Miss Bessie Morse and Mr.. Delaheld.
The sun did not shine on Tuesdays
brides.
1t has been as hard TO whip up an inter-
est In the Orthropedlc ball. which will
come OFF next Thursday, as 1t was to get
up the Ladies' club last summer The
ladies having 1t in charge have tried the
same impossibillity. They wished TO
make it at once exclusive and yet paying
When the Ladies' club had blackballed
everybody whom everybody hated, they
found themselves, like Kilkenny cats,
grinning at each other and wondering who
should spring at the next neck. That
was not pleasant so they concluded to
separate and let the club drop.
AMY CLAYTON.
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KNIGHTS OF LABOR
The Third Avenue railroad strike and
the indictment of thirty Ave boycotters by
the grand jury will have decisive effect
upon the elections this fall. Shrewd
politicians are trimming sail, and prepar-
ing for storm. The trade unions are
developing a bitter feeling over the indict-
ments for conspiracy, and 1t looks as
though the Knights of Labor would be
| forced into the political field independent
Vi but MlsuC6 vi NIL IOmhtll1s lucy bG-
gin to see that all the machinery of the
law Is in the hands of the employers, and
! it is to be used to crush the employees.
They are beginning to learn why it is
| that in this model republic boycotters
can be indicted while in oppressed Ire
! land the English authorities can legally
do nothing TO crush them. The fact that
in this city they are indicted for conspiracy
incenses nearly every workingman. He
asks why it is that the conspiracy bolt Is
leveled against the laborer alone. He
wants to know why employers who con.
splre to put up the price of coal, wheat,
and other necessary commodities are not
indicted. He inquiries why the railroad
men who conspire to raise the cost OF
transportation are not punished. He sees
the law used in the interests OF employers
and against the interests of employees,
and he is already looking for remedy.
This it is that is exciting the interests OF
keep politicians. They recognize the
power that can control the ballot-boX, and
they are waiting for the current to set so
that they can launch their skiffs anew.
| The shrewdest among them are already at
work in the legislature introducing bills
| in behalf of the strikers. A prominent
candidate for congress in PulitZer's dis
trict is vainly fighting their battles in the
courts, and ex-Sheriff O'Brien, by no
means rich man, has sent $500. The
| district attorney is execrated for his
eagerness to secure indictments against
| the boycotters. If he was candidate for
office to-day he would be beaten by over
$4,000 majority.
The Knights recognize the blow, but
they do not understand how 1t was dealt.
The explanation, however, is very simple,
The grand jurleS here are composed al
most exclusively of employers. 1t is safe
to say that no member of a labor union
has served on grand jury for years. once
month new grand jury is selected. IL
consists of 20 men, whose names are
drawn from list Of 700 selected each
year by four judges, the county clerk,
| commissioners OF luries, ana sherln. IN
| former years politicians had some voice
| in the selection of the 700, but TWO or
| three years ago the judges combined,
and laid out the county officials. Having
a majority of the board, they chose men
of 'fair standing" but they themselves
were Judges as to the standing" Propa-
bly, not one in thirty OF the 700 are EN-
! ployes; at least 95i per cent are
employers. The result Is easily loreseen.
| They are using Jnelr oliSlai POSiSA
| their personal benefit, under the plea that
| it is for the good of the public Ihey
summon two boycotted employers, get
| from them list of their striking en-
ployes. and on their exparte statements
! lind indictments against iorty-seVen mem
bcrs of labor unions. The poor working
men are required either to give separate
bail bonds for $500 or go to jail. Wnat
makes the matter worse is that the
accused loses all the privileges that ne
would be entitled to in police court
There the Judge would investigate tne
case and discharge him II the complain
ants allegations were unsustainea. here
the granu jury, itself virtually an assocla-
ton of employers, arrests and ooDus OF
imprisons any workman whom an employ
or chooses to accuse. One SIDE only Is
heard and there is no remedy until tne
man is brought before jury at the pleas,
are of the district attorney. Inc granu
iury system in this city indirectly yves
the employer power to seize his woikmsn
hv the throat and choke him into submits
sion. This is what Is being done 1o-oay,
and being done by the action OF tiie WY
men who were elected to once Dy In 'S
votes of workingmen. Its excel VIM
probably nullify all attempts TO eleG Ts d
reform municipal ticket THIS ial. nc We
arrest of the members OF the board q
aidsrnoan at 1884, charged with bribery,
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