The examiner., 1886-07-03
ANSONIA.

The annual meeting of the Fourth school
district for the year 1886 is now a matter
of history, but it is remarkable for a few
things that will live long after those who
participated will have joined the great ma
iority. What an impressive emphasis the
result gave to Burns "The best laid plans
of mice and men gang aft aglee." There
were some rich contrasts seen there-the
gentry in evening dress sweltering under
the torrid heats but seated, while the grim
my mechanic who f'smelled of poor tobac-
CO" had to stand up until finally allowed to
gather in the glimmering shadows of the
adjoining room. The old, the halt and the
cripple were gathered there, and here and
there like FREELY the danger-signal head
of the undying friend of labor in Derby
was seen to bob. The various eublutions of
good feeling-boiling little at times it is
true, showed our human nature off to ad-
vantage. These were some of the side
lights but the central figure in this kalei-
doscopic scene was the gentle patter patter
of the bits of white paper which recorded a
freeman's power, as everlastingly and as
forcibly as do the earthquake, or the thun-
derbolt, the power of the Creator. So, we
repeat, the way the lightning struck around
here will live long after memory shall die.
Education and iberality will run every
time against party or personal rancor, cap
tendencies. The new industrial doctrine is
great educator.
A widow with three little babes lives on
Derby avenue, little below the watering
trough on lower Main street. She bought
stove in the winter time of a Main street
stove dealer, now nameless. The exact
condition of the sale she does not know
yet remembers signing lease though she
never received copy of the instrument.
She paid on the bill So, and the total cost of
the stove was $40. Things went hard with
this worthy lady, and she was compelled to
default in a few weeks payments after hav-
ing paid the So, for which she holds receipts
One day she was out at work at her trade
to earn money to get the "bit and sup" for
her fatherless ones, when the unwilling
agents of this monster, and in her absence,
got into the house secretly and took the
stove away before the embers of the fire
which cooked the morning meal were yet
turned to ashes. When the lady returned
her little ones were huddled about the spot
where once was the stove, and shivering in
the dampness What could she doa Moth
ing. She, it is supposed, signed document
| which allowed this inhuman store-keeper to
| do just what he has done. She went to an
attorney about it. He talked glibly about
burglary, criminal case, ETC., until he
learned who the party was, then he took it
all back. Now IHE EXAMINER has word
to say. This woman is entitled in equity
to some return for the money paid in,
and if it is not returned we shall publicly
name the firm which perpetrated this infa-
nous wrong.
The Sentinel is again sailing under false
colors. Perhaps we all believe it when it
says it is the "workingman's friend" Ha!
hal it makes us smile. We repeat network
ingman's friend" Yet we can call to mind
several cases where this friend has endeav-
ored to show why the man who earns his
bread by the sweat of his brow should and
must be satisfied with less for his labor.
One case we we'll remember where this
great friend of labor printed some years
ago full list of the prices of the necessa,
ries of life COPIED from some other capital
istic paper) to show that the workingmen
could live very much cheaper, and there
fore must expect q reduction in wages. In
this list it was stated that barrel of -four
could be bought for 81 90. when in fact il
could not be bought anywhere in the tow +
OF Derby for less than 1925. The statement
was utterly false and misleading and t.
the great injury Of every workingman and
merchant in the town. At the time this
appeared in this workingman's friend, the
proprietor CHANGED to go into one of oul
meat markets for some pork 1--WE believe
and after asking the price demurred tc
paying it; and produced his price list &c
convince said merchant that prices were
down. He was met by the rejoinder Of
How much have you reduced the price oil
my advertisement to which he was oblig
ed to answer, not any; and as the place
purchase his hog elsewhere. This was