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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-14
TRANSPORTATION and Markets.

Cheap and rapid transportation is of the ut
mos. importance to those who are both producers
and consumers. Il chhapeGs all that be buys
ard enhances the price Of oil he produces. Tie
eLANGFORD COLONY" is most advantage
Otsly situated in this respect. i isbetweeutwo
railroads that both connect with steamboats,
that run from the Sacramento aud san Joaquin
points to the Golden Gate. This gives the cheap
est freight and passenger rates for TIE distance
on this Coast. The markets for all kinds Of pro-
ducts are good. The CanneTies, Wineries and
Fruit Dealers take all the Fruit raised ut highly
remunerative prices. There is an unlimited
demand for all the Wine, Eaisius, Figs, Prunes,
Green Dried aud Canned Fruits that can be
grown. Dairy Products, Fowls. Eggs aud Vege-
tables find ready sale. Every acre CT this land
when in bearing Fruit Trees or Vines viii net
500 per acre For further particulars apply 10
CHAS. r. PARSONS,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-14
saw pK.aNCIsCo MARKET.

9Ay FRAEcIsco. September 18th.
FIOUR-Net cash prices for California: Best
Family, 81 loot IS q bbl: Bakers Extra, 81 to
81 %: surerfue. s. S0G3.
WHEAT-Pfices are finn, while business is
but moderately active. For standard shipping
qualities. 81 5719 2 ell is the current figure, and
custom can be found Tor all offerings of this class
at the rates named. Product Of better quality
will bring 81 3Sj4. and it is pretty certain that
choice sample would bring QUE buyer ut 81 10
e ctl.
CALL BOARD sALEs-MoRNING SESSION.
Buyer season-7OO tons, 81 I714; LOO, s. l75s:
Buyer 1SSG-1.30O tons, 81 4534: 200, 81 4S35.
Seller lSS5--5UO TONS 81 SIS; 200, 81 So; 100,
81 3734 = ctl
BARLEY-Recefpts this week have been close
oa to $1,000 centals. Trade has not been brisk,
but values have kept in steady position. Feed
of No. quality is quotable at G92t2e, while
lower grades are to be had at s5@SS12c z ell.
Brewing shows good strength, an article at all
desirable selling at 81 1901 IS q cl. Chevalier
that will pass inspection as standard is scarce
and worth 81 50 to 81 5215 Good product that is
a little under weight is held at 81 4091 -, while
poor coast quality is to be had at 81 159l % =
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-14

nFFICE-NoRTHEAsE CORNER SECOND
and K streets. Office open day and night.
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THE SADDLE ROCK
RESTAURANT AND OYSTER HOUSE

VaIRsT-CLASS HOUSE IN EVERY RESPECT.
II Ladies Dining-room separate. Open dsy
and night BUCHANAN & CARRAGHER, Pho
prietorS 1913 Second street, between and Z,
Sacramento.
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ny w. Z. RIARD.

DBYsICIAN AND SURGEON (HoMEOPA-
thist). Office and residence, northeast cor
ner OF Eleventh and II streets. Hours: to 10
A. NJ, to 8, and to SPIN. I'm
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PACIFIC COAST.
THE OLD PIONEERS DROPPING
OFF ONE By ONE.
Rioting Sailors Arrested ct Victoria
Fire in Davisyille-ShOOt-
ing in Nevada.
CALIFORNIA.

SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE EEConD-uMoN.I
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-22
Honest Pay for Honest Labor.

The decision of the Supreme Court of
PENNSYLVANIA that the law prohibiting
the .'store order'' system is unconstitu-
tioual. makes all the more imperative
and urgent the duty Of workingmen to
unite i'll resistance to this abuse. Not
in Pennsylvania alone, but also in other
States where there are mines and facto-
ries- this iniuuitous method of evading
navment in honest money fo- honest Ia
Dor is extensively practiced. For this
reason the action of the General
Assembly of the Knights of Labor on
the subject will be looked for with in
terest. If tie wOrkingmen would stand
bv themselves and by each other in the
demand that the store order abuse shall
cease they would have no need to ask
the Legislature to intervene for Sheir
protection. Not long ago the miners in
an extensive bitumiuous coal operation
III this State sturdily demanded that the
company stores should be closed, and
the operators reluctantly yielded, for the
stores we're making them more money
than they were making out of their
mines.
Workingmen where company stores
exist-and everywhere else, for that
matteT-shOuld insist upon weekly pay
ments of wages. This alone would do
more to break up the abuse by which
their earnings are filehed than could any
act of the General Assembly of Pennsyl-
/ yania. If payments were made at the
| end Of every week, as is the rule in many
/ large manufacturing establishments,
there would be little reason for asking
OF for giving credit at the company
store. With the cash in his hand the
Workingman could buy his commodities
where he pleased and on the best terms.
| Bat where this iniquity prevails, ID or
der to compel him to take his wages IN
store orders, payments are made at as
long intervals as possible. Ihe preteXt
is that il takes too much trouble aud
clerical labor to make weekly payments,
when. in fact, the keeping OF the store
order accounts at a mine or factory
causes much more trouble and requires
more clerical labor. Mr.. Andrew Car
negie, who employs many worklngmen'
and who has recently shown in deeds as
well as in words genuine concern tol
their interest. maintains that payment
of wages at short terms is essential FOL
their welfare He practices what ht
processes, for ne pays his men ever
( week. and there is 70 store e-OTder abus'
about his establishment. In fact WheT'
this method of payment prevails, th'
store-o order abuse must disappear, a
there is nothing for it TO live on. Whei
3 mine operators and mill owners keel
= retail stores and only pay wages at loni
intervals, workingmen should comoin
to defeat the iniquitY. Wherever 1t
L practicable they should establish coop
I erative stores for supplying themselve
e with commodities at the lowest prices
Their motto should be Honest pa
for an honest days work, and no truck.
This is one of the best rules for maiI
tanning amicable and just relations be
q tween labor and capital. al.-Phila. Recorc
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-22
No Freedom of Contract.

Under the store order system employees
are allowed credit at certain store. The
theory is that they go into it voluntari-
ly. The fact IS quite otherwise. No
open threats may be employed to coerce
them, but as a rule it is understood that
the man who refuses to deal at the com
pany's store or the store with which the
employers have an understanding, is
certain to be viewed with disfavor, and
may expect to be discharged at the first
opportunity, if he escapes the far-Ieach-
ing vengeance of the "SIack list" OF
course, under these circumstances, there
are few rebels against the policy of the
employers, but the dissatisfaction of the
men with the system is too notorious to
be ignored, and it rests upon perfectly
simple facts. Now to assert that the
legislative prohibition of the truck or
store order system prevents the working
men from making their own contracts,
in face of the well known fact, is an
affront really to the intelligence of all
concerned. There is no question of
freedom of contract in the case. Precise
ly what uDderlies the whole arraignment
of the store order system is its compul-
sorry character. It's success depends on
the constant exercise of coercive impli-
cations. No men ever consented vOlun-
tarily to pay more than market price for
their provisions. No men would ever
enter into such an arrangement unless
the only alternative open to them was
still more injurious and disagTeeRble.
The store order system has from the
beginning been maintained solely BY
working upon the fears of the employees.
Rather than lose their employment they
have submitted to be robbed-for tbs
system involves nothing less than rob-
berry, and that of the meanest kind. If
they were free TO make their own con-
tracts, they would to a certainty buy in
the cheapest market instead of the dear
est. That they are not free is the only
reason why they deal at the company's
store. AS to the Legislative tutelageo
referred to by Judge Gordon, his char
acterization is, to say the least, infelici-
tous. The Legislature of Pennsylvania
was appealed TO to deliver the laborers
from a species of thraldom for it is
certainly is thTaidOm when man is not
at liberty to buy his food and clothing
wherever he chooses. The case was one
in which labor was powerless to relieve
itself. 1t demanded and obtained pro-
lection from the State. To tell the ben
eficiaIies under the act of 1881 that they
were degraded by law which restored
their independence to them is assuredly
not calculated to increase their respect
for the courts, or to convince them that
they have been mistaken IN suspecting
that there was one law for the rich and
another for the poor. In short the de-
cision appears to be alike unfort unate
and ill-timed, and if it is sound law its
victims will think anything but admi-
ringly of the Jurisprudence of which it
is an example.-N. 7. Tribune.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-22
A Word to WOrkingmen.

There are 100000 voters in this State
who are connected with labor organiza-
tiOns Of one kind and another. There
are Knights Of Labor, members of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers, of the Amalgamated
Miners Union, and other Trades Unions
covering all branches of industrial en-
teIprise. There are so, 900 miners. an
thracite and bitumlnous, $4,000 iron
workers, 10000 textile workers, IL, 600
railToaders, and at least $4,000 working
men, skilled and common employed in
other trades, who have b ad faith enough
in labor oTganiza tions to pay the admis-
sion fee ard other dues necessary to
become members and maintain 9 good
standing in the organizations.
There are no means of discovering the
relation of these men to the two political
parties. but it is reasonably safe to esti-
mate that they are about equally divided
politically. That is, that of the 450, 900
Republicans in the State on a full vote.
100000 of them are members of labor
organizations. 1t is equally probable
that of the 430, 600 or more Democrats.
the same number are members of labor
organizations. If the 100, 600 Republican
workingmen should withdraw their alle-
glance from the Republican party, the
total vote of that organization would be
reduced to $4,000 against 430, 900 Dem.
ocrats.
The nomination of General Beaver by
the Republicans of this State was a di-
rect notice TO the workingmen within
that party that their votes were not
wanted. General Master Workman
Powderly in an article in the North
Anareical ReUie,o of recent date pronoun-
ees the store order system as the most
dangerous foe of the workingman. When
that opinion was written there was law
in force that served as a restraint upon
the more odious features of that system.
Now that the law has been set aside by
a Republican Supreme Court, the evils
are multiplied. General Beaver in the
face of this law employed store orders to
compensate labor, and it is reasonable
to predict that in the absence of the re-
strainlDg power, he will go to the limit
OF the license winch the necessities of
the wOrkingmen gives him. For these
reasons the 100, 600 Republican working
men will vote against him if they are
faithful to themselves. - Harrisburg
Patriot
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-22
The Constitution and the Corporations.

The Attorney General of Pennsylvania
is said to be preparing to respond to the
letter of the Governor Oh the question of
pools to enhance the price OF the neces-
saries of life, by commencing a suit in
equity calculated to bring the railways
to a sense of their public obligations
Exactly what the character of the pro-
ceedings will be is not yet diYulged, but
it is an evidence of progress that we
have a Governor and Attorney General
who are disposed to do what they can to
enforce the doctrine that the fundamen-
tai laws of the Commonwealth shO9ld
rule its corporations as we'll as the rest
of its subjects.
The anthracite coal pool has long pre-
pared itself for such proceedings by
keeping documentary evidence of its
purpose to restrict production out of
reach, if not out of existence. Whether
the State Executive can reach them by
equity proceedings, depends on whether
/ the legal talent employed by this aggre-
cation of capital has been able to devise
means for carrying on illegal pract ices
/ without getting within reach OF the law.
/ Ard, beyond that, there is further
/ question as to whether this effort on the
/ part of the State authorities will be
/ kept up. The proceedings in the South
/ Penn case have so far been perfect
vIGdication of the position of the Cover.
nor but over a year after they have
/ been commenced, the final decision OF
/ the matter hangs fire in the Supreme
| Court. Before third of the time nee
! essary to carry the proceedings against
! the pools to a similar termination will
! have elapsed. the term of the present
/ state administration will expire and
/ the question whether the rights of the
/ people against the corporations sha i
| be upheld, must depend upon the new
administration.
If the Republican party shall resume
control of the State Executive, will il
| undertake to assert the constitutional
provisions against the corporations? No
/ if we take the record of that party in the
| past as decisive. Nor will it be done il
we are TO accept the comments of thC
Republican organs on the Governor:
letter as an indication Of the party'
course. 1t is therefore matter for tn,
people to decide whether they Will hav,
the effort to assert the supremacy of The
constitution over the corporations, con
tinued until it is successful. - PittSb171
DiSDnteh
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-22

THE light fingered gentry who came
from Pittsburg to Greensburg on last
Tuesday evening to be present at the
arrival of Mr.. Blaine's next Presidential
boom at that place, met with splendid
success in plying their vocation. Before
Harry White, who met the show at AL
to0na, had got 80 yards from the depot
on his way to the Court House where
the speaking was to take place, he dis
covered that he had lost his pocket book.
In our opinion this was precisely the
right way to treat a President Judge
who compromises his high Office by fol-
| loving a political circus Thomas V.
| Cooper WAS relieved of his wallet, con-
/ tanning SI00-said not to be campaign
funGs-and also a $500 gold watch NJ.
/ s. Handy, Philadelphia editor, lost his
/ pocket book COL Wendell Bowman, OF
the same city, was minus a pocket bOol
and a costly gold watch, and Col. Co
burn, of Centre county, suffered in like
manner, being short of fine gold watcf
and his pocket book. These are tht
returns as we get them from the Pitts
burg papers of Wednesday morning
There were doubtless a score of othe
unfortunstes, who never tod of thei
misfortunes. Greensburg is said to b
hard place, anyway.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-22

EVEN the staid and conservative Phil
adelphia Ledler. IN discussing Judge
Gordou's opinion as to the legality Of
store orders, declares that "a little ex-
perience with the compulsions Of power
ty and a broader consideration of the
subject, might go long way to improve
the conclusions of political economists,
lawyers and judges, when treating of
labor questions.
1t also says, 1.-THE Supreme Court
Judge has probably never been really
hungry in his life. He has never been
restricted TO a single market for the sale
of his labor for lack of means to get to
another he has never had a starving
family dependent upon him-children
whose cries, at least, could be stilled by
a store order. The labOrer can undoubt-
edly take the work on the conditions
named, or leave 1t but with such con-
trolling influences tugging at his heart
strings it can hardly be said that he is IN
the same position as the manufactures,
who may sell his iron OF other goods at
the prices offered, or hold them without
much inconvenience while waiting for a
rise -
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-22

TIE nomination, ostensibly by the
Republican State Committee, but in
reality by Thomas V. Cooper and M. S.
Quay, Of the Titusville millionaire, w.
B. Roberts, as the candidate for Congress
in the Crawford, Mercer and Butler
district, rankles in the breast of Alex
ander M'Dowell, of Mercer, who was a
candidate for nomination before the
conference along:with Roberts and Flee
ger, Of Butler, who is the present mem
Der. M'DOwell has published a card
since the nomination of Roberts in
which he emphatically expresses his
disgust over the nomination and the
means by which it was procured, declar-
ing that he has always held to the belief
That greenbacks were not legal tender
for a Congressional nomination, and
leaves the matter to be decided by the
voters of the district" AS the district
is decidedly Republican, the nomination
of Roberts will no doubt be susI aimed.
Money is a good mare and will surely
90 forward"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-22

NOTwITHsTAEDING the fact that Mr..
Thomas Collins, of this place was not an
aspirant for the Democratic Congress.
ional nomination in this district, he was
endorsed at the primary election held in
June. His letter to the conferrees from
this county, declining to be considered a
candidate before the conference which
met az Somerset on Tuesday last, we
herewith append
EBEEsBURG, Oct. 4th. 1886
W. II. Rose, NJ. ID. Kittell and C. J. May er,
Esq's., Congressional COnferrees OF Cam
bria County
Gentlemen The Democracy of Cambria
county AT their late primary election unani-
mOusiy voted to present my name as their
choice for the nomination TO represent them
in Congress from this district. This action
was taken without consulting me.
/ respectfully decline the nomination and
hope that you may be able to place in nomi-
nation one Of Cambria county's worthy sons.
Please convey to the Democracy Of my native
county my sincere thanks for the honor
shown me, and you have my assurance that
the nominee. whoever ne may be, shall have
my coTdi al and hearty support
I am very truly yours.
TuC,fas C0rTT1ya
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-22

The Supreme Court of this State de-
livered an opinion on Monday Last at
Pittsburg, in which it affirmed the de-
cision of Judge Simonton, OF Dauphin
county, forbidding the purchase OF the
South Pennsylvania and Beech Creek
Railroads by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, as being in conflict with an
express provision of the Constitution of
1913. This decision, although long de-
layed, will not create any surprise. not
even, we think, among the officials of
the Railroad who purchased the two
railroads named. The question was
elaborately discussed before the Dauphin
county court ard the lengthy opinion
delivered by Judge Simonton was so
conclusive as to remove the matter be-
yond all reasonable doubt, AS the
Philadelphia Times says, the Supreme
Court has simply affirmed the constitu-
tionality Of the Constitution" OF
course Governor Patti5oD and his Attor-
ney General, Lewis G. Cassidy, feel
gratified over the result the former
having directed the Attorney General to
begin the proceedings, and the latter
having successfully carried them thro'
the lower and higher court. What effect
the decision will have upon the resump-
tion of work upon the South Pennsylva-
MIA road remains to be seen. The better
opinion seems to be that it will be
pushed to completion. A year ago in a
public speech at Bellefonte the Republi-
can candidate for Governor, General
Beaver, endorsed Governor Pattison in
his bold and courageous efforts TO ell
force the Constitution, but since then,
and especially since he was nominated
by a State Convention that cowardly
shirked the question and took refuge
under the defeated "Cullom Bill" of the
last Congress, he has forgotten that he
ever made the speech at Bellefonte
above referred to. The question is a
live State issue of the biggest kind, but
Beaver brushes it aside and speaks bv
the hour on the subject of the tariff with
which he will have about as much to do,
if he is elected Governor, as he will with
passing bill through Parliament grant
ing home rule to ireland.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-22

GILBERT T. RAFFERTY,, one Of the
Democratic candidates for Congress in
the Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene
district, showed on Monday last that he
is more reasonable man and possesses
more good common sense than we have
been willing heretofore to give him
credit for. On the day mentioned he
addressed letter to Hon. John Latta.
Of Greensburg, the other Democratic
candidate, in which, although claiming
to be the regular nominee, he proposes
to Mr.. Latta, in response to the demand
of nearly all the Democratic papers in
the district, as we'll as in Difference to
the desire of q large number of the
Democratic voters of the three counties,
to submit the whole matter of the regu-
larity of their respective nominations to
the Democratic State Committee, or to
the Executive Committee of that body.
! In his letter Mr.. Rafferty, broadly de-
clares that as "a life long Democrat, in
a crisis like the present, l cannot allow
my personal feelings 20 interfere with
the interests of the party" OF course
Mr.. Latta will agree to this proposition
unless he is still possessed of the singular
| delusicn uLder which he labored on last
Saturday week, when he stated very
confidently to Chauncey F. Black in
/ Pittsburg that he would be elected ever
if Rafferty, remained in the field. Mr.
Rafferty, has now done all that he coult
| be expected to do, short of an absolute
declination, to compose the quarrel il
the district, and it the friends of botf
the candidates act in good faith after
the state Committee makes its decision
the district which is reliably Democratic
will continue to be so at the November
election. Our own opinion as we'll a:
that of the Democratic press throughout
! the State always was in favor Of the re-
nomination of Hon. Charles E. BOYLE
the present able and useful member
Westmoreland and Greene, however.
were fatally bent upon having a change
and that effectually disposed of MI.
Boyle's candidacy.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-22

IN an interview with a reporter of the
Philadelphia Times at Harrisburg. on
Monday last, Simon Cameron said 81
have no hesitancy in saying that Mr..
Cleveland has made an excellent PIesi-
dent. He has done some things, purely y
matters of administrative detail, about
which few people in his party are dis
posed to gIumble, but if any Republican
thinks that that will be an element Of
weakness in the Democratic party in the
next campaign. he will be most wofully
deceived. You will find that when the
record Of Mr.. Clevelsnd's administration
is made up, it will demonstrate that he
made every effort to stand by the pledges
Of his party platform, and he has kept
the government in good running order.
We must, therefore. have strong can
didate who can rally the whole strength
OF OuI party, if we expect to win" Of
Mr.. Blaine Gen. Cameron said "Mr.
Blaine is very bright, but he Is apt to
OveTdo the business. A conservative
man makes the best politician" Gen.
CameIOn's reference to Blaine as being
''very bright is not nearly so forcible
as the remark of an old Connecticut Re
publican who met a dyed-in-the-wool
fellow Republican on che public highway
just prior to the meeting of the Republi-
can National Convention at Chicago in
1884. Having shaken hands and asked
about each Ofhar's health one of Them
asked the other ''WhO is your candi-
date :or Prssieent?'' 81 hardly know"
was the answer. Wouldn't Blaine be
a strong candidate?" was the next ques-
tion, to which the reply was made: HE
might be and then agin he mightn't." ."
"Isn't he smart?' asked the other
"Yes, - promptly come the answer, land
the only thing wrong about him is that
he's too id smart. -