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The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28
TRAIN THE HEAD.

IT is going the rounds that opera
tives in the wholesale clothing manu-
featuring houses of Boston are pre-
pairing to make fight against the
introduction of new basting machine
now in an experimental stage, and of
which its said that each. machine will
serve to displace fifteen girls. This
would be no strange news but at
tached to it is the intelligence that
the matter is in the hands OF the dis
trict Executive Board of the Knights
Of Labor.
We would infer from this that this
Executive Board was contemplating
taking a hand in the proposed fight
on behalf of these operatives. But
we can give credence to no such silly
story; at least not till we have been
convinced that said Board doesn't
understand its function or the princi-
Piles of the order. AS we'll might a
crusade be instituted against the
machinery already in existence. And
there would be if there was anything
of the quality of originality in the
average Operative - but his ambition
leads to the procurement of plenty of
zoork, whereas the intelligent work.
man desires the greatest return posi-
BILE from the least amount of
work necessary.
We can understand why this is so
with the masses of the people. They
have no knowledge of the principles
of government, and consequently
know nothing of the law Of wages, or
of the many things in society which
tend TO affect that law. They realize
that if there is not work enough there
will not be wages paid for it, and
some must get out and starve. So
they very naturally feel strong aver
sion to the introduction of anything
that will only serve to take bread out
of the mouths of the needy, while adj
ding TO the wealth of those having al
ready more than their share.
This is the result under present
conditions. But it is folly to continue
these conditions for the purpose of
having more work to perform, when
the true policy is to change conditions
SO that less work and better reward
shall be the consequence. This is
the object Of the K. of L., and to this
end should the Executive Board re-
ferred to strive to educate those COM
mitted to its charge, instead of indul-
glng them in any ignorant, bull-head-
ed CRUSADE against the inevitable.
The point is to take advantage of the
benefits conferred by the genius of in
vention, rather than permit it TO add
to the weight of the lever of Cypress
ion in the hands Of monopoly. This
is where the K. of l.. is ahead of the
Trade Union. The latter tries to
make the best of existing bad con-
ditions without striving to change
them. This is why its members are
ever having bad conditions to fight
against, and sacrifices to make to up
hold their present standing. They
continually cry out against "rats' and
''scabs', in order to have them to
fight; and are then so unmindful of
the instincts of human nature as to
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28
THE ARMY OF THE DISC on
TENTED.

"THE army of the disconnected" is
on the increase, and it must SO con-
tinue till the conditions which Gre
ated it are changed for though la
Dor aided by machinery produces a
hundred fold more wealth thln it did
three centuries ago, still the laborer
is in more abject poverty that at that
time. Yet, with the diminishing
means of supplying his wants, those
wants have been largely increased by
all the appliances of civilization, and
his capacities for enjoyment have also
been enlarged by the same. He is
more or less educated, and hunger
for knowledge is stimulated by what it
feeds upon. He sees all the refine
ments of taste, and art, and elegance
around him, and higher aspiration
than the mere qualification of his
physical nature is awakened within
him. Yet all his nobler faculties are
cramped down to the one task of OBJ
tanning his daily bread and worse
yet, with all his efforts he does not
always succeed in even that. The
hundreds Of thousands of poor women
either sweltering or shivering in mis-
cradle attics, for 16 or II hours each
day, with the point of the needle
holding dishonor or starvation at bay,
while the daughters of wealth, no bet
ter nor more deserving, haunt by in
gorgeous silks, or roll along in glist-
ening carriages; and seeing these, 1t IS
not strange that the poor women be-
long to "the army of the discomfort
ed"
While machinery is doing the work
of millions of men and women, and
filling the land with every commodity
enough for all in lavish abundance, it
is monopolized by the few, while those
millions of willing workers beg in vain
for work, manhood and self-respect
crushed out of them. They see that
something is radically wrong and inc
vitality they belong to the army of the
discontinued.
Since invention and machinery are
the cause of so much want and woe
and misery,shall we Danish them? BY
no means, for they are agencies which
can, and should be productive off, uni
versal good, banishing want and
poverty from the land. Let the in
ventor be literally rewarded by the
Government according to the value of
his brain work, and then make it free
to all who can use it; instead of be-
ing monopolized as now by few
capitalists. Then by cooperation in
the use of machinery, unnumbered
blessings will flow from it to all the
children of toll
But this blessed condition can
never be ushered IN by the children of
toll toiling on in the stupid ruts of the
past, voting for men who believe in
perpetuating conditions of the present.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

ALL the papers are making great
ado over the tremendous feat of Mrs.
Cleveland pressing the electric button
at her retreat in the Adirondack noun
tains, that set in motion the machin
cry of the Minneapolis Industrial Ex-
position, some hundreds ofmiles away.
1t would be much grander feat if
she could only press the electric but
ton that would set the Industrial
machinery of the whole United States
in motion, and call in the tramps, and
stop the suicides now multiplying on
account of its inactivity. This is
what her husband was elected to do,
but unfortunately by those who
didn't know him.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28
THE EXAMINER, SATURDAY, AUGUST %, 1856.

imagine that hungry man will stand
on the ceremony of a sentiment when
his stomach is craving for food.
Evidently the matter of the first i'm
portance in this Labor movement is
the education of the workersssup to a
standard of calm, cool, rational think
ing on all these questions that affect
their material welfare. With the head
properly trained the heart is sure to
90 right. This was clearly seen by
the founders of the order, when pro-
claiming the watchwords of Organize
Aoitate Educate!
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

IT is said that the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers do not fecog-
nize the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen. Still, the members of the
former craft feel very much hurt when
ever they are not recognized by the
Brotherhood of Railroad Bosses; and
no doubt could be led to speak dis
respectfully of British aristocracy,
which grades itself into classes accor-
ding to rank. Sometime the crisis
will come when this aristocratic
brotherhood may have the opportun-
ity of stepping down and out, and
when the craft they disdain to recog-
nize as equals unrecognizing them,
will step in and up to take their
places. And it would be just the
kind OF medicine to administer for
the cure of such snobishness.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

AN exchange tells us that Lloyd
Jones, the English Labor reformer,
died recently. This brave man agi-
tated for the rights of English Labor
for more than fifty years, and though
offered many situations which would
have yielded wealth and comfort
during his eventful life, he remained
in the field of Labor Reform, and
served his fellow-men faithfully until
death. Yet if Lloyd Jones had lived
and toiled in such State as Connec-
ticut, many of the "fellow-men" for
whom all this sacrifice would have
been made, would rise up and de-
nounce him as fraud, bought by
Republican money to break up the
Democratic party" Of course this
accusation would not be original with
the accusers-we charge them with no
such malignant inventive genius as
that but they would most Justify
shout in mulish chorus whatever
sentiment the satanic press might
coniure to prejudice the slave against
his liberator.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28
GETTING THE DROP ON HIM

Getting the drop on him. is phrase
which, among the lawless pioneer miners,
and among the lawless generally, means
that the one party has the gun cooked,
aimed, and ready to fire before the other
has time to draw his weapon. The man
who has the drop against him has a sudden
choice to surrender and be disarmed, or
die. He is at the mercy of his enemy. 1t
appears that the following conversation,
reported to us by a friend, as occurring
between two Chicago Irishmen, that there
is more than one way of getting the drop
on a man:
''Come in, Patrick, and take drop of
something
mo, Mike; am afraid of drops ever
since Tim Flaherty died.
''Well, what about Tim ?''
''He was one of the likeliest fellows in
these parts. But he began the drop bust
ness in Barney Shannon's saloon. 1t was
just drop of something out of bottle at
first. But in a little while Tim took few
drops too much, and then he dropped into
the gutter. He lost his place, he lost his
money, he lost his hat and coat; he lost
everything but his thirst for strong drink
Poor Tim But the worst is yet to come.
He got crazy with drink one day and killed
man. And the last time l saw him he
was just taking his last drop, with a slip
ping-noose around his neck. l have quit
This dropping business, Mike. have seen
too many good fellows when whiskey had
the drop on them. They took just drop
from the bottle, then they dropped into
the gutter, and they dropped into the
grave. No rum-seller can get the drop on
me any more; and if you don't drop him,
Mike, he will drop you
The whiskey business is a lawless des-
perado. 1t tries to get the drop on boys
and girls, on men and women, on politics,
politicians and officers, on the Government
and on the country. The n.robber pre-
sents his pistol with the demand, ''Your
money or your life.' Rum gives no such
Its demand is, "Your money
and your life Interior.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

'While the majority of women can in
stantly detect imitation from real lace, and
can understand the intricacies of COM
plicated piece of crochet-wo-k, yet, not
one in hundred knows the correct word
ing, or even the appearance of a promissory
note, mortgage, deed, certificate of
stock, bill of lading, an account current,
or any other business document" This
ignorance makes them helpless, and Deepen
dent, and financially an easy prey to swind-
lers. 1t is not the fault of the girls or
women, for they have never been taught
these things, or the necessity of learning
them; have not been taught them because
of the influence of The old barbarian idea,
so pregnant of evil, that the proper con-
dition of women should be that of depen-
dence; and Mrs. Grundy is responsible for
its continuance. When women and men,
also, emancipate themselves from the des-
potism of that most implacable tyrant and
do what is best and right without her fear
or favor, brighter era will dawn upon the
world.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

THERE seems to have been a re-
markable similarity in the aspirations
of the great singer. N;llson and Miss
Frances Folsom for it is said that
the willingness of Madame Nillson to
marry the Count de Casa Miranda
sprung from a wish to become step
mother. And no doubt the aspira-
tions of the Count must have been
similar to those of Grover,-he wan
ted change"
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28
A FEW BRUTAL ILLUSTRATIONS.

All the readers of the THE EXAMINER or
of any other anti-monopoly journal know
that many of our laws have been framed to
enable men to live by legal robbery;-they
know how it is done by extortionate rail-
road and telegraph exactions, by watering
stocks, making corners in the necessaries
of life, by usurious interest, and the grant
ing of monopolies, but there is another way
provided by our law makers, of which men
have seldom availed themselves. In all
the States but three, the husband has the
sole legal right to his children. A few
years ago husband purloined, (if we can
apply that term to the taking of what the
law gave him) an infant from his wife and
sent it to parts unknown. He compelled
the relatives of his half distracted partner
to pay him seven hundred dollars TO restore
the baby to its mother.
A short time since this mans brother
married, and remembering the scheme by
which his brother had obtained money,
conclude&Eo take the same means and
abduct their seven months old baby. APP
parently the pair were peaceable and pros
porous. They lived not far from Boston.
One day he told her certain neighbor had
sent an invitation to her to spend the af-
ternoon. The wife hesitated but he urged
her to go, and said he would stay at home
and take care of the baby. When she re-
turned at six o'clock the house was desert
ed. The neighbors could tell her nothing
of her husband, or her nursing child,
though they deeply sympathised with her,
aud execution was loud and deep against
the heartless wretch who could torture the
mother of his child that way. The neigh
bors could not be made to believe that this
man had done only what the law allowed
him to do, until the statutes were read to
them. The wife surmised that he had
taken the infant to his parents in Canada,
and thither she starred. The husband re-
turned and not finding his wife at home.
and suspecting where she had gone To lock
for her baby, telegrapaed his friends 10
conceal it; So before she arrived, it hal
been spirited away, for it seems his friends
were in the pot. But, someone plying
the distress of the mother gave her clue
10 its conccalment where she found it in
very neglected condition; and is tow with
her child at her own faiheI's house, but
living in dread and apprehension of again
being deprived of it. Had The
mother taken The child away from the
fathers custody in The same manner, the
law, if enfo. ctd, would have found her
guilty of kidnapping, the penalty for which
is States prison.
Men ale seldom as bad as the law, but
we have known a mother indicted for
taking possession of her own child, and,
that too, when there had been no legal
contest for its custody. If women had the
ballot, such abominable laws would soon be
swept from the statute books.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

The ballot crowns the citizen as a sover-
eigu. Disfranchisrd he is discrowned.
The keenest punishment this country could
give to jefferson Davis the traitor was to
deprive him of his birthright-the ballot.
He who made war upon our country's flag,
shot down our bravest and best; or put
them in horrible prison pens to starve and
die, and all to uphold a rebellion whose
corner stone was human slavery,-that
man was punished, not by Imprisonment,
nor Punishment, nor death, he was simply
deprived of his citizenship. He was cap
tured as woman and treated as woman.
He was reduced to the civil status of
woman. We women, who gave our loved
ones to be torn by murderous shot and
shell, or, worse, to suffer in Libby and An
jacksonville, bitterly felt the degradation, of
being rated as to our civil rights with the
arbitrator of our country. The worst
punishment it melted out to him, it inflicts
upon every loyal woman merely for the
crime of being a woman.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

We never could understand why women
have costly laces on their night gowns.
Who sees or appreciates them? AS well
might women go to bed with their dia-
monds. 1t is all mystery to us. We
certainly would not have night-shirt
costing more than five dollars if We were
worth millions; but, then, the ways of
women are past finding out.-Sarn Fran cisco
Public Opinion.
In this age of pullbacks, false hair,
bangs, false teeth, glass eyes, palpi-
tators, false calves, etc, art must re-
lieve nature when one gets down to
naked truth.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS says,
''Public corruption is the foundation
on which corporations depend for
political power and he might have
added that corporations are the most
successful instruments in producing
corruption. They 60 into political
primaries, into the conventions of
both parties, into the lcbbles of legis-
latures and Congress, and honor and
integrity wilt with dry rot at their
loathsome touch.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

The wife, who lies in bed because tshe
does not feel like getting up" and lets her
husband go off to his ten or teelve hours
days work, with only dish of bread and
milk for his breakfast, instead of prepar-
ing a warm meal for him. is not an Equal
Rights woman; and we bet our last sum-
mer's bonnet,-the only one We bave-that
she doesn't want to vote.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28
STATE POLITICS.
CONNECTICUT LABOR CONVENTION.
A call to the Labor Organizations of the

The time has arrived when it must be APP
parent to every laboring and business man
in the state of Connecticut that the cause
of industrial reform can only be advanced
through united political action.
The efforts of the labor organizations to
obtain legislation in the interest of the
working people in the last legislature hav-
ing failed proves that they can expect moth
ing from either of the dominant parties of
the state.
With this in view and by the urgent re-
quest of many labor organizations of the
state, a conference, with full power to re-
solve itself into nominating convention,
is called to meet at Knights of Labor hall
corner Pratt and Main streets, Hartford,
September 6, 1886, at 1 a. IN.
The basis of representation shall be as
follows: All labor organizations in the state
of Connecticut are requested to send two
delegates for the first 200 or less and one
additional delegate for every additional
hundred or majority fraction thereof.
Por order Committee Labor League.
r. PYNE, President.
JOHN II. RAMBIE, Secretary.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

They must turn over an entirely new
leaf, and place those in power to
change the laws who believe in
changing them. The turning of one
set of fossils out for an opportunity
of turning another set of fossils in,
will never accomplish the desired re-
suit, if the turning process goes on
for a million years.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

If exact justice prevailed, Charity
might 60 a fishing, for she would
have no more to do than now has
President Cleveland, yet drawing his
proportion of $4,000 for doing it.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28
Says Joe to Sam in fierce debate
IInnn tho urnnnan n11asfin1a.

Says Joe to Sam in fierce debate
Upon the woman question;
You've answered well all other points,
Now here's my last suggestion;
When woman goes to cast her vote
Some miles away, it may be-
Who then, ask, will stay at home
TO rock and tend the baby ?"
Quoth Sam: s'I own you've made my case
Appear a little breezy;
/ hoped you'd PASS that question by,
And give me something easy,
But as the matter seems to turn
On this one as its axis,
Just get the one who rocked it when
She went to pay the taxes"
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

The man who by robbing the poor
has become millionaire, is then la
belled a saint of charity, when he sets
up a soup house where his victim can
procure four cents worth of soup for a
nickel.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

A MODERN proverb, and one that is
no less true because it is modern, is
this, 1t is easier for rich man to pass
through the eye of cambria needle,
than for poor man to become a
United States senator.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

THE creditor class, which controls
this Government of ours has invented
and practiced methods by which in
dustry is despoiled by an unseen
hand. Good and bad times are not
the result of natural law but of I'M
natural design.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

If man should ask me, why / want the
ballot, L would tell him that l want it for
the same reason that he does;-but, upon
the second thought, possibly do not want
it for the same reason that he does, GER
tainly not, if he wants it to exchange for a
drink of whiskey.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

THE EXAMINER can be found for sale at the
Newsdealers.
II the paper fails to reach you regularly, drop u
postal card Immediately.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28
WOMAN'S COLUMN.
EDITED BY JUSTlTlA.

This column is not devoted to women S
rights, or mems rights, as either men or
women, but human rights, first last, and
all the time.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

The ''woman question is settled in the
republic Of letters, if in no other republic.
The press is the peoples university, and is
to be largely the pulpit and the forum of
the future. Here woman has a place to
stand, from which no ecclesiastic edict or
legislative enactment can exclude her.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

Mr.. STURGEON the great English
preacher, being asked lately If he
thought the world had grown better
or worse since he came into it fifty
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

p The exercise of the brain is as conducive
10 health as the exercise of the muscles is,
and if for one sex, it is difficult to see why
it is not for the other.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

That the female of the genus man, was
created merely as an appendage to the male
of the same species, is the last and most
absurd relic of barbarism.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

HISTORY is little less than a record
of royal crimes, and political perhIy
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

DISSENT from popular opinion has
always been accompanied by some
sort or martyrdom.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

Now is the TIME that the stupid party
ass who calls himself K. of L., is getting
lots of free drinks for seeing to it that his
assembly takes no political action. The
monopolists have no use for knights who
work at the ballot box.-Toledo News.
The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28

SATURDAY, AUGUST %, 1886.