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The examiner., 1886-08-14
Gov HILL rs YET SILENT

No reply has been received in an
swer to the petition of the Thesis
boycotters, for pardon from Gov. Hill,
and they begin to despair Of his ex-
ercislng his authority in their behalf
One of them, Hans Haldorf, was SEN
fenced to four years imprisonment
a year and eight months of which
was added to his sentence by Judge
Barrett for refusing to plead guilty.
Haldorf is an educated man, a must
clan, and withal moral hero, ready
to suffer, or die if need be for prin-
ciple. He refused to sign the petition
for pardon. Writing to his lawyer he
said, II shall not sign this petition, I
am not penitent and I crave the par
don of nobody. [ assisted in the
defeat of Thesis in fight perfectly
open and above board. 1 received
none of the money paid over by
Thesis, and I am guilty neither of
conspiracy nor blackmail. If can
be released as having done nothing
The examiner., 1886-08-14
INVITING DISASTERS.

Just look at the manner in which the
wage workers are used when on strike, or
demanding increased pay or decreased work.
They are treated like dogs. The corpora
lions and employing classes generally show
them no mercy. They must submit uncon-
ditionally to every tyranny and exaction.
The upper crust are so pulled up with
conceit, and their gains are so enormous
and come so easily that they fancy them
selves possessed of the ''divine rights" of
the old kings and missionaries.
How long will this exist? What idiocy
to suppose that the many will give up all to
the few? What idiocy to be blind to the
glarlng fact that an Industrial Revolution
is upon us, more potent and destructive
OF wrongs than any that have preceded it
While the wage workers use every effort to
conciliate, and even condecend to beg a
small portion of their rights as workers, the
upper class who thrive On the plumber
of labor seem determined to drive labor
into the last ditch and reduce it to
slavery more intolerable than that of the
old southern negro.
What stupendous folly =, What idiocy
The examiner., 1886-08-14

What risks of the universal destruction of
property The rich seem under spell,
and can neither hear nor see the danger
approaching-a danger which they them
selves are creating and nursing day by day.
All, but have they not the clubs and the
muskets Yes, and revolution after revo-
luton has shown how unreliable they are
in their emergencies.
The present is not a common struggle
like those we have had. 1t is to be a uni
versal movements great industrial, moral
and religious epidemic, Selling alike the
high and the low, and working its way up
wards, perhaps through death and desola-
ton. Was not the French Revolution suffi-
cient to show what populations can accom-
plish when oppressed beyond endurance :?
Let rival classes reason together. 1t is
better than force. j. f. BRAY.
Pontiac, Mich.
The examiner., 1886-08-14
EIGHT MONTHS OF WORTH
LESS "CHZWWLWG."

AT last, the "chin music" at Wash
ington for time has ceased. Uncle
Sam has passed over the stipulated
shekels to the performers;-they have
dispersed and the country breathes
more freely.
But what has this eight months of
"chinning' in Congress accomplished
for the good of the people who pay
the bill? Of over thirteen thousand
measures introduced during this
session only 987 passed into laws,
and not twenty Of these were of real
public utility.
Not a single bill was passed to
limit the power of monopoly The
Interstate Commerce bill, that would
give the Government control of the
railroads; the bill to forbid senators
serving as railroad agents or attor-
neys; the bills for the restoration of
lands forfeited by the most important
railroads all these failed to pass on
account of opposition in that strong
hold of monopoly, the Senate. All
the time and talk on the tariff effected
no Cnange In II. L he resolution to
apply the surplus money in the treas
ury TO the payment of bonds, failed
to receive the Presidents signature.
But it had been so manipulated in the
Senate as to be nearly worthless,
making the power to so supply the
funds optional with the Secretary of
the Treasury.
We know not why the President
withheld his name, unless it was to
show his contempt of Congress, and
to give the banks and bondholders
one more assurance of his entire
subserviency to them. Yet, that was
unnecessary; they knew he was
merely their puppet. They elected
him on that condition; and not
single president since Abraham Lin
coin has been elected on any other.
The examiner., 1886-08-14
THE WAGES OF LABOR.
CONTINUED FROM SECOND PAGE.


and thus ascertain the average daily pro-
duction of each laborer. We will now take
the average life capable of active physical
labor, and the whole average of life, and
starting on the basis that every man is
capable during his active physical life of
producing sufficient to support himself and
his family during the whole average of life,
and you have arrived at basis upon which
you can fix 1eexact value of every hui
man product.
Do make myself understood. Let me
further illustrate. Suppose the average of
human life to be fifty years, that out of
that there are twenty years in which man
is capable of actual physical labor, and that
the average family consists of five persons.
My proposition is that the twenty years of
active labor are sufficient to produce
enough to support the man and his wife
during their liF~g of fifty years and his
children until tvs arrive at the age TO go
to work. Or again more briefly. If the
labor Of one thousand men for one year in
all departments of industry unaided by
only the simplest machinery, is sufficient
to produce all that five thousand can con-
sumo in one year, then the daily wages of
the laborer should be five times the value
of his daily consumption. and I believe
that to be the only just, perfect and exact
ratio upon which the wages of labor can be
fixed. This done and the money of a
countryside medium of exchange, instant
ly has a fixed and Interchangeable value, and
a dollar would buy just SO much wheat and
so much corn and so much of every product
and no more. Speculation would instantly
cease, there could be no further Over-reach-
ing in business, no gigantic individual for
tunes, which are ever a menace to a repub-
lie could be amassed, we would have no
millionaires and no paupers, but all would
have enough. I believe the attainment of
happiness to be the great aim and object of
human life. No man can be happy who
has possible want staring in his face. No
man can be happy who goes to his work
followed by the grim skeleton of starvation.
The examiner., 1886-08-14

The Orangemen and Catholics of
Belfast Ireland, are still breaking
heads for the love of the Lord, and
asSthe Organgemen are in the major
ity and breaking the most heads,
there seems to be disposition on the
part of the Tory Government to let
them fight it out, with little interven-
ton. If it was fight against the
payment of unjust tribute to some
rack-renting landlord, the power of
the Government would not be so dill
atory in conquering a peace. Even
the voice of the religious leaders who
now seem so impotent to check the
whirlwind of intolerance which they
have permitted ignorance and bigotry
to engender, would be heard on the
side of claw and ORDER" though it
flung thousands on the roadside to
perish. Law and religion in these
times do not seem to be serving the
exact purposes for which they were
instituted. And we are sorry to have
it to say.
The examiner., 1886-08-14

IT is always very unsafe to pass
judgment upon anything without a
thorough familiarity with all the cir
cumstances involved in the case. For
this reason we have had very little to
say as to the unfortunate feud now go
ing on between the Knights of Labor
of District 4o Of New York and the
Progressive order of cigarmakers. We
can see the necessity of discipline,
and where it might have been essen
tai to discipline to have the cigar
makers assemblies under the juriscic-
ton of 40 to either avow allegiance to it
alone, or else to the higher board of
its International Union and refu-
sal of this command just basis for
action against them. But we cannot
see why this should go any further,
and involve a necessity for the po-
sition now taken by District 40 in it's
persecution of these men by striving
to starve them into submission. With
the little light we have on the question
this looks like very dark spot on
the escutcheon of District 40. Some
time, perhaps, these leaders of organ
lied Labor will realize that there is
job worthy of their greatest galantry
in opposing a solid front to the com
mon enemy instead of breaking
swo rds over their own heads in these
petty fratricidal conflicts.
The examiner., 1886-08-14
WHY THE MORR/SON BILL
WAS OPPOSED.

ALREADY all of the three per cent.
bonds which are the ones now due,
or payable upon call, are held by the
banks or by foreign capitalists. If
these bonds were called the banks
would have to purchase 4 and I-2
per cent, bonds, which are at pre-
MUM now, to deposit in the Treasury,
hence, their opposition, though not
the whole ground Of it. If bonds
were called in accordance with the
Morrison resolution they would have
to be paid partly in silver, and our
coin is received in forei On countries,
according to the value of the bullion
in it and silver in comparison with
gold has deprecated thirty per cent,
hence, the opposition of foreign BOND
holders, who through their agents in
Wall street have a controlling infu-
ence upon our Government
But if the bonds were paid now,
these creditors would take other COM
modities rather than silver to Europe,
and this giving an outlet to some of
our products, would tend to start up
the wheels of our industries again.
But at the beck of the banks and
the foreign bond holders our people
must continue paying interest on one
hundred millions, while the money
lies idle in the Treasury.
The examiner., 1886-08-14

Politics in many states is growing
more and more uncertain every year.
The Labor and Prohibition questions
are jostling the calculations of the
politicians and driving them to a
sense of utter bewilderment. The
Labor party is the thorn in the side
of the Democratic Office hunter,
while the Republican manipulation
can't sleep O. nights, haunted by the
materialized spirit of Prohibition.
Poor fellows, how we pity them
Sometime we hope their suspense
may be ended by a return to prin'
ciple-a sentiment lost to their par
ties for years.
The examiner., 1886-08-14
DIRECT LOANS TO THE
PEOPLE.

THE loaning of money by Govern
ment direct to the people though de-
nounced by bankers and other money
lenders as absurd and unconstitutional
is by no means unprecedented in
this country. In 1886, the last year
of Jackson's administration the
national treasury was OVERLOOKING; the
debts of the nation having been re-
duced during his two terms of office
from ifty-eight and half millions,
down to less than thirty-eight thou
sand dollars. The general Govern
ment having no use for its surplus
divided % millions among the sew
eral states as loan to be paid in
installments when called for; it was
never demanded of the states, and
after few years the account was can
celIed.
In 1847 the great financial crisis oc-
CURED, producing distress and disas-
ter. Some of the states had applied
this loan to different improvements,
but the State of N. Y. and some
others, appointed Loan Commission
ers in each county to lend this money
to any that could give real estate Sc
curity. 1t was a great relief to the
people, although the legal rate of in
terest was charged for its use.
The assertion that it would be I'm.
constitutional for GovernpaA'a+-+@-4A'a1ii
The examiner., 1886-08-14
TIE D/ETERENCE

BROTHER NORTON of the Chicago
Semitic is down for tie following ex-
PLANTATION of the difference between a
communist and monopolist: ga
communist wants a divide, amonopo-
list wants it ALL"
Bro. Norton does not 60 far
enough in exploitation. He might
have given it thus A communist
wants divide of the products which
The examiner., 1886-08-14

The utter absurdity of the hue and
cry by those trucking servants Of the
banks, Grover Cleveland and his sec
retaries, against the coinage of silver,
and the falsity of their assertion that
it would drive gold out of the country,
are all proven by the fact, that during
the last year, two thirds more silver
than gold was exported, while six
millions more of gold than of silver
was imported. That does not look
like draining the country of gold.
The examiner., 1886-08-14
SATURDAY, AUGUST IA, 1886.

THERE are many people who de-
precate the agitation of the Labor
question; but the great statesman
Edmund Burke said, Il love clamor
when there is an abuse. The alarm
bell disturbs the inhabitants but saves
them from being burnt in their beds"
The examiner., 1886-08-14

WHEN a slave repudiates freedom
slavery has done it's perfect work, has
completed the degradation of its vic
tim, soul and body. Much of this is
illustrated in the apathy and indiffer-
ence displayed by the great mass of
producers to all efforts made for their
disenthralment from the bonds of
capitalistic spoliation.
The examiner., 1886-08-14

IN Boston, according to Hon. VIM.
I. Bowditch, there are twenty thou
sand young women working ten hours
a day for an average Of less than four
dollars per week. The efforts of tie
Central Labor Union to effect a
change of action for the better, among
these employees, is very common
dahle
The examiner., 1886-08-14

Of his trouble ; and that even were
his rate of wages increased, there is
nothing now to prevent the manufac-
turer from raising the price of his
goods, nor the politician from raising
the salaries, and taxes in consequence,
all of which leaves him no better off
at the end of his struggle than at its
commencement; and that nothing
short of Governmental cooperation
could secure to him anything approx
mating an equitable share of the re-
suits of labor belonging to him. To
this the boycotter replies, ooh hang
your Governmental cooperation, that's
politics, and we are not allowed to
discuss politics in our unions. Be-
sides [ can't afford to wait for the
time when your new tangled ideas
will perhaps be tried. want some
thing n0ze, something direct and tan
gible; and don't believe politics
has anything to do with it anyway"
He continues to boycott, until finally
Judge Barrett takes him in, charges
him with Conspiracy" or "blackmail,"
l1dS It'll lIduSlCIISu 10 OuIdnCG vie
after extracting the few dollars he
may have saved up for the rainy day,
by way of extra punishment.
1t is now the poor striker and boy
cotter realizes the force of the
position taken by his ignored coun-
sellor. It is now he realizes that if
even his own way is short cut to
better conditions, Gould and Barrett
will not permit him to take it; and
that the only course left open is that
pointed out by the reformer. So he
makes a virtue of necessity and falls
in with the adage that "the longest
way round is the nearest way home"
after all.
Thus it is that our Jay Goulds and
Judge Barretts are the largest factors
in the work of industrial emancipa-
ton; and extremes meet in the enmity
of the place hunting politician and the
purest motives of the Industrial re-
former.
The examiner., 1886-08-14

THE Kansas Democrats have again
met and made platform. 1t endor-
ses the present Administration, Pan
Electric and all; and among other
things declares that the military pow
er of the whole nation should be used
if necessary, to protect the humblest
citizen in all rights guaranteed by the
rights is the right to hunger and die,
if some monopolist wills it. These
"glittering generalities" are played
out. Sensible men are now after a
"bill of particulars" They have
starved on moonshipe long enough.
The examiner., 1886-08-14

he helped to create; a monopolist
wants all of what he had no hand in
creating.
The examiner., 1886-08-14

A patent medicine advertisement saws.
''The human body is much l;lxe eas -
clock. This sounds reasonable. A COOL
many men spend a large Part OF their Fin 3
in striking. 49,
sAii the teachings under heaven that does
not include political action in the enact
ment of right laws, is waste of time. He
who holds political idea and wants = law
enacting it, is knave or fool,zwh votes d, :
Tor party that ignores or denies the idea
Jesse Harper. .sie aussa.
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EXTREMES THAT MEET

IT is impossible to Judge of the
feelings of an individual in any act
where his motives are unknown.
Sometimes opposites pray for the
same results where opposing forces
contend. The old place-huntlng
politician who despises everything
relating to Labor, and the most ear
nest Industrial reformer are some
times secretly chuckling over the
same event. This is illustrated IN
some of the late reverses to Labor, in
the matter of strikes and kindred
measures to redress the wrongs under
which working people have been
groaning for centuries. The poll
tician likes to see Labor fEput down ;"
the refurmer likes to see it ''put down."
also, when it undertakes to push for
ward in a way that will avail to no
permanent advantage.
The Trade unionist looks upon
Jay Gould and Judge Barrett as the
enemies incarnate of workingmen.
The Industrial reformer looks upon
these two men as doing more for the
genuine Labor reform than all the
workingmen's advocates in the coun-
try together, for only for such as
Gould and Barrett no heed would
ever be paid to the preachings and
the teachings of the reformer. The
reformer lays down the dogma to the
wage slave that strikes will never
open the gate to his emancipation
Rut the waco slave DavS no heed calls
the reformer crank, votes for his
old monopolistic boss, and strikes.
Jay Gould steps in with his gang of
armed detectives, and militia, holds
the wage men in subsection till enough
of the army of enforced idlers outside,
made so by the votes of the other
fellows, are sworn in to fill vacancies !;
then the strike is broken, and the
strikers are wanderers, shelterless
and hungry.
The refomer tells the boycotter
JOuLSAOn lURuS1n9IFT u0U1 '0lBU0S nnn0f
The examiner., 1886-08-14


paying the bonds in silver coin would
be reputation.
The examiner., 1886-08-14
POLITICAL PLANNINGS.

A Wisconsin State Labor convention
will be held in Neenah, Sep. 16.
Texas Knights of Labor are taking a live
ly interest in politics, but are mainly look
ing after the legislative positions.
Akron, Ohio, has organized a good solid
Greenbacll Labor club and preparations
have been made for an aggressive cam
paign.
The Essex County Trades Assembly of
decided To antar the
Savannah morning news., 1886-05-22

Per steamship CITY Of Augusta. for New
ork-Mr aud Mrs Aulin and infant, Mas
ter J Aulin, Mira X Drayton. r II Orvis and
brother, Mr. and Mrs Q Parker, Mrs
Chewowith, Mr. and Mrs w Lescher, w b
Geigcr. T. Baker, seahury, Master Roy
Seaburv, Miss Ada West. Miss Annie Harris
Miss Helen Bruce, Mr. Wagner, q w Post, q
Menu. L X DerOe, Mr. and Mrs DAVIS, Miss
Stanley. l. Doomis anl family, Mrs Hoyey,
j Jones, Or Baxter. Mis- Kate DOssly n, Mrs
} V March, Mr aud Mrs J . Matthews and 2
infants, Mr. and Mrs Arculariua, r & Parker.
Il II NicOi. Mrs Hin, Miss A Wallner, Miss
Ettie Lawrence. Mrs A NJ Lane, $ Y Lane, A
NJ Lane, W & Russell, w II Stevens, Mr. aud
Mira E Garter. Master North. Miss Lille Falk,
Miss & Walker, Master Ball. Miss Parsons.
Mics Emma A wilde, Miss Coleman. Miss G
g Rowe, Mr. and Mrs q Rowe. Mrs North Mrs
Powers, A Swart. z Carera, w II Beardman,
Burke. Y u Harrington, } NJ Dlven, MIR
and Mrs h Diven, and 3 steerage.
Per steamship Gate City. for BOston--Niss
Eva Clark, Mrs Eva Clark, T. Johnson, Mrs
T. q Johnson T II Brown, q q Underwood,
Margaret Queaey. Miss WIN y Toly, Mrs Il
Badger, Miss y g Badger. 5 T. Badger. l. M
Pike, Alice Bunt, J J O'Brien. Joseph COe,
a B Maull, NJ Randall, Mrs T Noble, Miss
A Cooke. A T. LUbbert, A Tucker. Il II Nye,
J A Pierce and wife, Mrs ID T. Robinson, Mrs
+ y Richmond, Mrs Abble Caburn. Mrs Chas
A lttehards0n, + Bacon ana wife. Mrs y j
Bailey. Mrs J Bailey. Miss Mary W Dean.
Miss VI Dean. Mis- Mary DOYLE. Miss Mag
gte Doyle. j r Boardman. n Ryder. Nj ~ 4 II
4 bbott, Mrs a Earie, Il r Avery. w A Page,
VI Fletcher. Ella Williams, Nellie Kendall,
Mrs T. NJ Lowell. W a Green. II + Whitcomb.
Chas Garry and wife, W g Wyie. Mrs Alice
e. Pinter, Geo CoisOn - w Emerson, Norman
Wright, A r rrafaut. II { Banks, A 4 Moore,
Miss a y Canbee, + - Pierre, Miss Anna
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+ LaRree, ) W Fletcher, Mrs J w Fletcher,
John Dumphy. Miss A l. Phelan, Mrs Kate
Phelan, and steerage.
Savannah morning news., 1886-05-22
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
FINANCIAL.

LoNDoN, May 2i. noon.-Consols, l0l 13- Is.
NEW YORK, NJ ~ 81. nOon.-StOcks duh aud
he1vy. Money easy AZ 40 y per cent. Ex
change--long, s4 S63s; snort. 81 SsM. State
bonds ueg ected. GovernmentDonds dull and
unchan Eed
SCOOP. m.-Exchange 81 500. Money closed
at Il@l02 per cent. Sub-Treasury balances
Gold, SIPS $1,000: currency. Si3.5lS,0e0. Gov
ernment bonds dun; four per cents 1874;
three per cents. l013s. State bonds ueElee cd.
To-day was another day uf encouragement
for the advocates OF higher prices. Every
thing night SHOWS b~tantial gains over
lat nights closing, At the same time St.
Paul WIS undoubtedly the lever by which
m st or the market was moved. BuYl"g OF
st. Paul seems to be almost entirely for West
ern account. The market opened firm,
although Van erbilts were down sS per cent.
and Pacific Mail e. There was active trad
ing in the first half hour at slight advances.
The market later, however, became dull and
steady, remaining 20 until well into the after
noon, when movement was started in Lake
Shore, followed quieklv by ST Paul, which
con tlnued unu the close. Although the
whole active list is higher tonight, ST. Paul
is the only stock on the usually active list
showing an advance OF more than per cent.
Sales $4,000 shares, the market closing at the
p M -
Savannah morning news., 1886-05-22

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NJ Henderson. NJ Ferst a 90. J Williams,
Epstein II w. $ stern. NJ Hun. B Cassels
J X Clarke n Go, Paul Decker, Dale, - n co,
u d Cobb. McDonOugh h Go. Lippman Bros,
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a McAlister. y w Fleming q 60. T. Jones.
5 Guckeuhetmer X son, Ellis " A Go. EFT
Hlnsou n Co. smith Bros 4 Co, w q Jackson.
PeacOcW. IL n 90.
Por Central Reliroad. NAV 2l-FordR Agt
Jno FihnnerY 4 C0. Baldwin n Co. q Never,
a Minis & Sons, Lippman Bros. g II Carson.
McDonOugh n B. 4 lcnder-nn. W y Dixon,
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mann, T. l.0Yell son, Weed q g. 4 l. Bond,
Peacock. II \ 20. N Barr. Arkwright Cotton
Mllls, u Myers g. Bros. Mohr BrOs. A u Hull,
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