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The examiner., 1886-08-21
AN ACT TO LEGALIZE THE INCORPOR-
ALTON OF NATIONAL TRADES UNIONS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States OF
america in Congress assembled, That the
term National Trade Union," in the
meaning of this act, shall signify any asso-
citation of working people having two or
more branches in the States or Territories
of the United States for the purpose of
aiding it's members to become more skillful
and efficient workers, the promotion of
their general intelligence, the elevation
of their character, the regulation of their
wages and their hours and conditions of
labor, the protection of their individual
rights in the prosecution of their trade or
trades, the raising of funds for the benefit
of sick, disabled, or unemployed members,
or the families of deceased members, or for
such other object or objects for which
working people may lawfully combine,
having in view their mutual protection or
benefit.
SEC. g. That National Trade Unions
shall, upon filing their articles of incorpor-
alton in the office of the recorder of the
District of Columbia, become corporation
under the technical name by which said
National Trade Union desires to be known
to the trade; and shall have the right to
sue and be sued, to implead and be i'm
pleaded, to grant and receive, in its corpor-
porate or technical name, property, real,
personal and mixed, and to use said prop
for the objects of said corporation as in its
charter defined: Provided, That each union
may hold only so much real estate as may
be required for the immediate purposes of
it's incorporation.
SEC. 8. That an incorporated National
Trade Union shall have power to make and
establish such constitution, lules, and by
laws as it may deem proper to carry out its
lawful objects, and the same to alter,
amend, add to, or repeal at pleasure.
SEC. 4. That an incorporated National
Trade Union shall have power to define the
duties and powers of all its officers, and
prescribe their mode of election and term
of office, to establish branches and sub
unions in any Territory of the United
States.
SEC. 5. That the headquarters of an in
corporated National Trade Union shall be
located in the District of Columbia.
Approved June 20, 1886.
The examiner., 1886-08-21

that this fellow has great many COM
panions in ignorance among work
ingmen, and this pig-headedness is to
a great extent responsible for the lack
of sympathy that organizations find
in many undertakings that are really
commendable. The people denounce
the use of "plate matter" because
Offices using it do not employ SO many
printers, forgetting the fact that there
are hundreds, and perhaps thousands
of papers running now, and employ
ing printers, that could not run at all
without the "plate' or ready-print
matter. The Labor movement has
always been, and we fear always will
be handicapped by men who have no
adequate conception of its objects,
seeing no further than the end to
which the promptings of their own
selfshness lead them. If Union men
of all kinds would cease striving to
make more work, and vote for the
adoption of system that would in
sure more equitable remuneration for
the work already done, they would
display more evidence of wisdom.
The examiner., 1886-08-21
ONE or THE Nh Us.

EDWARD KELLOGG, a banker OF
New York, and author of GA New
Monetary SYSTEM" says, in his book,
that two and one half per cent of our
population own one half of all the
wealth of this country. Now if two
and a half per cent. of the people
should double their wealth, it would
be all absorbed by them, and the rest
would be paupers.
The question naturally arises, BY
what means did these few obtain
possession of half of the wealth of the
nation? Did they earn it by the
sweat of their own brows and by toll
ing early and late? No, indeed.
Few of them eyer performed days
work of real labor. Did they get it
by right of conquest through battle
and force of arms? No, it was not
the spoils of victory on carnage
covered fields. Then by what necro-
NANCY have these few obtained so
much of the worlds wealth? This
author, Mr.. Kellogg, who wrote before
our civil war, and before monopoly
had made such giant strides, attribu-
ted this inequitable distribution to an
unjust and usurious monetary system;
and clearly demonstrated how its eff
feet is to swallow all the earnings of
toll. Had he lived later he would
have possibly added to this cause, the
monstrous monopolies granted by
the Government. Since he wrote,
wealth has been gathered into the
hands of the few far more rapidly
than ever before; and now that small
fraction of the people, own two thirds
or more of it.
Can any one, who has observed
this manipulation of our Government
by the money power fail to be aston
ished at the blindness and apathy of
the people in submitting to the chains
being so adroitly found around their
necks. First, the money created by
the Government was purposely depre-
ciated till gold dollar could buy al
most three of it then it was con-
verted at par into untaxable bonds,
the interest of which like a blood
sucking leech must interminably de-
plete the pockets of the people. There
was no necessity for these bonds. The
money exchanged for them drew no
interest, and rested upon the credit of
the nation as did the bonds. We had
no more money than was needed;
but is must be diminished to increase
the value of the bonds, and all other
''promises to pay Hereby increasing
all indebtedness three fold. Then
the violation of the contract with the
people when the bonds were issued,
making them payable in coin, and
then forcing their payment in gold by
demonetizing silver all these meas
ures making millionaires and paupers
as they were intended to do. To think
of these things kindles ones indigna-
ton, but not more than to see the
victims of those diabolical measures
go to the polls year after year and
vote for the same men that Inaugural
ted them or now uphold them.
And it is all accomplished under
the blind fatality of sticking to 'par-
ty," instead of voters utilizing their
God-givep powers of reason and dis
elimination that would enable them to
detect the ambushed traps in their
pathway, and shun them.
The examiner., 1886-08-21
Full OFANXIETI 1T PRES
Z MI

THE Prohibitionists on one side
and the Labor Reformers on the
other, are now a source of much anx-
iety to the men who shape the course
of events in the two old parties. We
had one striking illustration of this in
the recent action of some Republican
leaders in Boston who, assembling
under the name of an "anti-saloon
conference" tired hard to show their
Prohibition brethren that there was
no necessity for a third party, that
the grand old Republican party would
do all that was essential to be done in
that line. But it wouldn't do. The
Prohibitionists have been deceived
too often to place any more reliance
in Republican promises. And they
said so, for in few days after when
the Prohibition State committee con-
vened this resolution was given to
the breeze: "That the recent anti
saloon Republican conference in
Boston was movement intended to
mislead the Prohibitionists of the
State, and that the only effect thereof
will be to remind all who are in favor
of extinguishing the saloons that so
important work requires the coop
Grafton of a political party in full
sympathy with the effort"
The Democratic managers are to
resort to the old trick that has served
them so we'll in the past to prevent
disentegration of their organization.
it is merely to instruct their party
journals to charge the leaders of the
Industrial political movement with
being purchased by the Republican
managers to start the same in order
to draw voters from the Democratic
ranks.
How we'll the old trick will work
this time remains to be seem 1t GER
tainly cannot be less effective than
formerly with the unorganized work
ers, and those who never read an in
dependent Labor paper. The Demo
cratic jayhawks of the press can
catch such as these every time. That's
their business always in the political
season. And their hooks are so
adroitly bated that their is little hope
fer the poor gudgeon who may be
lying within sighting distance.
The examiner., 1886-08-21

A LABOR exchange commences a
very energetic article by proclaiming
that ''God never intended that the
honest, intelligent workingmen of
America should be the slaves of any
masters whether corporations or
politicians. 1t was never designed
that they should wear a political
party collar. They are flee, intelli-
gent, thinking men, and should thiak
and act for themselves" We agree
with our contemporary in the first
particular. We know that GOD never
intended the worker should be slave
to the drone, or wear party collar,
but the politician and monopolist in
tended it, and they run this. special
part of the planet. We disagree in
the second and last particular They
are not ''free, intelligent working
men," or their thoughts would not
permit their intelligence to allow
them to suffer in poverty while the
undeserving idlers roll in aff1uence.
The fruit is always the best measure
of the quality of the tree.
The examiner., 1886-08-21

HAZARDS Bank circular of Lon
don, in 1868, speaking of our civil
war said, "Chattel slavery is likely
to be destroyed. This, and my
European friends are in favor of, for
slavery is but the owning of labor,
and carries with it to care for the la
borer; while the European plan, led
by England, is capitals control of
Labor by controlling wages. This
can be done by controlling the mon
ey. 1t will not do to let the green
back circulate as money any great
length of time for we cannot control
that, but we can control the bonds
and through them the bank issues"
And not very long after this, our
Government, in obedience to its
British masters, commenced burning
up the greenbacks and Transforming
their embers into bonds for the shy
locks to control. And few of the
people were able to discern the trick
and estimate the extent of its rascal
ity.
The examiner., 1886-08-21
CARDINAL ZASCHEREAU
-4ND THE K. OIL

THE circular letter of Cardinal
Taschereau, Archbishop of Quebec,
to the bishops under his jurisdiction,
has been the cause of much comment
and uneasiness the past week IN
Catholic and K. of. L.. circles. 1t
has not yet transpired what practical
effort the mandate has had in the
diocese directly concerned, and
Catholics this side of the line are
wondering when the subject will be
taken up for settlement here. AS
TIE Church claims to be One in spirit
and doctrine the WORLD over, it is only
natural to think that this very impor-
tant affair cannot remain long I'M
settled, whatever may be the conse-
quences. The difference i'll the
governments of the two countries
can admit of no plea whereby what is
considered wrong IN one can be iusti-
fable in the other, and certainly the
Platform of Principles of the order
remains the same in both. And
Cardinal Taschereau recognizes this,
for the concluding part of his letter
plainly reads, Il cannot see that there
can any longer be any doubt as to
the rule to be followed by the Catho-
The examiner., 1886-08-21
THE WORKING WORLD.

During July 327 local assemblies of the
Knights of Labor were organized.
The Belgian government has issued a
loan of $780, 900 to provide work for I'M
employed.
A resolution was passed at the late con-
vention of the Carpenters Brotherhood
disappearing of membership with the as
semblies of Carpenters of the K. of L.
A number of girls discharged from a
Boston cigarette factory, presumably for
joining the Knights of Labor, have started
a cooperative factory. They deserve sue
cess.
A strong Assembly of farmers, forty IN
number, was organized at Mink P. O.,
Clackamas county, Or. There are now five
assemblies in Oregon composed entirely of
farmers.
The X. of L. at Troy, n. Y, have re-
Gently purchased the big armory building,
sold by the State at auction, for SIS, 900,
and turned it into an assembly room, with
the headquarters of new paper, the Clar-
ion, located therein.
The examiner., 1886-08-21

ORGANIZED Capital has always die
tated terms to Labor; but when La
Dor organizes and combines to fix its
own wages, no language is stormy
enough to suitably denounce such
high-handed presumption. When
members of coal ring combine to
limit production, enabling them to ex-
tort any price they see fit to demand
from suffering public, there is no
outcry against it; it is merely "a
business arrangement )" but let the
miners unite to stop the production of
coal, in order to raise the price of
their poorly paid labor, and Capital
loudly protests against this invasion
of its rights by such lawless action,
so destructive to business prosperity
and social order.'
The examiner., 1886-08-21

IT is reported that all members of
the Journeymen BARRIERS union of New
York, have been ordered to resign
from the Knights of Labor. If the
BARRIERS came into the order for the
purpose of advancing their business,
and that alone, it is a good thing for
the order that they withdraw. There
is too much of the spirit of narrow
selhshness manifested, we fear, by
too many of the. new recruits of late.
They are attracted and impelled by
the hope of receiving some immediate
and direct assistance, instead of be-
coming members for the purpose of
assisting in carrying out the fundamen-
tai principles of the organization and
awaiting the results. If the leaders of
Labor organizations would display
little more charity in their relations
with one another, and much less be-
ligerency, there would be far more
hopes of their advancement. We
suppose now that the next order we
shall hear will be one from the K. of
L. leaders commanding their men to
resign the practice of calling on these
union BARRIERS. It is method of
diplomacy that betokens barbarism all
through. Yet it is useless to attach
blame anywhere. They are only
carrying cut the spirit of the educa-
ton given them by the politicians all
through their lives shat of acting on
the principle of hate to an opposing
party, rather than from knowledge of
right and justice in their own.
The examiner., 1886-08-21

WHEN a Railroad company asks
for a charter, legislatures grant it on
the ground that the public interest
will be promoted by the building of
the road. The rights of the individ-
ual to his own property is nullifed,-
his dwelling may be torn down to
give the right of way to the road, and
when it is completed, the company
will refuse to leave a car load of coal
or any other commodity In his village,
unless it is paid third more than it
can get by carrying it one hundred
miles further to city. This company
that was to have been the servant of
the people is now it's tyrant. And
there is no remedy short of State or
Governmental control, for then the
incentive to gain and oppression will
be gone.
The examiner., 1886-08-21

The Wisconsin Knights are planning to
put friend of labor in the governor S
chair next fall in place of Governor Rusk,
of call out the militia fame.
In Texas the Changers and Knights of
Labor will hold a joint convention to agree
upon a common platform of principles on
which to unite their forces in the coming
campaign. -...-.=-
We suggest that conference should at
once be held to look the ground over and
take such steps as will guarantee in the
next Congress a man from the Seventh
Massachusetts district who will be found
on the side of the people as against the
Observation-Disclosures.
The examiner., 1886-08-21

OUR President is now recuperating
in the forests of the Adiorondacks,
after the exhaustive labors of vetoing
the pension bills, and letting the
Morrison surplus bill alone. He is
only accompanied by his wife and
mother-in-law,-at least there is not a
word said about the little boy. Yet
we wonder if Grover in his solitude
will once chant the plaintive dity-
ooh where is my boy tonight" Per
haps he might, were he not afraid
some one might overhear him and
reply "He's boycotted."
The examiner., 1886-08-21

So long as the people can be held
in allegiance to either of the two old
parties, both of them the servants of
monopoly, their master is safe, and
he can afford to contribute largely to
keep either in power.
The examiner., 1886-08-21

We reprint this week an article
"About Plate Matter" from one of
our Labor exchanges of Providence,
r. l., in which the ignorance and
short-sightedness of printer who
condemns the use of "plate" is COM
mented upon. We are sorry to say
The examiner., 1886-08-21

ExToRTIoN thrives, abuses con-
t;nue, Capital luxuriates and monop-
oily increases, in the calm hush of
silence. Therefore, workingmen,
producers, as you value your rights,
agitate, agitate.
The examiner., 1886-08-21

ANY system of finance that assists
in placing Labor and industry at the
mercy of Capital, as ours does, should
BIT voted out Of existence by the peo-
pie it subjugates.
The examiner., 1886-08-21

THE EXAMINER be found for sale at the
Newsdealers.
If the paper fails to reach you regularly, drop a
postal card immediately.
The examiner., 1886-08-21
THE DEMON TASK MASTER.
WHY this universal Wailing,

Over all this land prevailing,
This entreaty unavailing? Why this gloom
and dark despair?
See the sun of hope is setting
Man his brother is forgetting,
And a curse is slowly falling
On this land of promise rare;
And the faces are appalling,
That were once so bright and fair
Want and misery everywhere /!
Mark the toiler, sowing, reaping,
And the golden sheaves upheaving,
While hidden monster, sweeping for his
own insatiate NAV,
Gathers fast and faster-faster
Though privations and disaster
Smite the weary, sweating toiler -.-
Till the pangs of hunger gnaw;
Never does the fierce despoiler
His rapacious grasp withdraw;
Greed so cruel knows no law.
Hear the workshops footsteps clatter,
Hear the workmen's footsteps patter;
When they join or quickly scatter, when TO
each a task is shown;
Load of toll and load of trouble;
For an iron master watches
From secret door unknown;
From each mouth he quickly snatches
Every word and meaning tone
He is master here alone.
How the pistons heave and tumble.
How the wheels do drum and rumble
How obedient grumble, when those
brawny arms control;
Strange, that while such puny muscle
Rules so surely all this hustle,
more potent power, uncanny,
Rules still surer brain and soul;
Strange, indeed, the brawny many
Let baleful power control
Wealth of Drawn and brain and soul.
In the gloomy mine descending,
Where the Pickering lights are blend
ing;
Note how close is death impending-foul
his breath upon the air;
Careless is the warning spoken,
Scarce the delivers heed the token.
For moster, darker, grimmer,
And through lamplight's glare and glim-
mer,
Holds them fercely, surely there,
With the bravery of despair.
Go to yonder lonely garnet,
If your heart is strong to bear it,
Mark the half bent shadow where it darks
the black wall scarcely more:
There a famished woman sitting,
Works with patience unremitting-
With her weary, ceaseless stitching,
Keeps the wolf just out the door,
While demon still enriching
Self with stealing from her store,
Robs her pittance lower and lower.
Is this the land where hands of labor
Clasp the hands of toiling neighbor
And the plowshare, not the saber, is the
scepter held supreme
Is it here where honest toilers
Need not fear the strong despoilers,
Since all men are free and equal?
All if things are what they seem,
This is but the bitter sequel,
Waking of a century's dream
A turning back of progress stream.
Shall this demon reign eternal
Der this blessed land fraternal?
Shall enchantment so Internal hold us ever
meath its spell ?
No! BY all the powers of heaven
From this land he shall be driven,
Usury be hurled, unshriven,
To the lowest depths of hell;
Then mighty shout be given
Hear the hosts their voices swell,
sLabor conquers- is well.'
The examiner., 1886-08-21

EVERY vote cast by the laborer or
producer for either of the two old
parties is link in the chain of his
bondage.
The examiner., 1886-08-21
SATURDAY, AUGUST p, 1886.

IT requires more courage to be an
honest, independent voter, than to be
the tool of political knaves.
The examiner., 1886-08-21
WOMAN'S COLUMN.
EDITED BY sJUSTITIA.

Some Connecticut and Massachusetts
journals are berating poor little 'tRhody
for DISTINGUISHING one of her citizens for no
fault, save that of losing some OF his shek-
els, in conjunction with another INSIDE
meanor, that of having been born in an
other country. We think Rhody deserves
a castigation for her injustice. as the man
did not wilfully or Intentionally lose his
money; and quite possibly if his wishes had
been consulted, he would have been born
in this happy land of equal rights. But
Connecticut and Massachusetts had better
stop making up mouths at Rhode Island,
and picking notes out of her eyes, till they
pull some out of their own: for they, too,
disfranchise thousands more than does
Rhode Island, of their citizens for no Of
fence except that of being women, who,
had they only known before they were
born, that women in these states were
ranked with idiots and criminals, every
soul of them would be born of the other
sex,-that is, If their wishes would be re-
spected. .2 -
go, pshawr' Do hear some one say
E'I am tired of this Woman's Column"
Justitia is crank and thinks of nothing
but suffrage, and the ballot.' Well, who
has asked you to read it / haven't, and
you have no right to grumble, for you get
twice the worth of your money in the other
columns of the paper, without this. As to
being a crank, if L am, I'm in mighty good
company. Calico was crank when he
asserted that the earth reYolved, when
even child could see that it stood still.
Columbus was crank to think that he
could get to the East Indies by sailing
westward, and all Europe laughed at him.
Fulton was crank when he tried to run
boats by steam-power. Morse the inventor
of the electric telegraph was crank, and
for five years the wise men of Congress,
ridculed and poked fun at him, while he
was trying in vain to get small appropria-
ton from them, to put up line from
Washington to Baltimore to prove practic-
ally that he could send messages on wire
by electricity. Henry Georges a crank of
the present generation, we shall not live to
see him the philosopher of the next as he
will be. Wendell Phillips, VIM. Lloyd
Garrison, and all the old abolitionists
were cranks, and were stoned and mobbed
by the good, respectable people of that day
of the church, as well as some outside of it.
The signers of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence were considered cranks by the roy
alists and tories, who denounced the prin-
ciple of the right of the people to self
government, just as we are denounced who
would carry that principle into practice.
In fact, since the advent of civilization it
has been cranks that have started the
wheels of progress, both in the moral and
material world.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-14
s'Sile.''

"Why," asked the fat passenger, "does
an engineer always call his engine She"
There was moment of embarrassing
silence, when the man on the wood box
said something about cher headlight"
which was followed by hollow groan all
along the line. Because" ventured the
tall, thin passenger, "lhc more you tlrot'
tie her tho faster she goes" But this
was barred out under the rules. The
man with the sample case suggested {:
Because she runs the mall" but every
body said "ah, there !" so sarcastically
that he apologized. The cross passenger
said: Because thoro was so much hustle
and bang about her," and he vas Gued
cigars for the crowd ou the spot. The
bashful passenger said may he it WAS be-
cause she "pulled the smoker" and he
was hissed off the stage. And longer
had they sung, but the woman who talks
base closed the lodge by croaking: "Be.
cause We couldn't get along without
her"