The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-07-31
BrOadbTim'S New York Letter
Special to the CARTON ADVOCATE.

since the conviction and punishment of
the boycottsrs, meetings have taken
place among the anarchial and revolu-
tionary elements of labor, which give a
threatening aspect TO the future. Not
that the final result is at all doubtful in
New York; for you may rest assured
that no such scenes will be enacted here
as have been enacted in Chicago. If
any such things as they threaten should
be attempted here, Anarchy would be
taught a lesson that would serve the
world for hundred years to come.
They now seek to strike down the
poor mans safeguard and shield-trial
by jury of his peers; they seek to intim-
idate the witness at the bar of justice, to
violate the sanctity of his oath; they try
to throw odium on the fearless judge
who held the scales of justice with even
and impartial hand; and they endeavor
to disgrace the representative of the
people when in the sworn performance
of his duty he defended helpless wild
ow against the assaults of band of
mercenary and cowardly ruffians, who
were an outrage on our citizenship, and
disgrace to our American manhood.
George Ehret the brewer, is boycotted,
for whatp because, under oath he told
the truth; he told no more than one of
tbn ,,,,ieODare would I,avo tol5 if bo bad
been put upon the stand. No one pre-
tends that he told more or less than the
truth, and for this they seek to ruin
him. Notice is thus served on every
citizen of the United States that for
eign anarchist may commit any crime
without the fear of punishment, for the
witness dare not testify, the jury must
not convict, and the judge dare not pro-
nounce the sentence.
Do these men forget that two decades
have scarcely passed since we paid five
thousand millions of dollars, and gave a
million of lives of the youngest, the
bravest and the best in our land, to de-
fend the principle which they now seek
to destroy-the rights of the poor man.
A meeting was held here last week
where the judge, the jury, and the pros
ecuting attorney who assisted in the
punishment of the boycotters, were
most bitterly denounced, and every one
of them blacklisted. One of the speak
ers advised his hearers to buy guns and
cannon, and to drill so as to meet force
with force, and further he wanted them
to combine at the polls, so that men
would be elected who would repeal the
laws which would imprison a man fol
boycotting-that is to say, that any or
ganized pack of rascals shall be allowed
to ruin any person who will not submit
to their blackmail. If the day shal
ever arrive when this government shal
become so weak and so corrupt that il
can no longer defend the rights of its
citizens, | hope that it may be destroyed
and the government of King or Czal
substituted for it for no slavery coulC
equal the degradation Of government
of boycotters.
Suicide has become a mania; it seems
to be confined to no condition or degree
The number of suicides Is greater nov
than at any period within my memory
1t is only a week ago since father, vel
| in, 1,,e I'LL
his young son aged fourteen, and ther
shot himself. Then a husband anC
wife died together, and later brother
and sister, in comfortable circumstances
sit deliberately down and settle all the
details of their death as calmly as if they
were going to a wedding. The woman
was of strong religious nature, and {
devout member of Catholic church
/. which pronounces the Anathama Mar
anetha on the suicide. Yet she neve
appears to have faltered from the mo
ment that she made up her mind-not
withstanding the appalling and terrible
consequences. 1t is no use to attemp
to reason on suicide like this. TIL,
f Jury gave the merciful verdict of "Men
tai alteration" Yet, if ever man O
woman deliberately stepped into tn,
, shadow of the dark valley, clothed il
their right mind, it was the brother ant
, sister who took their lives last week
The single eases of suicide have beel
, unequalled in the city's history, AM
some means must be found to stop it.
The strikes have caused great dea
of suffering, and many are made desper
ate by their misfortunes; and while fiv
thousand cigar makers are on strike
and it is safe to say that they suppor
10000 people. Saturday comes on, AM
there is no wages nothing for the butch
er, nothing for the baker, nothing fo
the landlord. Outside unions canno
, and will not support them long; it would
take $20,000a week to give them eacl
four dollars, and that, even, if regularl,
paid, is miserable support for family
1t is a gloomy outlook for the winter
and if these strikes continue, it will b,
a winter of suffering unparalleled in on
history.
But every cloud has a silver lining
and ours are the excursions that ar
taking place every day for the benefi
of the poor. Pulitzer of the World is
public benefactor in this respect, Las
= year he gotup baseball ground for ou
| boys, where they could play baseball OIL
q a Sunday, but Jersey law went for hin
/ and his proteges, and the owners of tn
\ ground barely got off with heavy fine
J.. This year he is giving excursions to poo
I girls.
i Speaking of the World there is live
ly duel going on between the Wort
and the Star, which is more amusm
! than aIifVin,r ~ nntpi,larg FIln CF,