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cans; these borrowed stop-thief arguments
of the sophistical circumventor and mercen-
airy ward heeler will have no terrors for
the men who for years have forsworn allie
glance to the hosts of Mammon and left
the Democratic and Republican corruption
camps forever.
They will have national ticket in the
field whether others vote it or not, for they
are men who act according to the dictates
of their own conscience, and not according
to the promptings of the blind prejudice or
the conforming consciences of others. This
is as inevitable as that the two factions of
monopoly will have rival candidates in the
field to keep the Supplied people disunited
and the solicitude of Mr.. George and his
friends for the possible meagreness of the
Independent vote and consequent fatal
encouragement, is all in the wrong direc-
ton when portrayed by their own deser-
ton.
But, let them go; who knows that
it is not blessing in disguise. And it will
be if their departure only opens the way to
a unifcation of all the honest forces Of
anti-monopoly who will write their COM
mon desire and aspiration in truly demo
cratic platform, leaving victory to crystal
ize it into whatever form the majority shall
decide, looking for the wisest counse
to prevail.
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BROTHER PENTECOsT ON RICH
MEMS PRAYERS.

THE Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost recently
preached a most rational and common sense
sermon upon prayer, in which he said
those who run their prayers along the line
of natural law, even in spiritual concerns,
will get more of them answered than in any
other way. That he who prays for the
kingdom of God to come on earth as in
Heaven will bring it about best by study
ing the constitution of society in order to
see what conditions stand in the way of 1t,
or tend to make it possible. He spoke of
many men, prominent in church on Sun
day, and equally prominent in s'pools, !"
combines" and ''trusts'' on Monday. On
Sunday they pray ''Thy kingdom Gomez
and on Monday by their doings say, ''Not
if we can help it,
Of course this sermon has brought down
the vengeance of the conservative press,
which accuses him of 'sridiculing prayer"
"despising worship and heaps upon him
the usual denunciation poured upon min
listers who refuse to kneel before the Gold
en- Calf
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He DEMONSTRATES IN VAIN.

IT is reported, and on seeming good foun-
dalton, that the present strike of the engi-
neers and fremen of the C. B. and @. rail-
road was induced Intentionally by the COM
pany itself, in order to furnish pretext
for curtailing the dividends paid to its
stockholders; also to raise its rates on
freight, though it has large surplus, and
has no excuse for cutting down the pay Of
it's employees. It's stock ranges from $40 to
$40 above par, and has been paying s pei
cent. dividends. The company is composed
of Boston capitalists and controls over
1000 miles of railway.
Report has it also that the unsuccessful
striking engineers and firemen of the Read
ing road have been taking the places of the
Brotherhood strikers in the present con-
test. And they do it too in disregard OF
the protest of General Master Workman
Powderly, whose argument is that "two
wrongs do not make right Brother
hood' members having taken the places OF
K. of L. strikers before. Mr.. Powderly
necessity knows no law" and starvation
will not stop when confronted only by SEN
timentality. MIR. Powderly's salary goes
on whether members of his organization
starve or not, and so long as he is passive
endorser of the industrial system at the
bottom of these troubles he must expect no
different results from its operation. Why
is it that the men of one organization are
forced through starvation to take the bread
out of the mouths of those of another orga-
nization? This is the problem that Mr..
Powderly should set himself about to ex-
anime, and finding the cause then advise
the remedy. He surely will find this cause
in the lack of opportunities to employ
themselves. caused in turn by The monopo-
lization of all natural resources to which
they might apply their labor.
He ought to be convinced by this time
that present methods are of no avail-and
that all the wisdom that can attach to anne
lucrative measures is the wisdom of tinker
ing rotted out leaky old kettle until a
new one can be obtained. :.
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There is not pr ofession, there is not trade,
there is scarcely a business to-day, but those
defense We have our trades unions Mechanics
combine everywhere for the purpose of holding
division of the fruits of their labor and capital
of their employers. Railroads combine, all
classes of people combine for the purpose OF
the belong. Farmers have done something in
that direction. and urge upon you to complete
your organization. Make that q matter OF
business lCith you.
THE OFFICE OF POMONA.
The following is from Pomona, y the title
given to what the author, Miss Linda L.
Kimble, Pomona of the state grange, terms
little .sRooslet'' devoted especially to that
branch of agriculture represented by her
Office in the grange.
Among the many goddesses worshipped by the
ancient Romans was Pomona. "A temple was
built in honor of her at Rome, and a priest
tion of fruits. The patrons of husbandry place
woman in the presiding position of Pomona, thus
agricuIture. sP omona's teachings in our order
are founded on faith in God and to faith is added
works. = 1t is an indication of thrift
of the farmer and yiilager gardens and
orchards, in which they have planted ali
kinds of choice fruits. An over abundance
of really fine fruits of any variety need not be
feared. Let the farmer, made wise by thought
and study. upon the subject, graft the trees
used for cider hear the command "cut them
down; why cumber they the ground" en-
phasized by sturdy blows of the ak welded by
strong arms. 1T Is the duty of the farmer to
cultivate the bounties given him by the Great
Provider. The fruits are the only portion of our
food ready for immediate use; a more general
use ought to be made of them and in greater
variety. Indeed they ought to be considered
necessaries instead of luxurieS. Arbor day
teaches us many pleasant lessons. We ought
upon each recurring day plant a tree, shrub,
or vine, even though we cannot enjoy the shade
the fragrance, or the fruit. Seine one else may
enter into our labors and call us blessed, even as
we have entered into the labors of others and
called them blessed. These are some of the
ways Pomona teaches the cultivation and use OF
| fruits to the farmer and his family. She seeks
| the highest good of our order. She does not
teach the juices of fruits should be made inI O
strong drink which will not nourish or sustain
| the human system. NOinoitoo often has she seen
the blighting effects of cider upon the soul and
body of the farmer, his family and his farm
| Truth is mighty and will prevail; the time will
come in which the truth win be told and shall be
believed; the time will come when it win be
odious in the sight of Heaven to convert the
| fruits of the soil into poisonous drink. Hark
hear We not sweet clear voice saying, Success
! in good cause il gained only by perseverance
never be discouraged. All through life hope
and persevere."
This neat little volume handsomely printed
on extra heavy paper and bound with
Pomana's pink is ''affectionately dedicated
''To those holding, having held, or expecting
to hold the Office of Pomona in our oranges.
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PHGBR coUz1Ns.

Major Ceuzins was Marshall of the East
ern District of Missouri, and during his
long illness which terminated fatally, his
daughter, Phoebe, performed ali the duties
of the office After his death, Judge Mil
Ter appointed her to the office, but. after
few months President Cleveland wanted
the Office for one who had a vote, and she
was ousted. She is now candidate for
Governor of the State. The Editor of The
Voice asks her if she is candidate. The
following is part of her letter in reply: As
yet have expressed no opinion of Mr..
Cleveland's policy. When the proper time
comes, expect, however, to critieise hiMd
action, and my words viii have no uneerN
tain sound
did not vacate the Office Of Marshall,
was tossed out neck and heels, in the midst
of court session, from an office which, ac-
was the best managed Marshalfs Office i'm
the whole country. in response TO the whip
lash of Vest. Cockrel q Co., who have
been bounding the President for months
for The patronage of this department, TO
further their own selfish ends. Ny APP
pointment met the universal appropriations
of all parties, and Mr.. Cleveland could have
done nothing to render himself so thor
oughly unpopular here, IS to deprive me,
in the manner he did, and at the time he
did, of that office" Phoebe Is LAWYER.
good looking, tall and slender. with fash.
ing dark eyes, perfect command of lang
uage, and is a great favorite with all classes
in ST. Louis. Should she take the stump
in political campaign, heaven help her
antagonist She would riddle him with
her raillery, and impale him alive with
scorching sarcasm. She is Prohibitionist
and would run only on that ticket.
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A Letter of Thanks from the Mother o
Louis Ling 60 Friends i'm Chicago.

The Women's Aid and Support associa-
ton, Lassalle No. 2, has received the fol-
lowing letter from the mother of Louis
Lingg:
Honored Women: On the 18th inst.
received by mail 1O3 mark 6 pfennig, adj
dressed to me for which return my heart
felt thanks. It gives me great satisfaction
that during his Incarceration my son re-
eeived such helping aid from so many
friends. You may imagine the pain which
the fate of my SON causes me, as he was my
support and pride from early childhood.
and now has fallen, in the flower OF his
youth, victim to his convictions. The
thought that my son is no more almost
breaks my heart. To be able to go to
America, the land of the free, was his main
desire when home. He was allowed to
partake of stfreedom" behind the bars.
However, it is my sole hope and desire that
the aims for the realization of which my
son laid down his life will at last be at
tanned by the oppressed masses, and that
he will not have died in vain. Thanking
you again for the sympathy you have
shown, I remain
HIS DEEPLY MOURNING MOTHER.
Mannheim, Jan. %, 1888.
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A CASE I'm POINT.
Am Ellusfra tion of the Equality of Ihs
Rich and tine Poor Before ahe law.

Am illustration of the Equality of the
Rich and the Poor Before ahe law.
It seems to me that our laws have now
attained such fine degree of elasticity
that they will snap some day in the hands
of their dexterous manipulators, s'honor-
able Judges" etc. Instances in which the
rich offender escapes free and the poor one
is made the butt of iendish revenge are
becoming more numerous and glaring every
day. Let me call attention to q case in
point. which the papers failed to mention.
A young man, by name Reed Hurlbut
(son of Horace A. Hurlbut, ex-receiver of
the Times, became some months ago the
instigator of cold-blooded murder, the
facts of which are briefly as follows: A
few years ago this promising young olive
branch left Chicago-possibly on account
of very unsavory scandal which connected
his name with the ruin of Chicago young
girl-and settled in Des Moines, Iowa, as
manager of a branch house of his fathers
drug establishment. Now, Iowa, as we all
know, is strictly prohibition" and the
authorities, becoming aware that Hurlbut
was receiving liquors in considerable
quantities from the railroad depot, notified
him to cease such unlawful transaction.
HuIlbut thereupon armed his force of
employers and told them to shoot any
officer of the law who dared to interfere
with his liquors. Accordingly when
constable, in the fulflment of his duties,
ente ed to demonstrate with Hurlbut, or to
confiscate or attach the consignment of
liquor, an employee of Hurlbut's shot him
dead. The constable left, as an Iowa paper
stated, widow and nine children. Yet
there were not the crocodile tears shed
over him as in the case of the seven
Chicago police who lost their lives in a
riot of their own inaugurating on Hay
market square. Oh, no; this constable was
murdered by a rich criminal and his
ignorant tool OF course, there was a
show of justice; Hurlbut was put under
$4,000 bonds; the tool under $4,000.
"Jail?" hear you say, and s'trialr' Oh,
mol jails don't suit gentlemen's esthetie
tastes, and as for trial I. have heard of
none so far. How, you ask me, can this
be? Well, in Hurlbut's own words let me
answer. A friend of his met him last
spring and wondering inquired as to the
reason of hissheing at large. "Ohi I'm all
right" said he; 'tall's serene and lovely.
My father-in-iaw is judge up here,
you know
Yet we are asked to venerate. to blindly
bow to such claw" as this! But how
much longer will we do it? How much
longer will such rascally burlesque of
justice and right ego down" with the
people? How much longer will power-up-
held criminals go "scot free? How long?
Nina Van ZandtSpies in Chicago Alarm.
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A remarkable engineering feat has been
successfully accomplished at Gokak India,
where the 750 horsepower of three turbines
is transmitted by rope gearing 739 feet away
the first 800 feet being up the face of a per-
pendicular cliff.
According to the Electrical Review med
icine may be introduced into the human
system by electricity. The electrodes of q
battery are saturated with the medicine and
applied locally to the skin. Experiments
show that there is an actual absorption of
the medicine into the system.
The examiner., 1888-03-03

CHAUNcEY DEPEw, after dinner orator,
prospective candidate for the White House
and president of the NY. Central r. Conn
pany, warmly eulogized the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers when they were tax
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But it is all over now, and Henry George,
with Patrick Ford, is lost, we fear, to the
cause of Labor and of mankind. His fick-
"Reminiscences has dug his political grave,
and in seeking short cut to reach one of
his ideal hobby horses, he stumbles into it.
'Twere better he had followed the proyerb
which admonishes that ''the longest way
round is the nearest way home" A novice
should not undertake to play cards with a
blackleg, neither should Henry George un-
dertake to play at the game of practical
politics" with the wiley professional ma
nipulators of the Democratic party. And
this it seems he has been doing, for has he
not been reasonably satisfied that Mr.. Cleve-
land would not go back on his tariff mess
age;" and oh, shades of departed consis-
tency, that self same tariff too, "as Mr.F Ford
and the Evening Post understand the term, -
and which was once considered by Mr..
George himself as of such s'trivial import
ance.n
Let him now recite if he will, to his
hearts content. the sslesson of the Butler
izing of the Greenback party" and insinu-
ate mercenary alliance with the Republic
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THE st. Louis committee not only beat
the Chicago committee out of the place for
holding the National Democratic conven-
ton, which each went to Washington to
secure. but actually stole Chicago's poetry,
especially built to celebrate the triumphant
return of her committee. Such a larceny
fairly indicates st. Louis to be the proper
place for holding the Democratic rendez-
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Two Kinas Of Murder.

The consequence of our present system or
morals is that society is full of skilled liars
thieves and rnurderers, who lie, steal and
murder without violating the law. A man
can murder his tenants and employees quite
as surly, if more slowly than hired assassin
and for the same object-money. One goes
to the penitentiary, the other frequently to
the very highest offices thai the church or
state have to give'-Hugh. O. Pentecost.
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indicates, is a women, opened the Iowa
legislature recently, with prayer. 1t was
probably the first time a woman ever acted
as chaplain to legislative body. But
almost all of the clerks in that legislature
are women, clerks of the committees; and
the engrossing clerk of each house is a
women, and some of fine pages are young
ladies.
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The Inconsistency Of Henry George and
His Friends.

THE political organization known as the
United Labor party Is not having over fair
sailing at present. The captain seems to
have deserted the ship and to have taken
some of the crew along with him. There
can be no further doubt of Henry Georges
detection; his declarations over his own
signature in his own paper of last week,
sets the question at rest. However, at the
same time, Mr.. George hangs on, or pre-
tends to hang on, to the ragged edge of a
possible contingency that will keep him yet
in line with the party he is now about to
abandon. That is, in the event of President
Cleveland being set aside in the coming
national convention of his party and his
position on the tariff question ignored, Mr..
George would then have third party or
ganized of single-tax men, tariff reformers
and out and out free traders. This is a
very strange combination of elements for
such man to suggest, as we shall have
occasion to see farther on.
The examiner., 1888-03-03

In Indiana man was granted divorce
have granted the wife divorce from her
husband on the same ground If being
addicted to the use of tobacco il good rea-
SON for divorce it should apply to both sex
os allie
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often publicly challenged its opponents to
find two persons in all Wyoming Territory
where it has existed 10 years, who viii as
sert, over their own names and addresses,
that woman suffrage there has had any bad
results. Thus far there has been no re-
sponse
The examiner., 1888-03-03
WoMAN's COLUMN.
EpIIEp az IlIsIlrA.

The opponents of equal political rights
often say that women are too oyerburdened
with cares already,-they have too much
now to do to have political duties added.
Is not that an equally good reason for de-
priving laboring men of the privilege of
voting?
The examiner., 1888-03-03
RADICAL THOUGHTS FROM MRS.
CHANDLER.


Mrs. Lucinda B. Chandler is one of the
strongest women writers in our country.
Articles from her pen are seen In all reform
papers. One of them lately published in a
woman's, Chicago newspaper against
capital punishment is remarkable clear
argument, showing that it is contrary TO
Christianity and morality, that it promotes
rather than abates illegal murder. She
saws. ePoIicemen and Pinkertons shot
down men like dogs in cases of strikes, but
this is killing according 10 law, for they
were engaged in The patriotic duty of pro-
tecting property. Shocking as this is, 1t il
not so demoralizing TO the community as
the judicial process. We have recently
passed through, since May, 1886, drama
containing enough bate, revenge, and
murder of heart, to counteract and nullify all
the preaching of peace and good will that
can be done for centuries. The dailies or
the country East and West We'd with each
other in pouring streams of rancorous hate
and diaboIical falsehoods through the
columns of the press. IF this concentrated
spirit of revenge and murder voiced the
general attitude of the spirit Of the people,
then was there ten thousand times more
murder committed in this land, than there
ever was at the Haymarket Ii this re-
vengeful, truly hellish thought foree did
not express any widely prevailing senii-
ment, moral sensibility was stified and
paralyzed, by being constantly met with
the demoniac spirit against which the
people were poYerless, and had no channel
through which to protest.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox says if she could
vote, she ssshould cast her ballot with her
husband every time.', Voting then
wouldn't produce discord in that family at
least. She says she s'has made more of o.
success as a. woman than she possibly could
as a young man." That is true, for IL she
had been a young man she could not have
married rich manufacturer. Ella had
better stick TO writing verses, for there she
will be more apt to give us truth with poe
try.
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George and his friends for the Democratic
party it is well to enter into an investiga-
ton as to its basis. And let them be
judged by their own confessions. In an
editorial article of Mar. u of last year, this
is fonnd:-
Mayor Harrison of Chicago says that the
nomination of a ticket by the United Labor
party is going to give Chicago to the Re
publicans. What if it does? What prac-
tical difference does it make to working
men whether Democrats or Republicans
hold the offices Nominations by the Labor
party may hurt the Democratic machine
here and the Republican there, but they
will everywhere force the discussion of
vital questions. If the Labor party is to
accomplish anything it must go on its own
way careless Of which political machine is
hurt.
This sounds like the voice of patriotic
common sense, the other like a plea OF
specious dissimulation employed to excuse
an act weak and unworthy in itself.
The examiner., 1888-03-03

a Mrs. Corbin of Chicago has written .
long TRADE against Women Suffrage, she
being of that class who s'have all the
rights they want.'' This article that falsi-
fed all the facts of history, and
was full of Misrepresentation, was
eagerly published by the Chicago
Tribune which refused to publish any of
the numerous and able replies TO it, BY
other women. A journal that Is SO grossly
unfair to any set Of people should be
froWned down. There is hardly one paper,
however vile or contemplate, that does not
in some degree influence public opinion,
and every sincere suffragist should avoid
patronizing papers so opposed to justice
and equity, and hostile to human rights
as to antagonize the equal political
rights of all classes worthy of The franchise.
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adopted at the Syracuse convention ought
to be the most conclusive of all as to what
was there intended. One paragraph will
suffice. Here it Isl
While thus simplifying government by
doing away with the horde of officials re-
quired by the present system of taxation
and with its incentives to fraud and cor
ruption, we would further promote the
common veal and further secure the equal
rights of all, by placing under public con-
| troll such agencies as are in their nature
monopolies We would have our munich
| paIities supply their inhabitants with water,
| light and heat; we would have the general
government issue all money, without the
| Intervention Of banks; we would add a
postal telegraph system and postal savings
banks to the postal service, and would
| assume public control and ownership of
those iron roads which have become the
| highways of modern commerce.
How very strange that Mr.. George and
his able lieutenants can see nothing in this
| but State issues, and it printed in bis paper
every week since the platform was formu-
| lated. The State has nothing to do with
the issuance of money or the establishment
of a postal telegraph or postal savings bank,
nor can it control those 'siron roads" which
are interstate in their nature. Why then, if
the platform was intended to apply to
State functions alone, are these general
governmental functions introduced? There
are also municipal functions embodied.
| What business have they to be found in a
| purely State platform? None surely; and
| the whole instrument bears on its face the
| evidence of being intended for general
guidance in estimating and applying the
fundamental principles of the new party in
its several divisions of municipality, State
| and nation.
The examiner., 1888-03-03
AN ANrI-woMAN's RIGHTS WOMAN.

On bill giving women the right to vote
on liquor license, the Massachusetts Senate
was tie, but it was defeated by President
Boardman casting his vote against it. But
it will be re-considered. Mrs. Kate Can
nett Wells sent letter to every Senator
begging him to vote against the bill, thus
putting herself in hearty alliance with
every drunkard and drunkard maker in
the State. congratulate the moral Edu-
cation society on its choice of such a
woman for its president. She does not be-
lieve in future state of retribution. but if
she had conscience her midnight dreams
in this world would torture her with
shrieks of murdered wives and the means
of hungry, orphaned children.