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In Effect May 18th, 1888. Standard Time.

Trains will connect at junction points for al the
branch divisions.
Passengers going 10 eastern points via Niagara
Falls and Buffalo, over the Canada Southern dvis-
ion OF the M. G. X. r., will go through without
chan ye at Detroit and the great steel, double
track, cantilever bridge Niagara River giving
q splendid view of the falls from the train.
Going 20 western points, by taking the 5:l9 q. M
or IL a7 or "a D. IA. trains close connections
made with all roads out Of Chicago.
Tor through rates and other information inquire
of the company's agent. Through tickets for sale
TO all important points and baggage checked
through.
O. W.. RUGGLES, q. p. T. A., Chicago.
l.. @. HURD, Ticket Agent, Paw Paw.
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WE WOULD be pleased to have
every reader of the Northerner call
and try on pair. 1t makes one feel
better just to try them on.
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CHERIFF's sALE.-Notice is hereby

s,0 tr.nsn ce,Soy Eite 81
eri facias issued out of and under the seal Of the
circuit court the county of Van Buren, and to
directed and delivered, bearing date the fth day of
April, A. ID. 1883, wherein Joseph Coin is plaintiff
and johnson Parsons Is defendant. did, on the
sixteenth day of April A. ID. 1885, levy upon and
seize all the right, title and interest Of the above
named defendant In and TO the following described
real estate situate In the county of Van Buren, and
state of Michigan, to-wt: Lot eight (S), in block
five (5), town four ca south of range fourteen (l)
west, Clark's addition TO the village Of Decatur;
which said lands and premises, or much thereof
may be sufficient to satisfy said execution and all
legal COSTS shall expose for sale and sell at public
auction vendue, TO the highest bidder, as the law
directs the front door of the court house in the
village of Paw Paw in said county OF Van Buren,,
(said court house being the place of holding the cir
cult court In and for said county, Saturday, the
18th day of August, A. ID. 1884, at the hour OF
one o'clock In the afternoon of said day.
Dated June 30th, 1888. 37t1o43
JOHN q. TODD, Sheriff of Van Buren, County.
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LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE

SH0E-Young Americas best-look-
ing, best fitting and best-wearing
shoe. We recommend it and stand
back of it with both feet.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21
A LIVE ALDERMAN.

There is in the Chicago Board Of
Aldermen man who is able anu
willing 10 express an honest opinion,
AS well as represent his constituents,
the working people of the Fifth
Ward. in Il manner becoming a man
with such Il constituency. Hsnam
is Edward Conner. The question of
the franchise of Il street railway was
under consideration, and Mr.. Connor
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21
''UNlTY" AGAIN.

Among the many good souls who
have been making appeals for unity
among the organized working people
and reformers in general, was the
editor of the Hartford Examiner,
the glst of whose circular to editors
of labor papers was published in the
WoRkMEN's ADVOCATE of the 24th
ult., and which we characterized as
a scheme impossible of realization so
long rs honest men held different
opinions upon essentials.
The Examiner thereupon deemed
lis opposed to unity; but We were
only reciting hard fact. The result
of the E.eaminer's appeal, as admit
ted in the columns of that paper,
has fully proved the WoRkMEN'S AID
vocArE to have been correct in its
estimate of existing conditions. Says
the Examiner in its last issue
"The outlook is not hopeful Each
still seems determined to stick To his
particular hobby and desires that all
shall stand on that; then he is ready for
union.
While the above does not correct
ly state the facts in regard to
"each," it still presents the case
fairly in regard to many, among
which may be numbered the very
one who has been crying for unity.
Proof: His recent agitation for SIM
gle-land-taS, and attempted substi
tuition of a so-called Omitted" labor
party, based upon IL. Georges hob
by, for the Labor Party of Connect
cut, which already has Il record and
a platform as comprehensive AS the
Knights of Labor-a platform that
recognizes the wage workers present
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21

The hHeric0H fe1eroltSt, recently
published in Rhode Island, has been
discontinued, and another paper
comes to lis in It's stead. We have
occasionally quoted from the Feder-
a1isf, which was edited by a man
with brains, and Il humanitarian.
The character Of his successorappears
in the following few lines, addressed
to the WoRkMEN's ADVOCATE:
1--WE would here mention by way of
parenthesis, that about the next important
news we have will be another anarchist
hemp pulling. Sabe |
Yes, we understand. We have
come across such brutal insinuations
before, and have usually attributed
them to defective education and de-
pravity. We take the same charitable
view in this case. Our opposition
to anarchy does not necessarily in
rludc blood thirstiness, and we are
not afraid to allow those who call
themselves anarchists to preach their
numerous ideas of liberty to their
hearts content. Those who are SO
afraid of the anarchists ramblings as
to wish them silenced by death are
ignorant bigots, and only prove the
necessity for the ciyilzing influence
of Socialist teaching.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21
WORKS BOTH WAYS.

Every one has right to live. We will
suppose this granted. But no one has
right to bring creatures into life, to be
supported by other people. Whoever
means to stand upon the first of these
rights must renounce all pretensions to
the last.-HaFs 'Principles Of Political
Economy, Book H., chap. ali.
This, originally written in condemna-
ton of the propagation OF the extreme
poor, seems peculiarly applicable also, to
our mobility and gentry" the ma jorty
of whom are supported by other people"
under the present system. j. s., IN
LOAdOH COBIHlolWeal.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21
NOTES..

Our readers may find entertain
ment in the column headed "The
DebaterS. The irreprassible wor-
shipper Of CELEBRITY as | understand
it is accorded tremendous amount
of space, but that is less than half
the space required to print the rest
of the copy received from " Edge
WORTH who is ungraciously termed
" Mother Edgeworth Grundy" by
the Alam, a paper published for
" Lberty's" sake in Chicago.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21
ENTERED AT THE rosT OFFICE AT NEW HAVEN, CON
kEcrIoUT, Az SECOND CLASS MATTER n
New HAVEN, JANUARY II, 1887.
DON'T LIKE TRUSTS"

The New York HeraW last Sun
day had n great deal to say about
commercial pools and trusts, com
planning bitterly because such COM
binations had developed. 1t said:
during the last ten years, more or
less, large sums of money have been
pooled for the purpose of controlling II
given product and arbitrarily fixing its
market price. This combination, or
trust, or what not, has no commercial
significance or value unless it can break
down all competition. Its first step,
therefore, is to unite a dozen of the larg
est dealers, whose aggregated capital Is
sufficient for the purpose, and to crush
out the hundreds Of smaller dealers by
driving them out of business or into
bankruptcy. BY the" means they be-
come masters of the situation
Does the Hvald mean to say that
the individuals who pool their wealth
have no right to do 20? In the first
place, does the HeraM not recognize
the right of the individual poolers to
the capital they own? The owner
of the Herali, for instance, certainly
acts as if he thought he had n right
to the property. If it is his, why
should he not, if he desired, CO.
operate with it with some one else
and his capital to carry on print
ing and publishing business? And
if, by "shrewd business tact (that
is recommended by all Christian
capitalists), he and his partner could
secure the patronage of large num-
Der of people, where would be the
wrong from his standpoint? 1t
might be "shrewd business tact" to
win customers by doing work cheap
er than his competitors; 10y using
such improved machinery us only
pooled capital could buy. Ills
thoughts would hardly dwell upon
the smaller printing concerns that
lost the custom he gained. "Shrewd
business tact" might also suggest
that the more extensive the means
of production, the cheaper the pro-
duct, and so other shrewd business
men might be drawn into the pool
and benefit by it. They might even
go further and ease their consciences
by Offering their principal competi-
tors q share in the pool, while at the
same time they could employ their
lesser competitors. Anything wrong
in that? They own their property,
don't they? The profit they made
out of the labor of their workmen
belongs to them for the trouble they
took to employ men, does it not:
And they have a perfect right to
sell what is theirs, sans circumference,
at any price they choose, have they
not? At least that's what the pro-
prietor of the HeraM does. Besides,
the Yeraid asserts that
1.-The rule in America has ALWAYS
been that every man has oppor-
tunities, and can rise above the station
in which he was born by making wise
use of them.
Gust SO. And it applies most
particularly to capitalists. The eld-
er Bennett founded the Herald. lie
made "a wise use" of his opportuni-
ties. Those opportunities were pc
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21
MARTIAL LAW.

A husband sought a divorce on the
ground of cruel and inhuman treatment.
The lower court deciding against him, he
appealed. The wife's attorney contended
IN his printed argument that his client
might well be justified for exercising
rights given her by martial (meaning, of
course, martial law. The brief, it is
said, was set up by lady compositors, and
the proof read by the lawyers spouse.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21

culiar TO the times. At any rate,
his son succeeded to a fine fortune
when he died. The father "rose
above the station in which he was
born" financially, at least, and his
son was born considerably higher in
station (financiaD than he himself.
But as it is asserted that "cvery man
can rise" why not also the man who
is born high?
Still the Herold complains that
the pools and trusts are evils, "ant
republican and intensely un-Ameri-
can" And so the poor devil Of an
editorial writer in the employ OF
James Gordon Benefits son, James
Gordon Bennett, tangles himself all
up and finally says:
1T is grave and knotty problem, but
| it can be solved by the common sense OF
the people, for the people are still king
| and can make the laws which all must
obey.
This settles the question, and will
not offend the man who pays the ed
itorial writer's wages.
OF course it will be solved, knotty
| problem though it is, and the very
trusts and pools the HeralH deplores
so carefully are assisting at the solu-
ton. AS to the people being "king,
that canlbe!better...sald whena.they
prove their kingship. Meanwhile
the evolution Of the present system
goes Oh, and trusts and pools are
playing their part in the development
of that state of society in which ev-
cry citizen shall indeed lave oppor
tunltles, not us at present, unequal,
but equal.
The fright to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness" can never be
realized under the present industrial
system. The people who are sub
jcct to IL class Of capitalists, whether
they form pools and trusts, or wheth-
er they simply as individuals exploit
the producers and consumers of COM
modities, are slaves in fact. This
idea is just beginning to dawn upon
them; and when the full force OF
conviction comes to a respectable
number Of men and women willing
TO do and dare. and avow their be.
lief and determination to throw of
the chains and iIaugurate the tru,
cooperative system which is outlined
in the Socialist platform, there vii
be an end to wage-slavery, and tn,
dawn of Il brighter era will be greet
cd by an enlightened and emaneipa
ted people.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21
ANARCHIST "ARGuMENI.n

y Chicago woman was dressing for
her wedding when her dress caught fire
and she was burned to death. Moral:
have no wedding and marriage ceremo-
nies.-BoSton Liberty.
Ergo: Laws are sometimes unjust.
Moral: have no laws, whatever. Yes.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
81 RIK ES.


We always feel the sympathetic
chord ylbrate whenever we read OF a
strike. We do not stop to analyze
the merits in the partic ular case, but
knowing human nature as we do, we
are conscious that if conditions were
just, or even bearable, we would
never read that the miners, the glass
workers, the shoemakers, the pud-
dlers, the moulders, the masons, the
spinners, the weavers, the carpenters,
the telegraph operators, the brake
men, the brewers, and the printers,
were on strike. But we not only
read of all these but many more
trades who rebel against what is
deemed unfair. Our first feeling is
sympathetic and melting, still, we
cannot help thinking that they are
partially responsible for their trou-
bles. We ask these questions: Is
not this republic? Is not the vote
of each toiler as potent as that of
each capitalist? DO not the toilers
numerically outnumber the other
class ten to one? Why is it that
when all are equal the vote or voice
of one weighs more than that of the
ten? We look the questions over,
and the answer to all suggests itself,
and we will write it with humility
and sorrow. The one is, "wise as
serpent" while the ten are simply
- idiots, who refuse to use the
onl y weapon that will be efficient in
removing the causes of strikes. We
are now looking with all eyes at the
strike in the mines and on the Read
ing railroad. The men who mine
the coal that has enabled the capital
lists to gather, during the past year
as profits, So, 100000, out OF their
product, will not even now stop to
think that for years they have used
the power of the ballot to perpetuate
the system that makes these things
possible. These miners have right
along voted the republican and dem
ocratlc ticket, when they had ample
evidence that both were in the con-
troll of the thieves who were plumber
ing them. No wonder that Corbin
sits back and laughs at the strike and
the strikers. He knows that the
republican and democratic parties
are at his back, and that the strikers
are at the back of these two parties,
thus putting in his hands a club to
brain them at leisure. If men who
toll prefer the lot of the slave to that
of the free man, then it is more be-
coming in them to submit uncOm-
plalnlngly to the masters of their
own choosing than to make asses of
themselves by trying to resist the
conditions which their own acts have
created. "Experience is dear
school, but fools will learn in no
other, and we suspect that will not
teach wisdom to the wage-workers
who fall down and worship the
republican and democratic fetish. -
Naugatuck -4gltator.
Senator Beck, Of Kentucky, wants
the POstOffice Committee to look into
the expedcncy of reducing letter
postage from two to one cent. Why
bother about that just now? No
one is "hard up because letter post
age is two cents. 1t yields no sur
plus to the treasury. Let it alone,
and if he wants to add to and cheap
en- mail facilities find some sensible
way of giving the people a postal tel
egraph to be used at one fifth the
cost of present telegraph service. -
| BurbeUe VideHe.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21

IoiluiIioil anu poliltS out tue liuc
remedy-universal cooperation.
One OF the answers received by the
Examiner in answer to its appeal for
unity was from the secretary of the
Journeymen Bakers National
Union, and editor of their craft jour
nal. In it he says:
"The term reform does not suffice:
anyone claims to be reformer nova
days, who is either Disconnected or who
has his notion or hobby. Labor
must be the basis in its defiant position
towards capital--not in trying to har-
monte these two elements and then
you can be successful, because you have
struck chord which sounds familiar to
every wage-worker industrial or agri-
cultural"
The terms "labor" and "capitap
are undoubtedly to be understood as
meaning the class of laborers and
the class Of capitalists. Does the
editor Of the Examiner expect intel
ligent }abor refOrmcrs to unite upon
any other basis? If so, he has some
thing to learn. lie misquotes par
agraph in the bakers secretary's let
ter, and gives it a subtle twist when
he sneers:
again, labor must be defiant tow
ards capital.
Would he have the slave babblc to
his master..about the Brotherhood of
God" when..:.the:. chain-laden toiler
knows full well that his owner don L
believe in the existence Of such a be-
ing? Or,.if.thesmaster's conscience
has been moulded into such belief,
that same God through his revela-
tons has commanded obedience to
those in authority. And is not the
master over the slave? The employ
er over the employee, under the pre-
sent system?
Yet the Examiner declares that
"unity is the one essential !" There
cannot be unity between those who
admit that the present competitive
wage-slave system is all right and
those who believe it all wrong; and
neither party has cause to seek union
with the other upon social-political
lines. They must meet in opposition
(now, don't conjure up cold steel and
guns) and the hard facts of LIES
conditions will turn the tide of bat
tie. Where the arguments of think.
ing men could nottpenetrate, there
will the keen blade of experience
enter. AS the WinSted Press puts
it, the "clap of thunder" will come
Will anyone say that the WORK
MEMS ADVOCATE is opposed to unity
among labor reformers? We are OPP
posed to unity with the democratic"
party as such; to the Republican"
party as such. We leave Union with
them to the opportunists. We are
already united with all who acknowl-
edge the oppression of the class Of
wage-workels. by the class of capital
lists; who believe in substituting for
the present cut throat system, CO.
operative society which shall guaran-
tee to the worker the full result OF
his toll; who believe in true demOc-
racy. These are the essentials. 1t
requires very little effort at union
among those who hold to these prin-
ciples and act accoling3y. The Or
carnations throughout the world
composed of men and women ac-
knowledging these principles are
termed Socialists by friends and foes.
We do not hide our principles for
the sake of union; OH the contrary,
we are certain of union because we
are aware of the fact that self
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21

The New York papers have been
telling u story of high life" recently,
in which Il grandmother of wealthy
family who was an exemplary woman
to all outward appearances proved to
be the paramour of a wealthy neigh
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21

hoo Nbi''hNi'S uS"ih'' 'iplloii'AtN
pcrsonifed. lie showed that the
railway company was making enor-
nous profits, and exhibited statistics
that are simply astonishing, as fol-
lows:
1.-TWO hundred millions of passengers
are transported by the street railways of
Chicago They pay $4,000, 900 in fares.
There are on an average l,369 cars in
daily Use. Each of these cars transfers
about 400 passengers daily, and earns,
therefore, $50, The average daily cost
of running each car, including wages,
care Of horses, wear and tear, and neces-
sary repairs, is about $500, so that
profit of 81 is made daily from each
ear. Total income from fares per year,
100000 600; total cost as above, per year,
$4,5OO,O0O; leaving profit of $500 600,
which the capitalists pocket.
"This enormous profit" said Mr..
Conner, "is secured to the railroad
companies by the monopolistic prlvi-
leges which the Board Of Aldermen
have conferred upon them. 1t re-
quires no further evidence to prove
that if the street railways were under
city control, we could easily liqudate
our public debt, and make this city
one of the clcamest and most beautl-
full places on this continent without
laying additional taxes or increasing
the cost of living in Chicago"
The gentleman also showed that
the employees need not work more
than eight hours per day, and SAID
that the city would only be enforcing
the elght-hour law already upon the
statutes, by insisting upon the eight
hour workday for railway employees.
The Board of Aldermen were
plan y told by their honest colleague
that it was public belief that the
votes Of the Aldermen were bought
for 50 and so many thousand dollars
Il piece, and quoted Rev. DR.. Noble
rs declaring from the pull pit that the
votes of Chicagos Aldermen were
purrhaseablc ut $1,000 each. Mr..
Conner further told them that such
charges against the present Board Of
Aldermen could not be refutcd by
resolutions; they must be refutcd by
the votes of the Board upon the prop
ositons before them.
Mr.. Connor's proposition to create
Il fund for the final purchase Of the
railways by the city was not adopted,
and the Aldermen plainly showed
that they were no more honest than
their predecessors.
The Chicago ! Orb0ta says that for
the present the official recognition Of
the cight-hour day has been gained.
This was done by the able cndeay ors
of Il single honest workingman alder.
man against thirty-fyc tools Of clpi.
taI1Stl
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21


of assignation led to the exposure.
Both she and her attentive neighbor
were regularattendantsat Talmadge's
church, in Brooklyn, according to
some accounts. All this is nothing
wonderful. But the additional fact
that the coroner refused to make an
estigation goes to show that wealth
protects its owners and has al undue
influence upon public Junctionaries.
If it were usual in such painful cases
to protect poor people from the pub
lie disgrace to the families of trans
gressors, there would be no objection;
but to hide the folies of the wealthy
and prosecute the poor calls forth
just indignation.
Referring to circular which he
sent out appealing for unity as "the
one essential" the editor of the
Hartford Eraminer mournfully re-
marks
eve are sorry to say that not one of
the editors t. whom the circular was
sent, had the kindness to reproduce it.
This doesn't seem as if the desire for
union was uppermost in their hearts.
Cheer up, brave heart; we have
seen the circular reproduced in sew
eral of our valued exchanges, and the
WoRKMEN's ADVOCATE, in proper
ton to It's type-area, printed more OF
it than even the E.camiUer itself.
We confess that the desire for union,
per- Sc, is not uppermost in our heart.
We want to know with what and for
what we unite, first. We seek wis
dom, notwithstanding that the Tx
amiAer gives us credit for much.
This is the way the Boston Herala
tries to hattcr itself and the inno-
cents that the Boston Central Labor
Union did well in excluding the del
cgates from the American Socialist
Section of that city:
A WISE STEP.
The action of the Labor Union in this
city, in adoptinga law of organization
which will shut out from membership in
their associations socialistic agitators, is
a significant evidence of the tendency of
feeling among the wage-earning classes
1t is well that they are beginning to per-
ceive that the extreme doctrines advo-
| Gated by men of this stamp are detri-
| mental to their personal interests, and
that they cannot afford to support them
! even by such qualified Endorsement as
would come from allowing them to be
come members of their organizations
There isl great deal Of hope in the labor
movement, but, in order to succeed,
wage arners, as we'll as others, must be
content to go slowly and surely.
II the Socialists in all trades unions
in Boston should refuse to serve us
delegates to the Central Labor Union
1t might have a salutary effect, and
teach lesson to the brave fellows
who have benefited by the services of
Socialists when they wanted work
done.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-21

the designing jurist the conspiracy law;
the latter fits to the facts of any case as
the former to the skull of his victim.