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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-08-17

Bills are ont for az excursion on
The 2nd % September from Jeaperette
ID Lake Charles. While We favor the
running of excuraiops for the benefit
II charitable objects aud for recrsa-
sion, We regret that the Sabbath day
has been nd apart for the occasion,
ior several reasons, among Which are
dfst because il VIII he a decoration
of tic holy Sabbath, and will inteE-
fere Indirectly IL not directly With nc
public Borship Of the various demon
iaatiQAs, and secondly lnder are
provisions III Tie Sunday law, Which
ar business pfsp observe, AL business
houses except arpgstoFes and trpit
stands ara closed aad thc exeqEsl2n-
isis cap have % opportunity q luQg.
mg y Gle bpsiness done aaq # meet
Ing puf rlslAelle 4iis1F tsi'i'i'i r siiiiF
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-08-17

Az Ecao reporter heard . CONVEX.
satiop . tew days ago between two IF
our intelligent immigrants who came
here last winter, one Of them from
Iowa and the other from Kansas. ~
coprse Of conversation the Kansas
mau Iemarked that be bad no cause
whatever to be displeased With the
country, and that while some Of bis
friends lad become s0meEbat des-
popdept 1t times he bad conc to
make this his home and to build up
with the country. The Iowa gentle
man was extremely wei pleased, and
said tile State q Iowa Fifty years ago
was d great deal harder place % take
a start ID life than ia Calcasieu. They
were both confident of great results
being obtained d 4 few years 10 the
riaing Of Fruits and field crops
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-08-17

The largest assortment Of eye glass
e in town may be found at N D.
kearReY,e.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-08-17

Fresh Creamery Better and Cheese,
at g. b. Croom's.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-08-17

TIVE WELI.-BRED MUAH4S. GOOD
Ia Ones A bargain In either one.
Apply to s. IL. CLEMENT
iuiy17- Lake Charles, La.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-08-17
ZOE Rena.


. HOUSES with storerooms attached,
q Ppply to J, w, BRYAN
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-08-17

The Echo received last week some
beautiful pears of the Leconte and
K.eifer varieties through Mr. N. Vim,
cent of our town, from Mr.. 7. E. Black
shear of Thomasyille, Ga. These va
rieties are claimed by the principal
fruit growers of Southwest Louisiana
to be the most successful Of the pear
kind. We understand Mr.. Vincent will
have large lot of cuttings Of these as
well as others for sale during the com.
ing winter.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-08-17

We call attention to the advertise
ment of Mrs. MERCER Peerys iu this
issue. This lady comes highly rec.
Commended after years of experience
in some Of the first seminaries of the
country, such as the Methodist College
in Georgetown, Texas, Baptist COL
lege, Lagrange, Ga, and Wards Sem
mary 10 Nashville, Texas. We be.
speak for her success in her calling.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-08-17

George II. WoolmaD, who came
here last spring and purchased prop
erty here and elsewhere ip the parish,
and who left some months ago on an
extended trip North, returned this
week. Mr.. w. says that while North
be met q great many people who ex-
pressed themselves that they would
come to Lake Charles during tue fall
and winter. lie will make cur little
city bis future home. We welcome
him rs a citizen.
We received postal card last week
from Mr.. g. s, Wright, who left hers
for bis old home ip Missouri, q couple
Of weeks since. He says, n arrived
here (Hauuibal, MOI yesterday even
ing. Stood the trip tolerably well.
Tie family stood il fnely." He fur.
ther says, "The thermometer ip the
ball where 1 am writing now stands at
100 ? q o'clock p. m" IL will inter.
est some to know that on that day,
August lst, ip Lake Charles, at 2 p. m.,
the mercury stood at 95e,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-08-17

Mr. W. Il. Haskell jr., and family
returned from Vernon parish last
week where they have been spending
some time with relatives and friends.
Mr. Haskell reports some sickness 10
the country where he has Travelled,
and says crops are not so good as was
anticipated. The extreme wet wealth
eT for a time followed by a long
drOuth has cut the crops, especially
cotton, very short.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-30
WHAT OTHERS SAY.

THE CAPITALISTS LAST DITCH.
We hate to keep hammering away
at matters which ought by this time
to be plain enough to everybody;
but the annual meeting of the Land
Taxation Society, and the remarks
which have appeared upon it in some
advanced newspapers, remind us
that there are still a number of we'll
meaning but ignorant people who
imagine that the contiscation of
rents would benefit the workers and
wage-earners. " Naturalization of
the Land" as Mr.. Henry Georges
proposal is absurdly miscalled, would
not benefit the wage earning class in
the least. They would have as little
to do with landownership, individu-
ally and collectively, afterward as
they have now. Workers, clerks,
domestic servants, etc, would COM
pete against one another for subsist-
ence wages as they compete to-day.
DULY the capitalists would gain to
the precise extent which the land
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-30

town. Presently things got slack, he
fell out of work, and from that time he
suffered the terrible lot OF hanger-on
round the docks; the old hands got the
regular work, and he mostly got his
waiting for his pains He and his coun-
try-bred wife and little ones sank lower
and lower, and now | suppose they are
stewing in some horrible Stun of this
earth defiling Liverpool. Such is the
story | had from clergyman who knew
the man himself,
In brief, dock laboring is an uncertain
and miserable refuge for the destitute,
for the untaught and unframed men,
for the failures and unemployed in the
skilled trades.
Here is a scene at the dock gate before
seven in the morning A burly steve.
dore, with sealskin waistcoat and gold
watch chain, is surrounded by some
hundreds of men, OF whom he wants
perhaps fifty or sixty to work yonder
steamer. There is no pushing or shout
ing. The practiced and familiar eye of
the man in sealskin picks out the men he
knows; men of limb and energy; these
come to his call, and the others some
of them well known enough to him, but
worn-out old men of forty shift quietly
back to their lounging place at wall or
corner. This stevedOre, this boss" is
between shipowner or master-porter and
the laborer exactly what the sweater"
is in tailoring He literally earns his
money by doing the dirty work of OPP
preston and grinding which his employ
ers are now grown too dainty to do. And
brute he is, To him the polite "if
you please" is strange; it is laughably
effeminate; his word is damn you"
So the game in which mems lives and
and souls are at stake goes on from day
to day; the capitalist climbs higher and
his prey sinks further and further into
the deep he'll of society.
Week by week, nay, day by day, men
fall over dock edges, into ships holds,
down ladders; are crushed by carts, ma
chinery or fall of bales; and one does not
hear of compensation for their loss
to their family, or for injury, despite
the Employers Liability Act "Proba-
bly, they were drunk, at any rate you
may be sure they would have been if
they could; they are such hopeless
wretches, we can do nothing for them. ]"
So says Capitalism and goes on prosper
ing and buying its way to heaven with
warehouses and hospitals. 1--WE can do
nothing for them No Capitalists, you
cannot; it is not in your hearts. But
they can do something for themselves;
how long is it to be before they do?
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-30
PERSONAL POLITICS.

One Of the most pronounced and
reprehensible tendencies of the old
parties to-day is towards personal
politics; TO turn the party simply
into personal following Of some
politician. The republican party
has been for years following Blaine,
and is ready to follow him still if he
would only consent to lead them.
The democratic party has lately
thrown away all party independence
and become personal following to
Grover Cleveland, ready to leave the
choice of candidates, the construc-
ton Of platform and everything else
to his dictation. 1t is ready to fall
down and worship him and shout
itself hoarse at the mere mention Of
his name. Nov, it matters not
whether it be Grover Cleveland or
any other man in the Union; it mat
ters not whether it be the demo-
cratic or any other party that thus
sinks into abject servility to party
leader, it is disgraceful and deplora-
BILE. The men who do not respect
themselves cannot hope for the re-
spect of others; the partisans who dc
not prove by their actions their be-
lief that the principles for which
they are contending are greater than
the personality of any leader cannot
expect others to appreciate them very
highly; the party that dominates a
candidate and then formulates his
personal views as its platform, sinks
its self-respect and party name.
Hero worship with or without
heroes is out of place in republic.
In politics, where the hopes, happl
ness and even the lives of millions
depend on the cool, calm judgment
of common sense, it is criminal. -
South Vest.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-30

spectlon as It is in England. 1t
probably "pays' in the long run.
1t pays to keep cattle healthy, and it
pays to have wage slaves work hard.
1t has been demonstrated to the sat
lsfaction Of the factory lords in Eng
land that few hours more of recre-
alton means more work and better
work, Just as it has been demon
strated that healthy, well-bred cows
give more milk and better milk than
lean and hungry kline. More than
this, III this country, where the work
ingmen imagine all sorts of good
things about the ballot and their
power as citizens, and the rest of it
all, the appointment Of few work
ngmen Of the correct political shade
to Off creates, as it were, toy for
the lnnocents to play with and dis
cuss; a sort of substrata politics
with llmitless field for discussion and
limited power of action in the
struggle between Capital and Labor.
And yet the working people will
no doubt continue to demand a new
patch here and there FOR long time
to come, until they learn the posi-
bilties of socialism. Then they'll
demand a new social structure, in
which the worker will be an equal
partner in the common wealth, and
common interest and education will
make every worker in factories a fac
tory inspector and conservator of
the common wea
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-30
REST EASY.

Ye politicians, whether ye be of
the " democratic" or "republican
persuasion, rest easy. Keep your
Doodle snugly in your pockets. The
old tick so often played by the great
leaders of the Pat McGuirc associa-
ton, or the Hans Pumpernickel
Verein, will no doubt be attempted
again by little fellows who will rep
resent themselves as controllers of
so many votes, and you will, as usual,
be asked to neutrality-suspicious. buy
a lot of tickets for a ball that will
never come off. Even the labor
movement will be used by some
smart Alexis, and you will be asked
to furnish the means for keeping
them in good humor until the event.
full moment when they are supposed
to cast a ticket corresponding with
the political views of the beniticent
politician. 1t is of these latter
heelers we wish to speak. They
have no Influence. In most cases
they are absolute frauds. In one
case they are p0Sitice frauds, and
that is when they tell you that the
Socialists will vote this way or that
way. They won't. They don't give
a snap for all the politics you can
hatch up. Especially will they not
vote for presidential electors. They
don't want a president-they are
especially opposed to having a four
year king or any other king. So,
save your coppers and rest easy, ye
politicians with Doodle.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-30
STATE PATCHWORK.

Now that there are factory inspec-
tors in various States who publish
reports of their departments, one can
get an approximate idea of the inn
mense amount of inspection and SUI
pervlsion that is necessary to save the
working people from utter degrade
ton and pauperizatlon under the
competitive individualist system.
And we can see also how Inadequate
to the work is the imperfect machin-
cry of the department of factory in
spection, etc, Notwithstanding the
rose-colored reports of the factory in
spectors and the feeling of salts
faction" with which they look back
on the work of another year.
Illogical as it is from their " mind
your-own-business " and everyone
for-himself" standpoint, the Man
chesterian Commentaries have found
it necessary to placste the masses by
the introduction Of State factory in
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-30

for the man who has put them in
Office, in the hope of being con-
tlnued there, while thousands of
others will do the same in order to
get office. The United States
Treasury, if not directly. is at least
indirectly a factor in favor Of the
administration party. And many a
scheme by which the money Of the
Treasury may be expended for pub
lie works will be carried out in order
to gain adherents who will influence
the votes. We may expect that as
the administration party continues
in Office it will become more and
more corrupt, and at the same time
will remain 50 conservative. The
"republlcan " party, with this years
defeat staring them in the face, will
have to seek for some live issue in
order to arouse sufficient interest to
increase it's vote to winning figure.
The capitalists certainly have very
little reason to complain of Cleve-
lands administration, and they GER
tainly have no reason to wish for a
change. They have no occasion to
advocate or assist in BUSTING the
democrats " from office. TO be
sure, they may feel that they are
robbed, but with the privilege capt.
tai gives them to rob others in turn,
they can easily be reconciled to pay
ing their tlthes. Therefore it is
pretty safe to assume that the " dem
ocratic" party will elect their cand-
dates with an increased majority.
Socialists can have but little interest
IN the matter save rs observers. On
with the dance
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-30
THE ms AND THE OUTS.

1T seems hard for the two old par
ties to raise live issue for the cam
paign this year. Not all "demo-
Gratis are free traders, nor are all
republicans" protectlonlsts; the
division isn't made that way ere
publican n" importers are liable to
favor free trade, democratic" man
ufacturers are Just as liable to favor
high tariff. So that the two parties
are really entering upon a campaign
IN which the real issue is spoils.
The immense patronage which the
President of the United States has
the power to bestow, makes the
office one to be coveted by the
other party. Under these clrcum-
stances 1t ls not strange that a wide
spread opinion prevails that the
present incumbent, having been re-
nominated by his party, will be
reelected. The the thousands of
office holders, by grace of Grover /,
are likely to work hard to get votes
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-30
THE CAPITALISTS TEN CON-
MANDMENTS.

am Capital, thy Master, that brought
thee out of the Land of Liberty into a
State of Slavery. Thou shalt not become
thine own Master, nor have any other
Masters but me.
Thou shalt not create any wealth, nor
any likeness of any wealth that is in
heaven above, or that is in the Earth be-
meath, or that is in the waters under the
Earth, unless can make profit out of
it. Thou shalt bow thyself down under
my oppression and serve me, for |, Cap
ital, am jealous Master, and visit the
poverty of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation
of those that create wealth for me. And
shew mercy unto the thousand of syco-
plants that love me, and help me to
share the spoils Of Labor.
Thou shalt not produce wealth for
myself for |, Capital, will not hold
him guiltless that attempts to do 50 in
vain.
".
Keep the Labor days, and sanctify
them, as |, Capital, have commanded
thee, lest throw thee out of employment.
Four and a half days thou shalt work
for me, and one and half for lhyself.
But the seventh day is rest day for
Labor to recoup his strength. In it thou
shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy
son, nor thy daughter, nor thy wife, un.
less they be mental servants or admin
lister to my comforts. And remember
that thou art my slave: therefore do not
attempt to enjoy myself, lest thou over
exert thyself, and be unable to produce
a profit for me next week.
Honor Landlordism and Usury, my
co partners, as |, Capital, have COM
manded thee, that thy days may be
short in the Land in which thou art
born.
Thou shalt commit murder for nv
sake only
L.
Thou shalt give thy daughters in
prostitution and thy wife in adultery TO
me.
VIII.
Thou shalt not steal, that being the
right divine of Capital
TX.
Thou shalt bear false witness against
thy neighbor-if he be a Socialist.
Y.
Thou shalt not desire the full produce
of thy labor; neither shalt thou covet
the Land of thy birth, nor the stored-up
wealth of past generations, nor the idle,
ness, luxury and privileges of the
wealthy, nor anything that is in the pos
session of the Capitalist.
". Willis Harris in London Justice
with apologies to Mosas.)
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-30
LIVERPOOL DOCK LABORERS.

From a sketch by J. c. KenWorthy in Lon
don Justice.
A days work at the dock side is timed
from seven to five, with an hour for din
ner, from twelve to one; for this day the
pay is four shillings and sixpence 49, 0V,
overtime seven pence Q2c) an hour, and
the men have combined against going on
for less than half day. But the work
is uncertain, shifting, and sometimes ex-
the strongest men and Oldest stagers get
the most work, while on the other hand
the weaklings and the new corners get a
day or half day just now and again.
The average wage of all sorts may be-
perhaps, fifteen shillings "a week; few
will! exceed a guinea week. But this
fifteen shillings or guinea is 50 uncer-
tainly and precariously earned that thrift
and economy are to the earners well
nigh impossible virtues. A man may
put six" days work into the first
three days of the week, and do nothing
the remaining three days of the week;
or he may do a half days work this
week, and work all the days and half
of the nights next week; or he may for
spell be idle all day and working all
night. Such a labOrer's wife declared
| her husband earned, week in and week
out, guinea week. but she as house
keeper would rather have fifteen shiIlings
a week regularly than such " jumping
| jack twentyone shillings.
On such employment some 5000 to
10000 men, with their wives and fami-
lies, probably 10000 to $4,000 people at
least in all, are dependent, out of pop
uation of some 100000. The result is
that the lives of these people have neither
hope nor method. Their zero, below
which they occasionally drop, is starva-
ton; their summer heat is coarse riot
! They are lost to that sense of social re-
sponsibility which is the handspring of
morality, and that they are no worse
than they are, that there is still living
heart of good in them something better
and warmer than the ossited organ of
the capitalist class that grinds them is a
distinctly hopeful thing TO all who are
on the side of the angels, | have seen a
gang of these misused men good speci-
mems it is true) tramping, tramping,
without stoppage or Sinking and with
out refreshment, for six mortal hours,
carrying forty pound loads. | was as
tonished at the sight. and | am soberly
sure that there is somewhere in such
men the making of heroes-yes, heroes
And the most supercilious reader of
these lines would think so too, had he
stood by that dreary while and seen that
sight.
| Dock laborers are made as in this way
At Holywell, in neat flower surrounded
cottage the flowers had won prizes at
local shows, lived comfortable agri-
cultural laborer with his wife and chill
dren. Times went badly with farmers,
and the man lost his work. He heard
men were earning four shillings and nine
pence day at Liverpool docks; there he
went, alone, to try his fortune. Things
were spasmoUic ally brisk; he got a
months constant work, and then
! brought his wife and family up to the
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-30

lords would lose. This, surely,
must be manifest to anyone who re-
members that confscation Of agri-
cultural or city rents could not lessen
competition for wages in any way;
and that in like manner. confscation
of royalties would not raise miners
wages one farthing, other things re-
naming unchanged. -LOndOn JUS
Ace.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-30


But now the masses are beginning
to question the authority, and the
labor movement, which has always
existed from earliest history, though
hardly mentioned, is again a pow
erful current, having its literature,
Is philosophy and its science. From
the secret combinations Of slaves in
olden times it has developed IN the
most civilized countries into open
organizations and political parties.
Having gained the ballot, more or
less trammelled, Labor now seeks to
make practical use of it, and the
on y obstacle in the way Of triumph
is the still pcrvading ignorance of
the masses, who are unable to see the
necessity for thorough organization
and subsection to self-made author
ity.
Nevertheless, the growth Of the
workingmen's political movement in
Germany under the admirable or
ganization and discipline Of the So
cial Democratic Party, is a sign of
hope for the prolotarians of the
word. America, with many pollti-
cal advantages over Germany, may
develop political party of effective
strength within few years with APP
proyimately similar tactics and dis
cipline. The nucleus IS already
formed in the Socialist Labor Party,
and the progressive educational and
convergent factors are found in the
trades unions and labor organiza-
tons, such as the Knights of Labor,
cooperative societies, benefit soci-
cites, etc. And as if to urge them
to more aggressive action, outside
influences are at work, having their
birth with the ruling class. These
are the combinations of capitalists in
corporations, trusts and monopolles.
|
They teach the working people that
cooperation is the keynote of prog
ress, whether it be in the production
or in the distribution of wealth,
while the authority is vested in own
ership--in property.
The workingmen's movement thus
tends to the requirement of property,
and the first act OF requirement il
production Economy de-
mands that in the exchange of pro
ductions rs little as possible should
be wasted, and any system that guar
antees to the producers the full
value of their productions, naturally
precludes waste in exchange. Such
system is outlined in the Socialist
scheme, based upon humanity ex
perlence, and possible when the true
authority is exc clsed. This author
ity to protect property from waste
and to secure to each his share il
equity lies with the people, who, or
gained and socialized as Il State, vii
be the highest authority-the fna
arbiters of their own destiny. Tn,
authority once assumed by tn,
State-the people organized-it vii
not be possible for one class or on,
set of individuals to progressvel,
rob the people, nor will there be al
incentive to do so.