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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-03-27
THURSDAY EVENINGS.

large room suitable for q Lodge Room. on
tbs fourth tfoor OF he KEPLER BUILDIsG,
with heat. ivh aud janitor for ESQ a year For
fniher particulars apply TO
.. Il. sHERTZER,
No 353 West King street
or G. G. CARAAN, No. bls East Ches In ut
steet' mH stdTu,ThAs
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-03-27

NOR RENT-FROM APRIL /, 1888,
- for one or q term of years, the strasburg
Railroad. with Coal ana Lumber Yard, Ware
house. Locomotive ard Cars all in good and
running order. The lease Of this valuable
properly presents rare opportunity to any
established and profitable business. For con.
ditions, rent or other IN formation apply to
THOS. or HENRY BAUM1ARDNER,
m6-tfd Lancaster City, Pa.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-03-27

IOUBLlC SALE-ON WEDNESDAY,,
L MARCH 2s h, at the Western Hetel, Nos
2o2 and 20i West orange street. q complete lot
OF household ana kitchen furniture. consist.
Ing OF bedroom suites. bedding, refrigerator,
bar room nxtures, and many other articles
not enumerated. Sale to commence at .
O'Clock a. m JOEL L.. HAINEs,
m2t std Auctioneer.
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09

The New York Ercaing Sun says that "thc United Labor Party is using every effort to have the So- cIallst and Progressive parties join hands with them" In the first place the Progressive party has dis solved it's organization, and secondly, the members of the Socialist Labor Party are too progressive to go back ward They cant believe that the labor question can be solved by tax ing land only, The Socialist Plat form is plain one, and it is upon the lines indicated in that document that the labor movement will de- velop into a saving evolution, or revolution, as the case may be.
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09

like the ruck of novels with pur- pose" the characters in |" Looking Backward win the sympathy of the reader, and the delicate love story which is so gracefully interwoven in the narrative gives it a peculiar in tercst, and will help to recommend it to the public; and with the wide circle of readers the book is sure to have, we are inclined to the opinion that the " dry science will become popular, and that spirit of fratern- ity and cooperation will be engen- dered which will tend toward the high ideal so artistlcaIIy portrayed. We are confident of the thanks of any lover of humanity who may be induced by us to read " Looking Backward" and we assure the au- thor that like grateful feeling ani- mates us as we pen our humble ac- knowledgement.
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09
A BOOK WORTH READING.

One should have luxurious leisure to properly and justly review Ed ward Bellamy's remarkable book, '" Looking Backward,' and such a condition. however desirable, does not fall to the lot of the editor, etc., ;, of a labor paper. Our readers may perhaps appreciate the value of Mir. Bellamy's excellent contribution to politco-economlc literature, when they have their attention called to 1t under such conditions.
 Let no one be misled by the hard, dry terms, economic and political. Looking backward " from the period to which the author takes the enchanted reader of his book, is any thing but dry, and one hates to part with the bright illusion. Nor need the brave and active soul close the book with a sorrowful adieu, for the striking logic and prophetic vision of d new order presented are attain able with the desire that may be kindled in ones breast during the perusal of the fascinating pages. Un-
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09
MAKING MORE OFFICES

The creation of the National De- partment of Labor seems to go hard with extreme capitalists. The bill creating the department will have been signed by the President, per haps, before this issue reaches our readers, having passed both houses of Congress. The plea put forth by the frightened bOurgcosic is that it may lead to the creation of new de- partments, and they ask with much concern " How long before there will be departments of steamboats, of railways, of telegraphs, of new-pap- CTS, of food, of drink, of mems clothes, of women's clothes, etc."
 Not long, we hope; but that will not necessarily create more offices; it will simply place the production and distribution of the peoples ne- cessltles under the control of the people, instead of, as at present, leaving the people at the mercy of private individuals and uncontrolled combinations, such as pools and trusts. To be sure, it will curtail the free play of energy, in the line of commercial robbery, but that will be a benefit to the people. When a burglar is imprisoned it curtails the free play of his individual and pecu- liar enterprise; but our capitalist friends don't complain. The fact is, it makes palpable difference as to whose OK Is gored.
 "Ihe government should mind it's own business,' say these pleaders for free competition and free eXplolua-
 ton by the minority. True; and It remains for the people to say what
 the government shall do and what 1t
 shall not do; and when the people
 decide that we shall have a depart
 ment of railways 1t will be the busi-
 ness of the "government" to see
 that they are run for the benefit of
 the people, and not for the profit oi the class who cry out against govern ment control. These socialistlc idea: } are sinking deep into the minds o1 the people; and no spacious pleading on the part of bondholders and stockholders can prevent the people from eventually seeing where thell interest lies.
 : 1t is our part to point out thest things, and we are perfectly satisfied , that the American people will sool discover that we are but echoing
 their own sentiments i'll our lnyln cible propaganda.
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09

and united with the farmers on platform such as the one published in this paper, they could soon put stop to not only this robbery, but end all possibility of similar steals in the future. The farmers should be as willing to adopt as radical meas ures where wage workers are con cerncd as they do in their own con ccrns. Will the ,State Wheei enter into a discussion of the subject of Socialism for the enlightenment of ifs readers?
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09
GOMBEENISM.

Gombeenism' is the term app!;ed to a system of usury that operates excllls- lively in the West and South of Ireland, especially in the West, and has for it's victims the cottier tenants in the country and the laborers in the towns. It is al most impossible to convey in language suitable to the columns of a newspaper any adequate idea of the iniquity of this villainous system of usury, to the minds of persons unacquainted with its mode of operation, or with the localities where it prevails. But d short eNplanation of its mOdHS operdHdj may enable our read. CTS to form some clear idea, however in adequate, of the misery inflicted on the wretChed victims of these interruptions money-lenderS, who take advantage of the necessities of the hard working poor to eXtort their " shent per shent' The gombeen man, like his brother in infa- nous eXtortion, the London Jew, estab- fishes himself behind the dirty counter of dlngy office, where, on market days, Tn a market town i'll the west, of Ireland, he awaits in CovetOus expectation the advent of the necessitous small farmer or laborer, who, accompanied by two of his neighbOrS as SuretieS, wants to bor- row pound or two, perhaps to pay a debt due to the usuriOus shOpkeeper or the lawyer, or maybe to meet the de- mands of his soggarth aroon for the Christina, or Easter " dues" For every pound nominally borrowed from these usurlous loanmongers, the borrower ac- tually receives only l9s, and afterwards pays interest at the rate of one shilling to the pound per month, the principal
 being repaid in twenty weekly install mentS of a shilling for each pound nom- inally borrowed. But the full interest of shilling to the pound per month has to be paid as long as any instalment of the | principal remains outstanding. No matter how much these gombeen men may happen to lend any one or more per sons at time, they commence opera tions by deducting a shilling from every l pound, and afterwards charge interest at the rate of a shilling to the pound per month, until the whole of the principal be repaid. Justice.
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09
A GIGANTIC STEAL.

The accumulation of millions upon millions of coin in the United States treasury has had the effect of arousing the cupidity of capitalists and bondholdcrs to such a degree that they have lobbied a claw through both the houses of congress permitting the government to buy bonds and pay the bondholders a bonus for the privilege. Without rejecting for one moment upon the fundamental dishonesty of making the people pay over into the hands of their explolters a labor-robblng interest, this last piece of class legs- lat0n is almost unparalleled for bold eifrontery. The Jackson, Tenn, .State Uheel, organ of an extensive farmers organization of that name, thus expresses the indignation of its constituents over the act
 "The government will have to pretty nearly pay the future interest on out standing bonds in order to get them, This Is decidedly a fat thing for the hondholders. It will be a straight, clean donation of more than S2OO, O,0O0, ,OO0 to the sharks who have been picking Uncle Sans pockets for the last twenty-five years It k Il terminus of the damnable scheme of robbery which was inaugu- rated by the bond thieves away Lack in lS62-whcn they got the memorable senate amendment passed making i'm port duties and the interest on the pub lie debt payable in coin, and putting the little word except on the back ot the greeuback. Thnk of 1t 1, More than s2, 200, ,00O. GOO This is d straight, square, nuI-and-out steal, if there ever was one since the time when tod himself wrote the ten command ments ou Mt. Sinai =
 While not protesting much ac- Qualntance with Sinaitlc politics or the steals of legendary times, we can share the indignation of the farmers over the bondholderS impudent rob- bery. And while we are thus brought into contact with our farmer friends, it may not be out of place to remind them that there are thou sands of people who are not even fortunate enough to town "a farm, nor, if they owned one could they use it. And yet these people, the wage workers, are factor in politics,
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09

It is said that the democrats were hourishing red flags in their convention at St. I.ouls. An insult to the red flag.
 It is said that the Pope of the l}o man Catholic church, has nearly finished a book on the labor Ques- ton, in which he supports govern ment intermediation for the workers welfare. Alb, but what government and who is to decide what the workers welfare IS? There's the rub, Leo.
 Governor Hill has signed the bill providing for the execution of con- demned criminals by electricity, abolishing the sentence, to hang by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead" Thus the saylors of society show their app eciation of modern science, and criminals will be dispatched quickly. This IS d matter of vital importance to some poor devils.
 The principal salarled officer of the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor has again. 1t seems, given notice to his followers that he intends to resign his position as "General Master Workman. Now, if the next general assembly of that noble order will create some sinecure office with a larger salary attached than falls to the lncum bent of the c. NJ. W.'s chair, 1t Is possi- ble that he will resign his present lucrative office for the new one. Otherwise, judging from the past, our noble and holy knigh's may as well make up their minds that Ter renee will continue to the fore.
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09
BROTHER v OANA'S INVl-
 TATION,

Brothers the Mills bill to reduce the tariff ia the fest step to that one room for an American family. Fight it with out delay, and fight it to it's death; and then make your tariff 50 protective as to shut out cheap foreign labor in the form of manufactured goods.-N l Sun.
 Oh, it's " b.others,' IS 1t, ancient journalist: And So you're afraid that an American family may have to come down to one room. Why, old man, you ought to get acquainted with some American families in New York. Try and secure an invitation to dine with one of them eN talRiHe. You enter the dining room with your patriotic host; at the same time, as if by magic, you find yourself Tn the kitchen, parlor, sleeping room, boudOlr, bath room, store room and nursery. That other door you see  leads to the water closet. The Mills bill had nothing to do with this economical "racket," nor is the American family the only family that enjoys the combination dwell ing. There are also number oi foreigners who have learned the art of making a residence out of one room. You see, Dana, necessity is the mother of invention" and compact combination dwellings, Yes; and pretty soon you will occupy even smaller apartments, and then and not till then, will you be one O the great majority Good night
 Dana.
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09

own interests by perfcctlng their or ganization and educating themselves in social and political economy, and they will find that evolution will proceed much faster in the line of cooperation and industrial develop ment up to labor's supremacy.
 Common sense should teach the people that the continuance of d sys- tenn which permits the ruthless eX- p!oitation of the masses by few owners" of practically stolen wealth, means slavery and degrada- ton; yes, and starvation, You may place ever so high a duty on manu- lacturcd cotton, and when the in- troduction of improved machinery throws thousands of spInncrs out of employment, these poor people will furnish all the competition ncCcs- Sary to cut down the wages of those who may still chance to be retained as machine tenders.
 But when the people comprehend that they can own the capital of the country in common, and use 1t for the increase of the common wealth, they will see how trivial the things are which they have wasted their thoughts upon, at the lnstlgatlon of their enemies.
 Free trade, for8ooth' |" Protec- tion bosh'
 Let the capitalists settle 1t among themselves. As for the workers, let them not assist in clogglng the wheels of evolution, but rather lend lllclf help to adVance lne aDoI movement, looking neither to the right nor to the left, but ever alert to take advantage of the mistakes and weaknesses of their enemies. This cannot be done by them slngIy: therefore they must be organized and banded together. Nor can it be accomplished ignorantly; therefore they must inform themsel yes.
 The means are at hand, and tn, opportunity is n0m. But those means are not the capitalist newspapers nor does the opportunity lie in bal lot cast for the enemies of labor.
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09
ANOTHER SLAVERY.
Civilization at the Tag End of the
 Nineteenth Century.

Within fortnight the country has had two notable examples of the high plane of civilization to which 1t has attained. Both incidents oc- cured in Missouri. In one a white woman accused colored woman of stealing from her, and the colored woman resented the lmputation on her honesty with much vigorous in- dignatlon. The white woman es- saved to chastise her colored sister, and was first trounced and then cjccted from the latter's cabin. It was determined at a meeting of white men, called to consider the case, to visit the colored woman's cabin and to fog her in orthodox aHte-bellum fashion; but when the loggers arrived the woman was not there. Her husband would not dis cover her hiding place, so he was taken out, tied up, and was under going a whipping when a volley of rifle shots came out of the woods, and the Missouri Colonel, the hus- band of the accusing wife, was fat ally wounded and others of the fog ging party injured, some seriously, by the bullets. There the matter rests, the authorities mcantime look ing for the shooters. The seco- d case IS that of a negro in a small Missouri town in Saline County, who was without any other visible means of support than his wife, He was arrested COT yicted, and sen- tenced-under a Jaw fifty-tive years old-to be sold to the highest bidder for six months, and to pay the costs of his conviction. The man was put on the block, as in old slave days, and sold to the Prosecuting Attorney of the County for $6.5 For six months he is his purchasers slave, gets no benefit from his own labor, and no benefit can attach to his wife from it. The man may de- 'serve punishment, but the form of punishment is foul, degrading and thievish. And these two cases are simply two incidents that have strayed into publicity There may be may hundreds more that are not the worlds property, and which, if they were, might be still keener satires on the glorious civilization of the flag end of the nineteenth cen tury. H. B.
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09

It is said that the democrats " were hourishing red flags in their convention at St. I.ouls. An insult to the red flag.
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09
JUNE 9, 1888.
FALSE LIGHTS.

l He pOlItlCIdAo Sceiii Douilu 1o make workingmen believe that tariff or free trade are very important questions, and that the salvation of the wage earners depends upon the proper solution of the question. Shall we compel importers to pay high tariff, or shall we permit free trade? Every capitaII Ist sheet in the country IS urging one or the other idea, and each appeals to the be- loved (before clectlon) worklngmrn to decide the question for hls own benefit by casting his vote for the candidate of this or that capitalist party. It matters little to the gen eral run of capitalists which of these parties the workman wastes his vote upon, so long as he does not vote for q third party, or withhold his vote altogether.
 Some of the great daily news papers are making frantic efforts to frighten our people into voting for high tariff professional politicians. They tell of the low wages prevail ing in Germany, and assert that the free importation of goods from those countries means competition with cheap labor. Here is sample screcch from the New York ,SUn:
 Wages in Germany, France, Bel gium and Switzerland are not one-third of what they are here. Those of Italy are not one-uuarter. Munich is gallery and centre of art, German women with as many as six children saw wood in its streets for fifteen cents a day. May merciful God sink the United States ter thousand feet decp under the sea before that hideous spec tacle shall become au incident of oul civilization
 Now, how comes 1t that the pro tected" German getssu low wages High tariff doesn't seem to make life very comfortable for " German women with as many as six chll dren."
 On the other hand, the sam, paper calls attention to the state o affairs in free trade Britannia. l says;
 "Glasgow, in Scotland. is the steam ship factory of the world, and its blas furnace owners and iron rollers how for free trade day and night. Of th' families i'll that manufacturing Sodom II ,O00 out of 100, GOO live in one room and halt of the men and women in tn city are chronically out of work. Ina one room for family of father, mother daughters and sons, tells what wages ar, in Scotland, and bow they drag human ity down into bestiality and misery"
 Well, how Is this for free trade That doesn't seem to give the ,OO' out of 100, ,O0O families in "moderl Sodom" much to brag over, doe it:
 Neither free trade nor "protec tion" causes poverty, and neithe the adoption of one or the other vii secure to the toiIer the results of hi toll. But the agitation of thes questions tends to divert the atten tlon of the laboring men from tn real issue before them, and to tn extent that 1t causes them to thro, away their vote on one or the Othe of the old parties, or leads them | neglect their labor organizations, i serves the capitalists will.
 Let the working people once mak up their minds to give no heed [ the bogus |" issues" raised by thei enemies, but attend strictly to thei
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09
LEADERS,.

J Labadie says that anarchy in trade and industry will lead 10 anarchy in other avenues of human activities" Very naturally. And a system of order in industrial activities will lead to order in other activities.
Workmen's advocate., 1888-06-09
WHICH SHALL IT BE?

ur. tddor-lt seems clear to me that Our republic will either have to become sociaIistlc, or be converted into SrOag gorernment, with an army of million or more men. Which shall it be:
 W. II. BENSON. PHILADELPHIA, May 2S.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-14
success with Irrigation.

Charley Becker alias "Coon-Tailn
alias Revenue" was on the street yes
terday clothed in purple and fine
linen, fguratively speaking; being in
terrogated as to the cause OF his an.
usual appearance he informed the re-
porter that 1t was all owing to the
benificient influences of irrigation
prsctised on his Pumpkin creek ranch.
Good hard work in clubbing up sage
brush and bringing the water on his
land has enabled him to cut this year
from two and a half to four tons o fhsy
to the acre. He says that he cut and
stacked about $50 tons aud left rs
much more on the meadow, and has
now disposed of both cut and uncut
for Il good figure, thus enabling him to
reside in town and wear good clothes
all winter. Irrigation is the thingn
Coon-Tail says, and he is dead right.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-14
A Fair Question.

The Courier doesn't like Chairman
Rreidler's method Of appointing COM
mittees, but we think it was a decided
improvement on Chairman McFar-
lanes. The personnel ofthe commit
tees in both conventions was agreed
upon before hand, as they always are,
and Mr.. Kreidler In naming them
openly referred to his list. Mr.. Nc
Fsrlsne, on the contrary, made a oold
attempt to convey the idea that he was
acting m his own judJmen,, by criti-
cally inspecting the delegates and az
fecting to write down names that were
already prepared for him. Now hon.
estly. MI. Courier, which was the best
method, considering that deception
wat entirely unnecessary?
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-14
The Beef Market aud PoIitics

''Skew" Johnson was seen on the
streets yesterday for the first time in
n weeks, he having lust returned
from Chicago where he had been with
n train load Of beef. He shipped from
W~hitewood, on the Chicago & North.
western, driving from the Powder
river ranch to that point. He was on
Tuesdays market with Is ears OF
beaves aud got SAL 5 all round; some
"tops' that he had, brought the best
price of that day. "Skew" returns
home to find that the democrats have
made unwarrautable use of his name
during his absence IN nominating him
on their legislative ticket. and honor
which he In nOwlse crsved, and in
fact positively refused before be went
10 the ranch. Ii he remains ia his
prerent mind he will draw his name
from the ticket, but 1t is possible that
his demoralized constituency may in
ducs him to sacrifice himself in the
vain attempt 10 carry the party
''Skew" has got a whole lot Of com.
mou sense though, and il not liable ia
be led by the nose anywhere that hi,
Judgment don't approve Of.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-14

DIR. Richard Corcoran and family
have rented the Ladd house on the
south eide, ana will become permanent
additions to u population. DIR. Cor
coran il not an entire stranger to Miles
City, having, while veterinarian of
the Fret cavalry, stationed at Font
Custer, made several acquaintance;
he accompanied his regiment 10 Texas
in 1856, and when the Eighth cavalry
were assigned 10 stations in Montana.
he applied for and secured a transfer
to that regiment, of which he is now
the senior veterinarian: As such. his
station would properly be with head
quarters at Fort Meade, but pleasant
recollections of Miles City induced
him to request 40 assignment at Fort
keogh which was granted. DIR. Cor
corsn's family consists of his wife and
four children; the latter he describes
as follows; one Oregonian 5 years old;
n Montsnian 3! years old one Texan
9 years old; and one Dskotisn not ye,
a yearling.