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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-09-22
POLITICAL POTPOURRI.

The Union Labor Party has fused" in
lican' for Congress.
Connecticut has "labor Party" which
sails on a platform composed of Socialist,
Union and United Labor Party planks.
Rather mixed up affair.
The Socialists of New York will have
an opportunity Of voting a straight
Socialist ticket this fall. They are going
into politics independently.
The singular statement is current that
the candidate of the Union Labor Party
is the wealthiest presidential candidate
in the field.
The Union Labor Party has candi-
States thus far.
In Maine the State Labor ticket did
not get much more than thousand
votes last week. The Prohibition vote
was only three thousand.
Where are the idols of the laboring
men of a year or two ago? Where are
Ii. George, &. Blair, j. Jarrett, Litch-
man. Archibald, Denis Kearney, Patrick
Ford, and numerous others! They are
lost in the capitalistic compost heap, but
adding to its pungency.
The Socialist Labor Party in entering
active politics, does so only as means
of agitation as yet. Milwaukee is first
in the field.
One Of the nominees for State Repre-
sentatives of the Union Labor Party IN
st. Louis is Max Stoehr, who was dele
gate to the Socialist Convention in Buff
falo last September.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-09-22
CANNIBAlISM.

There seems to be great deal Of
horror felt at the fact that the men
of Greelev's Arctic Expedition ate
one another when the food fell short.
The truth is, cannibalism is quite
common in such circumstances.
DR.. John Rae declares openly that it
took place with Franklin's men; it
certainly occurred with one of Sir
George Backs expeditions; and the
probability is that there has scarcely
been a single instance in which a
party of Europeans have been left
without sufficient food among ice
where some of them have not de-
voured their fellows. Man, even
bourgeois civilized man, is not very
far above the brutes when it comes
to the question of dying of starva-
ton or living on his fellow man. We
can see the same thing going on qui-
etly under our very noses. The
sleek, well fed upper and middle
classes have simply fed upon the
corpses of the poor worn out work
ers-mep and women and children
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-09-22
SOME COMM ENTS
Upon Edward Bellamy's SOcialistic
Novel. Looking Backward"

These comments. it will be remem-
bered, are those of the capitalist press,
and testify to the value of Looking
Backward" as means of agitation.
The Boston Post says;
There is much earnest feeling and
strong writing init. The vivid dream of
the misery in Boston in 1887, which
came to West after he had enjoyed the
peace and plenty of the city in the year
2OO0, is powerfully told, and there is a
great and penetrating moral in the in
genious, elaborate, unrestrained imagin-
alton of Mr.. Bellamy. Its satire and its
intense feeling for the wronged and suf
fering of the present day make the
reader think seriously. The appeal is
always made to man S reason, and to
his noblest sentiments; never to his sell
fishness.'
The New York Nation, high-c class
political and literary paper, says:
Looking Backward is a well made
book, but it is more-a glowing prophecy
and gospel of peace. He who reads it
tApt'tllB plll W Dt tIllcl tiilitus ultSl
we should think, find himself unex-
pectedly haunted by visions of a golden
age wherein all the world unites to do
the worlds work, like members of one
family, where labor and Il living are
provided for each man, where toll and
leisure alternate in happy proportions,
where want and therefore greed and
Jealousy are unknown, where the pleas
ures of this world are free to all, to cheer
but not enslaye,"
The New York Graphic says:
"Excites unusual enthusiasm among
the more cultivated and thoughtful por.
tions of the travelling public"
And we say to our readers that those
who have not read the book are not up
to the times. "Looking Backward' is
calculated to make its readers look for
ward with hope, and inspires to action
Boston: Ticknor & Co., publishers,
May be ordered through the New York
Labor News Co., 25 East Fourth street,
New York.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-09-22

who are shot into the pauper grave
yard before their time with their
bones picked clean with capitaIistic
gluttony and greed. We need not
60 so far north as the Arctic regions
to find deliberate cannibals. There
are plenty of them among the land
lords and capitalists around us with
out the excuse of starvation; they
fatten on their fellows in order to
live in luxury at their expense. -
London Justice.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-09-22
A NICE COUSINLY PRESENT.

Young Lady Ito cigar dealer)-Have
you the Fragrant" brand of cigars, sir :
Dedler-Yes. miss
Young Ladg-How much are they a
box?
Dedler-One dollar and half box,
miss, 100 in box.
Young Lddy-You may give me box,
please. They are a present for my-my
cousin. I've often heard him say how
fond he is of fragrant Havana,-M. Y.
Sun,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-09-22
A MODERN MARRIAGE.

Smith, hear you are going to get
married again, Pancho.
Mr.. Rancho-Hi, hi, yah, yah, dat am
a fac, Mister Smif.
SmHh-Is it a love match, Pancho?
Mr.. Pancho more soberly)-Well, |
has great respec' TO de lady, sab, and Is
sho she'll make good wife; but, Mr..
Smif, da's no disguisin' de fac dat she
hab sebbenteen dollahs in Mistah Miller's
savin's bank.-Uticd Observer.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-09-22

~ NtIttS, Liz DOtldllSl IIdIol dIt1
has for long term of years neglected to
place in nomination candidates for pub
lie Office and
Whereas, No other political party ex-
lists which acknowledges the class strug-
gle between Labor and Capital, and all
the other parties form one reactionary
mass, and
Whereas, We consider it the duty of
every citizen to express his political
opinion with the ballot, which he cannot
do unless he can vote for representatives
of his opinions,
ResOlred, That we consider it the
sacred duty of the Socialist Labor Party
to provide its members and adherents
with the means of 50 expressing their
opinions.
ResOlred, That no consideration of
prestige in the eyes OF our opponents
shall effect us, as a Section of the 5. l..
p, in the performance Of our duty, and
that we call upon our comrades in this
city to rally and place in nomination
candidates for legislative offices to be
voted for every year.
Resolued, That we call upon the ma
tional Executive Committee, and
through them upon our comrades
throughout the United States, to take
such steps as shall give Socialists an OPP
portunity to exercise their right of fran
chise in accordance with their principles,
without regard to prestige or present
success.
In order to fully commit the
Party to the new departure it was
decided to ask the National Execu-
tive to issue a call for a general vote
upon certain amendments to the
constitution, consistent with the ac-
ton in view.
One point was particularly dwelt
upon, and that was that the Party
did not depend upon present success
for its existence, but that it had a
mission to perform which would ul-
timately lead to substantial results.
Meanwhile the Socialists would be
given an opportunity to perform a
duty they owed to themselves and
their Party, and show that they are
willing to use the peaceful methods
within reach towards the attainment
of their ends.
In regard to the shortness Of the
time before the November election,
it was agreed that as the Socialist
Labor Party did not seek to enhance
its vote by the election methods
common to the capitalist Doodle par
ties, but rather preferred that the
voters should cast their ballots from
conviction and as socialists, there
was sufficient time to make the con-
templated nominations for legislative
offices, and place the ballots in the
hands of all who desired to vote with
the Party. The Party was not re-
sponsible for the unjust laws which
deprived new parties in the political
contest Of the privilege OF having
counters and watchers at the polls.
ORGANIZATION AND DISCIPLINE.
1t was also decided to push the
new plan of organization recently
adopted into operation in the city of
New York, so that the beginning,
once made, the Party could be fully
organized and ready for action at
every political campaign, as well as
to be able to render valuable assist
ance in the better organization of the
working people.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-09-22

If both parties are so anxious to help
the workingmen in their struggle for a
higher and better life, why don't the
leading members do something to short
en- the hours of labor and increase
wages Workingmen are not SO very
anxious to buy cheap goods, 1t makes
but little difference whether food and
clothing are high or low in price, or
whether the duty on cotton ties is spe-
cifc al valorem. if all are employed and
their wages enable them to live comfor-
tabIy.-Craftsmdn.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-09-22
VOTE AS YOU TALK.
CLEAN SOCIALIST VOTES TO
BE CAST THIS YEAR.
The American Section Of New York
Strikes the Keynote - Unani.
mOusly in Favor of Inde.
pendent Political Ac.
tiOn Hereafter.

When, on last Saturday evening,
the German-speaklng Section Of New
York he'd a discussion upon the
subject of entering into political ac-
tor as a party, a remarkable spirit
of modesty was exhibited by few
of our comrades of the German
tongue, who deplored the recommen
dation made by joint committee of
the two Sections of New York and
the South District organization of
the Socialist Labor Party to 60 into
politics in New York. On the other
hand, there were goodly portion of
our German comrades who had be-
come sufficiently Americanlzed to
insist boldly on independent Socialist
politics, and that without delay.
There was a spirited debate, in which
large number took part under
ten-minute rule, and it was half past
eleven before vote was taken, the
attendance being decimated owing
to the lateness of the hour. The
result of the vote was that, by ma
jority Of three, it was decided not to
make nominations this year. The
main reason was that it was too late
to organize campaign. There was
but one English speaker, and he
held that it was never too late for
remedying such a mistake as the
Socialist Party had been guilty of
in neglecting to enter into active
politics. He believed that the So
cialists in the United States should
emulate their brave comrades in Ger
many, who pluckily contested cleo
ton after election, till now they
were beginning to be felt as a politi-
Cal power. Besides, the value of the
public agitation of our principles
necessarily accompanying political
action was of great advantage to the
propaganda.
The lateness of the hour and the
closeness of the vote suggested con-
siderable doubt as to the real feeling
of the majority of the German-speak-
ing Socialists of New York upon the
important subject under considera-
tion.
THE KEYNOTE SOUNDED.
The American Section met on
Monday evening, with the largest
attendance in many months. When
the delegates to the joint conference
reported the recommendation of that
body to 60 into political action i'm
mediately, the meeting developed
into a political symposium. The
greatest enthusiasm and harmony
prevailed, and the following resolu-
tion was unanimously y adopted:
Whereas, We believe there is consid-
cradle sentiment among our citizen Com
rades of the German tongue in favor of
independent political action this fall,
notwithstanding the rather doubtful
vote of last Saturday.
ReSOlUed, That we request of the Cen
tral Committee of Section New York to
submit to a general vote in the various
branches of that Section the question
of joining with Us in nominating and
voting for Socialist candidates for legis-
lative offices at every election.
A GENERAL MOVEMENT WANTED.
This was considered insufficient
for the importance of the movement,
for it was claimed that more ex-
tended action should be taken, and
the sense of the Section was ex-
pressed in the following additional
resolution:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20
FOOD ADULTERATlON.
An OfTense Against Public Health Which
Should be Punished Severely.

An Offense Against Public Health Which
Should be Punished Severely.
The pure-food movement is one of no
small consequence to the general pub
lie. Few realize the extent to which
adulteration is practiced, or properly
estimate the peril with which the COM
munity is thus threatened. The most
ingenious tricks are employed to in
crease quantity without regard to quail
ity, until nearly every commodity en-
tering into household consumption is
subject to adulteratiOn. In fact all such
articles may be looked upon with dis
trust, unless purchased Of reputable,
long established houses who take a just
pride in catering to and retaining the
cream of the custom. But the poorer
classes do not patronize such establish
ments for obvious reasons, and it is
this vast number which needs protec-
ton from dishonest dealers in inferior
goods. Teas, coffees, spices, sugar,
molasses, lard, butter and many other
of the common necessaries of life are
tempered with, regardless Of the moral
question of dishonesty or the physical
question of effect upon the consumers.
OF course, the milk that is fed to the
poor mans babe should be as sweet
and wholesome as though it were
slipped by a millionaire's pet, and in q
word. it should be made impossible to
procure provisions containing inferior
and dangerous ingredients. The safety
of the public health alone demands this.
to say nothing of other and less selfish
reasons. 1t is in this view gratifying
to observe the attention being paid in
many of the States to the subject of
food adulteration. tits a delicate mat
ter for the General Government to
legislate upon, on account of interior
ence with the States, although Con-
gress did take up the butter abuse and
enact n strict oleomargarine law. But
the States themselves are awakening to
the necessity or prohibiting the deal
ing in dishonest food.
According 20 the report of the Mas
.sachusetts Board Of Health, dyring the
past year, nearly five thousand samples
Ia ken from articles of food and drugs
offered in open market have been
Analysed by the State authorities and
more than One-tbird OF the number
found to be either adulterated or de-
based below the legal standard of
purity. This large percentage is vet
much less than was aseertained five
years ago, when systematic efforts
were commenced to prevent food
frauds. The good progress made is all
the warrant necessary for pushing the
reform forward to such a point as will
see the complies prohibition of the
nefarious business. Good health as
well as good morals demand it.-BostoB
COBlH1crciai BUltt tin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20
FARM AND PRESIDE.

Dry earth, perfectly free from mois-
ture, is excellent for use in bins for
storing turnips and other root crops.
Nothing is gained by letting oats
stand to get dead ripe before cutting,
while there is real loss in Smelling and
straw grown woody.
Lack of alllaH in a soil is denoted
by soft, weak easily crushed straw in
growing crops, and the remedy should
be immediate. Limo, wood ashes or
potash is needed.
"A small herd Of cattle that have
been carefully selected with the pur-
pose of obtaining the most desirable
points, is better and more profitable
than large herd composed of all sorts.
-Parsnips and carrots are not in
jured if stored outside in mounds, and
in sections where the winters are not
severe they may be left in the rows,
with only slight covering. The
proper way to store them however, is in
cellar, in bins, so as TO easily handle
them when they are wanted for feeding.
Peach Fritters: Make batter of
one coffee cup of sweet milk. two eggs,
a spoonful of butter, q pinch of salt,
and a level teaspoonful of baking
powder. Thicker to firm batter with
flour, and lastly, stir in the frothed
whites of the two eggs. Dip the peaches,
pared and halved, into this batter with
fork, piece by piece, and fry, deli
cate brown, in clear. hot drippings.
Beef Patties Chop fine and sea-
son highly; make a gravy by brown
ing one tablespoonful of flour and add
ing boiling water until it is thin enough;
then put in the meat, cover the pan
and stew gently, while you make a
nice pastry, not too rich; cut into tart
shapes and bake; when ready to serve
fill your tarts with the mixture and
serve on hot plates.
How to Cook Round Steak: Chop
it very fine and scrape it free from
sinews. Then season with salt, cayenne,
minced parsley, onion and the beaten
yelk of an egg, and make up into little,
lAebI Scihto' 1 lC0t ttIt W bC lIltu III uIlp-
ping until cooked through and beauti-
fully Drowned on both sides, and the
gravy poured over them. A nicely
poached egg on u bit of inviting toast
should be helped with each meat cake
Blackberry Cordial: Heat the ber-
ries to the boiling point, then mash
them and cook slowly half an hour,
then strain in the juice through piece
of cheese cloth; measure it and put in
d clean kettle. To one quart of the
juice add one-half pint of sugar, half a
teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-fourth
teaspoonful of cloves and half a nutmeg
grated. Boil half an hour and let the
liquid cool. Put away in a cool place.
This cordial is an excellent medicine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20
Concerning Old Maidhood.

There are many worse things than
single blessedness, and the condition
OF the old maid is no less honorable to
her than is that of matrimony to her
welded sister. The old maid may. if
she will, and she generally does, bear
noble part in the good work of maxi
ing the world a better and happier
place. There are probably few who do
not carry with them through life the
tender memory of some old IL aid whose
Dove and goodness cheered and blessed
their early years. How often is she u
mjnistering angel whose life is spentin
agts' Of unsolfsh devotion to those
around her? We can not spare lhe old
maid She has an important role to
play I'm the human comedy, and the
thing for her to do is to study it and
play it well. The woman who worries
because she secs old maidhOod before
her is without good sense. Let her be
sure that there are thousands of wives
who only wish that they had led single
lives, and then she may find it easier to
learn of the apostle in whatsoever state
she is Herewith to be content. -NOrtb
american ReUieU.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20

A young man. a Protestant, at
tended a Roman Catholic church for
the first time on a recent Sunday at
Bar Harbor. When he was going out
he thought he saw the congregation
dropping offerings into a receptacle at
the side of the door, so when he reached
it he put forth his hand and deposited
a quarter in the holYwater font
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20

THE poorest kind of a poor man is poor
lawyer. He is too proud W work, and be-
liev ng the world owes him a liv ing is
shabby enough to want to sue every body
in it for damages.-N o. PtcdWule.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20

PRUDENT mothers with manageable
daughters do not especially care for match
less weather during their summer outing
-NClU Haven NCCS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20

IT hurts a man just about as much to
burn him in eftigy as to have his shadow
on stone wall butted by goat.-ToL-do
Blade
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20
TESTIMONIALS WOE

MY daughter Maud has used Hibbards Rheu-
mauc syrup and Plasters, which you SO strongly
recommended her to try for nllammatory rheuma-
usin. Her limbs were badly swollen and the poor
glIl was IN terrible agony. In the midst of the pain
we wound the Plasters about her limbs, and, as
result The swelling was reduced and she became
9ule' and rested The syrup corrected her indiges-
uo3, Geansed the rheumatic poison from her blood,
snu , Sne IS now able to be around the house. Hib'
OF great merit. REV. l. RoBERrs,
Pastor First NJ. Z. Church, Fremont, Mich.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20

an Continued FeUers, and
a Reliable Remedial
Agent In all Diseases of the Stomach and
Iatesti1tes.
W. c. VILE, NJ. D., THE NEW ENGLAND
MEDICAL MONTHLY In the delicate condi-
tions of the stomach, when everything else has
been rejected l have saved many lives by
giving IMPERIAL GRANUM. / consider it one
of the very best foods the physician can find to
assist him in carrying through his patient to
recovery; and | have found it of inestiinable
valuein the later stages of Phthisis, Gastrltls.
Gastric Catarrh, Dyspepsia, and Dysentery:r".
We speak from experience when we say that
the IMPERIAL GRANUM is both safe and nutri-
tious. 1t has been on the market for many
years. and the largely increasing sales show that
many Others have found like results attending
its use" The Christian CniOn," N 7.
AS a Medicinal Food IMPERIAL GRANUMs
rior grOwths of wheat, IS uneXceiled, ana IS
to-day the STANDARD DLETETiC preparation
for invalids, for the aged, ana Tor the very
young.--"N. Am. Jotundl0f Homeopathy" ny.
IMPERIAL G RANUM has been before the public
for many years, and is now regarded as S,,i q
that thisis due to its uniformly superior quality
and the successful results obtained with 1T IN
81 6 e1sfs T Science Re e'. Boston, S Mdss.
p. VARNUM MOTT, Nj. D., Boston, Mass, IHR
MICROCOSM," New York-"There are nume-
rous Foods that are much Wanted, and all have
their adhcrents. The IMPERIAL G RANUM,' in
my hands, seems to be all that is claimed for it,
and experience has brought me to rely on its
in infantile diseases it has proved very ellca-
cious, and I always direct its use when child
is being wcaned."
The lives of untold thousands of infants have
been saved by IMPERIAL GRANUM, and careful
mothers are loud in their praises of this well
known food, and pharmacists can safely recom-
mend it.-Procccdings Illinois Pharmaceutical
Association.
IMPERIAL GRANUM is highly recommended
| by our best physicians, and many families here
| bear testimony its reliability for the purposes
| for which it is prescribed. John Carrie Il Sons,
| New York, are the agents for this country. 1t
| s Sold by all Druggists. Mobile, AId., Register
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20

IT is one thing to meet an obligation and
another thing to pay it.-DdnsUHle Breeze
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20

THE poet who burns the midnight oil"
is kept awake by the muse It's the same
way with the man who keeps a cat-YOlk
orS Statesman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20

A BOOK on the Liver, its diseases and treat
nent FREE. Ad. DR., Sanford, 23l B'way, n. Y.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20

a FINE place-a police court.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20

THE man who falls out of a ballo n re-
allies the gravity of the situation before
he has dropped five miles.-HGrper's Bdzdr
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20

THE tea growers may be said to be the
only men who are satisfied with nothing
but leaYes.n
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20

WHENEVER a ship loses her hold she
goes to the bottom with rush.-Wdshtng
ton Critic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-20

BREAD riots result from too much leaf.