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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-04-17
AUCTION SALES.
By r. 7. Lucas, Auctioneer.

SERGEAN1ys SALE OF INTEREST IN REAL
~ ESTATE IN WASHINGTON, D. C., AND
BOWIE. MARYLAND.
by virtue of an order of the Corporation Court
OF the city of Alexsndria, Va, in the cause of
armstrong admr., vs.. William 81. Devaughn, l
WIN seIi AZ puoic auction in front of the Royal
street entrance to the Market Building Alexsn.
drla, va, on THURSDAY, April 25, 1889, at IL
o'clock noon, ~
First: The INTEREST of William Il. Devsughn
in the estate OF Samuel Devaughn, late of Wash.
ingtop, D. c., the ssid estate consisting of VAL.
UABLE REAL ESTATE in the city of Washing.
ton D. c.
Second. The INTEREST of the said William H
Devaughn in TWO VACANT LOTS at Boyle
Prince Georges county Maryland, formerly the
town of Huntington.
Terms of Sale: Cash. WIN. II. SMITH,
apis 9tl Sorgt. of the city of Alexandria. Va.
YNRUsTEES SALE OF LAND IN FAIRFAX
Il COUNTY, VIRGINIA
BY virtue of 8 deed of trust dated On the 9th
day of October, 1885, aud recorded in the land
records OF Fairfax county, Virginia in deed book
E, No. ., folio 329 executed by Mary W. Mcleod
and Annie F. Brewer, the subscriber as trustee in
said deed, will, by the request of the legal holder
OF the bond thereby, secured, offer for sale at
public auction, on MONDAY, the Goth day of
May, 1889, at - o'clock M, at the front door
OF the Court House of Fairfax county, Virginia
the property conveyed by said deed of trust, to
wit: A TRACT OF LAND with the BUILDINGS
thereon, in tho said county of Fsirfax, about 21s
miles south Of Burko's station, the v. NJ. B. b.
containing 21S scres. more or less also all tho
FARMING IMPLEMENTS and STOCK now ON
said land, which were conveyed by the same deed
of trust.
Terms Of Sale: So much of the purchase money
in cash as will be required to pay the expenses of
sale and trustees commissions aud the sum OF
$2,125, with interest from the Oath day Of Octo-
ber, 1885, and the residue on a crcdit of twelve
months from the day OF sale, with interest; the
deferred payments to be secured by a lien on the
land
ap15 cots ALBEIT STUART, Trustee.
Fairfax Herald copy
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I RESPECTFULLY announce myself csndi-
/ date for CORPORATION ATTORNEY-sub
ject to tho democratic primary election
ana 1m$ SAsTI. G. BRENT.
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ESPECTFULLY announce myself candi-
date for CLERK OF THE CITY GAS WORKS,
subject to the democratic primary, Thursday,
April %, 1889
apis tpe WALTER E. NAILS.
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CANDIDATES.

RESPECTFULLY announce myself csndi-
4 date for re election to the Office of SUPERIN-
TENDENT OF GAS, aubiect to the decision of
the democratic primary, and request the votes of
my fellow-ctizens.
ap16 tpe WM, q. HANTZMON.
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CORPORATION NOTICES.
/ ,1TY TREAsURERs OFFICE,
- Room No CITY Hail.

Alexandria, Va, April 15, 1889.
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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-17
THE LAND FRAUDS.

In lectures recently delivered before
the Labor Lyceum, the Liberal Club,
the Brooklyn Philosophical Association
and other bodies of similar character,
attention was called to laws under
which the public domain is rapidly pas
sing into the hands of a few spectators.
Fully equipped with facts, the lecturer
contended that three quarters, at least,
of the entries made under the Home
stead, Presumption, Timber Culture and
Desert Land Acts were actual fOrgeries,
committed for the benefit of foreign and
domestic rings of capitalists. But the
New York papers, ever SO ready to
probe scandal, carefully abstained
from noticing these charges; not because
the person who made them could not be
trusted, for his statements have never
been impeached. but because they were
presented as a powerful argument in
favor of the immediate naturalization
of the public domain.
\ few days ago, however, the people
of South Dakota. in their constitutional
convention, adopted memorial urging
the President to suspend all minera
entries on school land in the Territory
because there was ground for belief that
a great many of these entries were
fraudulent. This official action of ar
important political body could not be
ignored, and the New York Times, al
last. comes out with the following ar
ticle
When Mr.. Sparks came into the land
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-17
NOT YET.

"The TcUtidh Century believes the
Nationaists, Socialists and Anarchists
are our natural allies. These and we are
not agreed upon d method, but we are
agreed upon the jrincyle that no indi-
yidual should have legal right to ap-
prOpriate economic ground rent to the
extent of az much as mill. IWcHticth
century.
This is anarchistic taffy Of the cheapest
kind-made up half and half of truth
and untruth, therefore more fraudulent
than whole, straight, unaduteratcd,
honest lie.
Here comes a robber and demands our
pocket-boOk which contains ten dollars.
Then comes Pentecost and tells us
blandly, why should you let yourself
be despoiled by a thief; Keep one dol
lar and give him the rest; for that dollar
rightly belongs to you"
Mark, that Pentecost does not say
that the nine other dollars are the
rightful property Of the thief. 1t was
in fact for refusing to say so-in addition
to publishing the THentieh Century
while the master" was publishing the
Stm,durd-t he was duly eXcOmmu-
nicated Neither does he say that we
should compromise with the rObber;
that while we are in some way too weak
or too cowardly to defend our right and
keep the full contents of our pocket
book, the robber may be willing to
leave us one dollar rather than incur
| the risk of a life and death struggle.
He actually says nothing at all, but that
we must give the robber nine dollars
and keep one, because this one dollar
belongs to us.
This illustration, we trust, is quite
suggestive of the width and depth of
the chasm which still separates Pente
cost from the Socialists. He merely
denies the legal right of any one tc
appropriate economic ground rent
whereas the Socialists absolutely repu
diate any system of which ground rem
may be feature.
1t is not, therefore. upon A methoc
alone, but upon THE principle, that he
and we disagree.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-17
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
THE LABOR PRESS.

In looking backward over the past
three years we note the fact that where
the labor press has been sustained, there
the best organization exists, and where
the press has failed, dry rot is perform
ing its work. AS we have repeatedly
said, the hope of the movement is in
the labor press-not a truculent sub
servient press-but live, energetic and
fearless press that will not hesitate to
condem wrong wherever it exists
Indianapolis SigHai,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-17

contracted from the middle class itself
Of making a powerful use of logoma-
chy in misrepresenting the Socialists,
For the same reason he may be ex-
cused for associatng the idea Of free
competition with the principle Of SEQ
operation. Of course men who CO.
operate do not compete, and by no
kind of Iogomachy can this expression,
free competition" convey the idea of
"emuIation," or the less lofty one Of
mutual interest" which alone are con-
sis,out with the idea of association,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-17
SCAB BROKERS.

Inc trOuuce Exchange Is a trade
union of brokers. Its official organ is
the Commercial BUletm, Hear what
the organ has to say when some brokers
attempt to work longer hours, and to
otherwise "scab it,
THE principle of recognized business
hours is now well established, both in
our country and Europe. All exchanges
and banking institutions have defined
limits of time within which business
must be conducted. The great majority
of the former impose penalties upon
their members when convicted of trans.
gressiOn of the rule; the latter being
independent concerns. simply open and
close their doors at certain times and do
no business outside of these limits. The
general tendency, too, has been to cur
tail, as much as possible the hours of
active trading. The improved Exchange
machinery has so far simplItled business
transactions that an enormous number
can now be compressed within the re-
duced hours of trading. In the grain
trade, with which the present trouble
lies, there has been a very considerable
change within few years, and none of
the "old timers but confess to the inn
proved state of things now. In those
days business never appeared to be over,
| for wherever two or three gathered
with diverse views, trading of some
kind almost surely resulted. Railroad
! cars, ferry boats and hotels were all
| scenes of such transactions. Out of
| this loose system sprang many disagree
ments and much scandal, and such a
distinctly demoralizing effect both on
the trade and the individual that its
suppression was hailed with general
satisfaction. The reversion to "Curb
! trading is a distinctly retrOgressive
step in both directions. 1t abandons
well-detined limits, within which bust
ness must be done for the uncertainties
of individual caprice, and reopens the
door TO such disagreements and disputes
as are always likely pendants to such
guerrilla style of business"
individual caprice" scandal" de
moralization," guerrilla style of bust
ness. Why, these are the very terms
in which Organized Labor denounces
the scab system, so much encouraged by
the capitalists. Observe, furthermore,
that the Bulletin cannot esteem too
highly the advantages that have resulted
Ito the business mem from reduction
of the trading hours; and so does Organ
lied Labor contend that much greater
production could be compressed in
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-17
SOCIOLOGIC PRINCIPLES.

The problem of our age" says An.
drew Carnegie, " is the proper admins
tration of wealth, 50 that the ties Of
brotherhood may still bind together the
rich and poor
Brother Carnegie is quite wide of the
truth. The problem of our age is two
fold: first, the creation and accumulation
of wealth, 50 that there may be enough
for the execution of every great purpose
of the human mind and secondly, the
discovery of truth and accumulation of
knowledge, so that vastly more wealth
may be created and the purposes of the
mind may be expanded and REINFORCED.
Poverty is slavery and ignorance is the
perpetuation of poverty. The difficulty
with this world at present is that the
people in it are as yet too poor, too
ignorant, and too weak. Make them
rich make them wise in the knowledge
of natures forces, and powerful in con-
trolling and directing them; and, as the
process goes on, independence, equality,
happiness, and brotherhood will come in.
Sentimental thinkers are carried away
with impatient and useless passion to
bring about in the nineteenth century
the unknown conditions of life which
may be realized in the twenty fifth.
Such thinkers are deluded with the zeal
of excited and as yet impracticable
philanthropy. They forget that out of
the hundred and fifty thousand years
that men have lived upon the earth, it
is only some twenty thousand since
they acquired the faculty of speech, and
only century and quarter since
James Watt perfected the steam engine.
The great work goes on pretty slowly
! yet the difference between the condition
of men when they dwelt in caves, and
their present condition in civilized coun-
tries, is something that might encourage
| the widest pessimist, or console the
most despairing and gushing professional
| humanitarian.
There are three sorts of people whose
labors tell with special effe:t in the
preparation and advancement of the
good time coming. These are they who
increase wealth, they who increase
knowledge, and they who, by new in
ventlons, increase the practical power
of man. The others, the statesmen, the
scholars, the philosophers, the poets, the
artists, the reformers, also count, but by
no means in the same degree. 1t must
be said also, that they sometimes hinder
a great deal more than they help.-Ne,o
York Sun.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-17

office he found there the report Of Mr..
Mcfarland and Of the special agents
employed under his supervision, and no
declaration subsequently made by him
or his agents concerning the extent and
nature Of the frauds was more severe
than the statement made in these re-
ports. For example, Republican
agent, writing from certain district in
Dakota IN 1884, declared that in his
opinion not more than 30 per cent, of
the pre-emptiUn and homestead claims
in the district were occupied by actual
settlers; that "fully = per cent Of the
entries under the pre.emptiOn laws were
made for speculative purposes, and that
10 per cont Of the timber-culture en-
tries were made "purely and simply for
speculation The reports of other
agents and inspectors were very much
like this one, and they were full Of eX
amples showing how the lands had
been taken fraudulently by ranchmen,
cattle companies, lumbermen and speCu-
latOrs. Commissioner iCFarland re-
peatedIy directed the attention Of Con-
gress to the condition Of affairs revealed
by these reports, and recommended
changed in order that the schemes Of
these jobbers might be thwarted,
Commissioner Sparks found the con-
yincing poof Of these frauds on his desk,
50 to speak, when he began his term,
| and he undertook to use it to some pur-
| pose. BY the work OF his agents he pro-
cured additional evidence. BY his orders
he sought to prevent the fraudulent
acquisition of land thereafter, and at the
same time he endeavored to recover a
part of the land that had been stolen.
! A great cutlery from those who were
| thus interrupted in the pursuit of a
| profitable but rascally industry showed
that he was making some progress in his
work. Unfortunately the scOundrels
whom he was pursuing We're soon able
to procure the aid Of the Republican
| partisan press, although he ought to
have had the support of all honest men
without regard to party, and through
out the remainder of his term he was
roundIy abused as if he were a horse
thief instead Of Il public officer striving
against powerful influence to procure
the enforcement of the laws and to pre-
serve the public domain for honest
| settlers.
Is not this good time for the Social
ist Sections, the Nationalist Clubs and
all labor organizations in sympathy
with our principles to advance these
very principles, by taking a practical
stand upon that question; that is, by
passing resolutions, agitating and organ
ling for the complete naturalization
of the public domain and the establish
ment thereon of the Cooperative Com
monwealth, as suggested in the pamph
let issued from this office on Land ant
Machinery"
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-17

fewer industrial hours to the great ben
eft to all.
Singular to say, however, while the
Commercial BulletiH advocates the impo-
sition Of heavy penalties upon the scab
brokers who indulge in "curb trading"
it bitterly denounces the organizations
of labor as destructive of personal indie
pendence. and would have its members
treated as couspirators.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-17
August H. 1850.
COMMUNIST OR SOCIALIST?

We have SO far abstalned from amy
editorial participation in the contro-
versy to which a recent criticism Of the
S. /. ?. platform by Comrade Stahl has
given rise. That the subject might re-
ceive proper treatment, we allowed the
disputants much more space than the
limited size of this paper and other OBJ
vious considerations warrant Us in grant
ing to matters hardly less important.
We had, therefore, a right to expect
that they would strictly confne them
selves to the question and avoid the use
of many,,words where a few might do as
well if not better The tendency, how
ever, has been to increasing prOlixity
and wide divergence from the objec-
tive point, until at last the communica
tons received this week are so lengthy,
and in some instances SO indirectly re-
lated to the question as originally pro-
pounded, that we can neither publish
them in their present form nor under
take to Condense them. We find, more
over, that some of our correspondents
are disagreed upon the very meaning of
terms; and as the WORKMEN's ADVO.
zine of anarchistic logomachy, we must
refer them to such lexicon as they may
Jointly name and consent to accept as
authority.
the following facts. Facts they are, and
essentially pertinent. They should be
kept in view in this discussion:
/. Communism binds its followers to
the principle of equal distribution, re-
gardless of the quantity or quality of
labor.
?. Socialism admits quantity and
quality as factors of distribution; pro
viding, however, for all cases of disabil-
ity, and relying upon the abundance of
production and the elevation of the
race under its system for rapid re-
duction of the ditferential power OF
those factors.
3. Comrade Stahls proposition i,
communistic, not socialistic.
4. 1t is, moreover, fundamental TIC
discuss it is to discuss the relative merits
of Communism and Socialism.
5. ii his proposition were adopted
the Socialist Labor Party would have tt
become in name, as it would be in fact
the Communist Labor Party
Now, if we look back to the origin O
the discussion, we find that the apparen
reason for it was the inability of Com
rade Stahl TO understand how the social
istic principle of distribution could b,
practically applied; in other words, how
the total product could be distribute,
among all the workers according to tn
service rendered by each. 1t seemed t
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-17
REMARKABLE CONVERSION.

Ayoung man Of much promise, Russian
by birth, Anarchist by education, but
Socialist by intuition, has heretofore
wasted in the defence of bad cause
time and talent that he may soon spend
with better results i'll the service
of truth. His name is Victor larros,
and his latest performance is an article
under the caption, "AnarchistiC Social
ISM" Just published in Mr. PenteCosts
organ.
The first part of that production is
weak denial Of the charge made by So
cialists that "Anarchists have Il parti-
atty for middle,class ideas, and that
they wish to retain the bourgeois ar
rangements, while giving them an ideal
flavor" The second part is an uncondi-
tional surrender to Socialism, wrapped
in thin veil of logomachy The sur
render is in the following terms;
THE Anarchists are emphatically in
favor of association and cooperation
and liberty, though good end in itself
is from the economic standpoint
| only means to an end, that end
being combination and association.
| They are fully aware that most Of the
| present blessings are due to CO-Opera-
ton, and the coming social system will
| have association for its watChword.'
Then comes the logomachy, 1t con-
sists in denominating Socialists, state
Socialists" and assuming that they CON
template the establishment of politico-
industrial despotism, III which all indi-
viduality, initiative, aptitude, inclination
and originality will be suppressed. We
quote:
what we protest against is the Estate
SOtltilStl AltiuSlpu tlldt tlic Nitllitllt vi
compusion is Indispensable; that men
must be driven by force to interest
themselves in their own welfare, and
that government, ever the tool of ex
plOiters, can be converted into usetu
instrument of reform. We do not
believe in the government of man by
man, and we do not conceive that self
respecting people will consent to b,
drilled, ordered about or disciplined 10y
anybody, whether the somebody il
called master or public servant, Oul
ideal of the future is unity in freedom
not enforced uniformity"
This ideal he calls "Anarchistic Social
ism" in opposition to the State Social
ism" of his own invention. Gronlund
whose works he says he has read-anC
he has unquestionably read them ;,
well that he has given up "Anarchisti,
Anarchism' -Gronlund. we say, calls i
simply Socialism,
In consideration of the surrender, an,
Of its suddenness, Mr.. Yarros may b.
excused for not having as yet lost tn
! bad habit, which the Anarchists with
, partiality for middle.class ideas" hav
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-17
STRENGTH OF THE MOVEMENT.

The fact that so many hundreds of
delegates could be assembled for Social
list Congresses, representing hundreds
Of thousands of workers in all parts of
the civilized world, shows that the So
cialist movement, hitherto so much ig-
nored by the newspaper press, is a great
deal stronger than the privileged classes
have believed. The rapid growth of
Socialism is one of the most obvious
facts Of the present day, though the
classes are blind to it. Irresistible is the
advancing tide; the Socialist era is draw
ing near, May it come peacefully, pure
from the stain of violence and blood, an
unmixed blessing. 1t will come peace
fully and benignly if men Of peace and
of large moral power, fit to influence
and to guide their fellows, hear the call
of duty and take the lead .-Brotherhood.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-17
The ClGARMAKERS' UNION.


If there is any labor organization in
this city which deserves credit more
than anothei-which practices to the
letter what it preaches-that organiza-
ton is the cigarmakers. 1t has spent
more money, done more unseltish work,
and advanced the cause of free labor in
this State more, we were about to say,
than all the other unions put together.
At great expense it publishes a paper
entitled the Lab0 Herald, which is not
alone the organ Of the cigarmakers, but
the advocate of all the trades unions.
Yet the majority Of the members of the
trades unions do not care the Whit of a
cigar whether they use the union-made
article or not. If they did, instead
five or six hundred white men having
employment as cigarmaker5 in this city,
there would be as many thousand. San
Francisco star.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-17

Mining machines are now introduced
in Illinois and elsewhere, which will
double the quantity of coal mined with
the same number of miners, or reduce
one half the number of miners, while
maintaining the present amount of pro-
duction. If machinery served its true
purpose-as it would in the Co-Opera-
tive Commonwealth--w might rejoice
in the thought that this great improve
ment would tighten the toll of the
miners, while decreasing the price of
coal; but under present conditions it
simply means harder times than ever for
the labor employed in the mines, greater
consolidation of the mining industry
and no reduction of prices to the con-
sumers.