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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05

FoR SALE-A dwelling house ahd p
acres of land known as (Smades' proper
ty) IN the village of Yale. or will trade
same on improved farm. For further
particulars address or apply TO SIMEON
HAMILTON. West Branch, Mich. 2ltf
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05

AUCTION SALE-W. w. Lord. auc-
ito neer, will offer for sale by public
auction at the residence of the under
sig ned two miles east of Peck on We'd
nes day, Dec. 4, a lot of stock, farm i'm.
pie ments etc. Sale to commence at II
m. WIN. THOMAS.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05

AUCTION SALE.-Geo w. Bell. auc-
tioneer, will sell for the undersigned at
his place, three miles south and one
lie west of Yale, on Thursday, Dec.
9Th, lot of farm stock, implements. &c.
Sa lie at one o'clock pm. JOHN STELLA,
proprietor.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05

VILLAGE LOTs> FOR SNLE.-The I'M
signed has some desirable lots in Or
chard Hill addition to the village OF
Yale for sale. For further particulars
and terms call on or address. DIR. G.. =.
NEYr Yale. Michigan. 244
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05

Report of school district No. ), of
Maple Valley, for the month ending
Nov. 29th: Number of days taught, 10;
number OF pupils enrolled. IS; average
daily attendance. fl. The following
are the names of those who have pas
sed q creditable examination in their
respective studies: Oscar Stinson,
Laura Jones, Annie Brewster. Asa
Reynolds. JAS Kennedy, Maude Bailey,
Alvin Wilmer. John Downey,
Emma Bailey, Jos. Wilmer, Maggie
Bailey. Minerva Wilmer, Edith Me
Knight. Hattie Young, Alice Mcknight,
Ella Reynolds. Mary LandOn, Rosa
Hughson, Sarah Landon, Clinton TEN
pie. Arnie Burgess. Bertha Downey and
Willie Burgess. Parents and friends
are cordially invited TO visit the school
at any time. CHAs. Fox.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05

Sick Hesdache.--Loose's Red Clover
Pills cure sick headache, dyspepsia, in.
digestion, constipation, Zoe. per box,
boxes for 81. For sale by w. N. Nc
Ksnna, druggistA,
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05
School Reports.

The following is a report of the
school taught in district No. 8, Brock
way for the month ending November
20: Number of pupils enrolled, 81;
number of days taught, 10; whole num-
Der of days attendance, 49l; average
daily attendance. 27B, The following
pupils have neither been absent or
tardy during the month: Eddie Carless,
Thomas Carless, Eta Lewis, Emma
Carless, Maggie Sheehy, Michael Shee-
ny, Robert Carless.
Il. Il. WILLOUGHBY, Teacher.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05
DO You Want House and Lot, Lot,
or Farm2

We offer at low figures, three houses
and lots. Phil McDougall's fine resi-
dence on Kennifc street. twenty fine
building sites, two lots for business
sites, and eight farms, all at prices, time
and payments TO suit purchasers.
TAPPAN 81 LAW.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05
FURNITURE !
Great Reduction in
FURNITURE.

l have a large stock Of First
class Furniture which | will sell
cheaper than ever.
Call and see for yourselves. No
trouble to show goods and give
prices.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05

signed has large quantity of shingles
also any number of cedar posts for sale
at his store i'm Peek all Of which win be
sold cheap. 4G !. r. WATERMAN.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05

For SALE OR RENT wish TO sell
or rent my place situated just outside
the corporation. For further partlcu-
lars inquire Of David Teetzel, Brock
way Centre.
1tf Mrs. REBECCA IEBNER.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05

Gentlemen who subscribed
to Bonus for Flax Mill will please call
at Holden Bros store and pay sub
scription as the list is there.
Feb. 6, 1889. BY order of Subscribers.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05

SrRAYED-From the premises of the
subscriber, Sec. II, Brockway, | Cots
void buck sheep. Any information
that will lead To the recovery will be
suitably rewarded. :. LUTZ. 2l-0
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-05

Residence, 1908 Sixth street.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21
FOREIGN ISSUES.
tllre issues

1t is rather late in the day to tell the
American workingman that immigra-
ton is the cause of all his woes; that
milk and honey would flow for him in
inexhaustibe streams throughout this
monopoly ridden country were it not
for the German mechanic and the Irish
laborer who work by his side, produc-
ing abundance; or that the new ideas of
independence and distributive justice,
through which the labor problem is
surely advancing to a solution, are for
eign ideas. 1t is, indeed, perfectly true
that we are fast imbibing foreign ideas
of pernicious nature. But their inn
portation cannot be traced to the scantv
baggage of the immigrant. Toll in
its moral effects is much the same the
world over that is, productive of indus
trious habits, honest feelings and DEM
ocratic aspirations; and it is arrant nom
sense to contend, as some do, that our
institutions, in what they contain that
is praiseworthy, are imperilled by the
great influx of European toilers. Of
such men as these liberty loving COM
munity cannot have too many, for in
the clutches of despotism they shave
| learned the value of freedom, whereas
in sparsely settled country of vast ex-
tent and unlimited resources, their skill
and thrift are economic forces of inesti-
mable benefit.
No; If by this phrase, american in
stitutions." is meant the free exercise of
human activity in the pursuit of happi-
ness. involving, as it does, free access to
the natural sources of production and to
the knowledge and instruments by
which they are made to yield increasing
plenty, European toilers are clearly not
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21

tage. BY enrolling themselves against
each other in the political machines of
the capitalist class they have enslaved
themselves economically. Socialists,
therefore, rightly hold that independent
political action is necessary, and through
it they expect to bring about the aboli-
ton Of wage slavery, the transformation
of class government into an agency Of
national cooperation, and the complete
emancipation Of man.
Again, the first requirement of success
in political action is economic educa-
ton; and this at the present time can
best be promoted by active Socialists in
those primary organizations Of labor
where wage workers are already Congre
gated in large numbers for economic
purposes. To oppose those organiza-
tons, to deride their efforts as puny,
wasteful and useless because Of their
limited object as compared with the far
more comprehensive aims of Socialism,
cannot be the policy of intelligent So
cialists 1t was certainly not the policy
of Karl Marx. 1t is not the policy of
John Burns. 1t never was and cannot
now be the policy of any far,secing So
cialst whose educational achievements
may enttle him to the love and respect
of the wage class.
We trust that the coming congress
will make it plain to the country that
the Socialists of America, like the So
Cialists of Europe, are the most sincere
friends Of Organized Labor the most
jealous guardians of its interests, the
most active promoters of its develop
ment, and the most energetic advocates
of any measure which may to any ex-
tent serve practical purpose of imme-
date relief.
TO this end we trust that it will place
the executive power of the party in the
hands of men not less experienced,
capable and broad minded, than honest
aud earnest in the discharge of their
duties.
We trust, in particular, that it will so
revise and amend the platform of the
party as to make it truly monument of
wisdom, fit to be presented to the peo-
pie of this country as the best expression
of socialism in its final aims, immediate
demands. and methods of action.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21
SOCIALIST LABOR "A KTf
SEPTEMBER y, 1889.
TO ALL. SECTIONS.

Upon decision Of the Board of Super
vision the Sections, IN well as all party
members, are notified that the Congress
will be opened on October ~, at 10
o'clock a. m. The resident comrades in
Chicago have secured a proper hall.
BY "A postponement of the Congress we
give the comrades an opportunity to
consider the following questions and in
struct their delegates.
The order of business, az fixed by the
Board of Supervision, is as follows:
/. Report of the Board of Supervision
and the former Executive.
2. The position of the party towards
other parties, the economic organiza
tions and the eight-hour movement.
Referees will be made known later)
3. The International Workmen's Con-
gress at Paris. Referee, j. F. Bushe.
L. Revision of the Platform.
8. Revision Of the Constitution.
8. Election of the Sections for the
Executive and Board of Supervision.
BY order Of the Board of Supervision,
A. NEGENDANK
New York, Sept 20, 1889.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21
TENANTRY AND FARM LABOR

In view Of the census to be taken next
year, and of the preparations now being
made for that purpose by Superinten-
dent Robert ?. Porter, it is eminently
proper and timely to point out the errors
of importance committed by his pred
eCessOrs.
The first inquiry into the tenure of
land in this country was made in 1880.
1t disclosed the fact that of the 1000 900
farms and plantations in the United
States, over 100000 were cultivated by
tenants. To this. again, should be adj
ded the not less important considera-
ton that 1924 900 persons were then
reported as agricultural laborers,'
while large portion Of the $50, 600
persons reported simply as "laborers,'
under the head Of professional and
Personal Services" were also, accord
ing to statement in the census, ''agri-
cultural laborers." From these two
facts it therefore appears, in fiat con-
tradicton of all previous notions con-
corning the independence of a majority
of our agricultural population, that in
1880 at least five persons in eight were
not the owners of the land which they
cultivated Nevertheless, owing to the
singular failure of all commentators to
take into account the vast and growing
number of tenants and farm laborers,
the impression was conveyed, and has
remained firmly rooted in the minds of
our people, that three-quarters of our
agricultural population own the land
upon which they work. Nay; this er.
roneous impression was actually con.
tirmed officially by the remarkable
statement of Prof. Francis Walker
then superintendent of the census. that
1.-THE average size of farms had beer
steadily decreasing from 1879 acres il
1860 to 1913 acres in 1870, and 134 acre,
in 1880.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21
MEDICAL USE OF HYPNOTlSM

The experiments made by DR.. Charcot
and his associates have been made the
subject of discussion at a congress of
scientific men recently held at Paris.
Quite a number of reports were read
indicating remarkable success in the
treatment by hypnotism Of diseases that
have often batfled the most experienced
physicians. Two physicians of Amster-
dam reported the result of no less than
four hundred and fourteen cases they
had treated by hypnotism. OF these,
lone hundred were fully cured. In
ninety eight cases there was notice
able improvement, and in only seventy
one cases were there no results. Fifty
eight cases were not followed. The
cases include organic maladies of the
nervous system, mental diseases and
neuralgia" Other physicians report
that in the treatment of the insane they
have succeeded in some cases, though
iC was admitted that the difficulties
were far greater than in physical mala-
| ultS' ~ NctlllS W nave bttn COHCeuei
| that there is more expectation of relief
from treatment by hypnotism in nervous
| diseases in their various forms than in
any others, and even if this be so it will
| be gain to medical science. But the
tests are only as yet in their expert
mental stage, and exactly upon what
physiological basis the Investigations of
the most distinguished psychologists are
founded does not yet appear certain.
1t is curious enough, nevertheless, that
the methods of Mesmer, who was de-
nounced as a charlatan hundred years
! ago. but who has had some strong fol-
! lowers at different times since among
the higher class of physicians, to say
nothing of travelling lecturers who were
able to control the will of persons who
submitted TO their treatment-it is Gu
rious, we repeat, that at the end of a
| century Prof. Charcot should come for.
1 ward publicly to show the wonderful
power of mesmerism, or hypnotism, as
| it has been called, since the experiments
of DR.. Baird, of Liverpool, and that a
| congress of scientific men should take
up anew a half-forgotten subject, and
recognize by a long series of expert
ments its psychological importance. But
if there is good in hypnOtism, there
is also danger in its use, as Charcot
pointed out, if the person hypnotized
may be made unconsciously TO carry out
the will of the operator. even to the
| preparation of crlme.-Ec.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21

the men who will at any time alter the
direction of American ideas, or threaten
the safety Of American institutions.
When they come here Of their o1en free
rHl-that is, unbound by such contracts
Of servitude as some spectators in hui
man blood dare to impose on ignorant
laborers-they bring with them that
spirit of freedom and that respect for
Legitimate property" which honest la
Dor alone can feel, and those aspirations
to social improvement that are the es-
sentials of citizenship in a progressive
democracy.
But there is a class of men, born in
this country for the most part, whose
acts, tendencies, habits and feelings
are so un-American that their exodus to
Europe would prove of uncalculable
benefit to the development of American
ideas and the preservation of American
institutions. Parvenus or sons of par
venus, plunderers or heirs to plumber,
who do not own property to the value
of a cent that they can trace to honest
labor of hands or brain; then, with their
retinue of political criminals, their liv-
cried servants, their ensigns armorial,
aping royalty, are the dangerous class,
the class unfit to enjoy the franchise of
American citizenship--a sort of arsto.
cratic vermin on the democratic body.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21
THE COMING PARTY CON-
GRESS,
New York, Sept. 20, 1889.
OR ESS.

BY order of the Board Of Supervision
a National Convention of the s. l.. z.
will be held in Chicago on the 18th of
October.
Short as the time is within which to
prepare for a meeting of such import
ance, New York will be ready.
In saying New York" we mean that
overw helming majority of party mem
bers here who, tired of inefficient man
agement, undertook to exercise their
constitutional right to it's fullest extent,
and to perform their constitutional duty
as they understand it, in order to secure
ability in the conduct of affairs and a
policy calculated to advance Socialism.
OF the instructions which the earnest
and determined majority will give to its
delegates it were, of course, premature
to speak; but of the feelings which ami
mate its members it is well, perhaps
that we should now say few words for
the information of the party at large. 1t
is, indeed, of the utmost importance
that the views and aims of those menu
bers be perfectly understood.
They are not blind to the march of
events. In the light of the Socialistic
tendencies which are plainly manifest
ing themselves everywhere, they see
that the time is fast coming for Social
lists to act more important part than
they have yet done in the labor move.
ments of this country; but they see alsc
that in order to advance from the posi-
ton of passive standard-be bearers of truth
which they have heretofore occupied
to that of active leaders of men in tn,
coming conflict, Socialists must enjoy
the confidence of Organized Labor.
In this country the wage workers, a
citizens, have long been possessed of pc
litical rights, which they have failed t,
exercise for their own economic advan
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21
SELF-CONViCTED.

The following comments of the Doodle
press on a few only of the every day
results of capitalism are somewhat
edifying and quite instructive. We
might fill an eight-page daily with such
clippings, including denunciations of
wrongs, exposures of corruptions, re-
ports of crime and bulletins of misery:
There are at least 100000 boys and
girls under 16 years of age in this great
city alone earning their own living. 1t
will not be pretended that they are
either educated or likely to become so,
There are at least 100000 children be-
tween the ages of 10 and Is who roam
about our streets, neither going to school
nor engaged in any obvious occupation.
Clearly they are neither educated nor in
an avenue which leads to desirable in
formation.-Netc York Press.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21
The most superficial inquiry shows al

The most superficial inquiry shows at
once the falsity of Prof. Walkers asser-
ton.
In the first place there is in the CEN
sus Of 1880 startling discrepancy be-
tween the large increase in the number
of farms and the much smaller increase
take the period of twenty years, 1860
1880, we find that the number of farms
increased 1864, 900, or 96 per cent,
whereas the number of so-called farmers
Gncluding 1,024,0 600 tenants) increased
only 1,716,000, or 6S per cent. The
question here naturally suggests itself,
GLOW could the number of farms have
increased SO much more than the num-
Der of farmers ?" The only possible an
swer is that in many instances a tract of
and belonging to one person was con-
veniently divided into several plots and
returned as so many distinct farms by
the census agents, whether rented out to
! the same tenant or worked by wage
| labor. The large increase in the num-
Der of farms, through which it became
possible for Prof Walker to reduce
their size automatically, was, therefore
TO a considerable extent at least, purely
artificial.
In the second place, if, for obvious
reasons, we leave aside the Southern
States (Which, in consequence of the
economic revolution brought about by
the abolition of chattel slavery, require
special treatment, we find that for the
| Northern States and Territories consid-
cred as "a whole, the average size Of
farms, eren upon the basis Of their in
.hated number as reported by the census,
increased from 1870 acres in 1860 to 1876
acres in 1880.
This is the first time, we believe, that
it has thus plainly been shown how un.
warranted and preposterous was Prof
Walkers broad, bold and emphatic as
sertiOn that the census returns reveal a
general tendency throughout the United
States to more equal distribution of
the land among the members of our
agricultural population. We might
stop here, were it not that further in
vestigation, while casting a still stronger
light upon the facts just presented, dis
closes others of such importance that
they should no longer be ignored. We
propose, therefore, to continue the dis
cussion of this important subject in flu
ture issues.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21
NOTES..

The growth of the cotton industry in
the South is best illustrated by the con-
spicuous fact that there are this year in
operation in the Southern States $780,
600 spindles, against 1,1,8,0O0 spindles
last year, and only 561 900 in the census
year, 1880. Oversupply is, of course,
the result of that stupendous growth,
The further fact should be noted that
every addition to the productive power
of the Southern mills consists of spin
dies of the latest and most approved
pattern.
Spectators in wheat have a down.
cast countenance. 1t turns out that in
stead of having only half a crop, France
will have a surplus of about $4,000, 900
bushels, while the other countries of
Europe report also better crops than
was expected. There will be very
limited outlet during the coming year
for our enormous surplus of cereals,
and we can see no reason why bread
and meat should not be cheaper here
than they have ever been. With the
staples of life at low price, Organized
Labor will be able to make good fight
for eight hours.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21
for eight hours.

The Senate Committee appointed to
examine the agricultural possibilities of
the so-called "arid lands in the far
West has reported that a large portion
of the lands which have been examined
this summer in Arizona, Colorado, and
New Mexico can be brought into fertil-
ity by irrigation. Unquestionably most
of our public domain now consists of
Just such lands, which the nation some
day in its corporate capacity shall have
to improve in order to render them
available. And if the nation alone can
improve those lands, why should it not
cultivate them and forever retain pos
session of them?
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21

Interesting correspondence solicited from pro-
letar,ans In all parts of the world. Letters 70.
curing answers should contain return postage
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21

The figures given in our Washington
dispatches touching the use of the Land
Office to influence the politics of the
new States are interesting and instruc-
tive. During the period from May Is
to September 15-four Notwithstanding
Commissioner Stone issued 10000 pat
ents, an average of 1899 a week, nearly
400 a day, or every minute and a
quarter. All parts of the country have
been neglected except in the new States,
and the whole force of the office has
been concentrated upon these. 1t is a
fine example of the way in which the
Government is "worked for all it is
worth" to advance the interests of the
party in power.-N Y. Times.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21

Warren County, Ohio, is bankrupt
Investigation Of the books show that
the stealings have gone on during three
successive terms. Money has been paid
out on fraudulent vouchers, and bal
ances forged to hide the frauds. Ger
tain officials, it is charged, have con-
spired together to loot the treasury, and
they did it 50 effectually that the coun-
ty is bankrupt of both money and
credit. Desperate efforts have been
made to get funds to carry on the
county affairs, but nobody is willing to
advance the cash.-BaltimOre Sun.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21

1t is not in this city only that there
are too few public schools for the &C
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21
ommodation of all the children who de.

commodation of all the children who de.
sire to attend them, but also in Brook
Ign, Jersey City, Hoboken, and other
cities adjacent to New York. This will
never do. We must have all the public
school that are needed for the educa-
ton of all the boys and girls here and
elsewhere; and there must be no delay
in providing them.-N Y. SIN.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21

in providing them.-N. \. SIN.
a clerk in an express company down
at Cairo embezzled 500 just to hold up
his end in society. He was in the swim
and had to do it. Every clerk who has
been pauperized by the picnic and ice
cream season will sympathize with him,
but this won't do any good. A COM
plete reformation in the social makeup
one that will enable cheap clerk to
cut as big dash as millionaire stock
holder-is the only thing that can save
the country Chicago Times.
When the flood lately swept Johns
town there were people in abundance
who believed that the stricken towns
chief industry, the famous Cambria
| Iron Company, would not be able in
years to regain its foothold; the stock of
the company sold away down at bank
rupt prices; yet yesterday along came
the announcement that not only is the
Cambria Iron Company still alive, but
that it sees its way clear still to pay its
regular semi-annual per cent cash
dividends.-lIaH Street NetrS.