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THE SCHOOL QUESTION.

It has already been stated here that the School Conference. whose last meet ing is reported elsewhere in this issue, is composed of delegates from the Socialist Labor party, the Central Labor Union, the Central Labor Federation, and various trade-unions of this city. As its object becomes better known an increas, ing number of labor organizations re- presented in the above named central bodies are directly participating in it by
 sending delegates; so that, large as it Is already, it will soons be much larger and thoroughly representative of the
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knot, but this is snarcely ever practic- able, except ill the earlier stages of a nations decay-and sometimes in the latest; it may succeed in the infancy and old age of states, but rarely in their manhood-for, in the latter period, though the middle class may begin to look upon the aristocracy with hostile eye, they dare not subvert it-they are obliged to go forth in defence of their own enemies, because they, too, are slaves-the only difference between them and the poor being, that their chain is golden; anything that unset ties credit, paralizes trade, or creates panic, is their ruin-therefore, they are men of order; they have still too much to lose, therefore they are reac- tionary. Governments know this, they bridle the middle class with curb of gold, they control the poor with rod of steel.
 All, then, in that stage of society, de- bends upon the working class-but when over toll, disease, and faminey have destroyed their bodily strength, and when centralization has enabled Government to wied it's force with the rapidity and precision of a machine; revolution, as dependent on the working classes, in an almost vain endeavor. The people have lost heart-and those who still have the courage lack the bone and muscle The best fed and the best grown men of the country are in the hire of the Government, and by the touch of telegraphic wire, by the | whrl of few engines, can be thrown, any time, upon any given point. In such state of society (the manhood, | or fullest development of our social system) isolated riot may be frequent, revolution is impossible. Witness Ire land Flight, wholesale flight Emi- grafton the towards refuge) is all left the inhabitants of that unhappy land, and tranquility reigns there so profound, | that the troops are withdrawn from the graves of the murdered millions to coerce what little etfervescence may be supposed to finger in the British heart. Witness England Every year the revolutionary element has become more l languid-every year it has sought some 1 quiescent means of elevation. Some tell US: this betokens the march of the mind-the progress of intelligence; but mind has progressed, but force and mind are not antagonistic agents-it is the progress of exhaustion, the march of bodily decay. The animal spirits of the people are destroyed by toll, their physical strength is worn down by hunger-they are wrecks of men and thence die quietly.
 In the old age of States (the decay of | ha ol Int; again becomes possible, from the fact that a new element of discontent be- comes active-the hitherto prosperous middle class begin to suffer, they are still strong in mind and body, and, hav- ing less to lose, they grow revolutionary.
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tions took part in the vote, and seven CD neglected to vote but recognized the Convention making total, thus far, of forty-three 43) Sections who have declared in favor of the October Con- vention. Six (6) are still undecided, while only two Cincinnati and Albany beside the few Rosenberg sympathizers of New York and Chicago, stand on the other side.
 Comment is unnecessary. The So. cialist Labor party is practically unit, and in the face of these figures no good Socialist can long remain disaffected or undecided.
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the most prominent questions wherever labor might feel strong enough to enter the political field, and the consequent agitation could not fail to be highly beneficial. From this standpoint alone, and regardless of the many other argu- ments that could be adduced, the Con- vention may well conclude that it is best to strengthen the hands of the most earnest advocates of the eight hour workday by adopting the resolution to be presented by the delegate of the Central Labor Federation.
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SCHOOL CONFERENCE.
Mayor Grant Refuses to See the Commit tee-Superintendent Jasper Receives
 it Courteously and Talks Freely.

Mayor Grant Refuses to See the Commit
 tee-superintendent Jasper Receives
 it Courteously and Talks Freely.
 The Conference of delegates of the New York labor organizations to devise measures toward securing better school faciles for New York's children, met at the Labor Lyceum on Friday. Creden- tials were handed in by new delegates of Furniture Workers Union No. 1, Amalgated Brass Workers Union, the Cornice and Skylight Workers Union, Working Women's Federation, Branch Socialist Labor Party, Millwrights and Millers' Union and Piano Makers Union.
 Delegate Foth reported on behalf of the Special Committee, consisting of himself, delegate Harris of the c. L. F, and delegate Middleton of the c. L. U., appointed to visit the Mayor and School Superintendent Jasper. The committee had been received very courteously by Mir. Jasper, who gave much informa- ton. The Superintendent said that during 1888 more than 14, 900 children were refused admission because of in- sufficient accommodation and the total for 1889 would amount to 10000. Of the eleven. new buildings now in process of erection one, or at most two, might be completed this year, while the others could not be finished for two or three years. Two millions had been appro. priated for the present and two million more were allowed in case of necessities, but ten millions were needed, taking the present position as basis. The number of children who cannot be ac- commodated would run up to 50,000 by the time those new school houses were completed. But, unless the Mayor and Legislature would secure larger appro- priations, nothing could be done to rem edy the calamity. He was powerless to do anything.
 The committee also went to the City Hall to see the Mayor. After being ordered about from one official to another. the committee was at last told by the Mayors clerk that they could not see him, and that any communication they wished to make had to be made in writing.
 Delegate Foth further stated that the agitation had already had some effect. as was shown by the action the Board of Education had taken last Wednesday, when upon the motion of Commissioner Guggenheimer a con- mittee was appointed to inquire into the feasibility of temporarily renting houses for school purposes in the districts requir- ing additional accommodations.
 The committee who visited labor pa- pers reported that the New York "F0lks- Zeitlmg and the WoRKMEN' ADVOCATE had given assurance of their hearty sup. port. .-
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DECEMBER If, 1889.
POLITICAL ACTION.

There is unquestionably a longing for independent political action among the rank and file of Organized Labor. Few wage-workers are so mentally blind as to expect any relief from the old capital istc parties At every great public meeting that has been held in the last ten years that speaker was always best received who expressed the general sentiment in this respect. Had the workingmen full confidence in the ability and honesty of their leaders, they would long ago have exerted an irresistible pressure upon their representative bodies, with view to the organization of an independent Labor party. There was such pressure three years ago, not only in New York. where the wage working masses thought that they had at last found in Henry George an able and honest exponent of their aspirations, but in other great cities, such as Cincin- natl, Milwaukee and Chicago, where trusted men from their own ranks were nominated. The large vote boiled at that time by Labor candidates demon strated so plainly the possibility of united action that in splte of all sub sequent disorganization and disappoint- ments greater desire for it is now felt than at any previous time. It is, indeed a fact, that those who deprecate in. dependent politics are looked upon with suspicion, and the more so because some of them, in this city at least, are known to have long been affiliated with the old parties.
 Of the tendency we 9peak of we have practical illustration of great signitic- ance in the instructions given by the Central Labor Federation of New York to the delegate who will represent it in the coming Convention of the American Federation of Labor. We understand that in accordance with those instruc- tions, the Convention will be asked to pass a resolution, recommending in dependent political action wherever Labor is sufficiently organized to take such step.
 If adopted, a resolution of this charac- ter would have important consequences. In the first place it would show a great progress of ideas in those "conservative" districts and organizations whose dele gates have opposed similar resolutions in the past; and while it would not bind to independent action the organized labor of any district where it's weakness or conservatism night prove a serious obstacle, it would greatly encourage the Again, the eight hour workday would, as matter of course, be made one of
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THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

' IL ' V oh-'> D 'F'F''
 In another column will be found the report of an address delivered last Thursday by Major Powell, Director of the Geological Survey, at meeting of the New York Chamber of Commerce. The servility of our high functionaries to the money-power never appeared in a stronger light tban on this occasion. Here is a man of some scientific attain ments, employed by the National Gov ernment to conduct the survey of our public lands, who unbushingly goes out of his way to advocate a stupendous shemo of individualistic land-grabbing. Having discovered, in the performance of his functions, that one hundred mil lion acres of as rich land as there is on the surface of the globe are still the property of the people in common, and that, with an expenditure of one thou sand million dollars, this vast domam can be made to yield as much or more every year, he comes and tells an nssembage of the most unsCrupulous profit -grabbers that the people, the right ful owners of that valuable property, must not be allowed to keep it, to work it in common, through their own govern ment, but must be deprived of all rights in it by an extension of the rotten sys- tenn under which our industries have been made to pass into the hands of these proht-grabbers. And this spolia- ton is to be carried on by the Govern ment itself, at the command of our plu- tocrats, under the supervision of the Director of the Geological Survey.
 Mark, also, how insidious is his presen- tation of the scheme. He endeavors by all means to convey the idea that the
 land in question will be reserved by the Government for actual settlers. But how can this arid land be settled before the work of irrigation is done |? And if that work is not to be done by the Government, if it is to be done with money supplied by Wall street, is it not plain that the land must first be turned over to corporations, who will sub sequently sell it or lease it to individual settlers at an enormous profit?
 Is it not high time for the people to take this matter of the public domain into their own hands Seeing that every acre of land given away to poor settlers under the Homestead Law is finally mortgaged and sold out to pluto crats, is it not high time to repeal that law and substitute for it a system under which the tilIers of the soil can never be driven away, idle and homeless? Is it not high time that our surplus rev enue. instead of being used in purchasing at an enormous premium the Govern ment bonds held by the capitalist class and paid for by it's wage-slaves, was applied to the improvement of the public domain, for the benefit of the whole people?
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14
THE NEW WORLD.
BY ERNEST JONES.

Men of America thank heaven thank your own strong arms for having escaped from the corrupt legislation of this island, that floats upon waters like d plague-stricken hull of a stately wreck. Within its death-fraught ribs houses a people of paupers, groan- ing beneath the immeasurable wealth they have created, but enjoy not. At its doors die million human beings, in a land lashed like conquered prey to the British Crown, that drags it down to famine and pestilence, whence all who can escape fly to harden the move of hatred on your new Atlantis. On its colonies the sun never sets, but the blood never dries. In mechanical power it has outstripped the world, but that power it employs to displace labor, and starve unwilling idlers. Every factory is more corrupt than barracks, more gloomy than a prison, and more painful than battle field. Its commerce touches every shore, but their ports have been opened by artillery, and are held by murder. Abroad, it's traders play the pirate; at home, the journeyman is cheated by the apprentice, the apprentice by the master, the small dealer by the whole sale dealer, the customer by both, and the Government cheats all Its land, lords ruin their tenants, and then deci- mate and exile them, lest they should have to support the wreck they have made; complain of redundant popula
 ton, and yet throw corn land into grass; so that warehouses are insufficient to contain the poor, and yet they cast down the cottage in which they live.
 It has been increasing its wealth, but corrupt,ng it's manhood treblng its churches, but corrupting its Christian ity; sending forth missionaries, but ren- dering their faith hated by the acts of its professors; building charities but making more poor than it relieved stealing pound and asking gratitude for giving back farthing ,- and, withal it dazzles the world by its bold attitude and quiescent grandeur.
 But that grandeur Is decaying its colonies will fall off like ripe fruit from whitening tree to start nip young for ests of freedom Its commerce will die. because it is unsound at the core; for. eign competition has been met by home competition; and both have been founded on the fall of wages, and the land desertion for the loom. Thus home trade has been destroyed, for with the working-class it tlourishes or fades.
 Food is the staple wealth-and thus England has been made the pensioner of other lands for their daily bread . Competition still grows-the wholesale l dealer devourS a small shopkeeper: the 1 large estate anneXes the little; the great capitalist ruins the lesser; thus the evil preys upon its originators ; the middle class forced workingmen to compete with workingmen now cir cumstances compel them to compete among themselves-they have no work ing class to fall back upon-wages are so low that they cannot indemnify themselves any longer by their reduc- ton, and the middle-class are fast sink ing back into the level from which they rose, to leave pillars og monopoly above
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14
THE PARTY CRISIS IS PAST.

The general vote of the Socialist La bor party upon the proceedings of the Convention held at Chicago, October l2., conclusively shows the utter insig- nldcance and absolute lmpotency of the Rosenberg faction. Thirty-six (S6) Sec
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14

Of Harrison's message we have no- thing to say but that it is one of the weakest state papers ever issued from the White House.
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that it cannot be temporary "con- ference, but that, from the nature of things, it must become a permanent | body, destined to act an important part in the educational affairs of this city, and we might say in the educational movement throughout the country. It did not come into existence one day too soon, and the result already achieved by the mere fact of its existence is suffi- cient evidence of it's necessity.
 Nothing was yet known of the School Conference in official quarters when our German comrade, the VOlEszeitung sent out one of it's most alert and trustw worthy scouts on reconnaissance". His first steps were directed to the City Hall. Thus taken unaware the Mayor of this city displayed a surprising ignorance of educational conditions within his realm. He did not know that thousands of children who had applied for admit tance in the public schools had been turned away. He did not know that thousands of other children, who had not applied but under the Compulsory Education Law should be compelled by the authorities to attend school, were roaming about the streets in idleness or employed by their wretched parents in our tenement manufactoIies. It was not his business to inquire into those matters. He could take no cognizance of them without some official notice from the Board of Education. If more money was asked by that Board than the :" interests of the tax -payer," allowed d Board or Estimate and pportionment, he would not be in favor of granting it. If the people complained and in some effective manner showed that they were actually complaining, he would, of course, listen to them In this case the State Legislature should have to be called upon to authorize the necessary expenditure,
 From the City Hall the VoltSaeitung ambassador dropped into the office of a Commissioner of Education, with whom he had an interesting inter view" To be brief, on the following day this Commissioner found it an easy task to impress upon his colleagues the necessity of doing something," and a committee was appointed ito inquire" |" The prospect is that a number of build ings more or less adapted to the purpose will be rented by the Board and tempo. rarily converted into public schools in | thoso districts where the pressure is greatest.
 When few days later the committee appointed by the School Conference called upon the Mayor, they found his door bolted safely against them; but his Clerk kindly informed them that if they would state their complaint in writing, it would either receive atten- tion or be cast into the waste basket. On the other hand, Superintendent Jasper received them cordially and is apparently in full sympathy with the Conference.
 The lack of room in our small and crowded columns compels us to confine ourselves, in this issue. to the state ments just made. But we shall, in our next number, undertake to throw much needed light upon this great school question.
 Having thus far been quite successful in interesting the organized labor of this city in a matter of such fundamental import, we may be relied upon to do everything in our power to promote the
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The national banks threaten to with draw their circulation "because there is not enough profit in it.' Secretary Windom is simple enough @ to believe that they mean what they say and that a contraction of the currency may be the result of their action. By all means let them withdraw and let the govern ment replace their notes by an issue of greenbacks. Nobody to-day declines to take greenbacks at par with gold. Even the bloated bondholder, at the high premium which his bonds command, would not decline payment in paper money.
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The public debt statement for Novem- Der shows total interest bearing in debtedness of eight hundred and forty two million dollars, or about thirteen dollars per capita.
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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-13
meCeadn C6n.6st..

II v. Marquis, the Democratic can
didate for lieutenant Governor Of
Ohio, who was defeated by 81 votes,
has been advised by his party leaders
to make q contest for the Office. With
the exception Of George Russell, of
Elko county, the Democrat has not
been born who is not ready to contest
the election Of snybody.-[R Reno Ga
zette.
If Mr.. Russell had cared enough
for the ofiice,to make a contest it is
quite probable that new election, as
required by law, would have seated
him as Senator from Elko county, as
the election was decided by one vote
and that vote was rejected by the
Election Board of Elko precinct on
the ground that it was not legal
ballot. Without that vote the cleo
ton was tie between Mr.. Russell
and MIR. Sproule.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-13
Order From the Mint.

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Bonner Delighted.

The following dispatch has been re-
ceived blythe New York Turf, Field
and Farm:
Los ANGELES, Dec. 9, 1889.-The
more see of Sunol the more / am
impressed with her wonderful con-
formation. Hickok tells me she has
more speed than his PAGER Adonis,
and Marvin says she is the only trot-
ter he has ever driven a quarter in 80
seconds. AS she is only baby it re-
mains to be seen whether she can
when she natures lower Maud SIS.
record. But, as Governor Stanford
puts it, think she can if'any horse
can do it. Still, as you are aware, the
public does not know all that Maud
s. is capable of doing.
ROBERT BONNER.