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The Newtown bee., 1889-08-16

Painter W. A. Nash has applied coat of light olive paint to the Sandy Hook school house, with trimmings of Pom peiian red. He will hard-finish the seats. The inside has already been painted. In both departments, the blackboards have been superseded by preparation which is placed upon the wall and may be used as slate.
The Newtown bee., 1889-08-16

B. II. Merrick is enlarging his printing office five feet by removing an interior partition and will also enlarge the work room up stairs. He expects to heat his factory by steam.
The Newtown bee., 1889-08-16

The fireman of the Bridgeport Wood Finishing Co. at Lanesville was run over and horribly mangled by the midnight freight, near New Milford, last week.
The Newtown bee., 1889-08-16

s. c. Bull returned from his vacation Mondays
The Newtown bee., 1889-08-16

Mr and Mrs Frank Taylor and Mrs Perry of Bridgeport are at Mrs Alonzo Taylor's.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-04

shall attend to all transactions with
the Government authorities, and
shall have communications, directly
or indirectly, through the Central
Committee with all labor organlza-
tons.
Clause Is. The City Committee
shall project political action; for
this purpose they shall proceed as
follows:
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-04

allowance of untransferable credit
which the government would make
monthly TO each individual.
1t might be supposed that prop
ositon 50 revolutionary as this, in
yolving an utter destruction of the
entire existing social and industrial
system, would find no support out
side of those habtual radicals who
eagerly grasp any novel idea proyid-
ed it is sufficiently revolutionary,
and to whom the much abused term
"cranks' is often applied. That it
could receive support from cOnserga-
tive men and women of eminent po-
slton and wide learning, who have
long possessed the esteem of the
public, seems almost incredible.
Yet such appears to be the fact
Boston GlObe.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-04

OUT is wealth; the railway coach in
which he rides to New York, and
the track upon which it runs, is
capital. The Socialist State would
not "confiscate" his horse and buggy,
but 1t would acquire possession Of
the railway and its appurtenances,
Nor would the Socialist State pre-
vent the free expression Of opinion
through the press or upon the ro5-
trum. In short, the Socialist State
would not infringe upon It's constit
uents rights, for it is only through
the powers that be that citizens have
rights; and the Socialist State, be
ing more truly constituted by the
people, will and can more positively
confer and guarantee such rights.
At the same time, it will also be
able to exact the performance Of
duties.
That's what we are coming to,
gentlemen.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-04
THE PRESIDENCY.

In an able work upon the subject
Of "Tho Abolition Of the Presi-
dency," the author, Henry G. Lock
wood, of the New York bar, says in
his introduction.
Taking the warnings Of the past
into consideration, let the present gen
Grafton omit no precautiOn to guard
against form Of government which
may place king at its head. And, if
ON investigation Of our system we find
all the tendencies to such COnsumma-
ton, and conclude that the presidential
form is not the correct one, then let us
abolish it. Even in the England Of to-
day, the real use Of the Queen seems to
be that of figurehead, The reasoning
is that the mass of mankind can under
stand that they are governed by mon
arch, but would fail to comprehend the
complex machinery which actual Y rules
them, Any one may understand the
action of a single will, but few can the
workings Of n Constitution. The idea
Of government by Queen is simple.
but the rules by which she governs may
be almost inC0mprehensible So it DC
ours that u constitutional monarchy is
now upheld because it is fitted to all
minds-the ignorant have the central
figure to look up to, and the intelligent
the complex laws of the nation to inves-
tigate. These laws are ever changing
and new issues forming, new forces
Xrnrlyintr Such 70 hn
plausible for those who wish to apollo
gise for that system, but they have
little application to truly representa-
tive government, where the people are
supposed to have outgrown the almost
primitive idea of being governed by a
rule1--a King, or even a President"
sin the Declaration of Independence
may be found the following words: All
experience hath shown that mankind
are more disposed to suffer while evils
are sutferable than to right themselves
by abollshing the forms to which they
are accustomed The evils of the preSi-
dental system are already widely ac'
knowledged to have within them the
potency of danger to the public veal,
and it seems to ua that the time has ar
rived for the people to act directly
and braveIy, and by intelligent, sus'
tained,and peaceful opposition, put an
end to this department of out Govern
ment.'
The way to abolish the Presidency,
as well as other inconsistent govern
mental ornaments, is to gain control
of them. The Socialist Labor Party
is the only political party which has
progressed far enough to make this
one of their demands.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-04
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
APOLOGY OR CRITICISM?

Wrapped up in the contempIa-
ton of those reforms which neces-
8arily require time to become estab-
Iished customs, there are men and
men who forget that the daily
struggle for an xistence must also
be consl dered. In ike manner they
probably fail to remember that the
battles of the present help to pave
the way for the trlumph8 Of the flu
turc. The reduction of the hours
of labor gives the workingmen time
to inquire into the practicablllty of
the reforms put forth. The estab-
lishment of a fair rate of compensa-
ton frees his mind from worry and
leaves his faculties clear for q study
of the great questions of the hour
CrdtiSmaR.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-04
TIMES ARE CHANGING.

Speaking Of the Nationalist Club,
its revolutionary IDEAS, and the
character Of its membership, the
Boston Gl0be says:
"The times are changing, indeed.
Only Il few years ago the very word
socialist as used in common speech,
was synonymous with dynamiter and
cutthroat, Now the thing, if not the
name, receives the enthusiastic support
of some of the most honored men and
women of this good town. Radicalsm
like this, which COutemplates not only
the conliscation and naturalization of
the land, but the COnlisCation and ma.
tlonazation of all private wealth and
all private business, makes Henry
Georges single land value tax seem emi
nenty moderate and conservative by
contrast. What is the world coming
TO =
We'll answer the closing question
first. The world Is coming to So
ciaIism, slowly, surely, inevitably.
That is to say, the world is growing
wiser.
Now, why is it that the word So
ciaIiSm was synonymous with dyna-
mtor and CutthrOat? On the one
hand, it seems to rs, it was only a
matter of Sef-defonso for the capt.
alist class and their mouthpeces,
the purchasablo press. to mlsrepre-
sent Socialism. 1t was only by mis-
representation and by keeping the
masses of the people IN ignorance OF
the real aims Of Socialism that they
could be prevented from enthusiasts
tically welcoming the new Ciyiliza-
ton which it implies. 1t is ignor-
anco Of it which still holds the peo-
| pie back, and Misrepresentation Of
it which makes them oppose. They,
however, oppose not Socialism, but
their conception of it; and this false
conception Is Il result of false inf0r-
nation. They are fighting imam
of straw kindly furnished by the
capltalistic press, of which the Gi0be
is one Of the least Objectionable rep
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-04
MAY 1, 1889.
ROBBERY.

NODOIN
The use Of tins word to express
the exploitation OF the workers may
he considered too severe ny those
VINO nave not 1uJIy considered the
subject, ana yet, when one takes
account OF the means open Tor OBJ
tanning information, It IS nothing
more than just
The political economists OF the
Manchester school can hardly be e
horaht OF the results OF the present
system OF competition, ana the |0b'
hcrY OF the Iabofing classes they
must know That Pr"I't means the
taking OF that when IL earned by
others. Inc trouble with them Is
that they nave too little humanity
III their makeup Another thlhg
Is that they are dependent upon the
class they delend, just AZ the
workers are dependent upon that
cIaSs-the employing class Rather
than lcomrdIzc their present chances
OF getting their daily bread by con-
tending for a system that would
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-04
SOCIALISM IN BOSTON.

Those who have read Edward Bel
lamy's romance. "Looklng Back
ward" know that it teaches the
rankest kind of socialism. Its ideal
is to give over all the business of the
country, and all its accumulated
property, to the government, which
thereafter is to employ all labor,
conduct all industry, and distrib-
ute the proceeds, not as might be
supposed, distributing them IN pro-
portion TO the amount of service
rendered by individuals, but with
absolute equality to all The skilled
laborer woul receive no more than
the unskilled, the idle no less than
the industrious. The private for
tunes and the private savings of the
present day would be wiped out of
existence by the abolition of money,
and the real property would be con-
tiscated by the government, to be
destroyed or rented out to such as
chose to pay for it out of the equal
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-04

The Interstate Commerce regulations
are proving powerless to check the rail
road corruptions and extortions at which
they were ostensibly aimed.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-04
HUMANITY'S MOODS AND SOCIETY
RESTRICTIONS.


William Morris, the English poet
and Socialist, writing in the London
t0mm0nmen1 about "The Society Of
the Future" says:
II demand free and unfettered ami
NAL life for man first of all; demand
the utter extinction of all asCetiCism. If
we feel the least degradation in being
amorous or merry, or hungry, or
sleepy, we are so far bad animals. and
therefore miserable men. And you
know civilization does bid us to be
ashamed of all these moods and deeds,
and as far as she can, begs us to conceal
them,
BY civilization Mr.. Morris may be
presumed to mean irrational religion
and unjust social order. The ami,
nal desires of which he speaks be-
come easily evil under either pow
erty or wealth. But if there We're
neither poverty nor wealth they are
relative terms) these animal desires
would express themselves and be
gratifcd normally, which would free
them from association with the idea
of degradation. To be merry while
so many weep seems like sin; to be
hungry before the bakers window
awakeLs the thought of theft; to
be sleepy when the bell or whistle
calls to labor smacks of sloth. But
when all have plenty we may laugh
without misgiving, we may hunger
without thought of theft, We may
sleep as long as health requires, be-
cause work will not 50 cruelty mort
gage our time. Almost all degrada-
ton and misery grow out of the ex-
tremes Of poverty or wealth, from
which come also most of our false
religious ideas, - 7WentieM Century.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-04
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION
Adopted by the New York Sections of
the Socialist Party.
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
SEC. A.

Clause |. The membership Of the
Socialist Labor Party shall be diyid-
ed into as many Sections as the diff
ferent languages demand.
The minimum number of mem
bers necessary to form A Section
shall be ten.
Clause :. Each Section shall be
divided into District Branches, num-
bered according to the Assembly
Districts.
The minimum number of mem
bers necessary to form a Branch
shall be ten.
Clause 3. The several District
Branches speaking the same Ian
guage shall be connected through
Central Committee.
Clause 4. All Sections in the city
shall be connected through a City
Committee, in which the business
shall be conducted in the English
language. 1t is, however, optional
with the members of the City Com
mittec to have communications
transacted in other languages.
Clause 5. The several Branches
speaking different languages within
any one Assembly District, shall as
sociate with each other for the fol-
lowing objects:
Ito determine the Ian
guages spoken in the several
streets and houses in their re-
spective Assembly Districts.
Ito better participate in
general party action either po-
litically or for purposes of agi-
tation.
Clause 6. In any such Assembly
Districts where no Branch in any
specified language exists, the neigh
boring Assembly Districts shall try
to form one.
Clause :. Members residing in any
one Assembly District shall belong
to their District Branch; but those
who ore members Of other organiza-
tons, as for instance the SOcialistic
Liedertafel, recognized by the Party
as a special Branch, shall only vote
upon political and Party matters in
those respective District Branches
or Sections of the district in which
such individual members reside;
the duly stamped membership card
being evidence of good standing.
SECTION B.
Clause s. Each officer constitu-
tionally elected for six months must
be elected by ballot.
Clause9. Each officer having served
one term of six months, may be elect
ed for the same position for another
six months, but after his second term
he is not eligible to reelection to
the same position for the next SIX
months.
Clause 10. ANY man or woman
subscribing to the Platform of the
S. L. p. may become a member of
the S. L. P, provided there is no
reasonable objection. Terms of ad-
mission as heretofore.
THE CITY COMMITTEE.
Clause T.. The ETY. Committee
shall consist of delegates from each
Section. The represe?t ation shall
be as follows: Each Section shall be
entitled to one vote by delegate to
the City Committee for every ten
members he represents, on questions
upon which said delegates are in
structed by Their respective Sections
and that a delegate be allowed for
the first one hundred members or
fraction thereof, and one additional
for each additional hundred or ma
jority fraction thereof.
Clause Is. Section agents or or
ganizers shall serve as reporters to
their respective Sections, both from
the City and Central Committee.
! Clausp II The CITY Committaa
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-04

This week We publish the amended
plan of organization adopted 10y the
Sections of New York last fall.
While as a whole it may not be
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-04

suitable for all cities, there is still
sufficient system in it to commend
it to many Sections situated in cities,
and is easily adapted to local re-
Quirements.
The Berlin Germany VolhstriJane
says:
Foreign labor papers, such as the
Paris possibilist 'Parh Ourrier,' ramble
about a coming general strike of the
workers Of Germany, which, beginning
at Berlin, would spread itself over all
industrial cities Of the empire. We need
hardly point out that in view Of the i'm
minent congressional elections (RcichS
tdgSrahien) the German workmen have
something better to do than to waste
their few pennies i'll prospectless under
takings such as a general strike would
be-
And this view holds good in the
United States as well. Our work
men can do much better as citizens
than as strikers. They must achieve
political power, and to do this they
must have political organization and
political action.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-04-12

The American Meat Company has
been incorporated under the laws of
Pennsylvania, with a capital of $25,-
100000. This is the so.called beef
syndicate which has been in process
of formation for two years or more,
and concerning which much mas al.
ready been published. The money
has been furnished principally by
New York and Philadelphia capita.
lists, but large interest is held
by Chicago men. The company has
already acquired by purchase large
number of ranches in the Indian Ter.
ritory, New Mexico and Texas, in.
GLIDING it is said, those of 5. w
Dorsey, and others are to be secured
as opportunities offer. 1t is intend
ed to have cattle brought into Kan
sas City and Chicago alive, and al
those points there will be erected q
number of great slaughter-houses
where the beeves will be killed anC
the meat dressed. The dressed meat
will be sold TO wholesale and retail
butchers in various parts of tn,
country, and will be shipped in re
frigerator cars. The company viii
raise all its own cattle, and will con
troll every department of the industry
including packing, preserving anc
canning. The ranches will be rur
under 4 regular disciplinary system
and it is thought that the results viii
show that they can be run more eco
nomically under single management
than separately.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-04-12
AROUND THE COUNTY.
There will be special meeting of
Board of Supervisors April 18th.

There will be a special meeting of
Board of Supervisors April 18th.
Work on the 3rd degree at the L. 4
A. NJ. lodge on Saturday night.
The following fourth-class post
masters have been appointed in this
county, viz: l. l.. Fleming, Elwell,
Il. G. Chichester, Pennington; w. d..
Strong, Riverdale.
Ex-Sheriff Peet and wife of Ithaca,
celebrated their silver wedding Monday
night, house full of friends visited
them and as Il token of their friend
ship presented them with an $50 tea set.
The Ithaca Cornet Band, to which
there is no band equal outside of De-
troit and-Alma, will furnish the music
at the great l.. o. o. L. celebration at
Ashley April 20. This is proper rec
ignition of the excellence of this band,
and reflects credit upon the judgement
of those having the celebration in
charge Herald.
The Bay View summer school will
again be under the management of Supt.
d. Howell; and new names added to
the list of instructors, Prof. Hamilton
King, of Olivet, and Miss NJ. Lockwood
of the Alma Model School. The faculty
of last year will remain: Supt. Perry,
of Ann Arbor, Prof. Delos Fall, Albion;
Prof. a Lodeman Ypsilanti; NJ. Louise
Jones. Ann Arbor; Matilda A Ross,
Alma. The school was very popular
last year, and the prospects argue an
increased value for tins year.-Moder-
dtOr.
II has been truly said that advertising
as the means of prosperity, is not under
stood as it should be. II is ii fact that
no ne who has advertised literally ANA
Systematically has felt like disputng
that it was the best spent money he put
into his business. AS horse was never
made fat by single bushel of oats
soa single advertisement is never a
perfect test of the bentlets Of adyertls-
ing. The man with genuine wares to
sell who advertised them III the right
way without success would be curios
ity.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-04-12

DROBATE ORDER. state of Michigan
County of Gutiot, So. AZ a session of
the Probate Court tor the County of Gratiot.
,odcn at the Probate Office in the Village Of
ithaca, on saturday. the 2ird day of March. i'm
the year one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-niue. Present j Lee Potts Judge Of
Probate In the matter OF the Estate of Susan
probcrt, deceased ON readingand filing the PEI
itiun duly verified. Of Charles Il. Ishmnn pray
ing that II certain Instrument in writing now on
HE i'm this court and purpOrting TO Toe the last
VIII and Testament of said deceased. may be
admitted to Probate. Thereupon IL is ordered
that Monday. the END day of April, 1882 at 10
O'Clock i'm the forenoon, he assig ned for the
hearing OF SAID petition, and that the heirs at
law of said deceased, and all other persons In
tCrested in said estate. are required to appear
az session Of said Court then toba holden at
the Probate Office IN the Village of Ithaca, and
show cause. ~ any there be, why the prayer of
the petitioner should not be grHnted Aud
II is Further Ordered, that said petitioner give
notice To- the persons interested in said estate
% the tendency of said petition and the hear
ing thereof 10y causing copy of this order To
be- published in the Alma keCord. a newspaper
printed and circulated i'm said county of Graz
tiOt. three successive weeks previous to said
day OF hearing. j.. LEE FoTTs.
IA TRUE CoPY.l Judge of Pro bate.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-04-12
|. M. Montigel & Co,

Wish to announce to the Farmers
of this County, that they have purchased
the right to Manufacture and sell NJ.
5. * Z. 5 Cadwell's Patent Slip Plow
Points, which consist of piece of steel
bolted to the point in such manner
that it can be taken of and replaced
with new one, which will make quite
saving to Farmers, as one of these
points will outwear three or four of the
old style. Farmers who are about to
purchase new Plows would find it to
their advantage to examine them be-
fore purchasing elsewhere.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-04-12
T EACHER EXAMINATIONS

The Public Examinations of teachers
for the schools of Gratiot County. viii
be held the ensuing spring. ~ follows
At Ithaca. Regular March and 5.
At Alma. Special. March 3 and Is
At st Louis. Special. March 20 and 80.
At Ashley, Special, April 20 aud -.
Commencing at one O'Clock p. m. OF
the first day,
First and second grade certificates is
sued only from the regular examine
ton. GILES L. Brown.
Sec Board of School Examiners
Ithaca. February L., 1889 5l3-4w
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-04-12

Postmaster.General Wanamaker is
the superintendent of a Sunday school
class, having four hundred members,
and he talked to them recently on the
subject of temperance. He is a strong
advocate of constitutional prohibi-
ton, and made an earnest and elo-
quent plea in favor of it.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-04-12
st. Louis, April 9th, 50.
Notice.
GEORGE PATCH.

The undersigned committee would
ask the business men of the village of
Alma to see that the street in front of
their respective places of business be
cleaned each and every Saturday morn-
ing and dirt left in piles and street
commissioner will see that same is
moved. Also said committee would
kindly ask the citizens in general to see
that the street in front of their respect
i've residences be kept free from dirt
and filth.
L. A. BAGLEY, Com on Streets
+ ID. ADAMS, N0iii' 0i' '''-