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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-03-08
TEMPERANCE.
The Publican's TIL.


LIST! to the click Of the publican's till,
sin,
How impressive the sound, when you think
That is being entailsd on his victims
Surrounding his spirit bar crowds may bo
Old and young of both sexes, all eager to
swill,
Some smoking, some croaking, then housing
between,
While they help to replenish the publican's
The till. gets the proceeds of vice and of
Aud the hard earned wages of labor and
The pence Of the poor. though thAu-.A.----
Are shgUfTgSoui hgT ruv'...~.v OF the publioan's
II the coins in the till had but voices to
They might tell tales of grief that would
startle and thrill,
OF hearts that were broken, Of homes
wrecked and bleak,
And Of children starved through the pub
lican's till.
The seeds so sown at the family board.
hile the perilous drink cup false lessons
Is fruitful OF habits that lead to discord,
BY paving the way to the publican's till.
II the young, who in kindness, are taught to
sip wine,
Could the future forsee it might make their
hearts chill,
For thousands to ruin 60 down the incline.
And become human wrecks round the
publican's till.
In the spring time Of life, when all seems
bright and fair,
What visions Of happiness many minds fill,
Till awakened by suffering and sorrow, and
They experience the fruits of the publican's
till.
Vast numbers drink daily, both women and
men,
As il duty compelled them task to fulfil,
They practice their 'nipping" oblivious that
then
They are swallowing disease round the
publican's till.
Oh how long shall the people submit to the
chain
OF the dreadful drink-demon, who binds
but to kiln
Let them strike of the yoke and true free
dom obtain,
And stop their supplies to the publican's
till.
Richard Cameron, in Temperance Record.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-03-08
Our Public Schools

In the current number OF the Presbyterian
Review is a clear forcible and able article
upon the question, "Are our Public Schools
GodlessY' The reply is First, Not by their
origin. The American school Of our fathers
was in Its aims, exercises and textbooks
Christian school Such in the historical
sense Is the american Public School"
'The motive which urged our fathers to the
establishment of schools was professedly
drawn from religion" For nearly two CEN
turies, no one isped the idea that goddess
school was the logical outcome Of a Christian
free State.
Secondly. They are not Goddess by any
constitutional or statutory requirement
Long after the constitution went into opera
tion the power Of taxation for the support of
) religion in the Protestant form was actually
still exists and might be exercised by any
State to any extent and in favor Of Chris
tianity or any other religious system.
The author Of the articl Rev. H. D.
Jenkins, d. D., thinks 1t is high time to come
to halt in yielding to the demand for God
less public schools, and that tr Q last parley is
now In progress. He closes with the remark,
"One thing is absolutely certain, Christianity
Is ever increasing in power, and in the long
run, will never tolerate the absurd and ag-
gressive claims of modern infidelity. The
system Of public schools must be held, in its
sphere, true to the claims Of Chris ianity, or
they must go, with ali other enemies of
Christ. to the wall"
'Tis but short journey across the isthmus
of now.-Boree.
II in the day Of sorrow we own Gods
presence In the cloud, we shall find Him a so
In the pillar of fire, Frightening and cheering
our way as the night comes on.
Those who retire from the world ON &C
count Of its sin and peslkiuess, must not for
get that they have yet TO keep company with
person who wants just as much watching
as anybody else.
Christian graces are like perfumes the
moro they are pressed the sweeter they SMELL
Like stars that shine brightest in the dark;
they taka, the more fruit they bear.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-03-08

In his arms. and love all the dearer for her
very helplessnes. And John Bowerbank,
though elderly, almost old, did not look
like weak man, or an untender man.
Far stronger, far tenderer-the two quail
ties usually go together-than the brides
handsome and elegant father.
Poor thingl" muttered Mrs. Knowle to
herself. We'll, in one sense, it's an es-
cape. He's an honest man, John Bower
bank. Perhaps she may be happy-at
least, less unhappy than she looks now.
God bless herr"
And with that cordial bless ing, unheard,
and few kindly tears, unseen by her for
whom they were shed, for in truth the
bride did not seem much to hear and see
anything, the carriage drove away. Thus
terminated the principal scene. and thus
vanished the principal actors IN that grand
show wedding, which had been quite salts.
factory and successful in all it's elements,
with the exception Of one triaing omission,
not unfre4uently occurring in similar cere.
monies--Love.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-03-08

solely because knighthood was q email
thing, and baronetcy, to man without
heirs, o blank sort OF dignity, nobody sus-
pected he would marry; nor, when he did
marry, was he suspected of marrying in
any but q business like way-to secure o
pleasant mistress for his splendid house, q
cheerful companion for his declining years!
And, let the truth be owned, he did marry
only for this. He was not one bit in love.
The solitary passion Of his life had blazed
mp and burned itself out or rather been
extinguisbed by the hand Of fate, and II
was too late to light up any other.
He did not marry Emily Kendall for love,
norwich, perhaps, was the secret Of hei
finally consenting to marry him-had he
made any foolish pretense Of doing so.
He respected her character, he liked heI
Well, in q tender. fatherly sort Of way; but
"Jane, wife Of Mr.. John Bowerbank," now
sleeping In her peaceful grave, need moi
have had the slightest jealousy over. nay,
would hardly have recognized the middle
aged gentleman who was the "happy bride.
groom" that sunshiny morning In st
Georges. Hanover Square.
Perhaps this was q good thing To-
Emily. In her husbands unexactin9
ind undemonstrative regard, more pater.
nal than er-likc, she found the rest
which was the only thing for which
she craved; and IN his steady, sedate,
persistent character, which aimed at moth.
ing higher than It accomplished, and
sought from her no more than she was
able to give, she found little Of the com.
fort which she once thought was hopeless
to her In this world. She, who had begun
life with girls dreams Of perfection, and
proved them all false, who, In her weak
ness--weaker than most woman's--had
leaned on one stay after another, and found
them all pierce her like broken reeds, ex-
perienced in her calm, cold marriage with
this kind, good, practical man, O certain
peace, which after all the tempests Of her
youth, was not without its soothing charm.
Also, 10 ono of her weak, hesitating nature,
the mere sense Of her fate being frrevoca-
bly, settled-of leaning on somebody, and
having somebody on whom she was bound
to loan-of passing out Of the fowery
fields and dark precipices OF her troubled
life into the smooth, hard, iron tramway oi
duty, conveyed a feeling OF relief.
For the first three months Of her mar.
rage everybody said how we'll Mrs. Johr
Bowerbank was looking; better than any.
body ever expected TO sec Emily Kenda
look In this world; for most people had 50
her down as the doomed inheritos OF hs
mothers disease consumption, decline
atrophy--whatever name be given to the
outward tokens of an inward grief whicl
kills the spring Of youth, and makes III,
weariness, nnd the grave the only rest.
Il cannot be said that marriage causes
any great change in John BowsIbank; h'
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-03-08

intervene; the feeling that the last chance
In life has been taken, the last die thrown
-and lost.
Probably John Bowerbank did not feol
thus; his feelings wore never remarkably
keen: nnd he had his business, his days
occupied on Change, and his evenings de-
voted several times week, to the long,
splendid, intensely dull and entirely re-
spectacle Liverpool dinner parties. But
his wife, left oil day at homo, with no du-
ties to All up the idle, aimless, weary
hours, with no children Of her own, and
too hstless and inactive to adopt the sub
atitute Of other childless matrons-.Mrs.
Knowle, 1or instanoe-and take everybody
else's children, who needed II, under her
mctherly wing-to such as poor Emily, .
marriage like hers most resembles being
slowly frozen alive In the lake Of gilded
torment, which forms the horror Of one Of
the circles Of Dante's He'll.
But nobody knew Il. Her father, en-
gagged In the same dining-out exist
ence In London that her husband, in o
lesser and more harmless degree, enjoyed
In Liverpool, never visited her, seldom
wrote to her. When he did, his letters
breathed the most enviahle eelf-satisfac-
tson that he had done the very best for
her; that she was perfectly happy; and Il
was he, her affectionate father, who had
secured, after his own pattern which, of
course, was infallible--her con1ugal felicity.
And all the world, his world especially,
went ON as usual, and the people who had
most discussed the marriage, pro and con,
till the heat Of wordy war stretched over q
wide area between Its two points of Liver
pool and London; even these subsidized. as
all people 50 soon subside after every mar
risge, into leaving the two concerned 70
bear their own GROSS or enjoy their own
content. For, after all, IL 10 their own
business aud notody's else; which it was
from tho very first, II their affectionate
friends could have believed 90.
mo N coNTMUnp.J
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-09
YONkERS.

The questions submitted to the gem
eral vote were answered in to-day's
meeting of our Section, az follows;
Question | was answered favorably by
unanimous vote; 2, the meeting votes
unanimously to estimate and limit the
cost OF our representation to $1,000;
three delegates at least should be sent;
3 and 4, the National Executive and
Board of Supervisors together shall pro-
pose twelve candidates for general
vote.
The meeting regretted that the Execu-
tive did not submit an estimate of the
expenses, aud expressed the opinion that
such difficulties as occurred with Avel-
ing could be avoided if careful esti-
mates were made and adhered to.
March 3. E. NJ, Organizer
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-09
MINNEAPOLIS AFTERMATH.

My last report of the Garside agitation
in this city was written on Sunday, Feb.
18th. The reunion that same evening
at Comrade Ever's house was a very
pleasant one, the house being crowded
with socialists of the male and female
persuasions. The ladies served up a
bountiful supper, and the men enjoyed
their lager and cigars. The only speech
making was brief farewell address to
Prof. Garside, accompanied by pres
entation to him of copy of the resolu-
tions passed by the Sections here, which
have by this time probably reached you
and are printed in the ADVOCATE. A
feeling response was made by Mr.. Gar
side, who evidently felt gratified at the
cordial feeling for himself personally
entertained by all the comrades in the
twin cities.
On Monday evening he spoke again in
st. Paul, and on Tuesday evening he
was the guest of the Hon. John Lamb,
State Commissioner of Labor for Mime
sofa, On Wednesday our friend de
parted for the East, carrying with him
tO use rather orthodox phrase-our
hearty "godspeed.
Since his departure there has been
thunder in the air anent the Professor S
invasion of the sacred precincts of the
State University. Your readers will re
member that he lectured there, in the
very holy Of notes.-the chapel-one af-
ternoon, to a goodly number of students
of both sexes Well, it has since tran
spired that the shepherd of the flock
was away from his flock on that day
and on is return a few days later, dis
covering the enormity that had been
committed, waxed exceeding wroth and
made things lively. Outsiders also took
umbrage at the fact that rampant so
Cialist' should be allowed to talk to the
students, and wrote to the papers about
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-09
WANTS FREE DISCUSSION.
To the lPork'men'S Adr0cute.


Your paper of the 2d inst. Just re-
ceved its valuable contents noted, and
long article, "Plain Socialism," read.
am very much surprised, and sincerely
regret that "Chicago Socialist" or any
other socialist, should write such an ar
tlcle. quote from last column, page 3:
"ln conclusion, if a man must talk anar-
chy, or semi anarchy, or free -lovism, or
set forth his antipathy to churches, or
air his 'intidel' opinions or anti-reform
notions, In justice to socialism and in
honesty to himself and audience let him
do it not as Il socialist eXpounding So
ciallsm, nor at meeting distinctly
called in the interest of socialist ideas"
] ask you, Mr.. Editor, ask the Ameri-
can or German socialists Of New York or
anywhere except Chicago, if true social
lsm does not permit, nay require, un-
limited freedom of speech and press in
the discussion of all questions, of all
sides Of all subjects that concern the
public, whether social religious, politi-
cal, free love, anarChical, or anything
else?
Great God, il socialists are not going
to permit free discussion of all subjects,
where shall we look for true liberalism,
true liberty. 9. NJ, CLARK.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 5.
BE easy, friend; free discussion will
not be opposed by socialists. In proof
of it, see the ADVOCATE. But all the
fads you have named are matters that
do not come under the head of socialist
politics. With the cooperative State
in operation, all that is useful will be re-
tanned, and the worthless will not exist.
To insist upon order is not to oppose
free speech. There is a time and place
for everything. -ED,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-09
CHICAGO.
Considering Local Political Action.
Working Together.

A joint meeting of the German and
American Socialist Sections was held
last Sunday at Waverly Hall, at which
the subject of going into the spring
elections was discussed committee
of four was elected to confer with the
Arbeiter Hejtung Publishing Society to
inquire if the Arbeiter /eit,0lg would
support an independent Socialist ticket,
Queer question to ask If paper that
makes the claims it does. --ED. As
soon as this committee is able to report,
another Joint meeting of the Sections
will decide finally AS to the political ac'
ton this spring.
Chicago Socialists should, every one
of them, attend the next meeting. and
show by their action that they have
grit and desire to follow up the party
tactics.
The celebration of the Commune will
take place on the 18th inst. at Rochester
Hall, where Com. Max Stoehr, of st.
Louis, will make the speech Of the even
ing,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-09
Yrfce 3 gents

literature; organize in every manufact-
uring city and village to secure work
ing majority in favor of making the
means of production public property.
and the producers public servants in
stead Of being as now, wage slaves of
plutOCrats; let the contest be waged
openly and fairly aud the issue clearly
drawn, and the great dailes will be full
of it as n matter Of news, and more
people will be reached by socialistic
ideas in day than the present socialist
press can reach in decade. Carry
your State, even though il be the small
lest in the Union, and you have two
socialists in the United States Senate.
1--WE did not succeed in forming an
American Section" laments Edmund
Mueller in your issue of Feb. 9th; but
the reason Is not because there is not
sufficient number of American social
lists, AZ Mr.. Mueller thinks, but because
no considerable body of Americans can
be got to attempt to work counter to
those constitutional lines of which so
little account seems to have been taken
IN framing the platform of the Socialist
Labor Party. 1t is not alone necessary
to desire the right thing, it is equally es-
sential to get at it the right way; and
what Is the right way to get at public
ownership of land and manufacturing
capital in Germany, in France, in Eng
land, is not the right way to get at it in
the United States of America. B.
CLEVELAND q
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-09

It. Then the worthy shepherd (Presi.
dent Cyrus Northrup), felt bound to de-
iend himself through the press, and
made it appear that your doughty lee
turer had obtained the privilege through
misrepresentation, and that if he had
been at home the terrible catastrophe of
an hours talk for socialism would not
have occurred, and so on and so on.
loul humble servant replied to his let
ter, related all the circumstances under
which the lecture was given, and showed
that 1t was all square and above board.
One newspaper scribbler denounced your
present correspondent as "the notorious
old Boston anarchist" and Prof. Garside
as "a social conspirator and outcast of
American society and lots of other
hard things We're said of both of US and
of socialists and intidels in general.
need not add that the calumniator did
not 20 unanswered, at least SO far AS the
paper that published his attack would
allow him to be answered. but my chal.
lenge to him to state the grounds of his
accusation against Garside or stand con-
vlcted as "a malicious and cowardly
slanderer," was not printed.
The American Section, S. l.. p, put
on its legs again by Prof. Garside, will
hold its first public meeting for agita-
ton tomorrow, Sunday, evening at the
Labor Temple, with fair prospect of
good attendance. Organizer Shaw will
make the opening address, and set forth
'The Objects of the Socialist Labor
Party" He will, no doubt, keep you
well informed of the progress of the
agitation here. w. q. II. SMART.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-09
FREEDOM AND INTELLIGENCE.
o the Workmen's AdUocate :

20 tHt " OfhHttH y [tIUUfJttG
State Socialists are fond of quoting
the following, from Spencers Ethics:
"The relation of structures are actually
such that, by the help Of central regu-
latlve system, each organ is supplied
with blood in proportion to the WOrk it
does"
The stomach liver, brain, etc, did not
have to elect l''lis central regulative sys-
tenn in the body physical. 1t was sys-
tenn of ''cold, universal laissez fdire, as
Carlyle would say. If the body physical
has been able to develop under free
system to this highly advanced state,
what reason have Socialists for believing
that the body polite will not develop in
the same way. if the same system of
freedom would prevail?
Denver, Feb. 5S HENRY COHEN.
1t is revelation to hear that State
Socialists are fond of quoting Spencer,
although many do recognize an improve
ment in his Ethics over his Social
Statics." The comparison of the uncon-
scious organs of the human body with
intelligent beings, however, is a dernier
resort, although perhaps quite applicable
in isolated cases. A part of the very
liberty which our correspondent evil
IDENTIFY Graves is the intelligence requisite
to creating or preparing conditions
under which progress is made. 1t was
by the exercise of intelligence that the
Spartans, for instance, developed their
physical excellence; and it was by the
benumbing influence of laiSsez faire,
Iaisscz alter, that the Romans became de-
graded. The highest physical develop
ment is attained through the highest
applied intelligence.-ED.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-09

Talk of violence draws attention
from reform and is so damaging to a
cause that the more unreasonably
violent agitators may be regarded as
employees of monopolsts.
The majority of voters now live
under the System they desire, and
vote to retain. All their demands
for change conform to that system.
They refuse to tolerate those who
sanction its destruction. Suppose,
anarchy attained, q community has
adopted the forms it desires. Will it
tolerate those who insist that those
forms be abolished by force?
Under democracy all reforms can
be urged without arousing antagon-
ism, which always destroys the
leaven of reform, thus retarding
progress.
Some anarchists, who assert that
only individual interests are real;
that society is a myth; that the ma
jority has no rights, do not hesitate
to personify less tangible abstrac-
tions, judging and condemning all
who are said to stand in the way of
"the revolution" )" "equallty," "hu-
man rights" ETC., unconscious that
they are, in effect, demanding that
their definition of those terms shall
be forced upon society.
Monopolsts will never fight;
therefore a conflict depends upon
their ability to induce laborers to
fight for them. Hence the fight is
uncertain.
Anarchists defiantly ask for some
precedent of reform by ballot, for
getting the French Revolution,
which was effected by six hundred
elected delegates who, in the face of
royalty, nobility and clergy, de-
clared themselves the national pow
er, and caused their enemies to fly
in fear. When their reform was at
tackled they used force, and by the
continued use of force between fac.
tions they lost the power gained 10y
the ballot. The American Revolu-
tion was effected 10y the conversion
of the majority, the war being the
result of foreign attack. The revo
lutonists established government
of law without political dospots; and
this the socialists refuse to relin-
quish, not desiring to return to per
sOnal rulership.
The socialist believes reform CON
sists of successive steps in progress;
the anarchist believes reform is de.
structlon followed by spontaneous
growth.
The anarchist believes the laborer
must oppose the monopolist and the
State with arms because the State is
armed. The socialist believes the
laborer and the State must oppose
the monopolists; the laborer need
not arm, for his ally, the State, is
armed. OBSERVER.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-09
AN OPINION UPON HOW TO DO IT.
EditOr Hmkmen's AdUOcdte.

ILnttT " UTHWtpH InUOCutC.
Those who have not grown up under
the institutions of this country find it
difficult to realize how hard it is to make
a change in our organic law; bu, the
fact is that two-thirds of all the States
must demand it before an amendment
can be even proposed, and three -fourths
of all the States must adopt it before it
can become a law. That means that
socialists must secure working ma
iOrities in twenty y-eight States be-
fore they can propose an amendment
extending the powers Of Congress one
iota, and must carry thirty three States
before they can give the effect of law to
such an amendment; and to abolish the
Senate requires the unanimous consent
of all the States in the Union.
But 1.-The substitution of public own
ership for private ownership Of land, in
struments of labor machines, factories,
etc. }, and with it cooperative production
and guarantee Of a share in the prod
uct in accordance with the service rem
dered by the individual to society,""
which the socialist platform calls for,
does not necessarily presuppose any
change in the Federal Constitution-it
is thing which every State can do by
and for itself, and furthermore, the lat
ter is the easiest and best way of doing
it,
Suppose, for instance; the socialists of
the United States should decide to make
some small State with large manufact-
urlng population their battle ground, as
did the aboltionists third OF century
ago i'll Kansas They could make it
sizzling hot in less than a twelvemonth.
Suppose they should focus their lectur-
ers in that State; broadcast it with their