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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-19
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

8 = We favor the erection of public
buildings adequate for present and ap-
preaching requirements. But in order
that the taxes may not be increased for
this purpose, and that the ordinary city
city revenues may be used for water and
other pressing requirements, the city sur
plus lands not dedicated to public use
should be sold as provided by law, and the
funds appropriated for public buildings in
common with other improvements.
LETTING OF CONTRACTS.
6-Public work should be Let by contract
to the lowest responsible bidder.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-19
MATER.

There must be plentiful supply and
fair distribution of water for all needful
purposes, lei the cost be what it may. This
is absolutely indispensable to the health
and happiness of the people and the beauty
and prosperity Of the city. The water
mains should be extended as soon as posi-
ole TO every part of the city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-19

Thomas Egan, for being a vagrant and
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29
MARCH 20, 1890.
INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER
OF THE STRUGGLE.

After few days struggle the miners
of England have succeeded in obtaining
an immediate advance in wages of 5 per
cent. and a prospective advance Of 8 per
cent more on July l. The strike involved
250,000 men, 100000 of whom actually
struck. Short rs the battle was, several
large railways were crippled for lack Of
fuel and many mills were threatened
with suspension.
In commenting upon the vigorous &C
ton of the English miners the CONNER
cial Bulletin of this city observes that sit
was pretty much case of stand and de-
liver" Robin Hood and Dick Turpin
were actually taken by the throat and
compelled to disgorge. In the opinion
Of our esteemed contemporary this sum
mary treatment of coal barons is ''sug-
gestive indication OF the growth of an
unrea soning spirit among the working
people," The barons wanted to COM
bine, but they were not permitted;
their rights were ignored p
Delighted as we are to record this VIC
tory of labor in the English mines
chiefly because of the Suggestive"
energy through which it was achieved,
we must at the same time record with
sorrow its defeat in another quarter.
Owing to the large quantity of unskilled
and unorganized surplus labor which is a
growing feature of our economic system,
the strike of 10000 dockmen at Liver
pool resulted in failure. While we de-
plore it, capital, however, does not boast
of its victory. Shipping was crippled
and business paralyzed in the largest
port of the world for several days, and
serious losses were inflicted rs well upon
the capitalists of distant countries as upon
the domestic manipulators of industry
and commerce. The close inter. depend.
ence Of the worlds trade" observes
Brddstreets in this connection, is well
illustrated in the advance in prices OF
leading chemicals used by American
manufacturers in glass making and other
industries, caused 10y the interruption
to the English export trade in these
materials growing out of the Liverpool
dock strikes"
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

and to establish in its stead a society
where there would be no rich and no
poor and where every man would earn
his living by LABOR, IN the sweat of his
brow,
They wanted the oppressors to abolish
oppression, the tyTants to abolish tyranny
TIE arstocracy to proclaim equality.
They thought 1t possible that bloodthirsty
vampires, suddenly filled with the spirit
of divine justice, might become the
champions of fraternity They believed
ln the conscious self.immolation of the
bourgeoisie. Is it wonder that the
utopian Socialists failed
But the only force through which
their ideal of justice and truth could be
realized came at last to the front. Along
with the development of modern pro-
auction was also developed and organ
lied the proletariat, and in 1S4S mighty
cry arose which shook the thrones of
Europe: "Proletarians of all countries,
unite y
Said Karl Msrx and Frederick
Engels in their celebrated "Manitesto":
"Of all the classes that stand face to face
with the bourgeoisie to-day, the prole-
tariat alone is really revolutionary
class. The other classes perish and dis
appear in the face of modern industry;
the proletariat alone is its special and
essential product The lower middle
classes, the small manufacturers, the
shop keepers, the artisan, the peasant,
all these fight against the bourg eoisie,
to save from extinction their existence
as fractions of the middle class They
are react'onary, for they try to tur1a back
the ,che ! Of history.
This poor laborer, in dirty clothes,
in rags. whom the educated gentlemen
and gentlewomen abhor, neglect and
despise as a coarse, degraded fellow,
whose society they shun as pest, is
the sole bearer Of the bright glartng
torch Of justice, truth and progress. He
is the valiant champion of human free
dom. He is the mighty giant Atlas, on
whose powerful shoulders rests the
earth, and who bears the cause of hu-
man progress"
When the proletariat will become
strong enough the means of production
will be sociaiZed as was already the
case with production itself. And when
this will be accomplished, the proletariat
will cease to exist. Along with it will
cease to exist all class distinctions; and
the State also, as it now exists, will
vanish as smoke, as darkness before the
bright warm beams of the rising sun.
For only society which is based on
mutually opposed classes, needs State
as an upholder of power, privilege and
monopoly. As long as there is no class
to Cypress and no class to maintain
there is no need of a repressive power.
1.-THE first act, says Frederick En-
gels, "wherein the State appears as
really representative of all socety-the
taking possession of the means of pro-
duction in the name of society-will be
its last act as State n \ Government
over persons will be succeeded by the
management of things and the direction
of processes of productions A free So
ciety cannot need or tolerate the existence
Of a State bet,oeen atsef and its men,
berS."
S. STRoEF.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

A Los Angeles paper observes that the
American people have no right to de-
nounce atrocities committed in Siberia
when they tolerate in their own coun-
try as barbarous treatment of human
beings as is inflicted by the agents Of
the Russian despot. I'VE propose to
show says the editor, 1.-The interior of
the Los Angeles prison, and how men
were tortured because they refused TO
be paraded on the highways wearing
chains ten feet long with a forty pound
iron ball thereto attached. We propose
to picture o Connor's thumbs pulled out
of joint and a thirteen years old boy
tortured into Inconsistencies. We pro-
pose to show all this and more too, in
order that Eastern tenderfeet may come
hither, shove in their coin, become
poor, be sent to Jail for failing to psy
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

The antitrust bill, as finally reported
by Senator Sherman last week, provides
that all arrangements, contracts, agree
ments, trusts or combinations tending
to prevent full and free competition
in articles of domestic or foreign pro-
duction, "are declared to be against
public policy, unlawful and void" 1t
provides, furthermore, that any person
injured by such combinations may re-
cover in any Federal Court of compe-
tent ,risdiction twice the amount Of
the damages sustained and the costs of
the suit, together with reasonable
attorneys fee. We do not believe that
this bill will become law, or that its pro-
visions will be enforced if it becomes a
a law, or that any law can be made
through which the natural tendency of
capital to combine will for a moment be
checked
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

The nineteenth anniversary of the
Commune was fifty celebrated in Lon
don by the Social Democratic Federation
at St. Andrews Hall on the nth inst
The speakers We're Herbert Burrows,
h. NJ. Hyndman, Annie Besant, Peter
Krapotkin, H. Quelch, and Others. On
the 10Th, another demonstration was
held by the Socialist League at South
Place Institute, with William Morris
G. w. Mowbray and Eleanor Marx
Aveling among the speakers.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29
TAKE HEED.

The fire OF burning hearts famed high
A hundred Years ago:
Take heed, the hearts If workingmen
Begin again to glow.
Vesuvlus grows hot beneath
The castles Of c. ristan knayes
Who try % hold for selfish lust
TIL :lr fe low men as saves.
The people feel the tightening yoke,
The shakes and the pain,
Stand back or Liberty will strike
To break the oke and chain,
The toilirg masses are her own,
AID With loving hand
She'd join IN common brotherhood
Her Sons IN every land,
ONE or THE PEOPLE
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29
NOTES..

Bismarck has been driven out of his
blood and iron CHARACTERISTIC. With a
foot in the grave he reaps at last the
bitter fruits of his lifelong, murderous,
and in the end futile, opposition to So
cial progress.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

The nineteenth anniversary of the
Paris Commune was celebrated in this
city by various bodies and associations
within their respective circles upon a
scale Of unprecedented magnitude, The
great mass meeting held last Monday
under the auspices of the S. l.. 2. was
one of the largest demonstrations that
ever took place in the historic hall of
Cooper Union.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

Mark the deadly regularity with which
advances and reductions follow each
otherl Also that, at the end, when all
is said and done, the wages are actually
st per cent. io1rer than they were twenty
years ago! Is this the sort of thing that
the workers are to go through again
during the next twenty years. Not if
we can prevent 1t.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29
possible extent in those various and
opposite directions

opposite directions
And tell us now whether we are JUST.
fled or not in asserting that no man who
for a moment walks with his eyes open
in such a world as this can remain
conservative without becoming a hypo-
critic if he is not already one,
But it is claimed by humbugologists
that capitalism was necessary phase of
social evolution. Granting this, does it
follow that it must be the last phase
1t may be true-nay, it is unquestion-
able-that from the starting point of
social life the path Of progress, owing to
the primitive ignorance of man, lay
through various swamps and thickets,
productive of infinite physical suffering
and moral disease. Are those sutferings
to be perpetuated Are those diseases
to be propagated? John years ago
caught the small pox and recovered. He
now enjoys good health. Ought John
to be thankful to the smallpox for his
present good health? Should he prop
agate the small pox among his fellows as
essential to their future good health2
AYE, certainly answers one set of
humbugologists well vaccinated with the
virus Of money, and to whom the small
pox of capitalism is in some way bless
ing, May" answers another set of
humbugologsts, known to the world as
scientific anarchists. "But you have
no right to impose your collective will
upon the smallpox. From a moral
standpoint, John should not propagate
it; but he must be free to do SO if he
pleases And no fool who fancies the
smallpox should be prevented from
catching it. A board of health is State
Socialism. 1t involves taxation of some
sort, and taxation in all forms is tyranny.
State Socialism may be the rule of the
majority for the benefit of all, but it is as
tyrannical to those who don't want to be
benefited as is the rule of the minority
to those who don't want to be wronged
Give us liberty, and, forsooth there will
be no small pox."
Do you think it worth while to argue
with humbugologists of either set? We
do not. Progress itself Evolution
very rudely, very tyrannically perhaps,
disposes of them more etfectually than
any of us could expect to do.
But what we can do to some purpose
is to expound the truths of socialism
or, as you call it here, nationalism.
These truths consist simply in a recog.
milton of the lines along which social
progress is moving BY showing that i,
moves in the direction of socialism you
disprove as void of sense and utility any
argument intended to show that in order
, to please cranks and selfish individuals
, it ought to move in another direc
ton; and you thus accelerate it,
march by removing from its path thai
tough, thorny underground of public
apathy which is so carefully nurtureC
among the masses by vested interests
7 In other words, by casting a broad ligh
S right into the eyes of the sleepy multi
= tude you wake 1t up; and seeing at las
/ its way out of the capitalistic dungeon
this multitude will rise and march on
tearing down every obstacle in its way
. NOTES.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

While hundreds of the ill~treated mi
ners of Pennsylvania are going back to
their native lands, thousands of I'M
skilled laborers, whose passage has been
prepaid by contracting agents, are dunn
ped on our shores every month in viola
ton of the law. There are four gov
eminent inspectors, appointed, it ap.
pears, to keep away from Castle Garden
or to shut their eyes when they happen
to be there. The State Commissioners
of Emigration claim that they are
powerless to enforce the Federal law
against the importation of contract la
Dor, and profess great Indignation at
the disgraceful conduct of the Federal
inspectors. One of them, however,
seems more intent upon banishing "for.
eign IDEAS than foreign scabs", and
has prepared a bill for the exclusion OF
anarchists, nihilists and all such enc
mics of the United States government"
including. of course, the socialists.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

their hotel bills and be tortured in case
they refuse to work upon the highways
in chains for the delectation of our
Christian sharpers who beat them out
of their money.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

Revivalist Moody has become a So
cialist-" limited" In one of his Bible
talks last week he said: Eve have
altogether too much wealth. We have
too much poverty, too. Why don't
some of the people who have made their
fortunes stop, and go out into the high
ways and byways and help the poor fell
lows who are furnishing there? That's
my idea of Socialism, and it's founded
on the teachings of Christ himself"
Brother Moody is plainly mistaken, both
in his idea of Socialism and in his inter.
probation of the teachings of Christ.
Socialism means justice, not charity;
as much wealth as can be produced
and no poverty While the commun-
lstic carpenter of Nazareth could not
have been q Socialist in the modern
sense, because in his days the means of
producing wealth were so limited that
abundance in one place could not be OBJ.
tanned but by creating scarcity and mis-
cry in another place, he never taught
that men should first make their for,
tunes by robbing their fellows, then
help them to live in abject misery.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29
The "WOrkmen's Advocate"

am glad to inform you that the agi-
tation number of the w. A. is a success.
had ordered fifty copies at my expense
and hope enough have been printed
extra SO that more can be had. Vogt's
History of Socialism in Germany" is
excellent, and ga Century of Revolu-
ton" is immense"
Chicago. B. BERLIN.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

Our London contemporary, the La
bour Elector, whose energies are largely
devoted to the promotion of trade
unionism in England, seldom neglects
an opportunity of teaching the workers
that labor organization must have higher
aims than the mere preservation or in
crease of wages. From its issue of the
9Th inst. we quote the following para
graph, which is suggestive in several re-
spects;
"Here is an instructive little table for
the editication of our friends who cling
to the hope that trades unions, by their
own action alone, can permanently inn
prove the condition of the workers.
The trade in question is that of the coal
miners, who possess some of the most
powerful trade organizations in the coun-
try. The figures show the rise and fall
of wages in the years named
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

The receipt of a sample copy of this
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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

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Of subscription. Thus mch0O means that
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1890 Send your subscription money early, and
notify us of any fault In delivery or error on
our part.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29
NATIONALIST CLUB No. 1, !
BROOKLYN, March q. 1890. {

Enclosed please find the amount of
seven subscriptions of members of this
club, who desire to patronize a paper
devoted to so noble cause.
JAS. J. WITHERS.
We regret to hear from Mr.. Nj. Nolan,
the able editor of the National Economist,
Washington, D. c., that he is in poor
health and was ordered by his physician
to breathe for several months the brac-
ing air of Arizona. We trust he will
come back fully recovered and able to
take more active part than ever in the
great and growing conflict. His opinion
of the ADVOCATE is so flattering that we
must abstain from publishing it. But
we are glad to know that she cannot do
without it," 1t will follow him, there
fore, to Arizona with our best wishes.
Since the suspension of labor paper
that / esteemed highly l was almost dead
to the labor question. A few days ago
| saw the WoRKMEN's ADVOCATE at a
friends house, and found it so good that
send you inclosed 81 for years SUBJ
scription from March %.
New Bedford. CHAS. NJ. MARTIN.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

Your paper is as bright as John
Swinton's was. 1t is the very best labor
paper that know of, and l shall do my
best to have it well circulated.
New York. HOWARD BALKAN.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29
SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY.

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, g. J. GHETCu
Secretary, rs East Fourth street, N Y.
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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

Your extra" number of the 10Th inst. !,
with SO many well written articles, and
the splendid picture on its first page re-
presenting the victory of labor over
monopoly, trusts, prostitution, corrup-
ton, boddle. millionaires, monarchism,
militarism and clergy, is worth many
times its price and | shall make it my
pleasant duty to look for subscribers for
your excellent paper.
New York. JOSEPH F. GONZALEZ.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-29

Your agitation number" is credit
to the cause. The allegorical represen-
tation of the breaking up of frozen fraud
is excellent.
New York. PETER GIBBONS.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-06-25
BEATING A LAWYER.
How Farmer Made q Handsome Sum
Without Much Trouble.


Without Much Trouble.
One of the best gems of Allen, of
Mississippi, says Washington corre-
spondent of the New York Tribune,
was dropped the other night at Cham
berlin's. Half dozen congenial spirits
were seated together at table and one
thing and another led Allen to reel off a
full dozen of stories. The last one was
about his Tupelo constituent, Bill
Brown. Bill is an old farmer who owns
half the marshes around Aliens native
city. A year ago he bought young
bull from lawyer who is shrewd fell
low and known throughout Aliens dis.
trict.
"Brown wasn't quite sure of his bar
gain," said Allen, $50 every time the
lawyer went that way he hedged SO
much that the lawyer grew extravaganza
in his praise"
II tell you, Brown" said he, as he
rode by the farmhouse, "that's the
finest animal in the whole country. I'd
ride any time two miles out of nv way
just to pass it in your meadow. I sold
it to you for S75, but 1 reckon it's
WORTH
GLOW much is it worth, cap'nP" said
the farmer.
swell, if I was selling it to-day I
wouldn't let it go for cent less than
$3.50. It's worth that and 1 congratu-
late you on shaving me so neatly
Bill Brown felt pretty good over the
bull, and every time he saw the law
yer they talked about 1t, the lawyer al
ways repeating that he would not sell it
for less than $3.50.
The lawyer in the meantime had be-
come counsel for Mississippi railroad
and had to appraise and settle all diff
culties for the corporation.
One day as he sat in his office loutish
Bill Brown came in, twirled his hat be-
tween his thumbs, and said in a wheed-
ling tone:
81 reckon that air bull is good for a
pert sum, cap'n."
Certainly, Mr.. Brown, certainly; $3.50
couldn't buy it of me if still had it in
my possession"
"Well, cap'n, that air bull was run
over by yer railroad las night, an 1
reckon you'll see that they pay me $3.50
for it."
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-06-25
A DRUMMER'S RUSE.
His Lively Experience In a Disastrous
Georgia Hurricane.

HIS Lively Experience In a Disastrous
Georgia Hurricane.
"Drummers ere capable of doing some
slick things when they want to-" The
speaker was an eX-drummer. "I knew
young member of the 'profesh,'" he
continued, addressing Savannah News
reporter, "who played good one on q
tobacco house in Savannah on one occa-
sion.
ga severe hurricane passed over the
southwestern portion of Georgia, and
therTyoung drummer happened to be
down in that section at the time. The
firm here knew that he was there, and
they were alarmed. They wired, but
were unable to get reply to any of
their dispatches, as the lines in that
section were on the ground. Tho
tracks were washed and trains did
not move for week. The Young
drynmer, failing to get word from his
house, and being unable to leave
where he was stopping, fell in with
company OF young men and had royal
big time. He had some prize sample
cigars, and he opened box after box, and
they were smoked up. He had q good
deal Of premium chewing tobacco. and
the country boys helped him chew it.
When the weed ended he was without
samples. During the excitement he did
not stop to think in what predicament
he would be when he would start out with
score of empty grips. He stuck by the
town, enjoying himself with tho BOYS,
until toward the end Of the week, when
he received dispatch from the house
reading like this: Are you killedp Wire
particulars.' 1t flashed in his mind to
put up pitiful story, and he sent them
this: Not dead. Escaped with my life.
Samples gone; send more 1t was
great hit. The proprietors replenished
the sample cases, and, in addition, sent
their representative several boxes of
fine Havanas for his own use."
The young man made his rounds on
the extras and came into tho city as
fresh as you please, receiving the con-
gratulations Of friends and the firm,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-06-25

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tho State or Cove nncnt attended to. bbail
keep fully posted as Ia all lards taken up aud
achnt IN tho eastern " iE.of EcYadS Add
dress kik0, Eovsda,
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