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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-12-19
MEETS GREEK.
low Two Parties Played at the
u Same Game.

The very thing" exclaimed Chris
Ina as she hastily jumped up from her
Easy chair In front Of the glowing fre
and lourished q newspaper before the
TWO girls who sat dreamily watching
The s.ckering flames Here Is y
chance 10 cultivate an idiomatic and
style in lctter-writing' which
Mis- s. rmpkins Is continually re-
|nindine As every Wellesley girl should
possess Read this. girls"
The TWO girls thus rudely aroused
from their rcveric took the pronered
paper and read the following:
VANrED-BY A YOUNG GENTLEMAN
NJ means and cultivation. ayouns lady 20
rntsyoud With a view to better acquaintance.
BE- young lady must be refined and o. some
beauty. Address X. y. box NJ, bufa.o' y. n
sYon don't really mean, Christina
Exclaimed Louise Mowker, hurricdly.
NAst We. or rather one Of US, should re-
70 such an advertisement as that. >
Peri 81 public protcstation OF love which
pells Itself to the highest bidder
WAY not?r returned Christina, her
t'oEn eyes twinkling with merrimcnt-
Buffalo l. five hundred miles away.
he better acquaintance will not thus
Fnply . personal acquaintance, no one
Ne shall know OF it, for we will give
sn an assumed name. and just picture
y your elf, girls, how this excitement
xill charm away the tediousnes Of win
er life at Wellesley
But suppose said Edith Morton, the
ftcond OF the two listeners, that this
young gentleman OF means, etc, should
prove 70 be some middle-aged married
IAN who is trying TO indulge his love
\ romance at the expense OF his wife
Eone ugly old wretch who may become
10 ardent in his false protestations?
~. The very idea makes me shud-
fer.r
M danger OF that" replied Christina
Loekwood, as she cut the advertisement
1,ot the paper and placed II in her peck
E'1oox. whoever heard OF a middle
lsed married man putting himself 70
ne personal inconvenience Of writing
F~saitless love letters to crafty a quasi
tose 81 romance? He would be much
more apt TO dwell on the fascinating
aAitics Of his youth over a bottle Of
nAmpagnc at the 1'ub. No, my dear; I
would BE- willing to wager five pounds
n candy that this is a bona ide young
gentleman OF means and cultivation
Mho wishes to carry IN a romantic cor
F~espondcncc, and who would be as
ready to cease writing at the end OF six
months as we would"
But which OF us three Is 70 10 the
Eoung lady OF refinement and OF some
|oeauiy, and what nom de plume shall
Fne nsc?" said Louise. convinced now
4 The feasibility Of the plan and OF the
un which could DO had from the CORE
Fpondencc.
Who. indeed" retortcd Christina,
out the wit and beauty OF our class,
tAiss Louise Mowker? Yes. Louise,
.ou are . much better writer than
Lai'h or myself. and then the letters
I'll 20 written under the supervision
Us All 50 that the responsibility will
M equal. And as for q nom dc plume.
not take Miss I. A. smith Inf
ssla Amorata Smith)-you know
AVE- private box IL the pobt-oficc.
~ him know from the name that he
sxpect very little lasting ~a7sction.r
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-12-19

Forger smith. IT New York. who sue
ceeded in getting hold Of other peoples
money to tho tuna Of $500. QUO Or $780,
600. needs . WORT of excuse. Has he
not heard protect.onist orators I'll his
life defending projection on the very
ground that Il sinply transfers money
from one mans pocket % anothcr'A and
that the country il therefore no worse
on By such On operation. = the money
remains in the country5 That = sound
p~rotection doctrine
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-12-19

y. ataer was no pcssimist: he loved the
things u earth
!. ,nTrrsalness and sunshine. is music and its
mirth.
:. never sighed or moped around whenever
= things went wrong
..r,ani me ed mocktd - fate with some
deiant song.
beIne he warn'i much on tune. whenever
times were blu
rhistle sof:ly 70 himself this only tune he
knew:
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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12
GLASS RULE.

Asa matte Of course, the Grand Jury
has for the second time refused to indict
the cloak manufacturers for conspiracy
in entering into an agreement to lock
out their cutters. In these days Of class
rule it cannot be expected that the very
same boycott act which was so mer
cilessly applied to working men on pre-
vous occasions will be applied to the
employers of labor by jurymen recruited
from their own ranks. Judge MARITIME is
reported to have said that it was most
dangerous thing to let the workingmen
know that there was one law for the
rich and another law for the poor We
do not agree with Judge MARITIME. 1t Is
very necessary that they should know
it. And they are learning it fast now.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12

to be original, even to that extent that
among men of the same race and OF the
same epoch the utmost diversity may be
seen.
We should naturally expect that the
new social condition which is to prevail
throughout the world when this strange
law will have worked out its full effect
would bear its first fruits in America;
for in this country, although the senti-
ment of universal brotherhood has not
yet lodged itself into the heart of men
to the depth required by the highest
civilization, we have the remarkable
spectacle of many races, formerly at
war, now merged into one nation, all
marching on to the same objective point
of human progress. That such an I'M
precedented combination of natural
aptitudes should not result in new con-
ceptions, that will dwarf those of the
past ages, is inadmissible, whether we
consider its possible effects on art, on
industry, or on science.
But before we reach that point we
must rescue art from the thraldom of
capital. The millionaire affects to patron
ize it. In the sitting atmosphere of his
mansion it grows puny and contempt
ble; in the service of the people it will
grow bold and true. Strange as it may
seem, the cause of the greatest artist is
one with that of the commonest laborer.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12

freedom of the press, bourgeois legisla-
ton, bourgeois liberty and equality,
and of preaching to the masses that they
had nothing to gain and everything to
lose by this bourgeois movement. Ger
man Socialism forgot, in the nick of
time, that the French criticism, whose
silly echo it was. presupposed the exis-
tence of modern bourgeois society, with
its corresponding economic conditions
of existence, and the political consttu-
ton adapted thereto, the very things
whose attainment was the object Of the
pending struggle in Germany.
To the absolute governments, with
their following of parsons, professors,
country squires and officials, it served
as welcome scarecrow against the
threatening bourgeoisie.
1t was sweet finish after the bitter
pills Of tloggings and bullets with which
these same governments, just at that
time dosed the German working class
risings.
While this "True" Socialism thus
served the governments as a weapon for
lighting the German bourgeoisie, it, at
the same time, directly represented a
reactionary interest, the interest of the
German Phiistines In Germany the
petty bourgeois class, reliqte of the
| 10th century and since then constantly
cropping up again under various forms,
| is the real social basis of the existing
state of things.
! To preserve this class, is to preserve
| the existing state of things in Germany.
The industrial and political supremacy
of the bourgeoisie threatens it with GER
tain destruction; on the one hand, from
the concentration of capital; on the
other, from the rise of a revolutionary
proletariat "True" Socialism appeared
to kill these two birds with one stone. 1t
spread like an epidemic
The robe of speculative cobwebs,
embroidered with flowers of rhetoric,
stepped in the dew of sickly sentiment,
this transcendental robe in which the
German Socialists wrapped their sorry
"eternal truths" all skin and bone,
served to wonderfully increase the sale
of their goods amongst such public.
And on its part, German Socialism
recognized more and more it's own
calling as the bombastic representative
of the petty bourgeois Phiistine.
| IL proclaimed the German nation TO be
the model nation, and the German petty
Philistine TO be the typical man. To
every villanous meanness of this model
man it gave hidden, higher, socialistic
Interpretation, the exact contrary of its
real character. 1t went to the extreme
length of directly opposing the "bru-
tally Destructive tendency of Commun-
ism, and of proclaiming its supreme
and impartial contempt of all class
struggles. With very few exceptions,
all the so-called Socialist and Communist
publications that now QS4O circulate in
Germany belong to the domain of this
foul and enervating literature.
TO be concluded neat Ueek.)
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12
ART AND LIBERTY.

No one who contemplates the progress
of art in America, hampered as it is by
the meanness of taste and expenditure
inherent in capitalism, doubts that UNI
der conditions favorable to the develop
ment of lofty feelings American artists
would soon rank among the greatest.
1t has long been held by class of
superficial critics that certain races were
denied the artistic faculty, while others
enjoyed an aesthetic privilege. But the
great fact which history holds up to us
as a teaching and an encouragement is
that all races in tt.n have at some time
given evidences OF their ability to com.
prehend the beautiful and to express it,
1t seems, indeed, to have heen law of
social developments primitiue law for
a primitive state-that each in turn
should rise to commanding position,
and then fall after having represented at
the time of its grandeur the maximum
power of the human intellect at that
time. Each race has thus contributed its
share to the progress of the world,
Their successive loss CT the leadership
did not necessarily imply the unfruit-
fulness of their labor, although much of
its results persisted in the catastrophe
They were again cast into the mass, the
metal of " hich they improved by all The
gold that was in them. II other " ords
the superiority of the few was lost for
the time being. but the inferiority of
the many was lessened forever The
tendency of that law is therefore to
work out the homogeneity of mankind.
Yet it is not to be supposed that uni
formity will be the result, but rather
that every property belonging to each
special race will then be found more
generally diffused and more fully deve-
loped; foE' it is in the nature of genius
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.

We referred in our last issue to the
overcrowding Of cities with an idle or
servile population as result of the
growing application of machinery to
agriculture without corresponding pro-
vision for the labor thus displaced. If
we desire to form correct idea of the
power of this comparatively new factor
we may compare the United States,
where agricultural machinery is used
most extensively, with Russia, where a
few years ago it was used least. Euro
pean Russia, with a population of 49,
100000, nine-tenths of which ere en-
ployed in agriculture, produces about
33 ,000,0 600 tons of grain; whereas the
United States, with population of
100000. forty per cent, of which are
so engaged, produce 63,0O0,0O0 tons,
besides cotton, tobacco and other staples
produced in much less quantity or not
at all in Russia. Were it possible to
suddenly bring agricultural industry
throughout the Russian Empire to the
degree of efficiency which it has reached
in this country without at the same time
providing for the employment, in other
pursuits, of the labor thus displaced,
three men in four Of its immense popu-
lation would instantly find themselves
without occupation, and we would have
the strange but terrible spectacle of
6O,O0O,O00 people actually starving be
cause their country was able to produce
an immensely increased supply of food.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12
COMMUNICATIONS.
Woman Suffrage.

The sufferings of the striking cloak
makers have filled every compassionate
heart with sympathy. Charity with
ever ready hand has been quick to try
to relieve them, but what the honest,
selfrespecting working man or woman
asks is not charity, but just wages; not
the dole of unearned money, however
kindly rendered. but the opportunity to
earn respectable support.
In this case as in all others the worst
sufferers by the strike have been the
women.
In 1885 Mr.. Charles F. Peck, the Labor
Commissioner for this State, published
in the annual report of the Bureau an
exhaustive statement of the condition
of working women in New York. His
figures as to the number of women
earning their own living are far behind
those given by any Census He says:
"There are over 100000 females en-
ployed in various trades in this great
city," adding sternly afterwards the
significant words: "As rule women's
wages are very much less than those of
men,"
He then goes on to speak of the in
equalities of pay in various professions
and the gross injustice in many cases
where women's work was equally as
well done as mems.
But the most graphic picture that he
draws of the wretchedness of women
wage earners is to be found IN his
description of the cloak makers. In the
course of his investigations he entered
room where six women were at work;
the day was hot, the quarters cramped,
the air suffocating. They were making
winter cloaks. heavy and fur trimmed,
and, he says, ''were working as if
driven by some unseen power, but when
| learned that they were enabled to earn
but fifty cents In sixteen and perhaps
more hours Of labor per day, it needed
no further investigation to convince me
that the unseen power was the necessity
of bread for their own and their chill
dren's mouths"
Yes, bread, certainly little more than
bread, nor always that when rent and
fuel and food and clothing must also be
paid for out of fifty cents day.
And now even this wretched pittance
is cut off. How much wretchedness,
how much despair, how much even of
vice must result from this strike!
Without waiting for the industrial
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12
THE COURT OF MIRACLES.

We have all heard of the existence in
Paris, during the Middle Ages, of a GER
tain Co,u des MirncleS, so called from
the fact that people who ventured in
that strange place were miraculously
relieved Of their personal property, and
it would have been greater miracle
still to escape from it in decent attire.
The thieves, beggars and other worthless
who resided there were duly organized
in a corporation known as the Gueuc
(Miserables), governed by an elected
"King," who levied taxes on the various
"industries" of its members. This king
had great power. The mobiles, the court,
the judges, who might any day need
- services of skilful assassin, recog.
;ed his absolute authority over the
)ur des Miracles. Once year he and
trusted lieutenants were received in
lie at a neighboring castle and treated
to a grand banquet, where speeches
were made as eloquent as those we may
hear to-day at the love feasts of our Jay
Goulds, Depews, Huntingtons, etc,
with their political hirelings.
The candidate for admission, as was
then the custom among the guilds, had
to give evidence of his professional skill
by making a chefTpu,re He was
therefore taken to a cemetery, which,
in that age of CHASTITY deeds, happened
to be, most appropriately, the fashion
able resort of the French capital. There
he was turned loose into the crowd,
while his associates scattered through
it, giving everybody warning that "the
fellow over yonder was going to cut "A
pocket The pocket was cut, the purse
stolen, the candidate set upon by every
body, including his friends, under some
of whom he managed to creep and
escape, while the others reaped a hand.
some harvest of cash and trinkets.
We Americans of the Nineteenth
century live in more enterprising
country and in greater age. They
had one Court of Miracles in Paris we
have many in New York, and we call
them Stock Exchange, Produce Ex-
change, Cotton Exchange, or Demo.
cratic party, Republican party, ETC.,
according to the Industry" of their
respective members. But the most
miraculous of all will soon be known rs
the "Citizens," There, as in the Paris
Court, all the modes of thievery will
be repre- sented, the Christian beadsmau
cooperating prayerfully with the labor
politician.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12

The Central Labor Union has again
insulied Organized Labor by resolving
To nrotrudc its "SiAt, Dollar Archibald
on the platform of the Cooper Union as
one of its official speakers at the loak-
makers mass-meeting. To the call of
ten thousand starving wage-slaves for
sympathy and pecuniary aid, the hood
lers answer is Irovocation, which the
utmost wisdom on the part of the
audience can alone prevent from causing
a serious disturbance.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12
NOT ES.

Broadway dudes and merchants were
startled last Tuesday by the apparition
of eight thousand starving cloakmakers
"a procession of skeletons-a sight more
impressive than Dante's Inferno. In
the grave to which they were appar-
entity walking our present social order
will soon be buried
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12

al Not the English Restoration 1000 to 1854
but the French Restoration 1914 to 1889.
tbl This applies chiefly to Germany where the
landed aristocracy and squirearchy have large
portions of their eststes cultivated for their
own account by stewards, and are, moreover,
extensive beetrout-sugar manufacturers and
distillers Of potato spirits. The weather. Brit
ish aristocracy are, as get, rather above that;
but they, too, know how to make up for deeln-
Ing rents by lenOing their names to floaters Of
more or less shady ioint-stock companies.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12

The free traders ought to bless Nc
Kinley instead of cursing him. In view
of the higher duties provided by his
tariff bill, they are importing foreign
goods at an unprecedented rate and
laying in stocks that will sell at a large
advance. Everybody is going to make
money, except tn working man, from
whom the money will be taken.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12

Again, the free traders complain OF
domestic trusts as the result of "protec-
ton In the meantime, they are form.
ing international trusts, through which
they may control the importation of
plate glass aud other products of "for,
eign pauper labor"-all in the interest
of the poor American working man,
yoa hnoac, just as u Yankee protectionist
himself would say with a wink.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12

There are many men on the army
rolls against whose names is written
"absent without leave, a euphemism
for deserted" Some of these men are
very wealthy. Indeed, many enlisted
solely to secure free transportation to
the mining and Pacific States and Terri.
tories. They have feared arrest and
punishment, aud have not been exempt
from the arts of the blackmaller. An
amnesty bill has been passed for the be-
netit of these unfortunates. They can
procure an honorable discharge by re-
porting to a military post and explain
ing their little irregularity, The list of
deserters bears many a name of honor
and repute, and reaches very close up
to the United States Senate. 1t was too
potent among the Bonanza kings not to
receive encouragement, and so save the
records of asplrants for, or occupants
of, high political position. After all, it
Is wise means of relieving an awkward
situation, even if no mulct was inflicted
on the deserter.-N Y. Commercial Btd-
lefiH
This is a serious charge and cannot
very well be ignored, coming as it does
from Ole OF Inc most prominent COM
mercial organs IN this country. 1t is
true that the senatorial deSerters might
reply by asking the wealthiest of our
plutocrats-the men in whose names the
Bulletin is speaking-where they were
and what they were doing during the
war. The capitalistic press itself, we
understand, is not quite free from bounty
jumpers. BY the way, Joe Pulitzer,
proprietor of the World, never denied
the charge that he was member of the
crew.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12

The national debt has at last fallen
below ten figures, the total on July /,
being 1888 600, 900 against correspond
ing total, one month before, of 81 ,0OS,
100000. The interest. bearing debt, in.
Guiding the Pacific Railroad bonds, is
now, in round figures, $3.50, 900, 900, of
which 800, 100000 is in A. per cent.
bonds due in 1891 and $500, 000, 900 is in
per cents due in 1907. The total re-
ceipts for the fiscal year were $402 ,000,.
600, and the expenditures 1918 0o0, 900,
leaving surplus of $s4, 600 900 apple
able to the reduction of the public debt.
The total expenditures for pensions
footed up $l07, ZOO, 900 this year, against
$S7, 900, 900 for the preceding year.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12
SOCIALIST LABOR PA RTY.

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE B, j. GRETCH
Secretary, 25 East Fourth street, n Y.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-03-11

IN looking over the freight shipments
OF the Santa Fe railroad company for the
year 1889 the Enterprise finds that there
was shipped into Silver City during that
period, grain, -four and hay to the amount
OF $4,000, and that for these three ar
ticles alone Grant county paid out $685.
900, while the entire amount paid out for
produce reaches 100000. The county
is now enjoying season OF prosperity
which shows that its natural resources
are of such permanent character after a
drain of twenty consecutive years as to
remove all doubt concerning the expedi-
ency of raising her own supply. The
records show that during the past year
there were exported from that section OF
the country LOIS car loads of iron ore,
Is car loads of concentrates, 80 car loads
of miscellaneous merchandise and 450 car
loads of cattle, while the express compa-
MES show the output of gold to have been
$685. 100 50. Now let Grant county 90 t.
work and develop her agricultural re-
sources, then she will blossom as the
rose.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-03-11
MR.. J0SEPH SPEAKS.

Recently the NEW MEXICAN has found
it necessary to make some structures upon
Mr.. Joseph's course concerning the adj
mission OF New Mexico; it looked, con-
Guiding from newspaper reports, US ii he
vas opposing the movement. We are
gratifed therefore to publish the follow
ing letter from him upon the subject:
To the Editor OF the New Mexican,
WAsuINGroN, d. G., March 8. 1890
am not antagonzing, by word or ac-
ton, Mr.. Springer's plan Tor the admls-
mission of New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho
and Wyoming as states, upon one omnl-
BUS bill but the majority OF the house
committee on the territories, | believe, Is
opposed to the said omnibus bill and i'll
favor OF my enabling act for the admis-
sion of New Mexico into the union on an
equal footing with the ori sinaI states, and
therefore, want to be in accord with the
majority of the said committee in making
favorable report to the house of my own
enabling act in other words, | am IN ia
vor of the measure that will admit us at
the earliest possible lime, whether that
measure is Mr. Springer's bill or my en-
abling act. Yours truly, a. JOSEPH.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-03-11

YESTERDAY morning the Democrat ed,
itorially devoted half column to cenun-
cation of Major W. H. Fl. Llewellyn
and on its local page it has paragraph
asserting that the major is one OF the
best and most popular citizens Of the ter,
ritory. Which Is which Albuquerque
Citizen.
Singular, but even the best of men will
make mistakes. Major Llewellyn made
a serious mistake when he allowed the
Matchmaking, cowardy scoundrels on the
bla 'kmaiing sheet in question to say
aught for him. The opposition OF the
sheet is beneficial; its support is like
slime and dirt. However, we will give
Major Llewelyn the benefit of the doubt
that cowardly blackmailer, Albright
cot scared and wanted to curry favor
That's about the sure explanation of it.