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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-19

agricultural fields. What the people
learn now of these matters they must
CLEAN from the spasmodin and mislead-
ing accounts Of the capitalistic press.
The result is that labor knows not its
enemies and misjudges its friends that
the capitalists can organize their forces
unmatched and undisturbed and that
their attacks often find labor unpre.
pared; that public officials disreg gard
their duty and trample upon the rights
and liberties of the people with impu
nifty; and that the politicians can do the
bidding of capital, defeat every effort of
labor towards betterment of its condi
tlon and yet be rewarded by iabor's vote,
The time has come when labor must he
vigiiant. To aid 1t in this needful work
the American Section proposes to give
the monthly reviews above mentioned
The first of these review meetings will
be held at Cooper Union, Room q, on
April q, to which you, and your con.
stituents through you, are hereky cor.
daily invited. We transmit herewith a
number of invitation cards, which we
request you to distribute among the
members of your respective organiza-
tions.
AMERICAN SECTION s. L,P.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-19
SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY.
Procee Il 1 ngs Of the Nat ional Executive
Committee.

C0mmittee-
At the last meeting of the National
Executive Board FIR. Moor occupied the
Chair. The Treasurer reported that the
receipts during the week were $50. 10,
for dues and other expenses $l1O7, To
cover the deficit of the party organs
$4,000 were Appropriated. The Auditing
Committee reported having investigated
the books and found them in good order.
The receipts from December 20, 1885, to
April /, 1890, were 1884 IS; the expen-
SEES $503. %. Speakers were furnished to
the Sections of Newark Is. E. Shevitch),
Hoboken q. Franz and Elizabeth Chr.
Pattberg)- The large cut which had
been used for lhespecIai agitation num-
Der was loaned to the Jewish Work
mems paper. Comrade A. Negendank,
editor of Der Socialist, submitted his
resignation, which was accepted The
Sections f Hartford, Rockville, Boston,
Providence, Lawrence and New Haven
responded IN reference to the proposed
agitation trip through the New England
States. II was resolved that Chr. Patt.
berg shall make the tour in the latter
part of April. The Secretary was in
structed to- make the necessary prepara-
tons imm ediately The Evansville Sec
ZION asked for miormation in regard to
the announced agitation-trip through
the Western States. The delay was
caused by the inability of the Executive
Board to find aspeaker for the purpose.
1t was resolved to invite Ph, Rappuport
and Jens L. Christensen. Further com.
municatioTls were received from Phlla,
delphia, Stones, Pa, San Francisco,
! Comley, Ohio, Wilmington, DEL, Cam.
den, N. j.. and Brooklyn.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-19
KEEP A WATCHFUl EYE.

1t is High Time Labor Were yigiIant-
Come to the Cooper Union Meeting of
the American Section next Monday
and Know the World you Live In.
The following urgent invitation has
been addressed by the New York Ameri-
can Section to the Central Labor Union:
COMRADES We beg to call your atten-
ton to a series of meetings to be held by
this Section at the Cooper Union once a
month for the purpose of publicly re-
viewing the important events in politics
and industry. 1t is a matter of vital
Importance for labor to keep a watchful
eye on the doings of its enemies, the
capitalists and politicians, as well as on
its own movements in the manufacture
ing, mining, trade, transportation and
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-19
SCHOOL CONFERENCE.
Organizations Urged to Elect Delegates
Who VIII do Their Duty-The Secret
of Mayor Grants ActIon.


Who VIII do Their Duty-The Secret
of Mayor Grants ActIon.
A meeting of the School Conference
was held last Friday, April IL, at the
Labor Lyceum. The special committee
reported the resolutions that had been
adopted on the previous Sunday by the
New York Central Labor Union and
recommended that all the organizations
represented in the Conference be re-
quested by the Secretary to send to this
body, as early as possible, certified CO.
pies Of any similar resolutions which
they may respectively adopt. The 10000
German copies of the Report on the
State Of the Schools" is now ready for
distribution.
The Secretary will also request all the
organ yations whose delegates have
Frequently failed to appear at the meet
ings Of the Conference, and w no have
thus deprived both this body and their
constituents of valuable means of infor-
NATION and agitation, to elect new dele
gates, pledged to do their full duty.
The action of the Mayor in granting
money, out of the school funds, for the
purchase of a site upon which the Board
of Education proposes to erect pala-
tial Office building for It's own use, was
again severely criticised The delegate
of the Liberal Club stated that in thus
acting the Mayor knew exactly what he
was doing and was not at all deceived
by the false representations of the Edu-
cation Board The present owner of the
site in question is John D. Grim minis, a
wealthy and influential Tamnany Hall
politician, who is currently believed to
have loaned the Mayor large sums of
money to carry on his mayoraity can
vass. Specific resolutions to this effect
will proably be submitted at the next
meeting of the Manhattan Liberal Club.
AS soon as the Conference can place
the special committee in possession of
sufficient funds important measures of
agitation and organization will be taken.
The next meeting of the Conference will
be held Friday evening, April 1S, at s
O'Clock sharp, and every delegate is
urgently requested to attend.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-19
Siberian Horrors.

An account from Tomsk made public
by the Berlin correspondent of the Daily
Neacs describes the state of the Siberian
prisons as something fearful, and gives
the following figures, which speak for
themselves. Tomsk, the seat of the only
university in Siberia, is at the same time
the central depot of exies 1t possesses
a prison which can accommodate 765
men, reckoning for each one f. g cubic
feet of air. There is space for 400 healthy
persons and 275 sick ones, but the mum.
ber of exiles who arrived in Tomsk in
1886 was 16, 1874, OF whom only IA, S66
were transported further. In 1897 there
arrived 14,277; and in 1888, 1904; and
in 1889, up to September, over f2 600
of whom 1882, 14,239, and 1900
respectively were taken to the interior
In 1886 the average daily mum ber Of
prisoners was at least !, ,3l3; in 1887, ], ,12O;
and in 1888, $50. In some weeks these
numbers increased in 1886 to 9, 955, in
1897 TO 2,755, and in 1883 even to 3,09(
men. Among these the daily average
on the sick list was, in 1885, 394; in 1887
5l2 (not less than 45.7 per cent. J: and in
1888, 396, the majority suffering from
typhoid fever. The official report sayt
in few words that for want of room
hundreds of beds with patients suffering
from serious maladies were placed in tht
open air, whilst the temperature wa
only six degrees Reaumur 45t Fahren
heiD. The mortality was, of course
enormous. Between 400 and 500 exile
are buried yearly from the Tomsk prison
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-19
Pc ACEABLY OR THROUGH
WARP

Rabbi SCHNEIDER says New Order OF
Tn ings is lnevitabIy Coming and ask = .
"Shall We Wade to 1t Throug 4,
Blood"
At the Lincoln memorial service held
by the Germans of Bosi on last Monday =.
April ii, in the Boston Turn Hall, Rabbi
Schin Ter delivered an address which
must have startled the more conservat We
portion of his vast audience.
"A quarter Of century ago he said +,
the question was turning around the
hberat ion of 100000 slaves, who were
distin guished by color. Today, if the
signs of the times do not deceive us, the
hearts of the best people are moved with
the thought that, although these 3,000,-
600 slaves have been set free, although
the inh uman traffic in human flesh has
been abolished slavery as such has not
been done away with as yet, and that
10000, 600 of slaves in this country, rat
Ting tin cir chainsare demandingaspeedy
liberation. We have come to see that
all our assertions of liberty are merely
high sounding pretensions, and that the
classes who depend for their livelihood
upon the employment given to them by
capital are in worse condition than
were formerly the slaves in the South.
True that the free laborer of to ay has
the rig Int to change his master, but can
he, in fact do IL! A place lost to him
means starvation; a strike generally
ends with the impo verislment of the
strikers; a factory closed means to the
employ es 50 much loss Of bread. Have
our children, indeed, the choice Of occu-
patton? Legally they have, but virtually
and practically they have not The
progress which has been made during
the last rs years, the machineres that
have been invented, the labor saving
devices which have been introduced,
have changed all conditions Of life to
such q egree that new order is needed.
| The present time is as big with hopes
! and plans for new order Of things as
had been the time previous to the civil
war. New ideas have taken hold of
the people, and the ferment which is
permeating all classes becomes daily
more observable.
Now will this new order of things,
which is as sure to come as the new day,
be ushe ered into life in the same way as
formerly new conditions were borny Is
it absoi utely necessary that the new
order be ferized with blood, or will
the experience Of the past teach us how
absurd j L IL toprove the right and justice
of an argument by an appeal to arms?
We are standing on the eve Of a far
greater re Volution than that which STIR
red the minds Of the people rs yearago,
yea, of "A greater ohe than has ever been
Inscribed on the pages OF history but
will the new order be introduced peace.
ably, or Through var? The question is,
have we learned by this time that if
cause is j ust, II an arg ument is true, it
must become victorious toy its own mer.
its. Shall we wade through blood to
such an understandings
These are weghty questions, and the
sooner we answer them, the better will
it be for us and our children, who surely
will have to pass through this period Of
transforuIatlon."
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-19

At conference held last week in FL
mira, n. Y, by about three hundred
delegates of locomotive engineers, fire.
men, brakeman, swlichmen and railway
conductors, a plan was adopted contem
plating federation of all the organiza-
tions of trainmen in the United States
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-19

The Western coal agents have agreed
upon tariff at the opening of navigation,
which substantially makes prices % cts
lower than last year, but they have also
remodeled the schedules on all points
northwest, west of and at Chicago,
which means that an advance of SOC. per
ton on coal at all these points will go
into effect.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-19

Mr.. III. Fl. Brown will deliver a lee.
ture, entitled "Nationalism and its Rela-
tion to the Labor Problem before Ma
tionallst Club No. 3, at Spencer Hall, ia
West 18th street, on Sunday afternoon,
April 20, at O'Clock.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-19

The receipt of a sample copy of this
paper is an invitation 70 subscribe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01
ORIGINAL POETRY.
SWEET BIRD.

From somewhere in the cloudless air,
''Sweet bird, sweet bird sweet bird" hear
Glad messenger of spring and sun,
The winters weary race is run;
Thou singst of days that are to be
From snow, and storm and cloud so Free
Of rustling leaves in shad'wy nooks
Of rivers sweep and tinkling brooks;
Of nodding corn and waving grass;
Of shades of cloud and crow that pass;
OF mornings laugh that lights with day
The bluecapped hills stretched far away;
Of sheltered nest, so cool and sweet;
OF startled rabbits quaint retreat;
OF hum of bees mid apple bloom;
Of boughs that droop with sweet perfume
Of pheasants' "whir'' and insects drone;
Of life's sweet song i'll monotone;
OF Him who watches all with care
Throughout the changeful, whirling year.
Thy song means more than words can say
Of things so sweet and far away
Of things that bring to lifes worn eyes
A touch of grand and glad surprise.
And o'er life's highway, bleak and bare,
Come old-tme breatns of summer air
That bring their sweetness from the ways
Our glad feet trod in childhood's days.
And old-time songs again are heard
In thy clear notes, sweet bird, sweet bird.
And still. so strong, so sweet, so clear,
"Sweet bird, sweet bird, sweet Bird" hear.
Front Royal Va. c. T.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01
PEOPLE, look at it +!

PEOPLE, look AT IL !.
The West Virginia central railroad
company, through the Cumberland
and Washington railroad company-a
corporation such as Raleigh defined as
Neither a substance perfect, nor substance
proposes to wipe out five millions of
dollars Of indebtedness by promises to
pay about one million four hundred
thousand dollars.
And out of this latter sum it promises
to pay the State about three hundred
thousand dollars although, according
to Judge Alvey, the State has no claim
and no sag satil the five millions of cash
are actually paid.
A corporation, rich in promises, is
apt to be poor in cash and sparing
with its change. Even its bribe of
1900, 900, offered the State, is a promise,
which the House of Delegates accepted
rs balance in full for a property that
was 10 be worth millions whenever the
State could abdieate ifs own deferred
claims and destroy the preferred in
debtedness to the bondholders-had
such caiamities been legally possible.
THEY went back on King William,
of Germany.
He started out lately to become a
friend of the Liberals and Socialists,
called in this country Knights of
Labor, with the hope and expectation
that they would so far reciprocate his
friendship rs to cooperate with him
in governmental measures for the
reasonable amelioration of popular
conditions.
But they showed his friendship un.
der by vote which places 81 Socialists
in the next Reichstag, instead of IL in
the last.
The Noble ORDERS inhumanity to
those who would be its friends may be
unconstitutional, but it is in the warI
and woof of the fabric all the same.
IT looks very much as if a railroad will bt
built on the towpath of the c. d o. canal
-Frostburg Ledger.
1t does not look so "much as if" as
it did.
However it may look mucher thar
it were.
BOYS, here IS the word with the
| bark on !"
THE Maryland Legislature had better no
forget to pass ballot reform law this session
-Frostburg Ledger.
If there is a Solon who fails to keey
his memory green enough to heed thi'
inorganic warning. we want to sugges
to him right here and now that there il
! likely to be an emergency.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

Judge AIueys Decfsion.-The fol-
lowing notes embody the salient
points:
The charter of the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal company, granted by the State of Vir-
ginia and confirmed by the State of Mary
land, and also by Act of Congress of the
United States is perpetual, its works and
lands to be an absolute estate in perpetuity.
The company was projected for great COM
mercial purposes The canal was designed
to become an interstate waterway, and the
works erected thereon in virtue of this Act,
when completed, shall .f'o'eVer thereafter be
esteemed and taken to be navigable as pub
lie highway.
, The only claim the State has is that of a
deterred creditor. Hence. neither the State
nor the canal company has any standing in
Court as against prior liens.
If sale of the canal were decreed it is
doubtful whether sufficient sum could be
realized to payall prior liens to those held by
the State which exceeds five millions of dol
lars,
The power conferred by the Act of 1878 to
sell all the property and franchises of the
company is subject to serious question.
The contract between the State, the canal
company and the bond holders is a tripartite
contract which cannot be abrogated without
the concurrence of all the parties.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01

The paper that habitually sneers, snarls,
ISLANDERS and maligns; that has good word
only for those who tamey submit to its ipse
dirits, or those who purchase its fayors after a
mercantile fashion,; considers no issue com
plete unless it contains some mean. vindictive
and brutal onslaught or cowardly and coarse
insinuation; that substitutes vituperation foI
argument-such sheet can have no per
manent place in the hearts of our people,
Addsess Of J. b. iStoH before tie Indiana Ed
itorial association,
The above paragraph has appeared
in the Frostburg Ledger.
Everyone can see that the scissors
meant the JOURNAL, but the great
paper is guilty of none Of the vices
imputed to some one of Mr.. Stoll's
competitors whom, evid' mt y, he cannot
match.
The liberty of the press is blessing wher
we are able to write against others, and a
calamity when we find ourselves overbornt
by our assailants.-jSamuet Joh'tson.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01

WHEN the bill leasing the canal to
the embryonic railroad passed the
House few people in Cumberland
could have employed the rich lingo of
Sallie Salter when, after scare that
unnamed her man, she remarked
feel as better as ever fOle.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01

THE Canal Issue thinks that petition
disfavoring the canal steal could OBJ
tain the signatures of $4,000 people in
this coal region.
If the Issue will permit us to get up
one like the pirates did, we can pro-
duce petition with fifteen hundred
thousand names on it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01
FROsTBURG, Md. SATURDAY, MARCH l, 1890.

PETER o. MATTHEW'S, a full-blooded
Digger Indian democrat, officiated as
chaplain in the Iowa Legislature the
other day. Were he in Maryland and
an attache of the German oligarchy, he
wouldn't be even a half-breed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01

| IT is fortunate provision in our
system of government that we have
some able and incorruptible courts to
step between vicious lobbies, seconded
by venal legislators, and the peoples
rights.
Judge Alvey, however, did not need
his last opportunity to demonstrate
his pre- eminence as master in legal
exposition and invincible rectitude as
Judge. These great and saving quail
tiles had been illustrated on occasions
frequent enough to inspire the friends
of popular rights with perfect reliance
in the equity and righteousness of any
determination he might announce. A
man of high and wide repute, the
ablest jurist of many States-a dynamo
of legal force, any Judgment of his
upon any question within the domain
of law, the greater the better, shines
with incandescent clearness.
1t is fortunate for us, we repeat, that
we had a man of this stamp to meet
the spoilers right upon the Threshold
of waterway extinction and stay their
impious attempt.
WHEN Judge Alvey's opinion ap-
peared last Monday the roosters quit
growing and there was a visible decline
in tail-teather elevations. There was
a disposition to shiver, an inclination
to run, and general desire to under
stand the full nature and scope Of the
blizzard:
What shudder sways me? ah, what chill
Shakes all my splendor as flee?
Can loss like that be ours? Oh, Gene,
Can this fate fall on such as we?
~
Two Allegany Legislators tumbled
headforemost into the deadfall set by
the people who fabricated that big
Cumberland petition.
In Wyllyam Pynkney Whyte's Ian
guage they 'pledged the golden eggs
and then killed the goose that is to lay
them"
And now, when too late, their own
goose is cooked.
THE water bill passed the Senate
Tuesday. ONLY the governors sigma
ture is now needed to make it law.
Now gentlemen, unite ON six good
men-one for Mayor, three for Coun-
cilmen, and two for Water Commits
siOners-and elect them.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01

To say the least, it is cheeky in Gov.
Jackson to ask for a receiver represent
ing the State in the canal matter after
Judge Alvey says in effect that the
State has no say until nearly five times
as much cash as the railroad people
offer is brought into court.
The Judge says further;
In the selection of receivers | shall aim 70
get men of practical knowledge and exper-
fence in the operation of the canal, and of re-
Liable Judgment as to the future prospects of
the work. They must, Of course, be impair
tial as between all the parties concerned and
the conflicting interests involved, etc.
Now. what does Gov. jackson want
with representative of the very last
interest in the canal
A dioided report to Judge Alvey
somebody to say officially that the ranal
is good only for ruii.coy purposes.
Like Mullin, they "die hard" but
they die.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01

PTOgressing.-As soon as the under
ground survey can be completed work
will be commenced in the Union min
ing company's new development near
this place. There are 300 acres of
solid coal to be worked.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01

Personal Mrs. X. H. Butler, of
Cumberland, is visiting Miss Sarah
Wright, of Walnut Level.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01

AN Eckhart subscriber who believes
"the JOURNAL is always on the right
side," wants to know "what it thinks
of the Australian system of voting -
Not worth the paper it is written on
unless made to apply first, and with
special force, to primary elections.
In fact, with primaries thus conduct
ed, we would have little or no need of
it at general elections.
When in the latter it comes to u
choice of evils the voter needs no pri-
vacy. Indeed, the law ought to make
him cast an open ballot in order that
he may publish to the world how mean
his party has made him:
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01

Died-Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1890, Jo-
sEPH FRANCIS, aged II months, infant
son OF John Tippen, of this place.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-01

CUMBERLAND should lose no time in
accepting the proposal of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad company.
1t is the first step to what may turn
out to be solid and durable boom.
Notwithstanding the B. and O. are
"not entitled to hearing" in the
canal-lease discussion.