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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-17

Mr. Blaine has written another strong ana
lucid letter on the subject of reciprocity Far
tjcular attention will perhaps be attracted ny
the closing paragraph, wherein he emphasizes
tho fact that the Free Traders in the Senate
IN a man voted against the Aldrich amend
ment relating to reciprocity. Reciprocity as
embodied in the Tariff bill by the Republican
senators really means the extension and en-
lareemcnt Of the protective system. AS MIR.
blaine remarks, "The enactment OF rcci-
procity is the safeguard OF protection. The
defeat of reciprocity is the opportunity of Free
Trade"
The killing Of the linernan Kopp while en-
Gagged in repairing an electric lamp was a
horrifying spectacle and naturally provoked
good deal of indignation among those who
witnessed it, So far a. now appears however
the fault was Kopps own. Although expert
enced at the business perhaps because OF that
erv,fact-he undertook to do his work with
ont the rubber gloves which are the prime
essential of safety in handling electric wires
iamns or other appliances. This incident will
direct attention to the dangers inseparable
from any system of electric lighting, for the
lamp in question was supplied with electricity
from subway.
The Tammany die has boon cast. Mr..
Croker has made his decision regarding the
ORGANIZATIONS course in the coming campaign.
TO be sure. he went through the forlnalty OF
consulting the district leaders and the bright
and shining lights of the Wigwam, and the
result is that there is to be straight Tammany
ticket It is also decreed that Hugh ]. Grant
IA to be the candidate for Mayor, though this
& asserted with proviso-the proviso. name
~. that Mr.. Grant may decline. That is prob
sbly merely . way Of "lsttins him down
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-17

Hans y Rattie smlllnsly assures the suhcring
publlc that he has no thought Of rcsgning MS
Office aud of allowing some one else TO Try MS
hand at cleaning the streets This Is the last
sfr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-17

,yho, is , morinco Tho Boston Advertiser
discusses this question. buf one eooh "'"'' w" Va
a marine it ncglcrts - mention. \ "''' NV
person who iinagincs that taril REFORM Vi '"e
Cleveland variety does not mean free trade.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-17
GOOD ELECTIONS BILL GOSPEL.

GOOD ELETIONS BILL N'FPEL.
From The Memphis Eagle.
Republicans cannot afford TO C0ddle either LUZ LUZ.
wumps or bulld0zing BOurbOns. We are either riga
or we are wrong Ii the latter. let 10 leave our paw
and tOin another
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-17

The German element" on the D"mo'ra'lc sr'e
in Brooklyn is moved by the discovery INA, VI
more than 700 oice-holders in that city "s' lin"
thirty are Germans. Other causes OF "'s'""""'
also exist Ross Mclaughlin won't recognize '"c
German Democratic Committee ana SHS "o""
hard on the hcralds and pnrsnvahts "hh" '''"'
society sends to him for paTley' Tic ~ N'''''' '
cards il as centre Of political disturbance ana
hkclv. if not snubbed into suhordinat!on' I" IN
,.rfcrc with his plans, one Of which is TO elect
fine next President. another to boost the Utility
W. Ch,,,u into the roos, now rcrvaded by Gov
rrnor Hill. and finally To make hinis'h Hhfrih %
KINGS County. Bovine belowings Of rcs'ntmene
,,I wrath arise far and near from rho despite
t,lv cp,rcatcd children Of the Fnthrrland. ana
,hcv mr.. not unlikely in the coming election 10
unsc, the cart Of the Boss calculations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-17

p.nort is made of a newly discovered reP'i'o
which subsists exclusively on dle' VI '''''' T,.
10 bcoinning to attack the railway sys'e"'' ~"
or..turc in question is OF microscopic propor'ioh''
but. like the mosquito and the req anu s'io"e o'
the side Of NUMBERS and 1t is provided "S ha,"'I
with n series Of receptacles in which cneh'ioa,
agents and reagents Of highly corrosive an"
hitting character are in constant process OF us,
tilIation. These powerful mixtures are oscn'''se'
unon the steel which is to I've consumed, rehoe',n W.,
IL 40 far as the said worm is concerned 'riao's
o,d Wholesome article Of food No great oau''
20 "a The railroads is yet reported, nut JUG eN-
;st.nc. Of an enemy so formidable may wen Ca.
OH. attention. Science has not yet hehhe" '"e
nome and character OF this vermiform ih'""','
,noro numerous than the cOttOn-worm or vi. p ~,
loxera. or the Colorado potato-bug' "u. " W.. va.
doubtIess give the animal speedy n''eh,io"' '.n1'
IL is to he hoped subtract somethlhs i'"I' Wv
schedule of its destructive powers Inc ""rp'
,hought smiles through the gloom whlch '''e i.p
tile spreads round him that perhaps nc - "''o
CREATURE of the fancy having no real 'N'.''
oI,bouob tales of him longer and not less ci'cu'i
stontal than his own have wriggled LOT some ''"e
i, tho ncwspapers, and incidents OF MS "'o'a'y
performances have been rehearsed WIFI ''ie'"'
and minute particularity. Anfhehtlc i''o' n
zion IN the subject is desirable. ana sc~"oe
sho,,d mt on its spectaceS and focus then' upo''
this dangerous visitor without delay
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-17

All is now comparatively plain saiiing' III TIC
matter Of printing ballots for the cry e'ec"o"'
The Aldermen yesterday wisely althori"e" ."e
Police Commissioners 10 get the work "o"e "'"
on, the formality of advertising Tor DIS i''"',
the printing can hc divided among nu'n''r y.
firms. and by having the backs OF the "'i''.0
first printed there will he no great o''n'",'s -,
completing the work in time" Inc 's,i"'a'', 'na'
a, -, tho clcc,ion i, not far inside Of half
million dollars.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-17

A man stood on the corner OF NASSAU
Fulton SITS. at noon yesterday an" ''H n.a,
to bct $500 to cent that pe"'nu Wv .uo
, e stiI shining, The fact that no one
took him up shows what an exceeai"H,S p' ',.
;,,,nross;on This month Of September has made
mon the people of this metropolis
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW,

Elsewhere in this issue will be found N. Webb's latest epistle, with sugges- tive extracts from the Republican 71i bune and the Democratic Herald
 For obvious reasons. however, too much importance should not be attached to the comments of capitalist papers on the attitude of the New York Central towards the Knights of Labor. They are necessarily superficial and conflict ing. Some contend that the enmity of the company is limited to the K. of L.. while others intimate that this is only the beginning of a great campaign of organized Capital against organized La bOr, In no case did anyone inquire whether the battle between the Knights and the Central may not have been brought about by political as well as by economic considerations. The supposi- ton that such might be the case seems indeed, q priori, precluded as absurd by the fact that Chauncey NJ. Depew is an aspirant to the Presidency of the United States; from which it is inferred that he would not deliberately and wilfully engage in a conflict calculated to make him unpopular with large class of men
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11
OCTOBER II, 1890.
JOHN SW!NTON.

We need not impress upon our friends the importance of attending the public reception that will be rendered to John Swinton at Cooper Union this Saturday evening, October l l. They realize that to honor him is to honor themselves by showing their high appreciation of intel lect, courage and self sacrifice in the cause of oppressed labor.
 The Central Committee of the $. l.. F. has done everything m it's power to make this most imposing and signiti. cant demonstration. It has ad ourned all the meetings of its political organiza tions which are usually held on Satur- day, and has requested all labor unions to do likewise and attend the meeting in body, with their trade banners. The Central Labor Federation has issued a similar call and appointed two speakers. Progressive Musical Union No. 1 and the Socialist Liedertafel have kindly volunteered their services.
 To the few but heartfelt words of wei come that will be delivered in various languages by representative labor men, John Swinton will reply. It is expected that he will give the working people of this his native land some sound advice and tell them of the wonderful progress of ideas which he has lately witnessed In Europe. The effect of his words can not fail at this time to be widespread and wholesome, The press may not wish to repeat them Tn full but the wind in some way as it did before, as it always does with truth when the time is ripe for change of social conditions will carry them far and wide, to cheer and nerve the man of toi.
 Let no sincere man commit the wrong of failing to attend. Remember! Cooper Union, Saturday Oct. II.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11
COMMUNICATIONS.
The Socialist Political Movement in
 England.
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION

FEDERATION.
 337, STRAND, w. C., Sept. 9. '9O
 DEAR CoMRADE:-As the Party, both Tn America and here, is entering upon a political campaign, I would suggest that, as far as our time will allow. we should send to each other accounts of our progress.
 1 am sure that the movement must keep you fully occupied, for I know what it is myself. I have very little time for friendly letter writing.
 l enclose herewith copy of our elec- toral manifesto. We have distributed some tens of thousands of them about London, and they must have had con. siderable educational effect.
 At present we have the following can- didates forward: In Bermondsey, c. Baily; in Chelsea, H. M Hyndman; Deptford, H. B. Rogers; East Flnsbury. J, Connell' Greenwich. w. Dodd; N. E. Bethnel Green, II. R. Taylor; Wal worth, H. Quelch; and Wordsworth, John Ward,
 We are receiving the greatest oppbf sltlon from the political Liberals and Radicals These gentlemen pretend to be sympathetic with IL, but the moment we want to do anything they heap vilitications and calumnies upon our devoted heads, until further orders However, the electoral propaganda has done one good thing. People were dis. posed to regard Socialism as more or less of an advanced Radicalism, instead of being absolutely opposed to all sec tions of bourgeois politics. The attitude of the Liberals and Radicals toward us has completely knocked the bottom out of that idea. We are recognized more than ever as "irreconcilables.
 Now, we want to ask favor of you. Can you furnish us with the informa.
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As pious political fraud the Re, Heber Newton beats the devil
Do not forget to register. The nert registration duy is the 18th mstunt

Last week John Most went to Newark to deliver a speech. A policeman tapped him on the shoulder. As Most did not happen to have any dynamite in his pocket, he thought that Pentecostic an, archism was the better part of valor and turned, not his other cheek. but his back to Newark, without so much as pro test. We dare say that any ordinary Socialist speaker, with no dynamite but some spunk, would not have submitted so meekly.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11
OUR "CITlZENS."


 "Citizens" of capitalistc republics are naturally selfish and ungrateful. Of this glaring, historical, universal truth there can be no question, and the present relations of our own New York "Citi, zens" to Tammany Hall illustrate it once more and very strikingly here and now.
 Tammany Hall has always been and will ever be a faithful servant of our pIutocratic Citizens; not only faith ful, but cheap, dirt cheap. Its political machine has been run under the highest pressure and at the lowest possible cost in their exclusive interest Through it's agency thousands of millions have been poured into the coirers of those "Citi- zens". Municipal franchises, municipal property, municipal treasure have been lavished upon them by it's city offici als, while it's State and National leg. islators have vied with their Repub. lican and Democratic colleagues in voting away to those same "Citizens" the franchises, property and treasure of the State and of the Nation. As a re. ward for it's eminent services Tammany has been content with few millions of political plunder, which it had to divide among It's numerous "w0rkers," and without winch it could not have lived one day to serve the plutocracy. Such areward any "citiZen" in the brokerage business would consider ridiculously small percentage, a most inadequate commission. A few Tammany chiefs are wealthy, but most of them wear paste diamonds, while the rank and file are little better off than tramps. The Tammany heeler is notoriously poor man, whose children go naked and hun gry because their father must invest his earnings in whisky Three in four of his class are working" for "iob," which they never get. A few dollars dropped from time to time into their idle hands by some sympathizing and interested leader-who himself, God knows, has not much to spare--enable them to go on "working," drinking, and starving in expectancy.
 Such are the men, the faithful serv- ants, that our hoggish "Citizens," in imitation of "Spider" We'b, have de termined to lock out. What do they expect to gain by it? Do they imagine that Mir. Archibald and his political scabs will prove less costly and more subservlent than the regulars of Tam many Hall Will any of their own class that they may elect as Mayor or place at the head of the great departments of this city be content with less plunder than their Tammany predecessors? To be sure these "Citizens' are not only very selfish and ungrateful, but very foolish.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11
NOT ES.
foolish.

Thanks to the business like conservat
 ism of its constitution, the great Inter- national Cigar Makers Union, with about a quarter million dollars in it's treasury, had to look on complacently for fifteen long weeks, while the cigar manufacturers of Binghamton were starving three thousand of their wage. slaves into submission. And yet the defeat of the Bing strikers may cost this great union thousands and thousands of dollars at no distant day.
 In the luxurious lounging rooms of several of our swell hotels certain col lection boxes will be seen kept there by so called charity organizations, and hearing he legend For improving the condition of the poor.' If it read For perpetuating the condition of the poor 1t would point deal nearer to the truth.
 The college whipper snappers, Wall street blacklegs, and simoniacal parsons who run the Peoples Municipal League" take great pains to have 1t un- derstood that they are in, not for politics but for business. They might save themselves the trouble; none but boobies give them credit for aught else It is buSHeSs to see to 1t that the children of the poor tin1 no places in the schools and be brought up in ignorance; it is business to promote infant labor and violate the factory laws, so that wages he lowered in business like way; it is business to pauperlze the mass in order that they be driven to the slums and
 thus raise the revenue from tenement
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11

further fact that Webb is conducting the battle against the Knights, some even go so far as to suggest that Depew has lost some of his influence in the management of the New York Central; and such is the sentiment among many of the Knights themselves, who fondly hoped that Depew would settle the strike to their entire satisfaction on his return from Europe,
 We shall undertake to present here some views, which may look quite novel and somewhat theoretical to both the wise and the unwise, but that we have every reason to believe correct in the light of facts within our personal knowl- edge.
 We shall state them c0ucisely in the following propositions;
 Tt is precisely because Depew is an aspirant to the Presidency that the New York Central, as the most powerful corporation in the United States, has been selected to effect the destruction of the Knights of Labor, whose political agreement with the Farmers Alliance and other farmers organizations threat, ems the existence of the Republican party,
 2-The destruction of the Knights was determined upon by Chauncey NJ. De pew on the day the aforesaid political agreement was made; and the task of eifecting it was nomnally undertaken by Webb in order to conceal its political character.
 Eff Depew does not, for the present, attack the other organizations of labor such AN the engineers, conductors, fire men, etc, C,,-whOse economic power is far greater and more dangerous in the railroad industry than that of the Knights, it is because in their present form they are politically impotent
 4-lf Depew succeeds in destroying the Knights of Labor and thus reducing to minimum the possible consequences of their agreement with the farmers, he will be the natural candidate of the Re publican party for the Presidency of the United States in 1899; just as James G. Blaine became the most prominent statesman and the natural candidate of that party after having rescued his own State of Maine from the Green packers; feat through which the Greenback movement, initiated by the farmers, was checke in all parts of the country at a time when it not only com manded vote of 300, 900 in the rural districts but was assuming radical and even soclalistic tendencies, and might in that form have gained a strong foot hold in the industrial centers.
 off it be objected that the Democratic party might be strengthened by the votes of the dismissed Knights and their sympathizers, the reply is obvious that 1t might be more than correspondingly weakened by the influence of the cor porate power, which, regardless of ali party attachments, would he cast in favor of it's incarnation, Chauncey NJ. Depew. Moreover, anyone who knows "hC 'h'h6 hh'"c liiht Nilc btlHuCldtlC party, though more demagogical and consequently more hypocritical than the Republican party, is a not less pliable instrument of the corporate power. And in the face of a possible movement of the masses-necessarilyg growing more radical as it develops-the pIutocracy, including Depew himself, would care but little which of it's two political in. struments would prove its savior.
 As a pious political fraud the Rev. Hnbpr Nautnu baata ba 1o,ii
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11

streets in the United States and Canada, with aggregate liabilities of over ninety two million dollars. We have previously observed in these columns that, while the number of failures tends to increase, the amount of liabilities tends to de- crease; which shows conclusively that the number of the men of small means who can survive in the competitive struggle is constantly growing smaller.
 Commissioner of Pensions Raum's re port for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, shows 537, ,944 pensions on the rolls. The benefciaries are army invalids, army widows, minor children and dependent relatives, and upon them a "gratt ful" country expends annually in round figures one hundred million dollars. It is fit illustration of the in. justice, one sidedness and mustiness of the capitalist social system to thus dis. criminate between those on whose shoul- ders rests the burden of maintaining the StaCe. The men who worked by fight ing are remembered and their depen. dents provided for; yet that larger, nobler army of those who work with peaceful tools, productive of the nations wealth, those whose labor alone made the labor of the others possible. and who worked, not one or two short cam paigns, but a lifelong one, frequently coming off maimed. not infrequently losing their lives-they are passed by without thought; neither to them, their widows or dependents is thrown a single crust; nay, worse yet, they are looked upon with contumeIy and called the common people"
 Things are humming in California. The example of the Nationalists in the Sixth Congressional District is to be followed in San Jose, the northern part of the State; and the Farmers Alliance has endorsed II. c. Wiltshire, the Nation. alist candidate in the Sixth. The con- nection between city and country is being established. As yet disconnected, yet are perceivable in New York, Buff. falo, Cleveland, St. Louis, and here and there in the rural districts the links of that party that one day will stretch un- interrupted from the Atlantic to the Pacific and cast off the imbecile social order that has brought our republic 10 the verge of ruin.
 Nationalist Club No. 3 of New York listened last Sunday afternoon. at it's headquarters IA w. 14th street, to an interesting lecture by Comrade Cahan upon "Liberty under Nationalism." The lecturer did justice to his subject. He first carefully defined the word Iii berty," then showed what was excluded from and what Was included in it, anal. lzed the many sorts of subtle forms that slavery adopts, and from the broad basis laid by his premises and illustrations came to the irresistible conclusion that not until the Nationalist or Socialist social system was established, such a thing as "Liberty' could be enjoyed by civilized man.
 The subject was a serious one, but the Anarchists present took cpre to in- fuse some humor into the debate that followed by airing few of the staple Anarchist silllnesses, and in that way contributed their share to the entertain. ment of the evening.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11

property in the hands of sanctimonous pew-holders; it is business in short, now that power is slipping from the fingers of the putocracy, to raise the false cry of "stop thief", and mislead the awakening ranks of labor.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11

In the past ten years lending June 30, lS9o)' the recorded immigration was 5,242 ,53O To this must be added the immigration across the Canadian border, which was not included in the official reports of the last five years and is estimated at about 300,000
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11

The city will print, and the people will pay for 1,0S5,0O0 official tickets for use this year of the Socialist party which put up candidates last week. Last year the Socialist vote was so small that it was included in the scattering" Each voter in the city must thls year re. ceive, fold up and It turn to the inspec- tors, his official Socialist ballot. and, failing to do all this, he cannot vote.- N. Y. Sun.
 Our malevolent contemporary is as ill., informed as malevolent The Socialist Labor party had no candidate in the field last year and its vote was not, therefore, included in the scattering.
 The process of wealth concentration through bankruptcy is following its regular course. In the first nine months of the current year there were 7,53s commercial failures reported to Brad
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11

Politicians and capitalist newspapers will gabble about more school room un- til election, but take care not to furnish any.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11

The coal baron having determined to advance the wholesale price of coal 10, 10 and 20 cents per ton according to size and quality, the coal dealers have deter mined to make corresponding" ad- vance of 90 cents per ton all around. In similar way every advance in the wholesale price of necessaries is quickly followed by double or triple advance of the retail price. As matter of course the retailer in good financial standing sides with the wealthy monop- olist. And yet the monopollst will some day extinguish the retailer. It is strange. indeed, that the coal barons have not yet undertaken to deal directly with the consumers. as the great ice companies have long been doing. But we may surely expect that such will be the case at no distant day. We need
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11

BoARD or GRIEvANCEs, ERNEST C. SCHNEIDER Secretary b Dover street. Boston, Mass.
Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11

NATIONAL ExECUTtvT COMMITTEE E, J. GRETCH,
 Secretary, % East Fourth street, N. '.