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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
TRAMPS AND RAILROAD MEN

According to the New York Times
a somewhat startling discovery was re-
Gently made by the officers of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad. They learned that
their freight trains were carrying pas
sengers from whom the company was
receiving no fares. These passengers
were tramps. 1t was known that tramps
were occasionally parts of loads of
freight trains, but up to within few
days it was not imagined that they rode
with the consent of the conductors and
brakemen.
The tramp travel was comparatively
light at first, but news of any advantage
spreads quickly among the class and
the trains soon began to run with heavy
loads of the passengers. 1t was lmpera-
tive, of course, that the tramps should
board the trains after leaving a station
and leave them before entering one.
Frequently, however, they would over
sleep themselves or the trainmen would
fail to warn them. In such cases they
would be placed under arrest by the
local authorities and arraigned on the
charge of trespass. This finally led to
the discovery of the courtesies extended
to the tramps by railroad men, in conse-
uuence of which number of the latter
have been dismissed.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

pose laws and to vote upon all measures
of importance, according to the Refer
endum principle.
2. Abolition of the Presidency, Vice
Presidency and Senate of the United
States. An Executive Board to be es-
tablished, whose members are to be
elected, and may at any time be re-
called, by the House of Representatives
as the only legislative body. The
States and Municipalities to adopt cor
responding amendments to their consti
buttons and statutes.
3. Municipal self-government
4. Direct vote and secret ballots in all
elections. Universal and equal right of
suffrage without regard to color, creed
or sex. Election days to be legal holi-
days. The principle of minority repre-
sentation to be introduced
5. All public officers to be subject to
recall by their respective constituencies.
& Uniform civil and criminal law
throughout the United States. Admin
istratlon of justice to be free Of charge.
Abolition Of capital punishment.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
THE FARMERS MOVEMENT.
Alabama Democrats Incensed against II
and Fearful of the Possible Con-
sequences.

News comes from Alabama that the
Democratic party is greatly excited by
the position which the delegates of the
Farmers Alliance of that State took in
the National Convention of agricultural
interests recently held at st. Louis. 1t
appears that the delegation was largely
composed of office-holders and Office.
seekers, and these are roundiy de-
nounced for their action in approving
the st. Louis platform and the combina-
ton with the Knights of Labor In Sc
veral countyAlliances, INTERCHANGEABLE
politicians have commanding influence,
resolutions have been adopted, repudiat-
ing the platform as "rotten, un-demo-
cratic and dangerous. Our readers are
aware that the document objected to
demands the abolition Of the national
banks, the issue of money by the nation,
and government ownership of the rail
roads and telegraphs. 1t also pledges
the combined forces of farmers organi-
cations to the support of those candi-
dates only, regardless OF party aiiilia-
tons, who may declare that they will,
if elected, carry out the aforesaid de-
mands. This latter clause is especially
obnoxious to the Democrats, because
the formation Of an independent party
is apprehended, which may rally to its
support all the black population, divide
the white vote, and put an end to the
supremacy Of the old shareholders,
which has heretofore been successfully
maintained by race antagonism.
The State Alliance lecturer, A. B..
Brassel, recently delivered public
speech in which he advised the farmers
to attend the meetings and primaries,
and then, if necessary, to work for and
elect men to public office who can be
depended on to carry out the principles
of the Alliance, Independent of the De-
mocratic or Republican Parties The
Democratic leaders will make desperate
effort to prevent any division of the
white vote. They claim that many Al
lance men will leave the order rather
than follow an Independent political
movement. The next State Democratic
convention will be held next April and
the election in August following. There
are four avowed Democratic candidates
for Governor and doubtless there will be
several others in the field before the
convention meets. The situation, in the
meantime, is growing more complicated
and interesting every day.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
WHAT is PROFIT SHARING

The strikes which are now taking
place have tendency which is notewor-
thy, and surely, amidst all shortcom-
ings, encouraging They are not merely
strikes for rise of wages, but show a
desite for independence on the part of
the men, strikes against blacklegs, or
against the imposition of conditions un.
der the guise of gift This, we may
well hope, shows that the workers are
gradually becoming conscious that their
existence as workers means that they
are engaged in class war. That what
ever gains they make, whatever inn
provements in their condition they
conquer, must be at the expense of the
master-class
They will be aided in this new require,
ment of knowledge by the attitude of
the middle class, which a month or two
ago was so sympathetic" For in the
struggle against blackleg treachery and
the dlctation of conditions by THE ma
sters they need look for no sympathy"
from the master class Expressions of
sorrow at their having made such a
mistake as to take the step absolutely
necessary to true combination they will
get in plenty, if that is any good to
them; but, for the rest, it will be the
kind masters who are SO generously
offering to share profits with their men
who will receive the sympathy of the
public
A word about this profit-sharing.
What is it but a feeding of the dog with
his own tail? 1t means on the one hand
writing down in the account, books of
wages as profits shared by the men;
while on the other hand it gets more
work out of the men than the obvious
wage-paying for the same money paid,
and is, of course, praised by its advo-
Gates for that very reason. For the rest,
the men are quite right in seeing in it a
dodge to break up their organization /;
an instrument for detaching some of the
men from furthering the interests of
their class by deluding them MO think
ing that their Interests are one with
those of their masters, who. if only they
had eyes to see, are visibly living on
their labor. Whether the gas-stokers'
strike fails or not, the mere fact that
the men have gained this much of in
sight into the capitalist trickery is very
encouraging. -L0ndon CO1RBloHUedl.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
GOSPEL OF ST. MAMMON.
A Sermon for the Times Preached by Rev.
Robert Burdette.

(Appointed to be read IN a loud tone Of
voice in the Church of the Holy Sinners
the first Sunday in the calendar of Saint
Dives, and fifty-one Sundays after that,
three times a day, before, after and
during service, and at other times when
convenient and there is big crowd
present. To be read in all the churches
that expect or hope to collar the shekels
Of the ungodly or rake in the scads of
the good in the year of grace 1900
Now there was certain rich man,
which was clothed in purple and fine
linen and Jared sumptuously every day.
Blessed forever be his memory, for he
hath this day given S95, 900 to the church
societies, and hath $4,00O,000 left for
himself
Shout his name nightly, and let it
appear in four.line plea at the head Of
the column.
Blessed il the man who can give his
check fol three figures; his seed shall be
mighty upon the earth.
But more blessed is he who can make
it four: bis name shall be written in the
records and printed in the minutes Of
the association and craven with the pen
of a cunning scribe upon the chronicles
of the conference. Yes, they shall call
him Mister in the synod and Doctor him
in the convention.
D,,t h,,a hIapgaI 10 ba "a hn ~ M kn
it ten and five noughts his horn shall
be exalted with honor; he shall be
known in the congregation and on
change, where he stitch among the
elders of the land. Yea, when he goeth
forth, horn shall be blown before him,
and when he giveth dollar a gong
shall be beaten in the Sanctuary.
Lazarus shall behold him from afar off
and make ready to vacate the premises
in Abrahams bosom.
Abraham shall hear of it and shall
greatly enlarge his bosom and have it
newly furnished and re-upholstered
throughout Selah.
The praise of our lips shall set him on
high: if it be so that he can not read
then will we call our colleges after him;
and if it be that he signeth his name
with mark" then shall we endow
chairs Of Egyptology and Sanscrit
literature in his name.
FROM AN OBSOLETE GOSPEL.
Extract from strange manuscript
found in an obscure country church,
said to have been written by man
named Mark, but believed by our richest
scholars, on account of the general air
of improbability and the absurdly i'm
practicable and preposterous teaching
enunciated therein, to be the cunning
invention of satrist.)
"And Jesus sat over against the treas
ury, and behold how the people cast
money into the treasury; and many that
were rich cast in much. And there came
a certain poor widow, and she threw in
two mites, which make farthing. And
he called unto him his disciples, and
saith unto them: Verify say unto you,
that this poor widow hath cast more in
than all they which have cast into the
treasury, For all they did cast in was OF
their abundance; but she of her want
did cast in all that she had, even all hen
living, BrookIyn Eagle.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

SECTIoN NEW HAVEN, S. L. The Regular
~ Meetings of this Section are held at 7S1
Chapel street on the first Monday of each
month at 8 O'Clock p. M
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
MeetinDs.

sY- Notices, lines or less, under this head in
serted at $500 per year. payable in advance
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

'NRADES COUNCIL.-Regular Meetings on the
First and Third Sundays in each month, at
7:30 o'clock in the evening. All Unions should
be represented
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
NEW HAVEN.

A MEXICAN SECTION, S. L. Irregular Meet
IL ings the LIST and Sd Friday evening of each
month.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

The annual imports of England exceed
her exports to the amount of about one
thousand million dollars. This enorm-
Gus excess represents part only
of the interest and profits upon the
investments of her capitalists in
colonies and foreign countries. In
other words, the power of her financiers
over the world is such. through those
investments, that they can draw from 1t
annually one thousand million dollars
more than they return to it.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04
LOCAL NOTICES.
For all kinds of job Printing, 90 to the
Stafford Printing Co.
TRADES UNION CALENDAR.
Meetings Regularly Held at Trades Coun-
Gil Hall, 769 Chapel Street.

Delegates to the Trades Council received at the
regular meetings, on the First and Third
Sunday evenings In each month.
BREWERS, alternate Sunday mornings.
BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JoINERs, I'd
Wednesdays
CIGARMAKERs (3g, 4th Tuesday in month, 7:30 p.
m. Executive Board every Saturday, p. M.
FURNITURE WORKERS. I'd and 4th Friday evgs
GRANITE CUTTERS, Sd Saturday evening.
HORSE SHoERs, I'd Tuesday evening.
IRON MoULDERs (60), I'd and 4th Friday evgs.
IRON MoULDERs C77), 1st and Sd Friday evenings
$3.50 a. m.
MUSICAL PROTECTIVE UNION I'd Sundays, p m.
STONE MAsoEs, list and Sd Wednesday evenings.
TMLoRs, I'd and 4th Mondays, Sp, m.
TRADES COUNCIL lst and 3D. Sundays, 7:3O p. m,
TYPOGRAPHICAL, 4th Wednesday, Sp. m
WooD CARvERs. 1st and Sd Tuesday evenings.
WoRKMEN's COOPERATIVE FIRE INSURANCE Co,
every Saturday, p m.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-04

CONNECTICUT STATE COMMITTEE meets
" every second and fourth Thursday in the
month at No, /, Marsh Court. Secretary of
State Committee Jos. Ellern; Financial Secre-
tarv and Treasurer VIM. Werner
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Quite q number of subscribers liv,

Quite a number of subscribers hv-
ing in this section have come forward
and settled for the year, showing
proper appreciation of accommoda,
ton extended them. Now we wish
those living in other parts of the
county to do likewise. If they cal
not come or remit otherwise then
they can settle with the agents Of the
Dispatch in their respective neigh
~borhoods. Don't fail to do so.
If you wish cheap clothing now is
the time if you ever had it. See
what L. Epstin, Columbia, says how
the recent rains flooded his store and
n~ecessitates his selling goods but
slightly damaged at SO cents on the
dollar. He is also selling other cloth
ing Of all kinds at plices which will
make you dance with Joy to get.
Mr.. John H. Eleazer, Manager Of
the Columbia Clothing Store, n of
Lexington's most popular citizens,
has spread himself in the clothing
business this fall, and now has the
largest, most complete, finest and
cheapest stock ever brought to that
city. He is in position to. give you
the best goods, most perfect fits and
lowest prices you ever had. and you
Will commit a blunder if you buy be-
fore calling on him.
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about the bar room in Mr.. Morton's
new hotel here, then just opened, and
that the ". G. T. U. in national con.
vention assembled passed a resolu-
ton centu~ing him for selling liquor
by the drink he this week naiyely
announced that he has just discov-
cred that drinks were sold in his
hotel, and at the same time he an
nounced that he had ordered the sale
stopped. If it were not for the hon
orable position he holds I should be
inclined to call Mr.. Morton a hypo-
critic.
The Senate has amended and
passed the bill intended to make the
United States Courts a part of the
machinery of the Republican party,
although ostensibly it's object is to
define and regulate the jurisdiction
of the United States Courts.
There axe now threenegroes sitting
as members of the House of Repre-
sentatives, two of them in stolen
seats.
The season for booming summer
resorts being about over, and that for
winter resorts being not yet open
MI. Harrison ana his family returned
to Washington.
It has been decided by the House
committee on the Judiciary to make
a favorable report on the bill, which
has already passed the Senate, for
feiting the property of the Mormon
church.
There is a screw loose in the Raum
~vndication, and one of the Republi-
can members of the committee is
ssid to be opposed to white washing.
He is being argued" with; hence the
delay in making the report.
The House has voted without q
division to expunge the speech where
in Mr.. Kennedy called Senator Quay
a modern Judus Iscariot and afelon,
from the Record, and Mr.. Kennedy
made another speech stating that he
was glad he made the first one, and
that he still stood by his original
language. Nh. Quay has been so
busy trying to save his nominee for
the Governorshin of Pennsylvania
from defeat that he hasn't had time
to give the public his opinion.
Representative Flower doesn't seem
to be worrying over the adverse crit
cisms of his management of the Dem
ocratic Congressional campaign. He
says wait until the returns r in
and see the results of the committees
work d.
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Chaplin Items.

Now, that the primary elections
are over and every thing calm and
serene, we will again give the good
old Dispatch a few dots, and just
here allow me to say, thai we con-
slider the ticket nominated an ex-
cellent one, from Capt. Tiuman for
Governor down to County Commits
sioners. It is true that all did not
get their personal friends nominated
but the ticket is such, that deserves
the hearty support Of every Demo,
crat in Lexington county. Be it
said to tho credit Of our people, that
the primary of 1890 was conducted
in an honest way, hence the majority
should rule.
The rainy weather continues; we
are now experiencing a regular gale.
There is no telling the damage done
to crops in tae field. Wefnd cotton
bolls are rotting, corn is also rotting
on the ear.
We notice that improvements are
still going ON around Chaplin. Mr..
L. ". Hammer has moved his str k
of goods il the large two-story house
of Prof. Laird. Messrs. Clark &
Haltiwanger L building alarge and
commodious store building Job S.
Wessinger and Meetze & Bro. seem
to be enjoying an excellent trade.
A large school building will soon be
started, which when completed will
add much to the appearance Of the
place.
Communion services will be held
at Bethel (high hill) Luthern church,
on next, the first Sunday in October,
Rev. Prof. A. J. Bowers. of Newberry
College, viii conduct the meeting.
This charge is still without a regular
pastor, but efforts are being made to
get one which it is hoped will be sue
cessful. B. j. W.
Sept. 90, 1890.
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Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent

lffOU OuI 4SSSO4oA |
Washington, D. c., Sept. 26, 1890.
"Night makes right" has always
been the motto O. the Republican
party. But it has never so openly
lived I'D to the brigandish theory as
during this session of Congress, and
the action of the majority OF the
House this week has been more revo-
lutionary than ever before. When,
after a three weeks struggle the he
publicans succeeded in mastering a
Quorum of their own, it was OF
course expected that they would seat
the negro contestant Langston, whose
case has been pending for more than
two weeks, but that they would at
tempt to seat negro number two,
without having given any previous
notice of any intention to call up the
case. and witout allowing Il word
of argument, no one outside OF the
the plot had the remotest idea. Well
that is exactly what was done. Ihe
| Sneaker ordered the South Carolina
c3ntested case of Miller vs. Elliot
to be called up, and in exactly thr,
teen minutes the House had unseated
Col. Elliot and given his seat to the
negro Miller. Several Republicans,
notably, Representative Kerr CT Iowa.
tried to persuade the Speaker to al
low both sides to be heard before
taxing a vote, but the Republicans
hooted them down and proceeded to
consummate the Legislative disgrace;
Privately, Republicans apologlzed
for their unseemly haste, say that
they feared that they could not hold
the quorum for any length Of time.
The tariff bill has been reported
from conference and while in some
respects it is better han it was as
passed by the Senate it is on the
whole the most astrocious piece OF
tariff legislation ever conceived by
the Republican party, and that is
saving a great deal. It was only by
the use Of the party whip that an
agreement was reached in conference,
and about one-fourth of the RepuD-
leans privately curse the bill, which
they say robs their constituents, but
when a vote is taken every one OF
these mel will be found smlllngly
voting for the bill as reported from
the conference. There has. been con
siderable talk about the Democrats
in the Senate taking advantage OF
the rules of that Eody to debate the
report on the tariff bill until the first
week in November in order to pre-
vent the calling of an extra sess1ol
for the purpose of passing the Force
bill, but no slch programme has yee'
been agreed u on, although'n certain
CONTINGENCIES it may be done. Any
thing would be excusable and allow
able to beat the Force bill. -
Nh. Norton, the gentleman VINE
presides over the Senate, when II
has nothing more pressing to 90
seems to be q little slow III keeping
up with the news procession: J.
spite of the fact that nine-tenths O
the papers in the United States
aside from the cri1g;ng Republican
organs, last winter printed something
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Local Brevities.

MeEIrse,s MIN OF cARoul fos female diseases,
Wanted at once, 10000 shingles,
S. 0. Hammer.
We swallow at one mouthful the
lie that fatters, and drink bydrop the
truth that is bitter.
School books, pens, ink and writ
ing paper of all kinds, at the Bazaar.
MI. Freddie Drafts of Lewiedale,
has returned to the Military school
at Staunton, for the ensuing session.
To be able to bear ~provocation is
an argument of great whisdom, and
to forgive it is of a great mind.
Gilt edge butter and the very best
lcream cheese, at the Bazaar.
MIR. VIM. Westmoreland is now a
Notary Public at Samaria, in this
county.
New York dried beef and a full
line of canned goods butter and
cheese at the Bazaar.
Capt. G. B. Hartman had the Lex
ington Rihes out Saturday afternoon
and put them through a course OF
sprouts
nSSspcx-DaAHGHE tea cures Constipation.
Orange cider and ginger ale, both
good drinks, only sc a glass, at the
Bazaar.
Think before you speak: think be-
fore whom you speak; think why you
speak; think what you speak.
The best wagons. and buggies at
lowest prices, at T. B. Aughtry &
Co.'S, Columbia.
Mr.. Wade Lybrand, Of Switzer
Neck, lest a six-year-old child Sun
day. with diptheria.
"Old Cabin Home" chewing to-
bacco is taking the cake. Sold by
E. C. Shull & Bro, Columbia.
Second hand carriage, buggy and
hack, for sale cheap, by Mr. James ?.
Meetze.
A second hand buggy and harness
can be bought cheap from Oh. c. E.
Leaphart.
Examination OF Public Free School
teachers VII be held in the court
house, Friday, October, 3rd-
If you feel "out Of sorts" cross and
peevish-take DR.. J.. H.. McLean's
Sarsaparilla: cheerfulness will return
and life will acquire new zest.
Try BLAcK.oRAuGHT tea for Dyspepsia.
Mr. Holler, of Rock Hill, will have
the management Of Messrs. Roof &
new brick yard and will
begin making brick in a few days.
Canned pie-peaches, pine apple,
- preserves, desiccated cocoa
NxsmStards or pies, at the