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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-09
PLATFORM PLATlTUDES.

Mr.. Fenwick has been repeating at
Morpeth, at the Miners Annual Demons
traton, one of those dreary platitudes
which embellish the stock-in- trade
speeches Of so.called "labor representa-
tives." Capital" lie said, Unjust be
content TO take a smaller share of the
profits, while labor must be permitted a
fuller share than had been the case in
the past" Does not Mr. Fenwick know
that the capitalist, not capital, takes all
the profit which is unpaid labor, and
the worker gets nothing but wage,
which is no part of profit. The wayfarer
stunned by blow from behind when he
returns to consciousness to find his
pockets rifled does not say that the
bludgeon welded by the footpad has
taken his cash and jewelry. He dis
tinguishes intuitively between capital and
the capitalist ideas, which Mr., Fenwick
confuses. Capitalize Instruments Of
industry-will be used as a weapon of
robbery as long as it is under individual
control. Only when it is collectivsed,
when it will cease to be capital, as the
term is now understood will it be en-
ployed legitimately to aid production,
not ultimately, though under sane
ton of class law as a means to expro-
pirate the worker of the results to his
labor. Blind leaders of the blind are
those who tell the workers they may
successfully resist being robbed over
much, and yet leave the sword which
Stays them in the hands of their enemy
Wage workers cannot resist the might
of monopoly. In the struggle they may
win some scant concession, but only by
wrestling his weapon from the hands of
the foe will they get for themselves
freedom ana the happiness which attends
it. Shame and poverty will be the lot
Of the workers as long as capitalism
endures. Justice.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-09

Empire. 1t would have been an errand
as fruitful to have preached to the
Huns, as to the capitalist. For the lat
ter must have national competition as a
part of his machinery; and war is the
grist which that mill grinds.
But suppose for a moment that the
nations of Europe agree to arbitration
and disarming-and keep to the agree.
ment, will the Governments of Europe
need no soldiers then? Shall we be free
to beat our Gatings into reaping ma
chimes, and our magazine rifles into
telescopes to search the moon for fools,
since they will have left the earth
Alas! no. Nobody, however little he
knows Of the present state of society
and of the movements of labor, even
dreams of a modern government, how.
ever free it may be from fear of foreign
war, dispensing with an army; be that
army big or little, or by whatever name
it may be called
This is strange! The Peace Society
triumphant no more wars, neither for
dynasty, or an idea, or market, and
an army necessary? For what in the
name Of patience can an army be want
ed In time oil deep peacet Press your
innocent bourgeois little, and he will
have to answer, TO keep do,cn the Peo-
pie!
Yes, that is the blind alley which the
Peace Society is aiming at. To make
peace and find war going on all around
them, only prevented from breaking out
into its crudest form by uIeans of the
old threat--an army of most elal orately
armed and carefully trained men. How
can there be peace so long as the great
mass Of the population are forced into
positions Of misery and inferiority by a
privileged few? That is the real ques
ton, and the Peace Society does no
good service to the cause of peace by
ignoring it. Those are really seeking
peace who are seeking equality first
William Morris in London CoDtDson,Uedl.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-09
THE CONDITION OF PEACE.

The Peace Congress has been sitting
in London of late, amply reported by
the capitalist press; and certainly if it
were certain that it could have any in
luence in bringing about peace no one
but fool could have anything to say
against it. But there are some forms of
ignorance of a subject, some methods of
ignoring the gist of it, that are so
damaging to the cause which it is pro.
fessed to further, or which, one may
say, do so entirely hamper any possible
action towards furthering the said cause,
that in this case, as in some others, a
word or two may be said as to the good
intentions of the Peace Congress and its
members.
War (of the bullet and bayonet kind,
| mean is horrible thing-if you
please, an insane thing; and it is good to
try to get the peaceable bourgeois to
realize its horrors, so that the report of
battles and slaughters may mean some
thing more to him (who, as he thinks,
will never come into that danger) than
the amusement of his breakfast table.
But the good people of the Peace Con
gress must be told that even this violent
war of modern times, and the prepare
ton for it, is just as much part of the
present capitalist system as banking is,
and can no more be dispensed with than
that.
Surprising arbitration taking the place
of standing armies, and those armies
disbanded, what is the first obvious
result? Why, the dismissal from their
bread-earning occupation, however mi
serable and wasteful it may be, of mil.
lions of civilized men. A good thing,
too, some peace-society man may say.
Yes, SO it would be. if society were free
to accept their capacity for labor and
turn it into useful channels. But as
things now are, with labor hampered
by the masters of labor, who will only
allow it to act when it acts for their
profit, we all very well know what
disaster it would be in our present So
Ciety. Not that we Socialists need fear
it: for in all probability the shock to
society, so-caIled, would be so great
that it would force on the advent of real
society-whiCh is one reason, amongst
others, why the disarmament will not
take place.
But, indeed, does any reasonable man,
thinking of the matter coolly, suppose
that the capitalists, the real masters of
society, will disband their army? 1t
does not, indeed, seem to need many
soldiers for the first stage of, E. g., the
opening up of Africa; but how about
the inevitable sequel: Africa ,and other
barbrous lands opened, can the capt.
alists-i. e., the ruling and managing
powers of that tremendous thing, mod
ern Europe help rushing forward at
any cost for the markets so opened !:
No more than the Huns could help over
running the fertile lands of the Roman
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-09

CONNECTICUT STATE COMMITTEE meets
Y every second and fourth Thursday In the
month at No. /, Marsh Court Jos. Haaser,
Secretary, No, Marsh Court.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-09
TRADES UNION CALENDAR.
Meetings Regularly Held at Trades Coun-
Gil Hall, 100 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.
CraAnMAKERs $780, 9TH Tuesday in month, 7:30 p.
m Executive Board every Saturday, 5 p, M.
FURNITURE WORKERS, I'd and 4th Friday evgs
GRANITE CUTTERS Sd Saturday evening.
Horse SHoERs, I'd Tuesday evening.
Iron MouIDERs 900. I'd ana 4th Friday evgs.
Iron MouLDERs C77), LIST and Sd Friday evenings
JouRNEYMEN BAKERS I'd and 4th Sunday at
$3.50 a, m,
MUSICAL PROTECTIVE UNION I'd Sundays, 2 /. m
STONE MAsoNs, 1st and 3D. Wednesday evenings
TRADES COUNCIL, 1st and Sd Sundays, 7:30 .. M
TYPOGRAPHICAL, 4th Wednesday, Sp m.
Woop CARvERs, list and Sd Tuesday evenings
WoRKMEN's COOPERATIVE FIRE INSURANCE Co,
every Saturday, p. m.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-09
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Socialist Labor Party.


The Socialist Labor Party assembled
the nalenab
With the founders the American republic
mnt citizen the enjoyment of this right; but the light
conditions hold furthermore that be exercised
under system economic inequality essentially destructive of life liberty
With the republic theory politics
belong to the
To the obvious that the direct
of democratic politics. plainly the existence
privileged class the corruption by that the alienation
public franchises public the
abJect dependence the mghes nations that class
Again. through the democracy the puocrac labor
robbedof the wealth which alone produces denied the mo
O
natural forces the puc rule
and with all their evils peretuated that
the people may be kept in bondage.
and children
Against such the Socialist
Once reiaes its fundamental declaration that the
OF all economic sertude and political dependence; and
hand and the constructive tendencies capac
bnaons the other hand shall worked DOWNFALL therefore,
Re that call the people with the SUBJ
worker shall have the and full benefit his multiplied
IN
cable means the political power.
In the with improvement
dition of labor, we present the following Demands"
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-09
COMMUNICATIONS.
Let us do Actual Work.

enclose one dollar to renew my sub
scription for one year.
1t seems to me that men of our ideas
had better come together somewhere,
as they are doing at the KaweahColony,
and show by practice that their theories
are correct. There has been talk
enough; let us do actual work. The
county | live in is as good as any for
such an experiment, for its natural re-
sources need only to be developed by
labor to produce value of one hundred
millions. +. T. w.
PoRTERsyn.LE, Cal, July 30.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-09

Progressive International
y Union No. 90.-Employment Bureau at
the Office, rs f. ith st, Dist 2 (German) meets
every Saturday at $ p M at 1893 Orchard st.
Dist, 3. every Saturday at 40 p. M, at 30l H.
S1st st. Dist 4 at IS Ludlow st every Satur-
day at s p. m, Board of Supervisors every
Tuesday at s p, m, at 1871 Il 4th st.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-09
S OCIAL DE N A Nd S.

Reduction of the hours of labor
The United States shall obtain of the railroads.
public
The municipalities to obtain possession of the local railroads ferries
works.
The public lands to be declared nanabe Revocation all land
conditions which
Legal incorporation by the States of local Trade Unions which
national organization.
The United States have the exclusive right to issue money
Congressional legislation providing
be
be
School compulsory
accessible public clothing
where
H. Repealo all conspiracy sumptuary
right of combination
H. Official statistics concerning the condition labor
children
detrimental health morality convict labor
10 All paid lawful the Equalization
with those of
a. Laws the protection life limb
employers liability law.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-09
The Best Labor Paper.

Enclosed please find one dollar for one
years subscription to the WoRKMEN's
ADVOCATE, ! esteem it the best labor
paper in the United States.
CHAS. b. NOVINSKY.
NEW YORK, July IS.
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Don't Raise its Price.

! cannot do without my ADVOCATE
But the people are poor and it is hard to
get subscribers. Should you increase its
price you will do it more harm than
good. A. w. G.
BATEsyILLE Ind, July 81.
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LOCAL NOTICES.
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NEW HAVEN.

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NOTICE..

We announce with pleasure that Com
rade Emil Cores, 20 Center street, Room
Al, has volunteered to act as agent for
the WoRKMEN'S ADVOCATE in New Ha-
ven, Conn. Our readers and advertisers
will please take notice of it.
BENZ. j. GRETsCH,
Business Manager.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-09
POLITICAL DE MAkD S.

The people the propose laws and all
of Importance, according the Referendum principle
Abolition of the Presidency Presidency
established
recalled
BODY The States and Municipalities corresponding
B. Municipal
0
All public officers subject
ton Abolition
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-09
TRADES & SOCIETIES. CALENDAR

Standing advertisements Of Trade Unions and
other societies not exceeding FIVE lines) will
be inserted under this heading herea ter at the
rate Of $500 per annum.
Organizations should not lose such an oppor
tunty of advertising their PLACES of meeting
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-27
Where Beauties are Bred.


 The great beauties who take the social prizes in marriage are almost all bred in the lesser towns, where less conventional soci- ety gives women . snatch at freedom in girl- hood. You don't find them growing up with oalisthenics, health lifts, and mas sags-use to do their exercise for them.
 You all remember the painful story of girl in a city home, surrounded by every care, who was strangled in the cords of her 'shealth pull" one evening little more than . year since. Scarcely more pitiful is her fate than that of girls brought up to depend on such substitutes for work and exercise if they live. A sick, snmmic woman, unused. unable to care for herself and all others, is the most pitisble, repugnant object on earth. You seldom find lasting beauty which has not had semi Greek education of outdoor life and exercise behind 1t.
 Take the beautiful Cummings, who ran wild in their Irish country home, till their calculating mamma had raked and scraped enough to take them to Dublin and thence to London. The Cummings were unlicensed hoydens, but their races over the hills gave them matchless compilations. Later still l Mrs. Langtry took her beauty course, rowing the Jersey lanes with her brothers in sea air, living on peaches and coarse bread, with ] as little lessons a suficed 10 1t her London dTswing rooms.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-27
Monday. January 25, 1890.
AN INTERPRETING PROBLEM

AN INTERESTING PAOBLEM.
 A religious paper published in Chicago has discovered a defect in church affairs which 1t thinks should be remedied. It thinks that the important duty of s'taking up collections" is not made impressive enough. At present the deacons who tspaas round the hat" or handle the contribution box perform their duty under difficulties. Attention is diverted from them by the noise made by the organ or by the singing of soloist. They escape the notice of many of the brethren who are listening to the music. Their attention is attracted by the. music as itis by a newspaper when tired woman with baby in her arms enters street car. They do not notice the collection taker till he has passed their pew, is half way up the aisle, and is nearly ready to turn and deposit the regular Sunday offering in the proper place. Then they hastily thrust their hands in their pockets and take out some change. This serves to make some small bad boys laugh, which disturbs the solemnity that should be preserved in church. It is urged that taking up the collections should form g part of the regular church service, and should be rendered as impressive as the offering up of prayer, the singing of hymn or the preaching of sermon. Every member of the congregation should be made to believe that it is incumbent on him or her to respond to the visit of the contribution taker as it is for the choir to sing, the organist to play an accompaniment or the minister to preach and pray.
 It is difficult to see how passing around the hat or the box can be made any more impressive than it now is. It is quite im- pressive now, goth to those who are ready to pay and to those who are not. And to the man who has left the money at home which he intended to give it is positively solemn.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-27
THE GOVERNOR AND THE LAW.

THE GOVERNOR AND THE LAW.
 Some of the officers of the First regiment who were dishonorably discharged have se- cured an opinion from able counsel to the effect that the governor's action was illegal. Tho opinion is interesting and we'll reasoned. The substance of it is contained in the fol- lowing: ''When the commander -in-chief without charges being preferred without 8 trial by court martial, even without hear- ing or notice, attempts to punish an officer by giving him arbitrarily dishonorabls dis charge or dismissal, he usurps the power and violates many of the most fundamental principles of our government. A despot could do no more." Concerning the ques- tion of court martial the officers are told that they cannot demand one, and further: Even if you could demand one, we do not see how Colonel Cone could at present obtain one, for our statute. section 3,224, provides that at the court martial ''the senior officer named shall preside and shall be of superior rank to tho off1eer on trial" But the only officer of superior rank by section 42 of the code is General Graham, who has been asked to resign. We come, then, to the conclusion that in our opinion the order issued on Jan uary 22d dishonorably dismissing you from the service is contrary to the provisions of our constitution and laws, and therefore is null and void. We advise, however, that you shall in no way for the present by any overt act put yourself in the position of dis. obedience to the attempted order of your superior officer, although illegal.
 It is not at all probable that the governor acted without good legal advice, and perhaps he or his lawyer, or lawyers, may be heard from. It will be interesting to see the affair y,rSoro~a
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-27
WORTHY.

A penny perfume ia not always worth g
 scent.-New York Journal. A mystic order-"Glaas of soda, please; usual syrup. ."-Boston Transcript.
 The clouds are guilty of criminal act in attempting to fleece the sky.-Kearney Enter prise.
 The true humorist never smiles-that is, unless somebody else pays for it.-Kearney Enterprise.
 A Tyre five feet high was recently discov- cred In Greece. They are going to make a weather prophet of it.-Nsw York Journal. Tom-sI say, Jerry, you look disreputable this morning; been having another larkF' Jerry-"No, just swallow or two."-Phila- delphia Press.
 Necessary Preparations. Visitor-sI sup- pose your daughter is busily preparing for her weddinga' Mother-"Yss; she is up in her room now destroying all her old letters. !" Life.
 Briggs -sWhat would be an appropriate present to give my typewriter 0irla" Brsggs eff she's anything like mine, would re- commend a spelling book. ."-Terre Haute Express.
 A rolling stone gathers no mess, but the man who goes rolling home after midnight and has slid down the banisters of time gen. orally gathers all the dust and freah paint on the route.-Philadelphia Inquirer. Tailor-"You promised me faithfully yes- terday morning that you would call in and settle for that suit last night, if it rained pitchforks." Customer-"Yes, know; but 1t didn't rain pitchforks. ."-Time. New There's one thing don't like about the master. He keeps calling me my dear" Mrs. Figg-"Oh, you mustn't mind that. It's only . habit of his. Why he even addresses me that way sometimes."- Terrs Haute Express. "I beg your pardon" said . reporter to a trio light poles intently watching 6 lineman who was at work at the top, "but are you an electric light directors" sNo, sir," replied the man addressed, ''I am not. l am an un, dertaker.n-Life. Irate Female-Ses here, do you mean to tell me that have got such an ugly looking nose as thata
 Photographer-But my apparatus cannot lie, madam.
 irate Female-Then for goodness cake go and get one that can.-N. Y. Herald. Deplorable results of a current inanity. Sunday school teacher-"Who was it that went down to Jericho and fell among l thieves"
 Smart pupil-ssYou can't play it, teacher. You want me to say don't know and then ask you, and then you're going to spring KcGinty on to me. You can't play no McGinty drives on me" ."-Boston Trans cript.
 She (widow aud rich)-"What do you think of my garden?" He (single and poor) -"Beautiful, and you the fairest flower in | it. would were your gardener" She "Why, you'd make queer gardener. Come, l now, will examine you. What is the first l thing you would do were you gardener here9' He--'I'd ask your permission to remove your weeds.n But she married fellow as rich as herself, and he's in training still.- Philadelphia Inquirer.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A London fshmonger, annoyed by the stupidity of his errand boys, has brought the photograph into use for taking orders. The boys can be trusted to carry the machine from customer to customer and the machine can be trusted to bring back verbatim order.
 The grip has been made responsible for many queer things. Professor Da Costa, of Jefferson Medical college, notes among the singular mental disturbances caused by it the fact that refined ladies have been known to swear vigorously at the dootor every time he enters the room.
 The Wabash railroad company has issued positive order that no boy or young man shall be employed in any of it's shops or other departments for the purpose of learn~ ing any trade or skilled work unless he bring Q certificate from his instructors stating that he has completed the studies of the second grammar department of school work. The reason for this order is that the company has found that young men who have completed the English branches of study learn skill- full work more readily than those wno have not.
 The medal for absent-mindedness should have been awarded to German professor named Johnson Amor, who recently died in Vienna. One of the pupils has list of his remarkable sayings, among them the follow ing: "Julius Cesar, disguised as slavs, swam naked across the Tiber." ''Alexander the Great was born in the absence of his parents." "The Swiss are a mountainous nation, but in Scotland the climate does not begin till October" seHogs were invented in Asia Minor." "Thus arose general war on page 94." Covered with countless wounds Cesar fell dead near the statue of Pompey; with one hand he drew his toga over his face, while with the other he called for help"
 The historical theory that Frankfort on the Main was founded by the Franks has been thoroughly shaken up by the recent discovery there of several relics of the Romans of the l time of Christ. Stone work and glass of the old Roman style have been unearthed under the city. A sewer of Roman construction I was found fourteen feet underground. Atile
 bearing the inscription Leg. XIII. gave thu
 best clue to the presence and work of tn,
 Romans, sincs 1t is known that the Four
 tsenth legion came back to Germany iron
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-27
A Lifetime In a menth.

A A11ebAm40 HI U Q00tMs In the days of distant ages, Meath the deep blue Syrian sky, SaJ the patriarch at his tent door, While the stars revolved on high. From the waxing to the waning Of each queen of night above, Passed his days in peace and quiet, Nor in search of news did rove. Nothing swifter than the camel. Than the pilgrim with his staff, Brought the tales of peace and warfare Of mans sorrow or mans laugh, Save the caravan slow moving Ger the.hfllS or sandy plain, Laden with its gold and spices, Came no troop in quest of gain. From the waxing to the waning Of yon moon so silvery, Floating like a bark of silver On phosphorescent sea, Man to-day may live lifetime Of those men of ancient time, Fraught with rich experiences, Fed and clad from every cline. Swift as swiftest birds of passage Fly our ships across all seas; Swifter still our land craft hasten As they ape the agile breeze. Yet more swiftly from all regions With the lightning brought from heaven, Come the tales of human actions, Nations formed and kingdoms riven. Thus one moons brief growth and waning Meteth cut for you and mo More of life than in @ lifetime Patriarchs of old could see.
 H. N l.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-27
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