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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-02-08
PLATFORM OF THE S. l.. p.

The Socialist Labor Party of the
United States, in convention assembled,
reasserts the inalenable right of all
men to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness
With the founders of the Ameri-
can republic we hold that the pur-
pose of government is to secure ev-
cry citizen IN the enjoyment of this
right; but in the light of our social con-
d,tions we hold, furthermore, that no
such right can be exercised under sys-
TEN of economic inequality, essentially
destructive of life, of liberty, and of
happiness
With the founders of this repub-
lie we hold that the true theory of
politics is that the machinery of gov
eminent must be owned and controlled
by the whole people: but in the light Of
our industrial development we hold,
furthermore, that the true theory of
economics is that the machinery of
production must likewise belong to the
people in common.
To the obvious fact that our despotic
system of economics is the direct oppo-
site of our democratic system of poll,
tics, can plainly be traced the existence
of privileged class, the corruption of
government by that class, the alienation
of public property, public franchises
and public functions to that class. and
the abject dependence of the mightiest
of nations upon that Glass;
Again, through the perversion of de-
mocracy to the ends of plutocracy, labor
is robbed of the wealth which it alone
produces, is denied the means of self
employment, and, by compulsory idle
ness in wage-savery. Is even deprived
of the necessaries of life.
Human power and natural forces are
thus wasted, that the plutocracy may
rule.
Ignorance and misery with all their
concomitant evils are perpetuated, that
the people may be kept in bondage.
Science and invention are diverted
from their humane purpose to the en-
slavement of women and children.
Against such system the 5. L. P. once
more enters its protest. Once more it re-
| iterates its fundamental declaration that
private property in the natural sources
of production and in the instruments OF
! labor is the obvious cause of all Geo.
nomic servitude and political depend
enee; and
Whereas, the time is fast coming when,
in the natural course of social evoIu.
| ton, this system, through the destruc.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-02-08

rONNECTlCUT STATE COMMITTEE meets
y every second and fourth Thursday in the
month at No. /, Marsh Court, Jos. Haaser,
Secretary, No. ! Marsh Cnurt
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-02-08

VRADES COUNClL-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, 1890-02-08

Many important Measures and Reso.
lutions Adopted - Eight Hours
Prison Lab0r-C0mpuls0ry Ednca-
tiOn-State and City Ownership OF
Railroads, Gas and Water Works,
Electric Plants etc. 1922 The New
York School Conference Com
mended for its Good Work.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-02-08

The business of Thursdays session
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-02-08

The New York WorM is professionally
working "for the betterment Of the poor
and the exposure of the professional
humbug." In commenting on those
cheap professions of Joe Pulitzer the
NewSmdn observes : "The por news
boys, representing poverty in its worst
and most commendable phases, had
their small and hard earned pittance
reduced ten per cent. Out on such hum
bugs"
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-02-08

The Master House Painters and Dec.
orators Association held a meeting at
Reading, Pa, last week, and placed
themselves on record as opposed to the
eight-hours work-day.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-02-08
4neetinns

- Notices, lines or less under this head in
serted at $500 per year, PAYABLE In advance
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-02-08
NEW HAVEN.

A MEXICAN SECTION, s. L. Irregular Meet
"A ngs the lst and 3D. Friday evening of each
month.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-02-08

CECTION NEW HAVEN, $ l.. p. The Regular
y Meetings If this Section are held at ISL
Chapel street on the first Monday of each
month at o'clock p. m.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13

was an incorporation. He was also
director of the Delaware and Hudson,
Rutland, Vermont Valley and other
railroads. Mr.. Billings was a prom
inent republican and was several times
offered a congressional nomination in
California, but he declined. He was
a prominent candidate for cabinet
position after Lincoln's second elec-
ton, and would probably have re-
ceived a nomination had the presi-
dent lived. In 1880 he was delegate
at-large to the national republican
convention, and he presented Sena-
tor Edwards name for the presiden-
tial nomination. He was also in
terested in educational matters,
and was one of the original trustees
of the old college of California. Last
Christmas Mr.. Billings was taken Ill
with embolism of the heart, and he
had been gradually sinking for sew
eral weeks. His wife, two sons and
three daughters survive. His fortune
is estimated at several millions.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13

That the Farmers Alliance of
North Carolina have found it neces-
sary to take steps looking to the es-
tablishment of cooperative school
at Moorehead city in tha Estate speaks
volumes for the poor condition of
their public schools. There is not a
state controlled by the republican
party, in which better educational
facilities are not furnished, to all
without pay, than can possibly be
obtained, outside of the half-a-dozen
expensive colleges, in the southern
states for pay. When the southern
voters are educated more of them
will become republicans.
Silver was worth 81 cents under
the Cleveland administration today
it is worth SI.l9. These are the sort
of things which have given the re-
publican party the confidence of the
business men of the country.
The fact that a republican congress
passed, and republican president
signed a river and harbor bill which
appropriates S6,jOO,000 about one
fourth of the entire amount carried
by the bill for the improvement OF
the Galveston, Texas, harbor shows
how sectional the republican party
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13
Why they Rage.

1t would be gratifying if we could
assume that the New York importers
who are clamoring against the new
tariff law, and are filling the columns
of our free trade contemporaries with
lugubrious predictions of disaster TO
business interests, are prompted by
perfectly disinterested motives. To
make this assumption, however,
would presuppose a political guile
lessness far beyond the average.
The fact is that one great reason for
the rage of these Importers is to be
found not in anything contained in
the new tariff law, but in the COM
panion measure, the administrative
customs bill. That excellent meas
ure, designed to check undervaluation
frauds and to do away with the dis
honest practices by which importers
in the metropolis have enriched them
selves, is beginning to get in its work
to the inconvenience of the men at
whom it was aimed. That we may
be thought to misrepresent or exag-
gerate these frauds we quote the fol-
lowing concerning them from the
special Washington dispatches of our
free trade neighbor, the Boston Post.
s:The results indicate that under
valuation at New York have so de-
pressed the scale adhered to there
that it is from 10 to 80 per cent, in
some cases even more, below the
scale as the other cities. There have
been so many frauds perpertrated,
and there has been so much misrep-
resentation by Importers, that even
| honest examiners do not dare raise
valuations to the proper point, OF
have not the information upon which
they feel justified in doing it. This
explains why the overwhelming pre-
pondence of inportations of good;
subject to advalorum duties is through
the port of New York and why hon
est merchants in other cities are no
permitted to buy directly of Frencl
and German exporters, but are no
notified to buy of their New 1orl
agents"
This throws side light upon th
agitation among the New York i'm
porters. They have a poor opinion
of the system which checks thel
profitable but fraudulent practices
and being restrained, for obviou
reasons, from explaining the tru
occasion of their discomfort, the
take it out in maledictions agains
the tariff law. This is natura
enough, but we do not see any rea
son why it should be mistaken 70
public opinion.-Journal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13
GILMANs

CLoAKs-If every lady in OdcaI
county was asked Che same quest.
ninety-nine out Of every huudr.'
would tell you they never expected
TO see such a display OF Ladies Ga.
ments in Newport, as they have aI
Giman's. Have you seen Chem
Have you seen the new ones received
Friday OF last ucckY lfyou hayuu
you ought 70, no matter what Iovu
you live IN a visit to tho Cloak %
partment at Glman's will pay you
There are arc thc NauIcs CIo1I
for the little folks. New bnd nobh.
styles for Misses and most anyJh.n
Ladies' can wish for themselves.
Seal Plush chat you cm hardly
tell from the rcnl seal.
Seal Plush Wraps, Jackets ouI
Jacques braided cloth wraps hmlN.
ed velvet wraps. You arc invited
to call and sec them.
New Millinery
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13

Under the old tariff there were du-
ties on all sugars up to No. 20, Dutch
standard. Under the new tariff, su-
gar under No. 16, Dutch standard, IS
admitted free. Above that standard
ard it is to pay one-half cent per
pound, and if any country imposes
an export duty on sugar, the sugar
from that country is to be dutiable
at six-tenths of a cent per pound.
The sugars under No. 16, Dutch
standard, include all the brown and
yellow sugars, forming the vast bulk
of all importations. In fact, in the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, we
imported only 126,384 pounds above
No. 16, of against nearly twenty-sev-
en- million pounds Hereunder. To
all intents and purposes, therefore,
sugar is free under the new tariff.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13
Tt Went Into Effect Monday.

Upon the 9th of October the new
Mckinley tariff went into effect. 1t
contains half dozen or more feat
ures, any one of which, if enacted as
a separate law, would be alone worth
a session of congress in its benefits
to the country in general and to its
labor in particular, either agricultur-
al or industrial. A tariff for revenue
being no longer necessary, the new
tariff has been framed to relieve the
people from taxation ,on articles that
we use but do not produce, and to
plant the seeds of production of arti-
cles that we can produce, SO as to in
sure a certain home supply and per-
manent cheapness to the consumer;
who will thus eventually be independ-
ent of foreign sources of supply and
of all duties on imports whatsoever.
The former of these purposes lnvolv-
ed an enlargement of the free list, to
which the following forty-three class
iications of articles were transferred
Acorns, beeswax, books in foreign
languages or blind print, braids, ,plats,
laces, etc., chicory root, clay, coal
tar, dandelion roots, feathers and
down, floor mating, currants, dates,
iute, iute butts, orchids, crude pot
ash, chlorate of potash, nitrate pot
ash, sulphate potash, hemp seeds,
rape seeds, bulbs, inedible, shotgun
barrels, sand, sugar and molasses,
sulphur ore, sulphric acid for fertiliz-
ing, tar and pitch, manila, sisal grass,
sum, all other raw vegetable fibers,
grease, hair, needles, nut oil, opium,
ore of nickel, nickel matte, tinsel
wire, tobacco stems, turpentine, brl-
ar root or wood.
Many of the changes in the dutla-
BILE schedule were designed to IN
crease our production of goods that
we produce now, and in particular tc
improve the quality of our manufac-
ture. But one important duty aims
to create an entierly new industry that
of tin plate, of which we imported IL
our last fiscal year $2O,921,22C
worth. 1t is estimated that to sup
ply this demand at home will employ
40, 900 people, though the new duty
will only supply about so much of i
as would employ 10000 or 10000
people.
Increased duties are found in the
agricultural schedule, particularly
important being those on the follow
ing articles, to which are attached TIT
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13

1t can surprise no one familiar with
the course of thing in the excise de-
partment that the two commissioners
who have been examined before the
Fassett committee confess that they
feel sick. All that they have said
shows that the department has been
run as a Tammany machine, The
civil-service law is openly disregard
ed, inspections are admitted to be
only a matter of form, the rules of
the board are complicated and un-
workable, and no attempt is made to
enforce certain provisions of the law.
The commissioners reluctantly admit
these things, and plead that they are
sick. The disclosures ought to pro-
-duce such disgust in the people that
they will insist hereafter on having
the excise department and the whole
city government intelligently and
properly administered,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13
Enforce the Law.

M,. Editor,-It is gratifying to all low
ers of temperance and law and order that
we have some journals which have the in
terms that are not mistaken on temper
ance questions, even If jurors, lawyers
and others are found who will shield the
offender, even when they know him to be
guilty of breaking the law. We hope our
states attorney will prosecute the viola
tors of the law with the same energy
and persistence that other law breakers
are pursued; and we hope that jurors
can be found who viii be ready to let ev-
idence and the law govern their decisions.
PROHIBITION REPUBLICAN.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13
Frederick Billings.

Frederick Billings, one of Yer
mont's most prominent residents, ,dled
Tuesday, Sept. 80, at his home in
Woodstock. The deceased was ma
tive of the state, having been born in
Royalton in 1928. In 1914 he was
graduated from the university Of Yer
mont, and in 1913 was admitted to
the bar in Windsor county, and for
two years previous he had held the
position of secretary of civil and mil
itary affairs. When the gold fever
of 1849 broke out he went to Callfor-
MIA and practiced law in San Francis
co until 1861, when he went to Eng
land as attorney for Gen. Fremont,
in connection with the Mariposa es-
tate. Returning to this country In
1862, he married Miss Julia Parmly
in New York, and returned to Cali
! fornIa. After the war Mr.. Billings
returned to Vermont. He had always
been interested in the Northern Pa
cific railroad and when at the time OF
the panic of 1878 the securities of the
road were driven down to almost moth
ing, he became an extensive buyer
He was elected a director of the road
and was for many years chairman oi
the land committee. For a short time
he held the position of president Of
the road, being succeeded by Henry
Willard. Among other financial affair
in which MIR. Billings was interested
were the overland stage company anc
in more recent years the Nicaragul
canal company, in both of which h
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13

New York is just now suffering
from a plague of feas. Swarms of
them first infested Harlem. There
they increased and multiplied and
overfowed into Brooklyn. There
they seem to have found congenial
conditions, for their numbers grew
apace until, seeking new fields to
conquer, large detachment marched
one moonlight night across the great
bridge and laid seige to the metropo-
lis itself. Not only in tenement
and in boarding houses, but in the
stately mansions on fifth avenue, in
the lordly palaces that face the park,
in the great hotels, in the great busi-
ness buildings down town, and, need
less to add, in the surface and elevat-
ed cars, they run riot, attacking a
like the high, and the low, the rich
and the poor, and making miser able
the lives af all.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13

A decision has recently been rend
cred by the supreme court of Mime
sofa, to the effect that bank checks
are not cash and do not posses legal
value money until cashed. The
court holds that where goods are sold
for cash on delivery, and the purchas-
er tenders IN payment check or
draft on his banker, such payment
is only conditional, and if any de-
livery of the goods is made that de-
livery is also conditional. If the
check is dishonored on presentation
the seller may retake his goods, even
from the possession of an innocent
party, unless (the seller) may have
been guilty of such laches as would
estop him from recovering in a suit
at equity. This decision is one of
considerable interest to the business
world. Decisions have been trending
in this direction, but none have be-
fore gone far in determining the lie.
gal status Of the bank check.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13
Vermont Farmers League,

The Vermont Farmers state polit-
ical League, as the new order is nam
ed, propose according to circular
issued by them, to institute great
campaign in Vermont. Lecturer
Pierce commences his work at White
River junction to-day, and his APP
pointments, are out until Oct. pa
He meets the farmers of Caledonia
county at St. Johnsbury, Oct. Is, at
Morrisville, Oct. 20, the date is not
set for Orleans county. 1t is pro-
posed to organize the farmers, SC
far as possible, into to inAn leagues
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13

Hon. J. L. Martin, state tax COM
missioner of Vermont, has brought
suit against the Central Vermont
railroad company for their unpaid
corporation taxes for the six months
ending June 80 and due to have been
paid Aug. 81. The company has
ONLY made returns for its traffic done
entirely within the state, leaving out
all interstate business, rendering a
check for about $4,000 in payment in
place of the full amount due. The
suit IS for about S32, 900 for taxes,
and for 500 day each for neglect
inc to make returns and for neglect
to pay. bringing the whole amount
up to about $50, 900. The company
refuses payment for taxes on its in
terstate business on the ground that
the Rutland railroad company has
forbidden it to make such payment.
The suit is returnable at the next
March term of the Washington coun-
ty court.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13

The hopper having been opened, the
bills poured in quite rapidly during
the week. Among the most important
of which were bills to change the
weight of apples and pears to 90, in
stead of 46 pounds bushel; to raise
the amount of Indebtedness from SO
to $25 on trustee process; in regard TO
the commitment of insane paupers ;
to repeal the bounty on foxes; in re-
gard to the payment of dog taxes
to establish the Australian method of
voting to prevent double taxation ;
to exempt of town and state taxes those
who reoccupy abandoned" farms
to give justices the same power as
county courts in the matter of obtain
ing goods under false pretenses, val
ue 81; to simplify indictments for
perjury to repeal the cider clause
in the act of 1888; to suppress raf-
fes and lotteries by fairs, churches,
etc. to. prevent savings banks from
taking second mortgages to appoint
a state road engineer, who shall lay
ont public roads to repeal the "aban-
doned farms commission act to
amend the liquor law; to reduce the
number of supreme court judges from
seven to six.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13
English Money in the Roach.
Shipyards.

When the free traders of this
country few years ago were hound
ing John Roach to death, not one of
them could have imagined that the
time would ever come when the great
industry which their maligant zeal
had sought TO ruin would become so
strong and prosperous rs to draw
millions of English capital from Eng
lish capital from Europe. Yet that
is what has actually happened. Ne
gotiations were closed the other day
which will result in the transfer of
Roach's shipbuilding works at Ches-
ter, Penn, to a syndicate in which
wealthy Englishmen are largely inter
ested. The free traders sought to
bring about condition of things in
which this once greatest of American
shipyards would be sold for a mere
song; as a matter of fact the price
which is now to be paid for the Roach
plant by investors across the sea is
million five hundred thousand dollars.
If studied and vindictive depreciation
of the interests of ones native country
ever met with poetic retribution, it
gets it in this instance. The finan
cial management of the new concern
will, it is. understood, be largely par
ticipated in by English Directors,
but the practical men who will con-
troll the shipbuilding work and the
army of mechanics which will be en-
ploved will all be Americans.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13
Mckinley and Aldrlch.

The republican party, and, In tact'
the whole country, owes DEBT OF
gratitude to William Mckinley,
chairman of the House ways and
means committee, and Nelson w.
Aldrich. the Rhode Island senator,
who relieved the venerable Chairman
Morrill, of the senate finance commit
tee of the most laborious work that
had to be done in connection with
the tariff bill. Both of these conscl-
entious statesmen have acted IN q
very different spirit from that implied
bv the abusive adjectives OF the free
trade press, in handling patiently the
enormous number of details which
have had to be considered, one by
one, by somebody. Ours is a repre-
sentative government, a government
in which responsibility is often dele
oated and redelegated and again del
egated, until one man sooner or later
treads the wine press alone because
the duty can be delegated no further.
A committee refers its work formally
to a subcommittee, and the sub-com-
mittee informally refers it to man,
or rather the man very often refers ii
TO himself, so that he may feel safe
in the assurance that it has come to
his standard of exactness and fidell-
ty to principle. In the house this man
was Mckinley and in the senate Al
drich. History will do justice to theil
sincerity, their industry and to theIl
marvellous success, all will be shown
/ hereafter.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13
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