, 1891-05-06
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''Jarh" Writes About ThInEz He Doesnt
LIZ and Othcrs That Interest Him.
The word crank" as applied to an
individual, is not now taken by every
body TO signify a fool. Owing 10 its lib
eral use by the press when referring to
men active in the labor movement,
workinglnen generally understand it to
mean a pretty good sort of fellow.
Crank" possesses an attraction for
many, and / suppose that is why it was
worked into the title Of a worthless
book which recently made its appear,
ance.
"Valmond, the Crank, " is the trashiest
Of trash. 1t is without a speck of literary
merit, has no moral and is a wretchedly
told yarn. Whether the writer wanted
10 brighten the rich, ridicule the radical
reformers or disgust the decent is hard
10 determine; but he certainly did only
the latter. The probabilities are that
LIS chief desire was to catch the quar-,
tiers Of the gullibls; hence the shrewdly
baited cover. Nero" is given as the
author, but we are not told whether he
was in the asylum or ont Of it when he
had that particular bad turn as the
keepers say
New York city's new labor p The
People, seems to have made a good start,
and it ought TO succeed. 1t is radical.
but this should make the working PEG
pie support 1t, for there can be no doubt
that the capitalist class will do what il
can TO crush the paper on that account.
The People is a great improvement OF
The Workmen's Advocate, which it sue
ceeded, and with the backing which will
come to it from the men who havH made
The Volks Zeitung a success, it has every
chance Of a long and useful career. The
plan is 10 make 1t n daily as soon rs the
support viii justify the step.
Organized labor in New York ia just
ly indignant at the way in which Joseph
BarOudess has been treated by the repre-
sentatives of law. A great howl from
the capitalists went up against the
cloakmakers' leader right after the ia
maica affair. He was not allowed to
give bail, and was treated as if he had
murdered a score of persons. The police
of New York tried TO make him confess
to crimes which had never entered his
mind, and by the usual sweat box meth
DDS thought to force something from
his lips which could be construed as
criminal. But the whole case has fallen
TO the ground, and though it is not pos
sible at this writing to say what preju-
diced officers of the law will do before
they will admit the wrong done by re-
leasing Barondess, all fair minded citi-
zens know that he has been prosecuted
at the instigation Of the cowardly cloak
manufacturers of New York.
The so called leading papers of New
York city, which gave from n column
to three columns Of editorials each on
the New Orleans affair on the day fol-
lowing the lynching, and kept it up at
that rate for ten days, were %singularly
silent concerning the murder of inoffen-
sive strikers at Norwood. With the ex-
ception of "A small piece of ~wishy-washy
stuff in The Herald on the Sunday fol-
lowing the slaughter, these great news
papers had not one word to say. Their
telegraph columns for ten days furnished
them the text for n vigorous expression
of opinions, but they were particularly
modest. They either lacked the honesty
to tell the truth or the courage to lie
about 50 horrible a outrage.
The Nationalist Magazine, of Boston,
has had to suspend because it was not
supported. The clubs of New York
have nearly all gone to pieces. The priu,
Ciples of the Nationalist movement GER
tainly have the Endorsement of enough
men in this city to keep up a good or.
ganiZation. There must be something
wrong somewhere. JARB.
New York City.