The weekly examiner., 1891-01-17
MATTERS AND THINGS.


 i and children, are now on their way to this country, fleeing from Russian persecution. George L. Hakt, of Unionville, Conn.,, has offered to subscribe $15 per year for 8 copy of 8 Socialist daily paper in the Eng fish language.
 Thirty three labor organizations in New York city, and twenty-six in St. Louis, Mo-, have voted to appeal to the ballot box as the only solution of the labor problem. The Social Democrats of Germany have issued manifesto calling on the farmer element to enter etheir ranks. Hitherto propaganda has been chiefly among the artisans and laborers in the great cities. Chief Powderly of the Knights of Labor, in reply to criticism of the Chicago Sem tinel, says that he never opposed the third party movement, but only opposed the turning of the order into third party. The San Francisco Weekly Nationalist suggests that, "Every Nationalist that supports the capitalist press and does not subscribe for his own party organ is like soldier who hands his cartridges to the enemy.
 | While the reformers of Massachusetts are working for the abolition of the pay ment of the poll tax as requisite to the privilege of voting, the reformers of North Carolina are asking for it's imposition for the same purpose.
 l President Gompers of the A. F. l.. has issued circular to the organizations un- der his leadership, asking that they peti- tion Congress to favor pending resolutions sobmitting the question of woman suffrage to vote of all the people.
 1 A substance having all the essential Iqualities of silk has been made from wild hemp by Nayemura Sakusaburo, of Hikone, Japan. The plant grows on moors and hillsides, and could be culti- vated. The fibre is strong and glossy, and several silk factories are said to have found it to be in no way inferior to silk. | Last weeks K. of. L. Journal printed two and half columns of tribute to the murdered Sioux chief, Sitting Bull, from the pen of that most gifted writer, s'Adir- ondack'' Murray. According to MT. Mur- ray, who knew the chief personally and long, he was both great and good man. Murray proclaims that monument shall be erected to his memory on the spot where he fell.
 The Central Labor Federation of New York are at issue with President Gompers I of the American Federation of Labor for his opposition to seating delegate of the | New York organization at a late conven- ton of his order, on account of a section Eof the Social Labor party being represent ed in it. MT. Gompers asserts that the A. ELI. is committed against political action [ Of any kind, while the other side, claim that this same body, at a previous consen- ton, proclaimed for the same, and produc- | es the evidence. l The January Arena contains a symposi- um on Helen Gardeners pew novel, s'Is This Your Son, My Lord ?'' by the follow ing well-known thinkers: Moncure D. Con | way, Prof. Joseph Rodes Buchanan, Eliz- abeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage President of the. National Women's Lib eral Union ,Donn Piatt and Robert c. Ad- ans (President of the Canadian Secular Union). Helen Gardeners novel has al- ready passed into it's second edition of five thousand copies. The last edition con- tains strong preface, by the author, in which she reviews some of her critics. | Baron Hirsch, the London millionaire banker, has under consideration a scheme for settling in various parts of the Argen- tine Republic some half a million Jews who have been expelled from Russian vil- lages. The baron has sent commission to the Argentine Republic to many public and private persons, to study the question on the spot. The matter has already been discusse4 with President Pettegrini, who has German Jew as a brother-in-law, and who sympathizes warmly with tho scheme. It is reported that Baron Hirsch has re- solved to spend S2O, ,OOO, ,OO0 in the execu- tion of the plan.
 The New York Sun has this to say of Gen. Buffers autobiography: General Buffers autobiography will not be entirely satisfactory to the reading public. The reason for that is that the sturdy old war rior is more than likely to leave untouched one phase of his character which the world should know about. That phase is his ge- nialty, his kindness of heart, his readiness to sacrifice his own personal comfort for those who are in distress and weak. His habit of concealing from his left hand what his right hand is doing in the great cause of humanity will prevent this predominant ing trait of his character from being set forth in his book, and for this reason the volume must be incomplete.
 [ COMMUNISM IN ST. LOUIS.
 ist club .hich is striving to organize a communist colony. The club publishes a newspaper, The Altruist, A. Longley, edi-