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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30

"A man coins himself into labor.
turns his day, his strength, his thought,
his affections into some product which
remains as the visible sign of his power;
and to protect that, to secure that TO
him, to secure his past self tohis future
self, is the object of all government
There is no interest in any country so
imperative as that of labor. Ralph
Waldo Emerson
The Knights of Labor have fought
convict contract labor and Pinkerton-
ism for twenty-one years in the halls of
congress and the legislatures of various
states. Few trades unions would join
them in their legislative efforts. The
fruits of these systems are now seen in
the bloodshed and carnage of 1892 Will
the American workman ever learn to
use the ballot?-Baltimore Critic.
Don't be deluded by the time-worn
chestnut that a vote for Weaver and
Field is a vote thrown away As
neither of the old parties stands for
anything that will benefit the common
people, vote for either Harrison or
Cleveland is vote thrown away When
ever you vote with a gang that is only
after Office and plumber, your vote is
worse than thrown away.-Iowa New
Era.
The evidences of fraud in the cleo
tions both of Alabama and Arkansas are
overwhelming. The democrats Sneer-
ingly say: What are you going to do
about it?" The republicans refuse to
publish the facts lest the people of the
north should find out how many good
and true men there are in the south.
Once this state of affairs would have
called out all the fiery invective of
every republican paper in the land, but
to-day they are dumb They are muz-
zled, sold out to the plutocrats,-Non-
conformist.
Six weeks before the Buffalo strike
the New York Central road, which en-
ploys only non-uniOn switchmen, gave
notice of an increase in the hours of
labor and reduction in wages. A
committee called upon Assistant Super
intendent Rossiter, and this is what he
said to the men who helped the COM
pany to defeat the Knights of Labor
two years ago; IF you are union men
go and get your pay and get out; if you
are not union men, and intend to act
the part of union men, get your paw
and get out anyway."-Kansas City
Midland Mechanic.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30

ownership puts the corporations as en-
ployers entirely out of the case. and
consequently does away with their
power to reduce wages of employees al
together, leaving the question of en-
ployment and wages between the gov
eminent (the whole people, on the one
side and those seeking employment on
the other.
That the objects of the peoples party
is to reduce the pay of any useful labor
er in any of the avocations of beneficial
industry, needs scarcely to be denied
for the reason that the masses compos-
ing its ranks belong to the laboring
classes OF our country, and that they
should for moment desire the CRYSTAL
lization of policy into law that would
hinder or in any way cripple any one
engaged in like useful and necessary
branch of industryis too preposterous
to need argument for its refutation or
even denial, to call it in question.
But whatever may be the intention OF
theparty in promulgating that doctrine,
the question that most concerns the
employe is, would the adoption of such
policy injuriously affect his interests
and his wages or would it benefit him
and his interests?
Government ownership and control
OF the means of transportation. would
give to producers and manufacturers in
all branches of industry the means Of
exchanging and transporting the prod
ucts OF their labor at actual cost and
surely no one can fail to see that EN-.
ployes or wage earners must be amonO
the first and most certain benefeiaries
OF such an arrangement At least as
many employees would be required as
operatives under government owner.
ship and control as under the present
system, and it seems quite safe to saw
that vastly increased number of oper.
atives and employees will be required
first because of the United States
eight-hour law, and, second, because Of
the fact that all public works and en-
terprises either under state or national
control are, as rule, executed in the
fullest and best manner known to such
services.
I
This being true, it follows that road.
beds, bridges and tracks would be put
and kept in the best condition possible
and constructed of the best material
obtainable, thus requiring more labor.
ers and insuring greater safety to life,
limb and property, not only of the
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30
RAILROAD EMPLOYEES.

A Vote For Government Ownership and
Operation is Vote in Their Own Best
Interests.
The question as to which of the pOlit-
zeal parties shall gain the votes of the
employees of the great railroad corpora
tons of the country, and especially of
this state, is just now exciting some
comment, and a good many things are
being said for the purpose of influencing
this very important class of toilers in
one way and another. On the part OF
those who oppose the doctrines Of the
peoples party, is brought forward the
statement that the object of our doc
trines upon that question have in view
the advancement Of the interests OF the
farmers only, and that our ideas of gov
eminent ownership and control of these
great thoroughfares is to build up the
agricultural Interests to the detriment
and at the cost Of employees of those cor
porations, as a result of reduction of
rates which must in turn necessitate a
reduction of employees wages.
The fallacy of this position is plain,
when tits remembered that government
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30

the employees ought to have the sympa-
thy Of all the newspapers of the coun-
try, of all the honest politicians of both
parties, of all wage-workers, of all bus
mess men and, not least, of the farmers
MISUNDERSTANDING Age.
The Magazine cannot be induced to
enter a political campaign, nor to indi-
cate with what party railroad en-
ploye should affiliate. Such is not its
mission. But it may be said, if railroad
employees choose to take the side of the
railroad corporations in shaping legis-
lation, they will eventually find to their
cost that they are in league with the
deadliest foes of organized labor the
country has produced. 1t matters not
by what plausible pleadings the en-
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30
HOW 1T WORKS.

Practical illustrator of the Workings
OF the Initiative and Referendum.
The people of Pittsburg have lust
had practical illustration of what is
meant By the new political terms the
initiative and referendum.
When they signed a petition to the
city council commanding that body to
frame and submit an ordinance grant
ing $4,000 to each OF two railroads.
that was an example OF the initiative.
The council had no choice in the mat
ter-they simply were compelled to act
as commanded in the petition.
1t will be noticed, they could not
enact the ordinance in question-only
prepare and submit it. This they did.
The ordinance thus prepared was re-
ferred to the voters, and on Tuesday
the people voted on the proposition con-
tanned in the ordinance. This is the
referendum.
In Switzerland all laws are referred
to the people for their approval or re-
lection The citizens may by petition
initiate any law, just as the citizens of
Pittsburg took the initial in the rail.
road bond proposition.
The application of the referendum 10
all laws, and the right to initiate action
on any law, makes Switzerland the
most democratic government in tba
world to-day. The peoples party favor
their adoption in the United states
Pittsburg Kansan.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30

~, Ills Is an average OF 1927 per week
Inc speech was made in defense of pro
lection q and it is not likely that Mr.
butterworth would have placed III,
wages lower than they really are Tn,
ng1res may be found on page AM
Vol 10, Part 5, Fiftieth Congress, FRS
1t would appear from this that IL III.
general average of wages is over s,t
per week, few men are drawing enor
nous salaries. The Capital has n,
doubt figured in the s25, 900 per YEA, =,
railroad presidents and other bio,
priced working men" like H. c. FricI,
Ii the Capital has told the truth il onI,
proves what the populists have H Ua,.
claiming all the time, that a few O NC,
are getting more than their sbara :
Clay Center Kan } Dispatch.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

New York city has now forty peo-
pies party clubs all having large men,
bership.
1t is now a crime in France for an
employer to compel an employee to with
draw from labor organization.
in indianapolis $40 persons own
more than half the wealth of the entire
city, while $4,000 taxpayers own the
rest.
Republicans protect labor on paper,
but they protect monopolies with bull
lets and bayOnets. The latter kind pro-
tects-from the operation of law and of
justice. The former is a sham and a
fraud.-Jeffersonian.
According to the last census, in
twenty of the larger cities in the coun-
try, Il, 427 women, who are working for
living, were questioned by govern
ment agents. They represent 342 voca-
tons and their average wages were
found to be 1851 per week.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30
READ AND REFLECT.

Second-Wealth belongs to him who creates
ii, and every dollar taken from industry without
an equivalent is robbery. "If any one will not
work neither shall he eat" The interests OF
rural and civic labor are the same; their enc
mics are identical Platform Peoples
Party.
The populist or peoples party is composed
mainly of farmers, who employ the most num-
erous class of unorganized wage.earners that
there is in the state, and almost the only one
for which there is no organization extant As a
result Of this disorganized condition, this class
OF wage workers receives the lowest wage, the
fewest privileges, and works more hours in a
day than any other class Let the trades un-
ions in their duty OF organizing all unorganized
classes Of wage-workerS endeavor to organize
this class, and such denunciations Of organized
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30

1t is idle to talk of the interests of
Che railways and the farmers as being
antagonistic. 1t is idle to talk of the
railway employees, when organizing for
their own political protection, as array
ing themselves against the agricultural
classes. They are "arraying them
selves" only against a few pestiferous
demagogues, who are less harmful to
the farmers than they are to the rail
way employee. These gentlemen, whom
Mr.. Steadman addresses as ''Ye of few
socks and small understanding" 1--WE
wish he had said small undercloth-
ing"), are become burden on the pros
perity of the land, and in working to
defeat them-as the railway employees
of Iowa recently defeated Campbell
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30

labor will arise from the mass OF this so-called
labor party as will make those Of the past seem
feeble and puerile-J. Kansas Morgan, Editor
Neodesha KAN Register
Average wages Of all wage-workers in the
United States, as per United States census 1880,
1916 year.
Average wages of all wage workers Including
skilled labor in 1887 in manufacturing indus.
tries Of Massachusetts was 1859 out Of which
must come rent, food and fuel
Average wages Of railroad section hands
is $685. year, out Of which must come board
lodging and washing.
Average wages Of farm laborers is $3.50 in ad.
dition to board lodging and washing, which is
higher wages than is realized by any other class
Of common labOrers
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30

The peoples party rally at Wichita
on September 10 was a hummer. Bv
actual count there were 1856 persons
in the procession and 1,577 vehicles
Two hundred union veterans on horse.
back. Two hundred colored farmers
on horseback bore the motto: ''We are
slaves to the G. 0. p, no longer" The
crowd on the ground was estimated at
$4,000. Lewelling, Simpson, Harris and
others spoke. and the enthusiasm was
phenomenal.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30

'As matter Of fact, however, to support the
peoples party under the belief that it is a labor
party is TO act under misapprehensiOn. 1t is
not and cannot, in the nature Of its makeup, be
labor party, or even one in which the wage
workers will find haven. Composed, as the
peoples party is, mainly of employing farmers,
without any regard 10 the interests of the en-
ployed farmers Of the country districts, or the
mechanics and labOrers Of the industrial CEN
tiers, there must Of necessity be a divergence Of
purposes, methods, and interests Samuel
GOmpers.
We declare, therefore:
First-That the union Of the labor forces Of
the United States this day contaminated, shall
be permanent and perpetual May its spirit
enter into all hearts for the salvation Of the re-
public and the uplifting Of mankind
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30
AN ABSuRQlrY

An oid Party Organs Wild Assertion,
About the Wages of workingmen.
Inc Topeka Capital says the average
wages for laboring men in this country
Is over sl9 per week. On May IA, 1855.
non, benjamin Butterworth, republic.
an member of congress from Ohio. in q
speech in the house of representatives
gave the average income of mechanic,
ana la6orers in the following cities.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30
THE VOTE.

How Arkansas Voted at the Recent Elec-
tion.
The Little Rock Farmer gives the fol.
lowing tabulated statement of the re-
cent vote in that state:
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30

The People-"Why do you opnosa
free silver?" Tennessee Politician an
why, my poor deluded brethren, you're
honest IN your opinions, but you don't
look at the reason Of the thing. Our rea.
sons are logical and clear. Now listen
why, because ah-er-because-wbv
b hurrah for Old Pete, and d-n the foros
bill"-Weekly Toiler.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30

Six counties, to-wit: Desha, Lee
Little River, Newton, Ouachita and
Scott not reported.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-07-02
WILL EMPLOY 10000 MEN.


The Carnegie Steel Company, Limited,
Adds to Its Already Immense Plant.
PITTsBURG, July 2.-The extensive op-
erations in iron and steel formerly con-
Quoted under the firm names of Carne-
gle Brothers & Co., limited; Carnegie,
Phipps q Co., limited Allegheny Bes-
sermer Steel Co., and the Keystone
Bridge Company at the Edgar Thomson
Furnaces, the Edgar Thomson Steel
Works, Dusquesne Steel Works, Home
stead steel W Works, Lucy Furnaces, Key
stone Bridge Works, Upper Union Mills,
Lower Union Mills, Beaver Falls Mills,
Scioto Ore Mines, Larimer Coke Works
and Youghiogheny Coke Works will be
carried on by the Carnegie Steel Com
pany, limited.
The general offices of the new firm
will be in this city, with branch Offices
in all the principal cities of the United
States.
None Of the details of the transaction
will be made public by the firm at pres
ent, and they will wait until the trouble
Rt their works is settled before hlinl
she papers of record.
The capital stock will be S25, 900, 900.
The company will have in its emploJ
upward of 40, 900 IN en-.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-07-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Maokerel in great numbers and larg,
size have been struck on the coast O.
Maine.
D. NJ. Howell, a we'll known residen,
OF Stockton, Cal, charged with passinl .
counterfeit money, has been held in thu
sum of $15, 0O0
Articles of incorporation Of the Balti
more & Ohio Connection Railroad Com
pany have been filed with the Illinois
Secretary Of State.
Passed Assistant Surgeon Victor
Means has been detached from the Nav
Yard at New York and ordered to thu
Naval Hospital at Norfolk, Va.
John Book, an insurance agent, Of
Flint, Mich, Is missing, together will
$1,000 belonging to the Union Centra
Life Insurance Company, of Cincinnati
Ohio.
Frank Smith, charged with the muir
der of Wellman during the late rus
tiers troubles has arrived at Cheyenne
Wyo. He denies the charge, and say
he can prove an alibi.
Kansas farmers are having great trou
BILE in securing sufficient hands to har
vest the enormous crops in that State
They are Offering from 50 to SO per day
with board, wages never known to pre-
vail before.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-07-02
WILL BE PAID IN FULL.
Four Thousand Men to Receive ThelI
Money and a Discharge.

Four Thousand Men to Receive ThelI
Money and Discharge.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, July "A notice
has been posted at the entrance to the
Homestead Company's Office enjoining
all employees, from the highest to the
lowest, that they will be paid off in
full.
About a, 900 men in all will receive
their money and also notices Of dis
charge.
Barring the fact that the crowd Of
workmen may be noisy no demonstra-
tion is anticipated.
A member of the Advisory Board OF
the locked-out men said to-day:
"Mr. Frick's statement that only
2S6 men were affected by the new scale
is mistake. Every man in the mill
suffers by it, and we can prove it. The
general reductions in all departments
range from eight to ten per cent, and
in some as high as 40 per cent"
While it cannot be exactly estimated
yet, the loss to the Carnegie Company
every day the mill is idle is very heavy
and amounts to thousands of dollars.
In case the firm fails TO recede from
its present determined stand there will
be great danger of being unable to fill
the government and Worlds Fair con-
tracts. The company is under 5000, )
000-bond for the completion of large
amount of Rrmor plate, and unless the
old men are taken back or new men
secured there is a probability of the
government demanding a forfeiture.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-07-02
10000 MEN IDLE.
Eject of the Dispute over Wages In
Pittsburg.

Eject of the Dispute Over Wages in
PittsburR.
PITTsBURG, July 2.-The only addi-
tional signatures received TO The Anal
gamated Association wage scale are
those of the Scottsdale Pennsylvania
Iron & Steel Company and the Coving-
ton, KY, Steel Company.
There are beyond doubt more idle men
in Pittsburg and vicinity to-day than
there has been at any one time for the
past 10 years.
The employees of all the iron mills ex-
cept the sheet mills are walking the
streets, and the wheels OF the great
manufacturing concerns of Pittsburg
which were so busy are idle.
With the various iron and glass plants
idle, the South Side presents an odd ap-
pearance. 1t is complete shut down.
Every mill has suspended and there
are 30, 900 men idle in that part of Pitts
burg.
At nearly all of the iron mills in the
district millwrights and mechanics are
at work making necessary repairs, and
at some, at least, the shut down is
known to be temporary, as the manu-
facturers have assured their emplOye es
that work will be resumed as soon as
repairs and stock taking are completed.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-07-02

Would you rather buy lamp
chimneys, one a week the year
round, or one that lasts till some
accident breaks itS
Common glass may break or
not the minute you light your
lamp; if not, the first draft may
break it; if not, it may break
from a mere whim.
Tough glass chimneys, Mac
beth's 7" Pearl-top" or Pearl
glass" almost never break from
heat, not one in a hundred.
Where can you get it' and
what does it cost ?
Your dealer knows where and
how much. 1t costs more than
common glass; and may be, he
thinks tough glass isn't good for
his business.
Pittsburgh. Pa. GEo. A MAGHHrK CO.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-07-02
BILLION DOLLAR CONGRESS.

BILLION DOLLAR CONGRESS.
The comparison of appropriations of
this session of Congress with those of
the first session of the last Congress,
made in the House on Thursday by
Mr.. Holman, and which called forth
statement in rebuttal for the Republi-
cans from Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa,
shows that the total appropriations,
regular and permanent, for the present
session, are S4S5, ,8S7,777, while those
of the first session of the last Congress
were SAL, 2SO,671. Dedueting from
these amounts the regular and de-
fciency pension appropriations, the
appropriations for the first session of
the last Congress exceeded the APP
propriations for this session by $685.
294,O1O. The statement shows that the
Fifty-first Congress, at its first
session, appropriated $3l ,54l, ,954 for
the navy, while this Congress has so
far appropriated S28, 8,476,773. The de-
ficiencies appropriated for by this
Congress amount to $l4 ,44l, ,l2l, as
compared with $9S,699, ,746 appro-
priated for by the first session of the
last Congress. Mr.. Holman estimates
that the amount of revenues for the
next fiscal year will be $455 1886, $50.
Mr.. Henderson, in his statement,
shows that the regular and permanent
annual appropriations provided for by
the House in the first session of the
Fifty-hrst Congress aggregated only
SAB, 1872, ,S77, while in the present ses.
sion of the House there has been APP
propriated $484 ,sS7, III, making the
appropriations for the House for this
session exceed those of the House for
the first session of the Fifty-first Con-
gress by $40, 400, i'll. He makes a sep
crate statement concerning pensions,
which shows that the House in its
present session has appropriated for
this purpose $142, ,499, ,898, as against
$l64, $3.50, 1888 appropriated in the first
session of the last Congress, making
the total appropriations for this ses'
sion to exceed those of the correspond
ing session of the last Congress by
$22 $50 800.