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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-25
How Some Lazy Fellows Gamble.

Rain gambling" is the latest vice to
develop in India, and the police of Bonn.
bay and Calcutta are just now vigor.
ously at work prosecuting rain gamblers
in the local courts in an endeavor to
show that the law includes this form of
gambling. In Calcutta the 'outfit' of
the rain gamblers is in a street in the
burrabazaar. Here into small tank.
four feet square and six inches deep, an
ordinary spout discharges rain water
from the roof of d three story building.
In gambling with this apparatus bets
are made at the beginning of the rainy
season as to whether or not the tank
will overflow at given shower; to the
extent the rain will overflow it when the
water sheets come down in proper tropi-
cal style. It is alleged that ON busy
days in the bazaar several lakhs of ru-
PEGS change hands This is surely vice
made easy for the lazy man.-Exchange
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-25

TERRENCE v. POW Denly.
900. and that it has since entered on an
other era of growth 1t is now, so far
as the outsiders eye can see, approach
ing another crisis in its career, and the
approaching general assembly, which
will convene in st. Louis on the 14th,
must apparently decide the issues which
will determine the character and des-
tiny of the order for many years, if not
permanently.
Stated broadly, the most important
matter for discussion will be the attitude
of the order toward politics, especially
the new movements in various sections.
1t is pressed upon the order by the prom
inent part recently taken by such lead
ers as Powderly, Hayes, Wright, Devlin
and others in the Peoples party move
ment, and as usual before every meeting
of the general assembly there is some
talk about the retirement of General
Master Workman Powderly and the
choice of his successor, but it is notice,
able that the opposition to him is less
noisy or rather less bitter than at sew
eral previous assemblies, and along with
this fact the statement is made by many
of the orders spokesman that Mr.. Pow
derby now wishes to retire, provided he
can do SO with dignity. In this con-
nection A. ". Wright, member of the
general executive board, and John w.
Hayes. general secretary and treasurer
of the order, are spoken of as eligible
for the Office of general master workman.
Each one of the gentlemen has a large
following, and is said to be abundantly
qualified to fill the office acceptably.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-25

ing, Pa, Jan. /, 1878, and national
constitution was adopted. In 1879 thir-
teen states were represented at st. Louis.
The next September Mr.. Powderly was
elected grand master workman, and
since that date the average outside read
er of the papers has occasionally failed
to distinguish between his acts and those
of the order. In 1857 the order grew
with such extraordinary rapidity that it
was popularity supposed to number
million members. Then came the schism
at Minneapolis in 1887.
The history of the movement inside
the Knights of Labor is briefly as fol-
lows: In August, 1887, Mr.. Powderly
sent out circular in which he proposed
a thorough reorganization, in which
each separate trade was to be self gov
erning, with its independent local, dis
trict, state and national assemblies, all
to join in sending delegates to the gen.
eral assembly of the Knights, and no
local assembly to order strike until
the highest executive authority had re-
ported in favor of it by three-fourths
vote.
Following this came series of re-
volts, and the order declined till it con-
tanned probably but 100000 members.
Mr.. Powderly then turned to the Farm
ers' Alliance, and by a series of mastery
movements started the order again on
healthy advance. In 1891 the general
assembly at Denver voted for political
action, and Mr.. Powderly issued cir
cular directing preparations to take part
in the campaign of 1892.
Terence Vincent Powderly was born
of Irish parents at Carbonate, Pa, JAM
| %, 1S49. He learned the trade of ma
chinist and located in Scranton, of which
city he was elected mayor in 1878, 1886
and 1882. His home is still in that city,
where he has wife, but no children.
His present Office is entitled general
master workman, and the salary is S., 900
per year. The term has been changed
| from one year to two, and he has been
elected ten times, besides being sent to
the worlds fair of 1889, at Paris, as
representative of the order.
Mr.. A. w. Wright, who is said to have
some prospects of succeeding Mr.. Pow
derby, is native Of Canada, but at pres
emit resident of Philadelphia. He has
been newspaper man for most of his
adult life, and besides editing The Jour
nal of United Labor has written on
various subjects over the pen name OF
''Spokeshave" He is to be carefully
distinguished from Mr.. James A
| Wright, whose abilities as a speaker
especially IL u.earness of statement
have made him general lecturer of the
order.
Mr.. John w. Hayes, general secretary
and treasurer of the order, and alst
spoken of for first place, is a native O.
New Jersey, and was a brakeman ant
telegraph operator till he lost one arm
in railroad accident.
| Mrs. Leonora Barry is probably tn,
most prominent woman in the order
and is known to the reading public a
the lady who went to the last Paris ex
position with a delegation of workin:
women from the west.
In conclusion it may be said that tn
indications point to an organization TO
future political action, the Pennsylvania
delegation having already taken YER
| decided ground in favor of it.
R. !. EARLY.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-25
Woodchuck for Free Lunch.

A newly started saloon on Broadway
is making bid for patronage by means
of elaborate Saturday night lunches.
During the week the animal or animals
that is or are to be served up is or are
displayed on the street in front of the
place, either dead or alive. Sometimes
it's mutton, then again it's turkey or
pig, or something else. Last week it
was woodchuck. Five groundhogs-
four dead and one alive-were on exhibi.
tion.-Albany Express.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-25
John w. HAYES.

To fully explain the aims of the order
and the issues it now has to decide to
one new to the subject would be to
write complete history of the labor
movement since 1868, and "by the same
token" to elucidate his relations to it
fully would be to write biography of
Mr.. Powderly. 1t must be assumed that
the reader knows something. Suffice it
to say in neager detail that in 1868 the
garment cutters of Philadelphia formed
an association, and in order to get a
charter from the state added some fea-
lures of cooperation. Of course it re-
suited that in a few years only the most
lntelllgent of these workers-those most
capable of working in unity-remained
IN the association, all others being
screened out by natures process of
survival of the fittest"
In the general movement toward la
Dor organization which followed the
war these men, by their experience and
native talent, gained great influence,
and on Dec. 2s, 1869, seven picked men
out of the whole number organized a
new order in the house of Joseph S.
Kennedy on Green street, and on motion
of James l.. Wright named it the
Knights of Labor. By common consent
the chief honor is accorded to Uriah S.
stenhens- the first grand master work
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-25
Massage.

MRS. PRAY WOULD ANNOUNCE
WI that she will attend limited num-
Der of patients. Address at 81. Nd.
Whitney's, King st.; Bell Telephone 70.
3228-tf
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-25
This Mechanical Aca

Atone of the Berlin railway stations
a couple of automatic machines, for the
delivery of tickets, have been recently
introduced. For twopenoe one of them
supplies a ticket to Lichterfelde or Zeh-
lendorf, and the other retails tickets to
Schlachtensee or Wannsee at three
Observation-Disclosures Zeitung.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-25

man by regular election The year 1871
began with but sixty-nine members in
the order. Then the organization Of
local assemblies began. the ship car
penters and caulkers at Cramps yard
on the Delaware being the first to or
ganize.
By the close of that year twenty
trades in Philadelphia had organized
and affiliated with the Knights. The
first general assembly was held at Read
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-25
o. PorSOuS

10 Persons possessing files of
Magazines can have them bound up in
any desired style at the Gazette Book
bindery, which is doing as fine work as
can be done in any San Francisco or Bos
ton Bindery. None but the best workmen
employed,
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any kind affecting production, distri-
button and consumption were so foreign
to American experience that when
plays were put upon the stage represent
ing the struggles of labor in England
and such novels as Charles Reade's Put
Yourself in His Place" were put on sale
even the phrases used had to be ex-
planned, and as late as 1860 Robert Dale
Owen assumed as a matter not needing
proof that in this generation the United
States would not see "a real labor strug-
GLE"
Three stupendous changes followed In
rapid succession-4,0 900, 900 colored slaves
were liberated. and the moral question
as to the right of labor to what it pro-
duces suddenly shifted ground; there
grew up as suddenly during and soon
after the war powerful moneyed class
directing corporations of a magnitude
undreamed of before, and foreign immi-
grafton even more suddenly evergreen
all previous figures and increased till
in one year it added TO the population
$4,000 people.
II needed no Daniel to see that labor
would organize as soon as possible. All
the old trades unions were rapidly re-
vived and perfected; within ten years
every trade had its own organization,
while in addition there were many gen.
eral organizations. and overlapping all
in no long time the Knights of Labor.
The reading public is tolerably famil
lar with the fact that this order grew
slowly for awhile, then rapidly swelled
till it numbered nearly million MEM
bers; that in 1887 a great schism oc-
Cured, and that by successive losses
the order was reduced to less than 200,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-25
KNIGHTS ARE ACTIVE
PREPARING FOR THE GENERAL AS
SEMBLY AT ST. LOUIS.

Questions to Come Before the Meeting.
vicissitutles the Order Has Survived.
Will Powderiy Retire?-Possible Candi-
dates for General Master Workman.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-07-08
WANT MORE PORK.

The Rice county Democrats, OF
Kansas being in politics for business
purely, on Saturday last expressed
their dissatisfaction with their populist
partners in the following highly
metaphorical language:
"Resolvea, That we demand OF
the Populists, at the next election,
part of the hog which is to be killed,
and that we must have of the afore
said porker, some part of the meat
located back OF the neck; that we
will not be content with jowls any
longer, but must have either the
shoulder or side bacon"
Unfortunately as a cotemporary
remarks the Democrats Of Kansas,
are scarcely in a position to impose
terms on the Populists. 1t is case
of one partner swallowing the other.
The Populists have already gone
the entire hog" and are not disposed
to fling even the despised jowls to
the men they so easily duped. The
porker has been sailed away for
winter consumption, and the Demo
Gratis will have to feed on their
chargrin and modification until the
pigs that were LETT over get big enough
to roast, is a sad but instructive
lesson, and conveys a political
moral
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-07-08

The Peoples Party of Ohio, in
convention assembled in Columbus
on the GLORIOUS FOURTH" passed a
resolution calling upon Congress to
impeach President Cleveland, Their
ground of complaint is that the Presi
dent, "as representative of the
British money power, is traitor to
his country" For an of yesr the
Peoples Party OF Ohio is rather
vigorous, albeit excited. We know
Great Britain was delighted at the
result OF the election last November.
We know that victory gave hope to
the British manufacturers that they
would soon be able to capture our
home market, which by every law OF
right, equity and justice belongs to
the manufacturers of the United
States. We know all this, but we
do not believe that the demand Of
the Ohio Populists will ever be heard
of again. They may have a case,
but they will not be able to prove it.
They should keep cool and resolve
to vote the Republican ticket here.
after. En-.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-07-08
ILLUSTRATED

Every co!l,r girl is protectionist.
She does not want her work or
wages diminished by the flooding
of European goods in American
markets. She knows that every
gross OF collars imported diminishes
the home product by so much.
Diminution signifies less work
and less wages in the Troy factories.
The collar girl, in brief, is reasonable
as well as handsome, and she re-
allies that certain causes must pro-
duce certain effects. In other words
she knows that every thousand dol.
lars paid for labor in Europe for
American consumption, means just
so much less to be expended for
labor in this country. And her
father and brothers and uncles and
cousins comprehend the same fact.
This is one powerful reason why
there are practically no free traders
in Troy of either party. We all want
the collar tariff retained and cores.
ponding protection on every other
American industry similarly situated
Troy Press.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-07-08
Notice..

Is it Necessary for you to go to the cities
for your dental work when you can get it
done for the same price at home?
Times are particularly hard, and cash
very scarce Al present aud each and every
one of US wants to save all We can, SO to
increase the income and at the same time
save to the individual patient about fifty
"per cent" We will reduce our prices for
short time to the following:
Good filings S1.00, and up according to
ize
Silver filings 75c, and up according to
size.
White enamel filings SOC, and up accord
ing to size.
Gutta Percha filings SOC, and up accord
ing to size.
Artificial teeth per set, good SIS 90
Artificial teeth per SET better IS 90.
Artificial teeth per set, best S12 90.
Fresh Nitrous Oxide Gas, Ether, Chloro
form and Columbia extracting fluid always
on hand for the painless extraction of
teeth.
Our Columbia extracting fluid is meeting
with wonderful success. Hundreds of teeth
extracted painlessly by its aid, no bad
results from its use. It. is a private formula,
and only used by the Elkton Dental Parlors.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-07-08

If the administration is really
sincere in its financial policy, it will
not allow MIR. Bland to become
Chairman of the House Committee
on Finance. Being an out and out
free silver man, if made Chairman
Of the Committee on finance he
would be in a position to delay if
not to defeat the very object for
which special session of Congress
has been called. Mr.. Bland is a
man of ability, and too able an
obstructionist to be placed in SO i'm
portant position.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-07-08
At COST SELLING OFF. At COST

This is just the why, and the only why, OF
Herman Ball's forced sale. Ball kn0,Y all a6oH IT.
He knows that there is nothing so desirable IN
trade as briskness. When the dull times come as
come they must every year. and farmers are too busy
with their harvest and gardeners too much engaged
with their hoes, and fruterers too anxious about the
canning profits BALL lets it be known that he is
ready to meet their sacrifice by one OF his own. tie
offers clothing them without regard to personal profit
and, by doing, makes pay the busiest man to quit
his pow his hoe and his reaper to gather the bargains
BALL has four special needs to sell his stock:
His first need is that he wishes to keep hand
and offer for sale only what is freshest and newest
His second need is to beat the world at his
! BARGAIN COUNTER.
His third need is keep always ahead, but
His fourth and chief need is to find ROOM for
the grand exhibit he purposes to make the fall season
He has bigger rooms better lighted rooms, and
altogether alluring than ever held Ready
made Clothing in Elkton, but he wants to adj to his
opportunities, facility for doing. In the autumn, he
will have supply OF things in line not far
apart still apart from his present range. He wants
and intends take in the uncothed, and clothe him
from head to loot. He wants his spacious room, but
does not to keep his season-worn He will
sell without regard to cost and charge nothing for
courtesy:
And cost means cash COST not the cost of oiterers |
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-07-08

Mr.. J. B. HENDERSON, of Mis-
souri,, has addressed letter to Sec
rotary Carlisle at the request of the
latter, to which the administration
attaches considerable importance, If
we are to judge by the publicity
given it. The letter itself is in many
respects a clear and analytical review
of the financial operations of the
government since 1873, not its least
merit being the fact that many OF
the opinions stated by MIR. Hendef-
son are not held by many leaders OF
the Democracy.
MIR. Henderson thinks that lack
of public confidence is largely the
cause of the existing depression and
not an insuficiency OF currency, but
the rash effort to force silver as a
currency upon the commercial world
when all great commercial nations,
except our own, have refused TO
have it. The remedy is confession
of error, and prompt return to the
gold standard. To accomplish the
latter, the silver bullion in the hands
of the government must be sold, and
the gold paid for it held in the
Treasury. One-half of the silver
dollars stored in the Treasury vaults
must be sold, and the other halt
coined into subsidiary silver coins
and made legal tender to the ex-
tent of ten dollars. Three hundred
millions of dollars worth of three
per cent. bonds are to be issued, and
the gold for which they are sold is
to be held in the Treasury tor the
redemption of the paper currency OF
the country. The national banks
are to be allowed to deposit other
securities than United States bonds
for the redemption Of their notes, the
securities to be subject to the appro'
val OF the government.
These are the salient suggestions
of Mr.. Henderson's letter. A prompt
adoption of them by Congress would
place the currency of the country on
gold basis as firm and as safe as
the rock OF Gibraltar, and an assur-
ance to the public by Congress that
the present industrial policy OF the
nation would be undisturbed would
insure an era of prosperity unexam-
pied in history.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-07-08

or basis for bank notes. do not
attempt to guess the details of the
system that will follow it, but | think
that no money should be allowed in
this country which has not back OF 1t
the full guarantee of the United
States government Treasury notes
to be reissued in such manner as to
meet the needs OF the people would
seem to answer the purpose"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-07-08
SILVER MEN AGITATED.

TIE call for an extra session OF
Congress has aroused the advocates
of free silver to determined action
They are exasperated at the turn in
affairs, and they propose to make a
mighty effort to stem the tide that
has set in against them. TO this
end the American Bl- Metallic League
has called a convention to meet in
Chicago, August 1, and its officials
have issued manifesto declaring
that the American nation is going to
eternal smash if the Sherman act is
and the finances of the
country put upon the basis OF gold
standard.
1t is also stated by a promir ent
Silverite in Washington that the
Sherman act cannot be repealed
without the enactment of a substitute
measure, which shall insure as near
an approach to free silver as the
Bland Allison act. In other words,
the silver men in Congress and out
propose to fight the DEGREES of DIES
tiny to the last ditch.
The distracted frame of mind into
which the advocates of free silver are
thrown may be gathered from a dis
patch from Denver to a merchant in
New York which got into the papers
last week. The merchant telegraphed
to his friend in Denver asking what
effect the low price of silver and the
down of the mines would
have upon business in the West.
In reply word came back that
$50, 900 men would probably be
thrown out of employment in Colo
RADIO and Montana, that 5000 people
would stand on the hither verge of
starvation, that the West would
its obligations to the East,
and that in the end it would lead to
a new Declaration of independence
and the establishment of a separate
Western empire.
These are fierce words betokening
a depth of feeling on the subject of
free silver not generally appreciated
in the East, and they indicate the
kind and degree OF opposition which
is likely to crop out in Congress next
month against the repeal of the Sher
man act. Herald.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-07-08

Hon. ISAAC d. JONES, OF Worcester
county, who from 1882 to 1870 was
prominently identified with political
affairs in Maryland, is dead. He
has resided during recent years in
Baltimore, and in every sense per-
sonally and professionally was a
christian gentleman.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-07-08

WOODLAND CAMP MEETING commences
August Sth, and continues ten days.
RENT OF TENTS:
Canvas Tent, 14x2O, with Floor Sll 90
Canvas Tent, l2xl6, with Floor, 900
For any information concerning the Camp
Meeting, apply to
q. S. AI'RAHAMS, Sec'y,
ie24,6t WOodIawn, Nd