Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-11-26


rno,i6n Of onr currency then he De-
Inonetization Of silver by MEALS s., OF ~
next demand:
'rbo Nov Yors Herald says: "a force
Of 800 extra policemen has been assign
eI 10 d,,s, "a the one aristOcraiic street.
Iffib avrnue. New York. Their instruc-
lions arc 10 make no arrests but shoot
down Suspicious characters tonnn Tres
passing on this sacred thoroughiare'
Wendell Phillips once said that 20 up,
hold high wages Is the handspring OF our
pfogrcss-vlges should be at such Level
that the workingman can spare his wiie
| to preside over & home. eau command
leisure, 70 TO lectures take a newspaper:
lift himself from the deadening level oil
mere toll,
Tho United brotherhood of Carpenters
have grown from twelve local unions IN
| 1881 TO Tl6 unions ia $50 cities and S4,-
| 900 members II has given In general
! benefits S2D3bsi. and 10 sick dement's
J S571, 900 more. Il has raised wages In
Z SOS cities and reduced the hours Of labor
in 44S cities.
On an original debt of S2,7O0,00o,0OO,
the taxpayers OF the United st9lss
| Is not more than half liquidnted yet
1t would take more labor, or the fruits
| of labor, to pay what remains Of the
| present time. than il would to have paid
II at its maximum.
There was general resumption OF
worl, in the steel and iron works Of
Youngstown, Ohio; Joliet, ILL.,. Johns
town. Unioulown and WLliamsport, Pa.
In addition There came reports OF the
general revival Of industry in Hartford,
Conn: Steubenvle Ohio; winthrop, Me, :.
Providence, X, l., and Easton, Pa.
The Illinois Federation OF Labor, at it's
| Gnlesburg meeting, gave Governor Alt
| geld a sound scoring on account of Lis
hypocritical prctense towards laboring
men. Tho convention urged that comfy,
| state and national authorities make oil
JOSshlc improvements. IN order that the
starving unemployed might have work.
IN, mas A. Edison declares that women
have more qucliness and insight about
machinery than men have, mud prefers TO
employ them in carrying out the details
Of his electrical Inventions. He is cred
tied with saying that women have more
sense about machinery IN a minute than
men have In a lifetime" and shows the
faitl. that Is within him by keeping 200
women ON his pay roll.
There is constant pressure by the
national banks TO force the Issue of more
bonds. Il Is scheme to extend the rob
bling system and perpetuate the waning
lives of those already in existence. Long
ago We would have had the free coinag,
| VI nilNfT Huu u not uttu TOT lnt uullpN-
al banks. They have robbed the legit-
innate industries of the country Of thou
sands Of millions of dollars, and they are
still at their old game.-St. Louis re
public.
II Is probable that the miners out Of
work along the Gogebic range in Wis
cOnsin will have to get help from the
state. Shafts that last year put out
100000 tons Of coal are now closed
and practically abandoned, But Cover
nor Peck says of them; Il have made
every effort 10 learn the exact condition
of the miners, aud II they are as dcsti-
tutc as reports would seem to Indicate
shall most surely call upon tie good
people Of Wisconsin To assist me In re-
licving the distress. No deserving per
son is going TO starye In Wisconsin ,0
long as | am governor Of the state. This
Is not. the way we take care of our cit.
izons."
Hard timesi' snys the agent: that i,
no name for II. Nothing ever was know
like 1t, | have fifty times as many ap
plications as | have places. There Il
absolutely nothing doing, The otheI
day ] advertised for twenty women fol
a spectacular piece. Two weeks re
hearSals and two weeks engagement on
in Jersey. That was all. and do yoi
know l had l43 women here by aGtua
count. -Four of them Were typewriter
and one was professional nurse" Tn
above is sample clipping from nm inter
view with the head Of an employment
agency in New York. taken from tn
labor department of the Mail and Ex
press, November IL. 1893.
senator Vest SAYS in the ST. Louis Re
public; "fhe truLh Of tie whole matte
3 Is that The national banks of New forl
determined, months ago, to secure an Is
J sue Of gold bonds by the government, anl
{ started monetary panic in order q
: force the president to call congress Ia
gcther for tho purpose of issuing bond
, which could be made lie basis of nntiona
bank speculation The bonds which nov
constitute the basis Of national bank cir
lation fall due in 1907, and the banker
realized that new bonds must be issue,
in order TO insure the continued existenc
, of the national bank syatem." Ate
they had started the panic, he snys, the
were u1ulhlc TO control 1t, aud Il sweep
the whole country with cyclonic force.
$ John Swinton, one of tho oldest an
T ablcst refonmens of the country said a
+ the recent convention ot the America
+ Federation of Labor: although the lot
great strikes in this country had bee
r unsuccessful in point Of the immoliot
i issue an incalrulabe good had been don
r ny the way of protest against the gr,ry
I ing oppression of the wurl,ingmen h
giant corporations. but for the occa sion,
strike Of the American wurkiugmen WI
: strikes for his rights, his liberties, NJ
u nc nc would be nitiabe victim Of III
q fcnorselesS tymntS who are seeking /
crush him to enrich themselves" snN
Swlntou and IN that he gives an answs
4 tn the unreasonable cutlery agalns
y strikes. He assures us. however. I'M
y strikes are not 10 he dcfendeNl in the /,
!, duStrial world on general principles NJ,
lpore than volcanoes. cyclones apd enrtl
d qndSS are in the world Of nature.
Is FOREIGN.