Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-08

sidering the purchase Of 1000 acres OF
land in Tennessee for his proposed
/ cooperative colony.
The president drinks his breakfast
coffee from a cup that Us worth 500.
I The china set Of which It Is pert
i was made to order FOR the White
| House at cost Of 5000.
1t matters not whether our sub
stance IS stolen from us under the
lash OF the law, or under the lash Of
( the slave-master, the principle Is the
same and we are SLAVES.
/ The East f. finding out the dire re-
| suits OF inJuring the West. While the
| reviews are doing their best 10 keep
/ up show the truth ia that Western
| merchants are only buying what tho
season eUmpels them 10.
1t is noticeable that coxeya army
| receives much better treatment along
| ing OF the selgniorage bill. Petitions
/ six feet long, with boots on, are being
| encouraged by the people.
] In the four cities OF Newport II. l..
/ Columbus. Ohio. Hot Springs, Ark. and
| san Antonio. Tex, contractors are
/ eminent buildings, and United States
/ officials wink at the offence.
The Des Moines, Iowa. knights OF
/ Labor want 10 know how much prop
| erty Chief Arthur Of the Brotherhood
| OF Locomotive Engineers has. IL APP
| pears that he owns about $4,000 worth,
and they think It too much for labor
ing man.
| The good news comes that business
| is picking up In the New England cot
ton and wooden industries; most OF the
! mills are now running, many Of them
on fun time. with a full force. conse-
quently the distress among textile
| operatives IS abatlng.
President A. j Warner OF the BIZ
! metallic league said at the recent Des
| Mulues conference, AS a result OF silver
| decentralization. there has been an in
crease m the value Of gold OF more
| than II per cent during the past year
This is Il direct loss to labor.
A part Of the unemployed printers
In Omaha have recently organized
| themselves Into cooperative body
and begun the publication of the Daily
News. They propose publishing the
| News IN the Interest OF all reforms
necessary 10 the welfare of the public
Mr. L. Harter OF oclslawaha. Fla.
announces that he is endeavoring to
! form the Florida Cooperative Assoc
citation, aud win have employment for
| 200 co-operatiyes II they can bring 81
each. He proposes 10 buy 400 acres
and commence fruit growing ON a large
| scale.
one operative IN cotton factory
makes sufficient cloth for $50 people;
one operative IN a wooden factory makes
enough for 400 peoulc. while the mod
| ern cobbler. wording in n boor and
shoe factory. furnishes 1000 men. or
more than 1000 women, with All the
boots and shoes they may require in
q year. Such are the wonderful re-
suits OF machinery
Profits, interests and rents in the
aHaH4a MN
annually, This 81 FAR more than we
produce. Our leading products for 1899
We're corn crop. S6il 1875 900; wheat crop
Sil5, 5q2 900; oats crop, ylGJ, 1903 900. cot
ton crop, %4OO,O0O,OO1 gold $4,000, 600;
silver. $1i.0O0,0OO. Total $l,4O, 648, 600
This leaves a deficiency of So. 259, 1853, 400
to be made UP from other products and
from labor. ''Whither are we drifting
as a nation2"
,rbo ,,,rnanter "uublished In the in
tcresi az carpenters. stair builders. ma
chino wool worker. planning mill men
ami kindred interests" thinks the
worgt Is over. Indications 20 to show
that there win be some renewal Of
business during the coming spring una
summer Nothlng permanent, now
ever, can De expected uhul wy ,hre
liberated from the grip OF gore Dug
monopoly ana Eet an increase III 'he
circulating medium
II appears that in the fruit trade be-
tween the United States and the West
indies and Central America less than
Is per cent. Of the vessels engaged
carry the American flag, where origin
ally the trade was almost entirely in
American hands, This shipping ser
Nise now rs principally In the hands
Of scandlnavlans who work for one
third the cost OF manning an Nmellcal
vessel Charles Hagen, president Ma
toual Senmen's Union or America
"Cnpitnl must be dealt with impair
,iaIlv. na well as It's victims. To-day
capitat rs forcing thousands Of women
mo n lIfo OF shame. BY starvation
wares capital renders virtue imnossl-
bic and whom once the girl has fallen
capital takes her out Of the factory
and shop and sends her 20 the brothel,