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The midland journal., 1894-03-16

Sarsaparilla
CUR S

Venience and suffering by their constant and IN
tolerable itching. was advised to take Hoods
Sarsaparilla and after using nine bottles con-
slider myself cured. The sores have long since
disappeared, the scabs are all gone, and my
skin is as smooth as any one can wish have
gained in weight from 12O to 100 pounds con-
slider Hoods Sarsaparlla
A Great Boon to All
who suffer from skin and blood diseases. Ac-
cept my sincere and heartfelt thanks for the
wonderful cure Hoods Sarsaparilla has brought
TO me-" H. II. COLE, III Smith St., Millvile, N. j.
Hoods Pills cure Constipation by restor-
The midland journal., 1894-03-16
FOR DYSPEPSIA
Use Browns Iron Bitters.

IHysICIhIIS ItCOuIIntLu II.
All dealers keep ii. S1.00 per bettle. Genuine
has trade marx and crossed red lines on wrapper.
The midland journal., 1894-03-16

The Cyclone Seed Sower has come to stay they give
ntre satisfaction, and we have but few left.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-17
Tyndaic's Translation OF Jonah,

One of the most important events In the
life of the latc bishop OF Bath and Wells
was his discovery Of the long lost transla-
ton of Jonah by William Tyndale There
was tradition thst Tyndale had translat-
ed the book of Jonah into English, but no
copy Of the work could ever bo traced.
One day Lord Arthur Hervey was looking
through some old books In the palace H.
brary at Wells, when he opened q volume
of pamphlets, in the middle OF which he
found copy Of the missing work, con-
sisting Of % leaves, printed at Antwerp
by Martin de Keyser. 1t had presumably
been deposited at Wells some time during
the sixteenth century, and had chanccd to
be. bound up wisaout being examined,
with number Of ancient pamphlets, prob
ably during the episcopate OF Bishop Bead.
Ledger.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-17

legislation was also brought mp In New
York in 1928 bill for mechanics g
lien law was favorably presented to
the Legislature. but not acted upon. The
next year workingman' ticket was
put in the field--the first ON record
but every nominee was defeated but one.
1t seems that at that time the elections
extended over several days, and at the
close Of the first day it was seen that
the workingmen were ahead, and so the
other tickets were hastily combined to
defeat the workingmen's nominees.
There were many workingmen's papers
then, as now, judging from the allu.
sions to them in the files of such publ.
cations rs have been preserved, though
no copies OF the workingmen's papers
themselves are known TO be extant.
Robert Dale Owen was prominent in
the movement, and SO was Edward Ey
erett who addressed a meeting of
farmers, mechanics and other work
ingmen" held in Boston, Feb. 16, 1881.
AT this meeting arrangements were
made for the holding Of a conven.
tion on Sept 8, 1882, and mt this con-
vention, which, from tho old records
appears to have been very well attend
ed and was presided over by Charles
Douglas OF New London, Conu., ten
points were submitted for consideration.
AZ follows: |. Organization of central
committee for each state. 2. The insti-
tuition of lyceums or institutes 3.
Reform in the militia system. 4.
The expediency Of calling national
convention of workingmen 8. The 10
hour system. 8. The effect of banking
institutions and other monopolies upon
the condition Of the laboring classes
The improvement Of the system of odu
cation, including the recommendation
Of such Ngislative enactments in rnln.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-17
||LADOR'S GREAT
CELEBRATION.
A General Holiday For the Sons
TIL


The First Monday In September More Gen.
orally Observed Than Was Thanksgiving
Thirty Years Ago Order In which tn.
States Came In--Its signiaoance-Move
ment For Consolidation.
Copyright 1894, by American Press Associa-
tion.
TWAS 10 years ago and in New Yorh
that Labor day was first celebrated. The
general assembly of the Knights Of La.
bor was held in the big city at the Hud.
sons mouth in 1882, and it was pro.
posed by p. J. Mcclure. now first vice
president of the American Federation,
then member Of the New York Cen.
tral Labor union, that some time during
the assembly's session that year all the
labor organizations of New York should
turn out in big parade. This propo-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-17

gition was adopted, and the procession
was the feature of Sept 8, which fell
OH the hrss Monday of the month.
Wovkingmen of almost every trade took
part and this Of course stopped many
business establishments and virtually
made the day holiday. The big pa
rade was reviewed by Richard Griffiths,
worthy foreman of the knights, and he
as we'll as all who were on the review
ing stand was greatly impressed. One
who was present-Robert Price OF Mary
laaa-Plseine his hand -affactinnately
upon Mr. Grifiiths' shoulder, said:
This is Labor day in earnest, Uncle
Dick"
Thus the observance of what is now
legally national holiday began, and
thus it was named. On every first Mon
day in September since that first parade
Labor day has been celebrated in New
York, aud the size OF the procession,
the enthusiasm OF the participants and
the more or less general cessation of the
people from gainful pursuits have been
evidence that the new holiday was jus
titled by the best or rehsUns-a demand
from the highest authority in a repub-
lic--the people.
1t was not long that the establish
ment of the day in New York before
the idea was taken up elsewhere, and
Labor day observances were soon an es-
tablished fact in nearly every city of
consequences. To the parade. which has
ever remained the chief of these observ-
anoes, have been added addresses OH
economic topics and the organization of
labor, and every year the movement has
grown until now Labor day is far more
generally observed than was Thanks
giving day 30 years ago. In only two
cases, to be hereinafter mentioned, has
the date Of Labor day been fixed for any
day other than the first Monday in Sep
tenbeT.
Making Labor Day Legal Holiday.
twas not until 1887 that the holiday
was lsGalised in New York. the state of
it's birth The legislatures Of several
cther states set the day apart the same
year, and by the close Of 1898 tl.s had
been done in 90 states.
Oregon was the first state to pass bill
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-17

libraries costing $50, 900 each. and 500
persons joined in the scheme. 1t lived
but two years. however. and, though 10
has been followed by many other expert
ments somewhat similar, mono has as
yet made lasting success
Labor legislation began rs early as
1777, when it was voted in Newbury-
port, Mass, that maximum wages"
should be as follows:
Carpenters, shillings pence a
day; calkers. Q shillings a day; day la
borers not found, 4 shillings a day;
day laborers, found. 3 shillings a day:
joiners, shillings pence day; ma
sons, shillings a day.
1t will be observed that this legisla-
ton was all In favor of the employer,
inasmuch as the paying Of higher wages
than those named was prohibited, while
there was no minimum scale adopted.
Strikes began to occur in 1903, the first
one recorded being among the sailors in
New York city. Ii seems TO have been
settled by the jailing of the leader.
There were divers small strikes, and
some Of some magnitude in the years
immediately following, but there seems
to have been no really systematic ac-
tion until 1928, the year already men
toned as the beginning Of the formation
period of the organizations. In 1926
Boston newspaper printed protest
against some Of the methods of the man
ufacturers in New England and made
demands for the adoption of measures to
decrease the dangers of factory opera
tives and the furnishing them with suit
able rooms. lodgings, ETC. The Yankee
girl operatives were foremost all through
this formation period in getting up or
ganization.
Meanwhile in New York city and all
along the Atlantic coast the ship car
penters and calkers were agitating for
10 hour day, and the question Of labor
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-17

A small glass tube, blown into bulb
at one end, is partly fillod with mercury.
The mercury is boiled to expel tho air and
fill the tube with mercury vapor. and then
the tube Is hermetically scaled and allow
Cd TO cool. The gradations are found as
follows: The instrument is immersed I'm
ice water. and tho freezing point is found
and is marked. Then IL is placed In water,
which Is allowed to rcach the boiling point,
end so 2ie degrees Ia found. The spans
between arc marked by mathematical cal.
culafions
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-17
Mo Feasibility of n.

Mrs. would give you this old
vest, but I am afraid IL IL too small for
you. IL will work up In tho front.
Rural RAxees-0imme tho vest, mum.
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ton TO tho internal economy Of factories
as should assure to the operatives there
In a competent degree Of instruction.
8. The abolition Of imprisonment for
dobt and the adoption Of . national
bankrupt law. Q. Tho extension of the
right Of suffrage in states whore the peo-
pie We're thon denied its privilsgsa
10. The lien laws In favor Of journey
men and mechanics Landed interesta
taxation and cooperative trading were
also discussed. af
Itwould be interesting and profitable
to follow the development Of tho move
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03
NOT FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.

If the President should confirm the re-
port by Withdrawing the nomination of
Mr.. Hornblower for the Supreme Court
and substitute that of Attorney-general
Olney. the leading public objection to the
former would be intensified in regard to
the latter. Mr.. Olney is connected with
an extensive railroad corporation in New
England, and it is further minated that
his relations with one of the rivals of the
Union Pacific nave not been dissolved.
But the point which can be raised against
Mr.. Olney is that he has gone out of his
way to assail the Sherman antitrust law.
Indeed, he has practically nullifed that
law. So long as Mr.. Cleveland is President
or Mr.. Olney is Encouragement the act
could not be of less force If it were re-
pealed. One Of the federal judges ap-
pointed in the South when Mr.. Cleveland
was President before made a decision
which would have attracted no attention
If Encouragement Olney had not rescued
it from oblivion and given it his indorse-
ment as the best exposition thus far
made of the scope and bearing of the
statute referring to the Sherman anti
trust act. Having thus bestowed his praise.
the Encouragement makes the following
summary of the decision:
/. That Congress cannot limit the right
of State corporations or of citizens in the
acquisition, accumulation and control of
property. 2. That Congress cannot pre-
scribe the prices at which such property
shall be sold by the owner, whether a cor
poration or an individual. 8. That Con-
gresS cannot make criminal the intents and
purposes of persons in the acquisition and
control of property which the States OF
their residence or creation sanction. 4.
ute. means an exclusive right in one party,
coupled with a legal restriction or restraint
upon some other party, which prevents the
latter from exercising or enjoying the
same right. 8. And that contracts in re-
straint of trade and commerce as prohibi-
thereof, and such as would be void at
common law Independently of any statute.
Since the decision at Appomattox, when
it was assumed that the heresies of ultra
Calhounism surrendered with Lee there
has not been a more unqualified afirma-
ton of State supremacy. The man who
holds such views as the foregoing. and de-
clares that the antitrust law cannot be
applied to interstate railways doing bust
ness under a State charter, will not do for
an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03
MIR. BYNUM's EMIT.

1t is very evident that Representative By
frages of the people of this district next No
vember. 1t has been stated before. but when
he stood up in committee, a few days since,
and, in tones of exultstion, said to the rep
resentatives of the pottery interest, THE
duties of the Wilson bill will put the wages
of the United States and Great Britain on
a level, enabling you to compete in the mar
kets of the world" he defiantly declared
to the thousands of wage earners who have
voted for him time after time, Il defy you
because 1 want nothing more of YOU" He
bill which will lower the wages Of Indiana
workingmen in the pottery. glass. iron and
other interests and raise the wages of Eu-
ropeans In similar trades until they are the
same in both countries. Mr.. Bynum dared
not say this when he was asking the votes
of the Seventh district wage earners in 1892.
Instead, he satisfied a portion Of them that
a reduction of the duties would not reduce
wages, for the reason that the American
workman is more facile than his competi-
tors. This silly device of free-trade theorists
Mr.. Bynum now throws to the winds and
declares for a tariff which will put the
American wage Garner uron the same wages
for the same work that the European re-
ceives. The difference between the highest
in Great Britain and the average in the
same e~mployments here is 75 per cent Your
Representative, wage earners of the Sew
enth district, declares it to be his determina-
ton to cut your wages down 40 or 80 per
cent. in order that those of your competi-
tors in Great Britain may be raised 80 or %
per cent. Bynum has, like Benedict Arnold.
deserted the cause Of his W people to pro-
mote the fortunes of Great Britain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03
STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS.

Capt. John Worrell, of Hendricks coun-
ty, was in the city yesterday looking up
his prospects for nomination as State
Statistician. Captain Worrell was appoint
ed State Statistician by Governor Hovey
to test the constitutional right OF the Gen
eral Assembly TO elect certain State off
GERS, and it was by his efforts that the
election of Statistician and other State
officers was denied by the Supreme Court
to the Legislature and made elective by
the people, thereby securing to them a con-
stitutional right which had been withheld
from them. The suit cost Captain Worrell
heavily in loss of time and expense, and
was but of little benefit to him personally.
He is ar excellent speaker, and if NOM
mated will be a valuable man in the cam
paign. During the last campaign, without
seeking the nomination, but in compliance
with the wishes of the Fifth district Re-
publicans, he made a vigorous and telling
canvass against George W. Cooper for
Congress-, winning esteem everywhere he
spoke for his ability and fairness as a po-
litical speaker.
Marcus Sulzer, Republican candidate for
Secretary of State, and w. S. Richey, of
Muncie, who is seeking the nomination Of
State Auditor, are at the Denison.
The Fourth ward meeting Saturday night
will be held at 30i Blake street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03
BYNUM'S FRANK ADMISSION.
The Wilson Bill Is Meant to Increase En-
glish and Lower American Wages.

Trenton On. j. Special in New York Trib-
une.
The Democratic party loves to pose as the
friend OF the workingman. Publicly it is an
nounced that the Wilson bill is for the bene-
fit of the laborer and wage-wOrker. This
little story shows how hollow the p~retense
is. and what the private opinion of leading
Democrats is on the subject.
a OF manufacturing potters re-
Gently went TO Washington to induce the
ways and means committee to restore some
of the disastrous reduction in the proposed
tariff on crockery. The delegation was
turned over to Congressman Bynum, one of
the prominent members of the ways and
means committee. Mr.. Bynum was told
how the pottery industry would suffer if
the tariff was cut as intended. 1.-The only
way in which we can continue in business
said the spokesman for the delegation. lis
reducing the wages of our workingmen to a
pitiful point. in order TO compete with for
eign manufacturers The trade is already
anticipating what will happen. Foreign
producers. we can well suppose, will even
increase the paltry wages of their employees
in order to get out the ware TO supply the
tremendous business that Will come to them.
Don't you see how it will affect the work
ingman in this country?'
Bynum's face llghtened UP. with a smile.
and he replied: We'll, you fellows Will be
just as well off. The increase in wages on
the other side will be offset by the decrease
in wages in your Establishments. You can
then compete all right and make money"
Quick as q flash one of the delegation
turned to the Congressman, and said: DO
you mean to say. Mr.. Bynum. that the OBJ
ject Of the Wilson bill is to increase wages
in Great Britain and other countries and
reduce wages in the United StatesT'
That's it," answered Mr.. Bynum.
The next minute he understood what a
fatal admission he had made. He bit his
lin. and then said he trusted the delegation
would consider his remarks as strictly con-
fidential.
The above story came directly from the
lips of u leading potter of this city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03

Queer errors creep into newspapers.
despite the watchfulness of editors and
proof readers. One in the Journal yester-
day was quite funny. In speaking of the
drinks served at New Years receptions the
Washington correspondent intended to say,
regarding a punch, that it warmed the
cookies of the stomach in great haste. AS
printed the word cookies appears
"cockleburs." The Journal has heard of
topers who were supposed to have cast
iron or copper-lined stomachs, but the
cocklebur-lined drinker belongs to a new
class. 1t is possible he is a Populist and
cores from a prohibition State, where
stomach ir. itants are sometimes scarce.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03
action and to adopt the policy of more
clerks and shorter hours of work.

On the Goth Of October last. in an edi-
torial on Relief for the Unemployed the
Journal. after referring to the situation as
it then existed, said:
The city ought TO do all in it's power to
furnish employment by prosecuting public
works, such as sewers, street paving. etc.
There is a great deal OF this kind of work
to be done, and il should be undertaken as
soon as possible. These works should not
be postponed till better times or better
ana prosecuted during the entire winter
so far as weather will permit. The old
adage that he gives twice who gives quick
~ applies here. Employment now would
than if it is postponed six months. The
Board of Public Works should make a
special and extraordinary effort in this d.
rection, and, besides giving all the work
they can during the winter. they should
perfect plans to extend operations at the
earliest approach of spring.
More than two months have passed since
this was written. They have been, for the
most part, months of good weather. The
season has been an unusually open one.
Even now there is no frost in the ground.
Yet the Board Of Public Works has done
absolutely nothing in the way Of furnish
ing work for the unemployed. 1t has
talked fairly. but done nothing. Nothing is
cheaper than talk, but it does not prosecute
public works nor give employment to those
who need it. What is the Board of Public
Works doing, anyhow?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03
A New Years Message in 81 Bottle.

This morning an empty bottle floated
ashore just below Alexandria. In the neck
was a fragment of writing paper upon which
was Inscribed in a small, cramped hand
the following resolutions, or parts OF reso-
lutionS:
'3. L will never play poker again with
Gresham in the game.
-. | will give one thousand dollars to
Blount's senatorial campaign
Iund. in accordance with the Fitzhugh Lee
precedent; but 1 viii not
%. | will run my administration this year
without any reference TO Congress. 1t
doesn't seem 10 get on 10 my curves
'6. l will solemnly reconsecrate-"
The rest is torn off with the exception
of a few words which are absolutely illegi-
BILE.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03

A manufacturer would be exceedingly
foolish to enlarge his stock with a prospect
of losing money by having to sell cheaper
after Il reduction OF the tariff. That &C
counts for the idle factories.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03
Satisfying Him.

"I have called" said the ~captious critic,
ito find out what reason you can gtve for
representing the new year as a nude small
boy" -
THAT is DONE" responded the art editor,
because the year does not get it's close
till the 31st of December"
Then the captious critic went out and
broke his nice new pledge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03

If the granite and marble manufacturers
got after the authors of the Wilson bill
Monday with a sharp stick the wool grow
ers spItted them and suspended them close
over the Goals yesterday. And some of
them voted for Cleveland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03

Manufacturers generally are of the opin-
Ion that a large proportion Of the work on
the Wilson tariff bill savors much OF an
inexperienced The professor is
markets
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03
THE pARKER-M.AFEE CASE.

The decision of the Supreme Court in the
to the general public. which is apt to form
it's opinions in criminal cases without much
regard for legal technicalities. In this case
the public knew that an unprovoked and
brutal murder had been committed. it knew
that Parker and McAfee were bad on gen.
eral principles. and it knew there was strong
the murder. Knowing this much, ii warmly
approved the verdict of the jury which
found them guilty. and 1t will regret to hear
that the case has been reversed. But. bad
as the defendants undoubtedly are, and
guilty as they probably are, they were en-
titled to be tried according to law. and the
Supreme Court says they were not. 1t finds
that the judge of the trial court made sew
eral distinct errors in his rulings and in
structions, and, without touching the merits
of the case, it is reversed because of these
legal errors. 1t is unfortunate for the cause
of justice and the interests of society that
so many criminal cases are reversed by
courts of appeal on such grounds. The
errors OF law committed by trial courts cost
the State a great deal Of money, and are
one OF the factors which criminals take into
account in estimating their chances of es-
cape. The present decision will tend to con-
firm the growing feeling that criminals in
this country have too many chances of es-
cape and that our system Of criminal juris-
prudence needs reforming.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03
The Misery of II.

"I always hate TO hear of a rich man
writing poetry"
"Oh, you think he ought to be at work
making more money, do youT" ~
mo, that isn't it; but when a rich man
takes a notion TO write verse, there is
nothing to prevent his publishing it,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03

A Detroit preacher announces that signs
portend the speedy coming of the end of
the world. He is not a true interpreter.
What he sees are signs of the approaching
world will live on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03

It should not be forgotten that AR. C1eve-
land, in his annual message, referred to the
great panic which is now paralyzing the
business of the country as 1.-The recent
financial perturha tiOn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-03

This Mckinley law imposes a duty Of %
cents a bushel on apples and $1.5O per thou
sand on oranges. The Wilson bill repeats
the duty on apples and leaves the duty on
oranges unchanged. Apples are produced
In the North and oranges in the South.