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The advocate., 1894-09-19

swell, you see, in the first place the
bonds are purchased with greenbacks
and then they are deposited with the
United States treasurer, and the gov
ernment issues 80 per cent. of their
value in bank notes to the bank, and
the banker puts that money in circula-
tion while the government has the
greenbacks which it got for the bonds
and of course payes them out again in
paying the running expenses of the gov
ernment. So that makes the green
backs that were out in the first place,
and 80 per cent. of their value in bank
notes all in circulation"
"Alas! for the ignorance of mankind,
especially women. Those greenbacks
that were taken in exchange for bonds
were retired, cancelled"
"What do you mean by 'retiredP"
"Burned up. Put in furnace and
a match touched to them. They went
up in smoke. They had served the
purpose for which they were created
and returned to the elements from
whence they came"
go, you are joking, are you notP If
the greenbscks are burned up how
does the government expect to pay
those bonds when they come duei"
The advocate., 1894-09-19

them-would any man lack building materal9 There is
coal enough in the earth to supply fuel to every human
being for generations to If the government should
allow no one to monopoze the mines need anybody freeze
henceforth?
At present government protects the who monopoze
unused land and the quares forests and mnes will bring
its army if need be- and murder the people, to help these
monopolists to withhold unused lands and building ma
terals from the homeless fuel from the freezing We
Dropose that government shall henceforh protect people
against these monposs of what God meant for the use Of
ALL And why should not this be doneP Why does any man
wish to claim land natural resources he cannot use and
which he does not intend to use? Solely in order that
he may compel others to support him by their labor He
wishes to escape the necessity of earning his bread in the
sweat of his own brow That's the sole object that and the
securing the like exemption to his progeny
But how will government obtain all these things? 1t
would be perfectly just for the to reake the
heritage of the people without the slightest compensation
it visited punishment upon the mOnoposs for all the
suffering they have caused the world All this artificial
wealth. being the creature of laws, would vanish in
stsntly like shadows when the light is removed, if those
laws should be repealed Or leaving the laws undisturbed
if everybody should turn Quaker and refuse to be policeman
aor judge soldier Suppose every man in the country
should become convinced that these laws niquitOus
must he continue to be active partner in the inquy by
answering calls to enforce them by violence to his fellow
men or by actual murderP Shall he not listen to his
obey man. or God If the people should refuse to enforce
these laws which such widespread suffering would
they act unjubtly2 Not unless it be unjust to the dram
seller for the topper to reform.
Remember do not propose to take any lands any
actual thing from anybody We propose to merely take
away power of to keep what they do not need and
do not use themselves from people who do need and wish to
use what heaven designed should be used However, the
Peoples party proposes to pay the fair value of the things in
which destroys the monopoly by issuing bonds or other
wise Personally think that nasmuch as the monopoiss
would be given precisely the chance other people to
get good living by working for it, there is no sense in
this proposal pay for simply that these hitherto
oppressors of mankind still to be supported in denes
while Others who must support them, will be reoced that
there now at ast opportunity for all to live by work
But if the monoposts yield enough this personal no
ton of mine will have spread to others and the govern
ment will pay for requiring to be just The reader must
remember that is the doctrine of the Peoples party that
payment shall be made the suggestions about what would
be just in the premises is my own alone Only, warn the
monopolists to sell while this offer is open.
CONCLUSION.
If all the things have mentioned should be done and the
The advocate., 1894-09-19
PREPARING FOR SUFFRAGE.
"Alas For the Ignorance Of Mankind, Kspec-
tally Women"
NO, TX.
BY CON HEALY.

"Perhaps, Cicero, 1 was little too
hasty in the conclusions that l reached
the other evening. believe, now that
1 have studied the matter over, l can
see how national banks were at least
some benefit to the country"
"Well now, my dear, 1 am glad to
hear that a ray of light has at last
fo und its way into your benighted
mind. 1 am sure it gives me great
pleasure to learn that the system meets
with at least your partial approval.
When that fact becomes publicly
known it will tend greatly towards re-
ducing the opposition that this grand
institution has met with ever since it
was first instituted in 1868. Now what
is this commendable feature that you
have discoVeredH"
"Why, that the national banks in.
creased the amount Of money in cir.
culatiOn."
"HOw do you figure that out,
SophiaP"
The advocate., 1894-09-19


government should eventually own and manage all the
teral and means of production and all the machinery of
distribution actual occupants of lands not being dis
turbed at all-what then would government be- Simply
the agency through which the associated people Of the
ton would carry cooperation. 1t would notbe
paternalism that would be dead but raternalsm asso
citation of brothers for their common good.
And what would be the consequencesP Everybody would
be obliged to work at something Or he should be
object of benevnce cared for by mis- human brothers, he
would starve. Nobody would be rch nobody poor No
need lay for his loved ones for the spectre of want
would have vanishedthe fear Of the awful social hell in
which wife and children must now be left would longer
add to the agonies of death Life insurance would be
impertinenCe few hours of heahfu happy labor each
day-for all would work would produce the greatest
abundance. The uxures of fe the wonders of modern
invention and discovery would be freely enjoyed by ai
Bright airy cheerful temples of labor would replace the
prisonke workshops of today would be no longer 81
lent and gloomy but would sing over their work. while
lovely women released from drudgery would look and
with her smiles make the verest drudgey delightful play
The isolation of farm life would be succeeded by life in
beautiful villages with paved streets and electric lights and
with tasteful opera houses where the best players and the
sweetest singers of the world would In the universal
abundance and happiness there would be incentive to
cme every prison door could be thrown open and the
Ombed cOnVcs be welcomed brothers who had been vic
Tins of cruel state Of things at last forever passed away
Judges and lawyers would go to work wondering how they
endured the old slavery long, and the monoposts
would bless their overthrow Improved sanitation would
make sickness rar and accidents would be prevented by
sordid prudence, till life would be heightened and death
would come only to ripe and serene old age,
All this beautiful dream capable of realization dur
ing the life of the present generation All this happy state
of things involved in this single paragraph of the Omaha
platform:
believe that the powers Of gOvenmentn other words the
people should be expanded in the of the postal
rapidly the good of intelligent people and the
teachings Of experience shall justify the that oppression
justice and poverty shall eventually in the land
This kind reader, this sublime possibility, is the phil
osophy of the derded Omaha platform The greatest phil
osophers of two centuries the abst minds and nobes
hearts of modern times; have believed in this raVshing
vision All that best in the literature Of Europe and of
America for hundred years has prophesed that such
time This bright hope has comforted many dead
before its realization,
Who, rowing hard against the stream,
Saw distant gates OF Eden gleam
And did not dream 1t was dream
Indeed not this the happy state of things fOetOd on
the hsdes and by the lakes Of Gaee eighteen hundred
years agop
THE END,
The advocate., 1894-09-19

who came with their money to the gov
ernment's aid in time of need"
"I don't think it is right to call those
men shylocks, because Shylock de-
manded only exactly what his bond
called for, but our bondholders don't
sesm to be satisfied with that. should
think it would be only justto pay them
back in the same kind of money that
they gave for the bonds"
"It does look that way, but congress
in its wisdom thought differently, and
in 1869 passed what was called the
credit strengthening act which made
the bonds payable in COIN"
"a credit strengthening act,' you
sayP Was the credit of the govern
ment bad at that time, or was it
democratic billP"
mo, Blaine says in his book,
Twenty Years in Congress, that no
democrat voted for it. The object was
to make the credit of the nation good
in foreign countries, and also to settle
the question of how the bonds were to
be paid"
"It don't look as though that is a
very good way to do business, for the
government to give its notes, and de-
eide several years afterward in what
kind Of money it was to pay them. 1t
might have strengthened the govern
ment's credit in foreign countries, but
l think it weakened it at hOme."
"In what wayP"
"When the people see that they have
to accept payment in their business
affairs in whatever is lawful money
and the bondholder has a special act
passed in his favor, l should think it
would make them feel as If the bond
holder belonged to a privileged class.
/ should judge that the old soldiers
don't feel as patriotic now as they did
when they were fighting to save the
Union and getting from $l4 to $l6
month in greenbacks, worth about so
cents on the dollar, when they see the
capitalists that stayed at home and In
vested this same cheap money in
bonds, drawing interest, and are now
to be paid in gold. Such things don't
tend toward making people patriotic,
or keeping up the credit of the govern
ment in the estimation of its real de-
tenders and supportersP"
"There is nothing to prevent any
person from buying bonds or starting
a national bank"
"No, nothing but the lack of
money"
"There is one great benefit to allthis,
which of course you do not see, and
that is that it has put all our money on
an equality and made every dollar as
good as every other dollar"
eyes, but it is strange that it could
not be done without first making one
dollar as 60 cd as two and a half other
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Connecticut western news., 1894-07-12
LAKEvILLE.

Mir and Mrs s. s. Robbins were out riding on the Fourth.
 Miss Anna Phelps. of Washington, D. O.. is here visiting her many relatives and friends.
 All our prominent citizens set eff magnificent fireworks on the evening of the Fourth.
 Mir and Mrs Ed. Dauchy, of Torring- tor. were bere spending the Fourth with MT and Mrs Woodworth.
 M- and Mrs Cantine and son, of Sangerfies, N. T., came here last week and are the guests of Mir and Mrs Wm. B. Rudd.
 July 4th, Mrs Dakin received the sad telegram announcing the sudden death of her son, William, aged A, who lived at Alleghany, Pa. Mir Dakin was found dead in bed that morning by his land lady, death being caused by heart fail ure superinduced by fatty degenera- tions around the heart Mir Dakin's re- mains were brought here for burial last Saturday. Services were held at the house, Rev F. Abrams officiating. h. torment was made Tn Spencer's Corner cemetery, N. Y. Deceased leaves a sor- row stricken mother and two sisters, Ida and Clara. who mourn the loss of kind and dutiful son and brother. They have the sympathy of their many friends.
Connecticut western news., 1894-07-12
GREAT HARRINGTON.

Lyman A. Loring and H. l.. Wilcox, while driving on the Egremont road Friday evening, came in collision. LOT ing was thrown from his wagon and had an arm broken.
 The marriage of John E. Marriott, of Elizabeth, N. J., and Miss Catharine Pixley, of this village, occurred last Thursday evening at the home of the brides sister, Mrs E. B. Culver, Rev F. R. Marvin offieiated.
 James Leahy, 73, while eating his dinner on July 4th, fell dead. Of course, as the doctors say, it was heart failure. His funeral was attended Fri day at 10 8. m. He leaves three daughters.
 The foundations are being laid for George Kastner's new house on East street.
 The trotters at Halstead stock farm have been entered for the races at Island park, Albany,in August.
 Dr Samuel Camp has purchased a fine hackney of H, K. Bloodgood.
 Mrs Edward l.. Couch, B, died Sat. urday night after brief. illness.
 Rev W. F. Albrecht, of the Methodist church, IS taking a vacation in Yer mont. Harry McMullen, of South Egg remont, is supplying the pulpit.
 Eli Boice, aged 82, the father of Abram Boice, of North Egremont, died Saturday.
Connecticut western news., 1894-07-12
A Further Impetus

The woman suffrage movement re ceived further impetus recently in the passage by the Iowa legislature of & bill giving women the right to vote at munic- ipal or school elections involving an is- sue of bonds or increase of the tax levy. This makes three large and adjacent states in that part of the Union-Iowa, Kansas and Colorado-in which women can vote in municipal elections, while in Colorado they can also vote in all other elections This full right seems likely to be extended them in Kansas when the men vote on the constitution al amendment next November The movement has also made more headway in Massachusetts this year than ever be- fore since the annual agitation before the legislature began in 1867. A meas ure giving women the right to vote in city and town elections has been passed by the house of representatives recently -the first time that such bill has ever got through one branch-but was re- jected by the senate later. The discus sion has shown growing indifference and half heartedness on the part of for mer opponents, remonstrances from women having nearly ceased. New York Nation.
Connecticut western news., 1894-07-12
CORNWALL CENTER.

Walter Osborne, who has been visit ing at his brothers, returned to Wood vile Sunday.
 Mir and Mrs Elmer OrtoD, of Housa- tonic, Mass. are home for few weeks.
 Andrew Palmer, of New Milford, paid flying visit to friends here not long since.
 Lee c. Ford. of Bridgeport, is home for few weeks vacation.
 Louis Fritz and son, of Torrington, spent Sunday at D. P. Johnson's.
 F. k. Buckley has moved his steam saw-miH to the wood land purchased by him of the late Wm. W. Baldwin Quite . number of men are employed on the job. Mir Calkins, the sawyer, and his family have moved into the Baldwin house.
 Belden Ford is with his grandparents for the summer.
 Miss Kennedy. of Waterbury. has been visiting in this place.
Connecticut western news., 1894-07-12
CORNWALL BRIDGE.

Miss Laura Frost, of Meriden, has been the guest of Mrs V. o. Beers the past week.
 Mrs A. E. Sturges and Miss Susie l. Sturges, of Bridgeport, are visiting W. P. Sturges and family.
 Miss Grace D. Robinson is visiting friends in New Haven.
 Miss Edith W. Wadhams Is at home from Granville, N. T., where she has been teaching.
 Morton O. Wsdhams and family have returned home from here where they have been visiting friends.
 Mrs V. 0. Beers has purchased 8 splended carriage and rubber trimmed harness from C.. W. Hall, of Falls Village. It IS the incest carriage in town for beauty and comfort.
 Having is being pushed rapidly. The crop Is fair, but on account of the dry weather potatoes will get black eye.
 The Fourth was celebrated quietly with fine fireworks in the evening.
 Miss Della A. Sturges closed her school last week. The children were remembered with a present and the teacher was presented with clock with plush frame.
 Many are afflicted with severe colds owing to the sudden change of weather
 Miss Kate Dougherty is at home, having closed her school at Sharon Valley.
Connecticut western news., 1894-07-12
CORN WALL.

Miss Helen Kellogg, of New York, visited with her sister, Mrs Matthew, over the 4th of July.
 Messrs August, Julius, and John Jonson, of Joliet, H., are visiting friends in Cornwall.
 Rev E. 0. Starr is absent on a vaca- ton.
 The Fourth passed of without any unusual disturbance or noise. The woodchuck, which in former years has fed on the village green on that day un- disturped, was not seen. Not because of any noise, but because the dry weather has made it rather short ''pickin." There were few private displays of fireworks in the evening.
 The drought is getting to be serious affair in this section. While nearly all other towns have been favored with showers, we seem to have been left out. Early potatoes are a failure, pastures are turning brown and everything shows the want of rain.
Connecticut western news., 1894-07-12
EST CORNWALL.

Mrs F. H. Monroe, of New Haven, is at her fathers, Geo. c. Harrison's, for few weeks.
 Rev D. NJ. Pratt, of Portland, Me-, is at the old homestead, Cream Hill, during his vacation.
 Mrs c. H. Hubbard, of Hartford City, Ind, is at her fathers, Hon. T. s. Colds.
 The Misses Bennett, of New Haven, have returned to the Rexford place to spend the summer.
 Dr J. Livingston was in New Haven last week.
 Joseph Cole spent the 4th in Bridge port.
 Mrs D. l.. Ross and daughter are visiting friends in New York. place, died in Bristol last Thursday The funeral was held at the chapel Sat. urday afternoon. Mir Coon was for many years a resident here and 6 much respected citizen. His remains were taken to Lime Rock for interment.
 The display of fireworks 4th of July evening was very fine, unequslled by any previous attempts at pyrotechnics in this place, and were witnessed by s large number gathered from valley to hill top. Much credit is due to Geo. Smith for the interest he took in afford ing so pleasureable an evenings enter. tainmept
 Rev J. H. Pierpont preached in ex change with the Ellsworth minister last Sunday.
 Miss Nellie Wolfe, of Ansonis, i, visiting at her grandfsther's and other friends in this place.
 Geo. H. Beck and the Misses Gertis and Annie Harrison have gone to the O E. Convention at Cleveland, O.
Connecticut western news., 1894-07-12
FALLS VILLAGE.

Mr and Mrs Gordan Leverty, from Bridgeport, are spending the summer at Mrs Lundie's.
 Quite number from here attended the Fourth of July celebration at Ct. Harrington.
 Marvin A. Dean and family, of Wis eonsin, are guests at Dwight E. Deans
 Rev and Mrs F. J. Belcher, of Ron dout. were guests at I. P. Hornbeck' s last week. Two of their sons will spend their vacation here.
 A lawn party was held at Peter Fraser's Friday night.
 Eugene Flakes horse ran away near South Canaan one day last week demol- ishing the wagon and scattering the contents in every direction.
 A reunion was held at H. Merriman s last week at which five great grand children were present.
 The ball game on the fair grounds the 4th between the home nine and the Lakevilles scored 31 to in favor of the home nine.
 The blooming of night blooming cereus in the day time as is well known Is rare occurrence yet perhaps in cele- bration of Independence Day one in possession of your correspondent blos- somed in the afternoon of July 4th.
 A lawn party for the benefit of the NJ. E. church was held at Edward Wards, Wednesday evening
 Fine displays of fireworks were seen from an eminence south of Amesville on the night of the 4th on the grounds ad- joining the Inn. Chss Ford's, A. Mo, Leish's. J. Wickwire's, on Bunker Hill. E. Turpin's, Lime Rock station and the Canaan mountain tower.
 Henry W. Ruiger, from Shelton, and E. c. Hubbell. of Derby, are at the home of the former on a visit.
 Mrs W. H. Hart and daughter are visiting relatives in Bridgeport.
 Miss Grace Wetherell, formerly of this town, and Edwin Segears, both oi Waterbury, were married at that place June 9th.
 Mrs Leavenworth, of New Haven, is visiting friends in this vicinity
 The Julians appear here next Wed. nesday evening in the beautiful legen. diary drama of "Rip Van Wrinkle. , Popular prices.
 William F. Gillette is steadily improv, ing. He Is able to leave his room but IS too nervous to see callers.
Connecticut western news., 1894-07-12
HUNTSVILLE and SOUTH CANAAN

Our little community has been we'll favored with visitors during the past week: Mir Geo. Bissell and Miss Mattie Ensign, of Winsted, at N. J. Deans; Miss Mary Sabin, of Sharon, at R. Whitford's; Mrs Agusta Wilcox and daughter, of Plainville, at " l.. Mil lard's; Mrs Emily Goslee, of Stock bridge, Mass, at H. P. Morse's; NJ. A. Dean and family, of Evanston, Ill. and Miss Clara Dunham, of Bridgeport, at NJ. U. Deans; F. Oakes and 0. Knight, of Housatonic, Mass, at N. Oakes'; Mir and Mrs B. Chatfield and two children, Mrs Fred Stevens and two children, and Mrs Hattie Welton, of Waterville, at W. Merriman's; Lyman Howe and family, of Canaan, at H. He~s,s; l.. Pendleton, of Wassaic, N. r., at R Pendleton's.
 Miss Olive Pendleton has been quite sick for the past week but Is improving at this writing.
 Mir E. Gillette is very sick at his fathers, MT Elisha Gillette's.
 Miss Hattie Willard and Miss Ger trude Merwin left Tuesday evening for Cleveland to attend the convention in that city.
 The 4th passed very quietly and pleasantly here. The annual clam bake was held at 0. E. Hanchett's and was participated in by about 30 neighbors and friends. The dinner was served on the lawn, the bill of fare consisting of baked clans, baked blue fish, chicken pie with all the adiuncts there is. Ice cream. cake, coffee and fruits were served later. The afternoon was spent under the trees on the lawn with music and other amusements not the least of which was the bare back riding on the horned stock by different ones of the company. Among those present out of town were: M. A. and l.. Hanchett, of Orange, N. J.; G. Hanchett, oi Bridgeport; Mrs c. Vendover and two children. of Waterbury; Mrs E. C.Dear and daughter, of Kingsley, Iowa
Connecticut western news., 1894-07-12
THURSDAY, JULY 1a, 1894.
THE STRIKE.

Our telegrsphic pages give sum- mary of the labor riots during the past week. The strikers and their friends, including the governors of several states, did not comprehend that law and order are the fundamental princi- ples of government. But the prompt and wise action of President Cleveland in issuing proclamstions and in sending troops to quell the riots have taught the strikers and their friends a lesson. This strike IS frequently called struggle between labor and capital but in reality it is a struggle between anarchy and law and order. TheP Pnllman question is only pretext for the strike. Furthermore 1t is stated that the Amer ican Railway Union is trying to gain the supremacy over all other labor unions in the country. There are many phases to the strike, but If for the sake of argument 1t be called a struggle between labor and capital, the question arises where do you draw the line between 8 laboring man and a capitalist? Seldom does laboriDg man work as hard or as many hours 8 day as the majority of capitalists work, We cannot understand how the labor ing men, so called, are going to better their condition by ceasing work, by ceasing to earn wages, and by wantonly destroying the property of their em- ployers. Strikes always reduce the say ings and the purchasing power of the laborer, and also reduce the wealth and employing power of the capitalist. Some people blame the Pullman Go. for refusing to srbitrate. As matter of fact the Pullman Go. did arbitrate before the strike was inaugura- ted. A committee of their employees waited on the company and demanded higher wages The company stated that it was losing money, doing busi- nees at loss and could not increase wages. In proof of this and in good faith the company urged the committee to examine the books, and take ample time to satisfy themselves in regard to the profit and loss of the plant, but this the committe refused to do.