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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08
INTERNATIONAL.
LONDON, ENGLAND.

Slave Labor is more Expensive Than
White Labor.
Lord Cromer, in his report on the
finances, administration, and condition of
Egypt, says, among other things ''For
the last eighteen years slavery has been
moribund in Egypt. Danger Of prosecu-
ton, insecurity of the right of property
in slave, growing belief that large
number of slaves constitute an enormous
burthen, and that slave labor is more
expensive than the labor Of freed men
and women.'' ''Slave labor is more ex.
pensive than the labor Of freed men ahd
women.'' No more significant sentence
was ever pennee. And it is true In the
Southern States of America the planters
have found that free Negro labor is cheaper
than was slave labor. That is why the plu
tocrats are so enamored of freedom. -
Men sell themselves more cheaply when free
than their masters would were they slaves.
The international Labor Congress.
Tom Mann has been appointed Chairman,
and r. A. Peddie Il. l.. P.), Secretary, of
the Agenda Committee of the international
Socialist Workers and Trade Union Con-
gress. The following were also elected to
preside over the different committees
named: Printing, Harry Quelch, S. D. F.;
Sunday Demonstration, w. c. Steadman,
L. c. c.. Entertainment, DR.. Aveliug
Hotel and Reception, j. H. Wilsc&, NJ. P.
international Solidarity of Labor.
We are glad that the English miners are
doing their best to raise funds to send to
the help OF their Austrian comrades who
are ON strike against % per cent reduction
of wages and the attempts of princes and
plutocrats to break down the mems Union,
says London Justice. Trade unionism is
not everything by very long way, but it
is better than nothing, and we congratulate
Mr.. Pickard on the promptitude with
which he has acted in this matter. If the
Austrian miners can be preserved from
actual starvation for the next
three weeks, they will proba-
bly, win, and the effect of their victory
will be felt through the Austro- Hungarian
Empire. Our own comrades have so much
to do just now with their slender resources
that We scarcely like to ask them to con-
tribute Yet those who can afford to give
something may well do so, bearing in mind
that every step which is taken toward
proving to the workers Of the Continent
that English workers are at one with them
is at the same time an advance toward that
international solidarity which must precede
the great Social Revolution. We heartily
wish our Austrian brethren success against
their slave drivers
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

Abandoned, an orphan, alone in boundless
creation, made my entry into this gloom
that you call society. The first thing saw
was law, under the form of gibbet; the sec
ond was wealth-it was your wealth-under
the form of woman dead Of cid and hun
ger; the third was luxury, under the shape
Of haunted man chained to prison walls;
the fourth was your palaces, beneath the
shadow Of which covered the tramp. Vic
tor Hugo
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.
Result of Recent Elections.

Elections have taken place at Brussels
and the neighborhood for the Councils of
Prud hommes and the Councils of Industry
and Labor. The following is the classified
total of votes cast by the workers for their
half of these councils; Socialists, 4,207
votes Clericals, 7S2; Liberals, 639.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

Ignorant, ana guided by the lip service Of
political hacks of the hour, the majority Of
the workers are still enthralled in the
meshes Of capitalist sophistry. Wonder
fully receptive though the human brain may
be, it seems yet possible to become crystal
lized in thought for successive generations,
and undoubtedly wage slaves the workers
would for ages yet remain were it not for
economic causes which force them on to ad-
vance despite themselves. London Justice.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

Chicago carpenters strike for eight hours.
The same carpenters voted for Capitalism
and twelve hours at the last election.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

The Danville, ILL.,, coal miners threaten
to inaugurate general strike against a
"radical'' reduction in wages.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

1t is reported that Chas. G.. Aalborg, a
leader of striking Clothing Cutters Of Chi
cago, has gone to work as scab.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

hardly enough Of it to make life worth liv-
ing. These are probably the reasons why
the income tax was killed and not the beg
carly per cent. M. RUTHEA.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

1t is expected that John Burns, the En-
glish Labor leader, will soon make trip
to Australia for agitation purposes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

All the coopers of the Camp Spring
Mill Company in Nashville, ILL.,, strike
against the proposed reduction Of wages.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

The old game again The misfortune Is,
poor Hans, as Nordau calls the workingman
elector, may, for want Of better knowledge,
forgive and forget everything in joyful ex-
pectation Of few weeks hard work as
NAVY or ganger ON one Of the promised
railway lines, SO strong is the desire in the
average breast to earn an honest living, and
SO many obstacles are there in the way Of
the realization Of that desire. We do not
say that the workingman elector WILL for
give everything; we are quite sure those
who come within the range Of this paper
will not forget If they may forgive the
Government for its sins Of commission and
omission. The workingman who MAY for
get and forgive is he who never sees
Labor newspaper and who takes his politi-
cal opinions from that daily and weekly
press which finds it advantageous to sup
port the present Government. brisbane
Worker
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

A more unnecessary anarchy than the
present cannot well be imagined. The land
is an element necessary for the life of every
man. Labor is the original function for
which man was brought on earth. His
development of the earths productions
entitle him to their possession, and imply
his efforts being directed toward produc-
ton or a non title to possess-plainly,
those who do not produce should not eat
q Renham
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

Long hours Of work mean more acct
dents. An official investigation by the
Government of Germany has established
the fact that long hours of work have the
tendency to increase the number Of acct
dents, as the following statistics will show:
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

The Garment Workers strike in Chi
cago, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and other places
are still unsettled.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

The Danville, ILL.,. coal miners threaten
to inaugurate general strike against a
'radical'' reduction in wages.
1t is expected that John Burns, the En-
glsh Labor leader, will soon make trip
to Australia for agitation purposes.
All the coopers of the Camp Spring
Mill Company in Nashville, ILL.,, strike
against the proposed reduction Of wages.
Indiana Block Coal operators met and
discussed tho question Of how much wages
they should allow their starving employees.
Charles E. Clark, printer, has been
appointed superintendent Of the Childs-
Drexel Printers Home at Colorado Springs,
Colo.
The weavers in Prague, Austria, are on
strike. Serious trouble may be expected
as the bosses insist on employing scab
labor.
The miners at Geneva, Ind, are out on
strike Some of their colleagues having
been discharged for belonging to the
union.
One thousand FIVE hundred employees of
the cotton factories of Columbus, Ga, are
out of work, the mills having closed indie
fnitely.
Five hundred mechanics employed on the
New York Cooper and Siegel Building went
on strike against the employment of non
union men.
The American people are called upon to
help the starving Armenians in Asia Minor.
Why not help the millions Of starving un-
employed in America?
About eighty roofers employed by the
st. Louis Roofing Company are out on a
strike. They demand an increase of sc an
hour over the old scale.
imports pauper labor from Mexico. Cana
dian Pacific Railroad imports pauper labor
from the United States.
The 1, 600 iron workers of Wheeler e. Co.
in Bay City, Mich, have returned to work,
after vainly striking against the firm s
paying them in checks instead of cash.
The Grand Jury is investigating the cor
ruption in the st. Louis Municipal
Assembly. The jurors might just as well
investigate the despotism of the Gear of
Russia.
Tho strike in the Consolidated Wire
Company in Cleveland is still on. The
ocked- out men declare that they will
resist to the last any attempt to fill their
places.
The strike at the Excelsior Show Case
Works Of Quincy, ILL.,, is still in progress,
md the men are just as firm as the day
when the company tried to force them to
ldopt the piece system.
A telegram from Opelika, Ala, says:
Four thousand persons are destitute and
differing at Phoenix, in this county,
aused by the strike at the Eagle and
phoenix mills, in Columbus, Ga.
Capitalism in Japan is booming. Japan
8 still building fresh railways. Twenty
wo millions Of dollars have been voted
or construction of 376 miles Of line
,at,yao,, diffarant notwithstanding centers
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08
CAPITALIST BLOSSOMS.

Modern Civilization Illustrated.
After heroic fight Of seven weeks the
Garment Workers Of Baltimore have loss
their strike.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

To-day the human race is engaged in
one long struggle for existence, from the
cradle to the grave. 1t is struggle to get
wealth. What for? To hand it out again q
part here, Ia part there, for the right to
live and produce more wealth. We stand
to protest against a system which makes
life unnatural, and makes the conditions
which surround men and women un-
natural
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

Indiana Block Coal operators met and
discussed tho question Of how much wages
they should allow their starving employees.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

In Belgium the Socialists elected repre-.
sentatives in sixty-one cities, towns and
communes aggregating population Of
1,244, 900. In nineteen they have an alb
solute majority of the Council; in thirteen
the Liberals, the Conservatives and the
Socialists are Of equal strength, and in
twenty nine the Liberals have agreed
to sustain the Socialists, thereby giving
the latter majority.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

After striking all winter the differences
in the Negaunee, Mich, mining region
have been adjusted and the miners have
returned to work.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

Instead of producing in common to supply
the needs of all the members of the COM
munity, Capitalist production for exchange
predominates, and desire becomes mani
fest to secure the particular commodity
which has now assumed the form Of money
because its possession gives the holders
control over the producing power which
custom has secured it,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

1t is stated that lone New England
factory employs 10, 600 women, )" and if it
is true, that ''misery loves company
that factory is the place to find the
article.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

Charles E. Clark, printer, has been
appointed superintendent Of the Childs-
Drexel Printers Home at Colorado Springs,
Colo.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

The weavers in Prague, Austria, are on
strike Serious trouble may be expected
as the bosses insist on employing scab
labor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-08

The Typographical Union Of Switzerland
has forty nine local unions with a total
membership of 1000 The total amount
in the treasury of the organization is about
60, 600 francs, or Sl2, 600. Excellent for a
so small union ~
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-22
BOWLING analysis
MORSE SUPPORTS BROWN
The Ex-Pastor Will Continue to
Preach at Golden Gate
Hall.

Deacon Morse's new church, with the
unfrocked Brown as pastor, is an assured
institution. At the weekly prayer-meet-
ing of the dissenting members OF the old
First Church, held at Golden Gate Hall
Wednesday night, it was determined to
maintain regular preaching, Sunday
school, Christian Endeavor and Wednesday
evening services under the direction of
Rev. Charles o. Brown, DID," All this
happened, however, after the regular
experimenting exercises.
There were exactly 10 people-twenty-
two men and boys and lightweight women
and children-in Golden Gate Hall Friday
night when DR.. Brown announced the first
hymn and Deacons Dexter Morse and
Dewing and Secretary Christensen of the
First Church were among the number.
When all these formalities had been
gone through with. Deacon Morse made
few remarks about the movement. He
told his hearers that Golden Gate Hall
was an ideal spot for a church. Morse
ended by giving few figures on the cost
OF conducting a church in Golden Gate
Hall and in keeping open the doors OF the
First Congregational Church. He hoped
that every body would appreciate the dif-
ference and lend their support accord
ingly.
DIR, Brown claimed that he had taken no
part in the movement and was surprised
at the turn affairs had taken.
Il had all my things packed ready to
be shipped East" he said, when my
friends got between me and the train, and
here L am l have never asked a person
to attend these meetings there Brown
appealed to those present. and if l stay
here ten years | never will"
In this manner has Golden Gate Hall
Church, with G. o. Brown as pastor. been
launched. By private subscriptions and
public contri buttons the leaders in the
movement hope to keep the institution
alive. After the regular meeting several
ladies met in an ante-room for the pur-
pose OF forming choir. James Hamilton
Howe will be the leader, and he proposes
to furnish ali kinds of music at q cost not
to exceed $500 per annum.
DR.. Brown preached two sermons yes
terday in Golden Gate Hall, his theme in
the evening being 1.-The Hour and the
Man" Miss Matte 0verman, who re-
Gently returned from the southern part Of
the State, was not present on either occa-
sion. 1t is rumored that she has gone to
Sacramento.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-22
TWO GAMES OF CRICKET
The Champion AlamedaS Are
Badly Beaten by the
BohemianS.
At Alameda the Pacifcs Meet and
Defeat the Men of San
Jose With Ease.

The cricket contest between the cham
.pion Alameda team and the Bohemians
played yesterday at Golden Gate excited
considerable interest, as the unusually
large attendance of spectators attested. 1t
did not, however, prove SO interesting an
event as was generally expected, for the
Bohemians scored a most decisive victory
by rs runs and almost by an inning. This
result was almost wholly due to the superb
bowling by Billy Robertson, captain of the
Bohemians. A glance at the analysis
given below will show what great
achievement this was.
Going in first. the Bohemians, thanks
principally to Smith and Bowhill, COM
PILED the by no means form liable score of
SO. Their opponents followed but could
do nothing against Robertsons deadly
breakers and were finally dismissed for
half a century, Ward alone attaining
double figures.
The day being still young the Bohemians
went in again. Reynolds, Robertson and
Martin all made creditable scores and the
side added 50 runs to their first innings
total
With 104 to make and about an hour and
a half to do it in the visitors started their
second essay. This time their fall was
more rapid and heavy than ever. No one
ever reached double figures and the whole
team was disposed of for miserable %
runs, leaving the Bohemians easy con-
querors. the score:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-22
"BEWARE OF THE DOG"

Topic OF Rev. DIR. Cases Prelude
on the Sharkey-Corbett Mill.
Rev. DR.. Cases prelude in Howard-street
Methodist Church yesterday touched on the
Sharkey-Corbett mill in the following
style. The topic was, Beware of the
Dog:
THE common warning, Beware of the
Dog is intended for those who are putting
themselves into places where they ought
not to go.
1.-THE best plan to get away from the dog
is to keep out of those places where the
dog is and where we have no right to be.
The Civic Federation is not made up OF
lot of idiots; they are men of sense and
discretion. The abettors of the ring have
no idea that the Civic Federation is fool
ism enough to accept their invitation to
act as umpires in smuggling match, even
though sof;ened down in name to spar
ring exhibition
"Pugilism in all its forms is an unmiti
gated evil. There are necessary evils
things not desirable in themselves, but en-
dured for the greatest good which may re
suit from them. But there is not one
single redeeming quality in the hsticuff
of hstic culture, so called. Sparring i:
only the preparatory department OF the
baser pugilism.
The giadiatorial shows of ancient Rome
appealed to the brutal instincts of men
as did the bull-fghts of Spain. Prize
fights, dog-fghts and cock-hghts all ap
peal to the same low and brutal instincts
1t has been well said that the battle o.
the ages is the struggle between the brut,
and the angel in humanity
What was that great prize-iight il
Jacksonville, Fla, two years ago but
convention of brutes? 1t was called ar
athletic exhibition. bus as described By
pandemonium itself.
lone writer, looking over the crowd
wrote to his paper that if Superintendent
Byrnes' detectives had been on hand witt
kodaks they could have made q new
'rogues' gallery
Another says that even the Pinkerton:
| were amazed al the herd of thugs, thieves
pickpockets and sharps.'
"a third says: The crowd sat with
open mouths and glaring eyes,
The champion brute is said to have
stood over his victim like lion over hi.
prey; and again, his smile had murder
| In it And vet another said they glareo
| on each other like two tigers Still
| another, impressed with the devilish
aspect of the scene, said that at one time
there was huge roar of cheers and bitter
birthstone curses, and of the fighters, tha
they were 'gripped like boa constructors.
| and later declares that the winning brute
was like an angry python, while his an
| tagonlst 'grinned like demon On,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-22
MRS. KNOPH'S PURSE.
Lost Near the Cliff aud Recovered by
the Police.

AOsN wear the Yin anu Uncovered Oy
the Police.
Mrs. E. NJ. knoph of 2S2 San Carlos
avenue was one of number of people who
sat on the beach near the Cliff House
yesterday and watched the seals. A few
moments after she arose and had started
for the cars she missed her purse, contain
ing $40 35.
She was noticed by several persons
making a search, when some one told her
that man, who was pointed out to her,
had picked up something from the sand
near where she had been seated. He was
approached and asked if he had picked up
purse, but he refused to make any
answer. He was, however, kept in sight
as he got on the train, and at the terminus
followed until Officer Harrison Moran was
met and the matter stated TO him.
he halted the man, who stated that his
name was Charles Wise, and asked him
for the purse. Wise made reply that he
was going TO take it to the office of the
Chief of Police, but the officer compelled
him to surrender il, and after examining
its contents found that it tailed with the
lady's description thereof, so he turned il
over TO her.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-22
A Rarity Among Pensioners.

The officials of the Pension Bureau at
Washington were so shocked q short time
ago because Samuel Fetters, a prominent
resident OF Frazer, Pa, refused to accept
the pension money sent him that they
doubted the sanity of the man and sent an
agent to investigate his case, with the
result that his name has been dropped
from the rolls. His case was the second
which has been met with in the history of
the department. Fetters, while in the
army, contracted q disease which for
several years was thought to be chronic,
and under that impression he received 8
liberal pension. Recently, however, be
recovered and ordered the pension
stopped, but the money still came. Then
he sent the cash back, refusing to accept
1t, and the agent was sent TO investigate
his strange conduct.-Philadelphl North
American.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-22

Markley, secretary of the State Central
COMMITTEES, and secretary of the State
Board of Examiners.
Gavin McNab was somewhat promi-
nent in Sacramento on account OF his stat
IRE He will, however, be simply lieu
tenant for Daggett as he was during the
convention. Very few of the country dele
gates obtained more than a speaking &C
ouaintance with Mr.. McNab. When they
wanted to talk business" they went to
see Daggett, who was actually the only
man who could remain in his room at the
hotel and "send for men,"
Charles Wesley Reed made an amusin g
speech wnen he denounced Daggett,
though, as he says, he saved Mcguire
from defeat. Those who have met Mr..
Reed know how much he desires to get
on in politics, and when he opens his eyes
TO the true condition of affairs he will be
repentant and apologize. At the next
banquet that is 10 be given in honor OF
that eminent citizen, statesman and
patriot, the Hon. John Daggett, 1t
may be assumed that Mr.. Reed will
be the first to arise In his place and pro-
pose the health of the distinguished guest
OF the evening. And, gentlemen, let the
royal bumper be drank standing" he will
add in his most strident tones.
One of the odd things done by the Sac
ramento convention was TO defeat the reso-
luton offered by J. Marion Brooks OF Los
Angeles expressing sympathy with Cuba.
The resolution was as follows:
ReSoiUed, That We are in sympathy with the
C Julian patriots in their efforts 10 establish q
republic, and favor according TO them the
rights OF beLigerents by the United States.
John Daegett objected to the resolution
on the ground that to adopt 1t would look
like a criticism of President Cleveland,
who has refused any kind of aid or COM
fort to the Cuban patriots. Mr.. Daggett
also added SOM thing about the faulty
Syntax of the resolution. 1t was declared
out OF order twice and at last when regu-
larry before the convention was oldered TO
lie on tue table by an overwhe lining vote
So Daggett had the final victory of the
convention and the Cubans must struggle
along without the sympathy of the Dem o.
Gratis of California. Wells DRuRY.