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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10
Where Working Men Rule.

Tell City, Ind, is probably the only
which the workingmen own, control
and operate the factories and fix the
price of labor. They are formed into
companies and operate their factories
pingly. There is no common purse for
citizens. Each man must make liv-
ing for his own family, but the mat
ter of employment is so simplifed that
The difficulty of this is minimized.
The city was founded in 1858 by the
Swiss Colonization Society of Cincin-
natl, o.
Each factory in the city-and there
a~e many-is owned by stock COM
pany of citizens. They were started
years ago--the first in 1859, by small
sums furnished by individuals. Year
by year the business grew, and as soon
as dividend was declared, this money
was added to that already in the bust
ness. In this manner new buildings
were erected and great amounts of
money were eventually invested in the
industries, which have made Tell City
a fourishing town and famous as
manufacturing center of wooden uten-
sils of all kinds.
Tell City is the most striking ex-
ample Of the cooperative common
wealth, or a commonwealth conducted
along cooperative lines, in the United
States.
1t has been successful where scores
If others have failed.
1t has become city of action where
theirs have succeeded OILY in becom-
NJ deserted villages.
Each stakeholder Is . Norkiagman.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

Some reports submitted to the last
annual convention of the American
Federation of Labor afford 1000 1or
thought for two kinds of labor-tne
organized part and the other part
These reports show that organized Ia
Dor has, during 1898, raised wages ana
shortened hours. That is good. There
is no record of 1898, as there is OF no
preceding year, of the same sort OF
thing happening very extensively
among unorganized labor. 1t at length
reaches unorganized labor, but SLOWLY
and in a sort of pared-down way.
The fact that organized labor got
some benefit from the advances maze
in modern machinery and modern
methods, while unorganized labor got
as far as heard from, nothing 1t hadn't
had a year before, proves two things:
First, that labor is not we'll prepared
to find out what it ought to have unless
It is organized; and, second, that the
capital side of the industrial partner
ship isn't staying awake nights trying
to find whether it couldn't make 1t pos
sible to surprise the Drawn and mus
Gle side by noting an advance In
wages, or decreasing hours without
diminishing days pay.
Organized labor gets advances in
wages and reductions in hours because
1t shows that it is entitled to them.
Unorganized labor never leads in this
direction, because it often doesn't
know it is entitled to them, and very
seldom has the courage to demand
them, even when it would like to. But
the employer Of unorganized labor,
while he may contribute cash to IL
braries, hospitals, churches and benev-
client societies, isn't noted for going to
his men and telling them that they are
entitled to raise, and that he is going
to give it to them.
If organized labor is entitled to what
it got, and it undoubtedly is. then I'M
organized labor Is entitled to lot it
didn't get, for it would be very peculiar
If the equities and possibilities of pro-
duction so adjusted themselves that
capacity of an industry to pay in
creased wages was developed only in
those organized. What is troubling
the unorganized laborer is, how to get
the increase he wants and needs, and
which his industry could afford to pay
him, but which he is afraid to demand
and which no one is good enough to
tender him on silver platter. There
seems to be but one way, and that is,
to join forces with other laboring peo-
ple-become organized.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

pink paper and has screaming head
lines and many editions every after
noon. For some time the paper has
seen fit to criticise the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad Com
pany ON every occasion. and this fight
is really back of the present trouble OF
Editor Torrey.
Last August there was a bad acci-
dent near Sharon station, on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road. One section of a passenger train
crashed into the rear Of the section pre-
ceding it. Five persons were killed
and eighty-seven injured. The engineer
of the second section, Daniel w. Get
chell, was arrested and indicted for
manslaughter, it being charged that
he had 'feloniously and willfully
killed Franklin M. Waters of Somer-
VILE" Waters was one of the passen-
gers. Getchell was discharged by the
railroad, which maintained that the
red danger signals were properly set
on the block in which the first section
was, and that it was Getchells fail
ure to properly use the brakes which
caused the accident. Getchell admit
ted that the signals were all right, and
declared that he had used all the
brakes, but that they were out of Or
der and would not hold the train. Here
was the issue, and the Traveller took
up Getchell's fight.
On Dec. IA Getchell was put on trial
before Judge Sherman in the Superior
court of Norfolk county, that being the
county in which the accident had
taken place, and the Traveller began
his defense in its news columns. Court
convened in the town of Dedham. In
the introduction to the days story
published in the paper OF Dec. IA was
the following:
"a lonely looking figure in that
courtroom was Getchell. The hand Of
every man in the pay of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Company seemed to be raised against
him. He felt that all the complex ma
chinery at the command of the power
full corporation, which he had served
faithfully for seventeen years, had
been set in motion to secure his con-
viction. He felt, too, that in their anx-
iety to screen their own shortcomings
and divert public attention his late en-
ployers had made him scapegoat."
On the following day there appeared
in the Traveller the editorial which os
tensibly was the basis for the editors
sentence. The next day the jury found
Getchell guilty and sentenced him to
two years at hard labor, and the YER
dict was not commented on by the
Traveller.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10
Lift Up Your Hearts.


There lives within the breast Of all
A secret half-unknown desire,
That bids us fly to face the fire,
And rush to greet the battle-call.
Which ever says "'Tis better far
To strive and struggle cen to death.
Than to give up peaceful breath
That ne'er has quickened at the war"
So in the spring of boyhood's years
High beats the heart for noble things,
Nor ever their ambition springs
Less daring than to touch the spheres.
Then comes the cold worlds whitening
scorn.
That bids us look before we leap,
And only shows the hill is steep
Not, on the height begins the morn.
Thus many a noble heart is stayed
To linger on the ignoble plain
To truckle for a soulless gain,
And learn the tricks and shifts OF trade.
And few will face the idler's sheer,
And claim in faith where nought Is
seen
Believing that the pure serene
Above the clouds, lies cloudless' clear.
Still though half-buried, all forgot
In all yet lives the voice of old
To strive and struggle with the poio
Is better than a peaceful lot
Half-buried, nay. nigh wholly dead;
And yet, when some more nople soui
Has dared to climb. has gained the
goal,
All weave the laurel for his head.
+. w. b.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10
STARVED SIxTY-FIVE DAYS.

A. D. Hendrickson of GAINESVILLE,
Wis, has for siXty-five days partaken
Of no food, and there is no telling
when he will. Mr.. Hendrickson is 81
years old, but his long fast does not
seem to disturb him in the least He
says he feels perfectly well and is not
at all hungry.
The case is attracting the attention
Of physicians and is said to be with
out it's like in the records. On Dec.
the octogenarian was stricken with
paralysis. For several days he was
unable to eat, but he soon recovered
the use of his muscles. He then re-
fused food and has lived on water
ever since. His pulse is normal, he
sleeps we'll and seems in no need of
nourishment. OF course he could be
forced to take food, but his family Is
disinclined to adopt extreme measures
SO long as the patient is in no appar-
ent need of nutriment. Mr.. Hendrick-
son came here from New York in 1866.
and has been prominent as an educa-
tor in industrial and penal schools
since then. He was sent to England in
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

Captain Mahan, in the Engineering
Magazine, writing upon the duties and
responsibilities which devolve upon
this nation in its treatment Of its new
dependencies, says, among other sug-
gestions: Materially, the interest OK
the nation is one with its beneficence;
but If the ideas get inverted, and the
nation sees in its new responsibilities
first of all, markets and profits, with
incidental resultant benefit to the ma
tives, it will go wrong" England did
this, he continues, and lost the United
States, and imperiled her power IN In
dia, out India and Egypt today testif,
to the nobility Of her repentance
Spain repented not. The examples are
before us"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10
POWER OF A JUDGE.
EDITOR IS PUT IN JAIL FOR
CONTEMPT.
Boston Newspaper Criticises . Cour9
and Its Author Il Made to Suffer
One of the Dangerous Signs of the
Times.

For contempt Of court, Boston edi-
tor is serving thirty days in jail in
Dedham, Mass. 1t is the first time the
staid New England city has been face
to face with question involving, as
1t does, the freedom of the press, and
there is great interest in the outcome.
The technical offense of Torrey E.
Wardner, who is editor OF the Boston
Traveller, is publishing comments upon
trial before its adjudication by the
jury, but the story behind the whole
matter would show that Judge Sher-
man, who sentenced the editor, is
avenging himself for sharp criticism of
his actions on the bench published in
the Traveller. 1t was claimed by the
Traveller that Judge Sherman had
sharply cross-examined the defendant
in case in which the newspaper had
interested itself as against railroad
corporation, and that the court had
afterward realized the error of his
ways and had apologized when taken
to task by the attorney for the de-
tense. The Traveller referred to this
as Judge Shermans Bad Break" and
this seemed to anger his honor to such
an extent that he sent for Editor Tor
rey, and when the latter declared he
would stand by everything his paper
had said, Judge Sherman sentenced
him to thirty days in Jail for contempt.
The Traveller is 1-cent afternoon
paper of the type commonly designat-
ed as Sensational" 1t is published on
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10
VICTIM OF "TELEPATHY."
Curious Condition Induced by the Csc
Of COcaile.

Curious Condition Induced by the Csc
of Cocatic.
There came to me late one night a
stranger, in widest despair, resolved
to commit suicide that night II could
not help him, says Professor Munster
berg in the January Atlantic. He had
been a physician, but had given up his
practice because his brother. ON the
other side of the ocean, hated him and
had him under his telepathic infiu-
ence, troubling him from over the sea
with voices which Knocked him and
with impulses to foolish actions. He
had not slept nor had he eaten any
thing for several day and the only
chance for life he saw was that a new
hypnotic influence might overpower
the mystical hypnotic forces. l soon
found the source of his trouble. In
treating himself for wound he had
misused cocaine in an absurd way, and
the Authorizations of voices were the
chief symptoms of his cocainism.
These products of his poisoned brain
udu SOiuclllucS TtIcTcuCc W Ills DIOluci
in Europe, and thus the telepathic sys-
tenn grew in him and permeated his
whole life. l hypnotized him, and sug-
gested to him with success to have
sleep and food and a smaller dose of
cocaine Then l hypnotized him daily
for six weeks. After ten days he gave
up cocaine entirely, after three weeks
the voices disappeared. and after that
the other symptoms faded away 1t
was not, however, until the end that
the telepathic system was exploded.
Even when the voices had gone, he for
while felt his movements controlled
over the ocean, and after six weeks,
when l had him quite we'll again, he
laughed over his telepathic absurdities,
but assured me that if these sensations
came again he should be unable, even
in full health, to resist the mystical
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

Complaints from foreign importing
concerns of the condition in which they
receive American cotton are by no
means infrequent. These complaints
have brought forth a suggestion from
the Philadelphia Commercial museums
to the effect that packers and shippers
would probably find it to their advan-
tage to be more particular in baling
their cotton for shipment abroad. In
a letter Of recent date large cotton
and yarn house at Osaka, Japan, says
that the American bales are too bulky
and are very inconvenient to deal
with, while the Bombay cotton, al
though of different quality, is packed
in less bulk and more conveniently for
handling.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10
Notes.

Cripple Creeks 1898 gold output was
SIS, sol 1922, against $12,50O,OOO for 1897.
Official announcement is made that
the American Steel and Wire Company
has purchased the Washburn-Moen
plants at Worcester, Mass, and Wau-
kegan, Wis.
Two delegates from unions of SER
want girls IN NcAway and Denmark
are on their way here to urge the SER
want girls Of the United States to or
ganize on the Norway and Denmark
plan.
The trade unions of Rome, Italy, are
said to have forestalled the cars dis
armament plan by recommending that
their members discontinue the prac-
tice of carrying knives on their per-
sons.
The latest piece of laundry equip
ment is a machine with large felt
covered roller and two heated polish"
ing rollers, which can be adjusted
either for high or domestic finish and
will iron 10000 collars day.
The Supreme Court of Kentucky de-
cided in a case brought by black
listed employee against a railroad COM
pany that whoever wrongfully pre-
vents a man from pursuing his occu-
patton infiicts an actionable injury"
At Cradley Heath, England, women
chairmakers forge wrought iron links;
at Broomsgrove and Old Hill women
nailmakers work with the hot iron,
and in the Lancashire coal mines 1000
women in wooden clogs and panta-
looms slave at the pit mouths.
There appears to be good demand
for rolling equipment and motive pow
err, and many of the car and locomotive
works of the country are being run to
their fullest capacity in order to COM
plete on time the large number Of con-
tracts recently received.
The condition of the cigarmakers
during the year 1898 has been vast
Improvement over the last four or five
years. While the average wage is not
as large as Just before the late indus
trial depression, the number OF unem-
ployed has been reduced to nearly nor
NAL proportions.
A law has been passed in South Aus
tralia providing that no woman or
young person may be employed for
more than forty-eight and nc other
person for more than fifty-two hours
per week in shops, stores, factories,
etc In South Australia there is Ia
Dor party, and there are labor repre-
sentatives in the legislature.
With Atlanta electing for mayor a
journeyman printer who beat a prom
inent and popular lawyer for the NOM
nation through solid support Of the
working element, and Haverhill, Mass,
electing the Social Labor candidate,
who was clerk in cooperative store,
there are indications of a new force in
politics that may smash a good many
deep laid plans. The labor vote. by
consolidation, would carry everything
before it in almost every city IN the
land.
In India the highest wages paid for
skilled labor is $3.50 per month for
jute mill hands, while $3.50 is the
monthly wage of able-bodied agricul-
tural laborers. But in northwestern
India wages are much lower than the
figures quoted. The laborers live al
together on grain, using about one and
half pounds per day each, costing on
an average from two and a half to
three cents. Yet with this food they
do the hardest kind of manual labor,
and keep their muscles well developed,
their endurance III carrying heavy
leads being remarkable
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

Recently in New York some one IN
crowd of roughs struck poor woman
with a stone, breaking her arm. The
missile had been thrown at random,
and the blame could not be fastened
on any individual member OF the
gang" Besides physical suffering,
the accident brought helplessness and
grief to the unfortunate victim. For
wears she had struggled to maintain
a payment Of twenty-five cents a week
to company which, in return, insured
her decent burial. But deprived OF the
means of earning even the scantiest
wages. it appeared as though her long
fight had been in vain, and that her
body would lie in the potter's held.
This alone was matter of the deep
est regret. Shortly after the accident
she was evicted by her landlord. She
was however, rescued from the aims
house by neighbors poor as herself.
"knd now" says the person who dis
covered her, "every week one of the
gang brings her out of his scanty
wages the quarter, that alike 1nsures
her peace of mind and the undisturbed
rest of her body in its long sleep, which
n life of toll has pictured to her as the
greatest of earth's boons." A young
man capable of this fine act OF repara-
tion has qualities that ought some day
to nut him in position superior to
the low environment by which he is
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10
Not His Fault.

81 don't know" said the doctor, who
was examining the applicant for in
surance. I'm afraid there may be
trouble over your expansion. 1t isn't
so great as it ought TO be-" oh re-
piled the man; "if that's all, we can
soon remedy it. I'll move out of my
flat into a house where may practice
for a week or two and get back into
my old form, If you say So.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

He may own one share or two score.
That depends upon himself. Each
company elects it's own board Of direc-
tors and manager. These men are
usually stockholders. Each member
of the corporation is entitled to as
many votes as he has shares.
Each laborer is paid at the end OF
the week according to the amount OF
work done or at a stipulated sum per
hour, just as the policy of the COM
pany may be.
A dividend is declared annually, and
the amount divided according to the
number of shares held.
Tell City was settled exclusively by
laboring men. 1t is still the home OF
the laboring man, and more prosper
Gus community does not exist in In
diana in proportion to its size. A
number of wealthy Switzers became
interested in a plan for lettering the
condition of such of their countrymep
as desired to come to the Unlt-a
States, and as result the Swiss Colo
nization Society was formed. The men
who came over in response to the So
ciety's invitation belonged to a thrifty
class and each had little money!
This, following the plan of their bene'
factors, they invested in manufactur-
ing industries. The experiments were
successful from the start, and the re-
suit is the beautiful and prosperous
Tell City of today.
Following is a list of the city indus
tries:
Fac EN- Output
Branch of work tories. ployes. 1898.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

In the old parable the harvester who
began work at dawn and he who came
at the eleventh hour each received a
davis wages-one penny. Britannia's
new postal system is based on the
same elastic plan. The penny stamp
which carries letter across the street
in London will carry it to Hongkong
on the other side of the globe, or to
forty-four other parts of the British
empire.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

The latest alleged invention by Tesla
is a method of curing diseases. The
patient is relieved of bacteria by hay
ing several million volts Of electricity
sent through his system. This Is
shocking.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

With seedless grapes and oranges al
ready a success, in time science may
proceed SO far as to produce seedless
appendicitis.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.

Organized Labor Tries to Get What 1t
EARNS Unorganized Falls Far Behind
Tell City. Town In Indiana Where
Cooperation Is q Success.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

Every mother thinks there Is no
baby On earth like her own, and every
other mother is glad Of it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

A certain amount Of ignorance Is
necessary to the enjoyment OF our ex-
fstonce.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

The man who is master of himself
has a servant he can depend upon.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

Piso's Cure for Consumption has been
family medicine with us since 1S65,-J. X.
Madison, 24O9 AID Ave Chicago, Ill.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

It's always to the barder's interest
to get people to dye young.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

How many men there are who BUY
hats that are too big simply because
they cost no more than ones that fit.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

An oculist'a bill Is apt 10 affect ne
eyesight.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

Sometimes the proof of the pudding
is to found on the doctors bill.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

Richards Magic Catarrn Expellant
| Co., Omaha, Neb Write for particulars.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10
The stage hand that can't be cured
should be insured.
Some people feel sorry for folks who
break UP and have to 90 to work.

Death brings to some people tho
only real knowledge Of life they ever
had.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

Interpretation, so wildly had he felt
the distant influences.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

Better face a danger than a fear.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-10

Nothing but wheat; what you might
call IL sea of wheat" Is what was said
by 3 lecturer speaking of Western Can
ada. For particulars as to routes, rail-
way fares. ETC., apply TO Superintendent
of Immigration, Department Interior, OF.
tawa, Canada, or to ]. S. Crawford ia
West Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-05-27
0enfeaernte Reunion.

Lafayette. -The members or camp
Gardner, United States Confederate
Veterans, held a reunion at Beause5our
Springs Saturday. Judge Gilbert Dupre
Of St, Landry delivered beautiful and
eloquent address The judge was at his
best, and spoke in manncr that elicit
od mich enthusiasm and applause from
+,,o survivors &C r." "1".t T,..o-
WHO VIC We're present. An excellent dinner
vas enjoyed by the veterans
L,favette.-A large number Of the
farmers Of the parish met Saturday
afternoon at the court house and organ
lied a Farmers League. For some
time past some misunderstanding has
existed between the large planters and
the Lafayette Sugar Refinery Company
A committee appointed by the planters
70 adjust these differences have made
their report to the meeting. Terms
creeable to both planters and refinery
have been adopted, and it is hoped BY
All concerned that this trouble will no
ensue in the future.