The Northern Guardian. — 1892-10-01 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE IN A CHURCH. married the Earl of Westmoreland a few months Total Foreign 38,162 4,916 12,767 55,545 since, but she has another sister, Lady Angela St. Grand Total 55,267 12,963 19,649 87,879 Clair Erskine, who is still unmarried, although ' report says her beauty is equal to that of her married sisters.  PHILADELPHIA, Friday. in extraordinary sensation has been caused among the Baptist community here by the suicide of one of their most respected members. 111 r John Danielly, a deacon and leader of the congregation, a very devout man and constant worshipper, entered the church yesterday afternoon, leaned against the ,counnunion rail, drew his revolver, and shot himaerf in the head twice. He was removed to the hospital, and an hour afterwards he died.  Sis,l-Your paper with Mr Martin's second letter justifiving trades unions has been forwarded to me here. I would remind Mr Martin that two blacks do not make a white. No doubt the legal and medical professions are trades unions, and as such are quite indefensible. No political economist ever disputed that, by excluding others from a trade, the profits in that trade may be increased, because that is in accordance with the law of supply and demand. You restrict the supply without immediately diminishing the demand. It is only by excluding others from working that trades unions ever have, or ever can raise wages : that is ,they have rained the wages of some workmen to the loss of the others who were excluded, and at the cost of the community in general, who have had to pay more than they otherwise would have had to do for their services. As soon as you widen trades unions so as to embrace all workmen this advantage of excluding disappears, as there are none to exclude. No scientific laws, or laws of nature, are either moral or immoral. My objection to trades unions is that they are essentially a government and governmental in their construction and methods of action. They are a government by the majority, and their action is application of force to those who are not using any to them—to the non-unionist it is simply coercion, compulsion. Men have a perfect right to combine against the law of supply and demand, or any other law of nature that they choose to defy, if they will be so foolish. Nature is quite capable of dealing with them if they do ; but they have no right to compel others who do not choose to join in the insane attempt and to suffer along with them the consequences. I quite admit the hardness of the lot of the workmen in many cases; but attempting to set at defiance the laws of political economy Is not the way to better it. Let him look more deeply into the subject and he will find that it is not either the laws of nature nor that part of them called political economy that are at fault, but the breach of that great moral law of which I spoke that is the real fundamental cause of all our troubles, and trade unions can only aggravate them. We have to learn that all the preventable ills we suffer from are caused by our interference with the great laws of physics, economy, and morals, by which this world would be governed if we would only let it alone, and insist upon every one doing the same; insist upon it by using force to those who will pen.ist in using it. All that is wanted is a voluntary association for putting a stop to violence to person and property, that is for preventing any one from restricting, regulating—in a word, governing his neighbour. This governing is the one crime against the individual and against society. I know that government is thought a very sublime thing, and trades unions, which are the same, a very blessed; but judge them both by their fruits, and what do we see but countries stricken by governments with war, devastation abroad, and violence and robbery at home. I know that there are sonic honest men who are deceived; but there are a lot of knaves and plunderers that infest all governments and trades unions as maggots do a rotten carcase. I appeal to honest men to examine the position, and to come out of it if they find it untenable, as I believe it to be.— Yours, &c., H. W.