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Show THE KMGIITS OF THE MACCABEES. be allowed to work but he should be comTHAT DEBATE. if Id he work. And shot pelled, necessary, to The mu.h talked of debate between Hon. receive full wages for all he does, to be laid J. M. Bowman and Hon. Fisher Harris is aside for him to start him in life after he gets to come otf on the evening of Thursday his freedom or give it to his family il he has April 14, at S oclock in the annex of the one. second ward meeting home. The subject 6th An annual plan by which benefits can and Provinces. In 1897 it collected and diswill be: Resolved; That Direct Legislation bursed to beneficiaries of deceased members be paid to the beneficiaries in annual would OREGON be in the interest of the people, ard REPUBLICANS. the deferred payments being inand to disabled members nearly $a 000,000 Between the democrats on the one hand that is practical. Bowman is to affirm and It has more members than any old line in- vested for the benefit of the benficiaries. of who the member 7th The good faith and the free silver republicans on the other, Harris to deny. Put the date and place surance company has policy holders. It has his local the recorc to assessments a central management and a purely repre- pays it looks that the populist platform is doomed. down in your mind, so that you will not forget sentative form of government, its representa- keeper is protected by a provision that its The free sil.vr republicans of Oregon a few it for if you do you will miss a great treat. intives to the Supreme Tent Reviews, which failure to reach headquarters will not certificate. validate his days ago ad pted a platform of which the are held being elected by state THE NEW TIME. 8th Those who desire can make advance following is a summary. conventions where each tent in the state or of to the end any term, The free and unrestricted coinage of silver The New Time gets better and better as province may be represented. The business paymentstheir local record receive and at the through keeper, of 16 and 1 retio to gold done legal the months go by. You cant do without it being by one central or supreme office without waiting lor the consent of foreign na- if eliminates a large per centage of the expense a receipt from headquarters. you really want to stay ap with the times. 9th The Board of Trustees is compelled to tions, and unalu incurred by other similar Orders where many opposed to the financ- We are invest all surplus funds of the Order in ial policy of the present Republican Adminissending in clubs for it every few grand bodies have to be supported. tration, and especially denounces the avowed days. Send us one dollar in stamps. Or if This Order has been wise enough to adopt government bonds only. the mortuary tables which have been found, attempt to fast. the country irrevocably and you want Living Issues, also send $175 for forever to the single gold standard. both for one year. This applies to renewals after a half a centurys experimentation by LABOR EXCHANGE MEETING. A national money safe and sound, issued by as well as new subscribers. the old line companies, to be correct, and There was a meeting held at Mr. August the general Government only, without the inall members may be reasonably Sierefore in the Constitution building tervention of banks of issue, to be a assessment each month will meet Steins residence legal tenall debts, public and nar the silver-buIt is not the gold-buprivate; also a every demand upon the members for mortuary on last Friday evening for . the purpose of der for efficient and evil of is distribumeans in that a this and all other classes of expeases. The rate talking over the advisability of organizing a just, equitable country, but the steady direct to tion the lawful In the the South those who feed is Seas, people through that of the American Actuary, and branch of the Labor Exchange in this city. humbug. adopted disbursements of the Government other termed are as has been proved by the fifty years ex- There were about a half dozen cannibals, but people upon present, but demands that the volume of circulating here we call them of insurance the of perience great companies politicians. Bodie Miner this country, the actual mortality cost of each quite an interest was manifest in the discus- medium be speedily increased to an amuunt Index. sion of methods of bringing the thing to the sufficient to meet the demands of business and $1000 at risk, at age thirty-fou- r It is worse than that. If they are really years, is $8 73, this sum. loaded with the actual ex- front. There is no question but that the La- population of this country and to restore the successful in their operations and return a level of prices of labor and production. pense of carrying $1000 in the Maccabees at bor Exchange properly managed would be just of their stealings to the church they The platform favors such legislation as will portion that age, insures the Order the ability to do of benefit to the now idle of the city, as great for the future the demonetization of are called the Saints of the most High God. prevent what it sets out to do, n mely pay every ligiti-mat- e any kind of legal tender money by private Instance, John D. Rockybaptist. claim against it as the same matures, well as a great help to the emdloyed. The idea of the Exchange is to establish a contract, and demands that the government, and, at the same time, accumulate an in payment of its obligations, shall use its opemergency fund which will secure to all mem- medium through which the products of the FROM THE REFORM PRESS. bers the reasonable certainty that they may labor of one man can be exchanged for that tion as to the kind 01 lawful money in which be paid, and denounces the presBlessed are the righteous minority, for always know before hand what it will cost to of another without each being converted into they are to and ent Administrations for surpreceding for. the carry protection they ask hey are the forerunners of every reform. The Order was organized June the nth, money, as is the case now. A bushel of po- rendering this option to the holders of Govern The Pointer. 188 1, and is, therefore, nearing the com- tatoes will furnish just as much food and just ment obligations. It further demands that there shall be no If you do not believe the powers behind pletion of its 17th year. It has about a half as good food if paid for in labor as if paid for issue of interest-bearinfurther bonds: that the throne at Washington are full of the milk inmillion of surplus fund invested, and these in "gold coin of the realm of the present banks be established savings by the of human kindness vestments must be made in Government star dard and fineness." If a black- postal go loot a bank and ask for weight Government: United States Senators that be bonds exclusively. a pardon. Then you will see it gush. New The present general deputy supreme smith shoes a farmers horse and obtains two elected by direct vote of the people. The platform finally demands the initiative York World. commander for the intermountain region, bushels of onions for it, and he needs and can referendum and Mr. J. W. Wright, now residing system of lawmakina in its 1029 use the onions, it amounts to precisely the It is an encouraging, i f not a significant and condems as and form, optional and St., in this city, came to Salt Lake City same dangerous he the blacksmith as though thing to the surrender in all departments of the, fact that Socialists are more numerous in this in the interest of the Order in January, 1895. received a dollar in cash lor his work unjust had Government to the influence of trusts, cor- country now than abolitionists were a few An idea of the work since then accomplished of and bushels the for then two dollar paid porations and agregations of wealth generally; years before the civil war. Commonwealth, by him for the Order in the territory under his general charge, may be gleaned from the onions. The chances are that, had it been and the packing of the courts of the land of New York. following extract taken from a recent issue of necessary, as is now the case; had the farmer corporation lawyers. No political party that ignores the needs of On the taxation of corporation property, the Bee Hive, the official organ of the Order. been compelled to raise the dollar in cash the masses and regards not the life and safety "The Maccabees, as an Order, made their that his horses would not have been shod at which caused the split in the populist convention, the platform says: "Inasmuch as of the weakest member of this republic, first permanent entry into the intermountains in January, 1895. At that time there were all and the blacksmith would have been com- railroad and other corporate property is not ought to be trusted with the power to rule. two tents in Montana; one at Butte City with pelled to eat his hash without on ons. Hence bearing its proportion of taxation, we de- Lima Clipper. 62 members, and one at Helena with 30 the benefit of the Exchange. It is true that mand that such property shall bear its just Every corporation enterprise that requires members. This constituted the Maccabee this sort of exchanging of commodities is go- and equal share of expense of government." a franchise in its operation is an enterpublic the within then it known Order as was region, on now to some extent but it is without ing should be owned and operated by that prise including Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, The idea of the Labor Exchange LEGISLATION FOR THE CORPORA- the mem- system. Nevada and New Mexico ninety-twpublic, and not by private speculators. TIONS. bers reported for December, 1894, with con- is to systematize the business so that the proFarmers' Tribune. tributions to the funds of the Supreme Tent ducer and the consumers can reach each othA calculation has been made ol the amount The man who says that the administration in the sum of $120 80 for the same month. of confind which means they hope to money expended by corporations in securer, by made since the of efforts the As a result of then, Major McKinley has brought prosperity to for themselves, and a con- ing legislation favorable to themselves. The records show a membership in said region for stant employment calculation refers only to the city of New this country, is, in the classical language of December, 1897, of 1837, or a gain of over tinual demand for their products. York and it includes simply the sums in Al-n- y Horace Greeley, "a liar and a horse thief." There will be another meeting held at the 1996 per cent., and a contribution to the when the Legislature is in session. The funds of the Supreme Tent for the same month same place tomorrow (Saturday) evening, to sum total is positively appalling. It reaches Equity Santa Barbara, Cal. of the aggregate sum of $2,185.21, or a gain which all who are interested are invited to 10,000,000 a year, the largest item in the list, Private ownership of telephones makes of 1808 9 per cent, over the $120.80 collected attend. credited an instrument cost twenty dollars a month in the to 1,000,000, being railway for the month of December, 1894. This combination known as the Joint Traffic Asso- New York City. In Belgium, Germany, unshows an average gain in the six states ciation. The money is used for no other pur-os- e der ANTI-PRISOpublic ownership, the price is about a PRINTING. named, and for the three years ending last than securing; favorable legislation. A dollar a month. New Time. December, of over 332 per cent, in memberThe following law is about to be passed by most interesting picture might be drawn of contribuin the happiness that could be effected through a The sewing girls of Cleveland, Ohio, work ship, and of nearly 302 per cent, the New York Legislature: tions to the Order." wise use of this sum of $10,000,000. But it is long hours in dirty rooms full of bugs and g Section I. , No printing or A new tent has recently been organized in a waste of time to think about that. It rein this city, while the one organized here shall be done in any State prison, peniten- mains only to consider how the people can vermin, for the princely sum of 60 cents to a three years ago has a membership of about tiary or reformatory by any prisoner therein expect to compete with the corporations in $1 per week, according to the Cleveland Redivitoo, and is growing at a rate commensurate detained for the State or any political the matter of They simply can- corder. Isat it nice to have the factories for institution or sion now thereof, any public with the proper results. There are not do it. Consequently we must not be open? Ex. twelve local organizations in the state of Utah, owned and managed or controlled by the surprised if the laws are all made for one What a remarkable thing it is that the one having been recently put in at Cedar State or any such political division except class. The corporations do not deny that from be time to such time as is United in States government cannot make good this may tent printing new The composed city City. they spend money for legislation. But they of a most worthy class of men who will see to required for or used in the penal and State ingeniously plead that there is nothing else paper money greenbacks yet can make it that Utonian Te t No. 12 takes her place in charitable institutions. or them to do. The kind of legislation they such infernally good bonds! Are the bonds Section 2. This act shall take effect im- want can only be had by paying for it. The the front ranks of Utah Maccabees. anything but good paper? Peoples Tribune, sum up mediately. We cannot better nor more briefly fact is that the corporation looks upon itself Louisiana. the merits of this wonderful organization than There are two classes of people upon which as injured innocents. They believe their own the from a to here clipping When in any country there are unbe equivalent to the prosperity by giving place the political demogogue gets in his work in prosperity to Bee Hive. of the country, and when they want any law cultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is There is so much of value in a membership great shape. They are the prisoner and the making done they want it done for nothing. clear that the of property have been ?o in the Knights of the Maccabees, fraternally Chinaman. The idea of paying for it revolts them. But far extended asrights to natural rights, for violate is a tendency as well as beneficially, that there The reason you he can do this is because they pay for it, none the less. Twentieth the overlook earth is a to common stock for' as the given among some of our members neither of them have a vote. Give to them Century. life in the certificate a importance of carrying Oh! But would nt Direct Legislation man to labor and live on. Thomas Jefferson. become benefit fund of the Supreme Tent, and we the ballot, and they would at once that business, though? Ugh! The wealth ofjohn D. Rockefeller has now think that il the advantages of such a certifi- our "brothers in Stripes." and our "Mon- paralyze it? knock it the stuffin The reached the sum of $244,000,000, and furtherout of cate were fully realized that there would not golian friends." As it is, anybody can jump Wouldnt be a social member in the Order, providing on either with impunity. A man who does proffessional politician, like Otheilo would more is increasing at the rate ol $r, 500,000 a he could pass satisfactory medical examina- believe that it is better for all that month, or $50, too a day, or $2,083 an prisoners find his occupation gone. tion, even though he were "loaded" with he or $34.50 a minute, or 57 cents every if is in idleness a hour, fool; other protection. There is not a certificate to be maintained D. CONSCIENCE DUNBAR. second of time, day and night, Sundays and issued by any other association that can equal pretends to believe it when he does not he is the one Issued at present by the Supreme a lying demagogue. If it is better to feed That great conscience of Dunbars seems holidays. No wonder the man calls on the Tent. We will briefly summarize its ad- prisoners free than to allow them to earn to have undergone a wonderful relaxation. churches and colleges to relieve him of some vantages: what they eat, the same is true of other folks. For a few weeks it was the wonder of the of his riches. Utica Press. xst The positive assurance of a very bene- The end of such nonsensical logic is that the world, the great motive power of a universe. In Dundee, Ireland, weavers are paid $1 65 prompt payment in case of death to the off march its feed In better and the have to we and many of them have families. If week drones a more certificate. forward, mighty ficiaries named in the conquering deif brains much mammoth this as with to Moloch swayed they can live on such wages, the American would we be. Nobody 2nd The advancement immediately, conquer, sired, of a certain amount for funeral expenses. as an oyster believes any such rot. even the walls of the Temple and Justice; capitalists will soon force his slaves down to 3rd In case of permanent and total disaThe difficulty arises not so much from the Judges bowed submissively to its mighty the same low level. Capitalists believe in annually to bility, the payment of does presence and power, while along its line of leveling down. Socialists believe in leveling the member himself, also a relief from fur- fact that the prisoner is employed as it of the proceeds of march lay prostrate forms of editors. lawyers up. The workers like the leveling down prother assessments. firom the misappropriation of age, his labor. If the products of the thieves 'who and litigants. How the mighty has fallen! cess so they can support the same tickets as 4th Upon reaching seventy years has member the when the earning power of wear the stripes is to be stolen and used by Although the code reads just the same now the capitalists. The workers are afraid they h annually, of ceased, the payment still bigger thief who carries the key, as as three months ago, he has discovered that will get too high wages out of their work unand a relief from the payment of further the is so often the case then we say, "let the the "law contemplates that the greatest pub- der socialism and that there will not be assessments. in idleness as much licity possible" can be given a notice by pub- enough left for their masters. And they assess5th The monthly plan of paying prisoner rest; keep him ments according to the mortuary table, by as possible." But under a proper manage- lishing it in any paper that will assist David would not know what to do without masters. which we are enable to create an emergency Appeal to Reason. ment of things the prisoner should not only and his great conscience back into office. i fund that we are reasonably sure will take care of our beaeficiaries without the calling o This is one of the greatest of the fraternal extra assessments. The above were the provisions of the law beneficiary Orders belonging to and making to the recent session of the Supreme previous up the National Fraternal Congress. It num- Tent. That body, however, added still furbers about 300,000 members and is doing ther to the value of the certificate by adopting business in more than forty-fivof the States these provisions: e semi-annu- jt-se- nt 11 g, g o N photo-engravin- law-makin- one-tent- h one-thent- g. g, |