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Show having a disastrous efect there. The Pueblo (Col.) Courier says: "Last week the management of the steel CLAIMS THAT WAGES ARE works Imported a large number of negroes. At the low wages paid, 31.25 RISING VOLUNTARILY. per day, white men cannot be found to endure the hard labor to be performed Oa the Contrary Heavy Redaction! Are In these works. Cheaper labor seems General The Dingley BUI Does Mot to be the motto of Supt. Robinson, ! the Least Check Gold Standard whether the employes can live on their Tendencies. earnings or not The nearer we can get to poverty and slavery the better some men are suited who have it In A gold standard advocate, the Toletheir head that the majority of human do Blade, publishes the following editorial, under the heading Wages Ris- beings are only fit to make profits for some one other than themselves. ing Voluntarily: LaWages are the price of labor. Still we are happy to be able to state bor is a commodity, and like all others that there is genuine prosperity in cerdeits price depends primarily upon ' tain reportions of the country, as the mand as related to supply. The vival of Industry, consequent upon the following telegram from SL Louis victory for honest money at the polls proves: MISS ANITA- CRAWFORD, OF last fall, and the restoration of the conditions which provide a sound basis WESTMINSTER PLACE, HAS HAD for our industries by the enactment of THE EARS OF HER PET CAT the Dingley tariff law, is now bringing PIERCED AND LARGE DIAMOND PLACED THERE. its logical result an Increase of wages, EAR-RING- S without strikes or the employment of T H E Y S P A RKLE BEAUTIFULLY AGAINST THE BLACK FUR. brute force in any other form. The dispatch does not state whether Miss Anita Is a relative of D. CrawThis Is the general claim made by ford, the SL Louis merchant prince the gold press without specifying particular instances. The reverse is the who discharged those of his employes truth. Wages are being reduced all who refused to abandon their free silover the country, even in those indus- ver ideas. tries especially favored by the Ding-le- y tariff. WORDS OF WISDOM. Following is a portion of the record as printed in the news column of the same papers that are ediMonopoly in all its forms is the taxtorially advertising McKinley prosper- ation of the industrious for the support of indolence, it not of plunder. ity: ProsperityFor Plutocracy. THE GOLDBUG NERYE. . - John Stuart Mill Cotton manufacturers operating I very positively can inform you tha of the spindles of New Hampshire reduced the wages of their em- conslderablest part of the misery of ployes about 10 per cent January 1. the world comes of the tricks of unAt least 20,000 operatives are affected. just taxation. Ruskln. The Cotton Manufacturers associaWhat the people use most, the peotion, of Fall River, has reduced wages 10 per cent in all the mills of the city. ple should own. Cicero. The reduction affects 25,000 employes. He who has a right to live has a Amoskeag corporation, of Manchester, N. H., employing 9,000, and the right to food by which to live and land China. Pembroke and Webster mills at by which to live. Washington GladSuncook, employing 1,500, reduced den, Pastor First Congregational church, Columbus, Ohio. wages 10 per cent commencing Janutwo-thir- ds ' ENGINEER McKINLEY: to Congress) "Throw the Switch to the Wall Street Track." (Correct version of hit message ary sane impulse to commit financial suicide, it Is barely possible that they are financial idiots, and really believe the AN ADVOCATE OP FALLING doctrine which they teach, which is that the smaller the volume of money, PRICES EMBARASSED. and the more the circulating medium is contracted, the plentler money will Tbs Millionaire Owner of the Goldbng be, and that the facilities for obtainPhiladelphia Record Explains That ing money will Increase with the dethe Kapld Decline In Prices Has crease of the supply of money. Cleaned Him Oat. If Mr. Singerly is sane and can convince himself that the lower prices fall the easier it will be for him to extricate We sincerely sympathize with the himself from the ruin which declining mlsfortuntes of Mr. Singerly, editor values have produced in his case, we of the Philadelphia liecord, and presi- will recognize him as a genius. dent of the Chestnut Street National bank, of Philadelphia, and several othPOINTS FROM THE PRESS. er failing concerns. His statement of the failure Is pathetic. In his stateGage's plea of Ignorance as to the ment published in his paper, the Rec- effect of contraction and the gold ord, he Bays editorially: standard made to the Federation of To the public: The Record is com- Labor is well taken. We know he Is pelled to make a painful personal an- ignorant However, in order to give nouncement this morning. Owing to him a lesson we refer him to the dethe financial embarrassment of Mr. cline in value of the securities and William M. Singerly, president of the stock of his gold standard friend, SinRecord Publishing Company, the gerly of Philadelphia, and of the MarChestnut Street National bank, and the vin Safe of Ohio. These two Chestnut Street Trust and Savings failed on company account of fall In prices. SilFund Company, were obliged to sus- ver pend business recently. The weight which proved too heavy New York was a Tory town during for Mr. Singerly to carry was his large the American revolution and it is a investment in the Singerly Pulp and town yet. Most of it is owned by Tory Paper Mills, at Elkton, Md. The extreme shrinkage In the price of paper foreign nobility or their American repand the resulting depreciation in the resentatives. Appeal to Reason. value of that property was the primary He who casts a vote to give the poor cause of his embarrassment and of the a chance to make an honest living does suspension of the bank and trust com- a work for the Lord. New Era. pany, with which he has been so closeidentified. ly In many lines of business there is An extraordinary effort was made before the announcement of the sus- no longer any such thing as competipension recently to tide over the dif- tion. What is going to be done about such kinds of business? Are the peoficulty, and Mr. Singerlys friends rallied to his assistance with rare gen- ple going to sit down supinely and beerosity and fidelity, but it was found come the slaves the trusts, or will they impracticable to turn the assets at his arouse themselves and become the masters of all these great combinations disposal into a shape to meet immeof capital? Star and Kansan. diate requirement Mr. Singerly has achieved the honor A commodity is worth the labor of of occupying the foremost position as an advocate of contraction of the vol- making it no more. Labor should ume of money to the gold standard, form the basis of the measure of value, the consequence of which is falling because It is the source of value. prices, stagnation, and bankruptcy, Coming Nation. His says the Silver Poverty and its resultants, crime wild ravings against the restoration of silver to the place it occupied before and intemperance are the baBtard offa criminal conspiracy deprived the springs of private ownership of naworld of the benefits of the supply of ture's store bouses, placed at the dismetallic money which was enjoyed for posal of all and which must again be thousands of years previous to 1873, redeemed before the children of God might sound harmonious in the insane can be free. Labor Exchange Guide. asylum, but not elsewhere. Suicide has increased 300 per cent in The great crash which has carried down the Chestnut Street National this country In three years from 2,040 Of course bank, several other banks and kindred In 1890 to 6,420 in 1896. institutions, is attributed by Mr. Sing- these are effects without any cause! erly and his friends to the shrinkage The social system with Its inevitable of values. We must assume that Mr. concentration of wealth has nothing to do with it!! Appeal to Reason. Singerly did not know that the shrinkage of values was embarrassing to enWe took a run around the employterprise, otherwise he would not have been so earnest an advocate of con- ment bureaus of the city last week. traction. If he thinks that the shrink- They were crowded by men and womage of values which has busted him en, with poor clothes and hungry, Is a good thing, we are not disposed to anxious looks. Of course they dont question his motives in advocating want work. They only stand around such folly, but If Mr. Singerly and for amusement's sake and pay in their rtber men engaged in business are not dollars to help the bureau man keep real maniacs and animated by an in the wolf from his door. New Charter. BY HIS OWN PETARD Knight-Watchma- n. Knight-Watchma- n. SALT RIVER SIFTINGS. Comments of tho Phoenix (arts.) Gxaotto on Currant Polities. When Mr. McKinley penned that por- tion of the message relative to Cuba, he probably recalled Private John Allens definition of platforms. Platforms, said Private John, are not made to stand on; they are made to get in on. Mr. McKinley seems, to be laboring under the impression that he was elected president of Spain. The president says that Not an American is now confined in a Spanish prison. Perhaps noL A few were to have been pardoned, and the rest have been starved to death or murdered. Congress is to be urged to pass s bankrupt law. There is every indication that the treasury department is in need of one. The silence of Mark Hanna may be taken as an indication that he is sulking because Mr. McKinley failed to mention the Ohio difficulty in hit message. Perhaps the McKinley administration is real sorry that Mr. George Washington and his associates refused to accept autonomy abeut three generations ago. The return of the bolting "Democrats to the fold is accompanied by a silence that would be rudely shocked by the thunderous echoes of a pin falling on a rubber door-ma- t. About all tHat is known as to what congress will do, is that the house will do Just as Tom Reed says. The patriotic way would be to cut Alaska up into small territories, so that every original McKinley man can be named as governor. It 18 noticeable that the return ol the Arizona gold Democratic prodigal! has .not Increased the market price ol veal. A race of pigmies has been discovered In Guatemala. Even in the United States, when the spoils of office arc being divided, there Is always developed a race of pigmies. Cramp's Anchor to Windward. Mr. Cramp, who builds war vessel! 1. The Housesmiths and Brldgemens union of New York made a complete surrender to the firm of J. B. ft J. M. Cornell Monday, but quit work again. Induced to do so by threats of suspension from their unions. The weavers at the Bridgeton, N. J., woolen mills went on a strike Friday. The Fishdale mills of Sturbrldge, have notified their employes of a reAbout 400 duction of 10 per cent persons are employed. The Millbury cotton mills of Worcester, Mass., have posted a notice of a cut of 10 per cent The treasurers of the Lowell cotton mills, at a meeting held at Lowell, Mass., Friday, voted to reduce the wages of their employes from January 17. About 15,000 operatives will be affected. The reductions in wages have made a great deal of trouble in the mills at Fall River, Mass., and the labor leaders who are there managing the case for the workingmen, have submitted a rea- sonable proposition to the capitalists. But that proposition has been all but rejected. What the labor unions suggest is arbitration by the state board, but that proposition has been It has been further requested toilers that the agreement prothe by posed be deferred until next March, so far as its operation Is concerned. The representations of the men that they are at present degraded by their wage scale below the standard of civilisation is amply confirmed by IndeMany of the pendent investigation. mill hands have been compelled to support their families on seven dollars a week. So poor are the toilers that their children were forced to go without medical attendance during a recent epidemic of diphtheria. The capitalists declare that they are now paying the highest wages they can afford, a truly astonishing statement in view of the high protection they are enjoying under the Dingley bilL Those who do their shopping In the department stores of the large cities can testify from personal experience, that the prices charged for the products of the Fall River mills were never The grades of goods have, so high. moreover, deteriorated In quality. But the men whose toll produces these commodities have been forced to submit to a reduction of their pay until they are at the point of starvation. pooh-poohe- d. . It we want beautiful men and women we must have beautiful conditions. Ben Tillet The social revolution is bound to It will either come in full panoply of law, and surrounded with-althe blessings of peace, provided the people have the wisdom to handle and Introduce it betimes; or it may break in upon us unexpectedly, amldstrall the convulsions of violence, with wild, dls-heveled locks, and shod in iron sandals. Come it must. In one way or the other. When I withdraw myself from the turmoil of the day and dive into history, I hear distinctly its approaching tread. Lassalle. come. l Ths American loTnl(i. The American sovereign can be found in all sorts of unkingly positions. He does not appear to good royal advantage as a miner. He is not princely as he stands with doffed hat, shrinking and trembling before his master, who holds in his kingly hand the threat of discharge. He is not royally dignified when he casts his kingly prerogative, the ballot, in herds, with the fear of his employer before his eyes. His sovereignty is not apparent when he tramps the highways, hopeless, penniless and hungry, or when hanging like grim s death on the beneath a palace car. Alas for fallen royalty, when he is arrested, chained and under the placed on the rock-pil- e scornful gaze of the public. Of what benefit is his sovereignty when it fails to preserve him from the conditions of the most abject slavery? More than the mere title of sovereign is required to secure even his manhood. Freedom, equality, justice, are better words to conjure happiness with royalty or sovereignty. Labor Exchange Guide. half-starv- ed ' brake-beam- Beformen Doty of Are you doing anything, my brother. In the way of assisting your friends and neighbors to understand correct principles of reform? A true reformer never should be idle; should never give up the fight He may sometimes become a little discouraged when he sees men who need reform; who need a change for the better, who will continue to vote against their own interest and the interest of their country at large, but this should not keep you from doing your duty and all in your power for the right and for the final triumph of our principles. Woodbury Messenger. at vast profits for the United States, again sounds the alarm with an article Bhowing how Japan is outstripping us in naval preparations so rapidly that unless we wake up we shall not be able to control the Pacific ocean in three years. This is exactly the time required for turning out a first-claThe World has canvassed the orbattlo ship, so if we immediately entrades of New York, and made Mr. and valuable ganized costly Cramps gage services, and spend, say, 31,000,000,000 estimates of unorganized labor, and finds that there are 92,000 unorganized The Growing Deficit. we can pull through. men in that city out of a total of The Dingley bill threatens a target Spnln's Mistake, or almost one man in every three. deficit for the fiscal year, five months While Japan was on the silver stand- The only trades showing increases over of which have now elapsed, than the ard, like Mexico, she prospered and last year in number employed are the panic year ending June 30, 1894, which grew wealthy. There was no need of building trades and clgarmakers. It was 372,325,448; it is 346,101,494 for ss 297,-00- 0, Since she was increasing taxation. persuaded by Rothschilds to adopt the gold standard, she has gone down and down until her people are getting as wretched as those in gold countries. There esn be no prosperity while gold Is king. The peupie ucc aunieine court st Washington. The plutocracy has one. Phoenix Gazette. Piw Knipht-Wntrhma- n. must be confessed that In New York, these five months, and will probably reach a round 3100,000,000, beating the as well as in New England, the gold standard is, up to date, a record. It will show the rottenness of failure. And this is the year of our the whole' protective doctrine; for Lord 1898. When may we reasonably so far as protective, in the sense of ltt expect prosperity? advocates, it cannot yield revenue, and so far as it yields revenue it ceases to Like the Wilson bill Until very recently wages In the be protective. which was just as bad it is a good Rocky mountains have been held up to 4 per day, but McKinley prosperity is object lesson. San Francisco Star, Ding-lcylz- ed |