Show Sons of St George The Sons of St George will hold their next meeting on Wednesday Jan 17th at the Temple of Honpr hall I I will be a business meeting but their next social will come off on February 7 at the same hour and and place Ever inducement will be offered for Englismen to join the lodge The officers of cers anticipate a much more prosperous prosper-ous year than the last one and hope to recuperate the strength of the lodge by a great many new members join ing the order in place of those who have lost the privilege of belonging to the Sons of St George by their dilatoriness in attending to their du ties thereby causing their names to be crossed from the books of the lodge The present condition of the labor ing population of the United States giyes rise to the thought Where are we drifting to and what are the cause of this depression of trade Then again comes the question what can be done to improve the deplorable condition that exists among the workingmen work-ingmen ail over the country The American people are behind their fellow lodges in England in the principle of labor In the British house of commons there Is a strong force of representatives direct from the ranks of labor paid by their unions to represent their interests They have proven interest compe tent to legislate upon every question brought before them and have bat tered down all the capitalistic opposi tion to the just and fair labor measures meas-ures passed by parliament for the bet terment and elevation of the working classes This has been done under the most adverse circumstances yet the success of the labor representatives has been far beyond the most sanguine sangine expectations ex-pectations of the workmen of twenty fiveyears ago How much more successful can the American workmen become in putting into effect the principle of puttng rep lesentation of labor with all the advantages ad-vantages of manhod sufferage pay ment of members and every other circumstance favorable to the advancement advance-ment which a country can have that is unlimited in its resources and unsurpassed un-surpassed in the richness of its soil by any nation on the face of the is soi therefore let all true born Britons rally round the standard of the Sons of St George and prove that Englishmen English-men have the true grit to carry out the true principles for the good of humanity hu-manity in any country of the universe |