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Show TIPS FROM GOTHAM. "Jarb" Write. Abont Thing lie Poe.n't I.Ike and Other That Interest Him. The word "crank," as applied to an Individual, is not now taken by everybody every-body to signify a fool. Owing to its liberal lib-eral une by the press when referring to men active in the labor movement, worbingmen generally understand it to mean a pretty good- sort of fellow. "Crank" possesses an attraction for many, and I suppose that is why it was worked into the title of a worthless book which recently made ita appearance. appear-ance. "Valmond, the Crank," is the trashiest of trash. It is without a speck of literary merit, hius no moral and is a wretchedly told yarn. Whether the writer wanted to frighten the rich, ridicule ths radical reformers or disgust tho decent is hard to determine; but ho certainly did only the latter. Tho probabilities are that his chief desire was to catch the quarters quar-ters of the gullible; henco the shrewdly I baited cover. "Nero"' is given as the author, but we are not told whether he was in the asylum or out of it when lie had that particular "bad turn," as thi keepers say New York city's new labor paper, The People, seems to have made a good start, and it ought to succeed. It is radical; but this should make the working j)eo-ple j)eo-ple support it, for there can be no doubt that the capitalist class will do whut it can to crush tho paper oil that account. The People is a great improvement on The Workmen's Advocate, which it succeeded, suc-ceeded, and with the backing which will come to it from tiio men who have made Tho Volks Zeitung a success, it has every chance of a long and useful career. The plan is to make it a daily as soon as the support will justify the step. Organized lalxir in New York is justly just-ly indignant at the way in which Jo.-eph Raromle.ss has been treated by the representatives repre-sentatives nf law. A irri.nt. Vinivl frmn the capitalists went up against the cloakmakers' louder right after the Jamaica Ja-maica affair. lie was not allowed to give bail, aud wm treated as if ho had murdered a score of persons. Tho police of New York tried to make him confess to crimes which had never entered his mind, aud by the usual sweat box methods meth-ods thought to force something from his lips which could lie construed as criminal. But tiie whole case has fallen to the ground, and though it is not possible pos-sible at this writing to say what preju diced officers of tho law will do before they will admit the wrong dona by releasing re-leasing Barondess, all fair minded citizens citi-zens know that he has been persecuted at the instigation of the cowardly cloak manufacturers of New York. The so called leading papers of New York city, which gave from ono column to three columns of editorials each on j the New Orleans affair on the day fol- j lowing the lynching, and kept it tip at that rate for ten days, were singularly j 6ilent concerning the murder of irionVn- 1 sive strikers at. Morewood. With the es- j ception of a small piece of wi v.'--was!iy ' stuff in The Hemld on the .Suud::? fol- ; lowing the slaughter, these great news- j papers had not one word to say. Their telegraph columns for ten days furnished them the text for a vigorous expression of opinions, but they were particularly modest. They either lacked the honesty to tell the truth or the courage to lie abont so horrible an outrage. The Nationalist Magazine, of Boston, has had to suspend because it was not supported. The clubs of New York have nearly all gone to pieces. The principles prin-ciples of the Nationalist movement certainly cer-tainly have the indorsement of enough men in this city to keep tip a good organization. or-ganization. There must be something wrong somewhere. Ja&b. |