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Show THE SEALSJJF OFFICE. Salisbury Hands Them to the Qneen and the Queen Hands Them to Gladstone. Mapleson's Opera Season in Chicago to be a Brilliant Event. Fire in a Jewish Synagogue This Morning Which Might HaYe .Proved a Calamity. Ben Butler on the Boycott. ! New Yokk, February 5. General Butler said to a Sun reporter yesterday of boycotting boycott-ing as a weapon, of defense by the wase-workers wase-workers of this country: "It's a poor weapon: the principle is all wron. It is a weapon used by the employer, and wage-workers should try to do better than they. The workmen's weapon is his vote. United they can make the laws of the land. If the Keen liros. of Lynn, for instance, discharge their operatives simply because they join labor organizations, that is to declare war against the people. If employment is refused these people by the capitalist capi-talist class, then let that class provide for the wants of unemployed workers. In other words, if Keene Bros., and men of their ilk, prevent men from earning an honest livelihood, they should be taxed to support them. This is a better and more logical method than the boycott This is a perfectly legal weapon, and can produce but one result. The oppressors of labor will capitulate. The great danger to the workingmen of this county is that they will not stand together in politics on matters govering their own interests. "I have spent considerable time and money in working for their interests, and what is the result? They did not even give me a fair vote in my own State. The solution solu-tion of the great labor problem will depend j upon the election of some proper representa-! representa-! tive to the Presidency. It will probably not j be in your day or mine, but some good man i will come to the front who will probably represent the ideas and feelings of the masses. The ballot is the only solution of the labor problem of to-day." |