Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1888 — A Story for Workingmen. [ARTICLE]

A Story for Workingmen.

CHAPTER I — BH-H-h! Tribune’s account of the Republican parade on Nov. 2: The carpet men filled in the time with crjes and songs. Every man who had not a cane and flag when he reached the street was immediately supplied from the big storehouse of Joseph Wild, at No. 11. Every man wore on his coat lai.el a miniature imitation of the bigban r er of the club, a piece of blue carpet with gold braid at the top. To the carpet was pinm d a piece of white silk, with the words, ’‘Carpet Trades, Harrison & Morton.” There was wild cheering all along Tnomas street when 400 carpet workers came marching into th street, a solid body of voters, and all from Higgiu’s carpet works, at the foot of West Forty-third street. At the head of this splendid turnout was Supe intendent Joseph Ferguson. CHAPTER II— boom!! ' New York Press, Nov. 9. Boom! boom! business boom! Listen to the rattle of the spindle and the loom! Listen to the music when the wheels go round! Freeing raw material from prisons in the ground, Making each American wilderness to bloom. Business business, business boom.