Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — Page 1

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Frank Fouz. Charles G. Spitle Harf? B. Ktmie. FOLTZ, SPITLER & KURBIE, (Successors to Thompson & Bro.) Uh, !W Ws, tom Jstarts !i Lous. Only sot of Abstract Books in the Oountff. HmtHSMLABH. • • Indiana. 7iimwH«K, attoeneys-at-law, RINBOWjAA®. offiro MMVid . floor of Leopold s PaC-k (wliington and VanßenssX/JBEL Paotice in all the> oonrtz. nwrohivX *®S and lease real eßta^ e - Rensselaer B„ L. & 8 AssoRensselaer Water, Light and Fovm Company. C.W. Hanley. J. J. Hunt Hanley & Hunt, Law , Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Booms 5 and 6 Fo«?ythe Block, Rensselaei, Indiana, Wm. B. Austin, lawyer and investment broker, attorney for the L N A & c, Ry., and Rensselaer W L <& P- Company. zarOffice < ver Chicago Bargain Store. _ i - Indiana Rensselaer Tnrnp*. • DoU-t'ltiLj AOTOBNEY-AIV.LAW & NOTARY PUBDIC. •sr Ofllee. front room np-staire over Fendig’s store. Bonsselaer. Indiana u. S. 13wiggins, COUNBELOR-AT-LAW. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. I have recovered my health and arain entered upon the practice of law. can and see me. Office in Makeever s bank building.

jr. L. Uxivall, attorney-at-law. AU holiness of the profession thoronghu gnd earetu’ly executed. Money- to iJftn on almost any terms. Real Estate bought and sold Collections promptly attended to, and abstracts car.fbl y pre pared. First door east of P 0. u; stairs Charles jE. IVEII Is, attorney-at-law. Rensselaer, Indiana. ensioDS, Collections and Real Estate. Abstracts carefully prepared, ASFEarm lo.ins negotiated at lowest rates. Office up stairs in Odd Fellows Hull. Ira W- Yeoman, Attoraey-at Law, Real Estate and Col lecting Agent, Remington, Ind. T' ' ' I B. Washburn. E. C. English. Washburn & English v»)ivsic4au* & Surgeo" - Dr Washburn will glye special attention to diseases of Eye, Ear, Nose, ihro.it nd Chronic Diseases. ' Dr. English will give special attention 0 all de P artmontß ’ and Q llf J« teopold s Corner Block, over flMis & Murray’s. Telephone 48. W Hartsell, M. HMUttopathif Physician A Surgeon. Rensselaer, (Ind. «6T Chronic Diseases a Specialty. “®* Office in Makeover’s New Block. C. E-I’owell® IVT. 13., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Will be at office from 2 to 3 p. m., Sundws. Calls promptly attended. over Commercial State Bank. Residence one block north of school phone 60. Residence phone,Bl V22n13

John Mahebyer, Jay Williams, President. Cashier. Fanners 5 ’ Bank., ® ' Indiana, Benßß6laer> Reeoeive Deposits, Buy and Sell Exchange, Collections made and promptly remitted. j» w. Horton, Dentist. *ll diseases of Tee h and Gums carefnUv treaffd Filling and Crowns a spe Salty Office over Post Office, Renssel Mi, Ind ana A.. J. KNIGHT, Painter —AND— Paper Hanger. IfirOnly the Best work done. ATTRACTION GUAR ANT’D! Rensselaer. Indiana

The Democratic Sentinel.

WRIGH T , Undertaker & ewbalmeß Kknurslaxb - - inusi Calls promptly responded to day or night. Addison Parkison Preslibnt Gec. K. Hollingsworth, VicePresidMk. Emmet I. Hollingsworth, Cashiw. THE (?QMMERGI+IL J>,T/ITE OF RENbSKLAER. IND. Directors: Addison Parkison, James T. Randle, John M. V, asson. Geo. K. Hollingsworth and Emmet L. Rollingswerth. This bank ie prepared to trans act a general Banking Business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. W At the old stand of the Citizens’Stateßank ALFIofIOI, T.J. IcCOT. A. K. HOPKINS, Pruiident. Cashier. Ass’t Cashier A.. JVIcCoy & Co.’s BIHK t RENSSE AER * - IND. Oil esi Bant in Jasper County

ESTABLISHED 1854. Transacts a General Banking Bu mess, Buys Notes and Loans Money on Lung or Short Time on Personal or Rea Estate Security. Fair and Liberal Treatment is Promised to All. Foreign Exchange Bought and Sold Interest Paid on Time Deposits YOUR PATRONAGE IS SOLeCITED. Having Valuable Papers May Deposit Them for Safe Keeping."®* HUGH L. GAMBLE, City Engineer, Maps and Blue Prints OF IEI!M ui mran. LAND DRAINAGE, Map Work and Platting a Specialty Rensselaer Ind. Office, Room No. 7, Forsythe Building HOTEL J. F. BRUNER, Proprietor. The only Hotel in the City with Office And Sample Rooms on First Floor. JB®*Rates $2 00 per Day. Have 'ur own Bus for the conveyance of passengers to and from trains

DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

STATE TICKET. ' SAMUEL M. RALSTON, Secretary of State. i JOHN W. MINOR, ’ Auditor of State. JOHN G. M’NUTT, Attorney Geppral, HENRY WARRUM, Clerk of Supreme Court, W. B. SINCLAIR, Superintendent Publie Instruction. JAMES S. GUTHRIE, State Statistician. EDWARD BARRETT, State Geologist. JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT. LEONARD J. HACKNEY, Second District. JAMES JI’CABE, Third District. TIMOTHY E. HOWARD, Fourty District. JUDGES OF APPELLATE COURT. EDWIN TAYLOR, First District. C. J. KOLLMEYER, Second District. EDGAR A. BROWN, Third District, WILLIAM S. DIVEN, Fourth District. JOHANNA KOPELKE, Fifth District. DISTRICT TICKETS TENTH DISTRICT For Congrasj—JOHN ROSS, of 'Jippecanoe County For Joint Hepr hnt* , Lake-Jasper David h .. u an, of Jasper nty COUNTY ■ *• Clerk—JOHN F, MAJOR, r Auditor - GEORGE 0. STEmBEL. For Treasurer MAKIONI ADAMS. For Sheriff— WM. c. HUSTON. F r Surveyor -DATID E. GARRIOTT For Coronor—P. F. POTHUSJE, Commissioner, Fiist District F M HERSH MAN. Commissioner, Second District - LUCIUS STRONG.

“THE CONTINUANCE OF THE PRESENT gold standard in the United States IS NECESSARY TO THE SUPREMACY OF England’s commeroi’l dominion over the World."— London (England) Times. —————

Renssolaer Ja.sper County. Indiana Saturday September 24 £B9B

LABOR LEGISLATION

Record of the State>Democracy co Questions Effecting Workmen. 1 Law* Adopted by the Democrat* Prohibiting Contract Labor, Chlhd Labor, Requiring Workmen to Be Paid Once a- I Month, Prohibiting Bailroads From Bx— ■ acting Contribution* From For So-Called Insurance Societies, Abol—l ishing Pluck-Me Store* and Union Label*. The Democratic state platform for 1898 upon which the campaign is to be? < fought until election day in November, '] prudently gives prominence to the labor / Issue, because many thousands of our fellow citizens wear the badges of organized labor, and are profoundly interested in legislation which relates directly or remotely to their welfare. The term “labor” as used in this connection refers to wageworkers known as such in labor organizations, working men employed in shops and factories, in mines and on railroads, to the army of toilers, who build everything that is built and repair everything that is repaired and who keep the wheels of progress in motion and who, as the years have advanced, have taken an ever increasing interest in legislation and have demanded, as it was their {irerogative and duty to demand, legisation to emancipate them from embarrassment and thraldoms which aggregated wealth, in control of great industries, had imposed upon them.

In defense of the proposition, that the Democratic party from the first, had been the friend of wageworkers, there is abundant testimony, and if a reason for this condition is sought, it is readily found in the fact that Democratic ascendancy has always been promoted by a larger per centage of the votes of workingmen than any opposing party could secure. Men, working for a living, if they demanded legislation to protect their rights and interests, have looked to the Democratic party to respond to their requests, just as the rich, if they desired legislation to aid them in perfecting their schemes, have appealed to the Republican party for the required legislation and it is only necessary to appeal to the reoord to substantiate the affirmation. lu this connection, it is worthy of remark that the labor legislation, provided by Democratic legislatures from 1883 to 1893 inclusive, is something more and better than class legislation specifically beneficial to workingmen. True it is permeated with humanity and with justice; true it sought io emancipate workingmen from the autocratic domineering pf insolent and arrogant employers; true it sought to compel rapacious employers to cease trampling upon the rights of employees and to let go their grasp upon the throats of their victims, to cease their intimidations, coercions, blacklistings and other nefarious practices, all of which, while ostensibly and, in fact, in the interest of labor, have in the philosophy of government, a broader significance, because jt was of necessity and in an inestimable pleasure in the interest of society at large. It is vicious to the last degree to talk of a government of, by and for the people when any of the people are subjected to debasing conditions to gratify the cupidity and ostentation of the employers of labor, and hence Democratic legislation in the interest of toilers, bears the stamp of the best statesmanship of the times. Contract Labor. There existed in Indiana the pernicious practice of importing into the state aliens and foreigners under contract to perform various forms of labor. This practice aimed a deadly blow at the workingmen of the state by importing a vicious class of men who, caring nothing for the prerogatives of citizenship, were willing to accept meager wages and liye like swine in such huts as their wages enabled them to secure. But in 1885, the Democratic legislature, in the interest of social security and good government, put an end to the contract labor system in Indiana piaking the contract “utterly void and of no effect,” and imposing a heavy penalty for violating the law,

Child Labor. The Democratic legislature of 1888, In response to the demands of humanity and the future well being of society, a subject which broadens by contemplation, enacted a law relating to the employment of child labor. In Indiana it became notorious that children of tender years were being employed in various Industries, udder the influence of which mind and body were subjected to the tortues of work, which forced upon them infirmities frem whleh there was no escape in after life. To mitigate the evils of such employment, the Democratic law of 1885 was enactod, providing that in certain employ, ments children under 12 years of age should not be employed, and In cases of pertain manufacturing enterprises where the employment of children was permitted it was made unlawful to permit a child under 12 years of age to work more than eight hours per day. This law was preeminently wise and was universally approved by all thoughtful citizens, because In gome measure it emancipated children from tasks they were physically unable to perforin, thereby Increasing the number of infirm adults in after years. In 1893 the Democratic legislature amended the law, making 14 years instead of 12 the limit of age. Faying Workingmen Every Month. A shameful practice existed in Indiana prior to 1885 on the part of employers, of paying employes when it was convenient for them to do so; the inconvenience tq employes having little or no might in the transaction. This practice bore heavily upon the great body of workingmen and imperatively demanded remedial leglslation. and this was supplied by the Democratic legislature of 1885, the law in the dase providing: That every company, corporation or association now existing or hereafter organized and doing business in this state, shall, in the absence of written contract, to the contrary, be required to make full settlement with and full payment in money to its emgloyes, engaged in manual or meehanloal labor, for such work and labor done or performed by said employes for such company, corporation or association, at least once in every calendar month of the year. The violation of this section of the law entailed a penalty upon the employer of 81 a day for each day the wages wUre withheld. Besides the law provides that the debt shall be a preferred claim, the wages duo the employe to be first paid in full when the property of an employer has gone into tne hands of a receiver. This law, though it required but a few words, solved a most important labor problem, enabling employes to know When .they would be paid for their services, A certainty that gave them credit and enabled them to provide for current wants. And in the same line still another law was enacted by thejOomodPatio legislature of 1885 to pro tipi tge workingmen, In where the property of aft employer is

The Republican claims that pages were cut from the records doling the incumbency of auditor Novels. While we believe the best plan in cases would be to cross i if the pages, we are not disposed to attach criminality to any one who, following the first impulse of their mind, cut them out. Mr, Nowels was a greenbacker.

"‘••d. FIRM ADHERENUE T( COABBUT PRINCIPLES.”

stdzed upomby any process of oowrt the witges oq employes to the amount of in each case is made a preferred claim, tot to be paid in full if assets are suffioieiit. or pro rata if there is a In t pc foregoing it is seen tha t the Democratic legislature of 1885 was on the alert to thi dw around workingmen every possible pre Section that 1 egislation could afford. \ Exacting Contributions. Railr. lad corporations, under covey of duplicit les as shameless as ever provoked indignation, concocted a scheme for robI bing their employes with a double purpose iu view, it was a combination of and paternalism, designed 1 T>rimarily i to destroy organisations of railroad mep, by notifying them that the corporation had established for them a system of insurance and hospital protection to which they were expected to contribute, and their hired henchmen always j| Intimating that their “job” might depend I upon their willingness to be robbed, and ■ growing bifid as they gathered in their ■'.victims they proceeded to conficate a cerain amount of the wages of their emp loyes to carry forward their scheme. I Th’s was a species of piracy which m roused widespread indignation in the ra 1 nks of railroad eniployes, who appealed t® i a Democratic legislature of Indiana to ew I '.ancipate them from such slavish environments. and the Democratic legislate ire of 1885 responded to the request of raiil road employes by enacting: ■shall be unlawful for any railroad con* ! >aaiy-or corporation operating railroads in Ind h ma to exact from its employes, without obtai 1 ning'written consent thereio in each aud everv • instance, any portion of their wages for the i* aintenanee or any hospital, reading room, librai y, gymnasium or restaurant.” Ab d the law imposed a penalty from |IOO lto Jsoo fcr its violation. This law had dthe desired effect in arresting the rapas Ity of railroad corporations to some exteu i, but it could not keep railroad corporate ons from subjecting such of their emplo; ves us resisted their machinations from the penalty of discharge from employment, but it did have the effect olf making the corporations a little more cabutious in practicing their intimidations.' Lien*.

The JDeittiocratic legislature of 1883 gave mechanic:! find all persons performing labor for erecting, altering, repairing or removing buildings, bridges, etc., a lien on such building for the payment of wages due them, and in 1885 the Democratic legislature amended the law of 1883 so as to inolade workingmen who had performed laibor in the construction of railroads wilßin the state. The law was demanded tto protect workingmen who in various ways were being defrauded by means which the ordinary process failed to remedy, but the lien laws enacted by Democratic legislatures in 1883, ’BS and ’B7 afforded ample and certain protection, as in all such labor laws the supreme purpose was to exempt workingmen from the numerous schemes of designing employers to cheat thorn out of their hard earned dollars, and the influence of the law has been wholesome and has met requirements. Payment of Wagon and Pluck-Me Store. Indiana had a number of citizens controling large industries and employing a large number of mon who paid wages in checks payable in goods at the stores owned and operated by the corporation, firm or individual carrying on rhe industry. As a result the employe, having nothing but his wages to feed and clothe his family, was compelled to deal at the “pluqk-mq” sfote, where any price for goods was charged that tb6 rapacity of the employer demanded, and there was absolutely no escape for the victims of this mercenary plundering, which had proceeded for years unmolested and had enriched the employer and reduced work: ingmen to extreme depths of poverty and want.

The Democratic legislature of 1887 designed to put a stop to this piratical practice by enacting that employes should be paid at least once a manth In the “lawful money of the United States.” This law was hailed with general acclamations of approval. But "to still further protect workingmen, the law prohibited greedy employers, who run the “pluck-me stores” from Charging their employes more for “merchandise or supplies” than such goods were sold to others for cash, and this law with the severe penalty imposed for Its violation, has proved effective and workingmen have been permitted to receive cash for their labor Instead of “pluck-me-store” checks. Nor was this all the Democratic legiature accomplished for workingmen for the purpose of relieving them from the schemes of employers, concocted to filch a large per cent of their wages. Prohibited from paying them In “pluck-me store” checks, they resorted to various coersive tricks, by which they sought to compel their employes to buy goods at their stores. This scheme was strictly in keeping with the “pluck-me store” infamy, but the Democratic legislature of 1889 enacted a law which grasped the outrage and' squelched It by enacting that It shall be unlawful for any owner, manager, superintendent, operator, bank boss, agent, or employer, employed in any of the occupations described ih Section 1 of this biU to hold out any tokens or inducements, or make any threats or promises of reward, or in any other way, by words or acts, to coerce any of their employees to buy any article of merchandise, food, groceries or supplies of any particular person, corporation, association, firm or company, or at any particular place; shop or store In this state. It is seen at once that the provisions of this law, with the anfci-pluck-zne store law, emancipated workingmen from the degrading and piratical domination of rapacious employers, and the penalty imposed b£ the law gave assurance of liberty of action on the part of employes that previously had been denied them. The Union Label. Organized labor, in recent years, became impressed that goods manufactured by union workingmen should be known by a label, wrapper, mark, name, brand, stamp or device of some kind which should be used for their protection, and this label or other device should be legalized by statute. It requires little effort to comprehend the great advantages such a label or other device would secure to organized labor since a moment’s reflection brings Intf. view a vast army of consumers wearing the badge of union labor, who, when it is practicable, purchases such goods only as bears the union label or other device, a fact well calculated to attract the attention of manufacturers, because of the larger sale of their wares. But the label or other device to have the desired effect required legislation, and this protection was given to union workingman and women by the Demoora'tio legislature of Indiana of 1898, the law providing! That the label, wrapper, mark, name, brand,. stamp or device used or intended tp be used by any union or association of workingmen or women, or of both, may be registered and receive protection. And the law further provides! "Every unlawful use” of the label or other deviced name, ‘‘waioh Is substantially tM same as one so registered or so nearly resembling the same as may bo oaiealated to deceive, may be enjoined in any court of competent jurisdiction and damages recovered therefor.” And the law provides severe penalties for violating any of Its provisions, such as counterfeiting the label or other device that has been registered, or by placing such forged label or other device upon goods and offering the same for sale This law passed In 1893, by a Democratic legislature, was in response to the earnest request of union workingmen who were earnestly seeking to promote the general welfare of labor in the state. Whatever else may be said of the Democratic party, the fact stands forth in the boldest relief that at all times and on all occasions, it has been the earnest and unfaltering friend of the wageworkers of Indiana and has responded with alacrity to promote fcheh welfare by prudent and just legislation,

Sundaj School Convention & Rally, The Marion Township Sunday School Convention and Rally Day will bj observed at the M. E. Church ■lt, MB S, IN; at 2:30 o’clock p, m. All Schools in Township will participate. Everybody invited.

INDIANA MINERS

legislation Passed By Democratic Legislature to Ameliorate Their Conditions. T® Protect the Miner From Weyter Heartlessness of Greedy Operator* the Democracy Passed Laws Providing for Mine Inspection, Check Weighman, Safety of Miners in Descending and Ascending in the Cage, the Proper Bracing and Ventilation of the Mine, the Abolishment of Child Labor in Mines, a* Well as the Wiping Out of the Infamous Pluck-Me Store*. One of Indiana’s great sources of wealth is her coal mines, and, strange to say, however paradoxical it may appear, this source of wealth has been fruitful of more poverty and hunger and their attendant ills, than has fallen to the lot of men employed in any other department of the state’s industries. Coal mining in Indiana of late years has been fruitful of the most deplorable conditions, the result in a large measure of the inordinate cupidity of mine owners and operators. With these men it was not sufficient that squalor resulted from a constant

depreciation of wages. The extreme hardships, which inadeqate wages imposed, afforded them opportunities to exploit their selfishness, until the only music that was heard : i aud around the mines was the auatliv-m i- of the men, the wailing of v - 1 the cries of children, an >ns of Indiana became . t ,;orable des-

titution, bordering upon : imine. It was not possible for legislation, not even Democratic legislation, though warmed into the greatest activity that humanity could urge, to relieve the victims of organized outrage. But what could be done for tne relief of men, the victims of Weyler heartlessness, was cheerfully attempted, as the records of Democratic legislation amply demonstrate. As early as 1883 the Democratic legislature, to guard against the injury and death of miners, provided that the rope used for “hoisting and lowering in every coal mine shall be a wire rope” and that it should be examined every morning. The legislature still further provided in case gas was known to exist in the mine, for a competent fire boss to investigate conditions to insure the safety of the miners,

The law also provided that the mine inspector should examine all mine scales used for weighing coal, to guard against fraud, and, to further protect the miners’ interests, the law provided for a “checkweighman” to inspect the weighing. In 1885 the coal miners of the state appealed to a Democratic legislature to still further afford them protection. And the law, in the interest of humanity, provided that not more than 10 persons should work in any mine, shaft, slope or draft in every 24 hours after 5,000 square yards have been excavated, until the second outlet shall have been made. The law also provided for breaks through or airways and all else required for the thorough ventilation of the mines. The law also provides for an ample supply of timber, so that the workmen could properly secure the works from caving in It also provided that miners’ bosses should visit these miners in their working places at least once a day. It is seen that this legislation had in ▼lew the protection of the health of the miners and sought to prevent their injury and death from avoidable conditions.

The Democratic legislature of 1891 was appealed to for further legislation to protect coal miners frpm the rapacity of owners and operators, and the response was prompt and emphatic, the purpose being; in so far as practicable, to relieve the coal miners of the state from exactions, which, with relentless persistency, forced them into deeper poverty and forbade their escape, The legislature of 1891 re-enacted, or made more binding, the regulations relating to scales and to weighing coal. It had been the practice first to screen the coal before weighing, by which the miners were defrauded of a large per cent of their just dues. This was prohibited and coal had to be weighed be. fore it was screened, and provided that 80 pounds of coal should constitute a bushel, and that 2,000 pounds of coal should constitute a toij. For the protection of miners, the law provided that “when two veins of coal are being mined in one shaft, two refloating lamps shall be kept lighted at all times” when the mine is in operation. The law provided for the safety of miners, that the cage descending and ascending tn the shaft should. be coVered with one-fourth inch toiler iron, and that signal bells should be sounded when the cage was ascending or descending the shaft. The act imposed upon the mining boss the imperative duty of examining every working place in the mine, at leas* every alternate day. The law further provides, Sections 13 and 14: “That for any injury to person or property occasioned by any violation of this act, or any willful failure to comply with any of its provisions, a right of action against operates agent or lessee shall accrue to the peaty _ injured for the direst injury thereby, and in ease of loss of life by re&snn of such violation, a right of aotfeu shall

A very pleasant wedding receptioi was held at the home of My. and Mrs. Ed. Parkison, in Barkley township, on the return of their son Wai. ltd bis bride, Wednesday evening. Captain Worden, of the Seventh T. $. Infantry, said starvation brought him to death.

accrue to widow, children or adopted children, or to the parent or parents, or to any other person or persons who ware before such loss of life depentend ftor l support on the person or persons so killed, for fike. recovery for damages for the injury sustained by reason of suoh loss of life or lives.” “That whenever loss of life shall occur by reason of any accident whatsoever, in or about any coal min®, it shall be the duty of the person having charge of said coal mine to report tne facts thereof without delay to the mine inspector and the said mine inspector together with the coroner of said county shall immediately go to the scene of said accident. They shall investigate and ascertain the cause of such loss of life, and have power to compel the attendance of witnesses and administer oaths of affirmation to them, and the cost of such investigation shall be paid by the county in which the loss of life may have occurred, in the same manner as costs of coroner’s inquests are now paid. The inspector shall give testimony in any suit for damages for the violation. ”

The law seeks to insure prompt notice of the death of coal miners when engaged in mining coal and imposes a penalty of SSO upon the person in charge of such mine for failure to give notice of such death to the mine inspector. The legislation, with regard to proper ventilation, and fresh air, is of the most emphatic character, the supreme purpose being tp secure the miners against the perils of foul air. The act also provided that males under the age of 14 years should not ba employed in coal mines, nor females at any age.

The enforcement of all the provisions of the act in question, was provided for by wholesome penalties. It has been remarked that legislation, however drastic, could not mitigate all the ills to which Indiana coal miners were subjected, but the various Democratic legislatures, as the records demonstrate, responded to every prudent demand of the miners. But aside from proper equipment of the mines to protect life and health and guard against injuries, legislation was demanded by the miners to protect them from a species of piracies practiced by owners and operators of the mines, in the matter of payment for the coal they had mined. The purpose of these own- I ers and operators, to all human appeal - - | ai;ces, being to rob them through the I agency of* “pluck-me stores,” whereby the impoverished miners time and again were forced to the verge of starvation.

To put an end to this piracy, the Democratic legislature of 1887 provided that miners should be paid, if the demand was made, once every two weeks “in lawful money of the United States.” And the law further provided that if persons owning or operating mines should issue or circulate aay check, card or other paper, which is not commercial paper payable at a fixed time in any bank in Indiana at its full face value, as lawful money of the United States, with 8 per cent, interest, or by bank check or currency issued by authority of the United States Government, to any employe of such person, co-partnership, corporation ar association in payment for any work or labor done by such employe, or in payment of any labor contracted to be done by such employe, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not more than SIOO. Nor was this all of the protection that the Democratic legislature afforded the coal miners, but it prohibited mine owners and operators from selling any merchandise to miners at a higher prioe than they sell the same merchandise to others for cash. And the law imposed a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than SIOO, This somewhat extended reference to legislation relating to the interests and welfare of the coal miners of Indiana, if an apology were necessary, is found in the fact that no class of our fellow citizens engaged in any industrial pursuit have been so relentlessly outraged and plundered as coal miners. In the Democratic party, and only in the Democratic party, did they find friends who espoused their cause, sympathized with them in their misfortune* and distress and came to their rescue Dy enacting laws calculated to afford suoh relief as was possible by legislation,

If the “true cash value** of propeMg la not on honest basis for assessment as provided by the Democratic tax law, the lawyers who wag their jaws in the interest of tax dodging sharks before the tax commissioners, should tell them what is an honest basis. Governor Mount, after full investigation, approved the Republican antitrust law, and has failed to execute it, because it is totally valueless. If why did he not vete it instead of giving it his approval. If Emperor William of Germany wants to pick a quarrel with Uncle Bam, now is the right time for him to begin. We have got. through -with Spain, and another European job could be fiuirtied before Uhjistmas. Senator Fairbanks, in his convents# ■peech, advocated the tariff policy of the Bingley law, which confiscates the property of the poor in the interest of the rich. AJI of a sudden there is a deal of sympathy expressed for Spain, but the penalty she is paying for centuries of cruelties are not too severe. Let her squeal. The organs of the Republican party ■peak of the recent convention of the party as “harmonious,’’ which reminds one of Kilkenny cat fights. Having liked Spain dean out of her boot s, we must now lick revenue stamps Io pay tw the fun. The McKinley wave of prosperity struck the farmer’s wheat and knocked it down to 69 cents a bushel.

To the Marion Township Sunday School Convention and Rally Day, at the M. E. Church, Sunday, Skptembeb 25, 1898, at 2:30 p. m. All Schools in Townshi > will participate, and an interesting Programme will be manipulated. Why de n’t McKinley appoint young Cleveland to a sinecure pos tion in tho infant-ry branch of the service?

LABOR UNIONS

Through Legislation the Democracy Lifts Many Burdens From Labor Organizations. I* Was Through Democratic LeglslatnrM That Coercion and Intimidation by Unscrupulous Employees Was Prohibited— Republicans Responsible for the Infamous Law to Intimidate Railroad Employes—Bringing of Pinkerton’s Into the State to Shoot Down the Strikers Prohibited by Democratic Enactments. It is well known to every union workingman in Indiana, because it is a part and an important part of labor’s history, that the time is not remote, even if it has passed, when employers were virulently hostile to labor organ!- - zation and in numerous ways sought to impose penalties upon workingmen.who became members of such organizations.

This hostility was exhibited in various forms, each and all of which was inimical to the liberty and independence of the union workingman. This opposition took the form of coercion, intimidation, threats of discharge, and of discharging men from their employment and of blacklisting them. It was in the most odious form wage slavery. And to make matters still worse, the opposition of employers to labor organizations was often, and generally, secret. The employers had their hired spies and the penalties imposed came without premonition. This shameful antagonism of employ, ers became so pronounced that union workingmen appealed to the Democratic legislature of 1893 for redress and the response was the enactment of a law, approved Feb. 25th, 1893, which provided:

“That it ehall be unlawful for any individual, Or member of any firm, agent, officer or employer of any company or corporation, to prevent employes'frem forming, joining and belonging/to any lawful labor organization, and any such individual member, agent, officer or employer that coerces or attempts to coerce employes, by discharging or threatening to discharge from their •employ or the employ of any firm, company or corporation, beoause of their connection with such labor orga/nization, and any officer or employer, to exact a pledge from workingmen that they will not become members of a labor organization as a consideration of employment, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding SIOO, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court.”

In these provisions of a wise and just law it is seen that labor did not appeal to the Democratic legislature in vain. Workingmen were at once emancipated from a most debasing thraldom. The odious schemes and machinations of employers were overthrown and union workingmen could exercise their rights and discretion unintimidated.

When the great number of union workingmen in Indiana is considered and the benefits that have accrued to them by virtue of the law under consideration, the Democratic party of Indiana has a right to felicitate itself upon the wisdom and justice of the statute which secures rights to workingmen which they appreciate, and prize above measure.

INTIMIDATION Infamous Legislation Euaoted by the Republicans Against Workingmen Repealed by the Democracy. The Republican legislature of 1881 enacted one of the most infamous laws that ever blotched the pages of the statute books of Indiana. The law, which was approved April 14, 1881, was designed especially to intimidate railroad employes and prevent them from striking against oppression, intimidation and coercion, and compel them from fear of fine and imprisonment to do the bidding of their task masters unresistingly. It is a matter of history that the demands of corporation magnates, when they have required laws promotive of their schemes, however nefarious the object in view, have sought the aid of Republican legislation, and there is not an instance on reeord in which a Republican legislature or a Republican congress has failed to respond satisfactorily, The Republican law of 1881 was in the interest of railroad corporations, the penalty being fine and imprisonment for any and every attempt to resist tho outrages inflicted upon them by men in control of the railroads of the state, among whom, more or less conspicuous was, 0. W. Fairbanks, uow United States senator. No one knew better than Fairbanks the purpose of the despotic law, but it was reserved for the Democratic legislation of 1880 to give railroad employees the relief they sought by repealing the Russianizing Republican intimidation law, for which thousands of railroad men in Indiana were profoundly gratefuk The splendid record made by the Democratic legislatures to improve the standing and broaden the influence of worktaigmen in Indiana has made the Republican party cautious, though still ready, as is shown by the infamous and unconstitutional garnishee law to aim a blow at poor men when ever an opportunity offers, if it can be done in a way to obscure th# real intent of the measure. When, u the records show, that ftve Democratic legislatures in succession responded to th# requests of the 'vork-

Web > Hayes, son of the “Fraud Piesident, is one of the commissioned “sons of their dad des.” The other day he posed and desired to know if he looked as though he had been starved! We suggest that McKinley appoiut him to the place on the commission declined by Bob Lincoln. He unuoubtedly would make u good ’’white washer!” B’Swiay-scMoi Conmiion 251 k I

ingmea eMhdtana to rford them from oppressive conditions, all double regarding the fealty of the Demooratio party to labor at once disappears, and the fact that the party is the friend of the workingmen of the state stands confessed and irrefutable. PINKERTONS »he Great Frtead* of C*raag««, Frlok anS Other Uneorapalotu Employer* Ben led Admission to Indiana by * Demoent io Legislature. It wiH be remembered by every oiti* ■en of Indiana, who has ever given labos troubles and interests a thought, that s' few years ago serious labor difficultiel occurred at Homestead, whereabout 10,000 workingmen were employed in building up the colossal fortune of An< drew Carnegie, one of the multimil lionaires of the country. This man negie is now known in Europe an# America as “Blowhole” Carnegie, a sobriquet applied to Mm because of his attempt to rob the government in the manufacture at armorplate for battleships, which was found to be worthless! on account of “blowholes.”

But before Carnegie attempted to des fraud the government, he, in assooia* tion with another rascal by the name of Prick, who had won a large measure of infamy in the coke regions of Pennsylvania by defrauding workingmen, began the same system of robbery at Homestead. Carnegie and Frick tried several methods for killing their employes who struck against the reduotioa of their wages and by being watchful* had escaped being scalded to death by hot water or killed by electricity, and finally to subdue men who were contending for fair wages and against robbery, Carnegie and Frick imported into Homestead a small army of thugs known as “Pinkertons,” who were armsd to the teeth with the most deadly weapons. These mercenary murderers# hired to kill for so much a day and rations, were attacked by the Homestead workingmen and compelled to ingloribusly retire from the battlefield. But the incident aroused universal indignation and became a world-wide infamy. It disclosed the fact that a concern in Chicago kept constantly on hand or* within call an army of unhung mereenariea, who could be hired as the British hired Hessians, bo kill workingmen with ae little oompuaation as if they were so many vagabond dogs, and it was seen that there were men in the United States at the head of great industrial enterprises who were willing to hke these outcasts to murder their employes, and fearing that Indiana might be within the “Pinkerton” zone, the Democratic legislature of 1888 enacted a law which forbade the employment of such vagabonds. This law enacted to protect workingmen from wounds and death inflicted uy men as heartless as Apache savages, pro vided,

“That it shall be unlawful for any person, company, association er corporation to bring or import into this state any person or persons or associations of persons for the purpose of discharging the duties devolving upon »heriffs, deputy sheriffs, marshals, policemen, constables or peace officers in the protection or preservation of public or private property or in the punishment of any person violating the criminal laws of thin state.’’ And the penalty imposed for violating the law is imprisonment in lhe penitentiary for one year and a fine of SIOO. , This wise and humane Demooratio measure received the emphatic indorsement of every workingman in the state and was convincing evidence of the promptness of the Democratic party to shield workingmen from the assaults of corporations, and from assaults of thugs, the product of the slums of great cities, and in tho employment of men who were willing to resort to such means to conquer their employes.

Governor Mount’s friends, regardless of party, are still deploring the injuries he received la Ms nniUoton Showalter. The Governor had sidetracked his train, which was hauling the constitution, the legislature, the supreme court, the 3-cent streetcar fare law and the attorney general when Showalter’s injunction locomotive struck him, head-on with terrific force, since when the governor, the constitution, the legislature, the 3 cent fare law and the attorney general have been so intermixed and intertwisted that all who have viewed the wreckage have declared the collision was altogether the most disastrous that ever occurred, since such judicial mosquitoes as Showalter wore boots.

Before the war with Spain we* were getting on nicely with a standing army of 25,000 men, and now we are to have a standing army of 100,000 men. It costs money to keep up such an establishment, but to raise it all that is required is to lick and stick revenue stamps. Major McKiuley hints that Whitelaw Reed will be made secretary of state, because he married a fortune big enough to enable him to get up swell entertainments in Washington, and make a superb ass of himself, as ho did in Paris. Senator Fairbanks, who goes to Canada on some sort of a government picnic, could, if required, tell the Oana< ans the profitable limit of wind at water to be injected into their railroad stocks and bonds. Having acquired the Hawaiian islands, 2,000 miles west of our Pacific coast, what becomes of the “Moiir..e doctrine?” The administration ought to inform the people, approximately, how much leprosy haabben annexed to the United Rates by th# Hawaiian treaty. And now Secretary ok War Alger seeks to shove the blame for the sufferings of the soldier bovs on the shoulders of Ex-ncongressmin Bi'.ly Owen, in the interest of the repub ican party, is stinging mud at chaplain Cars engen. The chaplain can stand it.

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