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prevent hoodlums and outsiders generally from taking any band in matters, or from doing any damage to property. A telegram from Elkhart, Ind., says* “The strike of the switchmen in Chicago has caused a great deal of excitement among the trainmen of the Lake Shore road at this place. The trains are made up here, and a majority of the employes reside here. All freight trains for Chicago are held here, and none are arriving from that point" JUDGE PARDEE. Labor Organizations Are Lavihl, hut They Dave No Legal Authority. Dallas (Tex.) Special. The following is the full text of the remarks of Judge D. A. Pardee, in the United States Circuit Court, in the trial of the men arrested in connection with the strike on the Texas & Pacific railroad, the Judge first referring to the condition of the railroad company as a bankrupt corporation in the hands of the coart, and being operated with all the protection the court could give: “The officers of the property of the company in the custody of the court are entitled to and must have the full protection that the court can give under the laws of the land, and this whether the grievance comes from within or without. If any employe of the receivers has any grievance or complaint as .to his employment, or wagos, or treatment, he can bring the matter before the court, and the court will hear and arbitrate and eee justice done in the premises. It is well-settled law that whoever unlawfully interferes with property iu the possession of a court is guilty of contempt of that court, and I regard it as equally well settled that whoever unlawfully interferes with officers and agents of the court iu the full and complete possession and management of property in the custody of the court is guilty of a contempt of court, and it-is immaterial whether this unlawful interference comes in the way of actual violence or by intimidation and threats. The employes of the receivers, although pro hac vice officers of the court, may quit their employment as can employes of private parties or corporations, provided they do not thereby intentionally disable the property, but they must quit peaceably and decently; where they combine and conspire to quit with or without notice, with the object and intent of crippling the party or its operation. I have no doubt that they thereby commit a contempt, and all those who combine and conspire with employes to thus quit, or as officials of labor organizations issue pretended orders to quit or to strike with an intent to embarrass the court iu administering the property, render themselves liable for contempt to the court. “Labor organizations are lawful and generally laudable associations, but they have no legal status or authority, and stand before men and the law on no better footing than other social organizations, and it is preposterous that they should attempt to issue orders that free men are bound to obey. No man can stand in a coart of justice and shelter himself behind any such organization from the consequences of his own unlawful acts. It is a part of this ease, and has been established by evidence taken under the direction of the court, that among all the employes of the receivers in operating over 1,500 miles of railway, there was no complaint made to the receivers or to the court by any employe of bad treatment, or insufficient wages, or other grievances, and yet orders were issued from a secret organization to all the employes to quit work, to strike, to cripple the operations of a great thoroughfare for travel aud commerce, and many employes, confederating and combining, did quit, and induced and forced others to quit, and did binder and delay the operation of the railway, and did damage the property in the possession of the court many thousands of dollars. This action was a gross contempt of court, wholly unreasonable and unjustifiable. The court has learned through the newspapers and from certain scandalous and anonymous circulars that this wrong was committed because the agents of the receivers had discharged as incompetent and for absence without leave a certain employe, and refused to reinstate him at the demand of a secret labor organization, which claimed that the discharge was in violation of an agreement forced upon the managers of the road prior to tho receivership. However this may be, I deem it proper to say that if true, the reason is impotent and such demands cannot be tolerated. The Texas & Pacific Railway property is in tho hands of the recognized constitutional court of the United States, fully able and willing to enforce its lawful authority and to protect its officers, and that court canuot listen to the demands of any secret organization, whether alleged to be social, religious, political or economical in character. If any employe was Improperly discharged by the receivers or their agents, the court was open to hear him, aud was willing to see justice done. “No such complaint has been made, and I doubt much if such case exists; but the investigation made under direction of this court, and the development of affairs since the strike was ordered, satisfy me that such alleged reason was a mere sham and pretense, and that the real motive for the order to strike was to compel a recognition of a certain secret labor organization (which, by evidence, has been shown to be about as arbitrary and autocratio In dealing with labor as the famous Six Companies of China), as An existing power, so that its officers shall be consulted iu the operation and management of railroads in which they do not own any interest, and on which they do not even pretend to be employed; and it is an indisputable fact that ninei enths of the men obeying the order to strike ■vers not aware of the alleged, cor real, reason 't'hloh was at the bottom of the arbitrary order, which was to result in so much injury to them and damage to the public. These present cases shew that peaceable trifling with the courts of the land was not sufficiently criminal in the eyes of many*of the leaders of these misguided men, and they, with others, have undertaken to order that railway property in the hands of the United States Court should not be operated and managed at all, unless with their consent and upon their their tor-ms, and violence, aud intimidation, and bulldozing have been resorted to to prevent the officers of the court from performing their duties. This intolerable conduct goes beyond criminal contempt of court and into the domaiu of felonious crimes; but so far as the court has now to deal with it, it is as a matter of eriminal contempt of court It may not be generally known, but the power of the court and the law in punishing such cases is unlimited in terms in imposing fines or imprisonment; the extent of either is a matter wholly within the discretion of the judge. Jt # is unnecessary to aay that the court has no desire for mere punishment, and has no other interest in the matter then to vindicate the dignity of the court, pro test the property in its oharge, and that the judge shall fearlessly and honestly discharge the duties incumbent on him under the Constitution and laws of the country. Considering the offenses, the sentences now imposed are light; they are, however, a substantial warning."

DEFYING *THE BOYCOTT. A St. Loafs Dealer to Dry Goods Declines to Yield to Demands Upon Him. St. lioais Globe-Deraoerst. X couple of sad looking individuals loitered pronnd a little dry goods store on the northwest corner of Thirteenth street and Franklin avenue yesterday, while the rain drizzled down and the cable, a bloek away, groaned, as in sympathy with the lugubrious expression the gentlemen wore. Men, women and children passed, and upon every one the doleful sentinels thrust copies of a “dodger,” worded as follows: “botcott. "To Knights of Labor of St. Louis: “You are hereby notified that a boycott has been declared against the Empire dry goods Store, eorner Thirteenth and Franklin avenue. A brother-workman canvassing for advertisements in our new reference-book, the book to be used by local assemblies, called at the store, and had no sooner made his business known than the proprietor became very violent and threatened to eject him If he did not immediately leave the premises. Our brother, not* wishiue to become involved in a dispute, quietly left Our committee then called to see what we should do under the circumstances, but the man would not listen to us, declaring at the same time that we were the cause of his losing money every day by ordering the ‘strikes,’ and be did not inteud to distribute favors to people who ruined his business. He then put on bis hat and left the store, giving us no opportunity of coming to a Settlement. "We therefore esk ell persona to keep away

from the Empire dry goods store until the proSrietors agree to pay all the costs of this boycott, esides a fine of SSO. and a retraction in full of all the slurs cast upon the order. By order “Executive Board." A reporter and a few others did the sentries the houor of carrying away the dodgers thrust upon them, but the majority of the passers-by, used to advertisements of corn remedies and perambulating gospelers’ appeals, thought the printed document was of the same kind, and the pavement was toon covered with dodgers, thick as the leaves in Vallambrosa, and trampled into the mire in a very suggestive sort of way. As the day wore away the committee wore out, and they held no night session, but matrons and maids flooked to the boycotted store in a very enlivening sort of way, and the clerks were kept running hither aud thither as they have not for many a Saturday night past. Ribbons, ruchings, lacings, “a yard, please, of calico," all were called for in rapid succession. A stranger would have thought that the proprietor had introduced some new form of the chromo-with-every-article racket. _ OTHER LABOR NEWS. The Stove-MannfactuEtng Firm of Roelker & Cos., To Be Boycotted. Evansville, Ind., April 18.— The Central Labor Union and IronMolders' Union, No. 51, have decided to declare a boycott against the stovemanufacturing firm of John H. Roelker & Cos. The firm was, a few days since, requested to cease handling prison-made goods and to hereafter operate their foundry as a union foundry, and under union rules. The firm’s response as to prison made goods was satisfactory, but the demand that their foundry be operated as a union foundry and under union mles, they declared to be unjust and unreasonable —hence the boycott. The foundry has been shut down for an indefinite time. The Third-Avenue Car Strike. New' York, April 18. —Twenty-five new men were hired by the Third-avenue Railroad Company, to replace strikers, and drilling of the new drivers has gone forward all day in the depot. The company’s officials are thoroughly confident, and say they now have enough men to run the cars of the main line from end to end, and also the Oue-hundred-and-twenty-fifth-strcet line. The strikers were in session all day to-day, and they say they initiated twenty-five of the company’s newly hired men of Saturday. Workingmen Advised to Arm. New York, April 18.—What is known as the Workingman’s Rifle Corps to-day filled a hall at No. 9 Seeond avenue. They were addressed by Editor Schewitzsch, of the Volks Zeitung, upon the labor question. He advised his hearers to arm themselves as rapidly as possible, and prepare themselves for future troubles. Rifles could be had for $6 each, and ammunition was cheap. Tho crowd cheered these sentiments. A Demand for Increased Wages. Youngstown, 0., April 18—There is every reason to believe that the coal miners of the Mahoning valley will make a general demand for an advance of wages within a short time. The miners of the Poland Coal Company, aud those of the Port Royal Coal Company, iu that vicinity, have already n6ked for an increase of 10 cents per ton from May 1.

New York Dorse-Car Lines Again Tied Up. Nbw t York, April 19.—The executive committee of the Car-drivers'Association have decided to tie up all the surface lines in the city, excepting on Eighth and Ninth avenues, at 6 o’clock this morning: THE DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department, } Office of the Chief Signal Officer, V Washington, April 19. la. m. ) Special Indications for Twenty-four Hours, from 7 a. m., for Indianapolis and Vicinity— Fair weather, stationary temperature. For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee—Fair weather, winds generally easterly, stationary temperature. For the Lower Lake Region—Fair weather, variable winds, slight change in temperature. For the Upper Lake Region—Fair weather, winds generally northeasterly,flight changes in temperature, except iu the western portion, warmer weather. For the Upper Mississippi Valley—Fair weather, nearly stationary temperature, winds generally easterly. For the Missouri Valley—Fair weather, slight changes in temperature, slightly cooler in the northern portion, with winds becoming variable, brisk to high winds during this afternoon. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Aoril 18. Tinie. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain. 6a. m.. 30.28 58.0 70 East Clear lOa. M-- 30.31 71.0 49 South Clear 2p. m.. 30.24 74.0 40 S’east Fair. 6P. M-. 30.24 72.0 46 East Clear 10 P. M.. 30.29 65.0 60 East Clear Maximum temperature, 75; minimum temperature, 56. General Observations. War Department, ) Washington, April 18,10 p. m J Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. 3 Sf B* *§• ? § 3 °* tr 2, a STATIONS. || I § = 2 I | : 25; f i 9 : : I : New York City 30.37 44 S’east Clear. Washington City... 80.36 56 South Clear. Vicksburg, Misa.... 30.10 67 N'east Cloudy. New Orleans, La— 30.03 66 : N’east Clear. Shreveport, La 30.10 67 East Fair. Fort Smith, Ark... 30.12 63 S'east Clear. Little Rock, Ark... 30.11 64 East Clear. Galveston, Tex..... 30.03 68 South ..... Clear. Memphis, Tenn 30.15 66 East Fair. Nashville, Tenn 30.16 68! East Fair. Louisville. Ky 30.25 07 East Clear. Indiauapolis, Ind... 30.29 67 East Fair. Cincinnati, O. 30.28 69j East Clear. Pittsburg, Pa 30.32 65 N’east ..... Clear. Oswego, N. Y 30.36 55!Nwesfc Fair. Toledo, 0 30.35 57! S’east Clear. Escanaba, Mich 30.40 39; South Foggy. Marquette, Mich— 30.40 43 N'east Clear. Chicago, 111 30.33 49 North Clear. Milwaukee, Wia 30.36 50 East Clear. Duluth, Minn 80.34 42 N’east Clear. St. Paul. Minn 30.25 63 S' east Clear. LaCrosse. Wia 30.26 67 S’oast Clear. Davenport, la 30.24 67 S'ea3t Clear. Des Moines, la 30.20 65jCalra Clear. Keokuk. Ia 30.21 65!S'east Clear. Cairo, 111 30.19 66 N’east Fair. Springfield, 111 30.23! 69 Calm Fair. Bt. Louis, Mo 30.23 j 70:East Clear. Lamar, Mo 3 .16 63 S’east ..... Clear. Leavenworth, Kan.. 30.18 63 S'east ..... Clear. Omaha, Neb 80.18 61 S’east Clear. Yankton, Dak 30,11 63 S'east Clear. Moorehead, Minn.. 30.14 62 South .....Clear. Bismarck, Dak 30.15 55 North Cloudy. Fort Buford. Dak.. 30.30 51 Xwest Cloudy. Ft.Assiniboine.M.T 30.29 46 VVest Clear. FortCu9ter, Mont.. 30.28 38 South .01 Cloudy. Deadwood, Dak 30.10 39 N’east Cloudy. North Platte, Nob.. 29.95 70 S’east Clear. Denver, Col 29.96 47 North Cloudy. W. Las Animas. Col 29.94 62 Sweat Cloudy. Dodge City, Kan.... 30.02 64 S’east Clear. Fort Elliott Tex... 30.00 66 S’east Clear. Fort Sill, Ind. Ter.. 30.00 66 S’east Clear. Fort Stockton, Tex El Paso, Tex 29.75 71 East Clear. Salt Lake City. U. T 29.96 44 North .02 Cloudy. Enforcing' the lowa Liquor Law. Clinton, la., April 17.—The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union to-day filed under thp State law applicationa for injunctions to prevent the thirty-three saloon keepers in Clinton from selling liquor. All saloons except two immediately shut up shop, aud the keepers announced that their places would remain closed until the suits are decided. Federal Official Charged with Embezzlement. Little Rook, Ark., Aoril 17.—News has just been received.of the arrest of John W. Jones, formerly editor of the Newport (Ark.) News, but for several months absent in Idaho a* Indian aehool commissioner, by appointment of President Cleveland. Be waa secretary for Arkansas

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of the American Legion of Honor, and was arrested on a requsition from Governor Hughes. He is charged with embezzling several thousand dollars of the endowment fund. Jones came to Arkansas from Virginia, several years ago, and was a member of the last Legislature from Jackson county. _ INDIANA AND ILLINOIS. An Old Quarrel Revived and One of the Participants Seriously Stabbed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Shelbyvillb, April 18. —Lincoln Van Buskirk, who resides near the J., M. & I. depot, was seriously stabbed this evening by Will Carter, in a quarrel which ensued at that depot. Carter says Van Buskirk came up aud renewed an old trouble and drew his revolver, when he (Carter) grabbed his arm until he could draw his knife, when the stabbing was done. The gashes are in the back and side, and are of a very dangerous if not fatal character. Some years ago Van Buskirk shot Carter in a quarrel in a house of ill-fame, and ever since then they have been at outs. Van Buskirk is said to have made threats for the past week that he would kill Carter. The latter gave himself up, and is now in jail. He is a young man, a painter by trade, and generally very peaceable. A Seventeen-Year-Old Evangelist. Louisville Courier-Journal. Ohio Falls, a suburb of Jeffersonville, has probably the youngest preacher in the country. His name is Thomas A. Coleman, and he is but seventeen years of age. He has but little education, but is well versed on Biblical topics. A few months ago he evinced a desire to become a preacher, and so earnest and apparently sincere was he in his profession of religion that the pastor of the Clarksville church permitted him to address the meeting one evening. The little fellow mounted the pulpit and preached a very forcible and effective sermon for one so young. Since that time he has frequently held meetings at both the Ohio Falls and Clarksville churches, and gives rare promise of becoming a successful minister. He is about five feet high, has red hair, and looks younger than he really is. Indiana Notes. Wm. Walters, of Terre Haute, has become insane from indulgence iu opium and alcoholic stimulants. Alfred Nichols, of New Albany, while working on the new river bridge, had a leg broken by a falling timber. Mrs. Carrie Eldridge, an old lady residing at Terre Haute, has become insane. Fourteen years ago she was an inmate of the asylum. Rev. Ira J. Chase, the popular preacher of Danville, an ex-Union soldier, is mentioned for the Republican congressional nomination from the Fifth district. G. D. Late, of Kokomo, has been appointed by Department Commander Gen. T. W. Bennett to represent Howard co’.nty on the State monument committee. James M. Able recently returned from Texas to Northwest township, Orange county, where, while visiting his brother, J ,B. Able, he placed a shotgun to bis head and blew his brains out The G. A. R. of Kokomo held a rousing meeting at their hall Friday evening and took the initiatory steps pointing to a grand parade and impressive ceremonies on Decoration Day, which will bo observed on Monday, May 31. At Dayton, while Robert Benham was giving an exhibition of shooting glass balls with a rifle from the back of a running horse, the saddlegirth broke, and in the fall Benham was kicked in the back and badly iniured. Tho orse being unshod, probably saved his life. In Rock Creek township, Bartholomew county, to show their appreciation of F. J. Beck, the teacher, the patrons of the school on the last day of the term, got together, and visiting the school in a body, brought in an excellent dinner, to which scholars and everybody seated themselves. At Jeffersonville, Capt Ed. Howard will commence building the new marine ways at his shipyard in a short time. They wili cost about $50,000, and will be so arranged that anu of the large steamers plying on Southern or Wmrfcern waters can be drawn out of the water and the hulls repaired without any inconvenience to the passengers or freight.

Illinois Items. At Grayville, Mrs. Frank Biddle, forty-ftve years old, the mother of six children, took strychnine and died. Her husband had deserted her. OP W. B. Davidson, manager of the Macon County Protective Association, of Decatur, has< been arrested for issuing and sending through the mails lottery circulars. TELEGRAPH fC BREVITIES. Pasqualo Oliver, an Italian residing at Cleveland, was run over by a loaded wagon, Saturday, and instantly killed. Qis heart was broken in two. Thomas F. Norris, a young man living at 317 Bridge street, Cleveland, made a murderous assault on his mother, Saturday night, with a poker, while in a fit of insanity produced by liquor. She will probably die. At Clarksville, Tex., Alfred Thompson was shot and instantly killed, on Friday, by Henry Roach. Thompson was the aggressor. The difficulty grew out of the opening of anew road through their respective lands. Joseph Sohmidt, a clerk in the Pittsburg city treasurer’s office, has been missing since Monday, and is believed to have gone to California. An examination of his accounts show a shortage of $2,300. The city will be reimbursed by his bondsmen. Base-Bait Louisville, April 18. —The first game on the home grounds was witnessed by ten thousand people, and was won by the Louisvilles by hard hittine at the right time. Ramsey’s pitching was the feature. He struck out fourteen men. Following is the score: Louisville 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 I—4 Cincinnati 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—3 Earned runs —Louisville, 2; Cincinnati, 0. Two-base hits—Browning, 1. First base on balls—By Ramsey, 1; by Pechiney, 2. Umpire, Young. St. Louis, April 18.—The American Association game, which was to have opened the season here yesterday, but which was postponed on account of rain, was played this morning to a crowd of 3,000 people. Tho chief features of the game were double plays by Knehne and Whitney, pretty running catches by Welch, and the fine pitching of Morris. Following is the score: It. Louis 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 4 o—B Pittsburg O 1 O 0 O 0 2 O I—4 Runs earned—St. Louis, 3; Pittsburg, 3. Twobase hits—Carroll, 2: Latham. 1. Three-base hit—Carroll. Total bases on hits—St. Louis, 16; Pittsburg, 13. Left on bases—St. Louis. 5; Pittsbure, 7. Baseg on called balls—off Caruth ere, 5; Morris, 4. Passed balls—Carroll, 2. WUd pitches—Morris, 2. The second eame between St Louis and Pit'j burg was played this afternoon at Sportsman Park, to an enormous crowd, every part of the grounds being filled with fully 12,000 people. Galvin’s pitching was very fine throughout, but the four runs by the Browns in the first inning disheartened the visitors, and they gave their pitcher but feeble susport thereafter. Foutz was disabled in the eighth inning, .and Hudson was put in the box. Score by innings: St. Louis 4 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 2—lo Pittsburg O O O 1 O O O O 2 3 Runs earned—St Louis, 1. Two base hits— Gleason, 1: Bushong and Whitney. Total bases on hits—St. Louis, 2; Pittsburg, 6. Left on bases—St Louis, 6; Pittsburg, 3. Bases on called balls—Off Foutz. 2; off Galvin, 3. Passed balls—Sullivan, 3. Wild pitenes—Hudson, 1: Galvin, L _ . , Obituary. Ouxbuet, Mass., April 18.—Stephen N. Giffond, the venerable Clerk of the State Senate, died to-day suddenly of pneumonia, aged seventy years. He was serving his twenty-ninth consecutive year as Clerk of the Senate. Dkans, Ont, April 18.—David Thompson, member of Parliament, is dead. * No poison in Red Star Cough Cure. No ©pi* ales. It is prompt, safe and sure*

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Living, Its Cost and Drawbacks. To the Editor of the IndtauDolii Jonrntl: The following figures are particularly significant just now to bo considered by tho people, and especially the workingman, while the discussion as to his wrongs by his employer is going on: According to an estimate of a tobacconist, $2,000 are paid daily in this city for cigars and tobacco. Calculating the population to be 100,000, and that the consumption here is an average one, then the entire population of the United States pay about $500,000,000 in one year. And, according to the government reports, about $900,000,000 worth of strong drink is consumed, making $1,400,000,000 paid for these two entirely unnecessary and hurtful stimulants and narcotics. These estimates are Aubstantially sustained by a gentleman of Philadelphia, “not a temperance fanatic," who says: “I am more and more convinced each day that the correct name for hard times is whisky and tobacco, and that the $20,000,000 spent here each year for building is not quite our whisky and tobacco pocket-money for six days; and, incredible as it seems, it is positively so, all the house-building in this city in sixty years is drunk down and spit out (bah) iu the United States each year, and mostly by the poor;” and which means the wage-workers, Knights of Labor, etc. Then, estimating that one in twenty, or about three millions of the people, consume the strong drink and tobacco it would be S3OO a year to each man, and about $l7O to each for tobacco. The New York Tribune estimates that the people of this country drink two gallons of liquor for every bushel of wheat they consume twice as much for liquor as for bread; and as much for tobacco as for bread. Nor is this all that is to be considered by the wage-worker, especially if he is poor, which is certainly almost always the case when he starts in life, marries and settles down. In a large proportion of cases he attempts to live on a level with his employer or the well-to-do citizen, thus entailing an additional expense of at least 25 per cent * more for living than is actually necessary for the mere comfort of his family. Then, again, to have all things convenient, he seeks and obtains credit for a week, and from week to week, for about all the provisions he may need, and then, as is almost always the case, he buys more than is actually necessary, because he does not have to pay cash down for it; besides, his creditor charges, as a matter of protection from loss by failures of some to pay, at least 10 per cent mors for what he does buy. Now, to sum up all the actually unnecessary costs for a mere comfortable living, such as a man who wishes to rise in the world, and up to the condition of a householder and ail other conveniences of a roan of plenty, it amounts to about 50 per cent more than his expenses should ba Then, if he be a consumer of stroug drink and tobacco, whatever outlay there is in that direct-on is to be added to that 50 per cent, and which expense often runs from a dime or two a day to five or ten times that amount, while, in proportion as those ex cesses are indulged in his time is spent in idleness and dissipation, and his family correspondingly suffer, his wife often being compelled to seek all kinds of menial work to save herself and chil dren from want and suffering. These descriptions of the workingman are verified in every neighborhood, and in proportion as they indulge in those reckless habits of living, are they poor, without any hope of arising above that condition, yet those are the class of wage-workers who proclaim loudest against their employer, and claiming the most inadequate pay to their wants. On the other haud, if the workingman start out in life with a determination to rise to a position of comfort and independence he economizes in every conceivable way, and soon sees himself on the upward plane to that condition, and reaches it, and often becomes tho employer instead of the em ployed, as is witnessed in the heads of innumerable businesses all over the country to-day, aud against whom the other class of wage-workers is now striking or complaining of the oppression they are receiving at the hands of those self-made capitalists. Henry George characterizes the present strike “The revolt against industrial slavery.” But as far as the extravagant and dissipated habits described above apply to their habits, or those of any other working men, are not those strikers and the others striking against the condition which the great Master Workman of the universe has designed for them and made it possible for them to attain to by observing the laws which He has required them to live up to? Then, is there not another strike in order, which, if they shall go into with all their soul, will it not evidently relieve them much from whatever necessity they may see for the other!—a strike all along the line against strong drink, tobacco, and nil the other unwise, unnecessary and expensive indulgences. While they may not think that the $470, more or less, paid by them for strong drinks and tobacco is an important consideration for them when complaining of the oppression of their employers, yet it will, with what can De saved by a rigid and proper management of home expenses, go far toward removing all such complarots, as well as proving an important factor in procuring them a good home in fee simple. Let them, for their own and family's sakes, consider well these matters. We’ll See.

Telephone Stock. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Jonrnal: To an unbiased observer the telephone situation in Indianapolis, as bad as it is, appears liable to be made worse, if some of the plans proposed for its improvement ar; considered and adopted. The co-operative plan has a plausible appearance on the surface, but beneath are many snags to interfere with its smooth sailing. If each subscriber is required to take stock in the company to the amount of $lO and the Bell company should sue for and get an injunction and damages would not each stockholder be liable for his proportion of the damages, as well as the expense of litigation! And suppose we go into this scheme, and after we have paid in our S4O all round, and have just commenced operating an exchange, the Bell comes down on us like a wolf on the fold—where, oh, where is our S4O? Nowhere, except in what dead poles and wires we may have on haud that we cannot use again. Suppose we commence operations and some obstinate person living some distance out, where it would be expensive to build a line, demands a telephone for $3 per month tinder the law, and don’t want any stock in his. What will we do with him? Build aline costingsso or S6O for let him pay us’s3 a month for a few months and then drop out, or shall we say to him, depart from us, we know you not, unless you will take some of our stock, and defend any suit he may bring, and then have to give in, as did the Central company? These are a few of the difficulties in the way that ought to be thought of before the co-opera-tive is considered with any view to adoption. All the companies that have presented themselves to us have, so far as can be learns from newspaper reports, either been sued for infringement of other patents or have never put their telephones into commercial use to afford an opportunity, and their main object seems to be to confer upon us the favor of some of their stock at very low prices—if it were worth anything—if we take hold of their enterprise, build au exchange, aud become liable for damage suits; and they all want a franchise that, like Mrs. Toodles’s door-plate, if not valuable now, may be at some time, and want it in such form that it can be transferred to the highest bidder. Does it not seem a little strange that if there is any great merit in the companies now beaming on us their warmest smiles, they should come to Indianapolis to secure the necessary capital to promote their enterprises? Why not rather go to larger money centers, where there is always ready capital to push any legitimate undertaking? Or do they think we are more verdant and will not see the African in the woodpile, be be covered never so thinly? if these telephones are legitimate, and there is money in the business at the rates theso people propose shall he charged, why have they not opened telephone exchanges in New'Yerk, Chicago, Cincinnati and other large cities, where the rates are said to be much higher than they ever were here? Would they not be able to take all the patrons of the Bell company away from It in those places! Does it not look like they wished

to take advantage of our state of mind, caused by the withdrawal of the Central company, to eaten onr hearts and pocket-books, in the rebound from onr jilting. Let ns consider this telephone question carefully, remembering that “the prudent man foresees the evil and bideth himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.’' N. M.

That Transparent HnmbDg. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Was ever so transparent a humbug debated in our American Congress or any other Congress as the arbitration bill which passed the House with a whirl the other day, and will pass the Senate, possibly somewhat modified, and then it will become a law by the approval of the President; And then what? It provides that in a case of a dispute between employers and employes, either may go into court and demand an arbitration, and after that go out and do as he pleases. This last provision is the only sensible thing in the bill. Nevertheless, the measnre should be passed and be tried. It will do good just as it does good to, try every patent lotion on a gabgreened foot, before resorting to the knife—it makes the sufferer better resigned to the knife when it has to come. That remedy or any other based on the fallacious and vicious theory which underlies it can no more reach the springs of the disease than a salve of mutton tallow and sheep sorrel can care senile gangrene. It can hardly relieve the pain for a moment, bat it ought to be tried, just to show that nothing but the knife will effect a cure, and that knife, in this labor case, is the strong arm of the law which shall open the doors of all honorable and profitable labor to every American citizen and protect him in the pursuit of a living, if it takes every other American to do it By the way, is it not strange that so many thinking men—lawyers, doctors, preachers, and even some editors—have plunged headlong into the false aDd dangerous quagmire on which, as on a fonndation, the vicious theory is built which underlies all the so-called labor troubles'? Men talk of capital and labor as distinct elements. So they are; but they are never antagonistic. But when you talk of capitalists aod laborers as being separate and distinct classes yon ignore the facts of everday life and talk nogsense. Producing and consuming are distinct elements; but producers and consumers are not distinct classes, for every man and woman is at once both a producer and eonsumer, except the few thieves and spongers who infest society. The farmer who raises his own bread is a producer, and when he eats he is a consumer; but that farmer is as much a producer at table as when afield, and as much a consumer when following the plow as when eating or sleeping. The blacksmith, or the tailor, or the drayman is both a producer and consumer, and so is the merchant or the lawyer, the doctor or the preacher. Every man or woman who contributes by his or her hand or brain, or both, to the wealth and happiness of the body-poiitic is entitled to equAl honor and dignity, no matter what special work he or she may perform, and it is arrant demagogy to attempt to exalt one or degrade another. Every one carries in his own person the proud honor of being at the same moment both a capitalist and a laborer, and no sensible man will pose as either at the humiliation of the other. To illustrate: Here is a shoemaker. As he stitches away he is manifestly a laborer. When he has sold his goods he becomes a capitalist, and yet, with his money in his pocket, he stitches away, a typical American, both a capitalist and a laborer. Asa capitalist he instinctively betrays the characteristics of his guild. He wants a coat, and proposes to employ a laborer across the street to make it, but he does not always leave the matter of wages to the man of the goose, but he asks the price. Asa capitalist he dictates wages unless his demand is imperative; then the laborer dictates. In case of a disagreement neither proposes arbitration, for there is no law but the law of slavery can make either submit to arbitration. Five years later, drinking no intoxicants, using no tobacco, and working as many hours as his strength will allow, he has money enough to employ a jour., then two, then ten, then a hundred, then a thousand. Now he becomes a “monopolist, r forsooth, a monster, a proper subject to be boycotted, although he has not changed his relation to capital and labor one jot. In tbe eyes of common sense he has the same rights now that he had twenty years ago, with the same rights to contract with employes and control his business that he had when he and one jour ran the whole; but in the eyes of this vicious un-American heresy he must have somebody to arbitrate between him and those who are at liberty to leave him at any moment, and whom he does not want to employ. It is thus with every free American. He is forever both a laborer and a capitalist. The man who handles millions and superintends railroads or factories, is no more a capitalist than the man who makes shoes to sell, thongh he may have more capital than the shoemaker. The man or woman who goes to market with a dollar ora dime is a capitalist, and employs the gardener or the batcher to labor for him or her. Every man who rides on a railroad is a capitalist, and the manAgerof the road is the workingman; but to morrow the relative position of the two may be changed, as the tailor becomes the capitalist when he wants to boy shoes, and he always gets them as cheap as possible. Allow me to further illustrate my point by a bit of personal history which is duplicated every day. A few months ago 1 wanted to send a box of goods to Detroit. I was a capitalist. 1 had money, and as I found several workingmen anxious to work for me, I felt quite independent. First, I applied to a laborer standing on the Circle, with An express wagon. He said be would charge 50 cents to take the box to the railroad. It was exorbitant, and I refused to pay it. He never said arbitrate, for there was nothing to arbitrate, and I found a man more than willing to take it for a quarter, and expressman No. 1 never proposed to shoot or club expressman No. 2. At this point I learned that there was a working man by tbe name of Jay Gould who had used his own money and the money of thousands of other workingmen, called stockholders, just to take my box and other goods from Indianapolis to Detroit. I called on Mr. Gould at his office in this city—he was not in personally, but his representative was—and told him I was a capitalist: had plenty of money and wanted to employ a workingman to carry that box to Detroit. Mr. Gonld, through his representative, spoke like a wellbred gentleman, though a laborer, working sixteen hours a day, and said 48 cents'a hundred pounds. If he had said 50 cents I should have gone to another laborer who was anxious to take it for 48 cents. I was a capitalist ands proposed to get my work done as cheap as possible whether Mr. Gonld could support his family at tbe reduced rate or not. I employed Mr. Gould and he did that job satisfactorily. A few weeks later I wanted to be carried myself to this same Detroit. First I applied to a workingman, Frank Bird, who has invested his own money and the money of several other workingmen in hacks, hansoms and other vehicles. Mr. Bird said fifty cents. I said, I’ll walk first, and I walked. Mr. Bird never said “arbitrate;" he just let me, a capitalist with money in my pocket, walk, and nobody boycotted me. Again I called on Mr. Gould. He had carried my box so satisfactorily that I thought I would employ him again. Most of capitalists do that way. If an employe does his duty he employes him aeain. Mr. Gould stated his figures. I told him I could do better. There was another workingman engaged in the business that would take me lor less. Like all capitalists I took the cheaper laborer, and went over another road. Mr. Gould never said “let us arbitrate.” There was nothing to arbitrate. He had the right to demand a hundred dollars if he ehose, and I exercised my right to go jnst as comfortably for less than half that. Neither has he boycotted me, but remains on as good terms as ever, offering to work for me whenever I need his services at his price. lam a working man as well. That is the way I get my capital, albeit I have to work from twelve to fourteen hours out of the twenty-four, and I know full weil what it is to be ground down and oppressed by capital. A few days ago a capitalist called at my office. He had* been selling some real estate and wanted to execute a deed. Like all capitalists who wish to grind the face of workingmen, he asked the price. 1 told him, giving the regulation priee. He looked injured, and said, “I ean get it for a dollar," and away hs went I was too much of a man to say let’s arbitrate, for no power on earth could make him pay more than a dollar while there is an army of hungry scriveners only too glad to write and acknowledge a deed for a dollar. How they support their families at that 1 cannot tell, and I notice that capitalists don’t eare. Unless arbitration is the proper remedy fat a ease where two mem stand fact to

face, wishing to bay and sell—to em-' ploy and be employed, it is not tbe thing where two, or ten, or a thousand confront each other. The only remedy is to let every man fit his own price as buyer or seller, and make every other man let him alone. U. L. Ska A Thoughtful Relative. San Francisco Chronicle. There’s one yonng fellow In San Francisao whose ingenuity and forethought fit him for the highest place in politics, if he chooses to adopt that mode of life. I envy him, not so much the ingenuity as the rich female relative upon whom he has made use of it so successfully. She in far away in a distant land, and appreciates, an all people do under such circumstances, the thoughtfulness and kindly attention which are perhaps rarely given to the distant poor. This lady has a passion for strange bric-a-brac, and she prizes a piece that comes from so far away as San Francisco. This young gentleman wished to remember her birthday and send her some* thing. He bethought him of a piece of rare china, but the price of what he wanted rather appalled him. A happy thought occurred to him. There was an old piece of broken china that was worth little. His eye fell upon it “Now, he said to himself, “if I send apiece of china through the mail, it will very likely get broken. If I send this it will be taken for granted it was broken in the mail. Shell have it mended, and there you are.” He sent the broken piece, and the rich relative has already sent him several remittances as acknowledgment All I want is the rich relative. I've got the broken china. We AH Want Our Wages Raised. New York Evening Post Justice Duffy, who has been fining Mrs. Gray'e boycotters, and at the same time giving them good advice, has besides his courage one excellent qualification for dealing with this class of cases, and that is a strong sense of humor. He sees the absurd or comic side of it His observation that not the boycotters only, but all of us, himself included, want our wages raised, goes to the root of the matter. There is no desire so prevalent among men of all trades and callings as the desire for more pay. The readiness to strike for it, if striking will prodace the desired effect, is very widespread. There is no calling in which striking for a rise of wages is not common except the clerical calling. Doctors, lawyers, teaches, editors, engineers, as well as mechanics and laborers, strike whenever they feel confident that striking will increase their in-' come—that is, they insist on working for those who will pay them best, and for no one else. But they do not follow the man who refuses to give them their price, around the streets with libeling placards on their backs, or hang around his door trying to frighten away the butcher and grocer, or take the nuts off his wagon, or poison bis dog. It is not striking that is shameful, but these savage and silly attacks on property and peace. Dr. Mary Walker on Dress. From Leoturs at Pittsburg. But now, in. speaking of reform in dress. There is a great principle in this. There is no reason why women should wear clothes which make her nervous, debilitated and unable to do her portion of the work to be done in the world. Men must deprive themselves of books, of papers, and of many of the pleasures of life jnst to keep their wives and daughters so dressed that they may move in good society. And these same wives and daughters are, many of them, invalids, broken down by tbe tyranny of fashion and dress. They are wholly nnable to do their part to help sustain the family, if reverses should come. Now, I would not think it any particular favor if half the men in the United States should ask me to be their wifo. I have bad men, intelligent and wealthy men, come to me and say; “Dr. Walker, I respect you; I respect your intelleot and your good sense, and I believe, if you only dressed like other women, I would love yon and ask you to be my wife.” Well, do you know what I told them? I said: “There are plenty ot women in the world who dress just as you want them to; go and marry them.” I don't want any one to marry me for my clothes, or when lam dressed up, I look well If lam mar* ried it must be from the highest motives.

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