Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 September 1898 — Page 5

ftecord of the State Democracy on Questions Effecting Workmen. |awi Adopted by lbe Dtamcrd* FrohlbIttai Coittract Labor, Child labor, Re* qnlrlnf Workmen to lie P»W Oe«e a Month, l*rolitbltl(i( Railroad* From E*aetlnc , Coot rlkui low* From Employes For Ko-CnIImI latmrauee bacirlbs Abolishing Pluck-He Ron* and Protecting Union latbelo. The Democratic state platform for JlbOfi upou which the campaign is to be fought outil election day iu November, prudently gives prominence to the labor issue, because many thousands of oar fellow bitixeus wear the badges at or* gauixed 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 organisations, working men employed iu shops and factories in mines and ou railroads, to the army of \ toilers, who build everything that is boilt 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 detnauded, as it was their prerogative ana doty to demand, legislation to emancipate them from embarrassment aud thraldoms which aggregated wealth, iu oontrol of great industries, had imposed upon them. In defense of the proposition, that the Democratic party from the first, had been the trieud of wageworkers, there is abundant testimony, and it a reason for this condition is sought, it is readily found iu the fact toat Democratic ascendancy has always been promoted by j M larger per rentage of the votes erf workingmen tliau any opposiug party could secure. Men, working for a living, if tliey 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 iu perfecting their schemes, have appealed to the Republican i Kir tv for the required legislation aud it’is only necessary to appeal to the reoord to substantiate the atiamanou. Iu this coiiuectiou. it is worthy of remark that t he labor legislation, provided 1 hr Democratic legislatures troui 18>“d to lihiH inclusive, is soiuetluug more aud belter than class legislation specifically beneficial to workingmen. True it is permeated with humanity aud with justice;' true it sought to emancipate workingmen from the autocratic dooti- ' . lieeriug of iusoleiit and atrogaut emph yers; true it sought to compel rupucioiis employers to cease trampling upou the rights of employee* and to let go their grasp upou the throats of their victim#, to cease their iatmudntimis, coercions, blacklistings and other n**fur- ' ion# practices, all of which, while ostea«ib)j md, iu tact, iu the interest of labor. have in the phiiosopbr of government, a broader significance, because it vn of necessity and in an inestimable 1 measure in th* interest of society at largo It is vicuons to the last degree to talk of a government of. bv and for tho people w hen any of the people an* subjected to debasing condition* to grant y the cupidity and ostentation i>f the employers of labor, and hence Demoaratiqlegislanuii iu the interest of t«>ilers, be»r> the s'amp of the best statesmanship of the tunes.

Coulniet Thereexl»Uti In Indiana the pernicious praetW* of ImjmrtittK Into tin* state aliens Aim foreigners umhg ooutwt to i*'rtwm \;ire>u* mem* of labor. This MMCliOB ainu-d M deadly blow at the workingmen of tin) iktatc by importing a vicious class t»f men who, caring no.hing for ti*e prerogatives of cit wsensnip. were willing to accept meager wage* and live like -wine in »U'h huts as their wage* enabled them to ae-ur**. Hut in the lh*m<«c»»tie hai'loture. in the interest »>f s»iclal «vurih HiiJpxd government, pqt aQ cud to the ouattnrt labor »jrstem 111 Indiana, making thecontract "utterly void and of no eCix-ls” and imposing a heavy penalty for tlolittlug ini' law t amt Labor. t TIk* Democratic legislature of 1SN5. in | response to tin- demands of humanity and the future well being >>i society, a subject which broadens t*y contemplation, enacted a law relating to the empoymont o' rhiid labor, in Indiana It ticcauir notorious that chi id ten of tvv’.er years were be-' iiur < in j do veal in varioU' industrn^. ui» *|er the tutflWiHV of w inch m nd an t body wore subject.*! to the tortue> of work, which e-rood upon them infijrmjWes from which there was uo ii« tp« in after life, t o indicate the evils of such employment. the Democratic law of Idt&was emw-.ed. providing that in svrudMemployment* children under IS voters of age sf -uld not be employed. aud in oas«w of certain thaWufrrturtQJt onlr-rprtar* u here tne eiUfil-o meut of rhlWivn was permitrwl ic was matte unlawful to permit .a etiilu dnder li years of age to work .more than right hours per day. This law was preeminent) v wise and was unlversoUy »pC roved by ;dl thoughtful Cittam* bi'cwunp > sous*' measure it emanci pried children from tasks they were physic.»1 It unable fo perform. thereby tncowslng the tmmN*r of itilirm adults in: ufn-r years. In lM*d the lV-uvvmtio legists*.ire amended the law. making 14 yws Inst mi of 1- the limit of age. ]

Haying HorkinKmtn fcrrr» A shameful practice exi-te ! in fhriiana prtor to 1SS* ntj tht> part o( employer*, of rnrini;empli»y»-.< wWn it ««.<oiim‘nk*l for them to do *>■ t hr tnoonveotenoe to employe*ihavitur Uttle or no might In the muiiMtion. Tnif* pmctkr born" hwdtV upuu the srrvwt body of workingmen and iiuperatlvelv demanded remedial legisla-tion.-and tm was supplied by the lhniocratio H^islalun* of It2». the law in the case providing: That ever) company, corporation or mmwUtten nw«t existing«<r hereafter organised and doing hu*f n**w in tfc:* Mate. «1>*A. in the »baeocc of .stritlen contract to the contrary, ba required u> make full •MtktnrW with and full payn»rut in pamey to it* employes engaged in «n*mta1 or nue Itxnteai labor. tor «aeh work and labor do«r or parfonaed by >*ld employe* fur sue . comnaay. torporata.n or aNWcfaUvu. at least once m every rafcndar month of the yt?riu* violation of this section of the law entailed a penalty upon the employer of fl a day for each day the wages won' w ith eld. Besides the law provides that the debt shall be a ptvferml claim. tin* wage* due the entplove to be first paid In full when the prij~-riy of an employer has gone Into the hand* of a receiver. This law. though it required but a few wror ls, wived a «io4 important tabor problem* enabling employe* to know when they would tie paid for their services. a certainty tha- gave them credit and enabled them to provide for current wants And in th« saute line still another law was enacted by the Democratic legislature of IMS to protect the wotkittgiuea in cases where the property of an employer is

mm wmmmmmmmmmm span bv nay process of 001A the wage* of eippfoyw to the amount or $50 in each easA i* made a preforred claim, first to be paid in full jl tweets are nutUcfent. «r pro mta if tbere is adetffU>ucy, In the foregoing it is seen th.;t the Democratic legislature of 1885 w.ts on the alert to throw around workingmen every u »ssi bio protec t ion tout legislation eou Id afford. Cuntributluu*. Railroad CQrpurotiuQs; under cover of duplicities as shameless as ever provoked indignation, concocted a scheme for roobiugthuir employes with a double purpose iu vaov. It was a combination of pharisaisiu ami paternalism. - designed primarily to destroy organizations of railroad lima, by notifying them that the oefrporation had established for them a S’.'tern of insurance and hospital promeI on to which they wen* ex]K«sEed to contribute, and their hired hunobtuen always intimating that their "job” might depend upon their willingness tt» bo robbed, and growing bokl as they gathered iu their victims they proceeded to couttoate a cer tain amount at the wages af their employes to carry forward their scheme. Th s was a species of piracy whioh j aroused widespread indignation in tue j ranks of railroad employes, wlw appealed j to u Democratic legislature of Indiana to emancipate' them from such slavish environments. and tlie Democratic legislature of 1885 p*s|M>nded to the request of railroad employes by enacting: “That it shad he uuiawtul lor any railroad company or em-porathm operatinn railroads m inAiana to exact from Us employes, without obtaiaiug written consent thereto ui wh aud every instance, any portion of their wanes for Ihe maintenance of auy hoeptuil, i s admit room, libraff, gymnasium or reataumut. Amt the law imposed a penalty from $100 to $M>i fer its violation. This law had the dmdrod etT.-ct in arresting the rapacity of railroad corporations to some extent, but it. could not Keep railroad corporations from subjecting such of thkir employes as resisted their maehinatidris from Buffering the penalty of .dine It urge from employ meat, but it did have the effect of making the corporations a little more eauVous iu practicing their Intimidations. Utaa The Democratic legislature of 1888 gave mechanic* ami all persons performing labor for eweting'. altering, repairing or removing buddings. briiig.a». etc., a lien on such budding for. the payment ot wages due them, and in 18S> the Demo crane legislature ameiUh-d the lav. ol lVC! | so as to include workingmen who had per | formed labor in the construction of rail- I roads within the state. The luw wasde- J mu ruled to protect workingmen who In i various ways were being defrauded by means which the ordinary process railed to rvtn>*dy, but the lien laws enacted bv Democratic legislatures iu 18?CJ. 'f>5iind 8. afforded amide and certain pro* vtum, as in all such tabor laws the supreme jmrpose Was to exempt workingmen from the numerous schemes of d*%uioR employers to ehe.it them out of tiioir hanf earned dollars, and tae influence of the law has.] been' wholesome and has met require j meat*. Payment of Wage- »ml riark-M* Slorr. Indiana had a cum ter of cittern* eon ] troling large industries and employing a | large numlxv of men who paid wages iu j checks jwtyai.de in giant' at the .store* , owned ana operated by the corporation, firm or individual carrying on a no )ldu«- j try. As a result the employe, having | uot lug but h*s wages to ieud and clotho h » family, was compelled to dual «t the j "phtcX-uie" store, where any price tor j goods was charged that the rup.ic*ty of rile employer dinuuukil. and there w;e* alttolut-ay uo escape for the victims ol j this mercenary’ p undering, which had proceeded 1 or years unmolested and had j ounehed the employer and reduced worklogmen to extreme depth* ot poverty and want. . Tne Democratic legislature of 1>Mi designed to puv a stop to tins piratical practice by enacting that employes should t«e paid at le. st -once ainautb in tin* “lawful luouer of the United StjaTas. ibis law was hailed with general aoeim.iatitms ol approval :>ui ><• still further protect workingmen. the law proliiluts-d greedy employ ] er*. who run the Vpluck-me stores” from charging their employe* more for ukt chautl’.se or supplies ’ than such gtiods were sold tooiu. ro for cash, and this law witii the severe peuaitv imposed, for its violation, lias proved effective mid workmgUH'.i have been permitted to receive casli fbr their lutvw instead of "pmek-me

»l«re chn «.s. N,»r w<t> iI.V- all tlic Urtnoemtle legistun* aecomplbdted t‘»r wrorklugtnen for th0> pUrpc*e •* relieving them ii*»m the ytwimin of employer*. concocted to filch u ksrge j**r cent 0! their wages. prdnbited fruiu jwyiug them in * pluokino store" cheek*, they resorted u> various currsiw tr» ks, by which they sought to compel their employes to buygoddsnt their *U>re< ThU scheme was strictly Lu keeping with the “pluck me store” infamy. but toe Democratic Jegisdatunt of MUM enacted a law which (iwiKsd the outrage ami BWtteiehed it by emu-tin# that it -hall be unlawful for ay owner, m*tialter. -uperintritdofit. operator, tauis boss, sun>tiW or employer, etapwyedi iu any of the «oeu|Mtiniii dvncnlw-U in >eet«»n 1 Of this bill to bold ><ut »uv tokens '•* indwrunnu, or make any threats or yrotniees of reward. or in anr other way. by words im arts. tooawee any of their etnpheees to tusy any article of tuereluuuhs.. Ii**i. (pwrW W suj.pl e* of any particular 'person, oorjanaikm. association, tlrnux company, or at any particular place. kKnf or -tore lu this state. It is mrni it* once iliat the provisions of this law. with the auk ptuek me store lair, emtlKipaied workingmen .from the degoidiug nmi pinitiv.il domination of mpariou* employers, and the penalty ituposisi by the law gave wwuranrv of llt**rty of notion on the jKirt of employes that previously had brnn denied them fliv Patou laibei. Organized hU**r, in iwait years, became impressed that goods mauutai tiirej by union workingmen should be known by a label wrapper, mark. name, brwmi. stamp or device oi some kitid w loch should bit used for their protection, and tins Utiiei or other device should be legalized by

It require* HKk* effort to comp:vhend the i;ront advantages such a or othor .devtcw would *«un« U> orjp»'i«*«’d labor. «|n.v a moment'* rafleetioQ I wing- into view a vast tnar of cousum-t' wearing the badge of union labor, who, when It U imirtk-able. pupcbiws such good* only as F*nu> tho union label or other devteo, a laet well calculated to at t met the attention of inumtfaetunr* because *d the larger sale of their wares. But the laltwl or other device Su hare <.he desired ptfrrt required hfiKlatl'in, ami tiu> prv»t xMion was given to unton wopjungmeu aud women by the DwiOBHltlc legislature of Indiana of UCC1. the law providing: That the label. » lun, naaww brand, stamp or **vne Wed or intended to lie used ay anv no ton or aarot :atk>o of watMtuum or woman, or of both, may be raftered and re- <«•!%» protecti«:.. And the law further provides; “Every unlawful use" of the lab*! or other drvtewd imow, “waich 1* substantially the same m one » registered or e» nearly Blirat the *an»- as may be calculated t.. deceive, max he eajotaed tn any court of roeutrtcut jurudhrUon au<i “damages teoiwwd tbcrwior." And the law ,,rov*4m 8pvm penalties for viohtini any of its provision*, suqh a» counterfeiting the label or other device that has bat) registered. or by placing such form’d tala ! or ot her device upon good* and •flerittf the same for sale This law passed in l!#8, by a 1 tene *. ratio legislature. was in response to the earnest request of union workingmen who were earnestly socking 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 occasion*. it-has been the earnest and uu fajirtuf friend of the wageworkers of Indiana and has responded with alacrity to promote their welfare bjr prudent and just legislation. i t

m .. ■ ENEMY OF REPUBLICS. John Bull Has Always Opposed Free Government. HEEULE8 BY THE POWER OF GOLD. Oar Hawy lydem Orrrthrown by Anglommmlmm — IMer the Rn W* Have Paid the War Debt More Thau Twice Over, and Vet One-third Remain*. The Anglo-American preacher and the' Anglomaniacs who are not preachers, as Christ said of the pour, are always with, na They have bided their time. In 1821, on the admission of Missouri to the Union, John Ball saw a cloud like a man’s hand arising on our political horizon — the slavery question. Here was his chance once again to strike a blow at the triumphing republic. Fit! and the set of English aristocrats in England and Europe had made war for 20 years on France and Bonaparte to exterminate the seeds and memories of the republic and overthrow the emperor elected by the people. Pitt’s “Carthago delenda eet’^ was, “We must tight republicanism in France or England, and I prefer to fight it in Franoe. ” The moral and political descendants of the Pitta in England and this country said, “This issue of slavery will yet enable us to overthrow the world's re public on the-western continent ** The agitation for the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in England helped them. After provision few gradual emancipation in England in 1884, the agitation was carried to the United States. It went on with the agitation by every means in its power. John Bull’s bowels yearned over the condition erf our slaves, and net over the famine of 1847-50 in Ireland nor for the hundred of thousands who had starved to death in India. He sent Dickens, the Croatcst living master of the English language, to write up slavery He and his Anglomaniac allies left no stone unturned to excite sectional strife and 1m artburnings uutil ut last In 1861, bis end seemed accomplished. The Union, the world’s republic, seemed hopelessly divided. When this was done, his bowels yeariied no more for tbe slaves or the cause of freedom. He went with all his morals and material influence to the Confederate states; he sold them arms aud ammunition and leaned them money; he fitted out, armed and man: ned privateers to prey on our commerce —not that ho loved the Confederates more, hot that he loved the Union less. He would have bombarded our coast rities, but for tbe timely kindness of Russia. Ho stirred up and led the emperors of Frauce and Austria with their armies into Mexico and-overthrew her republican government when we were under treaty obligations to assist her. In violation of the Monroe doctrine they then sat down to make a camp aud arsenal of Mexico to wait until our resources were exhausted, so that they could swoop down and blot republican self government from the face of the western hemispheres. It .ia clear that «ucb was the purpose of tbe European

despots. Since then an American system of money and finance has been overthrown ami our Aeftlotpamacs now only lack the establishment of the gold standard by law to complete an English one in stead. Under this system the people have paid the principal of the debt of that war 2times in usury and commissions, yet one-third of it now remains, and it will require more days’ labor, more of the products of labor, to pay the balances at the prices now than to have paid it all at the prices at the close of the war. -Under this Anglomaniac system there has been contracted a volume of public and private debt of $80,000,000, or $400 of interest drawing debt per man, woman and child, or more than our slaves were worth in money in 1860. All this from following English example hud precedent and the lend of the Anglomaniac. To any bnt the Anglomaniac it would seem that we hod followed far enough. The very spirit of our constitution, laws and institutions are thus now to all intents overturned; our financial and industrial liberties subverted by an English system of debt serfdom.

Again, I quote from Washington s address to show that thus surrendering ourselves we violate his wise words: “As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it sparingly as possible, avoiding eecasiou of expense by cultivating peace, but remedkber also that timely disbursement to prepare for danger frequently prevents much greater disbursements to repair it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable war may have occasioned, not nugeucromly throwing on posterity the hardens which we ourselves ought to bear. “ Umtor this wise policy outlined by our fathers we hare made out growth in territory from ocean to ocean and from 8,500,000 to 74,000.000 of people and in wealth beyond the dreams of the most sanguine. But under'the piratical domestic policy and financial system of England and' her Anglomaniacs we have seen hall*our national wealth pass by operation of law out of the hands uf those who produced it into the hands of one-half pur cent of our population, or less than 20,000 men. We have seen oar land overrun with the unemployed and with tramps. But still the Anglomkniac says, “Go on. ’* We most follow out his plan and “abandon the American principle of home rule and local seif government, *’ and we must join in an English aJ» li&noe and do as England does — p:| the union jack over the stars, yoke on? •elves side by side with the old plunderer oi the nations and start oat hot

..... .. to Bare John Bull’s possessions and then take more for ourselves. And why? Because we are “English speaking, ” as we are “Anglo-Saxon,” forsooth. Under the policy of our fathers we have seen Mexico and the Sonth American republic rise and stand under the Monroe and the Diaz doctrines until all the soil of the western continent south ol our northern boundary lino is republic tan, until France—grand republican France, the land of Lafayette aud the grand uiea of her revolution—and the South African and the Swiss republics are on the eastern continent, a sisterhood of 13. But uuder the policy of our fathers the proposed alliance^pu»t be abandoned to ally ourselves to an impotent old robber of laud and sea. who sees men—yea, the nation—coming to do tc her as she has done to them. We must adopt an “imperial policy of acquiring territory by conquest and holding it by military garrisons!” So says every Englishman, every Anglomaniac, almost every usurer and tax dodger in the United States. It destroys at once and forever the moral force of the Monroe doctriua

To eater upon such a policy as the friend and ally of England now would be equivalent to declaring war on the rest of the world. Think of the moral combinations of an alliance with this robber of thejrUations and weaker people of the earth. We declared war against Spain, not because she is not English speaking and Anglo-Saxon, not because she is Roman Catholic in religiou and is of Latin or Celtic race origin, I but because of her inhuman conduct to a people of her own race, language and religion. She seemed determined to exterminate them because they loved and struggled for literty. and site foully murdered 266 of our sailors. In that declaration we asserted that territorial aggrandizement was not our purpose To engage in such conquests and enter, like England and other monarchies ou a colonial policy would stamp ns as a nation of insincere faith breakers, English liars and Anglomaniac scoundrels, stamp us as mean and insincere, as we were asserted by tbe Spaniards to be It would be the commencement of the disintegration and end of the republic. The French republic of 184S-51 was overthrown by the officers and army, then just returned from colonial posj sessions of France in Africa and elsewhere, The higher office of our army and navy now are 90 per oent of them Anglomaniac pure and simple. They clamor for an English alliance; they -want a colonial policy—it magnifies them aud their importance, but it minimizes the civil authority and the civil aud industrial liberties of the people in the same degree. Our growth so far as a nation has been a natural one by assimilation from the inside, instead of a pudding policy from the outside These are as many reasons as I can write in three hours in favor of the negative of tbi» question O. D .Jones. Edina. Mo.

PEOPLE AND BONDS. Plutocrats Cry Deinagselim Whenever Labor (ieto 9 Show. Naturally enough, there was a feeling of opposition to the popular loan on the part of the trusts anti syndicates, bnt as a rule the expression of disapproval was smothered. It had remained for the New York Times to “give away" the sentiments^ of. the plutocrats under a mistaken idea that the bond issue as a popular loou has proved a failure. The Times says: “It was the theory of the demagogues—and certain very ignorant and baneful newspapers in this city eagerly helot*! them in their labor—that the workingman who put up u few huu dred dollars would he quick to draw his money out of - the savings hank, where he was getting interest, in order to lavest it at 8 per cent in government bonds. The truth is—and the attempt was repeatedly umds to get it into the thick heads of the degaiuogues—that the American wage earner is and has alwuys been an investor in government bonds. His investment* are managed for him without charge by the trustees cf his savings bank, and the government bonds have always been a favorite form of investment for him. ’’ I}ut the bank trustees did not “manage” the workingman's business for him in the feccnt issue of bonds. In fact, the working nmuS^iowed himself quite capable of ; managing his own business. As a slm- • pie matter of statistics the result of the • bond issue stands as follows: I Total amount of bond.* loan ...... t'JWttJO.tt*' Total amount nubMurtbud. ....... .. l.flW.UWOU; • Total amount of money demited Suc.UUU.O.e I Highest indiridatl allotment?'^. IttttW 1 L»vre*t Individual allottmtnt*. 'V 3J I Lm than fo.Utt) subscript .on* ac _ copied. »W*W.^ [ Leas than UUO subscriptions ao ^ cepted...... iy.0BD.ttW Whenever any mean* is suggested which has in it any consideration for the rights of the people the plutocrats ran be counted ou to raise the cry of ‘‘deniagogism. “ But in the mutter c! the war bond issue the people seemed to have t«ured the best of the bargain

Several Nation* Should Note It. Labouchere semi in the Italiun riot8 this lessou for England: “From the ter ribie condition of Italy we should learn a lesson, or what has befallen her wilt ultimately befall ns. We should give home rule to Ireland, and thus pot un end to the discontent there Wo should reduce and oot increase taxation: What we do levy iu taxes should be spent for the welfare of the community instead of being squandered in bacraueertn!; and in the armaments that are rendered necessary for our predatory habits Peace, economy and reform are scouted nowadays as nut fitted for this enlightened age We should revert to them ** Public taxation iu Italy has reached a point at which every dollar a laborer earns the state takes half to speud on the army, the navy, the officials and the aristocracy Meanwhile the unofficial taxation levied by monopoly, by landlords, takes a good share of the re- . fnaining half, or denies opportunity to earn any dollar at all England is not the only nation that may learn this.

MARK HANNA’S CASE n« CtariM Against atm Should B« Carefully Investigated. Wbat is the United States senate going to do with the bribery charges made against Mark Hanna? These charges, backed by Hie report of an investigating committee appointed by the Ohio state senate, have been laid before the upper j house, and how the people of this conn ‘ try demand that prompt action be taken ! tliereou. Fortunately for Hanna there j is a war, though be asserted there would be none, and that war has drawn atten-! tiou from his disgraceful acts to matters | of apparently larger moment Appar- j ently they are larger, bat not so in real- | ity. There tan be nothing of more iiu- j portance to the people of this country j than in the honesty and patriotism of j its lawmakers. Foes without can be met I and conquered, but' foes within are a constant and deadly menace to liberty. 1 It should uot be forgotten that there-j port of the investigating committee de- j clares Mark Hanna personally or through j his agents guilty of bribery. He is alleged to have bought his seat in the Uuited States senate as he would buy a seat in the board of trade. Is the senate j going to pigeonhole this indictment I against one of its members or is it go- I ing to investigate the charges and if it j finds them sustained by the facts expel j this man who has corrupted men in order that he might be in a position to I corrupt the laws?- What is the senate j going to do, anyhow?

COAL MINERS STARVING. We Are Not Without Reeouceetradoe U Our Own Country. There are reconcentrados in the United States. There are Weylers and Blancos exercising their despotic power in the land of tho free and the home of the brave. Hazleton miners are starving and have petitioned congress to vote money for their aid. Will not Senator Thurston, whose heart was touched by the sufferings of the Cuban reconcentrados, visit Hazleton? Will not the Republican president, who wanted to send bread to the starving people of Culm, send a few crumbs to the victims of the Coal trust Weylers of Pennsylvania? Sheriff Mar* in and his men taught the Hazleton miners that to strike meant death; that the rifles of the sheriff's guard would blow the remnants of life out of the emaciated bodies of starving strikers. Men who have faced the deadly rifles carried by the hired ^sassins of the coal barons and who have appealed to the courts of justice only to be denied it are uot likely to demund theii rights. The danger is too great- Therefore these poor wretches are now begging congress for assistance. Miserable as their lives are, still they want to preserve them, and rather thau starve and, in preference to being murdered they make mendicants of themselves. Truly 'this is a land of liberty. A laud where the trusts are protected and the people starved.—Chicago Dispatch.

THE REIGN OF TRUSTS. Republioana Ever Read/"to Give Them a Helping Hand. With absolute unanimity the Republican senators have voted to tax the people und not to tax the trusts. Solid as a Roman phalanx, the Republicans presented an unbroken front to tho Democratic attempts at reaching the hoarded millions of the plutocrats. Taxes on the necessities of lifo were favored ,by the Republicans. The poor mail’s luxuries were gladly placed on tho tax list by these patriotic and noble minded gentlemen. When a tax on corporations was suggested; a howl of indignant protest was raised and the proposition was promptly voted down. When the Republicans could not argue, they descended to ridicule and pretended to see something extremely funny m the idea of taxing trusts. That is just the way the aristocrats treated the demantis of tho people beforo the French revolution inaugurated a reign of terror There will be no reign of terror in the United States, but, thanks to the intelligence of tho common people, there will cease to exist the reign of trust. —Exchange. Democrat* For Congress. Great care should be taken in selecting the Democratic candidates for congress. Those w ho have been mentioned "so far are not strong euough There are better men who should be brought to the front This is not a time when the ambition of inexperienced men should lx? gratified. It is better to have one wise man to represent the Democrats in congress than to have half a dozen »cranks. Republican congressmen have shown great ability in doing nothing. By pursuing a conrsi*tjfv »usf«ly inactivity they have evaded exciting hostilities. This negative commendation is all that can be given to tho Republicans. It is incumbent cn the Democrats to secure aggressive, forceful, able and sincere men as candidates for congress. This fact cannot be urged too strongly It is evident that such men have not as yet been brought to the front The leaders of the party owe it to themselves and to the Democracy to mood this condition of affairs.

A* the Poet fitjn. The same variety of patriotism which Impelled certain St Louis business 1114m to coerce their employees into parading . against Bryan now impels them against paying war taxes to support the government of their country in a struggle with a foreign foe This is incident No. I. There will be others. “Justice, ’* remarks the tragic poet “Jui*iee. though she have a leaden heel, gets there finally. and when she does the club she uses has no stuffing in it '’—Journal of Agriculture. __ A Fn* PmsIa If the American people could conquer the goldbngs and interest eating sharks as they can the Spaniards, what a proud, happy and free people we would bat—Pittsburg Kansan.

Democratic Ticket For Secretary of H«ate, SAMUEK, RALSTON m' I tot me county. For Ainlitrtrof state. JttHS W. MIXER of M»rKM> County. For Treasurer of State, HUGH DOUGHERTY of Wefts County. For At torney-GeHerai, JOH X G. Me NUT J' of Vigo County. For Clerk of the Supreme Court, HENRY WaRRCM of Marion County, For Supertutemient Public Iusstruetsem. W. B. Sine air •of Starke County. For State Statistloian.. JAMES s. GUTHRIE of 11 town County. For state Geologist. EDWARD BARRETT of Uemlriek-s County. For Jmlges of the Supreme Court. 1st Dist.. LEONARD/ I’.ACKNET rtf Shelby County, At I)i«t....AMR« McCABE of 'WarrenCounty. oth litst.. TIMOTH Y K. HOWARD of St. Joseph Cowuty Kor Jmlgesof the Appel hire Court, 1st hist.. EDWIN TAYLOR of Vantlertnwg Co mty. 2tt Dist..C J. KOLLMEYRtl of Bartholomew County. M Dist.KDGAR BROWN of Marlon County, 4th Dial.. W. S. DIVRK of Matlison County. 5th Hist.. JOHANNES KOI’ELKE of lathe County. F*»r Conarcsa, First District, THOMAS IUjNCAN, For Joint- Slut e. Serai or. EDWARD U. RICHARDSON, For I'nvsetm tin* Attorney, KERR TRAILER. For Joint- Represent at ive, SASSER S4FDLTVAN. For Clerk. LEWIS K TRAYLER, For Auditor, « WILLIAM H. SCALES. ForTreasnter, ON I AS U. SMITH, For Sheriff, W. M. U IDG WAT. For Coroner, ALLEN RUMBLE. For .Surveyor. A.G. CATO. For Commissioner. First. District, JosKi’H L. ROBINSON. For V*ommiueloner.Third District. V\ l LI,IA M 11. BOTTOMS.

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| Funenal Supplies a Specialty U> keep on hand at all linit* the Ihiwl Km I of Parlor ami tiwvikHnM Kurwiturt lo b» ! found in the city. Oednwm :ual Parlor Soil* ■ Hpo'inllr. . , ' lu fimorol supple* we keep Casket*, *<hr«>ud*. etc., of t iu* l<e»l wake. Hail road Election. _ Notice U hereby given ilia! the a none! election of tin* stockholder* of the Spriuiitleid. Ohio River and Si.mli Atlantic Railway Company, will la* held •>! the otlice ot th* comp»iiy, »t Vlnoetme*. Inuiaiui, on Tbnrsdav. September aj»l, 1#* at H oVUicfc p. m . for the purpose o/ electing thirteen directors nsr the enstiiiNi >ear and the transaction «»f such ••thee business as may eoate before tin* meetFDWAkti Watson. 1st Vice-President, i At.BERT E. BooNK.Hecr**!acy»

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