Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1878 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

THE ADVOCATE. PUBLISHED STEKY WEDNESDAY, . - V —AT—--180 Fulton Street, New York, • IN TUB IKTiaSST OF—EDUCATION, LABOR AND PRODUCTION. Tbe Same Size as tte Weekly Si, —FOE—23CENT8 A YEAR. THE CHEAPEST PAPER IN THE WORLD! ITS CHARACTER AND PURPOSES. RELIGION. It adopts the theory that as no man Is reliable who has not some form of religions faith, so no paper ran fill Its full mission without imparting a pure refiglous tone to Its teachings. It advocates the ethics of the Society of Friends. It teaches Quakerism. FRATERNITY. It adopts the theory that fraternity—sympathy—a disposition to herd together and to help each other by conn ael and costlesa co-operation—la a natural and beneficent tendency of our nature—advocates that form of fra- , terntty shown by the Masonic philosophy. It teaches Free Masonry—which means Masonry as a symbolic moral ■donee, not as a hot-t>ed of gln-piggery, a business machine, or mi Dolitical power. It teaches Masonry as sn elevating, mind-strengthen-ing moral science—without regard to any Importance of signs, grips, tokens or oaths—Masonry ss an educator and a hand-maid to religion. It deprecates Its abuses and prostitution. THE GRANGE. It adopts the theoiythat as one of the pernicious results of the late unhappy war Is the habit of extravagance and wanton waste of our people, that the Grange, of all Institutions In America, Is tbe only organised and most practlcally-effectlve Influence In aid of a return to the economic ways and Industrious habits of American I society as it was before the war and as it should be now. It teaches the lessons of tho Grange. POETRY AND FAMILY LITERATURE It adepts the theory that no mind la properly balanced that doee not love flowers, poetry ana little children, therefore It devotes a large space to family literature—pure, elevating. Inspiriting poetry, which stimulates to higher and nobler thoughts, and leads to an effort to be and to do better, and to cheery, light, apt, sound fables, and sentimental, as taught In story snd miscellany. R teaches and elevates through fight literature. . GENERAL NEWS. It adopts tbe theory that as local papers give the local news, so should a general paper give the general news, and It gives more news Items, In condensed form, than any other ten papers published. R teaches comprehensive news gathering, and the most terse, dense, accurate method of writing and speaking. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. It adopts the theory that the press Is the public teacher, and that the giant minds of the age are now somewhat, and will In the near future largely l>e found In the control of the press, and that It Is destined to attain a grander and more practical power for good than It has ever reached, and that to familiarise Its readers with the pith and excellence of current editorial production is a'duty to Its paeons, and so It gives each week extracts from the leading literary. Independent, political and labor press of this country, as well as giving the views of the old-world press on current events and questions of our time. It teaches the press as the greatest educational power of our generation, snd alms to elevate aqd piaclleallxe It, and to bring It down in price to the feeble ability of our flnancUUy-exliausted people. THE TIDE-LEVEL OF THOUGHT. It adopts the Idea that '* Man Is man through all gradations. Little recks it where be stands— How divided Into nations. Scattered over many lands,” fend that to get at the average judgment of our people—the tide-level of opinion on current questions—the true way Is to give each week proper specimen letters from as nearly as practicable every section of the country, ca whatever question Is uppermost, thus bringing hon e with truth and accuracy to every reader, wBM the earnest workers think, say and feel. It teaches tliat tho tide-level of sentiment among the people Is the only safe guide to the statesman and political economist, and it thus finds and proves that level. FINANCE AND LABOR It adopts the theory that as a nation we are a family, and should be governed as a family; that we should have a standard and measure of value fixed by Government—a national paper currency, made ami Issued by the Uovertiment-whlch shall be made to do all tlie offices of gold ami silver among our people, ami so be as good as gold and silver, but to have no relation to or be 111 any way dependent upon gold or silver; that there should he enough of this currency In the hands of the people tn enable every man to pay for what lie buys and when he receives It. whether lie buys labor or labor's food nets; that the true way for Government to Issue the net ease to the people Is to eiuploy 1.000.000 laboreis to build up the weaitu of the country tn peace, as It employed 1,000,000 of our best men to destroy accumulated wealth In war—by carrying on a vast system of Internal Improvement of the water ways of the country, to the end of cheapening and quickening transportation, and thus relieving and making production more profitable—that the public lands should be at once thrown open to free occupancy and use by actual settlers—to the end of Immense snd cheap production, and foreign shipment of products, and so tarn the balance of trade from the world to America, snd enable us to pay our mammoth debt as If it were a bagatelle—that the Government should be the depositary of the surplus of the people’s earnings and savings, at say 8 or 8.65 per cent. Interest In currency; that this surplus should be applied to buying up our higher-priced gold bonds from day to day. In the market, till all are paid, and then as the fiscal agent of the people, receive the mole hills id deposits, and make the mountains of loan to cities snd States, at say 4 per cent, and so fix and control the rate of Interest In the Interest of enterprise. It teaches legislation in the Interest of labor. EXTORTION. It adoilts the Idea that the best way to help a laboring man Is to enable him to make one dollar answer the work of two by striking out the middle mau and extortionist as completely as possible. It adopts the Idea a( “ direct action” In cooperation, and brings the manufacturer and user of an article Into Immediate relations It brings the maker of a piano, sewing machine, etc.. Into direct and immediate contact, and avoids all mid-dle-men, enabling a family to get a *I,OOO piano for *225, a *B6O organ for *IOO, a *40.00 Grover A Baker sewing machine for (10.00, etc., etc. It teaches cooperation. f - ADVERTISING. It adopts the Idea that a certain community of Interest exists between advertiser and reader—that the tax upon the reader should be lightened and added to the advertiser—and thus by cheapening the paper, expanding Its circulation and rendering more sure and profitable the advertisers' venture. It teaches cheap papers and profitable advertising. ITS CIRCULATION AND INCREASE Its actual circulation <hi May 15th was 141.000—tbe largest In America—reaching 21.082 postolllces—lts Increase for tbe past thirty days has been 2.000 a day—fur the last ten days has been 4.000 a day. and for the last five days has been 10,000 a day, and on tbe Fourth day ot July It will reach every postomce In the United States —and be full 500,000. the largest In the world. THE FOURTH OF JULY NUMBER The number bearing date July 4th. 1878, will bo the beet paper ever presented to American people. If money and brains can make It so. The editorial labor on that number alone will cost one thousand dollars. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT. The most comprehensive, practical, accurate,sound, complete, exhaustive and convincing argument ever made on the subject of Internal Improvements accompanied hy a mammoth map showing the relations between chesp, sale, short water-way transportation and profit to the producer, and the way tn which American products can control the markets of the world, will be given In that number. PEOPLE, AROUSE NOW I Now is the time to subscribe—lu time for tbe MAMMOTH EDITION. RVMCMniOX PRICE: single Copies, one year.... 50 onta Club* of Four or More. 25 « We Want 500,000 by July 4th. PRBMIUMS. We wilt give to the men who eend us tbe greatest number of subscribers before July 4th, tbe following promliimx: FIB3T HIGHEST. A Piano, usually sold at SI,OOO. SECOND HIGHEST. A Piano, usually sold at SBOO. THIRD HIGHEST. A Piano, uaually sold at SBOO. FOURTH HIGHEST. An Organ, uaually Bold at SB6O. FIFTH HIGHEST. An Organ, uaually Bold at SBOO. SIXTH HIGHEST. An Organ, uaually Bold at SBSO. THE TEN NEXT HIGHEST. Each a National Sewing Machine. THE TWENTY-FIVE NEXT HIGHEST. Each a Grower A Baker Sewing THE NINE NEXT HIGHEST. Each Five Dollars Cash. Any person competing can send In clubs from time to time during June, and at the end all will count awl be counted. IWNo remittances postmarked In May or July can be counted; all must be mailed trout time to time In June. Canvassers will find a help to any week’s work to have the subscribers of tbe week before actually Imre their nepers at quickly aa possible. Address all letter*, and make money-efden, checks and drafts payable to THE ADVOCATE, NEW YORK.