FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. THOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - $1.(10 PER YEAR. FREELAND, PA., AUGUST 11, 1892, DEMOCRATIC TICKET. NATIONAL. President, Grover Cleveland New York Vice President, Adlai E.Stevenson Illinois STATE. Judge of Supreme Court, Christopher Heydriek.. Venango County Congressmen at-I.arge, George Allen Erie County Thomas P. Merritt Ilerks County We denounce protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the Ameri can people for the benefit of the few. — DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. Until September 1,1802, subscriptions will be received by the TRIBUNB at the rate of SI.OO per year, strictly in advance. Present sub scribers, by paying any existing arrearages and SI.OO, can uvail themselves of the advan tages to be derived from this offer. After September 1 the TRIBUNE will lie SL."IO per year, strictly in advance. The Kecord of Congress. The fifty-second congress lias ajourn ed, and its work is summed up by the World in the following review: The Democrats of the house did their best to lighten the burdens of taxation on the people and industries of the country. Under the lead of the ways and means committee a bill was passed making wool free, in hope of reviving the drooping woolen manufacturing interests and en couraging the wool-grower. The same bill abolished the compen satory duty on woolen goods. The result of this would have been the cheapening of clothes which had been made much more costly by the McKin ley law. Another bill made free the binding twine used by the wheat-growers and the cotton-ties used by the planters of the South. Another made ore containing both silver and lead free, the purpose being to cheapen one of the most common articles of domestic and industrial use. The bill to reduce the enormous McKinley tax on tin-plates would have put an end to a contemptible fraud, and would have saved the people of this country from $10,0(1(1,(100 to $15,000,000 a year. When these tax-relief hills reached the senate the Republican majority promptly pigeon-holed them. In the interest of certain manufacturers of cheap plushes, shoddy and certain kinds of woolens, they denied the people cheap clothes. In the interest of the cordage trust they refused cheap binding-twine to the wheat-growers. In behalf of the hoop-iron makers of Pittsburg they insisted upon dear cot ton-ties for the Southern planters. To help the makers of plate they refused to put an end to the robbery of the people who buy dinner-pails, pots, pans ami roofing-tin, and retained the tax that increases the price of canned goods and has already closed up a score of canning factories, depriving labor of its work as well as making food dearer. In brief, all of the bills which the Democratic house passed for the bene fit of the people were killed by the senate. The house dealt with the free coinage measure honorably and man fully. The Democratic majority, real izing that its first duty was to the people who elected it for the purpose of reducing taxes, defeated the effort to force it to the front. Resides attending to its legislative work the majority in the house ex posed Raum's iniquitious administration of the pension office and showed the president to be his protector. The material results of the session will not be of great advantage to the country 'for the simple reason that Republican legislation of the billion dollar congress, a Republican senate and a Republican president have pre vented the Democratic house from carrying out the reforms desired by the people. The political situation is unchanged by the session. It semains what it was in the campaign of 1800. The Demo crats have tried to reduce expenditures, hut they could not. They have tried to drive the administration to reform the abuses in the pension bureau, but they have been met and overcome by the president's obstinate adherence to a scandalous administration. Above all, the Democrats have tried to abolish some of the evils and to lighten some of the burdens of the McKinley tariff law. They have attacked some of its most flagrant abuses and some of the worst trusts it lias engendered, but the friends of trusts and monoply con trolled the senate and sat in the White House, and the efforts of the Democratic tariff-reformers were lost except as they show to the country that the party is still bent upon accomplishing the task which the people assigned to it in 1890. WIIILK the Republican organs are prating about the prosperity of the country Luzerne county jail is crowded to the door, and Warden Haines lias notified the commissioners that he can not find room for another prisoner. THE MONARCHY OF MAN. John Clark IlUlpath'tt Argument for Co operation lonteud of the Tranent hyuteui. Your correspondent, Mr. H. H. Frary, takes issue with my recent contribution on the "Wage System of Labor." The point of his article is that the condition of men must be utterly changed before the wage system can be supplanted with another; that co-operation presupposes a stage of human development which we have not yet reached and may never reach. Therefore we must be content with tho wage system and jog along until, let us say, the crisis breaks in some uni- ] versal upheaval of society in which both labor aipi capital will be engulfed. To I my mind it appears strange that men foreseeing the evil day will not provide ngainst it. Rather than undertake some rational change in the existing order they are willing to drift on,closing their eyes against the coming storm and say ing, in deeds if not in words, "After us ! the deluge." There would be great force in what j your correspondent says if it were not true that the wage system itself, and human slavery behind it in time and place, were not to blame for the exist ing condition. Why should any one argue out of the existing condition that it ought to ho perpetuated in virtue of its own abnses? The fact is that the re generation of men which yonr cor respondent would have to precede the netV industrial age of the world cannot occur until the existing order has been supplanted first. It is the old question as to whether a man may not more safely learn to swim before he goes into the water. The argument of your cor respondent recurs, and constantly re recurs, with all those who would support and perpetuate any given abusive and pernicious condition in human society. There are always those who want to plaster tilings over. There are people who think that the present order of so ciety in Europe, with its suppressed peasantry on one side and its nobles, its priests and soldiers 011 the other, is a good condition, at least a tolerable con- 1 dition, and that it ought to be made more so by doctoring up its minor rela tions so that the half serf shall have a little better life under his half master than before. For ourselves we say away with it—away with it all! We say away with it before the evil day draws ! nigh when civilization shall say, I have no pleasure in them. Notwithstanding the poor condition of the laborer, upon which your corre spondent dwells, and his alleged un thrift and vice, it were far better to try him in a new and nobler relation than to allow the present system to go on ' until it produces its necessary historical results. Let me say that the co-opera tive system of industry is demonstrably ) successful. I cite the whole world to 1 the greatest and most successful flour manufactory in the world. Persuade \ the Pillsburys, if you can; persuade their co-operatives, if you can, to go back to the industrial system which they have abandoned. They will not do it. Ex nno disce onjne—out of one instance learn the possibility of every- | thing. If the laborer is to come up it is by this road. If any industry be so vast and varied j that co-operation is not applicable there- j to, then that industry is too vast and J varied for either private or corporate I management. It belongs to society as j a whole, to the government if you will, j to be managed in the interest of all. I j repeat that according to my judgment the new era is at the door, and that the wage system of labor, inherently vicious j as it is, must give way to some form of co-operation more generons and enno- j bling. There is in this world one tiling i to be considered, and that is the people. There is one kind of interest and right to be consulted, and that is the interest and right of the masses. There is one kind of monarchy to be established throughout the earth, and that is the monarchy of man. As to what your correspondent says— that the scholar, tho thinker, the man of the library, is not fit in ability and ex perience to cope with such a question as that of labor and cupital, as that of em ployer and employee, the hirer and the hired man—permit me to say that that iS a form of the argumentum ad homi nem whicli no longer goes in ah age when truth is truth and justice is just, by whomever defended.—John Clark Rid pathin Christian at Work. The llallway Carmen. At tho third annual convention of ttie Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, held in St. Louis, officers were elected as fol lows: W. T. Wisseinan, St. Joseph, Mo., grand chief; B. F. White, Temple, Tex., grand vice chief; S. Rellelier, Minneap olis, grand secretary and treasurer; L. P. Downing, J. S. Rosen, John Caples, W. H. Ronemies and H. J. Dawes, ex ecutive committee. The next conven tion will lie hold in Minneapolis in June, 1894. Mr. Kellelier was elected editor of the journal of the Brotherhood of Rail way Carmen. A resolution was adopted in favor of federation, and the executive committee will correspond with the va rious orders throughout the country. Will Drown Tlnkertoii I)tertlvH. Pinkerton detectives are guarding the boiler shops of Frazier & Chalmers, Chicago, whose men are on strike. One of the daughters of Chalmers is married to one of the Pinkertons, and Secretary J. J. Fitzgerald, of the Chi cago Boilermakers' union, writes to President Curran in this city: "There are detectives in our branch, but v-e cannot catch them. The Lord help them if we do. They will make a hole in Lake Michican for themselves." — New York Evening World. The committee of the New York Cen tral Labor union appointed to aid Dr. Parkhurst in ids crusade ugainst vice has made its report. The report out lines the work which it will jmrform in conjunction witli Dr. Parklinrst on his return from Eurojie. THE NEW CHAIRMAN. William P. Harrity. Who Will lllreot the Campaign for the Democrats. Sir. Harrity, the new chairman of the committee, is the present secretary of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and has been most successful as a poli tician. He is courteous and obliging, and a great favorite among newspaper 1 WILLIAM P. HAMIITY. men because of his truthfulness. He was born in Wilmington, Del., Oct. 19, 1850, and was graduated from La Salle [ college, Philadelphia. He studied law in j the office of the late Lewis C. Cassidy, who was attorney general of Pennsyl vania, and was admitted to the liar in 1873. He helped to elect Robert E. Pattison comptroller of Republican Phil adelphia, and later assisted to make him governor. He was appointed postmas ter of Philadelphia by Cleveland, and made an excellent record. He, more than any other man, was responsible for running Pattison for governor a sec ond time, which resulted in the over throw of Delainater. He is president of a trust company in Philadelphia and lias a large law practice. He has an in teresting family, and is a handsome man of stulwart build, who can stand almost any amount of physical and men tal v-ork without signs of fatigue.—New York Herald. DeiuocrHtM Made No Mistake. The selection of Mr. Harrity for the chairmanship of the Democratic national committee will doubtless give general ' satisfaction to the party, inasmuch as the new chairman is a strict party man. a shrewd organizer and an indefatiga ble worker. The Republican malingers should not delude themselves with the belief that tho Democrats have made n mistake in the selection of a chairman. —Baltimore Herald (bid.). No Itulnbow lluni 11 Mr. Harrity'B choice as chairman means that the Democratic party is go ing to make an aggressive fight and a winning fight from the start. It means that the national committee is after votes this year; that there will he no rainbow business in the presidential campaign; that Cleveland and Steven son aro going to lie elected.—Charleston News and Courier. Tlie Colored People Nufl'er Also. ! There aro some 5,000 colored votors in Massachusetts, enough to turn the scale in years where the vote is close. The same may he said of tho 1,500 in Rhode Island, tho 2,500 in Connecticut, the 16,000 in New York, the 10,000 in New Jersey, the 23,000 in Pennsylvania, 19,000 in Uliio, 10,000 in Indiana and j 12,500 in Illinois. There is no reason why these votors should give their solid support to the Republican party. 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