BUCHANAN'S LETTER. HE DISCUSSES SUBJECTS WHICH ARE OF INTEREST TO LABOR. "Worklngmen's Trains and Low Kates of Faro—Editor Walker's Warning to Flu tocr.ry—An Old Trlek of the Capital istic Editor—Labor Militiamen. Tho New York Mail anil Express is agi tating for cheap "workingmen's trains" to the Columbian exposition from all parts of the country. The paper claims that the railroads can prepare special equipment for this service and carry passengers at the rate of two dollars each for the round trip from any point in the United States and still make big money on the transaction. In addition to providing an opportunity for working people of limited means to see tho Chi cago show, The Mail and Express claims that tho taste for travel will 1)0 so large ly cultivated in classes which have been heretofore stay at homes that a per manent boom will be given to the pas senger business of the railways. Whether or not the low World's fair rate sug gested is to become a part of the per manent boom is not stated. While the proposition of The Mail and Express may strike some who have not investigated the subject as foolish, and while it may not get the support it is entitled to, but be finally dismissed as one of Colonel Shepard's absurdities, there is sound business sense in it. And the close connection the colonel has with some of the railroad kings of the country would seem to indicate that the project is not looked upon by the trans portation barons as one calculated in it self to damage the interests of the hold ers of railroad securities. But the great est impediment to carrying out the plan lies in the evidence its success would furnish that the railroad system of the country is at present badly managed; that great loss results therefrom, and that society and not the stockholders pays the losseS. The Mail and Express proves by care fully compiled estimates of expenses and incomes that the railroads can make a large profit at the two dollar rate pro posed, and one is prone to ask, Why, then, is it that the fare now charged from New York, for instance, to Chicago and return is something like forty dollars? What becomes of the thirty-eight dollars? is a natural question when we are told that the most successful railroads pay only a small percentage of profit, and that many of them are constantly losing money. Colonel Shepard has discovered that the secret of what might be and what is done by the railroads is found in the empty or only partially filled trains which are operated. He sees the wasted force which is characteristic of the present method of conducting railways. It costs but a trifle more, comparatively, to take a car with sixty persons in it from New York to Chicago than to take the same car with only one occupant. Then, under the colonel's plan, comes the inducement for a hundred poisons to travel where now ninety-nine of them stay at home. Of course this only re lates to the Columbian exposition, but if under such conditions passengers can be carried at such an enormous reduc tion, why cannot the conditions, to a i large extent, be continued? If a coach- | load of passengers (sixty persons) can be taken from New York to Chicago and return for $l2O and a neat profit made on the transaction during the fair, it can be done after the fair. That pas senger rates on the railways are out of all proportion to the cost of transporta- i tion under wise management is patent to all who have investigated the subject. Empty cars and idle equipment are not all of the "dead wood" carried by the railways—not one-half of it. But the subject is too large for discussion in this letter, and there is a mountain of litera ture concerning it for those who wish to understand the matter fully. The solution lies in the direction of govern ment ownership, and the agitation for cheap tjrains to the Chicago fair, if car ried to its logical conclusion, will fur nish a strong argument for that plan. Therefore it is not likely that Colonel Shepard will receive the support of many railroad magnates in his under taking. I note with pleasure that the number of well to do per Bonn who are honest enough and have the courage to come out in defense of the rights of labor is rapidly increasing. Homestead, Buffalo and Coal Creek troubles have drawn from many wealthy and influential citi zens, who had hitherto remained silent and been counted against the people, warm expressions of sympathy for tho cause of the workingman and unequivo cal condemnation of the methods em ployed by capitalism to crush tho spirit of American citizens. Strikes, no mat ter if they are wholly lost, no matter if they cause rioting and even destruction of life and proporty, must result in ul timate benefit to civilization if they arouse to thought and action men who by their natural and acquired qualities can render inestimable service to the cause of progress. Hundreds of such men have been aroused by the recent explosions in the industrial world who would have gone on for the rest of their lives silent as- Benters to the injustices practiced, ab sorbed in their own affairs, had not their attention been compelled by the magni tude of the disturbances. They are thinking now and writing and speaking. They aro looking np things from the side of that part of the human family with whom they have not been brought into contact. James Brisben Walker, in The Cosmopolitan Magazine, says upon the subject: If one would study the justice of a system of political economy, lot him surrender his vested rights of proiw;rty and take his place among those whom the system crushes, whose labor It devours and whose reward fof labor is a bare, Joyless existence. We who have the money can reason npeciously regarding the justice of our laws, the excellence of our sya- Mm oi government- The Üboriug man can only pronn In spirit. lie bus not hitherto had Iho power of his vote, notwithstanding our boasted representative government, because his brothers in the agony which poverty brings, in their effort to relievo tho hand to mouth miseries of their existence, have sold at each election this birthright for the merest taste of pottage. Referring to tho arrogance of the com mander of tho militia at Homestead and the latont power in the hands of the workingmen, Mr. Walker says; There are enough workmen in Pittsburg and vicinity to givo a hundred regiments of the full complement of teu companies of soventy men each, with as many more left over for on lookers at parades. Six months of hard drill such as the enthusiasm of these men would permit wonld leave them equal to the best of tho Philadelphia troops. Iloes any one believe for an instant that, if there had been a hun dred such regiments among the workingmen of Pittsburg, General Suowden would have de clared that he could not recognize tho existence of such a body of men as the Amalgamated as sociation? I choose to usk this question as it reductio ad absurdum, in the hope that it will cause my own class, who have power and au thority, to stop and reflect that perhaps it will be best to concede something in the way of law, to regulate tills nno sided distribution of wealth, lest it should be regulated through bloodshed, or, what is more horrible still, should throw into power, through sheer brute force, element- which will bring our republic to anarchy. 1£ there could have been pointed out to the nobles of Louis XIV the things which were liable to follow their arrogance, the children of these French rich would have cause for cougratulatlou today. This warning coming from a man of wealth and position will command at tention. From a workingman or the editor of a labor paper it would bo "in citing to murder and anarchy." There are some men, mostly editors, who will not learn. They remain in the old ruts of ignorance—or pretended ig norance—and see only the "rights of property" when there is a struggle between the oppressed and their op pressors. The rights of man are as nothing when in conflict with the dol lar. Tho trickery of some of tho edi torial servants of capitalism when dis cussing the industrial question is con temptible. Take, for instance, the de ception practiced in the use of the word "capital." This has been shown up as many times as there are visible stars on a clear night, and yet it is turned out by the capitalistic newspaper regularly every day during the consideration of a strike or lockont. A recent editorial in the Buffalo Express will explain how it is done: He (the employer) comes to look on organ ized labor aa an enemy constantly seeking to do him an injury at every favorable oppor tunity. His natural tendency is to seek to destroy that enemy if he can. He is challenged to light, and he lights. Surely this principle is wrong. Capital cannot prosper without labor. Labor would be worthless without capital. The two should be friends and not enemies. At least they should not destroy each other. The design is to create in tho minds of the readers the impression that "em ployer" and "capital" are interchange able terms; that labor in challenging tho employer by a strike directly attacks capital. We all agree that capital is necessary to achieve satisfactory results in production and that "labor cannot prosper without capitul." But the em ployer is not capital; his complete over throw would not lessen existing capital by one penny's worth. Nor is money capital. Capital is those things, natural and man improved, which, by the appli- I cation of labor, become wealth—articles of utility—which again become capital in another form. In the strictest sense of the word lubor itself is capital. The muscles and skill of the workingmen are his capi tal. Labor does not quarrel with capi tal. Its contest is against a class which has, by trickery and class legislation, gained control of natural resources and the tools of industry, and refuses to share fairly with the actual producers. But the purpose of the capitalistic press is served if it can befuddle the mind which recognizes that resources, labor and tools must co-operate in production into the belief that organized labor is threaten ing, intentionally or not, the destruction of this co-operation. The employers, as a class, are called the "capitalistic class" i because they have gained control of the I | capital used in production and retain all the increase which comes from produc tion. A great deal has been written lately by prominent men in labor organizations on the subject of workingmen belonging to the state militia, and all agree that, since the "citizen soldiery" has come into such popular use as a force to crush workingmen, no true trade unionist can belong to the militia. The unnatural position of tho labor militiaman was shown in lurid colors at Homestead. An evidence of the extent to which work ingmen who belong to the militia of Pennsylvania were forced to become tho armed enemies of their brother work men is shown in the following extract from an editorial in tho New York Sun summarizing Colonel Volkmar's eulogy of the mobilization of tho soldiery at Homestead; lie found that another company, "nine miles from a railway, had been gathered from har vest field and workshop, moved in wagons to a railway and was in waiting for its cars before these arrived." He found that a company con sisting wholly of coal miners was called up from underground and soon hurried oil. He found that in a Pittsburg factory, which was notified by telephone of the call, tho foreman instantly stopped labor, and directed all be longing to the national guard to advance to the center of the workshop. "Men, your regi ment is ordered under arms; go to your armo ries. Your places will be kept for you here." Over twenty-flvo men hastened from that shop to their ranks. There can be no excuse for any of these men. The militia has been used to crush workingmen for fifteen or more years, and all those from the factory, mine and workshop referred to by Colo nel Volkmar have either enlisted or re enlisted within the past five years. The records are open; ignorance does not ex cuse these labor militiamen. Brass but tons may blind them, and the patronage of colonels and majors who are of the plutocracy may deaden their manhood, but they should remember tho hungry children of their brothers. Jos. R. BUCHANAN. If that aid (militia) had not been obtain able, who doubts that the pillage and the devastation would have gone on and extended until we should have seen the whole region ravaged by the savages and their anarchistic allies?— New York Bun UD Buffalo Strike. GEMS IN VERSE. Traffic. Life, tlio Bhrowd lapidary, 1B rich in wares Whose worth or charm a casual glance may And like porpetual purchasers aro we. Won by the bounteous opuleuce ho airs. Hero shines a pearl of hope; here subtly glares An emerald of reveuge; hero thrilled we see A diamond of ambition; here may be Some ruby of sin that lures us and ensnares. Continually abovo this bright array. As tiino flows on, we mortals flock to bend. Till body and limbs turn frail, till brows grow gray. Through trading, haggling, bartering with out end- While for tho Inexorable prico we pay, Months, years, even centuries aro the coiui we spend. —Edgar Fawcott, Teeny-Weeny. Every evening, after tea, Teeny-Weeny comes to me. And, astride my willing knee. Plies his lash and rides away; Though that palfrey, all too spare. Finds his burdeu hard to bear, Teeny-Weeny doesn't care- He commands and I obey! First It's trot; and gallop then— Now it's back to trot again; Teeny-Weeny likes it when He is riding fierce and fasti Then his dark eyes brighter grow And his cheeks are all aglow— *\MoreJ" he cries, and never "Whoa!" Till tho horse breaks down at laatl Oh, the strange and lovely sights Teeny-Weeny sees of nights. As ho makes thoso famous flights On that wondrous horso of his! Oftentimes, before he knows, Weary like his eyelids close. And, still smiling, off ho goes Where the land of By-low Is. There ho sees the folk of fay Hard at ring-a-rosio play. And ho hears thoso fairies say: "Como, let's chase him to and fro!** But, with a defiant shout. Teeny puts that host to rout— Of this talo 1 make no doubt— Every night ho tells it sol Bo I feel a tender prido In my hoy who dares to ride (That fierce horse of his astride) Off into thoso misty lands; And as on my breast ho lies. Dreaming in that wondrous wise, I caress his folded oyes— Pat his little dimpled hands. On a time he went away. Just a little while to stay, And I'm not ashamed to say I was very lonely then; Life without him was so sad. You can fancy I was glad And mado merry when I had Teeny-Weeny back again! Bo of evenings after tea, When ho toddles up to mo And goes tugging at my knee. You should hear his palfrey neigh! You should see him prance and shy. When, with an exulting cry, Teeny-Weeny, vaulting high. Plies his lash and rides away! _ Eugeue Field. The Wuy of It. Tills is the way of it wido world over- One is beloved and ono Is tho lover. One gives and the other receives; Ono lavishes all in wild emotion. One offers a smile for a life's devotion. One hopes and tho other believes; One lies awako in tho night to weep. And tho othor drifts off into a swoot, soune sleep; One soul is aflatno with n godlike passion, j One plays with love in an idler's fashion. One speaks and the other hears. ! ° uo whs "1 love you," and wet eyes show It, I And oo laughs lightly, us says "I know it," I With smiles for the other's tears; One lives for tho other and nothing beside. And the other remembers the world is wide This is tho way of it sad world over— Tho heart that breaks is tho heart of tho lover. And the other learns to forget— For what is tho uso of endless sorrow? Though tho sun goes down it will rise tomor row; And life is not over yet." Obi I know this truth, if I know no other. That Passionato Love is Pain's own mother. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Man Who's Going to He. This world is full of theories and undeveloped schemes. Man really does but little, but ho dreams and dreams and dreams, And every tinnwjoino one achieves a full suc cess we see A half a hundred times or more tho man who's going to be. Ho has an undeveloped plan to bring him In the gold, And make him proud and opulent as Croesus was of old; And while he may be sadly pressed for ready cash today, It won't be long until he'll have great wealth to give away. He's almost finishing a book which, when it is in print. Will, as a money coiner, prove to bo a first class mint; Besides, he's Just now working on tho lost act of a play That will, when it's presented, turn a lot of folks away. He's fixing up a lecture that will bo BO full of mirth Twill more than closely pack tho very largest hall on earth. He's going to write some poems which, while yet the ink Is wot, The magazines and papers will bo fighting hard to get. And, furthermore, he's very sure he's going to invent A wondrous patent right that's worth a mil lion, if a cent. And men who want a fortune will be eager to invest; You simply press a button, and—of course you know the rest. He has a score of ways in which to win a for tune great; He's Boing to write a little book on "Riches >V Idle You Walt." But notwithstanding all of this, he'll strike yon for a "V," Will this glad, prospective millionaire, the man who's going to bo. —Chicago Tlnioa. He True. Thou must bo truo thyself ' thoi J th ® truth wouldst teach; 4 Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul would reach; T'l It neods tho overflow of heart To give the lips full speech. Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a truthful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed. A Suicide. Could he but sell that which ho casts away, This man, of life's swoot self aweary grown. A million times tho wealth of fumed Cathay Were his, and kings would crawl before his throne. —Julia Ditto Young. liabyliontf. Deep mystery of human lifo. that holds Within the tiny forms the hopes of heaven. The love and joy of earth! —Esther T. liousb. WHY WE ARE CROWDED. (Continued front Page 1.) get a living. It is because land is made scarcer, dearer, harder to get at any price that we are to-day suffering and every day will have to suffer more and more from conditions similar to those of Europe. While the Atlantic States were being populated by the daily arrival of immi grants from Europe, the demand for la bor was increased. The public lands along the Ohio and Mississippi attracted the attention of the surplus labor of the hasten] cities. It was not necessary for a " this labor to take to farming, but a sufficient number took advantage of the opportunity to employ themselves as farmers to create a demand for other labor from the ordinary to the profes sions. The public lands were always the safety-valve foraconjested labor market. 1 liey wore the opportunities left labor to weaken the competition among men for work, and produce competition among employers for workmen. But the power of monopoly and the greed for gain showed its cunning in appropriating all the arable land ami denying to labor the right to employ itself. Speculation has gone in advance of population, leaving little or no farm land at the disposal of the government. There are still nomi nally on the map millions of acres belonging to the government, but they are mountains, bogs, lands that need irrigation. Ihe ordinary land, such as you could make a living on, is all gone. It lias been stolen by corporations and the bribery of legislatures. It seems logical to keep out cheap labor to make the market scarcer for labor, but why not eradicate the real evu—-the monopoly of the opportunities to labor. Break down that monopoly and compel the coal baron and other landlords to open the mineral land which they are now purposely keeping idle in order to increase the royalty from the other mineral land that they are working. Break down those barriers which prevent the surplus labor from relieving itself and hold it hungering around the street, the mine, and the factory. Aou can do this by the simple, peaceful, contitutional remedy of taxing those landlords to the full rental value of their holdings. Then there will be such a use made of the land as to create a demand for all labor, skilled and un skilled, and every man able and willing to work, will always have the right to employ himself, the opportunity to make a living.— l). F. Quinan in Equal Eight*. Malta noy City, Pa. To Put Life In the Campaign. The North Side correspondent of the Standard Hays of the political campaign: Never has there been a contest between the parties where less interest was shown than the present. The Democrats should stir themselves and show a greater activ ity in politics for in a close district like this, the majority party always suffers after a disinterested contest. The result in November will empha size the work being done at present, and for the sake of itemocratic principles and Democratic success we should have more interst shown in the present contest. A public debate between the Republi cans and Democrats in Freeland would help to stir the potical pot. The county is large and both parties have ample material to put against ench other in a battle of the brains on some of the lead ing issues of the campaign. Our people would welcome a move of this kind, and the result would be grati fying anil pleasing to all. Let the candi dates who seek an election to congress on either ticket come to the front and show the faith that is in them. No New County Wanted. Farmers, taxpayers and workingmen generally of the fourth and sixth legis lative districts do not want any division of the county. They know that with it will come a burdensome increase of taxes, for the purpose of erecting and sustaining a new county administration, and that will only benefit the few. Outside of a little clique in Ilazleton, some of whom have property intersts to serve and another set, who have politi cal ambitoins they want fed, there is 110 new county wanted. New county means heavy taxes and these are high enough at present for all who pay. Wright's election will settle the new county question for all time.— Newtdealer. Hunters Should bo Careful. Now that the hunting season is open sportsmen should be careful in the use of their guns. Hunters will he out in all directions, and in consequence of the thick brush covered with leaves, the danger is doubly enhanced. Another point to consider is that the woods will be full of small boys skirmish ing in all directions for chestnuts. Safety i lies in taking every precaution against the possibility of accidents. Re careful of the way you carry your j guns, and look twice before firing in the direction you intend to shoot. Too much care cannot be taken in the woodß. They Forgot to IteglHter. It has just been discovered by the leaders of both parties in Monroe county that neither the Democratic nor Repub lican nominee for associate judge has been registered at Ilarrisburg as the law requires. The Democrats were in a state of anxiety until they learned that the Republicon leaders had failed to file the nominating papers of their candidate. Roth county committees are open for suggestions as to what course would be the best to pursue now. Wagon llaiMntl 3 Per Cent. At meeting of the committee of the Schuylkill Coal Exchange on Friday at Pottsville the rate of wages of the miners and laborers of the Beading Company was fixed at G per cent above a $2.5*0 basis, an increase of 3 per cent, over the preceding month. COUGHING LEADS TO CONSUMPTION. Kemp's Balsam stops the cough at once. When Baby was sick, wo gavo her Castoria.' When Rho was a Child, flho cried for Castoria. I When she became Miss, ahe clung to Castoria. ' When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. 1 J. 0. fiill'S EMPORIUM. We Are Now Ready With Our Fall Stock of Dry Goods. Canton flannels, from 5 cents a yard up. Calicoes, from 3 cents up. All-wool dress goods, double width, from 25 cents up. We have the room and the stock. Ladies' Coats, Capes and Shawls In Fall and Winter Styles. Mens' Heavy and Light Weight Shirts. The Most Complete Line of Underwear In Town. Blankets, Quilts, Spreads, Etc., Etc. Wall Paper, Stationery and School Books. Furniture, Carpets and Beddings. A good carpet-covered lounge for $5.00. Ingrain carpet 25 cents a yard up. Brussels carpet, 50 cents to $1.50 per yard. Boots and Shoes. Ladies' kid shoes, SI.OO. Children's school shoes, Nos. 8 to 10L 85 cents; Nos. 11 to 2, 05 cents. Groceries. All fresh goods. I Flour, $2.35* j Ham, 15 cents, j Tobacco, 28 cents. | Cheese, 12i cents. I Scim choese, 8 cents. | 3 pounds of raisins, 25 cents. 5 pounds of currants, 25 cents, j (i pounds of oatmeal, 25 cents, j 0 bars white soap, 25 cents. | 3 bars yellow soap, 10 cents. Thousands of Other Goods All Guaranteed. Queens ware. We sell Deite's Lantern, 38 cents. Milk and butter pots, a com plete line. Tinware. Washboilers, with lid, 00 cents. Blue granite ware, a complete line—is everlasting. Call and see our stock and be convinced of our assertion that we can save you 25 per cent on Amy goods you may need, llrms, spot cash to one and all. All goods guar unteed or money refunded. Yours truly, J. C. BERNER. Corner South and Washington Streets. WM. WEHRMANN, German Practical Watchmaker. Centre Street, Five Points. The cheapest and best repair ing store in town. All watch repairing guaranteed for one year. New watches for sale at low prices. Jewelry repaired on short notice* Give me a call. All kinds of watches and clocks repaired. ENGLISH. SWISS AND AMERICAN WATCHES. Complicated and fine work on watches a specialty. PATENT 1 A 48-page book free. Adderss W. T. FITZ GEKAID, Atfy-at-Law. Cor. Bth and F Bts.. Washington, D. C. Advertise in the Tribune. ORDINANCE.— An ordinance creating a board of health and defining its duties. Bo it ordained and enacted by the burgess and town council of the borough of Freeland in council met, and it is hereby enacted by au thority of the same, that for the better preser vation of the sanitary condition of the borough of Freeland, a board of health lie created, con sist ing of three (3) physician, two (2) laymen, one health officer, and the burgess, whose duty it shall bo to look after the sanitary condition of the borough. Passed llnally in council, September 6, 1802. Patrick Dooris, President. T. A. Buckley, Secretary. E. P. (Jallagher, Burgess. Approved September 6,1882. Don't Kiss This! For if you do you will lose money by it. WE NOW 11EGIN Neuburger's Annual Clearing Sale. We will olfer our entire stock, whicli is the largest in this region, at prices that will astonish you. Call early if you are looking for bargains as this sale will last Fo TEN Days Oot.IT ! • During this time we will sell goods at prices lower than were ever before heard of. In the Dry Goods department you can buy: Handsome dress gingham-print calicoes, (i cents per yard; re duced from 10 cents. Apron gingham will be sold at 5 cents per yard. All the leading shades in double-width cashmere, which was sold at 15 cents is now going at 10 cents per yard. As handsome an assortment of Scotch and zephyr dress ging hams as you have ever seen, which we sold at 20 cents, will now go at 12J cents per yard. Lockwood, best sheeting, we will sell at 17£ cents per yard, reducing it from 25 cents. w Fifty different shades of Bedford cord, Manchester chevron and Henrietta cloth, which were sold at 45 cents, will now go at 25 cejits per yard. Hosiery department quotes the following: Men's seamless socks, 5 cents per pair. Boys' outing cloth waists, 15 cents each. Men's outing cloth shirts, 20 cents each. Ladies' ribbed summer vests, 4 for 25 cents. Ladies' chemise, 25 cents. We have just received an elegant line of ladies' shirt waists and will sell them from 35 cents upward. Shoe department makes the following announcement: ! We have just received a large consignment from the East, and have not yet had time to quote prices. But we will say that they will go at prices on which we defy competi tion. Call and examine them. Clothing prices are marked as follows: We are selling boys' 40-cent knee pants at 25 cents. Men's $1.25 pants are now going at 75 cents per pair. Boys' blouse suits, 50 cents. Men's SO.OO suits reduced to $3.00. Men's Custom-made $9.00 wood-brown cassithere suits re duced to $5.00. Men's(absolutely fast-color blue suits at $0.50; reduced from SIO.OO. We have lowest marks on all goods in our lines of Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises, Notions, Etc. J<|s%|)li jNTeiiburger's BARGAIN EMPORIUM, P. 0. S. of A. Building, Freeland, Pa. Wt Ait lEtftiqvi.iflt.fi FOE ~ And Hardware of Every Description. REPAIRING DONE ON SHORT NOTICE.' We are prepared to do roofing and spouting in the most..,, improved manner and at reasonable rates. We have the/ choicest line of miners' goods in Freeland. Our mining oil, . selling at 20, 25 and 30 cents per gallon, cannot be surpasssed. ' Samples sent to anyone on application. Fishing Tackle and Sporting Goods. Q\RKBECK'S, CENTRE STREET, FREELAND, PA.' y
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