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FREELAND, PA., OCTOBER 17,1892.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
NATIONAL.
President,
Grover Cleveland Now Vork
Vice President,
Adlal E.Stevenson Illinois
STATE.
Judge of Supreme Court,
Christopher Heydrick Venango County
Congressmen at-Large,
George Allen Erie County
Thomas P. Merritt Berks County
COUNTY.
Congressman,
William H. Hines Wilkes-Barre
Senator,
J. Riilgoway Wright Wilkes-Barre
Sheriff,
William Walters. Sugarlouf Township
Recorder,
Michael C. Russell Edwurdsvllle
Coroner,
H. W. Trimmer Rake Township
Surveyor,
Juiucs Crockett Ross Township
We denounce protection tie a frit lid, a
robbery of the great majority of the Ameri
can 'people for the benefit of the few. —
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
The Cost of Hurrisonism.
The ordinary expenditures of the first
three years of the Cleveland adminis
tration, says an exchange, were $027,-
000,000, For the first three years of the
Harrison administration the ordinary
expenses have been $901,000,000.
The years of Harrison cost the
people $274,000,000 more than the three
years of Cleveland.
The average annual cost of the Cleve
land administration was $209,000,000; of
the Harrison administration over $."00,-
000,000.
These figures are for ordinary expen
ditures exclusive for expenditures for
sinking fund, for interest, for premiums
and bond purchases and for the postal
service.
Harrison costs the country as much
for ordinary expenses in three years as
Cleveland did in four.
The increase under Harrison is entirely
due to the Republican policy of taxing
earners for the benefit of nonearners
a policy well illustrated in the case of
the exorbitant direct bounty of over
$1(1,000,000 a year paid to a few corpora
tions in Louisiana and a few sap-boilers
in Vermont.
The Republican argument for giving
these people public money is that they
could not earn it; that they were crip
pled veterans of the tariff system, and
that having existed under it until they
were utterly incapable of independent
self-support they thereby became en
titled to a pension direct from the
treasury.
Every year, therefore, between $lO,-
000,000 and $15,000,000 is taken from
the pockets of the people who have
earned it and paid to these incapables
on the ground of their incapacity.
There is no metaphor about this, The
money is taken directly out of the
treasury and put directly into their
hands to do as they pleased with, and
they are not required to render the least
service to the government in exchange
for it.
The same policy of bleeding the earn
er for the nonearner is carried out in
every direction—through direct sub
sidies to steamship corporations and in a
general policy of extravagance intended
to prevent the lessening of direct subsi
dies aecruingunder the high tariff taxes.
The Republican party connot be
economical in administration. Its theo
ries involve the extravagant expendi-;
ture of other people's earnings. It grows
more extravagant as it grows more radi
cal in the enforcement of its theories,
and a vote for Charles Foster for con
gress is a vote to continue this disgrace
ful policy to which the Republicans are
committed.
THE little Republican organs of the
state are just now indulging in some
assertions which do not reflect much
credit upon the parties who edit them.
The statement that Governor Pattison
and his assistants are the cause of the
trouble about the size and delay of the
ballot is not gulped down by the average j
reader without, a little investigation as to 1
its veracity. Those whose duty it is to
draw up the form and prepare the \
official ballot liavo followed the law
strictly to the letter, and if the county !
commissioners will be inconvenienced |
by the short time allowed to do the '
printing the blame must be laid where 1
it belongs—upon the framer of the bill I
and the Republican legislature that j
passed it, after defeating every amend-1
ment proposed by representatives wiiol
wished to make it a model act. The '
governor or the secretary of the state
have not gone one step outside tiieir
duty so fur, and as both are Democrats
there is not much likelihood that they
will. The intense hatred of Republican
newspapers and leaders to a secret
. ballot was never more bitter than at
present. Nothing but a Force bill, with
its bayonets and intimidation, would
satify them.
for the TRIBUNE.
THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS
I
| UNDER THE IRON HEEL OF A HEART
LESS PLUTOCRACY.
I
; Society Cures for the Crimliiul, hut
Drives the Searcher After Work to
Starvation or Worse Questions We
j Must Not Dodge—Homestead.
I From a discourse delivered by the
1 ! Rev. Alexander Kent, of Washington,
| the following burning words are ex
tracted:
The employed is a man equally with his em
ployer. As a man he has every right that be
longs to the other. He has a right to all that
is needful iu the way of opportunities and
privileges—for growth in manly character, in
i intelligence, in culture, in all that carry him
toward his true goal as a human being. Simply
1 M a man he has a right to all ol opportunity
needed to the attainment of this end. Society,
, as the guardian of his Interests, the natural
guardian—and therefore the divinely ap
pointed guardian in the only sense in which
anything ever is divinely appointed—is bound
to provide this opportunity ami to keep the
! door of it forever open. Surely the rights of
! the workinginan are not less. Vet society
treats him as if they were. Everywhere tho
I rights of man as man are being asserted and
: acknowledged. Even the criminal, who has
arrayed himself against human society ami
1 declared war against its laws and customs, ns
soon as arrested is treated as a being for
j whose improvement society is responsible. It
provides him with wholesome food, adequate
shelter, suitable clothing and such instruction
1 and moral influence as are supposed to have a
humanizing tendency.
Tliis is coming to he the demand everywhere
: and the practice in many places. Hut tho
workinginan is never thought of as one for
whom it should care. He maybe starving or
freezing. He may tramp from one end of tho
country to the other in search of work, but so
long as he is thought to ho industriously in
clined—and really anxious for work—so long
as he is believed to be honest and above all
burglary or theft he may tramp and freeze or
j starve at will. Society will never interfere,
llut the moment lie is suspected of vagrancy,
of unwillingness to work, of readiness to steal
or murder,society is all alert. It is ready then
to take hold of him und do for him something I
that will help him to better, nobler manhood.
Our jails and penitentiaries are full because
society neglects its duties to the men and wom
en, the boys and girls, who without its aid are
powerless to keep the doors of opportunity
open. Unscrupulous greed and avarice on the
part of the great manipulators of our indus
trial activities close these doors in their faces,
and they cannot force them open.
The greatest labor saving inventions, which
ought to have lightened the burdens of tho
masses and improved their conditions, have
ail been turned to the advantage of tho em
ployer and often to the injury of t he workmen.
More and more machinery is doing the work
that formerly required skilled mechanics. As
skilled labor gives place to unskilled the aver
age wage is relatively lower, ami the put chas
ing power of the average workman decreased.
This in turn diminishes tho market for goods i
and causes still others to be thrown out of em- !
ployment. Add to these things the existence
of a large class of shrewd, cunning, unscrupu
lous gamblers in real estate, iu grain and pork,
in stocks, mines ami railroads, who manipu
late all these industries simply to make for
tunes for themselves, utterly regardless of tho
interests of the people, and it is easy to see
why the progress of invention and discovery |
lias been more than outstripped by the prog- !
ress of poverty.
All of these classes who have preyed upon i
tho people organized society has wittingly or
unwittingly aided and abetted in their rob
beries. These poop!--, feeling that their inter
ests were antagonistic to those of their work
men, that their profits would be greatest when
the wages of their men were least, have natu
rally sought by every means in their power *o
keep wages clow n and to break the power of
all labor organizations through which work
ingmen have striven to force them up. In
this conflict the advantage has, in the very i
nature of the case, been on the side of the
capitalist. He bus been able to command for j
any use to which he desired to put it much of I
the ablest legal talent of the country. Very I
much of it, even in our national legislature, j
has been ever ready to prostitute itself at liis j
call, und the result has been a vast amount of
class legislation.
Doubtless much of tills, owing to tho bias
which men have in favor of their own class,
lias seemed to its advocates wholesome anil
necessary.
Capitalists have such an exalted notion of
their importance to tho community, anil men
generally are so much inclined to their opinion,
that we need not suppose that all the legisla
tion which favored them and robbed the people
was passed with any clear sense of its wrong
ful character. Hut that legislation of this
character abounds and disgraces the annals of
our professedly republican government needs
lio proof. The laboring men of this country |
have an indisputable right to have all such i
legislation repealed. They have a light iu '
more than this. They have u right to such a I
reconstruction of our industrial system us will i
give every man and woman, regardless of übil- I
ity, training, aptitude, an opportunity to earn
an honest and decent subsistence and to put
themselves in respectable and wholesome sur
roundings. They have a right to this, ami ;
they have a right to take whatever actionis
necessary to enable them to get it.
Have they, then, the right to prohibit other
men from working in shops from which they
have been locked out, or in which they have
struck, for wages they have declined to take?
This, I am well aware, is a grave question.
liut it is the very question with which we arc
brought face to face in the present trouble.
We must not dodge it. My answer is: If such
action is necessary to secure for labor a just
reward, and for all laborers those higher
rights of justice anil manhood, the securing
and maintaining of which is the one end or
business of all government, then they have
that right. If the intelligent, thoughtful, hon
est laboring men, by a careful study of this
question, have reached the conclusion that
only organized labor can protect itself from
enslavement by organized capital; if they
lind that the policy of noninterference mean* 1
a decrease of wages, a falling off in the power '
of the wage earner to purchase goods, and a '
consequent falling off in tho demand for goods, \
, with further additions to the army of the un
j employed, then they will feel obliged to use
every means in their power to strengthen their
organization, force every wageworker into
their ranks, and present a united and un
broken front to the common foe.
This seems to bo tlio growing conviction of
, wageworking men. The general indorsement
by them of the position taken by the men at
Homestead indicates that they are sett ling
down to this conclusion. They have reached
it, let me spy, very reluctantly and only under
serious pressure from the logic of events. They
liavo sought very earnestly to reach their ends
by other arid more generally approved meth
ods, but the agencies through which tliey have
sought to work—the dominant political pur
tics—have continually failed them. These par
ties are controlled by tho money power of the
country, which is every year growing more
concentrated and vigorous in its grip.
| IJut in my judgment there is hope for tho
I people yet, without resorting to the violence
threatened to nonunion labor. It is in the
I lamer of the people still to secure all that they
' have the right to ask. whenever they can agree
as to their need and unite and pull together.
Fortunately in form we are still republican
in government. In this country it is the peo
ple's right to rule. And as people have rights
only that they may do right it is their duty to
rule. They have themselves greatly to blame
for the evils under which they suffer. The
aims which have ruled the plutocrats have too
often ruled them.
! They, too, have sought to serve themselves
rather than their country or mankind, and so
they have been theeosv tools of demagogues,
who, under pretense of serving them, have
had no aim but to serve themselves. They ure
learning through sore trial and bitter cxperi
| ence the great reality of the common brother
hood- When they jwwe unity of purpose and '
spirit among themselves they can do what
they win. They have tho votes. If they will
get tho intelligence to use them wisely, and
the courage to use them fearlessly they may
soon remedy all these wrongs.
That, in my judgment. Is the wisest and sur
est way, because it is tho way best fitted to
make for the character that such reforms de
mand in those who would carry them. Still 1
do not forgot that tho right of revolution is a
right made sacred to the American people by
their early history, and if the exercise of this
right was a virtue in the fathers it maybe
come so in the children. All the more perhaps
because it aims not to overthrow the form of
government, but only to bring its administra
tion into harmony with the principles it pro
claims to the world. Legally of course tho
men locked out of the Homestead mills have no
right to interfere with other men who choose
to labor on terms they saw lit to decline. Rut
the right of revolution is a right that disre
gards all law that stands in the way of the cud
it proposes to reach.
There aro many other phases of this subject
that I would like to discuss, but 1 will close by
calling your attention to a thought which I
have not seen alluded to iu all the voluminous
literature called forth by this painful event.
Much has been said of' tho disgraceful brutal
ity with which the I'inkertons were treated
after their surrender. I have not seen it any
where noticed that this sort of character is the '
legitimate product of our existing competitive ;
industrial system. The same type of charac
ter, 1 grant you, is found abundantly else
where. And there is much in our present
civilization that makes against it.
liut the system which obliges men to fight
for a place to work, as hogs around a trough
fight for a place to feed, appeals only to i he
lower and animal element in our nature. So
long as it obtains among us our civilization
will never bo anything more than a thin ve
neering. Scratch through that and you linda
savage in all but the courage, nine times out
of ten. if you would lift society above tho
possibility of outrages such us this, you must
so reconstruct our industrial system that life
will cease to bo a brutal struggle for tho
chauce to exist, or for gain or power, and he
roine a generous rivalry in mutual service and
brotherly ministration.
Two (.'uses Out of Thousands.
Mrs. Kate McKinlcy, a widow, of 178
Spring street, tried to kill herself at
midnight on Thursday by taking paris
green. She was a necktie maker and sup
ported herstlf and two children. Her
husband died in 1881). Mrs. McKinley
wrote tho following letter, which tells
her story, to her sister, Miss Maggie
Lamb, of 480 Pearl street, before taking
the poison:
DEAR SIMTKK I cannot work; lost my health
and concluded to end my sod life. 1 hope my
God will forgivo me. 1 cannot help this act.
Huvo struggled for last thrco and a half years.
Cannot struggle longer. My cough lias mo
worried to death. Put tho children iuto a
homo and sell all my things. Whatever they
bring, bury mo with it. to put you to so
much trouble. Maggie, forgive your unhappy
sister. KATIE.
Tho landlord wants his rent. I cannot pay
him. 1 paitl liim live dollars, and how lie
abased mo for the other eight dollars! I want
to ilio before you go away.
Mrs. McKinley was taken to St. Vin
cent's hospital. Her condition is critical.
Christian Mullcr, sixty years old, of
10G7 First avenue, a German furrier,
hanged himself in an unoccupied shed
in Sixty-seventh street, between First
and Second avenues, some time Thurs
day night. lie was dead when some
children who were playing in the ad
joining lot entered the shed yesterday
morning. Muller left a letter written
in German setting forth that he was out
of work, had no money and was not
able to pay his rent. He was a widower
with three children, who are destitute.
—New York Paper.
lluuiorti of au Ironclad Contract.
A dispatch from Rochester, N. Y.,
I sayß:
I Railroad employees aro quietly but j
! earnestly discussing tho events con- |
1 nected with the recent strike in Buffalo. |
' {Said one of them this morning:
! The boys have been given something
to think of this week by a rumor which i
| seems to bo well founded, and which, if
true, is of great importance to them. It 1
is understood that all the trunk lines '
have decided to draw contracts which I
all employees will be required to sign
on Jan. 1, and a provision of each con- j
tract will be: 1. That one month's wages i
shall he reserved at all times during the i
employee's connection with tho com- ;
pany. 2. That the men shall give the
company thirty days' notice of intention
to leave. 3. That any attempt upon the
part of an employee to strike or combine !
with others to force tho company to i
come to terms will result in the imme
diate discharge "I the employee and the |
forfeiture of his deposit of one month's j
pay. 4. That the company reserves the ,
right to discharge an employee at once '
for cause. Now, if this should prove to '
be the case, the employees would refuse
to a man to sign the contract, and one
of tho biggest strikes the country has
ever seen would be precipitated. The
scheme of course would be a death blow
to all organizations among railroad em
ployees.
A Labor Scheme.
Aii article signed by "Walter Webb," !
which appeared in a recent issue of a
daily paper, proposed the following so
lution of the strike question:
Have a law passed by the United
States appointing a lion political arbi-
I tration board, and when a dispute arises
between employer and employed let tho
board proceed to the seat of the diffi
culty, hear testimony of both sides and
render a decision. If the employer did
not see lit to abide by said decision, and
refused to run his place by its terms, let
the government either pension these
workmen until they could find other
employment or set them at work on
some kind of government work —say,
build a highway from the Atlantic to
tho Pacific, or in building coast de
fences.
Hire a Dig Lawyer.
The great labor unions should each
employ the best lawyer that the corpor
ations have It ft (>i)en to employment.
Associated capital has won by this plan,
and associated labor can contend suc
cessfully only by following the exam
ple. First class legal talent is needed
lor guidance all the time, and the very
top of the lawyer market for special oc
casions. This would take money, hut
it would be a practical way of expend
ing it.—National Labor Tribune.
Labor advocates in Chicago are inters .
csted in a scheme to provide hotel ac
commodations to mechanics and mem
bers of labor organizations during tho
World's fair. They want to erect a
1,000 room hotel and rent the rooms at
one dollar a day.
WAGES BREAK DOWN.
SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF A LIST
OF BOGUS WAGE ADVANCES.
Investigation Proves That Pretended In
creage In Protected Indugtrle* Had No
Foundation in Fact—Protectionist)! At
tempt to Hoodwink Wage Earners.
Tlio World published several weeks
ago a compilation of 500 strikes, lock
outs and wage reductions in protected
industries. Immediately the protection
ists sent out orders for quick returns of
increases of wages, and the land was
searched from one end to the other.
At length returns from twenty-eight
establishments were received pretending
to show that wages had been increased
in them under the McKinley tariff law.
On its face the showing could not be said
to be satisfactory, but Mr. John Do Witt
Warner has examined the beggarly list
and has found that even it exaggerates
the benefits of the McKinley act to the
wage earners.
In the first item it was shown that
; just before the passage of the McKinley
| bill wages in the establishment had been
i reduced twenty-five cents a day in one
department and cents in another.
, After the passage of the act the wage 3
were restored 12) £ cents a day all
around, leaving the wages of the iron
molders still less than they had been in
, 1888.
J The second establishment employed
four men and about twenty girls. An
i increase of 5 per cent, had been report
! ed. The operatives assert, however, that
I there was no increase whatever.
I The same tale is told of the third es
. tablishment, in which an advance of 10
' x>er cent, was claimed.
This is what is said of the fourth cs
| tablishment by the agent who investi
; gated its reported increase in wages <-f
I 10 per cent.; "This repoyt of an increase
! of wages in their works is a deliberate
and barefaced lie. There has been no
j increase whatever in ten years."
i In the fifth establishment an em
| plovee, on being shown the report that
; his wages had been raised, exclaimed,
, "What a lie!"
j In tlio sixth the only changes had been
| in reduction of wages. The seventh em
ployed fifteen or twenty hands, and
| wages had not been raised. There was
no such establishment as the eighth,
i The ninth employed two men. The pay
of one of them had been raised from
I twenty-five cents to fifty cents a day,
| while that of the other remained sta
tionary at §1.25.
j Wages in the tenth had not advanced.
"There has not been a single advance,"
is the report, "but there have ben
j scores of reductions." One of the pro-
I prietors of the eleventh establishment
seid that there had been no advance,
i adding, "The McKinley bill has not
i helped us, nor has it had any material
j effect on our business." He is a highly
protected gloveinaker, his tariff tax Hav
ing been increased from 50 to 74 and 80
per cent. Another gloveinaker, the
twelfth, thought that his wages might
| have been raised, but ho was very un- i
certain.
In tlio thirteenth concern the mer. said 1
that their wages were slightly advanced
because they were agitating the subject ,
of a strike.
In the fifteenth an advance of per !
cent, was made this year, although in !
1888 the employers had promised a sub- j
stantial increase if Harrison was elected. ,
In the fifteenth the men obtained it.. I
increase of 10 percent, after a fight, and j
this advance, to quote one of them, didn't '
put them " 'alf back where wo was eight 1
or ten years ago."
In the sixteenth, seventeenth and j
eighteenth establishments there had been
no increase in wages. There was no i
such establishment as the nineteenth.
In the twentieth wages had been raised !
from three to four dollars a week. In the '
twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty- j
third and twenty-fourth there had been !
no advance. In the twenty-fifth the pay
of a few individuals had been increased. 1
The employees in the twenty-sixth '
said that they would nut have known of
the alleged increase if they had not read !
about it in the newspapers.
In the twenty-seventh a few inc •eases j
had been accompanied by more reduc- I
lions. In the twenty-eighth wages had
been increased in answer to the demands
of the operatives, who, however, were ;
still dissatisfied.
The effort to discredit The World's !
list of 500 strikes and wage reductions !
by twenty-eight falsehoods about in- *
crease of wages cannot be called emi- I
nentlj successful. The wage earners j
know too much about their own incomes
to make possible such a game as that !
tried by the hard pressed protectionists.
—New York World.
"Reduction ad Ultimura."
Suppose that pauper labor goods
would not only come in free of duty,
but free of cost; what a disaster would I
befall us! Every one who now pro ;
duced these goods would have absolute- I
ly liuthin i'• d. This certainty would
bo the extension of the free trade idea !
to its worst possible phase, and yet who '
among our protectionist friends would
Rot b 1 I around thewharf at dis
tribution time? Were he asked why he
did not reject the good things, his an- \
swer would bo the free traders', "There 1
is more fun in getting plenty with little |
or no work than in working hard to get j
few tilings." His concern for the shoe- |
maker and tailor would vanish as he 1
saw them imitating his example. And
then there would ho time for him to j
study the reason why there ever was
opposition to any approach to the mil- ,
lennium of industrial economy.—St.
Louis Courier.
1 "Tho tin plate industry is rapidly get
ting into the hands of the American," is
the proud boast of McKinley. The latest
intelligence from the west shows this
particular industry to bo largely in the ■
1 Uands of the Indiana sheriff- '
WORKMEN STARVING!.
But the Militia Would Be Called Out if
They Averted the Fli nt Law of Nature.
A correspondent of a New York daily
paper writing from May's Landing, N.
J., under date of Aug. 29, told the fol
. lowing heartrending story:
t Representatives of the United Hebrew
Trades of New York are at Ziontown, a
Hebrew settlement four miles from Ma
laga, investigating the charges that the
i people have been induced to go there to
invest their money in homes under prom
[ ise of work, and were left destitute and
actually starving by Jacob Zion, a New
? York manufacturer, who owns all the
property of the settlement. The condi
tion of affairs was found to be serious.
Two or three families have been saved
from starvation only by eating green
> fruit and what little food they could
I beg in the neighborhood.
The settlement at present consists of a
I two story shirt factory, a half dozen
I small frame dwellings and a half dozen
. more in different stages of completion,
upon which no work has been done for
six weeks. There are about thirty He
-3 brew families, most of whom came di
rectly from Castle Garden and have
t every cent they own in the world invest
ed either in lots or half finished houses.
For six weeks they have had no work.
Some of them are only keeping from
actual starvation by charity, and two
families will be tomorrow thrown out
of the houses for which they have given
up their last cent because they can't
keep up the payments.
The process by which this condition
was reached is a peculiar one. Mr. Zion
1 declares that no blame attaches to him,
i but he would have received a very warm
welcome had he visited the settlement
yesterday, as was expected. Zion, who
i 3 the head of a large New York cloak
. manufactory, purchased a large tract of
i land at Zion. He erected a factory and
offered steady employment to all who
would purchase a lot and build a home.
He arranged with a building associa
tion for the erection of the houses, the
. settlers to pay for them in installments
from the wages he guaranteed them.
The factory was fitted up, and in Feb
ruary My. Zion brought about thirty
Hebrew families from New York. A
majority of them were newly arrived
immigrants, and most of them had about
enough money to purchase one of Mr.
Zion's lots for twenty dollars, and pay
the building association sufficient to jus
tify them in beginning work on the
houses.
The settlement was to be conducted
on what was virtually a co-operative
basis, the men and women having the
factory practically placed in their own
hands, being allowed to choose their
own foreman and being assured good
wages. Things went along swimmingly
for some tipie, the settlement prospered
and new houses were built. Then the
work fell off and wages fell to five dol
lars and six dollars. Mr. Zion was ap
pealed to, but said it was the dull sea
son and he could do nothing at this
time. Then ho leased half the factory
to a firm of cloak manufacturers, and
they brought most of their work people
with them.
Work soon ceased altogether in Zion's
part of the factory, and the settlers, see
ing nothing but starvation ahead, sent
one of their number away to secure
work. They finally got some cloaks to
make, and the goods were sent to them
to the factory. Then, they say, Mr.
Zion refused to allow them to do the
work. They appointed four of their
number to try to reach an agreement,
the result being a fight in which every
one took a hand. The men gained pos
session of the mill and went to work,
but the next day Mr. Zion arrived and
attempted to arrest them. Their friends,
including the women, came to their as
; sistance, but the sheriff arrived with
twenty-two men, and part of them were
arrested and sent to jail.
Then Mr. Zion left them upon their
own resources. They had no work and
no inonoy. Tho carpenters and builders
ceased work on their houses, and the
, building associations demanded the pay-
I ment of assessments, with the alterna
tive of foreclosing the mortgages on the
houses. This is how things have stood
for six weeks, and now the settlers' for
tunes are at their lowest ebb.
Those working in the new factories
livo well and divide their food as far as
possible. Five children of the settlers
are fed regularly every day. The men
cannot go away because they have no
money, and for the same reason they
can't stay there much longer. Almost
all of them are in the same plight, and
those who are destitute have been living
on apples and pears gathered from the
neighboring farms.
Karly Hlnt-urbance*.
Those who think that strikes in Amer
ica are of recent origin are much mis
taken. The first strike of which there
is any record occurred in New York in
1741, when the journeymen bakers de
manded an increase of wages. As this
was refused the men left their work in a
body. Their action aroused public in
: dignation, and the leaders were ar
rested and tried for conspiracy. No
; other strike occurred till 179G, when the
makers of fine boots and shoes in Phila
j delphia demanded more pay and were
refused. After remaining idle a few
days they went back to work at the old
prices. Two years afterward, however,
they started another strike und suc
ceeded. From that time to this strikes
have constantly increased. —Bethlehem
| Times.
Street Cur Employee*.
! In a communication to the New York
Advertiser Mr. John Henry makes the
charge that on some of the lines of street
cars in New York city the drivers and
conductors are compelled to work fifteen
hours a day. He calls attention to an
other outrage put upon the employees
by the street car syndicate. It is the
practice of compelling the employees to
pay full fare when riding over the lines
from their homes to the point where
they go to work and from their work
I back to their homes. Both of the charges
1 are fully proved.
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What is the Electrcpoise?
What is the Electrcpoise?
and What Will it Do?
Tho Electropoise baa boon in use for four
years, and is woll known in sonic sections of
tlif i nitial States, but there are u gn at many
sufferers that have never heard tin* name.
Those tliat have heard of it and seen something
of its wonderful power, are curious to know
how an instrument so small and so simple can
accomplish cures so great. Now, while the
Kleetropoise is very wonderful, it is not at all
mysterious. Its operation falls in with what
we know of sf ience and anv one at ail fumiliur
with the simplest facts of ltiology and Physics
can understand.
HOW IT OI'KKATKS. The way In wliich
the Electropoise accomplishes its cures is very
simple and natural. It consists of a pnUirizcr,
which is connected by a. woven wire cord with
a small plate and garter. This polarizer is ini- A
mersed In cold water, or put on ice. The plate
at the other end of the cord is attached to the
warm body of the patient, generally at the
ankle. From the Inherent nature of tiiis
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the well-known laws of induction, the plate,
and with it the body of (lie patient, becomes
intuitively charged. The body thereby becomes
a centre of attraction for inutility bodies.
Oxygen is the most negative form of matter in
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new life; every organ acts with renewed vigor,
and the effete poisonous products of "the body
are thrown off with ease.
That quickened change of matter which
oxygen produces throughout the system, is
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Nerve Force. Organs hall dead and stag
nant are born again, and begin to perform their
wonted functions. The heart, the lungs, the
liver, the organs of the external senses, the
organs of reproduction all these throw off
their derangement and weakness, and even the
disordered intellect is otttimcs reeiithronisl.
Where disease has not already made 100 great
ravages, restoration to perfect licalili is in
evitable. The Kleetropoiso is generally used
at night while the patient is asleep, imt may he
applied, of course, at any time, aud to several
persons during (lie twenty-lour hours It will
list a life-time, never wears out nor loses its
strength, never needs mending nor recharging.
One in each family will render that family
largely independent of doctors and druggists,
aim thus will save every year im.n> times its
-nulll cost.
NOT AN KI.KCTKH'AL A I'l'El A N'fK,
The Kleetropoise is not in any way akir to
the numerous electrical appliances, such as
lulls, insult s, curst Is, shit Itls, Yc„ palmed oil
upon the public. Il has no method ol generat
ing a current means ot conducting one.
It acts upon well-known biological principles,
and is heartily endorsed by many ol tho best
physicians in this aud other countries, ami is
daily used by them in their practice. It is pro
nounced by tliein (lie greatest discovery in the
history of medicine, in that it does awa\ with
, tin- use <f medicines.
DIRECTIONS FOR I SI \H. Accompany
ing each instrument lsahook of instructions
fully explaining its uses. Its method of cure is
so si Hi pie and free from danger, that the un
initiated and even children can use il witli per
fect ease and success.
Editorial in Ihtsltni ('hrislhtn Witnessn.nl Atl
vnctifenf llll,lc Holiness, .Septemberff, IH1M:
"A method ol treatment of disease without
the use of any medicines or drugs, which lias *
been quietly extending itself over all parts of
the United States during the past three years
with very gratifying results.
We uro slow to commend new discoveries of
any kind, for the reason that so many of them
prove to bo worth less. Ihit we can commend
the Electropoise us a safe and effect i\e hen I 111
restorer. We do not pretend to explain the
philosophy of its workings, but, having realiz
ed its lienellciul effects, we can speak of its re
sults. About one year ago we recommended it
to Hro. I. i). Ware, of I'hiludclpliiu, for his son,
i who was a great sufferer from Sciatica. He
had sought relief in various ways and found
, none. He was almost helpless, und rapidly de
( dining. The use ol the Electropoise restored
i him to period health, and now. after nearly a
year, he is rejoicing as one who lias found great
spoil. We have seen testimonials of most re
markable cures. ThisAjutice of the Kleetro
poise is without solicit.iNm, and entirely gra
tuitous. We do it for the good of the afflicted,
j We have no personal interest in it, and are not
! paid for what we say in its lavor."
The following editorial in ('rutml Millnslisl,
('utlcttsbiirg, Ky., was written by Xcplmuhili
,j Mock, I). I)., editor:
"Unless about ton thousand men, mainly pro
j| fessionul men, lawyers, doctors, editors, piviioli
-1 ers, and all other classes, including the writer,
are very much mistaken, the Kleetropoise el
foots cures and gives relief where all other
known remedies have failed. Especially is it
efficacious in the ease of delicate women and
feeble children. I have used one for the past
two years, aud lind it invaluable as a curative
agent."
Names of prominent people in all sections of
the (J. S. generally can be furnished on appli
cation. (Mir cures cover all parts of the United
Stales aud Europe. Over uO,00l) people have
been treated Willi the most gratifying results.
In the large majority of cases tlm cures have
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