BAMBOOZLING LABOR. THE TOOLS OF PLUTOCRACY JUG GLING WITH WORKINGMEN. Labor Reformers Must Not Allow the Great Movement to Be Side Tracked. "Fellow Workinuu" Carnegie—Little to liopo for from CongreKH. The opinions I expressed a few weeks ago on the question of immigration stirred up some of my friends, and I have received letters from several of them expressing surprise that I am not in B}Tnpathy with the spasm which is convulsing the county for the exclusion of foreigners from our shores. While I respect the opinions of those who differ with me and value the friendship which dictates a kindly protest against my views, I ara of the same opinion still re garding the subject which has become so prominent within a few months. I have always favored restrictions which i would kocp out criminals and laborers who come to us under contract or against their free will, but I cannot support or sympathize with the demand that all foreigners who want to come to America under the impression that they will bet ter their condition shall be excluded. I have a great reverence for the traditions of our country and honor the reformers who are striving to bring us back to the principles which made us first among the nations of the earth. You may call that sentiment. Then I I protest against the present agitation and the lines upon which it is being worked on clearly practical grounds. The poli ticians and plutocratic editors who are booming the immigration question loudly proclaim that their zeal is inspired by a desire to protect the American work ingman and improve his condition. Their claim is buncombe. Not one of them would support any measure which did not advance the interests of plutoc racy, and plutocracy wants the prices paid for labor to sink to tho lowest pos sible level. But many labor men who should know better are caught with the bait, and other and vital matters are neglected, set aside and forgotton while this Jack-o'-lantern is chased. Once get the great labor movement of this coun try to steer its craft into the whirlpool of anti-immigration, and it will go to pieces on the rocks of race prejudice, and the reforms which it has been striv ing for so long will be set back fifty years, if they are not fnade forever impossible. It is my firm conviction that the poli ticians who are engineering tho present agitation against "European labor" have not tho intention of attempting to do more than delude the workingmen of the country into tho beliof that their welfare is of interest to the lawmaking powers. The results of tho late election and the relationship existing between the "prod ucts of European pauper labor" and the "pauper laborer" himself make the anti immigration question a good one for the juggling politician to play with at this time. The cholera scare furnishes an excellent pretext for those who have not the courago to come out boldly and de clare themselves as hostile to the tradi tions of our country and aro not willing to face at the polls tho voters of foreign birth and foreign born parents. Of course the cholera must bo kept out by all means that can be employed, and labor should insist upon the en forcement of tho laws prohibiting for eign labor under contract coming here; but men of position and influence in tho labor movement aro making a Berious mistake in admitting that, as a cause of the unfair conditions which prevail in tho labor world, immigration is entitled to any kind of consideration. Looked at from any standpoint, I fail to see how any permanent good can como to the worlringmen of this country by ex cluding foreigners so long as plutocracy is absolute master of all the tools of production and distribution. Ido see, however, a possibility of the reform movement being humbugged and bun koed by the present agitation. Andrew Carnegie is a smooth gentle man. Ho can write a letter worthy of a New York green goods man. In answer to a communication from the Pittsburg Art society, notifying him of the friendly spirit in which the society viewed his gift of a public library to tho city of Pittsburg, Mr. Carnegie said: I hope, therefore, that your action may bring my follow workmen (for I havo a right to uso this title) to see that fair play requires thom to separate the donor and ids many faults from libraries and music halls and art gallery, which have none. If they will only do this, 1 gladly risk their some day expunging the votes of censure passed upon me personally. It will bo remembered that tho labor organizations of Pittsburg adopted reso lutions protesting against the accept ance of tho library proffered by Mr. Carnegie. If the expunging tho gentle man is willing to risk ever takes place, it will bo when Homestead is forgotten. It is said that an earnest effort will bo modo to secure from congress as soon as possible legislation looking to tho pro tection of railway employees. For years this subject has been agitated in con gress and out, and nothing hus been dono. The old death dealing appliances havo been continued in use, and thousands of men have either lost their lives or been made cripples within the past ten years because the lawmakers have been tho heartless tools of railroad corporations. Congressman O'Neill, of Missouri, intro duced a bill last winter requiring the railroads to adopt driving wheel brakes on all engines after 1895 and automatic couplers of a uniform type, such as do not necessitate brakemen going between the cars, by 1898, and ordering other changes that would prevent or reduce the number of accidents to railway em ployees. Tho railroad companies oppose all such legislation because of the ex pense such a change would entail, and our lawmakers have agreed with the magnates that dollars aro of more value than lives and limbs. Jos. R. BUCKANAK. GOVERNMENTAL CONTROL. Petitions Circulated by Nationalists Con cerning Telegraph and Telephone Lines. A short time ago the Nationalists of Massachusetts began in earnest the agi tation of government ownership of tele graphs and telephones. The movement is rapidly spreading all over the coun try, especially where there are clubs of Nationalists to take hold of the matter promptly. The method is to petition the state legislatures to instruct and request United States senators and members of the house of representatives, respective ly, to secure the adoption of government telegraph and telephone service by prop er congressional legislation. The form of petition used in Massachusetts is as follows: To tho Honorable Senate and House of Repre sentatives in General Court Assembled: Your petitioners, the undersigned citizens of Massachusetts, respectfully represent that the telegraph service of this country has bo come a burdensome monopoly In the hands of a company extorting in charges more than twice as much as the people of other countries, favored with government lines, are obliged to pay—a company that uses to the utmost its great capital to eradicate all fair competition, and exerts a baneful control over the press, upon which the citizens are forced to rely for information. Wo also represent that on the oxpiring of the telephonlo patents now Boon to ocour a similar monopoly In that method of transmit tiug intelligence Is likely to established, as grievous to the people as that of the telegraph. We therefore respectfully petition your hon orable bodies to instruct tho eonators and re quest the representatives of this common wealth in congress to use ull proper means to secure a government telegraph and telephone service. It is claimed by the projectors of this movement that a petition containing i 600,000 names can be presented to con gress in December, 1893. There is no reason why there should not be four or five times that many signers, for it is pretty generally agreed by those who have watched the tendency of the peo ple upon this subject that more than half of the voters in the United States today favor government or postal teleg raphy. As Mr. Mason A. Green, editor of Tho New Nation, says: "There is an ever in creasing feeling that the telegraph serv ice has become such a monopoly that it is no longer operated in the interests of the people, and as it properly is an ad junct of the postoffice system it should be operated by and for the people through their government. "Its present method of operation al lows the establishment of the Associ ated Press and United Press, by which, on account of the necessary dependence of tho press upon telegraph service for news, telegraph monopoly is able to dis tort or suppress news of the day, and by refusal of its service to destrey or disable journals opposed to its interests or to those of kindred monopolies. "I think that the press of this country would be a great deal better off if the telegraph system were operated by the government. This exclusive control of the avenues of information by which public opinion is formed and directed has been and is being exercised in a manner imperiling the existence of a free press, without which popular gov ernment is impossible." Many who are asked to sign this peti tion will want to know why tho rail roads are not included, but it is just as well to make haste slowly. Telegraphs and telephones will do to try the sincer ity of the party which has secured such a solid seat in the governmental saddle by protesting its friendship for the peo ple and declaring its desire to conform to the wishes of the great majority. Chicago's Labor Temple. Organized labor in Chicago, as repre sented by the Trade and Labor assem bly and the Building Trades counoil, is taking steps for the erection of a largo building to be known as a labor temple. The idea is to have a number of halls and assembly rooms in the building, which will he leased to unions for meet ing places. There will also be estab lished a free employment bureau, with quarters in the temple, and there will be office rooms for the labor organiza tions requiring headquarters. Shares in the bnilding association are placed at five dollars each, and they will be sold only to trades unionists and labor or ganizations. Just at present there is a little hitch about a certain plot of ground to whioh the Trade assembly lays claim. Ten years ago the city council of Chicago gave to organized labor the south half of Dearborn park, a piece of land about half the size of an ordinary city block, fronting on Wabash avenno and bounded north and south by Randolph and Wash ington streets respectively. Arrange ments were begun at that time for tho erection of a labor temple, but adjoining property holders filed an injunction, claiming that the government and not tho city owned tho property, and work ■ on the excavations had to bo Btopped. The government and city consented to the erection of a library building on the plot, and tho supreme oourt has decided i that the land is tho property of the city. At this writing there is Information to the effect that the Trade assembly will apply for an injunction restraining the library peoplo from occupying ground which belongs to the labor organizations. The case is one of interest. Farmers and Strikers. The farmeTu of Kansas rallied to the (npport of the striking Rock Island operators by refusing to ship their cattle And grain over the road until the com pany did the square thing by its teleg raphers. A dispatch from Horton, Kan., says, "Those who are prominent in the movement are leaders of the Populist party." Here is food for the thought of the meclugiic, miner and laborer. The farmeis have at last learned the lesson of "identical in terests." Rev. Thomas Dixon, New York's sen sational preacher, says: "The time haa come to put a stop to these idiotic rloti in the industrial world. Let us have a supreme court of arbitration and a law making the immediate settlement .of such disputes compulsory." David B. Hill In the Senate. Mr. Hill's influence in the senate is very much greater than is generally be lieved. though it may not bo strong enough for a contention with the admin istration. Iji a measure Hill has taken the place of Gorman in the senate. All the friends that Gorman lost in Chicago Hill gained, and this gives him sufficient power in the senate to make himself quite disagreeable to the administration if ho desires to do so. The assumption, however, that he is going to put on a coat of war paint and carry a bowie knife in each boot and a brace of six shooters in view does not give sufficient credit to his discretion and skill as a political wirepuller. Notwithstanding the bitterness of feel ing which is provoked by the New York senatorial fight, it may be depended upon that Mr. Hill will not appear imthe sen ate in the attitude of an open opponent of the administration. There is good reason for believing that Mr. Hill will not only decline to pose as the leader of an opposition, but in spite of all the af fronts he feels have been put upon him he will support the administration in most matters. Where trouble is looked for by those who are skimming over the surface is with relation to the comfirma tions. There is a notion of some peoplo that Hill will make a fight at every op portunity. They are probably mistaken. Men who are pretty familiar with the situation and know Hill very well be lieve that ho will follow no such line of policy, but will approve everything and every person passing his test of Democ racy. It is believed the only thing Hill has in view is to stand on guard to prevent j the preferment of Mugwumps. His test of party qualifications will not be per sonal support of himself. But he hates a Mugwump.—Washington Star. A Supposed Cholera Victim Alive. In the beginning of September a doc tor went from a small German town to I Hamburg to assist among the cholera i patients. Five days after arriving there I news reached his home that in following j his profession ho had fallen a victim to I the deadly disease. His previous thrift less career was immediately forgotten, he was mourned as a martyr and all sorts of laudatory compositions were dedicated to his memory. A lady to whom ho had been betrothed was among the mourners. A sensation has been caused in town now by the news that the young man's mother has received a letter from Amer ica in which the son who was supposed to be dead informs her that he is very well, and explains that while at the hos pital in Hamburg ho had placed his card in the pocket of a man who had died of cholera, and who, resembling him in I features, was buried as the doctor.— London News. Married at the Head of a Collin. Mourners who gathered at a funeral in Elmhurst saw a remarkable sight. In the coffin in the parlor lay tho body of Mrs. Lucy D. Clay. Friends and rela tives were seated about. Tho Rev. T. J. Collins, of Scranton, was there to preach | the funeral sermon. Just before the time set for the services to begin A. B. Clay, a son of tho dead woman, walked into the room leading Miss Lillian Sny der. These two were lovers, and they there requested the Rev. Collins to mar ry them. When young Clay produced the required certificate the preacher con sented to perform the ceremony. The bride and groom took their places near the head of the coffin and, with the mourners for witnesßos, they were pro nounced husband and wife. Then the funeral services went on.—Cor. Phil adelphia Record. Sarah Bernhardt In Disturbed. Sarah Bernhardt is in a great state of mind just at present. Her reckless son, Maurice, has squandered all of his own fortuno and not a little of hers at baccarat, and as his independent little wife refuses to support him any longer ! they have quarrelod and separated. Then business has not been exactly suc- I cessful of late with the actress. Several of her ventures have not been rich in j results. Finally they have burlesqued her Cleopatra, and represent the divine as mildly dancing and singing "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay," and Sarah doesn't like it a bit. One can fancy the choice but un translatable variety of French profanity with which the great tragedienne dis cusses this succession of misfortunes.— Exchange. About tho Spoiling of Words. The Springfield Republican has adopted the disagreeable trick of spelling certain familiar words ending in "gue" without their full complement of lotters. In re viewing a new book u few days ago it says, for instance, "Tho author excels in bright and amusing dialog," etc. It al ways fatigs us to 6ee such vulgar liber ties taken with our native tong, and we think it as much of a crime for a liter ary man to cut off the end of a word as for a rog to cut off the end of a pig's tail, for instance. Form is to all printed language what brog is to the speech of the Irishman, and a plag, we say, be on the man who would deprive either of its natural chaims.—Charleston News and Courier. Dentistry and Diplomacy. We notice that the United States lega tion is doing duty as a dentist's office and consul general's court. This no doubt is another good stroke of business which kills two birds with one stone. But what if the Wliito House were let out in part to a publican? The Ameri can legation is national property and ought not to be converted into drug 1 stores or dentists' offices. A sense of tho j fitness of things or the dignity of tho flag is evidently unknown at tho American legation.—Siam Free Press. Had Sympathy for tho Court. Charles Townes, who was found guilty of grand larceny in tho county court at Canadaigua, is a rather original chap. When ho was called u}* for sentence bo made an eloquent plea for mercy and sympathized with the court "for having to sentonce an innocent man."—Utica Observer. OUT OF THE MAIL BAG. (Continued From Page 1.) know, but we noticed in the TRIBUNE that the Foster township audit made its appearance that day. The citizens of | this part thought the auditors were dead and buried six months ago. Walter Fernau, who held a position as clerk here for the past few years, has been transfered to Drifton store. All the sidings along the D. S. & S. here are blocked with loaded coal cars. Patrick O'Donnell removed his family from Main to South street. We suppose Pat is looking for better potato crops. The fair at St. Mary's church will be opened on Saturday evening as usual. A new plane will he erected at the stripping soon. Frank McHugh, who was injured here last September, is moving slowly around again with the assistance of crutches. Jameß Santee, principal of the schools here, has been gianted an increase of $5 per month, making his salary S6O per month. Mrs. Hugh McGroarty. of Freeland, and her daughter Mary, of Philadelphia, and Annie, of Wilkes-Barre, were among the visitors to town last week. John George, operator on the D. S. & S. at this place, resigned on Thursday, and returned to his home at While Haven. The collieries were compelled to shut down early Friday morning, owing to a scarcity of cars. Tramps are numerous in town for some time past. Miss Mary Kennedy, of Silver Brook, has been the guest of John O'Donnell and wife. Misses Katie McHugh and Katie Kirchner have changed their place of residence to Freeland. Thomas Shearon, of Oneida, spent last week with his family here. Our young ladies admire a certain young sprinter of Hazle Brook for his politeness and cunning ways. Andrew Wasko was discharged from the Hazleton hospital last week. Some of our boys have received word from their Western friends, wiio report everything out there favorable. The women say that slack time will commence in the near future. We don't know, but it must be gospel truth when Eckley women say so. MARY ANN. UPPER LEHIGH NOTES. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Upper Lenigh Coal Com pany was held at Maucli Chunk last week. The following directors were eleected: E. B. Leisenring, John Leis enring, Itobert H. Sayre, John Thomas, George D. McCreary, Samuel Thomas anil S. B. Price. The hoard organized with the election of the following offi cers: President, E. B. Leisenring; vice president, John Leisenring; secretary and treasurer, H. B. Price. Politics are beginning to assume a serious shape in this locality. While we are "on the fence" in some respects, it would please us to see the Democratic nominee for tax collector come out ou top- Several of our young ladies and gentle men enjoyed a sleighride to Stockton on Thursday night. The collieries worked steady at this place since Januury 1. Not an hour was lost last month. We are not in the Reading combine, see. The young ladies who compose the the Arbutus Club of this place gave their (tentlemen friends a very pleasant even ing at the Cottage last week. Somehow there is not any difference in it, whether it is the boys or the girls of this place that undertake anything it is always sure to end successfully. Lu B. Cake and Ella June Meade gave an entertainment at the Preßbyterian church on Friday evening. It was pleasing and very creditable. James Jamison, of Hazleton, was here yesterday among old acquaintances. Work is progressing at old No. 3 slope. When it is opened out, it is said, a large number of men will he employed, as there is a large body of coal there. The rod and gun men have never taken such an active part in protecting the game as at present. The familiar crack of the gun is not heard as formerly and not a violation of the law lias been reported since the season closed. The Jersey Central is repairing its telegraph line and putting in new poles between here and White Haven. JEDDO NEWS. A painful accident occurred at No. 2 breaker, Oakdale, on Thursday after noon to Frank Ray, a young son of William Ray. lie was working in a pock et when one of the loaders underneath began drawing the coal to the railroad cars. Before he could escape he was caught in the coal and drawn towards the draw-hole. Another young lad saw him going down and immediately ran to the loader and notlied him to stop draw ing. When they returned to the pocket Ray wus completely covered by the coal, and after drawing the pocket near ly empty they found him pinned across a steam-pipe which is used to keep the pocket from freezing. He was suffering intense pain from the burnH, and was removed to Hazleton hospital on Friday. Miss Minnie McGarigle, of Hazleton, was visiting her numerous friends here yesterday. The collieries were idle two days last week. A scarcity of cars was the cause. Boys, what has happened the literary society? You made a very good start, hut must have been in the wrong direc tion. Try it again. Irvin Smith removed his family to Freeland last week. He lias accepted a position on the D. S. & S. Two of our young men tell a very sorrowful, but exciting tale of their adventures in the outskirts of Freeland on Saturday evening. Hereafter it will be no more girl for tliem. Misses Mary Boyle and Maggie Burns were in Maucli Chunk last week among friends and relatives. The cold spell had but little effect in this section. Everything is running as usual. We noticed in the TRIBUNE last week the Highland correspondent's appeal t Congressman Mines, We are in apes tion to sympathize with him, as we an nearly in the same fix, and while it might be in order to get up a petition, still Mr. Ilines has been in this locality often enough to know that all asked is but justice. Let us hear from you, Mr. Mines. Politics are very quiet since the con vention, and some of the voters are not exactly pleased. But like good Demo crats they will support the whole ticket. Etching by the Queen. A romantic story is being circulated anent the discovery by a Dublin art dealer of a collection of etchings execut ed by the queen. The dealer in question purchased at the sale of books and pic tures of the late Earl of Charlemont two old portfolios. They were knocked down for a few shillings as containing only unfinished sketches of no value and cut tings from illustrated papers. When the dealer emptied the contents of one of the portfolios carelessly on the floor in his room he came upon something hard at the bottom, which turned out to be a , packet of etchings by the queen. They bore, in writing which has been recog nized as at any rate very like the writ ing of her majesty, the inscription: "Drawn by Albert—etched by Victoria. Presented to Lady Charlemont by Vic toria." Tho etchings were no doubt given to the Countess of Charlemont as a memento of the queen's visit to Ireland. There are a number of the etchings, and they are mostly done on small sheets of paper. If the find turn out to be as represented, it will have a double value JUS represent ing the combined art work of the and the prince consort. The difficulty will be to establish the authenticity of the etchings. This can only be done pr per ly by submitting them to her liiavsty. If she recognizes them as her work, the owner will find himself in the poss -ssion of a small fortune of unturned incre ment.—London Cor. Birmingham Ga zette. A Fresh Social Idea. A novel and felicitous plan f " choos ing partners was recently prat iced at a Calais whist party. Finally •' nms had been ransacked and photogm: its of all the gentlemen, at ages ranafci. from six months to twenty years, jp tresses, in kilts and in the "first pair,? vero gath ered together in a hat frilfl which the ladies drew. Some meiuDd retained their liaby looks longenoif to be easily recognized, some were § iplete enig mas, while the other yrm more or less plain in spite of admti'ip hair on lips and cheeks and "snbtri onal hair" on heads. The gentlemoti re not in the secret originally, and jl r an izement when tho pictures wa let of the bag was one of th- fiu est pa sof the fun.—Lewiston J t Advising a (V# >y Mm George J. Gould Ji.v tin death of his father, is said 1 tv ve i ;eived an average of four •tt f ice daily. All of the crank, u e ovmtry, forget ful of the facts tb y ing .Mr. Gould was associated \vi'. IT father in busi ness for twelvs J as. id that he had almost entire coi 1 affairs for the last two years, an i p o tell the young man how to la ■ e iv.ist estate in his charge. A 'iy ] po don of these would he adv- rt xi us to have a share of the C d ain ns diverted into religious and e!.aritl channels. One writer advit the k ild children to build tho lar -t ni 1* st church in the world as a i mo rial their father.— New York Times. | A "liquet. One Mile. Polalri tng recently the composition of a Wt, known sportsman in Paris, and when t song was finished a floral offering pt unique design was presented to her by the composer, not in the form of a nAziy to carry in the hand or wear in her om, but a bouquet ill the shape of arfl - sized horse, all of roses, which, prcjbiled by a figure iu- Bide, walked outjri 1 the stage and put its nose in her This rather sur passes Attal CSs full sized rocking chair, which si di bed the fair Lillian last winter in II) -Paris Letter. I Subscribe fort RIBIW*. ! Ripai Tabules ji Ripani >uleu act gently | | jii but prom upon the liver, | ; stomach! intestines; cure habitual' i| ation and dis pel cUil laches and fevers. One tal'i taken at the first sympt T a return of indi gesiio i, pression of spir its, wilf ove the whole dif \ hour. 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