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FREELAND, PA., APRIL 13, 1803.
The New County Rill.
One month from today, May 13, the
legislature will adjourn, and unless the
new county bill can be rushed through
the house and passed three times during
this limited period, the opponents of the
measure can rest again for at least two
more years. It required six weeks to
get it through the house and then it
passed by a bare majority, notwithstand
ing the fact that the opposition there
was very small.
When it comes before the house for
discussion the people of Freeland and
other towns hereabouts will have men
there who will not he afraid to defend
our rights and show the injustice of the
scheme. This will be done, perhaps not
by those who wese elected for that
purpose, but by the representatives of
the other districts of the county, men
who can stand up in their seats and
truthfully state to their brother members
that they are representing the people in
general and not a clique of scheming
land boomers and delapidated politicians.
Representatives Brodhead, Moyles
and Flannery at least can be depended
upon to protest against the bill, and the
latter especially will do what he can to
save his hundreds of friends in this
district from the consequences of this
vicious measure, which is being pushed
by a gang of lobbyists regardless of the
people who must foot the bills.
The few men who are back of this bill
will spare neither money or the truth
to have it passed at this session, and
every taxpayer and property holder in
Freeland should consider it his duty to
encourage in every possible manner the
representatives who are manfully stand
ing up for us. Send to Captain Flan
nery or any of the other men who have
proven themselves worthy of your con
fidence all the information you possess
that might be used in defeating the
hill.
The vigilance with which every move
has been watched so far must not be re
laxed because the indications are that
the bill will die the ignoble death it de
serves. Strange things often happen at
Ilarrisburg, and until the legislature
adjourns on May 13 the tricksters and
schemers will not give up hope of getting
it through openly or by strategy. They
must not be allowed to succeed, and
every man who gives them aid will be
remembered by the voters of the North
Side.
The I'rice of Monopoly.
When anthracite coal was transported
by canal from the mines to the Alleg
heny and Ohio rivers, and came down
the Ohio and up the Mississippi on
barges to St. I.ouis, it was retailed at $5
per ton in St. Louis, and the coal miners
received from $3 to $4 per day in wages.
Now the coal comes to St. Louis by rail,
the coal miners receive from ninety
cents to $1.25 per day in wages, and the
product is retailed at $8.50 in St. Louis.
All of the effect in the improvement
in mining machinery and lessened cost
of transportation, together with $3.50
per ton in addition; and also the differ
ence between $3 and $4 per day in the
old miners' wages and the present
"sliding scale," has been absorbed by
the mine owners. And yet we are told
that "labor gets its just porportion of the
improvements of the age."
Faugh! the gorge rises at it. Hear
thesolution of the whole matter. The
coal lands, like all other lands, are
rightfully the property of the whole
people. No law against the coal com
bine or coal trust which ignores this
truth will ever succeed in giving labor
its just dues by cheapening coal.
To paraphrase Garrison, "we demand
the immediate and unconditional eman
cipation of the land without compensa
tion."
Under present conditions, the coal
mine owners have a right to charge
whatever they please for coal, and no
palliative or restrictive law ought to be
passed to curtail their right. If they
have a right to charge $1 per ton, they
have a right to charge s2p per ton. —
St. Louis Republic.
When Baby waa BICV, we gave her Castoria.'
When she waa a Child, ahe cried for Castoria.
When (be became Miu, she clung to Castoria.
When ahe bad Children, ahe gave them Castoria.
IN ONE HUNDRED YEARS
Great Things Shall Come to
Pass in 1993.
I IXGALLS BEADS THE FUTURE.
The Railway and the Steamship Will lie
as Obsolete as the Stagecoach—Prophe
cies from Joaquin Miller the Poet, War
ner Miller the Statesman, John Ilabber
ton and E. W. Howe.
LCopyright, 1803, by American Press Associa
tion.]
Man, having conquered the earth and the
sen, will complete his dominion over na
ture by the subjugation of the atmosphere.
This will be the crowning triumph of the
coming century. Long before 1903 the jour
ney from New York to San Francisco,
across the continent, and from New York to
London, across the sea, will be made between
the sunrise and sunset of a summer day.
The railway and the steamship will be as
obsolete as the stagecoach, and it will be
as common for the citizen to call for his
dirigible balloon as it now is for his buggy
or liis boots. Electricity will be the mo
tive power and aluminium or some lighter
metal the material of the aerial cars which
are to navigate the abyss of the sky.
The electric telegraph will be supplanted
by the telephone, which will be so per
fected and simplified that instruments in
every house and office will permit tho com
munication of business and society to bo
conducted by the voice at will from Bos
ton to Moscow and lloang-Ho as readily
us now bet ween neighboring villages.
This will dispose of the agitation of the
proposition to take the railroads and tele
graphs away from those who own them
and give them to those who do not.
Domestic life and avocations will be ren
dered easier, less costly and complex by the
distribution of light, heat and energy
through storage cells or from central elec
tric stations, BO that the "servant prob
lem" will cease to disturb, and woman
having more leisure her political and so
cial status will he elevated from subordina
tion to equality with man.
Tho contest between brains and numbers,
which began with the birth of the race,
will continue to its extinction. The strug
gle will he fierce and more relentless in the
coming century than ever before in the his
tory of humanity, but bruins will keep on
top, as usual. Those who fail will outnum
ber those who succeed. Wealth will accu
mulate, business will combine, and tho gulf
between the rich and the poor will l>e more
profound. But wider education and greater
activity of the moral forces of the race will
ultimately compel recognition of the fuct
that tho differences between men are or
ganic and fundamental—that they result
from an act of God and cannot be changed
by an act of congress.
The attempt to abolish poverty, pay debts
and cure the ills of society by statute will
be the favorite prescription of ignorance,
incapacity and credulity for the next hun
dred years, as it has been from the begin
ning of civilization. Tho condition in the
United States is unprecedented, from the
fact that all the implacubles and malcon
tents are armed with the ballot, uud If
they are unanimous they can control the
purse and the sword by legislation, but tho
perception that the social and political
condition here, with all its infirmities, is
immeasurably the best will undoubtedly
make our system permanent and preservo
it even against essential modifications.
Our greatest city in 1098? Chicago! It
is a vortex, with a constantly increasing
circumference, into which tho wealth and
population of the richest and most fertile
area of tho earth's surface is constantly
concentrating. When this anniversary re
turns Chicago will be not only the greatest
city in the United States, but in the world.
JOHN J. INGALLS.
The Future of Cotton Manufacturing.
[From Our New York Correspondent.]
Mr. M. C. D. Borden has within the post
year gained distinction as one of the great
powers in a certain branch of the commer
cial and business world. He is an authority
on cotton manufacturing especially, and has
recently completed one of the greatest cot
ton mills in the world. When asked his
opinion of the future of manufacturing in
terests, especially cotton manufacturing,
Mr. Borden said:
Cotton manufacturing in tho south has
come to stay. It is going to be greatly de
veloped in the next ceutury. It is going to
be of vast benefit to that section of the
country. The number of mills will be great
ly increased and the quality of the product
steadily improved. This will add millions
to tho wealth of the cotton producing
states.
The pre-eminence of the New England
states in cotton manufacturing will not,
however, be threatened by this great and
healthy development In tho Bouth. I do
not look for any serious competition be
tween the manufacturers of the two sec
tions, but I am inclined to think that in the
next century it will be found that Ameri
can cotton manufacturers will have wrest
ed the markets of the world from the great
manufacturers of England, who have for
the greater part of this century controlled
these markets. Just as surely as the tide
rises, just so surely American cotton goods
in the next century are going to command
the markets of the world. We havo already
almost reached that point. Wo are compet
ing In some sections of the world with Man
chester, and successfully.
I think this is true, too, of many other
lines of American manufactures. Our peo
ple are slowly, perhaps, but surely reaching 1
the time when American goods will be in
greater demand than those produced iu ■
Great Britain or upon tho continent of j
Europe. In the next century tho dawn of
that day when our manufacturing suprem
acy is acknowledged will be witnessed, and,
I think, by many people who are now li ving.
Tho commercial development of tho
United States In the Twentieth century
will be prodigious. Those of us who are in
business life now get some hint of it, and it
is clear to me that while We are to be the
greatest agricultural nation in the world
we are also just as surely reaching forward
for commercial and manufacturing suprem
acy as for supremacy in these products of
the soil. It is going to be a great century
to live in, this one which begins seven years
hence.
Joaquin Miller's Prediction.
I am not wise or learned in things to bo,
but will venture a few predictions. In tho
first place, our government will be less com
plex and go forward year after year with
less friction and better results—like an im
proved machine. We will cut off the for
eign vote, the ignorant vote and the ver
dant vote. As wo grow better in boily and
mind venerable men will have their place
of honor, as of old. If a good man by tem
perance and healthful toil and wise care
preserves his body and mind, like Glad-
f tontSg for_ example, §ved the life of
at least on citizen, a brave thing to do of
old.
And It is not fit that such a man should
be put in a prizo ring to fight with lusty
young adventurers for his place in the sen
ate. It Is ulready his by right Let 10,000
entirely qualified voters, representing at
least 100,000 people, send up To the state
capital their oldest man, and it is all on the
register. Let the state then send to Wash*
ington its two oldest Gladstones as sena
tors, and so on up to the president, and so
on iown to the justice of the peace. What
a saving of time, temper, manhood, moneyl
When we have grown a generation or two
of Thurmans, Blaines, Gladstones, we will
leave elections in the hands of God, where
we found them. This is my plan, my
prophecy.
As for cities, we will build new ones, on
pleasant, beautiful sites, as men now build
hotels. Even now millions are waiting for
those who will build a new city, complete
sewers, pipes, pavements, all things com
plete, and empty the unclean and rotten
old into the healthful and pleasant new.
Wo are going to have great cities, such as
have not been. Whereabouts I don't know,
but all the world is going to town. Ma
chinery has emancipated man from the
fields.
What about big fortunes? Well, I think
we will some day require the bulk of the
rich man's money, when he is done with it,
of course, to build national parks with and
in other ways help the nation which helped
him to get hold of it.
As for literature, our writers will surely
soon turn back to the oriental or ideal, as
against the realistic school, and remain
t hern They cannot very well improve on
the Bible, Arabian tales or Shakespeare.
Meanwhile the sensational and personal
newspapers of today will disappear down
the sluice and sewer of indictable nuisances.
Discoveries? Truly it seems to me that very
soon some new Columbus will come from
among us to launch his airships on the
great high sens and gulf streams that
surge and roll above us. Yet maybe this
faith is founded on what has been rather
than on any sign of what is to be.
Who will be best remembered? Why,
Edison, of course. Yes, most certainly
we will be handsomer, healthier, happier,
too, and ergo better, for man is not a bad
animal at all if lie only has half a chance
to be good. And he certainly has such a
chance to be good now, and to do good, too,
as never wus known before. And he will
do his best with it. Let us believe in him
and trust him entirely, for in that way is
the good God. JOAQUIN MILLER
Warner Miller on tho Nicaraguan Canal.
[From Our Now York Correspondent.]
Ex-Senator Warner Miller, in speaking
of the Nicaraguan canal project, said: "In
the early years of the next century it is go
ing to bo possible to go from New York by
steamer to San Francisco or the South
American countries without making the
trip through the Straits of Magellan. Tho
Nicaraguan canal is as sure to be built as
tides are to ebb and flow and the Bcasons to
change. If the United States does not build
it, either by private subscription or through
the encouragement of the government, it
will bo built by those who live in other
lands. The canal is inevitable, and the ef
fect of its construction upon the destiny of
the United States is something almost in
conceivable.
"It is to be as conspicuous an engineer
ing triumph of the next century as the Suez
canal was of this. The tonnage which mil
be carried through it will within five years
after opening exceed the tonnage that
pusses through Suez. Its effect upon the
railway problems of the United States no
man can forecast, but it will be
enormous. It is going to furnish means
for tho development of the magnificent
wealth of the South American countries,
and if the United States controls tho canal,
or United States capital does, this develop
ment will be enormously to our own aa
vantage.
"I cannot speak with enthusiasm enough
of this vast undertaking which Is to see its
triumph in tho Twentieth century. I don't
believe any man, however vivid his imag
ination, can fully suggest the enormous in
fluence which this artificial water highway
will have upon the commercial destiny of
the United States. If I should suggest one
half of what I believe to be possible I might
be regarded as an absurd dreamer."
From Chief.Statistician I truck, of the Treas
ury Department.
I believe that in 1003 wo will have the
most perfect republican form of govern
ment in the United States that was ever
conceived in the minds of the wisest states
men, and the social condition of the people
will bo such that there will be no suffering
from the deprivation of the necessities of
life. All will have happy homes. Vice and
immorality will largely if not altogether
havo ceased to exist. There will be not
only great intellectual but very great moral
advancement. We are making wonderful
strides In that direction now. There will
be less government than there is now, and
it will bo more simple.
There is no likelihood that the railroads
and telegraphs will ever be managed by the
state, for the reason that when the stato
takes ehargo of railroads and telegraphs
there would lie the same reason that tho
government should take charge of all other
enterprises which are uow owned and con
trolled by individuals, such as street car
lines, manufactures, steamship lines, farrna
Individual enterprise and opportunities
would largely cease. There would be no
incentive, or comparatively none, for in
vention or for individual effort of any kind.
All citizens would simply become wards of
the nation and would receive their portions
from the state and would return to inaction
or indolent effort.
Probably the government will then own
and control all the products of our gold
and sliver mines, and they will be held by
the government, as now, for the purpose of
redeeming the paper obligations of the gov
ernment, although such redemption will
largely be unnecessary for the reason that
there will be such stability in our financial
laws that the people will not question tho
value of any of the obligations of the gov
ernment.
The people by this time will have become
educated to such an extent that the vice of
internperunoo will largely cease, saloons or
public drinking places will probably no
longer exist, and stimulants of any kind, if
used at all, will probably be only seen in
the family.
Improved methods of treatment for the
confinement and punishment 61 criminals
will be inaugurated and much more atten
tion be given to their reformation than to
their puuishment.
Wealth undoubtedly will be much more
evenly distributed. There will be great com
fort and prosperity with the masses as well.
The condition of the luboring classes will
be loss dependent and greatly improved,
and there will be more friend lv relations'
existing between employers ana the em
ployees, better understanding and greater
equality.
Methods of agriculture will be such and
the improvement in agricultural machinery
so great that ull the immense population
of 1008 fdll be amply provided for, and
American citizens will continue to be the
best dressed, the best fed and the best
housed people of the world.
I There will be great advancement in all
the professions in literature, music and the
drama. People will be longer lived. They
will understand much better the nature of
j their wants and the treatment of diseases.
They will be better natured and more con
i ciliatory; consequently there will be less
j need of the laws and laws' methods. The
whole tendency of the race will be to
ward comfort, leisure, luxury, cultivation,
; simplicity in dress and broader charity in
: all social relations. The race will be hand
somer, healthier and happier than ever be
fore in the history of the world.
S. G. BROCK.
The Author of "Heleu's Rubies" Sees a
Rosy Future.
When the people of the United States
celebrate the 500 th Columbian anniversary
1 there will be so many of them that no
longer will it bo said that
Uncle Sam is rich enough
To give us all a farm.
Consequently all soil worth tilling will re
ceive the best possible attention, with the
result that we will be the best fed nation in
! the world. All the forests will be gone, so
lumber will be so scarce that stone, iron,
brick, slag, etc., will be so largely used in
the construction of houses that fires will be
almost unheard of and insurance companies
will go out of business.
| The government will be much simpler
than now and concern Itself with fewer
and more important affairs; indeed the
idea of government will have disappeared,
the people will tolerate nothing more than
an administration on business principles of
such general interests as are too great or
complex to be intrusted to private man
agement.
Law will be made for man—not man for
the law—and theology will give place to
Christian practice, eucli man's faith being
i judged by his life instead of his talk. Med
icine will be practiced at police stations
and among outcasts, for respectable people
I will have resolved that illness not caused
; by uccident is disgracefully criminal. The
race will therefore be healthier and hap
pier than now, as well as more sensible.
Literature will be much cleaner in the
departments of poetry, fiction and drama,
for tho already moribund humbug of pas
sion masquerading as love will have died
i of self contempt.
1 Temperance legislation will be not only
a dead issue, but so long burled that no
! one will be able to identify its grave; prop
er cooking and improved physical habits
' will have neutralized the desire for stimu
lants.
I All marriages will be happy, for the law
will put to death any man or woman who
assumes conjugal position without the
proper physical, mental and financial qua!
ificatioiis. As a natural consequence, the
characters for love stories will be selected,
not from overgrown boys and girls, but
from among the men und women longest
married.
Women will dress for health instead of
for show, trusting their healthy faces to do
| all necessary "keeping up appearances."
! The servant question will ceaso to be a
j burning one, for the rage for display will
| be outworn, the kitchen stove will give
| place to ranges heated by water gas, aud
i men and children as well as women will
j know how to cook. People of means will eat
to live—not live to eat—and all household
I labor will Ix 3 esteemed too honorable and
importunt to be intrusted to meniula
j Woman will have equal rights with man,
and will be free to select a husband instead
| of waiting for a man to ask her hand, al
i though in looking backward into litera-
I ture and tradition she will wonder whether
she has more rights in this respect than her
great-great-grandmother enjoyed.
Perhaps I am wrong in some of these
1 prophecies, but if so I shan't be here to be
1 twitted with it.
JOHN HABBERTON.
From the Author of "Tho Story of a Coun
try Town."
1 think the growth of America in the
next 100 years will be In simplicity.
Tho decade just closing has noted
for high pressure, a dissipation of energy.
A good many of our customs are worrying,
but in reality they do not pay.
During the next century I believe the
American people will learn the important
lesson that simple and honest living is the
goal to which men should bend their ener
gies. No nation has learned this lesson as
it should have been learned. The wonderful
Americans will accomplish this result and
distinguish themselves more than ever bo
fore.
Heretofore we have taught that men
should be honest and just for the sake of
religion or for the sake of society. The
truth is, each individual should be honest
and just to benefit himself primarily aud
religion and society incidentally.
Many Americans now believe that they
might become rich if they would consent
to become unfair. It is not true. Fairness
in all things is tho first essential to success
in everything. Men should be honest to
oblige themselves. Folly always means
degradation and unhappiness.
The old races of men were cruel in the
name of patriotism and religion. The men
who live in 1993, will be just because their
conscience and well being demand it.
The men of the next century will realize
as the men of no previous century realized
that simplicity and honesty are the great
helps in living. Nonsense has been so re
spectable in the past that half the people
took off their hats to it, but the coming
man will discard much of that which has
worried us and caused us to neglect those
simple interests on which our happiuesa
reallv depended.
Half tho things about which we worry
ure not of the slightest consequence. The
coming man will know this, and he will
have the greatest regard for tho simple
truth, about which there need be no doubt.
So many men have lived and left histories
that no one need go astray.
The truth has always been mixed with
nonsense. The men who will celebrate the
fifth American centennial will have sepa
rated the chaff from the wheat, and no
teacher of nonsense will be encouraged,
even though he claim that his object is to
do good. The great truth then will be that,
while the necessity for simplicity and hon
esty has always been taught, it has never
been insisted upon as its importance de
served.
The splendid men of the century just
dawning will know better than we do that
every individual is guarauteed equal rights
iu life, liberty and the pursuit of happi
ness not by constitutions and governments,
but by the Creator, and that no man need
fail because he has failed to accumulate j
riches or greatness.
This is the golden age, and we are the
most wonderful race of men that ever ex- !
isted, but lu considering our achievements
we do not pay proper uttention to our
faults. Future races of Americans will
not neglect this. In the coming days, when
the winds will whisper and the birds sing
over our graves, men will talk less of pes
simism and ontimism and more of the can
did truth with which the interests of the
| people are always connected.
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CHURCH AND T ABOR.
SOME PLAIN TALK BY A KANSAS CITY
CLERGYMAN.
Social Questions Are Religious Questions.
Messages That Make Comfortable Sin
ners Squirm—The Labor Movement the
Church's Opportunity.
At a recent meeting of the Kansas
City Ministers' alliance Rev. Charles L.
Kloss of the Southwest tabernacle read a
paper on the "Labor Movement In Amer
ica," from which the following excerpts
are made:
The greatest heretic and sinner of his ago is
tho man who supposes that the content of
religious thought is fixed, and that ho or his
churchly progenitor has fixed it. Tho next sin
ner in rank is tho man who limits religious
questions to purely speculative, theological or
doctrinal.
Those are new times, and there are now is
sues and questions to face, and tho old gosi>el
has in it a heroic and now message to fit the
issue.
Social questions - and the labor movement is
tho most gigantic of them all, absorbs and in
volves most every social relation—are religious
questions. They concern man's relation to
man, and it is possible to so get a message out
of the divine word with reference to them as to
make every comfortable sinner in our pews
squirm. In studying the labor movement it is
necessary to take into account tho complex ele
ments entering into it, its history, what the
movement stands for and involves, and the re
lation of the state and church to It. Sixty or
more years ago there was no labor movement.
Tho capitalist sat at the same bench with his
three or four Journeymen. Now the capitalist
is one of many associated in a corporation, is
fenced off from his employees by rules and
regulations, comes in contact with them only
through subordinates, and what ho schemes
for and gets is dividends.
But for years the gulf has been widening.
We never had so many millionaires as now,
nor so many tramps; never so much wheat,
oorn and breadstuffs ami never bread so scarce.
Laws have l>een mado favoring the strong
naturally—tho strong made them. The sur
vival of the fittest obtains— ith the definition,
"The fittest ore the financially strong." A man
ranks in the eyes of the world according to Ids
wealth, with very little scrutiny as to how he
made it or how he spends it. Such a premium
has been put on wealth that a man is hardly
eligible to our highest legislative body except
he bo a millionaire. Men cannot deny the
gradual infringement of tho rights of the
weaker by tho stronger. It hus been so imj>er
coptiblo, it has come so gradually and it has
been only recently that the laboring man be
gan to think lie had any rights at all, and only
recently that there has been such a thing as la
bor legislation.
There had been occasional mutterings now
and then, a strong ringing protest from some
laboring men or friend of the laltoring man be
fore the war, but tho labor movement we now
have is a development since the war, and hus
mode its greatest record in the past decade.
It is a movement to secure more leisure, bet
tor wages and more economic resources to the
laborer. It might be characterized that way as
a whole. It began as organization in self de
fense, and no one questions their right to do so.
Capital had been organized and*entrenched for
selfish and predatory purposes for years. Tho
labor movement by reason of its organization
ought to excite the sympathy of every man who
loves fair play. is tho under fellow in
the fight- and fight it is, no kind of fine talk
can disguise. It is war, gigantic, colossal, as
no war of history, and in its wake follow all
the horrors of a conflict of des]>erate forces.
The first efforts of laboring men excited ridi
cule, as many of their attempts have Bince.
Generally now they see how long and slow a
growth the present state of society is, and how
it is to be corrected by a long and slow process
of teaching and training by use of tho ballot.
Strikes are growing In disfavor, and arbitra
tion is advised. We laugh at the bombast and
rhetoric of their preumbles and resolutions,
but they are correcting their rhetoric and have
turned the laugh on us again ami again by their
ability to make good many of their demands.
The labor movement is the church's oppor
tunity—a chance to show friendliness and for
ever win instead of ulienato the wageworker.
Two as safe and conservative economists as
Washington Gladden and Richard T. Ely as
sert that the workingman is slowly being alien
ated from the church. Washington Gladden
found in Ids own church, with seats free, a
plain building and special efforts to reach
them, only about one-tenth of tho families be
longing to this class, whereas of 60 leading
business men of Columbus 45 per cent were
communicants and 77 per cent were regular at
tendants. Whatever the cause-we have not
time to discuss it—the fact Is indeed a hard one
and admitted without much dispute.
The bulk of Christ's ministry was to the bod
ies of men. Touch a man's body, and you put
in an entering wedge for tho whole gospel to
follow. General Booth is an exj>ert in reaching
the masses, and ho does it none the less effect
ively because he tries to give men employment
and creature comforts before he sings psalms
to them. There is Just the environment to feed
spiritual life. Tot) much help vitiates as well
as too little. That is why Kolouion, I suppose,
wished for neither extreme. It Is not demanded
to reduce men to a dead level, but to elevate,
eliminate to some degree pressing, biting temp
tations, and help solve some of the practical re
ligious problems. .
The ministers are tho natural leaders of this
movement, or ought to be—not to advocate any
specific reform so much, as by their attitude
and preaclifcig to show that an applied Chris-
I tianity will settle difficulties. The gospel of
I Christ has in it the best political economy. It
I is true that possibly our churches are not ready
; for Christianity applied to their own society,
and that if attempted a good many will raise
j the dust on a false issue and say, "Politics!
Give us the pure, simple gospel," and will fire
I many a preacher headlong from his pulpit only
to find a larger pulpit and reinstatement and
recognition at last, as in the case of Dr. Mc-
Glynn. So it will do in case of every preacher
who is worth firing.
Several things the ministry can do with refer
ence to the movement. They can teach that we
| are all to be laborers; that work of brains or
j hand makes us all workingmen, and that in
this common work are manhood and dignity;
that the rich idler and the poor idler are to
be put in the same category; that we are co
' laborers and laliorers with God.
Labor must have an object. To be honest, hon
orable and bear fruit it must be with God and
promote the good of others. We can teach the
limitations of wants. Civilization brings many
false wants. Seneca's maxim was, "You do
not add to a man's wealth by Increasing his
riches, but rather by limiting his desires." Jesus
lived without a home of his own, without lux
uries, and what did he not make out of life!
We ought to fight with all our energy the
aristocracy of wealth- more correctly a plutoc
racy. Hold up that. Spending SS(JO,(JUU on a
stable, $20,(J00 ou dog kennels, $1,500 yearly for
maintenance of a pup and diamond earrings in
, the ears of a i>oodle when men are crying out
for bread, bread of life teach that that is blas
phemy against humanity, against God Al
mighty. Teach that no one class, as a class,
should rule; that we are in the world to min
ister and serve, not to be ministered unto and
served. Let us hold with John that men may
love God and be ever so pious and have so
long a list of benefactions to their credit that if
they do not do justice and love men In a meas
ure as Christ did they are liars and will event
ually find themselves in Gehenna. This Is not
the hell of Dante, but mighty, real and gen
uine. Dr. Parkhurst says, "The wicked flee
when no man pursueth. but they make better
time whou some one is after them."
The Workers of France*
Events in France during the past three
months have had the close attention of
political and social reformers in this
country. In no other country is the influ
ence of the "common people" so marked
as it is in France. The proletaire is a
constant presence in the considerations
of the French statesman, and never more
so than just now. In the assembly the
working people have a large representa
tion, known as tho socialist party, and
the government is compelled to consider
it with respect when arranging a pro
gramme.
A recent manifesto issued by the so
cialist deputies contained the following
language:
Opportunism has become engulfed in tho
quagmire of bloodshed at Fourmies and the
mud from tho Panama scandals. As it sinks
it threatens to drag the country and the repub
lic to ruin. In this emergency safety can come
only from the ranks of tho nation's workers.
Tho system of delivering up parliament and
presidency to a handful of criminals must ho
abolished if the republic is to be a republic of
honesty and to maintain the position it holds
with so much glory in the vanguard of the na
tions. The political constitution of the country
must be revised by a constituent assembly with
imperative mandates.
We must organize a government by the peo
ple through tho medium of universal suffrage.
Water Power and Electric Lights.
In nearly all the northwestern states
which are hilly or mountainous water
powerß are abundant. Swift streams are
flowing down everywhere. These are just
what electricians want. Finding u stream
anywhere within 5 or 10 miles of a thriv
ing town, they are ready to light that town
and furnish power cheaper than it ever
could be furnished by the use of coal. This,
to a great extent, is the practical solution
of the question of cheap lights, heat and
power. It will not be available in many
large cities, although it has never been
settled us to the distance that this power
can be transmitted with economy.
Canadians and Alien Labor.
A dipatch from Ottawa says: "The
Knights of Labor will send a deputation
to the Dominion parliament this session
to ask for legislation to prohibit the iin
portation of alien labor under contract
as well as an act imposing an annual poll
tax of SIOO on Chinese residents of Can
ada."
Labor Day In Purls.
The organizers of the proposed cele
bration on Labor day in Paris have de
cided to exclude the Boulangist groui*
from taking part. The organizers insist
that all who are to share in the demon
stration shall make a declaration in favor
of international revolutionary socialism.
Hard to Heat.
Small Son—Vj|\,you lets dot gustomer
beat you down 50 zents on dose pants?
Father—Dot's all right, mine son. I left
dose price marks on pehind, and he vill do
us $lO worth of advertising bevore ho gets
Ui Broadway.—New York Weekly. |
REPORT OF AUDITORS OF FOSTER
TOWNSHIP ON ROADS FOR YEAR
I 1892-93.
Patrick Givenß, collector of road taxes,
iu account with Foster township.
DR.
To amount of regular und supplement
al duplicate $5884 00
CR.
Paid treasurer $2220 30
Restrained by Coxe Bros. & Co.,
as per. injunction 360 98
Paid under protest G, I). Markle
& Co 174 19
('oininmissioner's abatements... 93 85
Errors in assessments 54 02
Seated land tax returned 120 (M "
Unseated land tax returned 459 08
Collector's commission 110 so
Exonerations 390 14
Taxes worked out 1890 59
Amount due collector $ 811
Patrick Givens, collector special levy,
in account with Foster township.
DR.
To amount of duplicate $6391 13
CR.
Paid treasurer $4933 34
Commissioner's abatements 108 25
Errors in double assessments— 52 51
Exonerations 501 45
Seated lauds returned 200 78
Unseated lauds returned 109 70
Collector's commission 207 04
Due treasurer 151 40
Win. Gallagher, treasurer,
in account with Foster township.
Regular duplicate.
DR.
To amount received of J. 8. McGroarty,
license money $2338 *v
To amount received of J. 8. McGroarty,
wild land tax 313 78
To amount received of Patrick Givens,
collector 2220 70
$4872 14
CR.
Paid by orders of Thos. Earlcy. .$ 440 83
" Jos. Sa ricks-.. 215 70
" John McNeils. 32 47
44 I*. McKadden. 2581 04
" John Schnee . 1054 08
Paid by Joiut orders of McKad
den and Schnee 395 00
Paid by joint orders of Suricks
and Earlcy 4 10
Treasurer's commission 141 80
Amount due township $ 46
Special tux.
DR.
To um't received of Collector Givens.. $4933 34
CR.
By amount paid out $4789 00
Commission 143 08
Expenditures of su per visors.
P. McFadden, 317 days at $2.00.. .$ 034 00
" 44 labor 3307 41
4 " expense uccount. 489 07
Taxes worked out by Coxe Bros.
& Co 523 21 k
Taxes worked out by M. 8. Kem
iner & Co. 25) 12
John Schnee, 2814 days at $2.00.. .$ 563 00
" labor 133 i 83
4 expense uccount .. 940 18
Taxes worked out by Coxe Bros.
~,& cu 019 35
luxes worked out by Upper Le
high Coal Co 330 83
laxes worked out by Sandy Run
Coal Co 221 38
L axes worked out by individuals 32 82
Total exp'dt of P McFadden.... 5042 Kl* 4^'8 W
44 44 John Schnee— 4098 39
Total $9141 21
Time worked by Schnee, but orders is-
Bued by McFadden, chargeable to
Schnee's account $ 1749
The auditors withheld the following:
P. McFadden, 317 days, at 50 cents, ex
eessive $ 158 50
J. Schnee, 2814 days, at 50 cento, exces
sive 140 75
RECAPITULATION.
Liabilities.
To amount of unpaid orders of P. Mc-
Fadden $1909 40
To amount of unpaid orders of John
Schnee 1839 10
10 amount due P. Givens, collector 8 11
Total liabilities....* $3757 GO
Resources.
Amount due from Thos. Earlcy.s 568 00
44 44 Jos. Saricks .. 781 02 k
44 44 P. McFadden. 158 50
44 44 J. Schnee 140 75
44 44 l'atk. Givens,
special tax 151 40
Ain't due from Win. Gallagher 40
44 44 44 Thos. J. Lewis,
ex-treasurer 25 32
Liabilities In excess of resources $1931 45
We. the undersigned, auditors of Foster town
oeing duly sworn according to law, do
certify that the foregoing is a correct state
ment of the tlnancial condition of the township,
to the best of our knowledge and belief.
Frank Dever, I
P. B. Ferry, f Ali utors.
"FECTECTION
or
FEEE TIR-A-IDE."
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