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Aug:. 14, 1902
TKE 17EBB.ASKA INDEPENDENT
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It is High Time This
Hold-Up Craze Was Snppressed
; Too often you .have tested a mail
order proposition only . to. find your
self the victim of a hold-up. The idea
of giving a fair equivalent for what
you gave him never entered the other
fellow's mind you had a right to feel
sore. No hold-up methods can be tol
erated by this Clothing House for these
very good reasons:, It is in the busi
ness of selling clothes and furnishings
has been in it for years and proposes
, to stay in it. ,Part of it's business is
to see that you trade here. It does
business on the theory that you need
something in clothes every season and
that it ought to supply, you. "Unce a
C Customer Always a Customer," is our
it motto.
-xxiis viuiuiug nuuse a new iun auu
7 winter catalog is just from the press.
It is a valuable money-saving guide
for any one. Send for it.
Probably you are coming to the
State Fair. Look up this number and
come in and do some' investigating.
We claim to be , the best Clothing
House in the West. The claim will
bear investigation.
THE...
Armstrong Clothing Co.
1221, 1223, 1225, 1227 O St.
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Editorial Notes.
The wave that has borne the re
publican party so gloriously onward
for the last few years seems to be
broken up into a choppy- sea, with
squalls coming from every . direction
at the same time. 0
The wholesale price of coffee in New
York Is 5 cents a pound, but on ac
count of the benevolent assimilation,
of - the trusts and railroads by the '
time it gets out to Nebraska we have
to pay 35 cents a pound for a good
variety of it.
A few years ago our manufacturers
could be undersold by foreigners and
demanded protection. Now they can
undersell .-tile foreigners and they de
mand more protection. Protection is
like whisky once indulged in, the ap
petite for it grows by what it feeds
upon.
If a man wants to know what Is
coming, let him run his eye over the
mortgage records that have recently
been made in the various counties.
The . demand for chattel mortgage
blanks has been so . great in some
places that the supply has been ex
hausted. Washington and Jefferson made a
republic, but the republican party has
turned it into an empire, holding as
unwilling subjects 10,000,000 people of
another race. That ' thing has been
done before In the history of tho
world, but it ended in the annihilation
of the republic that did it.
When the scientists make a classi
fication of the people of the United
States it is' about as follows: First,
the sound and sane. Then follow the
perverts, the defectives, the degener
ates and the mullet heads. The last
are rather more dangerous than the
others because they are allowed to run
at large and vote.
Could the old Puritans In the May
flower have been told that the resi
dents of the country which they came
to settle w'ou'fcf" build another ship
named after "the little bark which
brought them here, which would cost
more to run one day! for the pleasure
of the president than the price of their
whole voyage, what would they have
said?
The Independent sends its sincere
sympathy to our Uncle Mark. The
foreign trade is falling off, the din
ner pails of thousands of wage-workers
are empty, scores, of great manu
facturing concerns are going to other
countries where he can't assess them
for campaign expenses and taken al
together these things make Uncle
Mark very sorrowful.
A recent German census bulletin
asserts that there are 18,000 Ameri
cans living in that country, nearly all
of whom, are there as students or for
pleasure. ;1 If we estimate that they,
each spend $1,000 a year; that draws
$18,000,000 a year in clean cash from
the United States or lessens the bal
ance of trade to that amount.
Rev. Mr. Savage of Omaha needs
the immediate attention of the re
publican congressional committee. In
a report which he makes of some re
vival meetings at Burwell he says the
crops are splendid and that "the peo
ple are profoundly grateful to God."
Now thatris not according to the re
publican campaign text book. They
should be profoundly grateful to- the
republican party.
John Lind is a candidate for con
gress fn the Fifth Minnesota district
and 1 wo other districts in that state
are regarded as doubtful by the re
publican leaders, all of which has a
tendency to make your Uncle Mark
feel sad.
In a very clear and convincing ad
dress to the populist voters of Kansas,
State Chairman Babb and Secretary
Curran explain the ingenious deviltry
of the Kansas ballot law and close
with these words: "Many a man has
fallen into the" pit he digged for an
other. Haman was hanged upon his
own gallows." "
The Chicago Tribune says that po
litical and not medical efficiency is
the test applied in selecting 5 employes
and superintendents Of hospitals and
insane asylums of Illinois. That is a
pretty condition for the "God and
morality" party to be in, in a great
state. But vote .'er- straight. - If ; you
dont the country" VIII be ruined. '
Roosevelt sent the labor commis
sioner, Wright, to investigate the an
thracite coal strike about two months
ago. Mr. Wright investigated and sent
in his report. Teddy promptly locked
it up and no one has ever been al
lowed to see it. Lately there have been
many demands that the report be made
public, l But Teddy says nothing.
President Stickney of the Great
Western railroad affirms over his own
signature that ' the : rebates paid on
packing house products "have' ranged
all the way from 25 to 50 per cent."
These rebates were the foundation of
the meat trust. But then you know
that your Uncle Mark says there are
no trusts. -. . .
Editor J. C. Buchanan of the Pitts
burg Kansan - is responsible for this
atrocity: "Taxation rhymes with cor
poration," remarked - Craddock (the
democratic nominee for governor of
Kansas), "and I'll see they get to
gether." "I notice," retorted Bailey
(the republican candidate), "that it
also rhymes with confiscation, and no
corporation will ever stand it." .
Your Uncle Mark must have a per
fect contempt for Roosevelt and Lit
tlefield. He discovered as far back as
the iast presidential campaign that
there were "no trusts." He must pitty
the president and- his eoadjutator
when he reads about their efforts to
suppress the trusts when there are no
trusts to suppress.
The Washington authorities have
set aside the Clem Deaver sale of Ind
ian lands and the little syndicate that
paid out .from $100 to $150 each to
quite a number of men to keep them
out of the room where the fake sale
was consummated have lost their mon
ey. "Another investigation is to Joe I
held concerning the - conduct of the
land officers, so it is said.
Uncle Joe over in England is having
as much trouble as Uncle Mark has
here. The colonial premiers have
started an Irish home rule movement
which is said to ; have more promi
nence than any since' the days of Glad
stone. The premiers of Canada and
Australia have presided at Irish home
rule meetings where the Irish lead
ers were the principal speakers. Cham
berlain undertook to chide them for
such conduct and they replied so vig
orously that he dropped the subject.
These . same colonial premiers have
been presiding at what are called pro
Boer meetings and Uncle Joe wishes
now that ho had -never Invited -them
) to attend the coronation ceremonies.
A good deal is said in the' dailies
lately about the South American wars
and the awful losses they occasion.
The losses of all of them put together
for ten years will not amount to the
damages resulting from one of our big
strikes. The South Americans pre
fer to indulge in their destructive im
pulses in wars while. we prefer strikes.
Strikes and wars are of the same na
ture and one shows just as much of
latent savagery as the other.
W. E. Curtis Is disgruntled and very
sad. He says that Bryan while on his
eastern trip knocked out all the plans
of the reorganizes ; ana that there is
no hope for Hill to win a victory in
New York. ' W. E. Curtis, being a
rantakerous republican, one can Im
agine how much he would mourn over
the fact that the democrats eould not
carry New York., The performances
of W. E. Curtis are too silly to be even
funny. ' ;'' ' . - '
Senator. Piatt in his article In the
North American Review acknowledges
that there was a contract made with
Cuba for, trade advantages with the
United States in return for granting
this country a suzerainty over the
island, just as The Independent said
at the time that the Cuban constitu
tional convention was forced to change
the proposed constitution. It is said
now that Cuba will enact a retalia-'
tory tariff, a thing that the people
have a moral right to do since this
country has repudiated its contract.
The republican text book is out. Ac
cording to the compilers every good
thing that- we enjoy comes rrom the
republican party. They point to ex
ports. The major part of these are
the wheat, corn, hogs and cattle raised
by the farmers. If the republican par
ty was not in power the cattle and
hogs would not breed and the wheat
and corn would not grow. They point
to the increase in population. The
only inference to be made is, if the
democrats get in power the women
will cease to bear children.
The reorganlzers are always talking
about Bryan having been defeated
twice. But their patron saint, the old
stuffed Prophet, was also defeated,
and defeated when he had his whole
party fighting for him. Bryan was de
feated because the Cleveland-Hill-Whitney
crowd fought him and voted
the . republican'., ticket. Not satisfied
with that, they put up a sham third
ticket and cubbed it democrat to fool
as many..; unwary voters as possible.
Not.w;thstanc1ns; all-that. Bryan polled
more votes than Cleveland' ever did.
What . will the State Journal and
other papers of that ilk have to say
about deficiencies after the next leg
islature adjourns? They filled many
columns discussing that matter when
the fusion government was in power,
but the deficits that the next legisla
ture will have to make appropriations
to meet will be as : much as it cost the
people to' run the whole state under
the fusion- government. Republican
ism comes high and' when the peo
ple insist, on having it they must pay
the bills. They should do it, too, with
out any. howling.
The plank in the republican state
platform of Iowa demanding a revision
of the tariff has driven the New Eng
land tariff grafters almost wild. They
say it 16 "the ruin of the republican
party arid makes it doubtful whether
the republicans can hold the state af
ter this year. The Cummins following
however declares that there is such a
sentiment, in the state for tariff revi
sion amohg republicans that there is
no use trying to resist It. Your Uncle
Mark is having lots of trouble these
days, in the west as well as in the
east..
The Platt-Low combination of re
formers in New York city is at last
being severely criticised by the mug
wump papers. The Springfield Re
publican says : "Mr Low, the reform
mayor of New York, secured the votes
of German-Americans in the last mu
nicipal campaign by virtually pledg
ing that as mayor he would not en
force the excise law so that they would
be deprived of their Sunday beer. And
the promise was kept. Wasn't a piedge
not to 'enforce a law a bribe to the
voters?" The Independent never took
much stock in that movement. The
result is that New York city is no bet
ter governed than when under Tam
many rule. ..- .
- Notes of warning are being sounded
more frequently as the months go by.
One of them, published in a daily of
large circulation, is as follows: "The
greatest menace to continued finan
cial prosperity is the overstocked
strusts. They are capitalized 'on . the
theory that the productive energies of
the country will always remain at
high tide; but when a period of depres
sion comes and dividends are reduced
or fail, then there will be a rush to
unload, arid it will be wise for every
man to trim his financial sails." ,One
thing is certain, and that is that very
few populists will be caught out in
the cyclone when it comes. The mul
let heads will be found mangled and
ruined by the tens of thousands. i
Hards Colcma
It is estimated that the estate of
the late millionaire Californlan who
died in England a few weeks ago will
have - to pay three or four millions
government tax: There is one country
where millionaires are forced to pay
more than poor men for the support
of the general government. The mil
lionaires in this country pay no more
than do : laborers,' and not as much
according to value on their drink and
fine clothing imported. Wonder? if
Queen Victoria's .estate was taxed un
der the same law by the English gov
ernment? ' .'
If. the Bryan' democratic fusion party
sells out to . the , Cleveland-Pierpont
Morgan party, as the prohibition party
did in '96, or, pulls down the equal
ity flag for one we hereby refuse to
be delivered as we did in '96. When
there is novdifference between the two
big parties we. will -go back to the old
free soil party and vote for John T.
Dale's yellow dog or Abe Lincoln's
old shoes. : - i
Too much Is being said and done
against child labor. There is no doubt
that many children are worked too
hard, so there are many grown-up
women, wives and mothers, who are
worked too hard. Many wives have to
earn their own-living, support their
husbands and on top of that earn his
whisky money. :: There are less chil
dren who do all that for their fathers.
Boys and girls On the farm work or
go , to school, and that is one great
reason why they make better men and
women than ; the boys and girls of
cities who have nothing to do. We
are in jfavor of jetting the boys and
girls work from 'early childhood. We
are not in favor of overwork, with
either men, women or children, nor
even with horse? or oxen. . Education
in work is better than book educa
tion if you cannot have but one
Economical- living is sure to be prac
ticed by those .-who earn their own
living. Fortunes handed down by
parents ,and relatives are sure to do
ten heirs harm where it does one any
good. Prodigal: living is worse than
death. ; , - . .
Is it just to make railroads reduce
their rates of freight and passenger
fare and at the same time make them
pay more taxes and higher wages to
their men? The state of Montana has
levied nearly a million more taxes
this year upon her railroads than sh-?
did last year. There were several
roads about to be built, all of which
have been suspended. Everything
should be , taxe according to selling
value, but there are " many miles of
road through wild; Tough country that
would not sell alone, for what the iron
cost. . ,
It is really an honor and a credit to
Mr. Bryan that the- republican papers
publish more about him than about
any other man living or dead on the
face of the earth. , They do not dare
to attack his; doctrine. Not one item
in either of the--platforms he stood
upon has become -superanuated. Not
a single contradiction can be pointed
out in anyof his speeches or editor-,
ials. v in fact, McKinley adopted Bry
an's money doctrine- that legal tender
money should" increase as fast a3 tha
population and business increases. He
coined , more silver, than any other
president we ever, had. At the same
time gold and bank' bills increased in
the same proportion. The increase of
money tihas lowered its value , and its
rate of Interest or, in other words, ,it
ha3 raised the value of property and
its rental. Let the greenbacks be re
tired and the legal tender of silver
limited to ten dollars, as sure as the
sun continues to shine another term
of hard times will follow. Eight hun
dred million reduction in legal tender
money will be sure -to have a horrid
effect upon the price of property and
equally bad effect upon business.
The saloons that surround the strik
ing coal mines are. not closed. Many
of the contributions, from friends and
benevolent societies for the feeding of
the families of the strikers comes in
food for It is learned that if money is
sent a good portion of it will be like
ly to go for liquor and tobacco. Men
are ready to. starve their own families
rather than starve their own hellish
appetites. We visited " a village of a
thousand or twelve hundred inhabi
tants, surrounding - the . mouth of a
large coal mine. There was no other
business beside digging and shipping
coal. There were thirty-eight saloons,
wide open, within a quarter of a mile
of the mouth of the coal shaft, The
consumers of that coal have not. only
to feed, clothe, and shelter the famil
ies of that village, but they have to
support these saloons, too. Would it
not be better to banish saloonkeepers,
gamblers and prostitutes rather than
have so many strikes. Then several
of the explosions that have occurred
in different mines, causing the death
of hundreds of miners, -have been
traced to the action of drunken min
ers. Railroad companies have learned
that drinking men are not safe men to
trust with track or train responsibil
ity. If an employer is to be held. re
sponsible t or s what an employe does,
to, the harm of another employe, a
liquor breath should be sufficient cause
for the dismissal of any workingman.
It appears that New York million
aires have already bought up the friar
lands in the Philippine Islands. Now
whoever gets the lands will have to
pay a big advance. That was the way
John Sherman, made his millions. He
knew whisky would be taxed and that
he controlled the making of the law.
So he, with a few money, men, bought
up all the whisky on the market; then
the law did not tax the stuff already
made, but put a big tax on what , was
made afterwards So Sherman' put the
tax . on whisky in his own pocket.
There is nothing like being in league
with 'the government.
We believe ' in home government.
Taking the city, government of Omaha
out of the hands of the Omaha people
is actually spitting upon the prin
ciples of our government. If nothing
Is done to violate the constitution and
laws of the state, a city should be left
free to make their own ordinances
and elect their own city officers,, As
a rule cities are. no. more corrupt than
states in management of public affairs.
Cities are corporations as much as a
.railroad and none but taxpaying
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Miss Florence Allan, a beautiful Chi
cago girl, writes the following to Dr. S.
B. Hartman concerning his catarrhal
tonic, Peruna: ' ; '
75 Walton Place, Chicago, UU
"Am a tonic for a worn-out system,
Peruna stands at the head in my esti
mation. Its effects are truly wonder'
tul in rejuvenating the entire system.
I keep it on band ait the time, and
never have that tired feeling,' as a
few doses always make me feel like a
different woman. '"Florence Allan.
Thousands .of women Buffer from sys
temic catarrh. This is sure. to produce
such symptoms as cold, feet, and hand?,
sick headache, palpitation of the heart
and heavy feelings in the stomach.
. Then begins a series of experiments.
They take medicine for sick headache.
They take medicine for nervous prostra
tion, for palpitation of the heart, for
dyspepsia. None of these medicines do
any good because they "do !riot reach the
cause of the complaint.
Peruna at once mitigates all these
symptoms by removing the cause.
Systemic catarrh is the trouble. Sys
temic catarrh pervades the whole sys
tem, deranges every organ, weakens
every function. No permanent cure can
be expected until the systemic catarrh
is removed. . , . ' '
This is exactly what Peruna will do.
Miss Cullen Wa Exhausted From Over
Study. .
Miss Rose Cullen, President of the
Young Woman's Club, Butte, Montana,
writes : i .. ..
921 Galena street, Butte, Mont.
Peruna Medicine Co.i Columbus, O. : "
Gentlemen "Peruna has many friends
in Butte. I cannot say too much in praise
of it. While finishing school I became
very nervous and exhausted from over
study. I was weak and sick, and could
neither eat, sleep, nor enjoy life. A
couple bottles of Pertina'put new life in
me. I find by having it in the house and I
taking a dose off and on it keeps me in
fine health. A' large number of my
friends place Peruna at the head of all
medicines." Rose ,Cullen -.
. -Peruna is especially adapted to pro
tecting against and. curing nervous dis
eases of run-down women, as the testi
monial of Miss Cullen indicates.
Miss Blanche Myers, 3120 Perin street,
Kansas City, Mo., has the following to
say of Peruna: ;. "
'During each ofthe past four seasons I
I , have. caught ft severe cold, when sud
denly chilled , after ari evening party,
and catarrh for several weeks would be
the result.' One bottle of Peruna cured
me, and I shall not dread colds any more
as I did." Blanche Myers.
. An excellent little treatise on " Health
and Beauty," Written especially for wo
men, DrvHartmai,' wilL be .sent free
to any address - by The Peruna Medicine
Co., of Columbus, Ohio.
stockholders should be .aljowed to
vote. , Home owners know best what
homes need. -
The .tariff is splitting the republi
can party and their leading papers and
politicians see it. We believe a ma
jority ' of the working people in the
party stand with Bryan on the tariff
and . trust questions. Many republi
cans loath the name of Bryan as much
as the slave holders loathed the name
of Lincoln. The main reason for it is
those two men have always stood up
for equal justice to all, black or white,
rich or poor. . ,
Bryan is getting rich they say and is
bound to become a millionaire. It is
his heart, his head, his mouth and his
ren that are doing it. No tariff,
trust or special law has ever helped
him a cent. The money that has been
collected on that line has all been
used against him. How tickeled they
are to hear he is not a candidate' for
renomination. -
We fear a sickly season. Floods and
fast shifting climate, so' different from
seasons before, are sure to bring sick
ness. H. W. HARDY.
News of the Week
Judge Jackson is still, issuing in
junctions. One of the latest was di
rected against those who fed the strik
ers and those buying and distributing
food among them. That is a duplica
tion of the time when men in the
north were arrested by United States
marshals for giving food and shelter
to black men. ' The whole business is
the same old thing over again.
British trade is not , experiencing
that revival which was commonly ex
pected as a result 5f the end of the
Boer war. Kaffir stocks s have . been
going down hill ever. since, and official
labor statistics just published, show a
net weekly decrease of $392,500, com
pared with the best of 1900.
When the bankers bought control
of the religious press years ago and
the papers were made more the advo
cates of financial schemers than of
Christ; when their advertising pages
showed in what esteem they wers
held by Wall street and by. the aristoc
racy generally, The Independent' fre
quently called attention to ..the. de
generacy and foretold their doom. ,. It
has come. The. old religious paper U
practically going out. of existence. Its
power and influence is gone. An east
ern daily . calls attention to , the fact
in the following words: The religious
press of the country is making open
confession of its loss of power .to con-
1 tinue the strong independent life that
r i 1 1 rr I- a; 1 a.
uuc luarKCQ 11. . tuts .ungrega,i,i.uiiaii3i
of Boston was forced to, put itself in
the hands of. the Congregational" pub
lication society, the New York Ob
server has lately passed into the hands
of . new owners, who will strive after
additional streneth for It. and the ln-
dependeht-and the "Outlook long ago'
transformed themselves into 'weekly
magazines. In which the old type of
the religious newspaper is sought in
vain. Now the New York Evangelist,
so long a power in" the Presbyterian
church under Rev. Dr. Henry M. Field,
is to.;be, merged-with Christian Work.
,The consolidated paper will be known
as Christian Work and the Evangelist,
and so Dr. Field's paper is to lose its
identity -and, be. no.more. ,
Generals Delarey and Botha were
given an ovation' at Stellenbosch, says
a Cape- Town dispatch. They were
driven to the town hall, and each car
riage was drawn by 60 students. At a
luncheon which, followed the students
acted as waiters. General Botha in
a feeling address said the day. of sur
render was. the most, painful of , his
life, but now jthat it had been done he
prayed earnestly . that his hearers
should consider it God's will. 'Al
though Afrikander nationality, in a
manner., had been huried, it would re
main the most important factor in
the social life of South Africa: Gen
eral Botha" paid' a tribute to ex-President
Steyn's abilities as a statesman.
"Now,, let us-stop bothering ourselves
about pplitics'' .said the general, "and
try to make ourselves happy in South
Africa, because we have no home else--where.'''
Generals Botha and Delarey
will proceed to England, the United
States ..and Canada to collect funds
for the relief of widows and orphans
of Boer' soldiers . ;
The Economic league of New, Eng
land, believes, strongly in government
ownership of natural monopolies. The
league held a convention : at Bridgeport,-.
Conn.fv last" week. ,. One of. the
songs vsungr ,on, that, occasion had . the
following chorus: . J
So wake, ye slumbering workingmen,
Unite to win the day,
And vote -for - government ownership
On next election day. -
Considerable alarm exists in Illi
nois republican circles. Senator. Ma
son has revolted against the party machine,-
and- declared , his determina
tion to seek a re-election through
democratic .and Independent republi
can votes.- His: anti-imperialist views
have kept him put of harmony with
his party ffbr soriie? time, arid: will now
be of assistance in bringing to him
democratic support. - David Davis was
elected , senator .under very similar
circumstances" from the same state
in 1877:"': ' -' :
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V The weather Js-, killing the, summer
boarding house, business In " Massa
chusetts arid all New England. Hun
dreds" of ; people" who engaged rooms
and paid for - them in advance have
preferred, to stay ,at horne. The few
"tourists", who braved the, weather
and went to 'the country around Mt.
Washington. report that they have had
but one -clear day In thirty-five. As
the summer boarder is one of the chief
sources of, income in that region the
people there; are looking forward to
a winter', of semi-starvation. I ,
' Some .of the. eastern dailies are fig
uring uplhow many times the repub
lican managers in the senate sat down
on" Teddy 'during ..the -f last session.
They .enumerate several cases, but two.
especially, where they sat down j ex
ceedingly hard. v One .was the Cuban
reciprocity scheme. The other wa3
still worse' Teddy had' recommended
publicity aS' a Check Upon the trusts.
Senator DuBoigj put those-clauses from
the message into -ithe form of an
amendment to the census bill, but the
republicans would not have them at
all. They were taken verbatim from
the much , talked-of Littlefleld bill,
which the president asked Littlefleld
to draft. The promise now that that
bill will be introduced next winter
and crush the trusts don't carry much
weight. The senate ;wilh- have to be
changed before.it can pass.
The labor leaders are' looking for
ward-with much hope to the supreme
court to overthrow some of. the lata
injunction orders..-They might as well
apply to the devi for a supply of
holy water: ' . '
v The asphalt trust collapsed from too
much water, and -exorbitant charges.
Now paving is being done In New York
at $1.05 per jfard, whereas a year ago
the trust charged $2.75: The trusts,
you know, are able to reduce expenses
and make many economies impossible
in open competition.. .That is what
the asphalt fellows said when they
were forming the trust, and the fel
lows who read only the republican
papers all said: "Yep. That's so."
Devery gave an outing to the wom
en and children of the Tammany dis
trict, which he wi3hes to represent,
the other day. Two big steamboats
and six barges were crowded with the
women and children. Three life-savers,
one trained nurse and one physi
cian were stationed on each of , the six
boats... There were 12 brass bands. As
for the eatables, there were 3,000 cab
bages, 2,500 loaves of bread, making a
pile twice as high as a man's head.
l,500,pounds of cake, 4,000 gallons of
milk, and the ingredients for 30.000
plates of clam chowder, besides inci
dentals.. The head steward command
ed a corps of 145 persons. Devery foots
all the bills, and asks only votes in
return. The aristocratic reformers of
New York never do anything of that
kind and then they wonder why the
poor of New York' vote the Tammany
ticket every time.
How many , thousands". Of men are
out on strikes at the present time It 13
impossible to tell, but it is generally
conceded that there are more men out
than at any time in the history of the
government. The corporations take
the same attitude everywhere, so much
so that a general agreement seems to
exist between them to crush organized
labor. The one reply made by all of
them is: "There is nothing to arbi
trate." Everywhere labor unions have
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