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WLEBLTS ANNUAL ADDfiTSS.
I" ' Tke Strang Ground on the Immi
gration Question Laboring Men
i Must rt Into Politics.
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rowderlj'a Address.
The twenty-fifth annual 838Jloa of
.the Knights of Labor met in St. Louis
n November 15th, with a largo attend--anee
of delegates. Mr. Powderly de
livered ao address which was full of
'oractical wisdom, and valuable sugges
ts. Ho congratulated the gtneral
.Ujmbly on the growth of the order
j tiring t'ae year, and even during the
'iteroent of the political campaign
? tlosed.
viewing the
LAIIOK MOVEMENT
i ild there was too great a tendency
the multipllea'ion of unions and
e tendency of tue labor movement
led to be to divide up, while that
jie opposing force capital was to
olidate, and thereby to gain
agta to combat the forces of in
ry, when, single handed, they were
.fayed before them. Every promi
nt member of a labor organization,
o for some reason or other, had
n offense at something done, or
entertained an Idea that his plan
the best, set about organizing a
society of labor. The only result
mi a division oi sirengtn, isolation aim
. a . a. t f 1 A 1
Jnal death
f f The crvine need of the hour was an
I Organization in which every interest
lthtlb4iared"Jpr an" In which all
i i might meet on coiitMJU uimiiJ4&fir
' neakinc at lencrth on the question of
. ballot reform and on the inltalive and
referendum scheme, and urging that
t the general assembly take specific
t. action oa both questions, Mr. Powderly
proceeded to dwell in detail on the
matter of
IMMIGRATION.
lie said that six years ago he had
clared in favor of the restriction of
immigration, and although his views
were not received with favor by the
order he had not changed them, bit on
hi contrary had made them more
ld. Ha bolleved in the total exclu
i(SQ of all immigrants who are not self-
porting on lauding In this country.
re should be a fixed term or years,
tei' would be enough, during whicn no
with a view to remaining, unless
uld prove that he had sufficient
s to sustain nimseu ana tnose
'i l dlng upon mm lor one year.
fi 'ore-aw great danger, and not
alons to labor, but to the whole coun-
I ,try, it' the immigration question was
not heroically handled in the near
future.' There was great danger that
'1 in the Babel of tongues we might for
i get that we are freemen in this country
and a losing sight of that fact might
Udw the incoming hordes to European
ize us before we could Americanize
t thetn. Hundreds of thousands of for-
eigners were thrust upon this country
I 'wery year, some allured by mi&repre
i Ration and others sent direct from
( q penitentiaries and prison pens of
I e old world, while still others were
red on the other Bid 3 of the water by
ose who would lower the standard of
iges in this country. It is not to the
terest of the immigrant to land here
,' without money, without friends, with-
. l : 1 J ... A I .11.1
he must face in his struggle for bread.
It was not because he could not earn a
livelihood in his own land that the for-
j eigner came here, but because the in-
; suiu lions oi groeu are ui oiuer gruwm
across the water and have taken deeper
root. There are as productive indus
tries In Europe as in this land. The
men born there were just as good as we
are. They have the same natural
rights to the soil they were born on as
ie have to the soil of America. It
jwas their right and their duty to re
main on that soil, redeem it from the
twin evils of landlordism and kingcraft,
and take the fruit of the earth for them
selves and their families, instead of
fleeing from their own homes to a land
where they stind in doubles at every
point at which the stroke of a hammer
or pick is required.
STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS
next claimed Mr. Powderly's attention.
He said that during the last six months
..the people of this land had witnessed
such attemps at making the power of
mrregated wealth supreme as were
never dreamt of before. Whether it
was at Coeur D'Alene, at Homestead,
Ai Buffalo, or in Tennessee, the instinct
a hich guided the rapacious band was
Yie same. The underground wires
nrhich... directed these attacks all
' ran to the i, ne center' from all these
.-places. Ce.wt&lijed wealth drew the
scattering nra or divided labor, and as
a natural result labor lost In each battle
If the lessons are carefully taken to
heart, the sacrifices may not be in vain.
Too mines, of Tennessee were made by
the Almighty God. He gave no deed
or warrant to men to take absolute pos
session of them that they might levy
tribute on all others, and make unhung
murderers, violator of virtue and con
victed burglars the instruments through
which this coal should reach the people
The great highway that runs from
Buffalo to New York sends its earnings
across the ocean to pay foreign stock-
i holders who violate American law.
The great seething mills of Home
coma never turn out an ingot oi
were it iiot for the skill and labor
e workmen.
e ingenuity and Industry of the
workmen made it possible for the great
anthracite coal trust to levy tribute on
the American people, but the reward
does not fiqd its way into the homes of
the workmen. It la absorbed by those
steaqi
steell
of til
Tn
who are keen and shrewd enough io
break the law so nklllfullv as to escape
detection, conviction and punishment.
The organization of labor will, if it has
setise, take up these questions lor consideration-
The railroads are publie
highways, they belong to the whole
people and the whole people should
know it. They are public highways,
but private individuals direct, control
and manage them for private train at
the expense of thepeopie.
The campaign which ha j"st closed
witnessed an int resting, if not very
intelligent discussion of the tariff, but
there is more of a revenue illegally
drawn from the pocket of merchants,
manufacturers and workingmen in one
month of the year by the railroads and
telegraphs than we pay in tariff in a
year. These aud all questions connect
ed with thun, must occupy the atten
tion of the industrial organizations of
the future, and
THE STRIKE O! THE FUTURE
must be a striks for the rulo of the jeo
ple. They could decry politics as they
pleased, but tlicy must bo politicians,
or be slaves of politician. They might
nhii k their resjHjnsibilitich as citizens,
but they are piling high the wrath
which follows neglect of duty. In a
word they must bo law-makers or law
breakers. When, in the last extremity
they are driven cIoms to the wall and
deprived of right and privilege, it is
done through the law. If th law is
obscure or defective a hireling judge
cn always bo found to construe in favor
of the wealthy as aja'nst tho poor. If
every citizon of Pennylvania under
stood and know his rights, if ho per
formed his duty under the law intelli
gently and as he ought to, no judge
would dare to charge treason against
workmen who struggled for recognition
Tho battle of the fufire must be fought
out cn different lines from those whica
have marked the shifting progress of
tho past. The-io lines must diverge
from and center at the ballot box. Not
as slaves to a party, bent on obeyiog
tho will of a boss or master, but as free
men, who value i freedom and would
maintain it, should every laboring man
vote. Every devilish instrumentality,
which now aids in oppressing the peo
ple, has its seed time and harvest in the
ballot box, and they would die for want
of care, and nourishment did the plain
people but do their duty in guarding
that institution. Ho had no advice to
offer. It was best that they act free
from his counsel and on their own
L'Bojjgri of the situation.
In iCon'SIliding his address Mr. Pow
derly sai it he order should make an
effort to g t closer to tho other indus
trial asj o iitions, and commended that
hereaf t ' lie general assembly should
meet hi ho same place and time
chosen b;' ho
i1 UIMERS' ALLIANCE
He ali i fivored the adoption of a
social or; X nelicial feature of tfae order.
He recom n onded a dissolution of the
alliance Vi h the Miiieri--' Progressive
association on the g"ound that the
latter ba l not lived up to its pledges,
and that.Jis a matter of fact, the
knights fc li 'iuff- ed greatly by the
alliance.! Tho -salient features of the
message v'd'o eceived with prolonged
appluuselrt rn the delegates, and tho
different t:4ijocts treated of woro re
ferred ipecial committees for ap
proprfc & tion.
A Cispatoli from
MISf- TIUNCIS E. W1LLARO,
On behall v the W. C. T. U., express
ing the gr t test good will to the order,
and urging :hem to stand by the cause
of equal y for women who do equal
work with 3 ien, for ballot of women,
total abst i -nee in the individual and
the suppn l ion of bigotry; also for the
Sunday cU ng of the World's fair.
SS'jlETARY'S REPORT.
The repr rt of General Secretary and
Treasurer Scives says the bonetit In
surance fee tire of the order Is not very
successful, owing to the lack of Bupport
of the members. He urges work to
remedy thl li The financial statement
shows that including the balance from
last year tr d receipts were $(K),614 and
the expend aires $")9,74!). The member
ship shows ailigtt increase during the
year, and n w there are over ztu,uou in
good stand lag. The order is practi
cally free OI flebt, and owns prope rty
worth $100.
The repoiijor the general executive,
board amongjother things, reviews the
trouble witt Jhe clothing manufacturers
combine at Bjichester, N. Y , and says
the boycott -las been steadily effective
and that trillions of dollars of trade
has. been dliarted from them.
TAX ON J MpIERITANCE FAVORED.
A clause r3 adopted providing for
the establU unent of an employment
bureau by tlt4 order. A suggestion to
strike out k i the platform the plank
providing f tia graduated income tax
was rejected and the plank made
stronger by n amendment providing
also for a ta tin Inheritances.
ieneroua Maa.
'Ha-kini'i
said old Mr. ISnrlow to
his foreman
the firm has decided to
inauguaratc 1
a system of protit shar-
ing with its
jfmployees."
"Uood en ft
.igh!" replied Harkins.
"What wer
the firm's profits last
year?"
"Last yea
he firm lost 57,000. That
necessitates
cut of ten per cent, in
wages undet
,lho new system. Tell the
men the ne r,
arrangement goes into
te'.y, Harkins."
effect itnniet
: 4)ur Italy,"
So Charles Jjudley Warner happily
mU Pullfmitia nnd for a winter re-
anrt that jorious state is without a
near, ino aryii'" " ovi uv ummj.
mt 1 . . .. . f . nn3 i 111 I.
a inv fnr 4he strong man and a
r'. . .u. ,
and sufterlnfftl The arrangements for
this tail anuiTinwjr umr, via umuu
Pacific and sputnern racinc systems,
are perfect, I mo journey being raado
....I 41. ,f ...... nA Anmfi.t
with tne jrroii ws caao i-u"'"'
M I'atent.
Tublfsher f A'ou have the climax of
the story in I W second chapter. hy
do that ? f SI
Author It a patent scheme of my
own to keejivomen who read from
knowinir hovi' Ihe story is troing to
turn out I if!
1?
For Swie'i FiiTorlte.
Jim Hicke'H-So you consider Will
Lotos a lucky man?
Jack Lever- juck is no name for itl
Why, that f movr could actually go-
down town to Hie library and find that
the book he Mite l was in!
WAYS OF LIFE.
When fortune smiles its sweetest smirk
And favor lap us on the back,
When fame's steep hill eein easy work.
And pleasures decorate the traclc
Along our rose-strewn youthful route
Life plays upon a cheerful lute
When we ara younj.
When cars h- b;nt the wairy f.-am;;
And troub.o m triced thi wrinkl 'd brow.
When Wtf must live, tho' lult ant lams
We Kiidly think of then ai:d nmv.
When friends aro scart-e and dollars few
Ii.u shovri a very diff.;r:nt vi
Wu'a ve are old.
When death stui'l eut;-r at o ir door
Aud srimly sc-rve his summons bold.
When we slul! su.Ter pun n in ire
And mother ear.h our f.irm sliull foid.
Ah! then will be our LattL: won
Aud brighter life but jUt uezun
WlK-n vt; ai,- d i-jd.
IIEIi SISTER NELL.
When Tom Norton and his wife
came from tho North to the prairies
of outhwestcrn Louisiana to try rice
farming they brouiit each their most
cherished possessions.
Tom's consisted, for the most part
of a varied and interesting collection
of theories.
Ho brought, also, a ve-y respecta
ble financial backing and a fund of
good, practical common sense. These
saved him from collapse when lie saw
his theories knocked out by t le hard
facts of bis new life.
Mrs. hate brought her etchings,
hor water colors, hor jars, vaics. rugs
and draporio:. Mio had u rather
worse time arranging these in a
'Cadian house than Torn had with his
theories, which is saying a good deal.
Both succeeded fuu-lv well, however,
find at the beginning of the second
summer thoir house had become the
rendezvous of 'the boys.'' a lot of
young fellows from various Northern
states, most of them, like Tom. i-ico
planters. Their home was at present
a board shanty, set in tho midst of
far-stretchinir rice fields where they
kept house for thomselves after tho
manner of men un watched of women.
Small wonder they found at To .a s a
pleasant respite. ,
John Wcilue. whose rich flat was
over on Ilayou N'c. Piqu came often
est and stayed longest. He was older
than the rest, and feeler.
He had di-ad Jvi'h them, one
broathles non, and afterward cross,
ed to tho parlor, which Kate had a
trick of keeping cool and shady in
tho hottest weather. Kate li! led the
pipe; Tom toolc the sofa and Mae.
stretched in a most comfortable chair,
smoked a while in silence.
"You'ro a decent sort of a fellow.
Tom." he said at length, "and I ilou't
envy you a thing, but tins' with a
comprehensive wave of his hand
isn't exactly calculated to make ona
enthusiastic over Itlack Jim's house
keeping. "
This" included tho excellent din
ner just eaten, the cool shade of the
pleasant room, and Kate herself in a
most becoming gown.
p-'Well. tho ri. why don't you do as
I did. marry your best girl and bring
her down hero to look after you?1'
queried Tom. -
Mac puffed away awhile bofore ho
answered. '! haven't any best girl.
I had one once a nice, sensible
girl"
I bato nice sensible girls, in
terrupted Kate; but Mac went calmly
on:
Father died when I was just out
of school and left me with mother.
four children and a mortgage to look
after. I laid the case plainlv bofore
my girl, told her there was bound to
be hard work; but that I knew I
could pull through, and if she wanted
to take hold and help all right, if
not. say so and ood-bye. sweet
heart.' She wrote me the nicist kind of a
letter; said sho comdu't think of
coming between me and my duty to
my family; but she should always.'
etc. 15ut It was ioo.l-bye all right
enough. I told you she was sensible."
he exclaimed.
Here Kate sniffed contemptuously.
But even that failed to interrupt the
even tenor oi Mac's tale.
So 1 went to wo:-k alone, and by
George, how I did work! Hut 1
pulled through at last, as I knew I
would; paid tho mortgage, educated
the children and provided for
mother." All this was delivered be
tween the puffs of Mao's pipe in his
usual quiet tone, without a trace of
emotion on his thin faca and from
first to last his amuse 1 smile did not
vary.
He refilled his mpo and concluded,
as if done with the subject:
My folks have got out of the habit
of thinking of me as a marrying man.
and I reckon, as they say here,
they're about right"
That was all riffht so long as
thero was the mortgage, the mother
and the children to beconsidered. but
now " and Kate paused suggest
ively. 'Hut now." said Mac. rising. "I've
no call' to be dawdling here. Carter
told me this morning that th'j twin
levees wero seeping badly. I've got
to hold up all my water .if I mako a
crop, so 1 came into tho Magnolia
saloon for something to sharpen up
the shovels"
He paused by one of the tablos and
took up a picture which lay there. It
was a bright-faced girl with an air of
spirited self-reliance.
Now. that's a nice girl." Mac
answered after a moment's examina
tion of the picture.
he just is!" said Kate, emphatic
ally. "It's my sister. Nell. She's
nice, but not -nice and sensible. ' like
your stick of a girl."
Think not:J'' and Mac continued
lo give the picturo the same careful
scrutiny he was wont to bestow upon
a seeping levee or a clogged pump.
"No. indeed!" replied rate. "If
there was hard work to be done. Nell
would go at it with all the energy she
devotes nowadays to having a good
time.
That would knock a harder job
than yours silly, Mac." and Tom
laughed. ,
WelL If you don't believe tne, just
co and see my sister Nell Mr. John
Macllau" fcaiii Kato with great dig
nity. "That feounds alluring, but I'm too
aged to run any risks. Befora I do
anything 1 must be assured of several
things."
Mac's eyes twinkled, but lie spoke
quite as if Kale were an agent for a
new pump or a grading plow.
Vhat, for instance ?" Kate's tono
was crisp enough to have warned
Torn, but Mac went on calnily.
WeiL" tic said, meditatively,
this" and nga n his gesture in
cluded the arrangement of the room
-tnd the dinners you're always giv
ing us. and tho way you have of meet
ing Tom in a pretty gown when ho
comes in hot and tireo. But I don't
want to bo too grasping. 1 wouldn't
insist --at tirst, anyway on sitting
with her in the dusk in a hammock,
as 1 saw you and Tom doing the other
nio-ht."
Wouldn't you?' asked Kate, with
ca'ru derision. Mac laid down the
picture, rose and shook himself.
Well, Carter'! 1 be furious if I'm
not back by suppor time, (iood-bye."
He came back, however, out of the
glaring sunlight to say:
I lear I must insist upon another
thing. I'm not proud, but thero's a
look about Tom's clothes that drives
tne to despair when I contemplate
my own raiment.
"l!ettcr set up a clothes brush; it's
much cheaper thau any other ar
rangement ' interrupted Kate.
Q Tom groaned an omphalic assent to
this propop .ion nnd Mae finally
mounted hj- pony aud took his way
across Lite Lot prairie towards the dis
tant timber lino which marked the
course of the Nez Pique.
This was in early June, and the
Nortonssaw no more cf him during
tho month, t arter. Mac' s foreman,
whom 'Join saw in town, reported,
"Mr. John sho' gwine to beat his
self plumb out, da way he's gwine on.
He's at dem ar' pumps aud levees
early an' lato. Say. if de hull rice
flat ai if flooded by de Fo th o' July,
de debbil himself tr wine be to pay."
It was in tho dusk of one of the
first July days that Mac rode to their
gate.
Ciood-bye, " he called without dis
mounting. They left tho porch and came down
the moonlighted walk for explana
tions which he did not at once olfer.
What is that:"' ho asked at
length," respectfully indicating with
h;s whip the fleecy affair in which
Kate had wrapped herself against the
chill of the (iulf breeze.
A shawl. Noll made it for me at
Christ!) as " she sai J. holding up a
corner for his inspection.
I've always thought of shawls as
ugly, checked things.
Mac
com-
mented. una then
going North to soe-
abruptly. "I'm
mother aud the
bovs."
There was a curious pause in this
announcement, as if its ending had
been reconsidered. Mac's usual quiet
seemed reinforced to-night b' an ad
ded constraint, and after a little he
rode away into the soft radiance of
the Southern moonlight.
The latter part of tho week Kate
recieved hor usual letter from her
sister Nell. The week after there
was none, nor the week after that.
Her vexation was becoming serious
solicitude, when Tom brought her the
following letter:
My I)ek Kate: We've been so busv
since Mr. McKae came there hasn't been a
moment to write letters. It was awfutlv
nice of you to suggest his stopping off to
see us. He talks to father by the hour
about the country and to mother about
you. Hj doesn't talk to me much, but
watches me as it I were something un
usual. Father and mother seem to liiie him, but
I dou't much. I'll write mor - ".t time.
He's going to-morrow. Iove to Yom.
IN ELI..
P. S- He's tho strangest m m I've over
B3en. lesterday I left him dis .lursinsr to
father on "red rice." and h g-h Vifw
pump?," and all the rest of i and betook
mysolf to the hammock under . ne old ap
ple tree.
Presently he followed me v !h ;i pliin of
your house he'd drawn for r. unor There
wasn't any place to sit exee; ; in tl.e ham
mock or on the cfr.iss, and y.Mi know how I
loathe bugs arid worms; so 1 ru.idj room
for him in the hammock. But refer -i ho
sat down he leaucd against ill ; apple reo
ana lausrneu ana laustied till l felt line a
fool. Ho tried to make it up with mi after
ward by saying he remembered something
you said to him once about swinging in a
hammock. It must have be n very funny:
1 don't think I like him at all. n!
P. S. S. Mr. M touidu't se?iu to re
member any closets in your house. 1 asked
him where you hid thin?. He said it
must be on top of the aimoir. Wh it's an
armoirf
Kate had barely time to catch her
breath before Nell's promised letter
came. It was as follows:
My Deui Katii: Mr. McK ifi didn't go
today alter all. Our, he is re.ii.y going to
morrow. An 1 is corning back in Novem
ber. And we're goimr lo b married then.
Tom, don t you let Kate writ? to uiiovv how
it all happened, tor I don't know myself
ye'.; only mother has always said some of
us ought to go down there io ke. p K :ta
company, and you know how self-s.i. rifio
ing I have always been. I Just toid John
I was writing to you. Tdgive hMf my
rice crop," he said, "to see Mrs. Kate's
face when she reads your letter." (fooJ
byj. Nell.
P. S. 1 think I do like him after uli a
little. N.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
. Sure f
Ign.
Little Dick Pap:v, how does thun
der, sour milk?
Papa It is not the thunder, but
tho electricity.
How does electricity sour milk?"
It works certain chemical changes
in the constituents of the t uid. which
result in the formation of an acid."
Of course. But now?"
I don't know. "
1 thought you didn't,
wouldn't a' used such big
Good News.
or you
words.
lie Mantel t Know.
Du'ely Miss Fannie, why do you
stare at me so?
Miss Fannie My eyes are a little
weak, ana I read in a newspaper that
It strengthens them to look ste&dily
at some green thing. Te.vas Sifting
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Now Complete.
We Sell to All for Cash and to
All for the Same
Low Price.
We guarantee the price on every arti
cle in our store and will refund the money
to those who think they have paid too
much. If that is the way you like to do
business we want your trade. We want
those who cannot call at the store toseed
for samples. Yours, Etc.,
MILLER & PAINE,
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
PRICES.
give you a 12 -yard Dress Pat-
eeSant Black Gros Grain
give you a 12-yard Dress Pat-
our wear-resisting Black Satin
give ou a 12-yard Dress
of our All-silk Crystal Benga-
give you a 12-yard Dress Pat-
bilk.
been shown in this city at prices
- of - town customers.
16THAND DODGE STS.
OMAHA. NEB.
completed, including large commttt
A. L. HOOVER & SON, Prop'ra.
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