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-s . - , - - b';::: : :'Jf; v'"'-' ''v-.'::;:V-. --'''v..::' :'Y- V.-'--v"V ; " :' '.' ' ''' '- . . ! ' . : " ; . " ' " ' ; ' THE GOLDSBORO MESSENGER, MARCH 22, 1886.--DOTJBLE SHEET. a. ORGANIZATION VS ORGAN ) JZATION. Capitalists Propose To Continue Their, Organizations.; Deplored Conflict Between Labor and Capital Near at Hand. Editorial ia New York Star-1 A few years ago there was not a single trade union in the country able to stand a protracted strike. Skilled labor had partly organized, and unskilled labor was at the mercy of rapacious employers.- The condi tion of partly skilled labor ten years ago was illustrated by the mill opera tives of New England and the miners of Pennsylvania, j Adjoining each factory, in such citie as Fall River, Lowell and Wor cester, there stand the many-peopled tenement1 houses and the company's stores, livinff witnesses of the way in which the employer in the mill was the landlord, the butcher, the banker, the clotMer and the shoemaker of the raen and women at the looms. Everv operative was forced to live in a tenement house owned by the factorv. and to buy provisions at fac torv stores, t Books were jriven them, and over their signatures tbey were permitted to have as much as. their wages would pay for, minus the amount of their" rent. They were ground down as fine as the corn in the mill. Petition after petition was sent to to the great men who lived in the grand houses near them. Legislative committees were appointed to inquire into their grievances, and laws were passed to right their wrongs. But -.1. 11 MI il waeres fell lower ana lower, tin tne net brute in the house or tne mm owners came to he envied by the work men. Thev were bound tighter each vear until it was so that the labor of their lifetimes would not let them save enough to exist a single week un employed. I lie factory rents and the factory butcher bill took it all. The'factory and mine barons had forged stronger claims than the old feudal lords who killed their serfs at Will. In the heart of iNew York great Cigar factories were built and gigantic tenements were raised in their shad ows. Cigar making became one of the greatest industries of the coun try, and there was not room enough m the factories for the hands. The tenements became the factories. Fathers, mothers and little ones turn ed from their chairs at the breakfast tables, and toiled on the piles of to bacco at their sides. All day long they worked and far into the night, ami left the nauseous heap of unwork ed leaves by their bedsides. Each day was like its predecessor. There were in these tenements no school books: only yellow-faced men, hag gard women and children who had never laughed. They grew older, married, lived in other tenements, and continued the lives of their child hood. The other toilers; in the city were like them. In some of the tene ments fathers worked in the smelting works 'with ttfeir sons, and mothers and daughters in the shiirt and cloak factories. There was no redress for them. The foot of capital held th.em down, and pitilessly ground out the love and joy of their lives. Ijn other States it was the same. .Boys went down into the coal mines of Pennsylvania and their bodies came up to be buried not quite so deep. They lived and labored,, and in the evening of their lives their hands were as empty as in the morning. Here, too, were the coal mine butcher shops, the coal mine clothiers, and the coal mine shoemakers.. The were hardy, stubborn men, and now and again when they came into the light of day they heard men speak of the dignity of labor, and that the work man was worthy of his hire. So they rebelled. They met in the mines, and at the same Jtime their brothers met in the factories and tenements. These were disorganized, dissatisfied bodies of men. This was the infant child-trade unionism. The capitalists determined to strangle it in birth. A black list was created, and it was de creed that any man or woman who complained should be discharged, and that discharge from one mine or one factory meant discharge from all mines and all factories. This was the other infant organization of capital. Soon every factory had a black list. Every railroad had one! and every mine had one. Discharge in those early days meant starvation. There came'a break in the labor ranks. The most skillful resolved on organization. Engineers, the build ing trades, machinists, better paid and better skilled workmen, every where united and prepared. These uuions grew slowly but strongly. Skilled men were few, better educated, more, thoughtful and more apt to as sert their rights, lhe engineers form ed their brotherhood and the brick layers and stonecutters their unions. The men in the lower strata could not see how the grand idea of amalgama tion was working for their benefit. They saw the men above strike for higher wages and fewer hours of toil and win, but their lot was the same, and the shadow of the factory grew larger and darker, lime and again the skilled men struck and tailed They discovered that the factory pool could afford to allow one section of its factories to be idle if the others were at work and the men on top called on the men below to join them. 1 The un skilled then formed into distinct bodies, and hence came the car dri vers' organization and kindred bodies But capital was all powerful still. But one day a man came before all the workingmeri with a new gospel and said, "the injury to one is the con cern of all." It was a new idea, born of truth and experience. The Knights or Labor were its fruits. Every work ingmanin the land was called upon to join one great ; body, and to stand shoulder to shoulder against the allied capital of the country. There the weapon of success was fashioned, and in time it came about that if a man was unjustly discharged from a rail road another man wearing the blouse of labor could by lifting his hand stop every car wheel on the road. Soon 1 iW perfect will be that organization ! 1 that the unjust discharge of a girl in a New England factory can result in i the destruction of the offending com pany, Single organization has failed. The Western Union telegraph opera- i iuio icit iucii uaiiciica' uuc uaj , uui were forced back to them. A few days ago the Pennsylvania Railroad tried to make the men insure themselves in the Railroad insurance office, and said"lf they didn't they would be discharged, i Chief Engin eer Arthur told the reader to rescind the order! He was a single man, bat - behind him was organized labor. The order was countermanded before the blow was struck. Several " weeks ago the car drivers on the Third Avenue line demanded twelve hours' work and the same pay as for " fourteen hours. They got it. Men on one road alter another demanded tne same tmng. The demands of the workmgmen are based on reason, but not ou what the capitalists can understand, woric now differs from work years ago in the intensity of - application which must be given to it, and tne rapidity with which it must be done. The human machine is run with more fric tion and tension, and naturally enough it burns up sooner, or, in other words, men working seven hours to-day do as much as the men who labored fourteen hours 3ears ago. In consequence of a reduction of working hours more hands must be hired, and the wages naturally in crease, for the product of the labor is much larger. Eight hours work of high efficiency does more than fourteen of cheap labor. The capitalists must surrender as before, unless they, too, organize as they are doing. The meeting of the street car railroad presidents at the Fith Avenue Hotel to form a street car pool to resist the demands of their men is only an example of the way the combination and pool system is ex tended. Already there are oil com binations, railroad pools, coal, cotton, iron, wheat, lumber and other com binations to exort high prices and de press the price of labor. There was published in the Star a few days ago an account of the forma tion of an association of capitalists for mutual protection not alone for their properties, but their lives. It is cer tain that such an association has been formed by the most timid rich men of New York. The cattle men in the West and South have formed a like association. The cigar manufacturers have formed sunion. The mill own ers of New England are a solid body of men constituted to crush labor. There are to-day four railroad pools, and in a few days there will be but one. The mine owners of Pennsylva nia have formed a union and so also have the large coal buyers and sellers. The cloak manufacturers, the steel rail manufacturers, the iron mongers, all have unions. It was in this way labor organized in the beginning, but the quicker brained men of money have already brought their plans al most to maturity. It will need only the uniting of these pools and combinations to make as solid a wall of capital as organized labor is becoming. Mutual advances and cross proposals have been made. Lfbor needs strong pledges and fast ties, for when a man's wife and child are hungry, it is hard for him to keep from bidding under his fellow workman. Capital needs only an orga nized understanding. The capitalist connot starve. He wins by waiting. Though many capitalists have not yet entered into it, the scheme for the alliance of capital is already begun. ASTRONOMY AMONG THE PIUTES. The Father and the Mother ot the Stars Sorrow of the Moon. San Francisco Afta. Dan de Quille has been interviewing TooroopNEenah (Desert Father) on astronomy,, with the following results: Divested of the "Desert Father's" peculiar pronunciation, it was as fol lows: "lhe sun is the father and ruler of the heavens. He is the big chief. The moon is his wife, and the stars are their children. The sun eats his children whenever he can catch them. They flee before him and are all the time afraid when he is passing through the heavens. When he (their father) appears in the morning, you see all the stars, his children, fly out of sight go away back into the blue of the above and they do not wake to be seen again unt I he, their father, is about going to his bed. "Down deep under the ground-deep, deep under all the ground is a great hole. At night when he has passed over the world, looked down on every thing and finished his work, he, the sun, goes into his hole, and he crawls and creeps along it till ho comes to his bed in the middle of the earth. So then he, the sun, sleeps there in his bed all night. "This hole is so little, and he, the sun, is so big, that he can not turn around in it, and so he must, when he has had all his sleep, pass on through, and in the morning we see him come out in the east. When he, the sun, has so come out, he begins to hunt up through the sky to catch and eat any that he can of the stars, his children; for if he does not so catch and eat he can not.live. He, the sun, is not all seen. The shape of him is like a snake or a lizard. It is not his head that we can see, but his belly, filled up. with the stars that times and times he has swallowed; "The moon is the mother of the heavens and is the wife of the sun. She, the moon, goes into the same hole as her husband to sleep her naps. But always she has the great fear of the sun, her husband, and when he comes through the hole to the nobee (tent), deep in-the ground, to sleep she gets out and comes away if he be cross. "She, the moon, has great love for her children, the stars, and is happy to travel among them in the above, and they, her children, feel safe and sing and dance as she passes along. But the mother she can not help that some of her children must be swallow ed by the father every month. It is ordered that way by the Pah-ah (Great Spirit), who lives above the place of all. "Every month that father, the sun, does swallow some of the stars, his children, and then the moon, feels sor row. She must mourn. I So she must put the black on her face to mourn the dead. You see the Piute women put black on their faces when a child is dead. But the dark will wear away from the face of that mother the moon a little and a little every day, and after a time again we see all bright the face of her. But soon more of her children are gone; and again she must put on her face the pftch and the black." How a Shoemaker Wins $15,000 in Geld. Frederick Scharf, a shoemaker of No. 704 DeKalb ave Brooklyn, received notice that a (Louisiana State) lottery ticket, had drawn the capital prize Feb. 9th, of $75,000, entitling him to $15,000. One of his friends named Meyers, one day bantered him to buy a lottery ticket for $1. The two men g-ot a list of the lucky numbers and Scharf's was among- them. What to do with the-moneyhe has not decided, al- give him wisdom. New York lYibune, Feb. 18. A full and beautiful line of Colors m ' VM-rfm J Pi fc j VMrwWA Will A Wj iOl at Mrs. E. W. Moore's. t A SHORT WAR STORY, Generals Stonewall Jackson and Jiibal Early at Harper's ' : ' Ferry.' ; ; Graham Daves In the Philadelphia Times.l After the capitulation the Federal troopsi numbering upwards of 12,000 men, were separated into several large bodies! about' the size of an ordinary brigade eachf and it is quite possible that in tho division their regular bri gade organization may have been preserved. These several bodies of prisoners were placed for greater se curity! and ease of guarding .and to facilitate paroling them alternately between" the different Confederate bri gades.! In this formation the captors and captives were lying on the side of a road leading into the village of Har per's Ferry on the afternoon of the day th$ surrender. Suddenly tremen dous cheering and yelling were heard coming from the right, which was taken ;up rapidly and repeated down the line. "What is the meaning of that ?" rather nervously asked a Federal sol dier of an officer of Branch's North Carolina Brigade. "Oh nothing,"' replied the latter, laughing; "it must be Stonewall Jack son or a rabbit," quoting a well-known expression of the Confederates when accounting for an unusual commotion. Sure enough, upon looking up the road Gen. Jackson was seen approach ing, nding very rapidly alone, some distance in advance of his staff officers. As he passed the Confederate commands-they cheered him vociferously, to which he replied by a stiff military salute I without checking his speed. When 1 he approached the Federal prisoners to our surprise they greeted him with cheers as enthusiastic as those oi.f the Confederates. Instantly there was a change, i Pulling his horse down to a v$alk, Gen. Jackson passed slowly down the line of prisoners, ac knowledging their cheers with low bows and with head uncovered. It was a gallant sight this spontaneous outburst of admiration by gallant foe mem and its chivalric acknowledge ment. Possibly some of the Federal soldiers then present may recall the scene. Of a ver3r different character was the reception of a Confederate officer by Gen. Jubal A. Early a short time atter. Gen. Early had been left in command to complete the paroling of prisoners, removal of supplies, etc., and had issued orders strictly forbid ding any one to go into Harper's Fer ry. The place was filled with supplies of all kinds, and many anxious and longing looks were cast in that direc tion by hungry Confederates. At last a number of officers determined to try to get permission to go into the town, and selected by lot one of their num ber to "bell the cat." This officer ap preached Gen. Early and saluted. "What do you want ?" said the Gen eral, not very graciously. 4,I came," replied the officer, "to ask permission for myself and my brother officers to go into Harper's Ferry." i "H-'m-m," growled the General, Myou know the orders, sir, do you not!" "Yes, General, but " "What is your rank and branch of the service ?" interrupted the General, rather irascibly. "Captain and quartermaster," re turned the officer. The General ej'ed him for a moment writh a lodk that made the officer feel that charging a battery single-handed would haye been a relief, and said as he turnedf away : "My God! I thought so. Oh, yes, of course ! Go 'long, sir, go 'long, go 'lonj J. e GO ZEG. IE O.'ISS TL'ILn' Hi IE2..Sp3...Y i . : (B(II)L1)SBIE(ID9 No Co Morrison's New Tariff Bill I Puts LUMBER on the Free CONSEQUENCE--A 4 TUMBLE " IN PRICES ! If List To meet this Iniquitous attack on a great Southern Industry we have perfected our arrangements to Reduce Prices, as follows : DRESSED CEILING, $7.00 PER THOUSAND AND UP, AS TO QUALITY. DRESSED FLOORING, $7.50 PER THOUSAND AND .UP, AS TO QUALITY. DRESSED WEATHERBOARDS $7.00 PE THOUSAND AND UP, AS TO QUALITY. FRAMING LUMBER $6.50 PER THOUSAND AND UP, AS TO QUALITY. PICKET FENCING COMPLETE, READY TO PUT UP, $1.25 PER PANEL,. 8 FEET. CUek nr- Rll ' AI. M l D !. .-x O II A l. C ;.. Ci CUxl r i. CL.I uuvjo. uimuj, uiairvcu, ouur vvurr, iewtjis, Daiusierb, ouruii vvurK, man leis, raiiuy vpiurtj r nullum,- vuuriiers. yneiving, in Pine, Cherry, Ash,-Walnut, or Poplar. MOULDINGS at prices SO LOW as to Astonish the TRADK . Rough and Dressed Flooring, Ceiling, Weatherboarding, and other Lumber. Estimates made; Contracts taken for Ml Wood Huilding Material. Special Discount to ontractors and the Wholesale Trade. classes of I 1ST IW1III LdUtJb, LIIIUI UIUCI ICb, Ul Udlll dllU VfllllU UIUII5 Lawns and Brocades and Swiss Embroideries, alf Widths, to Match ! ' i i j i . to. CotloD Habterj j 7 '' ' Black and Colored Silks and Dress Goods OUR PRICES ARE BELOW ALL COMPETITION! I SAM SMALL HITS THE NAIL OX THE HEAD. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. I haye" been a newspaper man for twelve j-ears, and there is no profes sion in this country where a man gets to have; a better idea of what things are of good repute and of bad repute than the boys in a newspaper office who serve as newspaper reporters. I know them. I know their truth. I know their integrity. I know their intentions. I know the purity of their motives.- I know the reason why they do what they dp. I know why they probe into human character, and men's affairs,; and publish them broadcast before the eyes of mankind, and to the knowledge of all the world, and every true and righteous man in this coun try knows why they do it. No man whose character is pure, whose char acter is true, whose character is hon est, whose character is just, and whose dealings which God and His angels will commend, is afraid of all the news paper press in America. The newspaper reporters are the best detective force in the country to day. They have brought great ras cals to justice. They have punctured more shams and hypocricies in this country than all other influences com bined; and so far as I am concerned, I say, take the bridles off them, and let them go. L6t them probe, let them search, let, them find out; nobody is going to suffer except the shams, and the frauds, and the hypocrites of this country; and every one of them that is spotted, every one of them that is driven out of his profession, every one of them that is made a byword among his fellow men and driven from his lucrative practice of iniquity and of falsification and of fraud in this coun try, it is doing a grand moral benefit to the balance of the community. THE LAKGEST STOCK OF EMBROIDERY MATERIAL IX THE STATE. Embroidery Silk, 1 cent per skein. Embroidery Silk Chenille, 35 cents per dozen. Embroidery Silk Arrasene, 35 cents per dozen. Ball Tinsel, 15 cents per ball. Filo Floss, 3 cents per skein. Zephyrs, all shades, 8 cents per ounce. Our Entire Stock At Lower Prices Than E7er Sefore. BIT Samples Sent By Mail. M. E. CASTEX & CO. The Cox Cotton Planter, improved', is the Simplest, Strongest, and Most Durable Planter made. I It has proved, in everv test, to be the best m use. -FOR SA.LE BY- HUQQINS & If RE EM mchlo WEST WALNUT STREET GOLDSBORO, N. C. AN, tf mchl8-tf 74 West Centre Street, Goldsboro, N. C. Good Besults in very Case. D. A. Bradford, wholesale paper dealer of Chattanooga, Tenn., writes that he was seriously afflicted with a severe cold that settled on his lungs; had tried many rem edies without benefit. Being induced to try Dr. Kings's New Discovery for Con sumption, did so and was entirely cured by the use of a few bottles. Since which time he has used it in his family ior all Coughs and Colds with best results. This is the experience pi thousands whose lives have been saved by this Wonderful Dis covery. Trial Bottles free at Kirby & Robinson's Drug Store.MESSKNGEB build ing, Goldsboro, N. C. When Fogg heard, the landlady be low stairs pounding the beefsteak, he' remarked that Mrs. Brown was tend ering a banquet to the boarders. No Trouble to Swallow Dr. Pierce's "Pellets (the original "little liver pills") and no pain or griping. Cure 6ick or jbilious heache, sour stomach, and cleanse the system and bowels. 25 cents a vial. I A. largei and beautiful line of Children'a Carriages just received at t Fuchtlkr & Kern's 1867. 18S6 MESSENGER Steam JPotver Book &Job Printing House, GOLDSBORO, N. C. We will print, in the best style at the lowest prices, Books, Pamphlets, Circulars, Bill Heads, Monthly State ments, Cards Handbills, Bills of Fare, Checks, Drafts, Notes, Posters, Dodgers, Tags, Wedding Cards, Envelopes, Ball Programmes, E tc. PRINTING IN COLORS, IN THE MOST TASTY MANNER. We Have in Store and to Arrive 500 Tons Prolific Guano. 500 Tons Acid Phosphate H& 500 Tons Genuine German Kainit. All of which will be sold Low on Accom modating terms. H. WEIL & BROS. Goldsboro, N. C, February 18 tf I Orders solicited of Merchants, Farmers, Lawyers, Sheriff. Constables, Clerks, Railroad Officers, Hotel Keepers, Steam boat Agents, Township officers, Teachers; School Boasfs. Trustees, Commissioners, Magistrates, and all others. Minutes of Conferences, Conventions, Associations and Sunday Schools put up in the Best Style. The Messenger Book Bindery Is prepared to Bind Magazines and other Periodicals at Lowest Cash Prices. BLANKS! BLANKS!! For the use of Clerks of the Superior and Inferior Court.-, for Solicitors, for Magistrates, for Sheriff, and for the use of business men generally. 2S- Price of Blanks, 75 cents to 1.50 a hundred, accord ing to size of paper. Postage extra. Address, J. A. BONITZ, Goldsboro, X. C. New Dsp lew Ota loin ! BEST GRADES OF SYRUP ! Best Grades of FLOUR. COFFEE and SEED IRISH POTATOES, CANNED FRUITS and VEGETABLES, f apXe and '.Fancy toooerles Royster's Fine Candies, Tubs, Buckets, Crockery, Glass and Tin "Ware, -A. 1 ! WILLIS EDMUNDSON'S NEW GROCERY STORE, KORNEGAY BUILDING, WALNUT STREET, I Goldsboro, N.C. March 8-tf THE DURHAM BULU FERTILI ZE R ? Manufactured Especially For Bright Tobacco ! and We tmarantee everv rxmnd ammnnintml With flDtiiii n a T,r. Irt fire the plant In dry weather. Insures a Quick and Vieoroua Or7,wt 3. Bricbt. Rich. Waxv Tobac. TntmH.ni .Jl5i? Ufwth, ak ' 'a r t --uu.viuuicuueu uy me .bead in rcCi UBCu. Muivuiuvr some rerovian Uuano is almost absolutely to erow Laree. Rich Tobacco. Thi i tfc r n--T .l .rr1"161 ww. - ui tuuawu mat is m such Will not a Laree. og Planters necessary demand. The Durham Bull Fertili is acknowledged bv Lcadin? Planters th the price, eve used for Cotton and Corn. Wnmat mllOUn0, niates or Shoddy Material of every kind ThesTSSda irt Sjjf i". ery mm,' LHADElt wherever used, because thev H o w "w. ivcauiis.' ynen you ouy The Durham Bull Fertilizer Ga Wat d Sand. Every For Sale by Dealers at Most Rail Road Points in North Carolina an4 Virginia M p U r.lma T X?P O . TBS: I could ino Tdilfrrence. I am sk8fled a,on 8lde 4 use it aemin. sausnea tno D. B. is as gxxxl fertilizer as wo havrL asFasKany ?tv?rEu2edf MIU Br0ok- useJ fou' a half tons Durham Mb. Iverson Brogden. of iWor'. a- v . fD T ri r ' - ojo tuur uuano is ail you Claim 1 side PomokRnd -Lt fay8:-The Durham Guano I bought of you Biue i wwuioKe, ana i assure vou it v niinArinn n t if i. , s . ut you tnsguwCBUUfn, JiB. EDGERTON & CO., . 1 at.py notEv ' Ooldsboro. N. ay cock Bros.:;:::;:::::::: ; ; ; v wwi; k. c. WINSTON BROS ' muhk, . . w. B. joyner, ...:.;.:v....priSn1: f. 8: Apply to any of our Agents or write direct to at for " FlemlnM TWtit , on Tobac and Leadmg Planters Certificates testilylng to the X iSSxS ton of our Lister ari l Expect to Guano. Its It. used it two I used alon? feb23-2m DUEnABI FBTLTlMZUTt , , DURHAM. CO. N. C.
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