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1 ; . ; : a, J ' . I ! ' ' ' ' g -, . "EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL; SPECIAL PRIVILGES TO XONE." "Vol.- 1. FAYETTEVILLE, IV. O., MARCH lSJ-sd. IVo. 43, OFFICIAL ORGAN OF NORTH CAROLINA KNIGHTS OF LABOlJ I III HI ' ! ...I I I. m I He SU :n t t: fepro iict-il a leadi g p pe. pose. o!n. GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPH. From a letter to tbe official journal of tbe Order, written by the Geneial Master Workman, w copy tlie follow ing in regaidto a postal telegraph: Lt us allow do division of effort un til wehave 'demonstrated that we Can op-rate a line of telegraph of our own. When we do that we can unite on nn rither nieasnro anl pnt it through. Let us acconiplh what wo are at work on before we take anv more contract?. Re member, too many irons in the fire will j burn some of them. i Some time ago Mr. Green, of the Western Union Tflegraph .Company, made a statement before a committ. e at Washington in opposition to the s tahlihl iiiei of g-ttvc-ntncnt telegraph a 4 h let in v bich was ; i r of oit. rials fo?n i it n to thv.1 pro H i di I uov .'for:a tbe memoe s el L!.:U:re t. t tl e.e papers were depndi jg on tie wms which Mr. Green held (oy proxy) at one end, tor the dispatches, which appear every day in their coumi s. and that they were in all 'probability told to "oe good" or else the news would be shut off from their pages. If, heore this question is voted on, a Congressional committee will call on a few of these editors it may be discovere 1 that frar or bribery had soinething to do with the writing of some! of their editorials. Let me show how. public opinion was made by tbe Western Union in one iustance, and mi hit it does in one plac? Cin be done in another. There is in the employ of the West ern! Union Telegraph Company, at Chicago, a man named F. II. Tubbs; he is a local superintendent of some sort. Not long since Mr. Tubbs sent a letter, written in type writing on a Wt stern Un:on letter head, to the ed itor of a paper in the interior of the State. It was addressed personally to the editor, and contained this language as near as can bo remembered: "This company (the Western Union) is very much interested in the government tel egraph question." It then went on to say that the enclosed clipping was from the Burlington Hawkey e, it was in op position to the government telegraph, and it was particularly dt sired that it be r produced and editorially advo ated iv the paper of which the recipient was the editor, i If the editor complied with the request he was to send a copy of his papr til Mr. Tubbs. The editor was particularly enjoined to "regard this letter a$ strictly confidential." Here is food for thought for our Con gressmen to masticate. An investigat ing committee should be appointed by all means to ascertain how far this sys tem of terrorism has b en carried. It should be established beyond the shadow of a doubt how many of these editorials were procured, in that way. To know that the Western Union or any other monopoly has it in its p wer to create a false public opinion in that way is sufficient to Cause the government to take the power away from it. Mr. Green said the petitions which would come in from the Knights of Labor in favor of the government telegraph were inspired by Mr; Powderly, who had a spite against Mr. Gould. I have no spite against Mr. Gould, for in all tbe dealings which I have had with him he has shown himself to be a very nice little man, genial, affable and polite; indeed there is do better xnn in tire country -tor himself. I could not have a spite of any kiml agtinst him, for he has never injnred me individually I hnve a spite, a deep, bitter, lasting lntred against monopoly, and Mr. Gould represents monopoly more than any other one man on the Ameriian eo;itinen. The syteoi which make it pott le to h ld a c!nb, even by proxy, hs Mr. Tubbs did, over the head of a man whose duty is as sacred as that of a clergyman to his flock, is what J have a fpite against. , If the sp;te which one man feels for another will cause one million citizens of a republic to sign their names to a petition, s has been doie in this instance, at the re quest of one man, it is pretty good ev. dence that more than Mr. Powdetlyhas a spite agaiust Mr. Gould, r-nd V't gemlemjin is indeed fortunate . I alme entertain feelings of an un; indJ hh) ;re toward, him or bis methods. Whe ne million of por.ple will take np the cause of one man without his resorti;i2 to the bribing of newspaper: men berfc an 1 there, without terrorism or intimi dation of any kind, it is about time for the m m against whom th it spite is manifested to begin to reform, particu larly since one man represents millions and the other nprsents only well, come to think of it both of thm represent millions, bit one represents that selfish thing called the dollar, which will nestle as warmly in the thief, murderer, saint or stoner, as it will the pocket of a monopolist. The othr represents man, not one man or the million who have s:gned the petition, but millions of men who are opening their eyes to the fact that they all have a cau e for spite against, not Gould, but Gouldism. - It may be charged that what I now say is more spite, but the way to test it is to summon the Burlington Hawkeije and Mr. Tubbs, if that is his real name, and go to the bottom of this thing. Let us n a ve an investigation. SHAMELESS A CCUSA TION. Thasame ioornalistie ore- m of mm rations and defender of monopolies thajt denounced the Pacific RhiI w 1 v irv'fs.t.f. iticn as a "stork jobbing operation,? now has the shameless f ffr;nterv to pro claim the Reading In vesig 4ting Cornf "dishorn jand coiru'pt.r not two men In Congress O . it. dishonest of Will nnttee to be There are more free from susp:cion jof motives or more j innocent srree? spt-culatinnsjthan Judge Tilm.id of South Carolina,! and Mr. Andersop of Kansas, the members of;the investi gating committee who have taken th most piominent part in the inquiry-; and the other members of the commit tee, so far as tbejf ereneral renntatinfi t n f i ana their action a' ov-- reproach t in cms ! case so, ar Toe Hac' o t' I th i ;P th a' j i y -i j- d ii t ( ey t ry de. a o COUUISSIONER'S SALE OF VALUABLE I LAND. By virtue of a decree of the Superior C ourt of Cumberland, County made in a special proceeding entitled J. M. Beasly and wife, p. O. Frost and wife, et al, ei Parte I will, as Commissioner appo in ted by the Court for that purpose, sell at Sjlc auction on Monday, March 12th. ISSS, at 12 o clock m., at the Market House m.Fayetteville, N. C, a traet of land fronting 87 feet on Franklin street and running back 100 feet, adjoining the lands of J. B. Starr, Henry Holmes and otliers in th trwn nf rnt.M..:ii.. more particularly described in the peti- Terms of sale, Cash. Henry L. Cook, Commissioner. This Feb'y 7th, 18Sd. tLlr ir ;h . 5 ts f 41 Congress proposes to loan bankers money at one per cent for twenty years up to the face of the bonds depc sited by them as security, while the faruieis of the United States arc unable to bor row money of the government for onr third or one-fourth the value of their improved and productive farms even at ten per cent. Who made a banker so much better than a farmer, and who made a bond so much better than the land; which 'pays the interest on it ? There are many strange things in this world, but one of the strangest is th it Congress should . dare insult and rob the plow hoblers whose toil produces our wealth, while lavishing ryal gifts corporate giants of monopoly that pro duee nothing but debt and misery. Ex The Springfield Republican remarks that the oy activity displayed in fa vor of a postal telegraph is not as one might suppose, by the brokers and bucket shop men, but by the Knights of Labor who have the least pecuniary interest in the matter of anybody. There is nothing new or wonderful in that. The mass of men who carried guns and knapsacks in the war for tbe preserva tion of the Union had tbd least pecun iary interest in the matter. Pittsburgh Labor Tribune. Will the people remain silent while the Dational bank conspiraey is using its power to crash the labor press ? 1 '-P ' wr be ir ti ( Op- ,?; op--:r.it-'.. ; f 'I The Congressional Committee ha'b succeide ! in showing up the character and operations of the Reading railway and coal combination. It. has secitrefl the admission of jits officials that tble coal barons "do not consider the corf- su ins me prices; mat otner collieries age advance d ;hat the will demands of of the pe- uoai oariuis -no nqi consider me con sumer" in regulating the! output or fii ing the prices; that other Collieries al now piyuig the 8 per cent nied bv Czar Corbin, and it the managers,- hot the the market fixbs the price pie s luel. I The committee likewise secured tlj admis inn that "thje necessities of tq inineis" are relied- on to force th',m back t work at reduced wages, whi the price of coal! is still awav on. ' has shown how or! whom "protection! protects. Hence the attacks of the! m njo'y organs. Abuse in such cause, from such sbiirces, is a tribute o the learle.s public! service rendered lly the committee. JV. 1 World. 1 The Journal of, United Labor savs . I . t mi of the Heading strike: i "As we go to press there are mntter ings of a greater storm as 'the result of the alleged treachery of the agents f the comyany in discharging large num bers of men for nojaoparent reason thqn that tbey refused to aid non-union niip ers in th-ir attempts to taka the places of the sMikers. f j "The Philadelppia papers, with the honorable oseeption of the Record, afe abusing the Congressional Committee for presuming todo what it wasap pointed to do investigate. That it has done its duty with success is belt proved by these very attacks. I "On Tuesday the news camejof the alleged treachery of the company, after agreeing that no discrimination should be sho.vn. Yet not a paper but the Record breathed aj word, !editorially, ?n condemnation of this treachery, though gome of them had the usual slush about Knights of Labor, hired agitators arid the like, by which their f sycophantic toadying to the corporations is usually shown. " i I - .-x 1 The Master Workman of District As sembly 51 suggests the following as subject of debate:! That in bringing about improved industrial conditions we possess more power as consumers thin as producers; in other words the boy cott is a more effective i weapon than tue stnfee." 1 M i THOSE CUSTOMERS And trie .all.-, vl . ",ioo xi i i r Him , .". J tlo oublic frener- -ex4 ;Ch &J.t!sf;lr. fit iif SEcO Vi resec- uily iL 'o.m. dtuat I mn al ady m ixv npt of a lull and fresh sun. ply from st2YBBBT3 & SOWS, Johnson, Robbins & Co. r For sale at wholesale and retail. II. K. HORNE. vtvi lvtt ntt 0:0:0:0:0:0: Note Heads, I Letter Heads, Rill Heads, i Statements Envelopes, Circulai-s,' 0:0:0:0:0:0: 0:0:0:0:0:0: Tamphlets, v Notes, THE : T KECEKTS, MESSENGER 'Tags, JOB i Dodsrers Cards, PRINTNG : . Iickets. OFFICE !-V -L 0:0:0:0:0:0: It. LEE- Parties wishing to sell property should call on me! h ave sol d over 9,000 woi th of property in the last few months. Call at Messenger Office. Kesp'y, J. R. LFE. I have juat received a first-class lot of ' - MOUNTAIN BEEF-- rom- Ashe County :rY0UN6, JUICY AND TENDER-:: Beef-Sausage Don't forget that I buy for cash and will have to sell for the same. I thank the public for their past pat ronage, and beg a continuance of tko same. : Respectfully, W. IL T0MLIXS0K. i
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