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f(K in '" r "EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL; SPECIAL PRIVILGES TO NONE, i Vol; YETTE VI Li L.E , IV. O., ATJGTJST lO. 1888. IVo. lO. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF NORTH CAROLINA KNIGHTS OF LABOR. t 4 3 LAIS OR PARTY CAMPAIGN SONG. BY A. F. W005TER. Twnc, "Wait for the Wagon. 9f The Union Labor Party, We vow, has come to stay ; We'll work both long and hearty, Until we win the day. Wo'vp leaders true and loyal, We can on them rey; No fear of our betrayal, For there's good reason why. Our principles are good ones; For men, we want good laws; Stop fav'ring corporations; And aid the people's cause. More money for the n.ition, Distribute what we've got; Keep in Safe preservation. Savings by people brought. Communication, carriage, Shall be by nation owned; The land redeemed from bondage; And justice swift abound. Tax all the immense incomes; Dealings in futures stay; The Union Party welcomes All laws pensions to pay. The ballot of the voter, Most secret it should be; Stop foreign contract labor From coming o'er the sea. We do not trade with others, We've found it does not nay; For fusion always bothers, We've found a better way. Now, the Union Labor Party, Established on a foek; The prospects now look brightly, That it will stand the shock. Come all you honest voters,- Who would from slavery be free. Join the Union Labor Party, And help us sing the Jubilee. Lewis ton, Jllg., Labor Advocate. EASY OF DEMONSTRATION. Five acres in strawberries properly cultivated, will yield more clear profit M an fifty aires m cotton at the aver age yield. Twenty seres planted in improver iruit trees, ctuuvsitea ana managed m accordance with improved methods, a bix vears-old will ewe better returns and greater profit than 100 acres in cot 55 ton, the average yield and expense considered. A twenty acre vineyard in full bear hearing, convenient to market, is worth 63 $10,000 in spot cas-h, and will cora- mand it in any market. Twenty number one cows properly 4 . ted and milked, the product properly CiC manipulated aud worked, will realize to the owner a clear profit of 1,200 O annoally. One good manufacturing1 establish Cfi ment in a town or city, properly man aged, will create more wealth for the masses than a half dozen stores. One is a product; the others consumers. Jai.rnal of United Labor. Labor's Stage, of Amsterdam, N. Y., has snspciided publication, after doing good but unappreciated work for several years for labor. It is a sad fact that the laboring men can't afford to support la bor papers and allow them to perish bat cheerfully support papers in the inter est of ring politicians and monopolists. A bat manufactory intending to era ploy only Chinese, operatives was about being established at Bloomfield, N. J., but tbe project met with such opposition from the commnuity that tbe firm con cluded to locate elsewhere. THE SUGAR TRUST. Sigar Lave advanced nearly two cents a poin 1 under th manipulation of tbe Sugar Trust.' The people of this country tbe coji3'imerj of refined sogarg ar piying this tax entirely : r the benefit of that combination of wealthy capitalists. It is an immense otal. weeklv, monthly and yearly something of the magnitude of which nay may he judged from fact that the st- ck of the company has more than doubled in market value above the act ual capital invented. It increased more than a million and a half dollars soon after the, trust was formel. All this extra wealth comes through the taxation and robbery of the sugr con sumers, the people, universally, w bo nave c.iine to regard sugar as a neces sary of lio, its consumption extended to every boos bold. The mere fait of a combination, a voluntary agreement to put up prices, is not ail there is of it There is a compulsory process, as in tbe practice of other trusts, in forcing individuals nd compani'8 into the combination, or destroying their trade it they refuse. A few weeks since it came to light that the trust company sent circulars to commission jobbers warning them -that they must not handle or deal in sngar6 refined by parties not in the combina tion, and if they did go they would not be permitted to deal in the trust p. Od UC'S. - f: Now if, tb-re iaqy such thinira trade conspiracy, c-rtainly such opera tors are guilty of it. They clearly a-e as touch so as labor organizations which prevent those not -belonging to them getting work, or employers from hiring them, which a-ts have been held to be conspiracy bv the highest court of. the State of New York. They are conspiring agaiuht ernpl yrs who wut to b-iv the labcr and ajjainsl the laborers who wish to earn the wages, and the decision is un doubtedlv locric jlly and mortally cor rect. But the Sugar Trust and other cotnbinat:ons which resort to similar oppressive and unjust coercive meas u-es rely upon their money power and influence to shield them from the oper ation of the same principles of law. If the combine to prevent non-union men from getting employment and Others from employing them is coaispir acy. then all trade combinations mo nopolizing or interfering with th ftale of products certainly is as much so. If the trusts are pursuing legitiraite and legal objects and methods, then the labor organizations are doing so. But tbe right thing in both capes is free competition and equal rights without violence or coercive measures of any kind. I If Congress would reduce tbe duties n refined sugars to a level with jtbose on the raw products, or, what would le better still, provide for using some of that troublesome surplus in the treas ury for paying boanti-. a on sugarj pro duction (admitting all grades free of import duties, withdraw all protection or advantage from the refining monop oly), the operation of the trost combi nation, would soon come to grief. In deed a similar treatment of all manu facturing monopolies when they enter into trust conspiracies to extort money from the people wonld be etroogljj ad visible, and this without interfering with a reasonable policy of protection n other ca-. Such monopolists for feit all clim to protection.' Another thing the pop'e the con sumers of sujar, an 1 that mean every- ody, might d.; and that is oit to b ly any of the trust monipoly, b it thiseof ndepen leut refiuers, or fill back on thfl use ot riw sugars, sorai of which are goo I eno igh for d wnestic use in- lee I better floored thai the retinal. And thus the burden wo lid hi lifted fro n every horn i in the land i bir- d-n that ocars heaviest on the nor and middle classes. That the people sho ild be subject to extortion and robbing for h) enrich ment of already rich capitalists when they have it so clearly in their power by general unite effort to free them selves fro-n it, is a shame and disgrace to the nation. So is the very exist ence of iho robbery institutio is. Sag. inaw News. There are several appropriation bills that have yet to beact.-d up n, some of thc-m have passed the house, and while over at the opposite end of the building the senate has amended them. This is another llttlo game that the average v ter does not understand. The party in power an 1 responsible tor the conduct of the government is the aetncciatic party. in consequence they will, when they pass one of these bills through the house, cut it down as low as it o in be done, so as to bv able 10 CO before the pe nle in the cimnain with a record of econ imy; then when that bill comes ov6r to the senate, which is Republican an 1 not to be held re sponsible for anv increased expenditure. i hey will take and tack on five or six million d dlars more by increasing the amount of the items and a Ming on a lot more. They are willing to tuteud every dollar in tne treasury as lonr as the opposition ptirty has to sh.mld'-r the re sf onsihility. This I desire the reader to understand is not statesmanship; it is politics. And let me here say tha, in both thesena'e aod house of represents tives, the bump of politic is a trreat deal more prominent on the heaasof the members of thse bodies than thw bump of statesmanship. It is often Slid that the best time to get legislation through conre-s is mat before election That may have been true theretofore; but at the present session, between the fears of tbe members that they will do something that will not suit the people and their desire to do something that will suit them, they are doin nothing. And as fir as the two parlies are con cerned, they are like two dung-hill cocks one is afraid and tbe oth?r dares not; so thv inst stand ami crov at one an. other. Ralph Beaumont in Journal of United Jioor. Some time ago a foreman was dis charged from the shoe factory of Car lisle, Pa., because of his alleged lmtal and ongentletuauly treatment of the fe male operatives. Last Week this man was reinstated only to commence his vile persecutions with redouble 1 vigor. The girls in tbe shop could 6tmd it no longer and quit work in a body. The company still refused to remove the source of dissatisfaction, and all the male employes stopped work in support of tbe girls' action iu the matter. The fhop is now idle in consequence. On Joly 19th the Georal Secretary issued a charter for a Tentorial As sembly in Idaho. BUILDERS, C3XrfUCT()nS, And others about to BrJILD II3fJ3ESf FENCES. fcj.. Should call on or write to the undersign ed for prices of building material, such as MDaldinga, Callings, Sror.vz. jPLoosr.YB W4THEa33A33IM3, FL0331X3 PAUN53. POSTS, U1TICES, &C. W j k53p a Urre stock contintlr on hand, or can in ike aay to order without delav. Allress WALTER WATSON", Fjtyjttsyiile, X. 0 Established 54 Years WARREN PRIOR & SON Invite Orders For The Aurora Watch Engagement Rt vkr Wedding Rings &J2ESEWTS 1 l v e r SPOON ILVElt FORK ETS OF CASTOR AND ALL SILVER WARE Warren Prior & Son. Jewelers, Fayetteville, N, C. DURING. THE SUMMER Months we will oTer special indacemeata to the trad-;, bot'i in freshness bl goodi and in prices. "The nimble sixpence is better than the slow shilling," and we desire the heads of fimilies and the trade generally that we are ready to offer Special Inducements To invite their patronage, and to thu end we will be m king special offer from time to time For Saturdays Trade Lo k in and fee for yourselves. Cash is a strong inducement at this season and we desire to invite tie laboring man to come and visit our store and be prepireJ to spend a little cash. Come one. Come all. A. S. HUSKE fe CO. THE KING OF GLORY Zlt XSS? C7AETT73 UTZ CT CZXZTZ ITX3 WZZX3 t< is very cheap, and is tieaatlfully bound, low prices and quick sale. Don't be idle when too can uakx from $75.00 to $100,000 rca month. There is no book on the American mar ket that sells as fast as it dos One agent has sold 1G0O in less than 0 months Agen's are dally reporting from 33 W sal per week. One aent sold llij BMlfS lit 5 OAYS III WILUINarON, C. Another sold in Albany, Oa,, 30 King of Olnry in less than a month. It U a book of vivid in terest and sells very fast. Ooa atnt has contract d to tell 8000 copka bi le-s thaa a year. Send lor I llit-ttr ate s circulars and bio terms. Exdnsire territory rirea. Send 00 cents for complete outfit incladin a complete copy of the IkjoIc la iu best binding. Bi terms. Address. SormvEsrERM Iunusnrso IIoce . 153 & 155 pruce ft, JshTille Tenn." N. B. We are live ol lest and Urt subscription book house in the south We publish an elegant line ol bibles and otktr works. OSCAR J. SPEARS, AtUrtey isJ CcisfIItr at lar, LnXTNOTON, Hahxett Cocntt, N. C 6EHERAL PRACTICE. PRQHPT ATTEMTIOH.
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