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HARBINGER ORGANIZATION. EDUCATION. ELEVATION. Raleigh, North Carolina. October 17. 1903. No. 41 Vol. II. of Course. Prof. Dan. Harris, the noted the old barn Was from Kansas. Oh! a jolly old place is grandpa a barn, , Where the doors stand open And the" SSSdoS flVn and out, Palmist of Raleigh, says he was And the air is sweei wuu vuo reading a stranger's nana ana 101a grant hay. him fae had t 5,1 death Where the grain lies over the oaken from starvation floor, "Yes" said the man from Kan- Icnc T mns wearinc one of those arounu, i - o And the sunbeams flicker and dance death-proof rubber suits and fell k-S:1CZZ I Hft. AroiiA with seventy teet and Douncea tnree A"" " I" " I . . . ... . , , a merry sound. days and nights without rooa or The swallows twitter and chirp all drink. I was finally rescued in a day; I nsnennan s nei. xie sya uc ia With fluttering wings in the old sure 0f recovery from the shock And sing8'in the trees which in time to meet his friends at the lean ... State Fair. To brush the roof with their rusi- . . , - I Kotwppn tVi Floral Hall and the T WW " The timid mice in the corner glean Grand Stand. Plenty of room ' : " You can make yourself at home. Kl Oliii . - I And the insects hum in the well-failed pjty cents spent with Prof. Har And buUd their nests on the win- ris may save you hundreds of dol dow pane. Oh! dear old barn, where my child- laU lava Were passed full oft, how I long to be ocrnin. to T)laV Beneath thy roof with the old-time glee! Exchange. ONLY AMATTER OF WORDS1 The merchant calls it profit, And he winks the other eye ; The banker calls it interest, And he heaves a cheerful sigh ; The landlord calls it rent, As he tucks it in his bag ; But the honest old burglar, He simply calls it swag. The New Time. lars. Scores of Raleigh people will testify to his wonderful read ings of their past lives. A LAST MESSAGE- The spirit which animated the writings of the grand reformer, Henry D. Lloyd, was never more compactly expressed than in his last published letter, which comes almost with the news of his death It is entitled "The Earthly Mean ing of Heavenly Words," and reads in part as follows "Bearve one another's bur dens." There is not one com mercial or financ:al relation or indus- LOW DUES KILL UNIONS T1ip menace of the unions is known to the business the stinginess of the members in trial world in which there is not the matter of dues. They be- already in existence, in some grudge every penny' paid into an country or city or trade, actual institution that gives returns organization striving to realize which makes the Standard Oil intentionally the earthly mean- dividends look beggardly in com- ing of these heavenly words. parison. They spend more on This is the religious news of peanuts or chewing gum than today. London takes possession thpv contribute to maintain an of street car lines, raises the wages organization upon which their 0f men, shortens their hours, gives livelihood and their hopes depend, them a six-day week, and carries Five or 10 cents a week they the people five miles for a cent, call dues, and many ot the mem- This municipal capitalist substv bers if they had their way would tutes the general welfare for sel aotnallvnreferto eo back to their fish profit. The transportation - j r - - i former helpless state in order to business ceases to be a business4 save this petty amount. This is and becomes a successful expen nne of the disagreeable realities ment of applied Christianity. In we have to face, and yet we de- the democracy of New Zealand the timince emolovers for their greed people unite as a nation to re v i i when workers are unwilling to lease each other from the money make such trifling sacrifices in trust. They borrow money cheap order to gain independence and in London at wholesale, and loan better conditions. These self- it again at retail to the workman same workmen will spend their and farmer at cost. They buy meao-er wao-es without thought of and operate at cost coal mines, o O I i the morrow, but the pennies paid railroads, and yards, to deliver into the union are always too each other Irom the coal trust. trmph Thev will not dispute Thev tax laud and make the tax that their wages have been in- progressive, tax inheritances and creased from $i to $5 a week ; make the tax progressive. The that their hours have been reduced more land, income, inheritance, several each day : that their griev- a man has the more he pays ances have been redressed by actually and relatively. Thus, means of the union, but they pay these New Zealanders are mak ollpr1 rlnes as thoup-h thev ino- trood in fiscal science the INGERSOLL ON LABOR. Robert G. Ingersoll was in profound sympathy with the working class and his utterances at times showed that he followed closely if he did not actually embrace the socialist philosophy. No man every felt more keenly the inhumanity of the capitalist system its injustice to labor arouses his wrath, the plea of proverty melted his generous heart, and the sight of suffering moved him to tears The great orator was often given to reflections upon the labor question, but he admitted candidly, honestly, that he could arrive at no conclusion that satis fied his heart and brain. To sit near him, and to hear him as only he could talk, was not only to be impressed with his sincerity, but to feel the cur rent of his wonderful, magnetic power, admire his transcendent genius and love and honor the in- comparable man. Seventy years ago Robert In gersoll, oratory's greatest master, was born. He had the power of a Titan, adorned by all the tender sensibilities of a child. "Looking over his works, says the editor of the Terre Haute (Ind.) Toiler, I found the follow ing eloquent passage, which will serve most worthilv as an auniver' sary offering, and receive a hearty welcome in the literature of free dom : "The first result of the inven tion of machinery has been to increase the wealth of a few The hope of the world is that through invention man can finally take such advantages of these forces of nature, of the weight of water, of the force of wind, of steam, of electricity, that they will do the work of the world ; and it is the hope of the really civilized that these inventions will finally cease to be the property of the few, to the end that they may do the work of all for all. "When those who do the work own machines, when those who toil control the inventions, then, and not till then can the world be civilized or free. When these forces shall do the bidding of the individual, when they become the property of the machanic in stead of the monopoly, when they belong to labor instead of what is called capital, when these great powers are as free to the individ ual laborer as the air and light are now free to all, then, and not until then, the individual will be restored and all forms of slavery will disappear." NOT YET. were being robbed. It is just this spirit that threatens the ex istence of the union should they encounter adversity or go into a prolonged struggle. H. White New trades unions are being M 1 - .1. 1 T1 IlltlO tormea every wee, ah uuia the State chosen by the disciples of Parry for the organization of so-called "independent working unions." Bible requirement that "unto whomsoever much is eiven, of him much shall be required." The W. L. Duglass ShoeCo. contemplate increasing the num ber of its retail stores one-third. 1;:, mill Vinrifr thf tntal niimher luu nui "''"Ft - - of stores operated by thisjfeom- pany to the neighborhood of one hundred. "They're saying you're just like all the other members of the House," remarked the newly elected legislator's close friend. They say you have your price." "That's a lie," declared the new member. "I thought so." "Yes. I haven't got it yet, but I have hopes." Philadelphia Catholic Standard and 1 lmes A man . cannot buy silk on calico wages. LINEMEN WIN STRIKE- After 1 Flu-Month' Struggle, Victor) Croms the Union. Special Correspondence. I Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 15. On May 5, five months ago to day, the International Brother hood of Electrical Workers de clared a .strike against the Sunset Telegraph and Telephone Com pany, which involved the entire territory from Vancouver, B. C, to El Paso, Texas. Today the men went back to work, the com pany having come to terms. In no city throughout the vast stretch of country was the fight so bitter as in Los Angeles, where the Employers' Association, aided and abetted by the notorious Times, exercised every effort to break the strike. Scabs were armed and encouraged to create disturbances, union men were ar rested without provocation, and the vile Times daily branded the peaceable, law-abiding unionists as hoodlums. But without avail. The men stood like a granite wall and the result was inevitable. The splendid victory of the line men has been the occasion of much rejoicing by the union men and women of Southern Califor nia, not only because of the good that will accrue to the sturdy unionists who remained true throughout the long struggle, but also because it means one more defeat for Otis and his coterie of union-haters The Times has reason for its shrill denunciation of organized labor, as ad. after ad. is being withdrawn from its columns through the efforts of unionists everywhere. You can aid in this good work by writing one letter to each of the following adver tisers in that notorious sheet Carrara Paint, 811 Carrara Building, Cincinnati, 0. "Santal Middv" E. faugera, 26 N. William St., New York, N. Y. Roval Baking Powder Co., 100 William St., New York, JN. Y. Philo Hay Specialties Co.. Newark. N. T. "Castoria" The Centaur Com pany, 77 Murray street, New York, N. Y. "Cnticura" Potter Drus & Chemical Comoanv. Boston, Mass "Postum" Postum Cereal co , Rattle Creek. Mich. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.. Lvnn. Mass. ' ' . . n Srott's Emulsion bcott ot Browne, 409 Pearl street, New Vnrk. N. Y. "fihirardelli's Ground Choco late" D Ghirardelli, San Fran cisco, Cal Tell these advertisers that or ganized labor does not look with favor upon any person or firm that is aiding labor's meanest enemy, the Los Angeles Times PLEASURE- Wife I wish we had a nice large country place where I could give a lavn party. Husband Just for the pleasure of inviting some of your friends, eh? Wife Well, ves : and the pleas- ure 01 not inviting some. rnna delphia Ledger. Subscribe to Tif E Harbinber. WHO ? WORKINGHEN, OF COURSE- By Jerre Baxter in the Coming Nation. Who has cleared the forests and built the world's cities? Who built the hanging gardens and historic towers of Babylon ? Who neath yokes and lashes erected the pyramids, sphynx, the talking ooelisks and temple of Karnak in Egypt ? Who built the temple of Solomon and did their work so well that when fitting it in place not a sound of a hammer was heard ? Who sat upon the Acropolis a crown of architectural stone and built the causeway up the mountain side, studded with statues of heroes and gods? Who raised the walls of the Roman Coliseum, lifted St. Peter's mighty dome and paved the Appian Way? Who wrought the collossal marble o dream at Cologne, fashioned aisles and towers at Notre Dame, the Tuilleries. the temple and tomb at Westminster, or lifted St Paul's awful form to its eternal place? Workingmen. Who built the tomb of rant on Riverside Drive, the Hall of Fame on Columbia Heights, or left Jackson in brouz?, spurred and mounted, to guard New- Orleans ? Workingmen. Who- due; the canals, spanned I the rivers and gorges, and girdled the land with the tracks ot trarhc Who built the trains by land and fleets bv sea ? Who has always fed arid always will feed, shelter and clothe the world Working-men. Who has subdued barbarism and covered the earth with cities and civilization? Workingmen. Who has fought the battles of the world? And when the conflict was over, who were found dead uoon the bloody field? Work- JL inemen. Who, more than a century ago, "fired the shot that was heard around the world ?" The em battled farmers of Concord Whose hand wielded the weapons at Lexington? Whose patriotism led the tires at Valley, orge ana proclaimed at Yorktown the birth of a new republic ? The work- mo-men. clad with homespun, trom the granite hills of Vermont to the verdant hills of her sister, Virginia. Who made the first serious defence of Bunker Hill ? The working-men of New Eng land. Who changed the tide of the Revolution at King's Moun tain ? The workingmen 01 I en nessee and other Southern States Who sleep beneath the inscribed shafts and monuments in the national cemeteries all over the South, killed in battle for a cause thev both believed in? The y . , workino-men of America. Who makes the cradle in which the dependent rich man's child ... . is rocked to sleep, who makes the food he eats, the clothes he wears, who prints the books he reads, who builds the palace in which he lives t Who detends him in time of war ? Who goes for the doctor when he is sick ? Who waits on him in his illness, who oftentimes sits by his corpse when he is dead, who lifts the coffin from the hearse to the tomb, who builds the monument over his p-rave. who chisels the epitaph ? Finallv. who is it that has created the structures and com merce of this earth, its trade and its story, and inherited neither its wealth or its glory t THE WORKINGMEN OF THE ; . , WORLD. THE MURDER OF CHILDREN- It is a horrible thing to think that the coal, the bright fire that warms us, represents the wornout lives of unfortunate beings put to work almost as mere babies on the coal breakers. It is sad to think that the shirt you wear may have come from a factory in which with tired eyes, tired backs and exhausted nervous systems work until they can literally work and stand no lon ger. It is extraordinary that in this country, where a crime of violence outrages public opinion to the point of lynching and where some petty slip in morals or in commercial integrity ruins a man forever, there is no national revolt against the most atrocious crime of all the wholesale murder of children for the sake of a little profit. New York Journal. THE TURTLe'aND THE SCAB. Zoologists tell us that the turtle is the only animal that never learns anything by experience. If you put a red-hot poker in front of a turtle it will walk straight up to it and burn its feet or nose. No matter how often it gets burned, the turtle never learns to avoid the red-hot poker. than the brain of a mouse, and much less active. Now, a "scab" is simply a hu man turtle. He is a creature who never learns by experience. Although non-unionism has never raised wages nor shortened hours, and although unionism has always done both of these, the turtle workman never gets wiser. He continues to refuse to bear a part of the social burden, and fights for the right to bear his own heavy burden all alone. The turtle is not he most stupid animal in the world. Fla. Labor Journal. CHASTISING A LORD- Lord D., a proverbial hater of America and Americans, was din ing in Paris with the British min ister. Next to him at the table was a noted Newport belle, Miss X- The conversation had drifted to a discussion of things American and Lord D. made some disagree able remarks about some Ameri cans he had met and some yankee customs he abhorred. "Why, d'ye know," he contin ued, with an upardonable want of tact, "that at some of the places I dined in America I saw people eat with their knives and spill their soup on the tablecloth." Miss X was thoroughly pro voked by this time; she replied with apparent unconcern ; What poor letters of introduc tion vou must have had my lord." There was no more unpleasant talk about Americans that even ing. - m - . - He Was Both. "Yes, indeed, he is quite tall." - . , . 1 1 . "Why, I always undersrooa ne was short." "You've got it twisted slightly. Perhaps you mean you under stood he was 'always short,' hich is also correct."
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