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f HARBINGER ORGANIZATION. EDUCATION. ELEVATION. Vol. II. Raleigh, North Carolina. November 14. 1903. No. 45 THE -rt A" JUST A GIRL Many a throne has had to fall For a girl, Just for a girl; Many a king has had to crawl For a girl, Just for a girl; When the hero goes to war lie may battle for the right, But 'tis likelier by far That he sallies forth to fight, For a girl, Just for a girl. When the doctor turns to say : "It's a girl, Just a girl," Papa murmurs with dismay: "What! A girl, Just a girl?" Ah. but why the sadness there? Why the bitterness displayed? Some day strong man will swear That the great round world was made For a girl, Just for a girl. Why did Adam take the bite? For a girl, Just for a girl; Why was Troy swept out of sight? For a girl, Just for a girl; O, would heaven still be bright, And would any good man care To achieve it, if he might Never claim forever there Just for a girl; Glorious girl. TRUSTS ON PARADE- "What are the people growling for ?" said Trusts-on-Parade, "They're awful mad!" the Color Sergeant said. "What makes you look so frighten ed like?" said Trusts- on Parade. "I fear they're getting on to us!" the Color-Sergeant said. "For you've taken all their money, and I've handed them the ice : They have to buy their goods from you and pay an awful price; They've been rifled and bamboozled in a way that isn't nice, And I fear we'll have some trouble in the morning I'" New York American. HIS CHOICE. A young man who sought a clerkship in one of the depart ments at Washington once asked the late Robert G. Ingersoll for his endorsement, and this was IngersolPs reply: "Young man, I would rather have forty acres of land, with a large cabin on it and the woman I love in the cabin- with a little grassy, winding path leading down to the spring where the water gurgles from the lips of the earth, whistling day and night to the white pebbles a per petual poem with hollyhocks growing at the corner of the house, and morning glories bloom ing over the low-latched door with lattice work over the win dow so that the sunlight would fall checked on the dimpled babe in the cradle, and birds like songs with wings hovering in the summer air than be the clerk of any goverment on earth." We have received three back copies of Maxwell's Chicago Tal isman, for which we return our thanks. It is a monthly maga zine, 16 pages, published at Chi cago, by its editor, George H, Maxwell, Executive Chairman, The National Irrigation Associa ?c. a copy. It is volume 2, No 15 to date, is well edited, and presents a neat appearance typo graphically. It is devoted to the irrigation of the desert lands of the West and is doing great good. It advocates organized labor and is first-class in every particular. We wish it continued prosperity. It ' is one of our ; most valued ex changes. BUSINESS AGENTS- The dishonesty of trades union business agents (called walking delegates) has claimed a large share of attention and newspaper space. The existing dispute between the building trades unions and the employers' association of New York, factional differences within the unions and more particularly the convention of some business agents accused of sacrificing the interests of their fellow workmen for capitalistic blood money, has greatly augmented the interest ordinarily felt in the moments of the business agent and brought that individual into the incan descence of public opinion. It is to be deeply deplored when a member serving his trades union in any official capacity, whether as agent or otherwise, proves dis honest to his trust. Regardless of whether tempted by the bland ishments of the employers or actuated by the desire for gain, the man who from the basest of mercenary motives dishonors his trust, betrays his fellow workmen, and sacrifices their interests, merits severe punishment and opprobrium. That this will be accorded him to the fullest extent is needless to add. Organized labor when sat isfied that there was a foundation for the accusation against these men, of bribe-taking and black mail, persisted that they be brought before the tribunal of justice and be fittingly punished. These men were salaried repre sentatives of their trades unions, and their acts outside of perform ing the legitimate duty of their position, as business representa tives of their trades unions, have no conection whatever witn or ganized labor. The motives which inspired these crimes is not so black nor the spirit which carried them out as evil as the motives and spirit of capitalistic writers who at tempt to fasten the odium at tached to their crimes upon or ganized labor. It is a notorious fact that the misdeeds of members are immedi ately hit upon by these writers ana deliberately circulated as representative of organized labor. whereas such misdeeds represent nothing more than the criminal instincts of individual members of society. The dishonesty is a character istic of some and develops under temptation in some members of labor organizations, is no more peculiar than that dishonesty characterizes the operations of people cdnnected with thanking institutions from the cashier to the president. At the present time a deacon of the church entrusted with fund for the care of indigent Meth- ocist ministers and their families, is a fugitive from justice, having absconded with the entire fund amounting to $75,000.00, yet we do not consider the religious order he represented . one of ab sconders. Numbered; anjongst the fugitives from justice and inmates of prisons are embezzling em ployes, officers and presidents of banks, yet we do not consider banks as institutions of robbers and plunders. In one of our cities four members of the school board were convicted of accepting bribes from women candidates for positions as teachers, yet we do not believe the National Asso ciation of teachers an organiza tion of bribers and the school board bribe-takers. Why in the sense of fairness and decency should organized labor be burdened with the mis deeds of officer and members to a greater extent than other organ izations or institutions, more expecially since there has been proportionately fewer crimes proven against representatives of officers of organized labor than against those holding similar prosition in other organizations or business institutions. The following extract from a special dispatch from New York to the Pittsburgh Chronicle Tele graph is illustrative of the idiotic charges preferred against organ ized labor : "There was a tragic incident in connection with the strike and lockout of the jewelers this morn ing, which has caused a great deal of talk. A boy went on the fire escape at the sixth floor of a building in Gold street, to look at the strikers and police in the street. He fell from the escape and was instantly killed. While this was a casualty which might have occured at any time that a boy's curiosity led him to take one of those risks on which a person of his age and sex ordi narily delights, the man who is talking about the lockout can hardly avoid mentioning this tragedy as chargeable to the dis pute. The fact is the New Yorkers have had such a dose of strikes that they are sick of the very name of it." Presumably if this boy had an aged relative living somewhere on the other side of the earth and the news of the boy's death killed the relative, the second death would be ascribed to this same strike and lockout. Why not destroy the railroads and dry up the Atlantic ocean because acci dental deaths by collisions and drowning happen ? There is the same degree of idiocy or acute prejudice display ed in attributing the death of that boy to the jewelers' dispute that marks the attempts to attach the dishonesty of business agents to organized labor. J TO WOBKINGMBN. All good Union men will patron J ize, where prices and goods are 2 equal, the merchants who prove their friendship for organized labor 2 by placing their ads. in The Har- binger. It is a farce for union : 5 J men to say they are in favor of or 0 ganized labor when they trade with J firms who hold their organ in con tempt by patronizing all other papers in Raleigh and refuse to 2 ganized labor. Charles R Murphy, leader of Tam many, was said to favor Judge A. B, Parker for the Presidency. LOS ANGELES EXAMINER- f . R. Hearst Acquires Horning Newspaper Property in Los Angeles. Special Correspondence. Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 12. At the International Typograph- ical Union Convention, held in Washington last August, W. R. new light upon the child labor Hearst was petitioned to acquire question. a morning newspaper property in There is a municipal lodging Los Angeles. This action was house in Chicago filled v ith taken, as it was deemed impera- tramps, and these have been tive to have established a com- questioned over and over again petitor in Southern California, by Miss Adams and her co-vork-which would offset the malicious ers, with this invariable truth to and unwarranted statements made be deduced from the majority of regarding organized labor by the the answers : Working too early union-hating Los Angeles Times, in life has given a distaste for Accompanied by Arthur A. manual labor of any kind, and Hay, special representative of the each tramp who had as a child International Typographical Un- worked in the mills would now, ion, the business manager of the according to his on testimony, San Francisco Examiner was in- rather die of starvation than go structed by Mr. Hearst to come to Los Angeles and look over the j field. The result will be the es- tablishment of the Los Angeles Examiner on the same aggress- ive and fearless lines followed by his New York, Chicago and San Francisco newspaper 'properties, of the great wheels, the never-end-The initial number will make its 1 ing whirl of the machinery, the appearance the second week of close air, the long hours, have December. The machinery is on its way from New York city, a mammoth five-story building has been leased for a term of ten years, and workmen all union : nu independents" are working two shifts, fitting up the future home of the newspaper. To say that the union men and women of Southern California, as well as the citizens in general, re gardless of political belief, are en thusiastic over the venture, is putting it mildly. The Employers' Association is almost frantic. Every pressure that can be brought to bear on merchants is being used to influ ence them not to advertise in the new paper. But the Examiner will enter the field with a larger circulation than the Times, and the merchants, business men and citizens have been waiting these many long years to throw off the thralldom of that detested and despicable Hero of the Rubicon, Harrison Gray Otis. Union men, women and sym pathizers, we will attend to this creature from now on, in the local field ; but we need your assist ance on foreign advertisements, as follows, which are in the scab Los Angles Times : Carrara Paint, 811 Carrara Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio. "Santal Middy" E. Faugera, 26 North William street, New York, N. Y. Royal Baking: Powder Co., 100 William St., New York, N. Y. Philo-Hay Specialties Co., New York, N. Y. "Castoria" The Centaur Co., , 77 Murray street, New York, N. Y. Chemical Co., Boston, Mass. "Postum" Postum Cereal Com pany, Battle Creek, Mich. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn, Mass. ' Scott's Emulsion Scott & Brown, 409 Pearl street, New York, N. Y. ; umrardeiii s urouna unocolate D. Ghirardelli, San Francisco, Cal, Union men and women every where can help their fellow-un- lonistsin ooutnern Aiiiiornia y rapping the infamous Times by writing a letter today to each of ine aDove advertisers. CHILD LABOR IN NEW ASPECT- Miss Jane Adams, who has made a national reputation by her settlement work in Chicago and who has done so much to lighten the ills of "the submerged tenth," has been making investi- gations lately that throw much into regular work again. A physician in attendance at the lodging-house has pronounced the majority of cases to be prema-j turely old men, made so by being put to work too early in mills or factories. The. incessant grind all conspired to make of the chil dren who were first sacrificed the worn out, labor-hating members of the great body of tramps who go to make up the eight millions now on the American people. Of course not all the tramps, by any means, are the result of this abuse of the child labor proposi tion, but such a large number has been found to be the result of such abuse that it has become a great question and one worthy the deepest consideration. Manufacturers take these chil dren to work to save expenses, for children from five to fifteen years old can be employed for from ten to thirty cents a day when adults would demand two or three times as much. In some States the Legislatures have made makeshift laws that are supposed to protect the children, but these are easily evaded. Some have made these laws, but at the solid tation of capitalists have repealed them. The little children of to day are at the mercy of unscrup ulous and indifferent capitalists and of their lazy and avaricious parents. The government refuses aid in almost every common wealth. It is argued that work does not hurt children, and that it is an economical proposition to put them in the factories. Miss Adams' researches should prove at once the fallacy of such theory. It has in the cases she studied dwarfed the mental moral and physical side of the children, aging them prematurely and destroying forever the heri tage of health and happines that you should have brought. This phase is a grave one and one that should have the deepest study upon the part of those who hope to do something toward lessening the national evil of child-labor in the factories. Call fdr the Union Label. WORK FOR THE UNIONS Abolish all unions, take front the workers the right to organize, give full rein to the capitalistic class, and then witness the army of seifs begging piteously for enough of the master's service at a pittance barely sufficient to sus tain life and prolong a miserable existence. It is only through the persistent work of organization and the enforcement of just claims that labor has succeeded thus far in winning recognition, and it is only by a succession of efforts that each skilled and un skilled worker may hope to real ize the perfect fulfillment of his highest hopes. Even now those who refuse or fail to affiliate with organized labor are in a sense reaping a benefit by the gradua tion, as the lowest strata of so ciety receives some benefit from the infliu-nee which comes from ' above, while yet they refuse to 'give credit or bear any of the bur- dens. The man who wantonly strikes a blow at organized labor, whether he be in place of com mand or a toiler in the ranks, has contributed by that act to pro voke an endless strife by refusing to recognize the equity and pur poses which tend to higher ideals and a realization of man's highest hopes through the agency of those means which nature and a kind Providence has bestowed. With the more thorough organization of capital comes the greater ne cessity and duty of organized labor, and the events of each suc ceeding year and day and hour make more clear and emphatic the duty each owes to the other in the work each has to do. Washington Trades Unionist. A REVEREND ALARM ST- In a sermon at Montclair, N. J., on a recent Sabbath day, the Rev. James M. Buckley, editor of the Methodist Christian Advo cate, assumed the role of prophet and made some blood curdling predictions. The subject of the address was "Trades Unions and the Dangers That Confront the Republic." Following are samples of the Reverend alarmist's start ling utterances : "It does not require a prophet or a son of a prophet to tell us that within three years yes, two years this country will pass through a terrible crisis if there is not an immediate change in the relations of labor and capital. It seems as if both have thrown Christian conduct and common sense to the winds. Things have been going from bad to worse, and labor unions have now assumed so arrogant an attitude that a great crash is almost inevit able. You have only to read the history of Rome, changing names and dates, to see what this coun try is coming to. "The greatest and most arro gant trust is the labor trust. It is domineered and officered by irresponsible walking delegates, who pursue a policy of rule or ruin.- "I repeat, a great crash is com ing, and many rich women who have horses and carriages and are apparently leaders of fashion will be brought to want History repeats itself, and we cannot sow the wind and hope to escape from reaping the whirlwind."
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