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DINGER Pocleit's DisnfiCUJtl ccr COW.SH. El'slertd, Sore ted Offensive rT. ts u At Ki elgh Drig S orts. : ORGANIZATION. EDUCATION. ELEVATION. Vol. III. Raleigh, North Carolina, February 27. 1904. No. 8 Pnclctts Dlsinfeaut ! roHM crowds. Blistered, Sore tnd Olensiie nir. hj-u. At Raleigh Drjg Stores. f n Air ifii v MAR "Love." i (In reply to a drummer who wanted to kno the meaning of "Love.") Love is just a faVe, Don'tcher know? It's a short and sweet mistake, Don'tcher know? If you love a girl right dearly, And she sees it very clearly, She will pull your leg severely, Don'tcher know? When yon get to your last copper Don'tcher kuow ? And you go to see her "popper," Don'tcher know? And you ask him for her hand, It's more than he can stand, And he'll bounce you off the land, Don'tcher know? Then you've played a losing game, Don'tcher know ? And you'll find it just the same, Don'tcher know? She may let you call her honey, Until you're short of money, Then she'll shake you and think it's funy, Don'tcher know ? Then your "love" is over, And you no longer live in "clover," Don'tcher know ? You must not try to match it, If you do you'll surely catch i:, Where the chicken got the hatchet, Don'tcher know ? But Subscribe to The Harbinger. Father Teaches Young America Why Trade UJons Are A Bad TMrg. Say, Pa, do you belong to a trade union?" Pa, snappingly : "No, I don't." "Why don't you. pa?" "Because I don't believe in them.' "Why don't you believe in them, pa ?" "Well erer why, this is a free country and everyone should be permitted to woik who wants to." "And do the unions keep men from working, 9a ?" "Yes, they do." "How, pa?" "Well, when the union men quit work and go on a strike they won't let anyone take their places." "Why do other men want to work where the union men quit working, pa? Why don't they keep the jobs they have ?" "Why erer you see, there are always lots of men who haven't any jobs and who want to work and tl.ey are always glad to get a job whenever a chance offers." "And have they got a right to a job, pa?" "Certainly they have 1 Why, the poor devils can't live without work unless they steal or beg, and these delgasted union fellows would freeze them out of a chance to make an honest living " "Is it an 'honest' thing to do to take another man's job, pa ?" "Well er er but these un ion fellows quit the jobs them selves and they have no right to keep other men from taking thim." 'But, pa, don't the union men intend to go back to work when they have secured better pay or shorter hours ?" "Well erer I suppose they do." ' ":;V. "And they couldn't go back if some other men had taken their places, could they ?" "Well er er I suppose they could not." "If the other men should get the union men's lobs, pa, what could the union men do ?" "Well er er I suppose they could do the same as the men did who took their jobs." "What's that, pa?" "Why er er well, wait their chance to get another job." "And would they then have to beg or steal or take the places of other men who were striking for things that would be good for the working class ?" "Why er er why " "And pa, didn't you say every man had a right to work ?" "Yes, I did ; and so he has." "And pa, didn't you tell me that there were lots of men out' of work all the time who are glad to take the strikers' places?" "Why er er why ' "And, pa, if the strikers didn strike and try to better workming- men's conditions, and just kept on working ana taking any 01a legislated out of existence. Har thing they could get, wouldn't assed bv unfriendly laws and sup the capitalists soon have them working seventeen hours a day for seventeen cents ? And would not that mean that a lot more workingmen would be out of woik ; and would not these work ingmen all have a right to work ; and are not the efforts of the trade union men to keep up wages and shorten hours a benefit to all workinsrtnen : and are not the union men justified in employing the means they use to benefit their class ; and isn't a man who takts a striking union man's job a traitor to his class ; and isn't it the capitalist system that refuse to let men work and compels them to beg or steal ? And, pa, why don't the workingmen get together and form " Pa, fairly red with anger : See here, you infernal brat! If you let out any more of that rot I'll just yank you bald headed " "But, pa, - " "Shut up!' "But - " "Shut up! If out of here I'll you don't clear fix you you An-arkist you." Boy decides the lesson is overe and goes out in the alley to play marbles. Pa, soliloquizing ; "That darn ed kid gets the best of me every time. He certainly takes after his mother but you bet I have tha last word on this deal, anyway " G. H. Lock wood, in the Appeal to Reason. There will be no change in the wages of brickmakers this year. The date for either the union or employers to ask for a change has passed. The State law, declaring that no boy up to sixteen years of age should work in or around a coal I mine in Pennsylvania has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of that State. Subscribe to The Harbinger. Negroes Will Die Out HiWSIGs thsWay of the In dim. "Whatever solution of the ne gro problem can be ottered, said Professor William Craig Wilcox, in an address to the students of I the State University of Iowa, "there is a natural one which we must not lose sight of. The ne- gro will follow the American In- dian to the happy hunting grounds. Every lesson of his- tory teaches us this in no uncer tain language. Every condition of his surroundings can give no other answer "History has proven time and time again that when the repre sentatives of an inferior civiliza tion co.nes into contact with the representatives of a superior civ- ilization the people of the poorer civilization must pass away. "The Indian, the representative of an inferior civilizatton, came in direct competition with the supe- trior c vilization of the early set- tiers, and the Indian peared. He has, in has disap fact, been plied with cheap whiskey, he is slowly passing awav. "The lot of the negro has been different. Under the old regime of slavery he increased in num bers because his. body-was worth money to his master. Removed from the conditions of a valuaole animal, every condition that a sympathetic people could devise has been brought forward to help him. "But now the Indian, removed from the guiding care of a care ful master, has fallen upon his own too slender moral and intel lectual resources. He earns no money ; he will not work if he has dollar in his pocket ; he is idle, lazy and a detriment to every place in which he lives. "The solution of the burden which is being put upon the peo ple, is, as I have pointed out, a purely natural one. He will go the way of the American Indian. Not so fast, it is true ; the negro is a prolific breeder and besides that he is protected by a multi tude of State and National laws. But he is as surely doomed as arj the Indians left in the scattered settlements of the West. Statis tics show that the per cent, of in crease is growing less and less with each decade, and the passing years will no doubt sre hiin class ed in the side shows of the trav eling circus with the Caucasian girl and tattooed man" New York Herald. , Most of the leading unions in England have levied an assess ment on their members to raise the funds for a campaign and to pay their members $1,500 a year during their term of service in Parliament. Unless the operators and min ers of the States of Illinois.' In diana, Ohio and Pennsylvania agree at the forthcoming wage scale conference 190,000 miners in those States will strike. (Written for The HurLingLr.) Crazy Joe. Scattering I leas From a Weak Mind. They call me Crazy Joe. May- be 7 am. I don't know so I guess Some people say lam foolish, and that I am like Jack Sellers, Maybe I am, but I ain't, out of ,ny "breckus" aj often as Jack is. Ajnt jt curious how some peo- pie call otllers crazy wnen lhey are as crazv as some others. In my wanderings at night I have seen young and pretty women, dressed, it seemed, with nothing on but their clothes, and very few of them, going to balls at Raney Library, when the weather would be X2 zero. Such sensible people as that have the!it?" asked the digger right to call others crazy. "I think you ought to be in Ain't it curious how some peo-; here with me," said the real crazy pie, good, Christian people will inan slur at a drnking man, at a! Well, 1 must be liquor selling man, and say they 1 Crazy Jok. "j a ..a :. : I - aic iiu guuu ; nuu uiu i u tin tuna how these selfsame righteous peo pie will stand up in church and tell you, in the language of the Bible, that no drunkard shall enter the kingdom of heaven, and woe unto him who putteth the' bottle to his neighbor's hps, then turn around and sell it Now I know I am crazy. 1 guess so. 1 Now, I drink when I want to. i I love it. I like to be with peo-: pie that drink liquor. I despise a man who will drink it and then' talk about others who do the same j thing. "But a man who drinks, I and is not sneaking in it, stands a better show with Si. Pet r than the man who sneaks and talks about others. It's not fashionable to talk this way, I know but a crazy man is liable to talk any kind of fashion. I must becrazy. I guess so. Ain't it curious how some peo ple will stait out to manufacture a grade of goods, put the label on ' them, and tell all union people 10 buy only that grade of goods ! and use no other ; that all other' stuff is no good '"That," says a ! niainifactuitr, "'we make the bes:, ' use the best material and employ ! none but union labor, as our label I tells you, and you, as a union man, sliould and must patronize me." Take tobacco, for instance. I like good tobacco or a good cigar. Nothing much better. "You have been using trust made tobacco," said a friend, "and you a union man !" "Yes., I answered. " 've tried label tobacco, and I have never found either that was worth a fig " A friend came to me one night and says : ' Here's some union made tobacco that's out of sight. I have not tried it yet, but 'they' say it's good." I tried it and it was like all the rest - it was rot ten. Later on my friend threw the tobacco away, If people who carry the union label want union people to use union goods they must make them fitito use or else they won't be used except by a few. Now I know I am crazy. The trusts will atch on to this crazy idea lei mine and will use it for all it's i .1. 1 .1. . : i ':n ' worm' uu. V,c m"ou Tp'e W1U a tt,..H mill omH IwifA uiau wiiu nit aim nave mc put in the assee-lum. Uh ! I don't know ? I guess so Speaking about asylums, a man told me a story He said he was working inside the enclosure of one. Some of the crazy ones were allowed to roam about the grounds by themselves.' I ex- pect, though, the man didn't say so, they wer6 put in therei for nothing against the dispensary in their town. There was a high CrOSS gWOnls'. fence around the grounds. One real crazy man walked up 1 to the fence and through a crack jTD8 Citizen' HliaHC8 Jilt ttlB Lab IT espied a white man on the ou side UfliDIlS Of L05 Angeles CrOSS SlWdS. digging a ditch. This conver-j . , satioti ensued : T (Slc,al Correspondence.) Crazy Man "Oh.watyou doin' Angeles, February 23. out there ?" The Citizens' Alliance of Los Working Man-Diggin' a ditch.", Angeles, recently organized by Ho deep you goin'todigit?" , Herb Q of DeiJver, a tool Three feet "How much you get dav?" "Seventy-five cents." i "A re you a married man?" "Yes." How many children have you "Seven " "And you arediggin' a ditch ?" "Yes." "And a married man?" "Yes " , "And get 75 cents a day ?' 1 V iiuk uu "II kill tin. v gSESBSbl Vlti: NOT PERFECT The editor of The Harbin- gkr does not claim to be per feet, none are perfect no not S one We have made mistakes, and as long as we continue to do anything we are afraid we will continue to make mistakes. We have labored hard, long, and honestly to make The H ar a binger a success forovertwo long years we have done thisg without a murmur, thinking that perhaps we would get our reward in the end if not from financial returns, at least from the endorsement and well wish es of those whom we tried to serve. And now, friends, do you think it right when at last, after these years of honest en deavor, just when we begin to see the silver lining behind the hitherto darkened cloud, that you should throw a gloom over our every effort made in your behalf? Is it fair ? Is it honorable ? We are willing to leave the answer to the honest I (mmigrati n South. The bill recently introduced in the Senator Simmons to induce foreign immigration to come South has met with both approval and disapproval throughout the south. The more exclusive cot ton States holding that the negro as a laborer is more desirable. In Burke county, North Carolina, there is a colony of Waldensians, who settled on the rough, rugged hills 01 tnat county some years ago. At first their efforts in till ing the soil, fertile with rocks and mountain laurel, where no one else had thought the plow would penetrate were not so en couraging, but year by year they have kept digging a av, with out any knowledge of modern usages in cultivating until their results have been most satisfactory and even enviable. Should any one doubt the desirability of this class of citizenship atrip to Wald- burg would be convincing. The high regard those people have for the laws of the Sfae is indeed striking. They are peace able and law abiding citizens and scorn crime, By their industry they have ac 'cumulated property and own their .homes Asheboro Courier f Governor Peabody, of Color- ado, and of Blatherskite Parry, of Indianapolis, has had its first I tilt with unions of this city. This j Auiance: ;s composed of all the i tne umon"alers w) fr tne Past , two years' have dominated the (Employers' and the Merchants ;and Manufacturers' Associations. h. G. Otis is chairman of the Lew combinati and the hos Angeles Times is its official mouthpiece. A few days ago the Rival restaurant, which, for yeais, had been a union house, dis charged its union help, and the proprietor immediately joined the Citizens' Alliance. The Council of Lbor placed a boycott upon the house, and pickets were sta tioned in front of the place. For the first day or two the All'ance distributed free meal tickets to hobos, with whom the city is now flooded. This proved too expen sive a ruse for the union-haters, so they had the street railway company, the Times office and a big department store issue orders to their employes to patronize the boycotted restaurant, which, of course, they did, in order to re tain their jobs. Police have been placed about the place, their pres ence attracting large crowds about the noon hour. Just how long the Alliance can force the e'erks, bookkeepers, non-union mechanics arid others to patronize the boycotted place, time alone can tell. Organized labor is throughly aroused, and the effect will be a more de termined fight against the Times. Since Jan. 1 the following ad vertisements have been withdrawn from that notorious paper, as a result of letter-writting by union ists everywhere : Borden's Condensed Milk Co., 71 Hudson St., New York, N. Y. "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Sy rup" Anglo-American Drug Co., 215 Fulton St., New York, N. Y. Wolff process Leather Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Philo-Hay Specialties Co., New ark, N. J. "S. B. Catarrh Cure" Smith Bros., Fresno, Cal. "White Ribbon, Remedy." . Dr. Wm. P. Brown, 218 Tremont St., Boston, Mass Radcliffe Shoe Co., Dept. 43, Boston, Mass. The following advertisers have promised to withdraw , at the ex piration of their contracts : Castoria" The Centaur Co., 77 Murray St., N. Y. Welspach Co., 25 W. Broad way, New York, N. Y. Dr. Pierce Medical Co., Buffalo, N. Y. "Ghirardelli Ground Chocolate" D. Ghirardelli, San Francisco, Cal. "Ivory Soap" Proctor & Gam- ble, Ihird & Waluut Sir., Ciuci nati, Ohio.
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