HARBINGER H ORGANIZATION. EDUCATION. ELEVATION. ,VoL III. Raleigh, North Carolina, June 18. 1904. No. 24 WHEN THE OLD SUBSCRIBER QUIT 'Twu market day, and people came From miles and miles around To gather at the corners or Upon the courthouse ground, To sell their truck, to buy new duds, To talk of this and that And each browned face its pleasure smiled Beneath a broad-brimmed hat. And at the business office of The Weekly Clarion stood A long line of faithful ones, To make their standing good : And as each in his turn advanced And his subscription filed, The editor, beside his desk, Just smiled, and smiled, and smiled. For it was good to hear the clink Of money, and 'twas fine To know the Clarion was the guide Of all that eager line; ' 'Twas cheering to hear that he Had been their monitor, And so he smiled, and smiled, and smiled. And let his fancies soar. Came maid and swain, came old, came young, Their tribute then to pay And oh! the sun was shining fair Upon that happy day, Until from out the line there stepped A hoary-headed one, Who straghtway gloomed the cheerful sky And blotted out the sun. "Look here!" he said, "I tuk this sheet For nigh on forty year And I ain't satisfied at all Th' way you're doin' here! By gum, your policies is rank, And I come t' say As how I don't want this blamed sheet Another single day!" Then ont he stalked, as having done His duty as he knew it "By gum, he said, "I hated tew, But I jest had t' dew it!" And to his clerk the editor Turned in his deep distress: "The deacon's stopped his paper, Jim Go down and stop the press!" Baltimore Nbws. . BLESSING OF THE TARIFF. White paper is too cheap. It is but seventy-five per cent, dearer is this country than it is in coun tries where the workingmen do wnf rror rrh on trip W3treS that UW v - , - 5 protectionism secures to them. That will never do. The mil lionaires of the paper trust, like the millionaires of the coal trust, must have more money. Not even a hundred per cent, above the normal price of white paper would compensate them for what they do for the American work ingmen. It is true their Ameri can workingmen are frequently imported; but that, too, is a be neficence because it brings more men for the farmers to feed. Now the men who do the work do not accept the millionaire's view of the magnificence of the wages the International Paper Company pays when forced to cav. They have asked for high er wages at the great Glen Falls mill of the trust, and the mag nates, looking at the subject from the principle involved they don't care a fig for the money have declared they will close all of the trust's thirty-three mills before they will yield to the shameful and dishon-st demand for more wages. Meantime, with the high tariff duty to protect the consumers from using the imported and pauper-made paper of Canada or Europe, the trust doesn't care how much the price of paper advances. It will be sure to advance if the supply is exnaustea in tnis coun try, for foreign paper cannot com plete because of the tariff Th'i protective tariff is a great blessing! The trusts could not exist without it. J And then white paper is too cheap anyhow. Portsmouth Star. Labor Notes. The Boston bakers who struck for higher wages and shorter hours won their fight, as the largest concerns in the Master Bakers' Association granted their demands at once. This averted a bread panic. According to the last count there are now 35,000 women trade unionists in Chicago. There is scarcely a trade in which wo'inen are employed which is not union ized. A formal blacklist against the New Haven road was issued by President McNeil, of the Nation al Boilermakers' Union. Every union Boilermaker in America is forbidden to work on boilers for the Consolidated Railroad. In accordance with the sum mons of the Governor, after the Government's defeat in Parlia ment last week, Mr. Watson, the leader of the Australian Labor party, has formed a ministry. It is composed entirely of members of the Labor party, except in the case of the Attorney-General. The Boston Central Labor Union has published in pamphlet form the reply to the address of President Eliot, of Harvard, de livered under its auspices in Fan euil Hall, February 21, by Frank K. Foster, of Typographical Un ion No. 13. Copies may be ob tained by writing Secretary Henry Abraham, 11 Appleton street, Boston, - at 10 cents each, or $5 per 100. Fifty unions in Porto Rico have been formed since the island became a United States possession. Most of them are chartered direct by the A. F. of L., the others be ing branches of the carpenters', bricklayers', painters' and print ers' international unions, whose headquarters are in the United States. An attempt by Master Bakers of Chicago to import twenty-nine bakers from St. Louis to fill the places of strikers resulted in the kidnapping of twenty-seven. Within half a block of the shops they were surrounded by several hundred union bakers' sympa thizers and hustled off before the police arrived. Two thousand Chicago picture frame workers went on strike May 2d, to resist an attempt of the picture frame molding manu facturers' association to return to a ten-hour workday. Although a few of the smaller manufactur ers have renewed last year's agree ment with the union, the strike will practically tie up the industry in Chicago. District No. 1 of the Anthracite Mine Workers, some 75,000 'in number, have sent a petition to President Roosevelt asking him to intercede in the Colorado strike. The President is asked to institute immediately an investigation un der Federal jurisdiction for the purpose of giving the people of the country complete knowledge of the situation and to restore liberty to the citizens of Colorado. COLORADO AN EXAMPLE AND A WARRING. Serious men throughout the country, all men capable of thought beyond their immediate daily personal concerns, are ap palled by the condition of things in Colorado. There is civil war in an Amer ican State. Battles are being fought between citizens and the militia, following upon acts of violence committed by striking miners and upon striking miners by the mine owners and their as sociates. The civil officers have been compelled to resign with ropes around their necks placed there not by the strikers, but by the Citizens' Alliance, composed of employers. Many lives have been lost, and much property has been sacrificed, and each side to the conflict accuses the other of excelling in murder and destruc tion. Finally the law has been suspended, and martial rule has taken its place. What isjthe cause of this fright ful state of things ? ''The tyranny of the miners' union its attempt to drive non union labor from the region" that is the answer currently given. It is a shallow and an untrue answer. The cause goes much deeper, a cause which is operative in other States than Colorado, and everywhere must in time Produce like results if it shall be allowed by the American people to con tinue to operate. Ray Stannard Baker, an impartial in vestigatior and witness, writing in Mc Clure's Magazine for May, lays bare the whole story of how lawlessness has bred lawlessness in Colorado. He does not spare the miners, but neither does he spare the wealthy and eminently respect able citiz.ns who deliberately created the present situation. The Western Federation of Miners sought to organize the men working amid the poisonous fumes of the furnaces twelve hours out of each twenty-four, with the object of procuring for them an eight-hour day. The miners of Cripple Creek and Victor went on a sympathetic strike. The strcggle was carried into' politics, and the Legislature passed an eight-hour law. This statute was de clared unconstitutional by the State Su preme Court, although the United States Supreme Court had previously upheld a similar law passed in Utah, and though such legislation has been held valid ia Kansas, Nevada, Arizona and elsewhere. The labor unions appealed to the peo ple of Colorado at large, and in Novem ber, 1902, an eight-hour law amendment to the constitution was adopted by the tremendous majority of 46,714 votes. Both political parties pledged themselves in their platforms to pass a law in accord ance with this amendment. Mr. Baker records what happened when the Legislature of 1902-3 met: At once a powerful lobby appeared, such prominent citizens of Colorado as J. B. Grant, representing the American Smelting and Refining Company (the Smelter Trust); Crawford Hill, of the Boston Smelting Company; Caldwell Yea man, of the Victor Coal and Coke Com pany, and J. C. Osgood, of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, one of the great est corporations of the West these were the same interests that had fought the for mer, eight-hour law. They now appeared before the Legislature, they and others, confusing the issue ' with multitudinous suggestions disagreeing, "jockeying" but all the time really endeavoring to prevent the passage of the law necessary to make the amendment effective. It was nothing to them that the people of Color ado had declared such a law to be their will by an immense majority; it interfered witii their business interests t And they had a lawless Legislature to deal with. By the wording of the amendment it was made mandatory on the Legislature to pass the eight-hour law "The General Assembly shall provide by law" and yet they adjourned without passing it. RARELY, INDEED, HAS THERE BEEN IN THIS COUNTRY A MORE BRAZEN, CONSCIENCELESS DE FEAT OP THE WILL OF T PEO PLE, PLAINLY EXPRESSED, NOT ONLY AT THE BALLOT-BOX, BUT BY THE PLEDGES OF BOTH PAR TIES. AND THE CREAT CORPORA TIONS OF COLORADO CONTINUED SNUGLY WITH THEIR NINE, TEN AND TWELVE HOUR DAYS EARN ING A LITTLE MORE PROFIT And this happened at the capital of Colorado commonly happens at every State capital conspicuously at Albany whenever private interests come into col lision with public interests. Puix AND BOODLE PREVAIL. "Obey the law." the restive working- man or other citizen is told, and ritrhtlv, "If the law does not suit you, go to the ballot-box and change it. This is the American way. It is your only remedy. Try any other and you will be met by the club of the policeman and the gun of the soldier. It is society's duty to itself to maintain the supremacy of the law." So it is. But it is also equally incum bent upon society to see to it that the law is just that it is worthy of respect in its origin and not a thing born of corruption and designed to protect greed and crime. THE WORST OF CRIMINALS IN THIS REPUBLIC ARE THOSE WHO POISON' THE LAW AT ITS SOURCE, They are the foremost and most efficient promoters of anarchy, for when they pro cure or prevent legislation by bribery they destroy faith in the potency of the bal lot, and so invite violence. Colorodo'is an example and a warning, Wealth without moral restraint or sense of public obligation has made a mockery of the law there. By its own lawlessness it has provoked answering lawlessness. It is not only the striking miners that are suffering the consequences of legisla tive corruption and a partial judiciary in Colorado. The entire State is in a tur moil. Business throughout the common wealth is profoundly disturbed and in some places utterly disorganized. Idle ness has fallen upon thousands of work ers, and merchants find their sales dwin dling for lack of customers. Stockhold, ers in corporations are going without their dividends. Taxes have risen and must long continue high in order to pay the cost of a militia kept on a war foot ing for months. The corruption of Col orado's Legislature in the interest of her selfish and criminal corporations has brought loss to every home in the State and want and misery into many. The fruits of government by the trusts for the trusts government by private in terests for private interests; government by pull and boodle are being gathered by the people of Colorado. And these same fruits must inevitably be gathered by the people of every State, sooner or later, where the trusts are al lowed to rot the government for their own profit, regardless of the public wel fare. The trusts, which go sack in hand to the State capitals, are the most danger ous of the Republic's enemies. They kill faith in ballot, break down respect for law, rouse class against class, spread a spirit of desperation, and in their blind greed and brainless contempt for conse quences prepare the way for violence. Tbey turn baffled and angry men's minds toward what should be the last thought to occur to the citizens of a manhood-suffrage Republic rebellion and revolution. The problem raised by Colorado is not how to suppress violence, but how to pre vent violence by attacking the cause. Trust corruption, trust lawlessness how is this to be met and conquered ? The question goes to the pocket as well as to the patriotism of every honest man in the American Union. New York American. The Bishop of Stepney told a striking story when addressing the Federation of Workingmen's Clubs the other day. He described the confusion and noise at Liver pool street Station one night when the suburban trains, working- men's trains and a number of ex cursion trains were being rapidly dispatched one after another. In the midst of the noise and push there stood a porter so calm good tempered and helpful as to be re markable. Atlas the bishop went up to him and said: "My friend, how can you do it? ' and the man replied : "Why," sir, you ought to know. The grace of God !" London Mail. Call it Hearst and let it go at that. ' MITCHELL AGAINST PEABODY- ALSO AGAINST EVERYBODY WHO IS FOR HIM. President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, was before a mass meeting of labor hosts in Coliseum Hall, in Denver, recently. He said : If I have a friend in Colorado, if there is a trades unionist in this State, if there is a good citi zen in Colorado, who believes my judgment to be good, I say he should repudiate the acts of Gov ernor Peabody. "Governor Peabody has said recently that he advised the coal companies to treat with their own employes, and the companies re plied that they were willing to treat with their men, but refused to meet committees of employes dictated to by John Mitchell. "I say publicly that last De cember, when I talked to Gov ernor Peabody, I urged that the companies treat with their own men. I offered to withdraw all officials of the United Mine Work ers from the field. I was always willing that the companies treat with their own men. When the Governor says to the contrary, he lies. At that time he even had the chance to name a committee of miners to treat with the com panies. "I repeat, that every person in this State ought to repudiate this Governor, and I say, as a Repub lican, that the Republican party of Colorado ought to repudiate him. I further say that every Republican workman in Colorado ought to work against him. "I say this as an admirer of the President of the United States. You in Colorado have been through the mill I want to make myself square as far as I am concerned, and as far as every coal miner in the State is con cerned we're not for Peabody we're against him. "If theie's one's union coal miner in Colorado that is for Pea body I say this as far as I am concerned he will be put out of the union. I say this with a full realization of what it means. "I'm called a conservative lead er in fact, in this western coun try, I'm accused of being too con servative, but I a want to say to the most radical among you as far as I'm concerned I'm against Peabody. I'm against the man that's against the common peo pie. If a Republican stands for the people, fight for him ; if a Democrat is for the people, fight for him, and if a socialist is for the people, fight for him. I'm against any man from any party that's against my people, and I'm for any man that's for my people. I stand for men and my people and I stand for the men who stand for my people and my people are the working peo ple. I want to make this impres sion I want to say as a personal friend of President Roosevelt, and a member of the Republican pa ty, I repudiate absolutely the acts of Governor Peabody. "I say this with a full realiza tion of the significance of what it means. If the Republican party doesn't repudiate absolutely what Peabody has done, then I say vote against the party. Governor Pea body has not only disgraced the Republican party of Colorado, but of the entire country. "Again as a workingman and a Republican, I repudiate him and I wish to repeat that I mean what I've said about him. He's no friend of yours ; no friend of government ; no friend of law and order. As a workingman, a Re publican and citizen, I'm against him." American Industries. MISSION OF TRADE UNIONISM 'The American trades union was born with a sympathetic soul. Her ear is turned to catch the whispering wails of oppression. Her tongue has always denounced the wrong and upheld the right. Her hands have always been lift ing men to a higher and better life by shortening their hours of toil, increasing their environ ments in general. If she has erred it has been on the side of mercy and humanity, for, as an organization, she has always marched forward, only demanding the God given and constitutional rights of the American workmen, seeking to arouse them to a sense of their rights as citizens of a great republic'and through organ ization establish their liberty. She has never thrown down the gaunt let to any one and only stood by demanding the rights of free men under a free flag. If this is un American I pause for some one to show me where and why." W. H. Mahon. Socialism is growing more rap idly in the United States today than any radical economic idea ever grew in any country during a period of prosperity, and it is of the most pronounced class-conscious kind Should there come a period of depression as in the latter '80's it will grow many times faster, and should a panic like that of '93' follow, nothing can save this country from polit ical and industrial revolution. The exploiting class realize this, and they are preparing for it. Bismarck Banner. in 1 CC-S 0 en . "c 5 s 51. la 0 4) 91V - 1 9 OJ OS H 65 'O H GO E2 ZZV as u P e8 S