HARBINGER
ORGANIZATION. EDUCATION. ELEVATION.
Vol. III.
Raleigh, North Carolina, July 30. 1904.
No. 30
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"UP WITH THE GREEN AND DOWN
WITH THE RED."
BY SMARAGDOS.
The voice of our nation can never be
bushed,
Tis beard like the roar of the ocean
afar ;
The oppressor has heard it and even he
blushed,
For it likened him unto the autocrat
Czar.
Its expressions are varied betimes, not
amiss,
; demands revenge for the patriot
dead ;
It also gives vent to expressions like this
"Up with the Green Flag and down
with the Red."
From the blood-spattered gibbet, where
Liberty weeps ;
From the heather-clad hill where the
claymore is gleaming ;
From the cell where the proud, maddened
Fenian sleeps;
From the land where the sunlight of
freedom is beaming ; .
From the eastean shore to the western
prairie
The voice of our land, for which heroes
have bled,
Is heard as in Longford or wild Tipperary
"Up with the Green Flag and down
with the Red !"
"Tis the one grand idea that rises before
us,
Like a lone star of hope in our mid
night of woe,
It all the time glimmers so radiantly o'er
us.
It brightens . our pathway wherever
we go ;
Ah, what would we do, cast adrift on the
world,
Beset with perplexity, danger and
dread,
If we had not the hope that the Green,
once unfurled,
Will float over Albion's detestable Red !
But the glorious color of Erin must
flutter,
In triumph and honor, o'er tyranny's
head ;
And the shout raised again which a Fen
ian dare utter
"Up with the Green Flag and down
with the Red!"
Blush not to bear it 'twas borne by old
Brian !
Its luster was often on battle-fields
shed !
This "sunburst" we'll shake in the face
of the "Lion"
Till he crouches in rear of the blood
imbrued Red !
The Emblem of Erin recalls her past
glory-
Recalls the remembrance of days that
are fled
The days when our banner was borne by
Rory
Then, "Up with this Green Flag and
down with the Red !"
Words used by a Fenian in the town
of Longford, some time since, for which
grave offence he was put to live on half-
boiled beans in a British dungeon to be
digested "in solitary." S.
San Francisco.
A VERY CLEVER RASCAL
Russell Sage was talking the
other day about a dishonest but
plausible broker.
"I have caught this man," he
said "in a dozen shady transac
tions. He has always, though,
been ready to excuse himself."
Mr. Sage smiled. Then he
resumed.
"He reminds me of a chap who
broke a plate glass window one
day. As soon as he had broken
the window he hurried off as fast
as he could go. But the shop
keeper had seen him. The shop
keeper came after him and grab
bed him by the collar.
"'Aha, you broke my window,
didn't you, eh?' he said.
"Yes, and didn't you see me
running home for the money to
day for it?' said the other. "
.New York Times.
Labor Notes.
The soda water clerks of Bos
ton are agitating the formation
of a union for the purpose of re
ducing the hours of labor.
A large number of non union
bakers joined the union during
the strike between the master
bakers of Boston and the union
workers.
Seventeen coal companies o:
Illinois were convicted of being
members of a trust, in the Appel
late Court of Chicago, and each
must pay a fine of $500.
Organization of the laundry
workers is being successfully pros
ecuted, and many firms are adopt
ing the union and signing the
agreement.
The agricultural workers o:
Belgium have the finest agricul
tural co-operative system in the
world. Since its adoption it has
proved successful and steadily
grown.
The Central Federated Union
of New York passed a resolution
requesting the revocation of the
charter of the Western Union
Telegraph Co., because of the re
cent pool room exposures.
A mining camp is to be estab
lished to receive the union miners
who have been the victims o:
Citizens' Alliance Anarchists, mil
itary brutes and the State's execu
tive puppet.
ine western .federation o:
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Miners is to provide for Col
orado's deported miners. Claims
are to be secured in New Mex
ico and operated on the co-opera'
tive plan.
Much pressure has been exert
ed upon Attorney General Knox
to include the tobacco trust in the
ist of unlawful combinations
against which proceedings should
be instituted.
Hawaiian longshoremen will or
ganize and affiliate with the Inter
national Longshoremen's Associ
ation. The union has a member
ship of about 800 men, the major
ity of whom are Hawaiians and
ortugese citizens of the United
States.
The farmers who have been
supplying milk to the contractors
of Boston, formed a corporation
with a capital of $30,000. The
corporation is for the purpose of
better protecting the interests of
the milk producers against the
encroachments of the contractors,
The protest of the Musicians'
Union to President Roosevelt
against members of the United
States Marine Band taking the
places of the places of musicians
during disputes, resulted in the
President ordering that no mem
ber of the Marine Band shall take
the place of a civilian dismissed
because of a labor dispute.
E. F. Dubrue, commissioner of
the National Metal Trades' As
sociation of Cincinnati, declared
at the convention of the National
Association of the Manufacturers,
that eighty per cent, of strikes
was due to deficiencies of plants
or the rottenness of their manage
ment.; ' ' v.-
THE VALLAINOUS LABOR UNIONS
A thousand human beings were
burned or drowned in the Slocum
disaster.
Nothing has been done, and
nothing is going to be done about
it but that is another story and
a very familiar one.
You know, of course, why a
thousand lives were destroyed. A
corrupt and dishonest company
whose president, by the way, had
been called a swindler from the
bench had bribed corrupt and
dishonest inspectors, who should
have prevented the disaster by
enforcing safety laws.
Are you aware of the fact that
some ordinary, low-down labor
unions - the unions of pilots and
of engineers have been strtio--
gling for a long time to obtain
better laws to protect life 011 the
water, and especially to enforce
the laws that exist ?
The effort of the unions has
been made ai Washington, and in
the State Legislature but it has
been defeated.
The steamship companies and
owners denounced the action o
the union men as meddlesome
and impertinent. They said that
they ought to mind their own
business, and not interfere with
the business of the steamship
companies, from whom .. they get
their bread and butter.
The steamship companies were
successful, the labor unions were
defeated, the Slocum was not
properly inspected no boats are
properly inspected, if the owners
are willing to pay bribes and the
thousand human beings were
killed.
This kind of impertinent ined
dling by labor unions is done in
many directions and it is vigor
ously opposed in as many direc
tions by "respectable" money as
sociations.
The unions fight against child
labor.
They fight against the use of
dangerous materials in buildings
They fight against overcrowd
ing and sweatshops.
They fight against disease
breeding tenements that threaten
everybody.
In every instance they are op
posed by "respectable" property
that does not want to be inter
fered with.
It is to be hoped that sooner or
ater and sooner, rather that la
ter all citizens will be united in
a great union of labor and patriot
ism, and they will succeed at last
in establishing the fact that life,
health, education and happiness
:or all are more important than a
;ew miserable dollars for a few
blind and selfish egotists. New
York Evening Journal.
ITEMS OF REASON.
We should never shrink con-
cessions to reason.
No movement advances faster
than the reason directing it.
Do not leave as a memorial a
monument of ignorance.
Ignorance and prejudice should
be destroyed and not the de
stroyers of the trades union move
ment.
MUD SLINGING YS- COMMON
SENSE
American Industries, theofficia
organ of the National Association
of Manufacturers, otherwise
known as the "manufacturers
paper," is engaged in an effort to
affiliate all manufacturers with
said organization wnirh hae
appa ently, no other end in view
but the extinction of organization
amongst their employes. Does
it seem reasonable to imagine that
if successful in such an accom
plishment their organization
would then vanish? Far from it.
They are already very much alive
to the benefits found in fraternal
cooperation. The dust of bias
which now blears their vision to
ward organization among work
men will not injure the latter
merely embitter them and increase
the tension of discord. Change
front, American Industries, credit
unionism with having some good
points which are well to occasion
ally exploit rather than constantly
harping only upon its flaws.
Unionism among vorkinen, we ad
mit does not abound with fault
less methods and practices, but
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me cruae state lias Jong- since
been passed and improvement
marks their progress. Their mis
takes are usually those of the
hsid. which can be overcome, but
not by pursuing a policy of syste
matic nersecution and hplittlp.
tnent, emanating from. the malice
of the heart. You mav lead them
to the fount of enlightenment,
but its sparkling waters will re
main untasted if the phial of sense
less temper and ndicule pollute its
bowl. Postal Record.
TRUE SAYINGS-
Conduct is three-fourths of life
Mary Adams.
The frog in the well knows
not the p-reat sea. Tananpse
proverb.
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It is better to follow even the
shadow of the best than to remain
content with the worst. Henry
Van Dyke.
Envy no man who is not some
times a fool. The thing is to
know it. Your true fool never
does. S. Weir Mitchell.
Courtesy, kindness and concen
tration this ; trinity forms the
sesame that will unlock all doors.
Elbert Hubbard.
To have what we want is rich
es ; but to be able to do without, is
power. Geo. MacDonald.
"Effort without ideal is an
archy ; effort under fase ideas is
thraldom."
One hates to try to lick the
new postage stamp. It has grown
too large for a licking.
Words are keener than steel and
mightier for woe and for weal.
Joaquin Miller.
Ambition means to be higher
than others. Aspiration means
to be high. MacDonald;
A wire gridiron, smeared with
molasses or honey, and electric
ally charged, is the latest fly-
killer.
Unyielding prejudices!Tdo not
signify strong natures but fool
natures.
LOCATION OF COOPS-GAPES-
Plenty of good coops and a
suitable location for them must
be provided, so as to be prepared
for the hatches as fast as they
come off. An orchard is a very
nice place for them The trees
furnish shade for the mother and
her brood and they benefit the
trees by thinning out the insects
The site selected should be as far
from the poultry house and runs
of the older fowls as possible, for
the chicks cannot do well with a
flock of grown fowls. They tram
ple them, steal their food,- etc.
If your chicks had gapes last
year, do not use the same ground
for them this year ; better change
to a new place, for they would
not be liable to contract the same
disease again. The cause of this
disease is a small worm of a red
dish color, which the chicks find
in the ground and attempt to
swallow, but it lodges in the
windpipe and shuts off its wind
until it is . forced to gasp for
breath. As soon as a' chick is
seen gaping better try some rem
edy, or it will gradually gape its
life away. A great many recom
mend the horse-hair remedy, but
it Feems so cruel to torture the
poor chick in this way. If some
thing can be given the chick to
cause it to sneeze it up it certain
ly is a better plan. There are
many ways to do this ; first, by
blowing Persian powder down its
turoat, or by putting them in a
barrel or box and dusting air-
slacked lime over them. A cov
ering of thin muslin or cheese
cloth should be tied tightly across
the top of the barrel or box and
the lime can be sifted slowly
through this. Do not attempt
this if the chicks are weak, or
there would be danger of smoth
ering them. Keep them away
from places where earth worms
are liable to be found, as manure
or old wood piles. P. W. H, in
St. Louis Farmer.
The case of United States Senator
Joseph R. Burton, accused of ac
cepting a fee for service before the
Postoffice Department, will be re
viewed by the United States Supreme
Court.
A great drouth is injuring German
crops. :
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THEY ARE PASSING-
Take a walk through any of
ti
lie cemeteries throughout the
country and you will believe with
us that fools are passing away.
With silent tread you pass the
last resting place of the individual
w
ho bjew into an empty gun.
The modest tombstone of the
hired girl who lighted the fire
will kerosene, and the grass cover
ed mound that covers the remains
of a boy who took a mule by the
tail.
The tall monument of the man
who didn't know it was loaded
overshadows the dugout of the
man who jumped off the car to
save a ten rod walk.
Side by side lay the remains of
the ethereal creature who alwavs
kept her corset laced up to the
last hole and the intellectual idi
ot that rode a bicycle nine miles
;n ten minutes. "
Here reposes the youn doctor
who was foolish enough to take a
dose of his own medicine, and
the old fool who married a young
wife.
Right yonder in the northeast
corner, where the gentle breezes
sigh through the weeping wil
lows, lies the fellow who told his
mother-in-law she lied.
Down there in the potter's field
with his feet sticking out to the
rude blasts of winter and the
blistering rays of the summer's
sun, stretches all earthly remains
ot the misguided regulator who
tried to lick the editor, while the
broken bones of the man who
wouldn't pay for his paper lay
piled up in the fence corner.
Nearby, his grave unmarked.
reposes the mouldering dust of
the editor who starved to death
trying to run a first-class paper
in a second-class town.
Over by the entrance reposes the
boy who went swimming too early
i 11 the season and the lady who kept
strychnine and baking powder
side by side in the same cupboard.
Right there in the path direct
ly in front of the entrance, ob
structing the way, is the grave of
the microbe killer who ruined
himself inside and out with an
antiseptic solution until his ago
nies were cut short by acute soft
ening of the brain. Exchange.
VALUE OF BIRDS AS INSECT DE
STROYERS.
The practical value of birds in
controlling insect pests should be
more generally recognized. It
may. be an easy matter to exter
minate the birds in an orchard or
grain field, but it is an extremely
dimcult one to control the
insect pests. It is certain, too,
that the value of our native spar
rows as weed destroyers is not
appreciated Weed seeds form
an important item of the winter
food of many of these birds and it
is impossible to estimate the im
mense numbers of noxious weeds
which are thus annually destroy
ed.. Justice and reason are the
permanent levers of the labor
movement.
William J. O'Brien, Jr.. of Balti
morewas elected Grand Exalted'
Ruler of the Elks.