Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1878, Page 5

AGES. quarter, and then the notch will ' gradual gu:u over the sun’s face until nothing is ;:umtumn crescent. Therefs to be no pooement on account of - the weather, and st are no reserved seats. Arrangements e sotn made with O1d Indications to have a sairafternoon in Chicago; hence the solar and P lsplay may be calculated upon as a first- o rormance in every respect. ' The next edipee’ Will be o November, when the Dem- e party will pass behind aclond fn ail the " Nuthern States, visivle to the naked eye every- WY Ourve HanPee, oneof the editors of m%mpm Globe, publishes an foteresting srticle fn reply to some of the attacks that have recently been ‘made azainst the character of the Erorxie. - Shesays that ‘*She reigned Empre® fiy and moderstion and kindness i adverse fortune gent her an all until o & strange countey. Tust she was re. almost sisterly affection and genuine "";‘,’,;‘::W by the -Queen of . England is mfi,unmd of her worth as 2 wuman.” Miss e epjoyed sn Intimate acquaintance with 5:‘ NipoLEoX for nany years, and her esti- sateof her character and worth is no doubt U‘ffi' e 1 PorLLirs has a characteristic arti- dx:f:fi'mh American Review, and of course fakes a gloomy view of the situation so far as 1beRepublican party fsconcerned. He bemoans {he fact that the ensanguined undergarment Jasbeen Telezated 1o private life n a tone of gespondency that well comports with the sad grain of & Jeading edstorial intbe L.-0.-T. Mr. T ps says: When Senators and journals led the ‘bloody sbirt? they laughed their poRer AWEJ; 28 CervaNTEs did the manhood of Sa” of The Tritine. cnmn,?u';zgflrnfu the Sub-Treasury in ‘ning the new 4 per cent bonds? (2) If £, ab you siate at what price? (3) 0, please . Eoratiebas dstes the interest i3 _payable, and - sbould be addressed on the subject of invest- iz, Yoors truls, AN OLD SUBSCRIBZR. Asswen: (1) Yes. () Parin coin. () The Interest commences with the date of subserip- tom, spd 15 pavable quarterly, fn. January, Agril, July, and October. (4) The Chicago Sub-~ - qreasurer, Mr. FRANE GILBERT. ——————— The Washington Republican complains that fhe lies of Axperso¥, WEBER & Co. are being lasted over the country as truth by tbe ocratic National Committee; but we don’t why that should be a cause of complafnt. ‘crowd of perjurers has cost the great ocratic party money enough already, and itk a pity if such expensive creatures cannot be e to pay in some direction. O course the Democratic theory is that HAYES is & fraud and it is fair 10 lic abont. him. ————— Last week the St. Louis people celebrated the two-hundred-and-firth anniveraary of the ex- ploration of the Mississippi River by ManQurzrre and Jourer. The festival was given under the ansplces of the §t. Loufs Historical Society, sad the celebration was everything that could be desired. The cxercises consisted of speeches by someof the most eminent gentlemen of Mis- soari, chora! performances, and the ceremony of uoveiling the busts of CoLuasss and Maxm- QUETTR. !mflmu-rmn Committee spent most o its time during the early part of the scason in the vain effort to get hola of “the missing " letter® supposed to have been written by Jomy SazsMaw. Falling to find it, they are now entering upon the stifling weather of the dog- days searchine for that . “‘missing 1ink.” Be- tuixt the “missing letter” and the * missing 1ok ™ the Committee will miss its great oppor- tunity. ‘The editor of the 0d' Flag (Pike County, D1.) 1t pot 100 obistinate to take ont of his paper any uijust. or improper. language which ‘may have fined admittance. He gives his aggrieved Tatrons this notice: If any subscriber finds 8 line in his paper that + Je does not like and cannot agree with, if "he will ing bis paper 1o the office and point out the of- - lmging {tem the editor wiil take his scissors and atitont for him. —— fhen it was proposed “in the Democratic Eate Convention of Texas to adupt a plank in 1he platform opposing action in recard to the Temoval of President HATEs, a delegate by tue zame of GILES got 80 angry thathe tore off hls bidge 55 8 deterate and left the Convention in disgust. 1f the fool-killer had bappened around there sbout that time there would have been e for him. e e 1tissald that Jaxes E. ANDERSON, the tal- enied midnight editor and protessional Louisi- 13 witness, has connected himself with the Washington Post. 1f that is so, there is not a manis America who will believe a word the Put says hercatter about anything or anybody. Most likely, however, that,as ens is dear in Washinzton, d1r's red head fs to be utilized fo e Post office for illuminatine purposes. It would be to the credit of the St. Louis peo- el they were as candid and trathful as some of the editors of the New Orleans newspapers. For example, here is what ouc of the papers nm: Juemmor woman who has the leleure and Toney h_to pay bis fare, by rail or river, ¥UD temaing in Xew Orleans during the summer months 18 simply 8 perswn of very bad taste and bat slight appreciation of comfort. Fa Little Doourrex, the Democratic candidate for Congress fn the Chicazo Dietrict. is 2 son of ex- ;,‘f-lfi'::)&wt.rrxu, loz \\'l:ctan!in‘ wxaqd(s x&q\vn LITTLE, althongh he never did an; in; 1 cara that dietinctive titie, 1t Js sald hat. the Joung men does not inlierit any of the old man's §00d Sense, Emall as the heritage wonld neceasarily Bvebeen.” 1ti# probable that he 13 appropriately amed litfle Doowrrrie.— i ashington Aepub- Nufcea, —_———— . \flm informed a New Orleans reporter that she nas & large amount of information on lanldnmnm:s. where politics is a science, thatsheaid not divulge before the POTTER Commlttee. Ste may be able to furnish Mr. Bes Boreen with thot “missing Tink * that he Bsekingater. Who knows! —— Au enthusiastic young Western Democrat has witten Mr. S, J. TrLpex a letter, asking his Outnion 25 to the availability of Gen. WINFIELD COCE as a Presidential candidate for ;::: Of 180, As far asheard from, Mr. Tr not yet replied to that young man's Wterrogatory, —— Senator TaoRyAN hios postponed his opening h'flwrhnmn the 13th of Angust. That passage it 1o finance is probably undergoing Aaother revision; hence its postponement. L ——— hm!:ew York Graphic says that “The cry GRaxrwasinstinctive. There wasno concert #™ Batyon fellows séem to be shout- fagtn “concert sbont it fust now. - “gor. Hexpricxs' Presidential stock fs so low #1500 Jonger quoted on the political stock: lioer Itisn't worth ten cents on the dollar " Confederat scrfp. 2 & ”I“ 3.13vine on Mount Washington there . ow 3 m::drm thirty feet deep. ‘A partyof - *PeCiators from. St. Louis Lave gone up to o Pirehage g i A ad uo ¥ h:fflck" PoMEROY §s now" vrepared to for: i fiat " money, Socialistic, and Communistic Peeches ready-written for a dollar s dozen. L-:" CuRY 8375 the Nationals will earry Mich- thethis fall by 50,000 majority. Sax inflates tuth more than he does the currency. e, O ¥hich lee will Mr. BEACONSFIRLD wear Bew elastict i Di'500 ever hear of & colored men beln Sustryery e % T]I_E LABOR - QUESTION. Mrs. Swisshelm Continues to Dis- cuss this Much-Mooted Topic, And Pours’ Additional Hot-Shot Into -+ the Trades-Union Organ- izations, - Various Correspondents’ Make Reply to Mrs. S.’s ‘Pravious Articles, And. Argue as to the Relations - Exist~ ing Between Employer and - Employe, - % THAT ELEPHANT. 7o the Editor of The Tridune. . Prixceroy, 1N, July 27.—¢ Ruth, 2 Work- Ingwoman," is reminded, by my opposition to Trades-Unions, of the “six blind men of Hin- dostan, who went to see the elephant, and one, {eeling the elephant's side, concluded that it was mighty like a wall.” Men bave bullt better than they knew, and this womon hus fllustrated better than she knew. Most workmen know better than I what is meant by “*secing the elephant”; but 1 have understood that it fs meeting something to which we looked forward as a help, and finding it 2 hindravce; and the parose probably grew - out of the experience of the man who drew an elephant as a prize, and learned to envy his nelzhbors who had drawn blanks, Lf it signifies disappoiotment, danger, disaster, we have all seen this elephant of Trades-Unions. Civiliza- tion has gone down into Hindostan to examine it, has felt it, and blindly concluded that it is **mighty like a wall”; nay, that it is a wall, and one which bars her progress, and turns her back to barbarism. This elephant was fmported from eavagery, and I8 in the hands of traveling showmen, who contrive, like the priests of Siam, to be well Daid, through the offerings brought by thou- sands of duves to lay uvon the altar of this Qeity with the long trunk and capacious stom- ach. g A MAN WHO WORKS TO LIVE" stated, in your columns, lately, that it Is the bummers of a trade who usually control its Union. Of course ft fs: for they are the travel- ing showmen who live by exhibiting the ele- phant, and persuading weary toflers that, fora small montbly stipend, this divinity of the toueh hide will draw all their burdens and bring them to the land of Heulah. So every man with a wheelbarrow to trundle, oracartto draw, isurged to take stotk in the new loco- motive power, aud the various hitching appa- ratuses have produced no eud of ‘confusion, while those who bhave come near enoush to “ see the elephant * have-been left in a con- dition to require the aid of any Ssmaritan who «might happen to pass that way. * Ruth's” inadvertent warning may well lead each man to weigh the amount of assistance he bas re- ived, or is likely to receive, from the elephant, and to consider how far the tithes paid to nim would go toward the purchase of a small ox. a pony, a donkey, or ¢ven a dog, which should be his own, and be easily harpessed. ‘As for the good_sccomplished by Unions, we will take this “ Workingwoman’s* account of her model London elephant. After a boy bas served years to become a skiiled mechanic, and his parents have paid his expenses, the elephant steps forward and gives him s look, insures him better. pay than a “hotch,’ and does something for families when out of work. To accomplish this herculean task, we have an organization covering the twenty miles square of London, runniug out and in, up and down, all around and about, through its hundreds of miles of streets and alleys. To keep it up, thousands pay taxes; hails and speakers are Lired, officers paid good salaries, and hundreds of men compelled to travel miles, after a day’s work, to attend meetings. We have a constitution and by-laws, a President and car-load of Vice-Presideats, 8 Treasurer and Auditor; a Secretary and Record- mg Secretary, and Becretaries %m tem.; we have a Board of Managers, and a Business Com- mittee, and a Finance Comunittee, a Committee on Credentials, ana on all other sublunary affairs, besides no end of Sub-Committees, and all this machivery must be set in motion 1o get 2 book for that bov, to keep that poor “botch’ from getting workman’s wages, or to send relief to a man out of work. “All of which is on the orinciple of employiog a very large elephant to o the work of a very smail Shetiznd pony. What reason is there why a boy who, by “vyears of spplication,” bas le%fllred a Tade, cannot get a book of patterns and prices? Why does he not earn a shilling, and_then gotoa book-stand and buy a book? Has he, all at once, become such un idiot thatall London must move to bring the book to him? Or does it just_mean that the showmen want his shil- 1ing to help to buy provender for their elephant and porter for themselves? Apain: Why do not ** boss cabinet-makers " attend to the ‘‘botch” business? Are they generaliy such numbskulls 2s not to kmow a workman from o “botch?i Or are they so hopelessly bent on paying high .wages to “ botches™ that we must have an elephant to set his foot on them, and stamp common sense into their heads or life out of their bodies? In ber sketel of 2 Trades-Union * Ruth ”” has left out all those features which I have hereto~ fore denounced, 2nd tias given us the good side; and this I propose to examine in derail. By ber account, a Trades-Union is a8 combination by which the cunning draw penuies trom the pockets of the unsuspecting, and profit from the patient application of those who prove by success that they require no assistance. It is a contrivance by whicli meddlesome folks find op- portunities to interfere in the business of other people. Itis a benevolent fostitution on the prize-package principle, 2 lying-made-easy machine for “teaching men to indorse papers without knowing their contents; an anti-brain-cuiture contrivance, and one of those medadlers which get in the way on all possible occasfons. It muitiplies the public burdens of its members and combines them into a hostile band, whose hand, Jike that of Cain, is against every man; and which thus makes it necessary at every man’s hand sball be neainst it It is ‘a sliging scale by which men are let down from self-support to pauperism without feeling a hock. + 7 ‘This much inevitably follows her statement of the case; and history proves that, in addi- tion to the -above list of recommendations, a Trades-Union is a school prolific of robbery and murder. Of course, without a tax on all members, there would be no funds to buy that book, or help the man out of employment. Of course, the money thus collected goes into the hands of tbe more shrewd or cunning members; and some of them aiways profit by jt. It 1s not the struepling apprentice who is aided; the Upion only extends its band to him when he proves himself -able to get slone without ft. It teaches John Camp, Jjourncyman cabinet-maker of the Strang, that it is his_duty to dictate, not only the wages which Sampson & Son shall oay to tum, but also what thev shail pay to every other work-~ mau in their shop. Nay, be not only feels called upon to control the business of Sampson & Son, but of Beebee & Bros., across the way: and not only that of the Beebees, but of all and sundry of the master cabinct-makers inthe limats of London town. This is a'tall contract, but not balf coough to satisiy the vaulting ambition of the mucb-undertaking John; for he must not only regulute the prices for all emplovers in his line of business, but be must pusrantee the efliciency of each one .of thefr mploves. . o do this, he must make o large draft on his faith or imagination. or both; for it is quite jmpossible that John should be able ta state, of bis own knowledge, that every member of his Union reaches any particalar standard of excel- lence in workmanship. . Not one in a-thousand. could have that personal knowledge of the ac- guirements- of all the ‘members of his Union that he could -honestly and intellizibly vouch for them; and the wholesale mutual indorse- ment which this Workingwoman ??_ascribes 2s a_virtae -to the members of a Union, ‘is Dothing more nor less tpan 8 wholesald signing. of documents by, men ignorant of their cons tents; and to this feature” of this Irving-made- easy machine, a Trades-Union, we may ascribe much of that want ni\;h:jilinessflnlzgflty and accuracy from which we saffer. ., __ Tbr:n{:u-hminmnurc'iennre of the Union lies in its false promise To save"members the tronble of doing their own thinking, and of that {orethought which provides for a rainy day. It lies in enconrseing full-crown men to act like upreasoning children, shifting their responsi- bilities from their own shoulders to that of an orgazization which has 10 body to kick and 0o lto darhn. mj“: ;‘fuluplics the burdens of its members by compelling them to malttain an {nstitation and Bn'lag;d oflicers over aud above those of the State. Every workingman must pay his- share of the general tax, and of the salaries of public officers, and, in addition, he must support the Tnion 2ad its officers. R Tt forms a stiding scale from self-subport to vauperism, by teaching its members to receive 2id from the Union, when they would. scorn to apply to the State for alins; .and, by creating a distinction without o difference, bresks down the independence of -thousands, and reduces them to beggary or ever toey. are. aware. To orove the facility with whicn Labor-combina- tions produce .robbers and murderers, I need only poiut to the recent history.of my native State,—the great workshop of the . Nation,—r duced to something like anarchv; ruled by robbers, rioters, and rufiians, who were made what they are, or furnished with opportunities. by, Trades-Unfons. : But the bad feature of the Union is its return to barbarism by arraying workien into hostite clans, cach secking spoil at thecast of the other, and all ‘makior war upon the industries on which tney depend fur a Ifving, When cabioet- ‘makers succeed, by combination, to keep their wages above market-prive, they levy an arbitrary tax on all other classes of Soclety. and, to pay this tax, every carpenter,. mason, brick-layer, tailor, day-laborer, and clerk, as weil as every one Iiving on the rents of real cstate, is com- pelled to zive more for his bedstead avd bureau, bis chairs and his tables, as well as do with less furniture, than hé would have if Le purchased at a cheaser rate. Then, it is notonlvthe extra wazes which diminish the ?mmlil:y of furniture £ald, and raises the price of =il put into warket, but the time lost in strikes. For every day’s work lost there sre that maoy less chairs and tables, and that many more people leit to lie on | the floor for want of bedsteads. Now, tha cabiret-makers, having taken this atitude of hostility to the carpenters, the lat- ter combine in sélf-defense, and by artiflcial ‘means raise their waees above the vatural level of suppiy and demand, get up strikes, and Jose time; g0 there are a less number of Louses into which folks can put bedsteads.and bureaus; Tents go up or refuse to come down, and wore folks live in cellars. Next, the tailors, hav- ing to pay more for house-rent, in order that the carpenter may pet more wages, aud more for bedsteads and Lureaus, that the cabinet- maker may handle more shiilings. conspire to- gether, and the two C’s. must pay more for a coat. Then the shoemakers make all three pay o fancy price for shoes, while every day more men must go barcfovted aud do without coats, as well as live in cellars and sleep on foors, that each clasa of mechanics may be able to maintain its war against ail vhe otliers, snd cvery cus- tomer who may patrouize ther. By this simple process alone socicty becomes a vonglomeration of hostile tribes. each trying to live by spoiling all the others. Then there is a call for the sinews of war. Folks must haye money,—money,~ore and more money,—that the carpeuter can pay more for his bedstend, and the cabinetmaker ‘more for his house, that the shoemaker may pay more for bis coat, and bhouse, and vedstead, and the tailor more for his beastead, and house, and shoes. So it goes eround and around; nothinz Is valued for its use, but only for the amount of moneyit can be mudes to represent; when -in _comes your money-lender, or maybe he i3 {o- before, and h being a son of old Jacob, gathers the sheep, an oxen, and ssses into his field in droves, and thus becomes the possessor of very large ;‘mgnnu of stock, which increase after their nd. Hugh McCulloch said, years ago, that the value of all property depends on the amount of money o circulation, and so zave the Key to the whole financial question g0 far as money is the measure of value; but if laboring men could learn that a pair of shoes are just as good when they cost $1 a8 when they cost $5 they would be further on in the rond to independence. Our present crisis comes from the erinding of our manufacturers and all other employers of Iabor, between the upper and lower mfllstones of money-lenders and laborers. Say we had $2,000,00 in circulation at the close of the War, and a manufacturine company was paying in- terest on $50,000, while its stock was worth $100,000. As soon as oue-half the circulation was withdrawn, its oroperty, or stock, was worth only as much as its dedt. for the debt remained immovable. Then say that that same company was paying its laborers $2a day; the value of that fwo dollars hos become four. The men to ‘whom they owe the $50,000 jusist on the utter- most farthing, although every one has ‘become a hall-peany through the fncreased value of moucy. Then every employe demands his $2, although this doubles hfs wiges. Ana what can the employer.do but fail {3 * - Tn producing that failure, .the :money-broker and the laborer act in concert, and are " equally guilty of robbery: and. generally,. both over~ reach themselves,—for the one'is often ziad to get 20 cents on the doliar when he might have bad the full amount of his claim, viz.: $25, if his miserable greed had ot led him to kil the goose which Iald his %uld:n' ezg; while the Iaborer, instead of doubling : his' waces, finds himself witbout any wages atall. . Tt is nothing fnore nor less ' than the blind, stupid selfishoess of a pig which has led these two classes to_crush the intermediate class,— the oné on which both depended, the one for a profitable investment for his capital of cash, the other for its. capital of labor. Now, gentlemen, summon all your dignity, and each one hold an indignation meeting, and sond on your resolutfons; but you'never can resolve 2way the plain. square fact that it was the pio- gishuess of creditors and Labor-combinations which has parafyzed the fndustries of this and other countries, ana filled the world with the cry of want. A pig like that old Bible beast, with the feet of iron and clay, which bresks, aud devours, and stamps the residue under the feet of it, while secking to'gratify a present demand of appetite; and so the stupid animal instinct has prevailed in those who had the power to lay waste the fair and fruitful field of our industries, and they li¢ a desolation to-day. “Ruth ”” surwmises that 1 do not like Unions because they prevented my “making a for- tune,” and that I tried to get my printers to “wait for their pav, or work forless than Union prices”; all of which is quite gratuitous, and such a creation of fancy as might lead one to infer that she is one of those moral philosophers who run mills for the exoress purpose of sup- plying all human actions with mean motives. She is wide of the mark when she calls up “gallantry” as an element of business, and also when ghe assumes that it was I who first employed female compositors. 1 think I first made their employment a suceess in the Smoly City, and I did it simply by excluding eallantry, aud placing women at the case whose decent self-respect cuabled them to maintain their ‘position as compositors with the men around them for the work they could do as well, and 1or less money. All the oporessions by employers of which “ Ruth” complains as exercised against women, may probably arise from the fact that the women she speaks of may rest their claims to employment in husiness caBacity and appeals to gallantry in_about equal proportion, 'All men who aid in driving such women back into the domestic circle, or the gutter if need be, do render the world some scrvice; for I know no ater moral pestilence than a simpering, gal- antry-claiming, woman in a workshop with mep. " 1f there are women of fortune who will pay for the privilege of settfug type, they are the folks who ouch to set it; and if, by cmploying them publisters can underbid others for the world’s printing, all right, Let us have the lowest responsible bidder,—plenty of cheap type-setting, cheap :ndrcnfsing. cheap papers, heap books. Cheap fabor, and plenty of it, must bring cheap rents, cheap fuel, cheap bread and butter, and beef,and beans, Hurry up your army of idlers, whether they be women of fortuue or men without. Set the whole com- muupity to work; and, no matter whether each one gets two cents a day or ten, thev will all have enough and to spare, and may be taught to Rather up the fragments that nothing be lost. To Mr. Nelson I eay that the positioe [ claim to be invincible is, that every man shall stand by his contract; that it is treschery and cow- ardice to make a bargain, and, at thesame time, ind yourself to break it. I mar deserve the name of a * mischief-making minx,” if honest efforts"to prevent mischief are the way to make it, and minxes are given to that. kind of labor. I still think Labor-combinattons largely, if uot wholly, responsible for the great corporations be names, since they have crushed the mauu- 1acturers of the country, made labor dependent on railroads, and so made Scott and Vanderbilt masters of any situation. - I repeat that Labor- legislation has steadily tended to one point, viz.: toattach penaltfes to the employment of labor, and deny to the Iaborer all' freedom of action in disposing of the only commodity he bas to sell. \ T have not denfed to the founders or members of Trades-Unions houesty-of parpose; but I ‘maintain that theso Unions are .a delusion and 3 snare, and this position.Iwill bold until driven from it by argument, or the évidence of accomplished : facts.” If 1godown,as he pre-" dicts, it will be like that little wooden ship sunk by the monster iron-clad, with colors fiving and every gun delivering a parting shot. - As for the ;personal abase with which he. charges me, I have |- ‘used pone. All may hard words have been aimed -at possible events; and, so far from my warning 1o the engineers being 2 slander and an injury, it was one of the best services £ coula . have ren-: dered thém and the traveling community. With the information 1 had, I should bave ‘been a coward and =a traitor had I kept - silence. But there is one thing to which I would call the attention of indignant engineers and Unlon men, and this is, thaf 1 have irculated no report more injurious than the admission of *“Railroga-Man ™ fn bis tirst article, and the closinz words ‘of Mr. Ndlson’s letter, when he cowpares workinomen to Indisns, and claims that the one has as mucheause as the other to be “enemies and traitors 10 the United States Government,” If they are'not now, they mast contemplate becoming striitorss and ihis is much more than anything I- bave -said or thought of them. - 5 e As for * Ratlroad-Man?’ e is still eroaning because I warned enginegrs.and the public of a reported strike, while he deplores the action whose mention he rcbuis as aslander. His £mall sneer about the réd light is so small - that it would reguire .8 veyy strong head-light to make out his point; but, in future, when he {ollows the red lantern, he mav remember that it is my signal of physical danger, even as my present - appeals are the note of warning to all workingmen against ‘mioral delinquency and financial fuln. — .+ JANE GREY SwissneLy, EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYE. To'ths Editor of, The Tribune, CricaGo, July 25.~In‘one of her rocent let- ters to locomotive-drivers dad workingmen gen- erally, Mrs. Swisshelm says, deliberately, that, after having looked futo /this Labor question as closely as any one, withan honest purpose to un- derstand it, “she would not give fwo cents.for any $100 share in any; euterprise which gives employment to uny ¢lass of laboring men; they Lave proved tbat,in thé' cuntest they have raised, they hesitate at o0 act-of robbery or murder to manifest thelrthatred of employers, and 50 vigorously have they prosecuted the war that there are comparatively few enemics left for them to encounter.” e This is a mosf astonishing declaration. Aside from its folly and ‘shorisightedness, v is little short of blasphiemy." What earthly enter- prise can Mrs. Swisebelm invest in that docs not depend upon labor for its success? Can money multiply itself, or be {ruitful, if not taken hold of bv labor? Iadmit that she can fnvest fn United States bonds or national-bank stock, getting o large fncrease without depending for it dircctly uvon Iabor; but, indirectly, it is labor here also that creates the increase, and that which she is getting in the.shape of inter- est end dividends- upon such investments s the gain made by labor, which the men who pro- duced it have been madeto give up for her benelit, either volumurll{, ar by force, She says, “They [the laboring-men] hesitate at no act of robbery or’ murder to manifest their hatred of employers This is strong language, and I ppt it to the conscienceof every workingman in the Jand if this is so. I say It ig not. 1sav further, toatsif laboring-men ever resort to robbery and murder, they are driven to sheer desperation first, by ‘the Tobbery and o?urcssiun OF their employers; witness the late Quebec riots, where the men were promised $1 a day for working on the Government Building, and received only 60 cents a day when pay-day came, [ claim that the Iaboring-men, tyran- nically oppressed na thov. are sometimes, do hesitate and suffer great indiznity and injustice beforc they go to the extreme of robbery and murder. e If Mrs. Bwisshelm would acquaint herself with.the suffering and misery thut monobolized robbery has, for the last ‘w0 or three vears, im- posed upon the miners and their families in the Pennsylvania coal region, [ think she would have better reason to praise the workingmen for their patient long-suffering _under fvjustice and tyranny than to make the broad charge azainst them sha does. F 1 think it is unfortunate that Mrs. Swisshclm used such language as thatcited above. The present times are unnzturally hand for tabor all over tbis fair land, and ‘discontent and mischicf are breeding fast enough without throwing oil on the tiames by unfair and unjust charges like those of Mrs. Swisshelm. - Mrs. Swisshelm’s experience with ber hired men seems not to have been the happiest; still 1 do not think she has suflicient ground for ber charge that laboring men, as a rule, are traitors towards the best Interests of their employers; and, if _they are, I claim _that their_emologers have made them so,by theirselfish and mercenery treatment. Being the oldest ina poor family ol seven childreg, I have bad to earn my own living #ince I was 12 years old. T have had some expericoce in this business of working for wages and hiving belp on farms, that I thiok Is a relia- ble as Mrs. Swissheln's, because I have been through the mill myself, both as cmplove and employer. ~ From my 12th to my 20th year L worked -for others for wages, supportice myself, and helping my parents with the support of the youneer of the family. Duriug these fourteen years I worked teh years as a farm-hand. bired out by the year, three years as laborer in a brewery, and one ‘year us comwron laborer on earth-work, such as grading of streets, digeing canals, ex- cavating cellars for new binldings, I have had experience of burd work, and know just exsctly how workmen fecl about their employ- ers, you want them to be faithiul, and take interest” in your success, be considerate, and show them {Byy you take an intercst in ther welfare. . ‘When I was 26 years old, I took a partner, and we went fnto the business of raising a fam: ily of our own, in which we are getting slonz first-rate, having already three chudren, with good prospects ahead for as many more at least. ‘About that time { also commenced employing inen to work for me, and- bave douc so cves siuce, and, with but few exceptions, with very satistactory results. 2 From my own experienice in the school of hard bodily Jubor 1 learned bow to treat labor- ing men. and I therctore endeavor always to ar- range their work and pay so that fhey feel, when they are working for me, they are doing tbe best they can possibly do for themselves under the present circunstances. The great desire of nive-tenths of working- men is to be able to save something from their wages, which will cuable thiem, some day in the future, to set up buainess for thewmselves, either by getting » picce of land ‘or in sume other way. The employer who will bear this in mid, and 50 treat, his men that they. koow that he has o genuine desire that thev should do well and earn all they can, end as ‘soon as poseible be- come independent, will:bave no trouble in fioding workmen that will take an interest in whie suceess of his business, because success to him meuns success to thew. But the thousands of. soulless corporations that employ g0 much labor in this countrs are those that spoil and degrade labor; employing it Tor no other purpose than to wring from it the utmost_value for the, very least vompensa- tion; the interests of employer und employe become autagonistic, and‘ these corporations, tnstead of emvloying - larse-hearted philan- thropical men to deal with their employes,— which would pay them Dbest in the long run,— zeverally choose to employ, as superintendents and bosses ol their workuwen, those narrow- minded men, void of all consclence, whose chief qualification consists in their ability to concoct schemes and wotkiout plans by which labor i3 impoverisheq, pressed down, and made dependent upon the sweet will of a greedy snd sclish oligarchy. d From my own experience, both as lahorer and employer, I bave learned, ynd- therefore claim. that laboring men are just what their employers make them. I claim thap:ft isin the power of every emplover to make his workmen faithful and true to his best interests, or vice versa. The wicked love of gain at the expensc of their fellow-men, and the ambition to rule over their emploves like petty tyrants, on the part of the emplovers, have caused the laboring classes to organize themselves in societies aud combina- tions for their own - protection agalost wicked men in power, who, through luree and powerfal corporations, agrrandize and corich themselves at the expense of the labor they control. 1T hold, tirerefore, that, 3s far as laboring men are unfaithful to the best interest of therr em- plovers, it is tbe employers themselves who have made them so; and,if Mrs. Swisshelm de- sires that workingmen shguld throw up tbeir organizations, why does ‘she not admonish the railrond and bank” mouopolies to throw up their combinations, Loo, or. at least, correct the abuses and vsurpations of the rights of Isbor of which they are guilty. ¢ If Mrs. Swisshelin wants'to get at the whole truth, as she says she dges, about this Labor question, Jet her be fair.’2pd admit that there are two sides to this question, and that the cause for the present insecure and dangerous complications between Labor and Capital is to be found, oot with the laborers alone, as she seems to understand it, but with mononolized capital as well, and that in A greater degree, ac- cording to my understanding. Truly vours, o L.P.Newsow. THE EXISTING SOCIAL SYSTEM. To the Editor of The Tribine. CH1ciGo, July 24.—1 percéive that Mrs, Swiss- | helm has ‘felt the soothing influences of the Manitoba wave. After reading her flippant re- joinders' to other criticismé, I was ‘surprised to see her treat mine 80 mildiy. Isaw nothing of being pigeish -or brutal, of idivts. staring into . vacancy, : or ,turkeys: in.a-trap. -Leaving her:| copious .vocabulary of fovgctive, she is content to hurl at ‘me the comparatively weak adjeet- ives: unfair and trifling. f Thebe prosafe terms, hofbver, Contafn, If tric, a sulficiently serious ' éhar#e. But I'deny that there was anything of eithér in my répiy. The fact ts, Mrs. Swisshelm came prancing be- fore the public ou her hizh steed of Egotism, boasting louder than Golish, and fiinging right and left, at the heads of workmemen, charges of treachery, deceit, nod,falsehood. I simply showed her bow easily sii¢ mizht be tripped, unless she looked more caféfully to her charger's steppings. Aud it was necessary; fur, from the mild way she entered upon her campaien, there was imminent danger that she would lose her Gibraltar in the first battle. - : "My “fine frenzy ™ about her {forty-fathomed, unfathomed lake, was confined’ to tiwo short sentences. To any eyes but hers, they stand as iltless of emotion as any two seatences. in uclid’s Eiements. ‘ 4 But, in fallioz back upon a history of her wonderful - achicycments, she has doubtless found a more defensible fortress. She may have done ail that she claims to have done. Todeed, from her references to details, 1 Judge that she can build houses and fences better than metaphors. But what 8 strange. perversity of fate seems to have clung to all Rer efforts to lind hoest and taithful labor. I confess to have been well-nigh overwhelmed by the lengta and varjety of her carcer, and against it I scarce- 1y dave présent my limited experience. But I have - also * employed workingmen,—though, owing not to their unfafthfulness, but_to the dishonest bankruntcics of richer men, I eannot do so now. Recoznizing the rule that, if you want to make 2 man a rogue treat him as one, 1 treated them as honest men, and nearly alwass found them such. I oever had any great difi- colty in getting my wmooey’s worth for my tmouey. One reason, perhaps, was, [ had work- ed journey-work myself, and knew what a day's work was; whereas many cmployers don't know, and are not satisficd, when they get o day’s work. Indeed, incredulons as it may seem to Mrs, Swisshelm, I had one man return me part of his wages, because he felt that he had not earned them that week. I think per- baps Mrys. .Swisshelm supervised her men too smuch. 1t is not plesant Lo a workman to feel that he s being eyed by his emplover every moment. Let bim be assured that his employ- er does not trust bim out of sight, and he will ccase to care very much for bis’ interest when his eye is not on him. Farming is Mrs. Swisshelm’s ever-present antidote for all the ills of Labor. - Some of my friends thinking of turaive to it, may [ ask Ler a few Questions on & subject with whick she seems familiar? How many acres can one expect to cultivate in & season with * sharp sticks,” and how large & crov per acre can be raised by this means? Have you auy equally inexpensive methods of trausportation, Whercby men, women, and children may reach these distant homesteads? Are you acquainted with any proce«s, natural or artificial, by which life and strength may be kept in the body until the time when the food rafsed may be availuble for this purposc? Information on these points will make a vatu- able addition to vour advice. But farming will not solve the Labor prob- lem: it will only defer its solation. The quan- tity of land capable of successful cultivation, that is left to Amerfean workingmen, is. by no means of unlimited extent. And with the - erease of population, and the emigration from all parts of the world, which will be resumed it prosperous times return, how lone will this re- sourcebe left! Our existing social system has hitherto had this for & safety-valve; throush it its superabundant pressaré could, and has, found vent. Butif, having this, it has scarcely been tolerated, how shall it be borue when this shall o lonzer exist? Less Imaginative people thau Mrs. 8wisshielm will bave no memdiflcfiuuy in conceiving & social explosion far more serious than any the world has yet seen. Alas for the wurl? if a solution s not been found before that time! But, while the present relations. between em- ployer and employed are maintained, Labor- Unions have a necessary part to play. Through them workinzmen say 1o employers: *“Gentle- men, the world Is wide enough for us all. There i5 10 necessity for crowding yoursclves, or us, out of it. You, however, prefer to slaughter one another. You are usiug us as weapons for this purpose, and_cutting our throats thereby, as well ns your own. Respect for your system of ‘individual responsibiiity ? will not perinit us to interfere between you, to stop this beautiful pastime. But, for ouriclves, we will have no more of it. W prefer to live. IZ you will cut down one another, you must; but henceforth count on us no Jonger as tools for thizpurpose.” The animosity of employers towards Unions is the best proof of their, efficacy. I supnose it engincers had no Union, they inizht, Ike other mechanics, get about $1.5) per day, with kere and there oue earning $2. #Te declared purpose of the Labor party is to abolish the wage system.” I should gener-, ally want_ her to define what she means by the Lavor party, before. undertaning to defend its declared purposes; but, in this case, it is a mat- ter of little moment, If the relutions between emplover and embployed be one-half as unsatisfactory as:ishe. represents, every utterance of ers, becomes a plea for its abolishme: But workingmen are not alone in believing' that it shonid be abolished, o5 5oon as it can be roplaced by Fome-. thing beiter. John Stuart Mill (I'quote from him because he is a favorite, authority with the com- mercial class), in bis Political Economy, in the chapter on the Probable Futurity of the Labor- ing Class, says: * When I speak of * the labor- ing classes,’ or of *laborers as a class.’ I use those phrases in compliance with custom, and as descriptive of an existing, but by vo means a necessary or permavent, state of social rela- tions. . . Icannotthink that they [tuc working classes] will be permaneatly contented with the condition of laboring for wages as their uitimate state. . . .- In the present stage of human progress, when ideas of equality are Qally spreading more widely smong the poorer classes, and can e longer be checked by any- thing short. of the entire suporession ot printéd discussion, and even of freedom of speech, it 13 not to be expected that the division of the humao race into two hereditary classes, am- ployers and ewployed, can be permanently maiutaiued.” Thoughtful students of society everywhere are impressed with the fact that we are in a transition stai-, and that the present system does not possess the clements_of dura- bility. But, says Mrs. Swisshelm, “Itis time to unveil the statue; what is the sgstem that js to take the piace of wages?” Can You not et one simile rizht, Mrs. Swisshelm¢ “Statues are made; but systems grow, and are not kept veiled' in a corner, to be spruux on the world i a moment. “fic that be- lieveth will not aste.”” But I will quote further: here can be littte doubt that the relation of masters aod work- pevple will be gradually superseded by partner- slip. in one of two forms: in some cases. Asso- fonof the laborers with the capitalist: fn others, 20d perbaps finally in all, association of laborers among themselves.” Yes, Mrs. Swis helm, in_one word. “Co-operation,” vou bave it; and, bad you eyes to have seen 1t, vou might have perceived it long ago. The truth given to tae world nearly- 2,000 years ago, that the hu- man race forms one great Brotherhood, under one Eternal Fatber and King, will not return void unto its Autlior. To judge from the signs of the times, it is destined to find recozuition and vew foree in practical application to the af- fairs of daily life. [ workingmen will stick together. and not break up fnto stray unitsas Mrs. Swisshelm would haye them doy if they wili fix in their own minds the ideai of 9 permanent state worth striving for, and the best means for its realiza- tion; and then, relying on God. themselves, and one another, shall, in patient strength, mauly fortitude, and collected wisdom, make use of the resources fn their power, uothing on carth can keep them back from success. The march of events is in their favor; the wisdom of nges at their commaud. If they oaly know their Dart, and play it well, they may bury the cvils of the present system, und all the Gibraltars fortified in defense of them, so deep that they shall be seen nor sought for no wore forever. They may not only work out their own deliver- ance, but bring in'the * inost beneficial ordering of industria! affairs for the universal good that it is at present possible to foresee.” RUPERT COLEMAN. *“THE CURSE OF LABOR.” To the Editor of The Tribune. Cuicaco, July 25.—The champions of right between man and man are few and far between; and, whatever may be said about the rights and wrongs, but more especially the wrogs, per- meating socicty oo every hand and in every quarter. still there ere people who take it upon themselves to remedy certain evils by monopo- lizing and holding up to respect the wealth and influence of corporations and individuals, which in a great measure descroy for the time being the justice and humanity of tbose who are ef- fectually baptized with a love for.mankind, and for their sorrowing brethren and sisters who are compelied by dire necessity to [fve fives of want arnd misery, and who are boru into this world with just as much of the fmpress of God's .jmage a3 the Lord fn_his palace or the Kinx on his ~ thrg Mrs. Swisshelm may mean well; she ma§'Tove tbe poor workingman, oreveu tnose who are’ “out'orwork !; she may have 2 certain amount of respect for t}ose unfortanate. | Deinzswho are known far and neat by-the desig- nation . of *Tramps but, she docs, i she holds -any one ““in great- er.. or more . loying respect.. at . the present time than Lerself, she takes 2 strange and most wonderful waF of acquainting as with the fact. She, by-ber. writings :(which is- the only criterfon Ye -have at /present), takes a8 strasge mettod for the creation of & healthy public opinion en the eviis now menacing cur conntry—this beautiful land—irom the en-. ‘croachments of wealth and power,.influence and I ask.’has any one 2 Tight, is {this duty os a moral agent, in this world of trial and trouble, to malign and iosulit those unfortunates whom adverse circumstances have made tools of am- bition, conscripts of wealth, and the. materials of luxury? It ill becomes any one, and miore especially @ ‘woman, to abuse those who, i P, Trig: & through her agency, were first reduced to this state of misery. The curse of. labor crosses {allen man’s sinfol natare at sach.a variety of }minu that jt i3 no wonder it comes in for its all share of hostility and repudiagion. 1f Mrs. 8. would only stop and consiaer, and not_rush in and belabor every one indiscriminately (in- cluding the very poorest class—editors) whose ideas and ways in sny manner conflict with hers, she would be a. better woman in gvery respect, and- more capable in fature of helping to improve the condition of someof those whom she now copsizns to ob- livion. , Let us pity the poor- unfortunates, and help them all we can, by precept, example, and ali the pecanlary ald we - can render them. {n ameliorating their forlorn condition; and we will certainly receive the aoprobation ' of every one who has the Iove of his fellow-beings at Deart, and, aboveall, the blessing of our Heav-" ealy Father, whichis of more value than all this world's riches and vain fiattery, ¢ L. Mouar. TREATMENT OF EMPLOYES. ‘to the Editor of The Tribune. Carcaco, July 26.—Mrs. Swisshelm dilates quite eloguently upon the “dishonesty” of that class of hired help—whether s journeymen, servants, orin any other capacity—who care nothing for the interest of those who em- vploy them, o long as their wages gre paid snd no extraordinary hardships are forced upon them. Inthissheistoa certain degree Just, 2od none too severe; but she shonld besr In mind that the fault is not all on one side. There are few employers so just as well as 50 gener- ous as the late Henry J. Raymord, who, when he found his suborainates wearivg out in his service, not only gave .them leave of abscuce to recuperate, but farnished them with the means to enjoy it. He was more Just than generous, for his employes had drawn largely upon their own capital of brains and vital energy to advance Ais interests, and not their own. How many employers are there in this city of Chicago, whether in editorial offices or elsewhere, who thus treat those to whom they pay wages If 50 many men are carcless of the résults of their labor, 50 long as thev get paid for it, it is not all the fault of Trades-Unionista. Those who pay the wages are too often indifferent re- speeting the welfare of their employes,—seeking only to get the profit resilting from their own investment of capital; and the inevitable con- sequence 1s, that, “Like moster, like man,” the wage earner soon learns to care only for Ais share of the tangible results. There are In Chicago seores of hard-working, intelligent, and honest men, who are giving to their em- ployers, for pay, the best scrvices they are capable’of, and yét who cannot feel certala evén of their situations unless there be some excep- tional circumstances to favor them; who are maae to feel that a slight difference in wages, some friend or influentlal customer to be pro- pitiated, or even the whim or caprice of & petulent man, may cost them their positions. There are many embloyers in the land who, ‘when they comein coliision with a Trades-Union, and are induced to concede any point contended for, sinzle out of their force some one whom they may deem ringleaders to “ make an exam- ple of ”;or clse they pursue a different rale, and, by selecting those best, disposed to good order, decapitate tbem, to teach them kow fool- ish u thing it is for them to belong to a union! If employers wish to attract and bied to them their best employes, let them treat them as men like themselves. 1f there is in a printing-office one man—or o half-dozen, for that matter—who, by his skill and Haelity, s worth 10 per cent more than bis fellows, pay it to bim without his asking jor it, aud, our word forit, it be is any man at all, he will be so spurred to_extra dili- gence as to earn vastly more than the increase in bis pay, and the hold of the Union upon him will be weakened. It the bookkeeper, cashier, or other trusted and_Tesponsible employe, has worn himnsel thin with the care and hard labor entailed by the * busy season,” see that the dull times afford him 2 vacation in the woods, at the seashore, or somewhere else, where he can for- eet that he everbad acare. Hewill return with renewed life and vigor, better prepared then ever to assume his tasks, and to ao bis duty to those who hire him. If employers would have thelr snbordinates feel an interest in. their labor and its results, they should endcavor to convince thetn, by kind and liberal treatment, that thelr interests are mutual; that eachis dependent upon the other; and that they are co-workers and co-partners, and not antagonists. Toe mutual trast will be- zet fricndship and ' a better understanding, to the benefit of both classes. Jusmice. TRADES-UNIONS. To the Editor of The Tribune. CuIcAGO, July 26.—The discussion in the col- umuns of your paper on the Laoor question is in- tensely interesting. But it seems to me that neitber Mrs. Swisshelm nor her opponents take quite the right view of theease. Mrs. S. has been studving the dark side of the questfon so long that she seems now to have no power to see the other side. Inall ber varied cxperience with ‘working-people, s related in her letters to Tag TRIBUNE, she has found only two honest men. So she finds mechanies as a class, and especially members of Trades-Unions, to be rogues by principle and finstinct. And the assafled party retaliates by referring her to Spencer, Sydney Mygrs, and the long list ?i n{:éue who lhave been zuilty of malfensance n office. Mre. Swisshelm Eays that workmen are Jzy, shiftless, and careless, doing as little work as possibie for the pay they receive. and enttrely indifferent to their employers’ interests. And she finds the Trades-Unlons responsible for this state offairs. ft seems to- me that she has re- versed cause und eflect. The unfortunate characteristics of many of the men bave de- teriorated the Unions, not the Unions debased the men. Trades-Unions, properlv conducted, are justifiable and worthy means of protecting the interests of workingmen. The fine letter from * Ruth.a Workingwoman,” presents very fairly the claims of the Unions; but evidently Ruth is not a member of o Usion in this country, or she would not be working at the printiog business for 85 a week. If she were o member of a Union here, she would know that such membership vot a certificate of good workmanship, as she clalus for the s Unions, Tlere. any one can gain admittance to the Unfon who has served a certain number of years at the trade, aud_lias “done nothing contrary to the laws of the Unlon. Mrs. Swisshelm employed women priuters because they wonld work cheaper than wmen. ** Ruth™ says sbe has hard work to earn §5a week. Can 3 mon sapport a family on 85 a week? But, Mrs. S. says, let mm o to the areat prairies, build .a but, and turn up the ground With a ebarp stick, if he can get no better tools. After hie bus raised his crop, he can Haruly get enough for it to pay for cartage to the nearest station, and must burn his corn to keep from freezing to death durine the wioter, as thousands have doune in Kansas and Nebraska. Mrs! Swisskelm hired women be- cause they would work cheaper than men. For the same reason the Californians imaported and hired Chinese labor; sud the great question in California now is, how to get rid of "the Chisa- men. 4 One of the chief causes of the crime and gen- eral demoralization fn this country at the present time fs pot Trades-Unions, but the flood of cheap Iabor which has _poured into this country from the East. Another grcat causc—nerhavs the principal one—of the utter depravation of pub- lic morals, is the War of the Rebellion. The evil effects of this war will last for generations. The' reckless spending of money; the falze ideas of wealth; the loose ideas of *“mine and thine”; the drunkeuness, licentiousness, and knavery of everv sort ch exist throuchout the land, among capitalists and cmployers as well as among workmen, are the result, not of ‘Trades-Unions, but of Slavery and the war for its suppression. Small-pox cannot be cured by putting salve on the sore spots. Neither can this wide-spread corruption and infidelity be cured by attempting to “heat” the Trages- Unions.” The remedy must go deeper, to the verv root of the evil,—the general eorruption of morals in both hizh and low. Should the bappy time ever come when all men are honest with each other, the emplover wifl not try to get his work done for ns_ little pay as the workmau can live on, while he is sur- rounded by every luxury art or imagination can devise; and the workman will strive to turther bis employers’ interests in every way, and to be s+ orthy of his hire.” In that happy day there will be no more need for Trades-Unions; and, until then, they will have -wark to do, and will doit.- T. Jouxs. ——— Pandora’s Tox ‘bronght a multitido Y 1M Ao Bmamty, saith the ancients; bota bottle of Sozodont Is a pell-spring of foy'in the family. It refreshes the valid bscieansing nis moath, and fts the belle ¢ parlor. (5 <" BUSINESS_ NOTICES. Dr. Tidge's Food fs the most nutritlous, nourishing, and asTeeable diet in the world for i” fants, invalids, ond ail persons suffering frm weak stomuachs and indigestinn. It gives perfect satlsfaction wherever nsed. 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Sion: Corasts 35 55 25,40 osen Corsets at 30. 35,40, 50, @5 75¢, and S, cheap for 50, 4 500, 81, and $1.50. m’-"" i 200 dozen Elegant Silk Fringed Tiss at 25c¢, former vrice for most of theso 1000 20oods was 75¢, Bankrupt Stock of Fine PLATED and" .« Black Jewelry at 50 llar. 1,000 Childron’s Lidon Suis ot 70 o1 "ad $1'35, tormer price $1.5, $1.50; and BALANCE OF OUR STOCK OF LADIES LINEN SUITS AND: DRESSING SACQUES Marked way down to close at once. Job Lot of 500 Suits of Children’s Olothing, . ;mum!et l:?g mfin;elr.egce ‘rrom 3 -gl 10 st 75¢. $1, $1.35; former $1.25, $1.75, and $2. p 9 P. S.—We see several parties are using our name, Boston Store, in the city. We have no branches; no connection with any house using our name. We are the only and original Boston Store, 118 & . 120 State-st., which is constantly receiving Job Lots and Bankrupt Stocks, which we ofter at Half Price. . BOSTON STORE, 118 & 120 Statest. ALLANS ANTI-FAT is the grent remesty for Core : i pilence” 113 purely vcgetabic uail perfeetly hamne jess. 1t xety wpou the food in the stoniach. pres senting its being converted foto fat. Taken fn acconfance with directions, it will reduce & fof Person from two to Ave pounds per wee! *=Corpulence 15 not only & iscase \tscif, but the - harbinzer of others.” o wrote Hipy 'S ionsaind years ago, and what was truc then 3¢ nos e lias so'towlay. Sold by druggiats, or sent, by exe bress, tor S0 Quarter=lozen $LU0. Addresd, BOTANIC MEDICIKE CO., Prop'rs, Buffalo, N.Y. KUmxss, ARBNIDDS KUMYSS The original and only article of its kind Not appronched in taste or ease of digestion by any of the imitations. Send for treatise n Kumyss. 1n order to obtain the genuine * article, address orders directly to o i iginator of umyss in America, 179 M.n{'lman-n.. Chicago. The DEST made. §3.25 per dozen qta.. dellversd. 750 refunded opou return of boitles Stlitaction Fuaraa- ed. C. K. KELLY, cor. Wabasis-av. and JacKson-at, "PILE CURE. BARFHAM'S "PILE GURE” Blind, Ttching, and Bleeding Piles. 90 MADISON-ST., CHICAGO. RICKLAYD'S heteicou 0N ESTABLISLIED. 1860, % RANDAL 1. FOOTE, BANKER, O DIDADIWA VX BVEY O Hariag been for trelve yoard s member of Niw Yorik Stock hange and Vice-President of Gold Board. the highest charscterand experienca i3 . Stocks. Gola, and $8onds: also, Siock COUTracts, such ps *strad~ diea " ** puts,” and ** calls " on arge of smallamounts, boaght and »6d od regular commisiuns AR moderats ma rgios. Pamphlet eatitied ** Wall Street.” sud stock 23D\ contalniug valuadie information, malled qa re~ ceipLof 10e. o FOUNTAIN PEN. - Stylographic Pep. The new Fountaln Pen. the oaly perfect ane 1 SR esR T * ™ Agent for s 2nd 41060’ » b Woneg