Mount Carmel Semi Weekly Item (Newspaper) - October 17, 1900, Mount Carmel, Illinois 83 OCTOBER 17, 1900. ARTICLE EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE ITEM BY JOHN L. 69. years of blood and privation the pathway of our fathers rom oppression and the rule of rown and sceptre to political Through this long period and sacrifices they heroically battled for that which we to-day are deprived of but can regain at the trifling cost of and the exercise of that patriotism which should burn in the breast of every American Look successful men in this and Why do a few Kings and corporation giants walk over and tread you under Why do a few men gam the position of commanders of the age and generation in which they Why do they become masters of the potent of They have the land with a net work of and telegraphic They command the Influence of electricity and every other discovered They have done all this their courage and not singly as ut in a combination with each In this way have come o be the owners of nearly all the of the masters pf its distribution and the of the common Bear in you miners toiling hundreds of feet under the ground Un passages where no cherring ray of sunshine ever Bear this in you children of a tender age freezing in a coal the chilling blasts of this In you tollers under the torrid rays of a July sun. this in you working brothers and working energy being the rules of and being at the present time in the possession of men who direct its results to their own selfish at our the question what power shall WG bring to combat them There is nothing we can bring but our Inalienable our our energy and our combined and organized rendered superior to by a nobler and by being under the guidance of that sa patriotism which the struggle and won the of American and corporations are organized and are and the 1 force of their united strength ' Invincible and in ' power of their mastery over e people have not waked up to a ot the power of a power so infinite that the very crets of the universe wait to themselves in its o we realize that a handful of into that working form ut of which faith Is will Dring down the scale against the world of unorganized men I On the hand it is the In unstable and baseless the fabric of a on the hand it is the sand cemented the fire of a great and Converted Into solid laboring nd men of all useful we to organize to obtain our There is no hope of our ever making a successful resistance to le crushing of trusts and while we are The of this matter be too strongly The of the day is See how naturally monopoly and the money power unite against for their cause is come out in your We stand on the verge of a mighty All the forces of life are drawing to one point which we must which 10 power on earth can prevent us or die in a nd make a green spot on some hill monopoly guns cover son and daughter of We ave got to take those batteries and pike their or submit to the and disgrace of becoming slaves of our cowardice and lack Not one iota short of There is no dodging the point The corporations and employers must be the realm of law or we must evermore work for whatever our employer sees fit to give and have no voice in determining the productive value ot our own muscle and our own The exigencies are such that he who fails to see the importance of organization to countercheck the march of greedy employers Is dead to his own dead to the welfare of his dead to his dead to the signs of the dead all dead enough to wing his flight into and dead enough to bury out of And he who sees the importance of and the necessity of enlightening his neighbor and out of selfishness or indifference attempts to frustrate the should be made to feel the in and contempt of a long Buffering These are times which develop heroes and unmask There is no middle Those who are not for the people's just rights are against be FIGHT AGAINST MAY ultimatum issued by the United Mine Workers convention at Scranton Saturday was to the effect that the striking miners would return to work If the operators made the offer of ten per cent. Increase permanent until April 1,1901, and all so that the sliding scale be other matters to be proposal of the convention is fair to the and the magnates should concede every point demanded by the It has been stated upon good authority that the Philadelphia Reading Coal Iron Company will accept the offers in a day or If this be it is only a question of time until the rest would is absolutely certain that there will be no break in the ranks of the The men will remain away from work until informed officially by President Mitchell that the strike is In the meantime the ranks of the U. M. W. are growing stronger every Hundreds and thousands of miners never before affiliated with the organization have taken the oath of and all are determined to stand together as one man in this great FOR THE mnst not lose sight of the fact that monopolies and trusts that always reduce waives and destroy competition have so much at stake in the coming political that they will willingly spend thousands of dollars to defeat John T. Fisher and P. J. Christe for the Francis E. Brown for the Senate and R. K. Polk for Congress because they take sides with the people and against which is robbing us of all our enormous natural advantages and reducing our labor to a subserviency to capital more abject than that of European labor to the landed monopolists of the old Seeing that the principles advocated by the Democratic party will force them to lose the powerful and profitable grip they have ac the throat of the nation's it is not to be wondered men whose names we have mentioned are no new converts to the cause ot American It is but just to say that they are men whose records will without comparison with the records of their opponents on the republican who are made up in the main of The citizens of this especially the men who delve deep in the will cut and slash the republican candidates at the coming election as they never did October 14. battle against Benjamin K. Quay candidate for Senator in the Twenty-seventh is on in good Mr. Focht is wanted by the people of his own as is evidenced by his decisive defeat in 1898 by Francis E. his present and this fact is a political millstone about his neck wherever he goes In the At a mass meeting in Snyder on 2, he was severely criticised by several out-and-out Republicans for his inherent machine tendencies and given to understand that if he was not good enough for the Union county voters he had better stay out of little where he forced himself on the ticket at the February primaries by command of The Snyder county Republicans are jealous of their fundamental prerogatives and mean to resent the high handed trick whereby this county was boldly secured by Focht and the Quay machine by driving a home candidate from the field at the eleventh Focht was cut almost 600 votes at the Snyder primaries and the Republicans who voted against him are to-day firmer in opposition to him than they were last spring for they are convinced that he got on the ticket by a ranK machine cutting Snyder county totally out of her home The same condition pre vails precisely in Northumberland except that it that densely populated region he will be snowed under by from 1,200 to 1.500 Legislative record is a nasty thing for the voters to They are beginning to ask what material or moral benefit was ever realized to the Commonwealth by a certain investigation he instituted in 1895, when he secured from the State Treasury for the purpose of ascertaining how unnaturalized persons were quartered in the penal and institutions of the There is no record of his ever haying made a report of this so-called to the succeeding or if so made what in any way the State received for this outlay of the public vast body of voters in the Twenty-seventh Senatorial district is composed of and they are accustomed to inspect the public acts of their representatives in the Legislature with unsparing and unless Mr. Focht and the machine can make some satisfactory explanation to the outraged taxpayers he will have hard sledding at the His Mr. is identified closely with agricultural pursuits and the voters are dissatisfied with Mr. record to such an extent that his defeat by an overwhelming majority is now from pure cream of the food against powders are tlie greatest Eeis to of the present BAKINO HEW Stevenson Democratic club of town has hud thus far a vbry successful and interesting of campaign was on for hist evening it being the desire of majority of members to set aside one evening for business the last meeting the committee on programme reported that they had finished their schedule of orators for the ensuing half of the campaign and that their arrangement of programme contained a great surprise for the of this There will be as a closing event of the club's existence one of the grandest Democratic rallies this section of the county ever heretofore As their are announced for but one week in advance we will await future following is the for next Friday evening at 8 o'clock at the clubs quarters in Curry's by 0. Pa. T. Howard Pa. Congressman Rufus K. YOU simply want to cover your nakedness then some so called clothing that is cheap in looks as well as poor in quality may answer your but if you want satisfaction in wear and appearance as well as then you Overcoats to Youth's Overcoats to Overcoats and Reefers to Our suits for Men and Boys are np to date in style and at bottom and Children's Jackets and Furs at saving 27 N. Oak Flannel garments becoming more popular every AVe have an immense line in Plain and Striped Outing full and neatly GOOD GOWN MADE OF FAHl QUALITY OUTING AT 50c and 55e. Better qualities trimmed with lace around collar at 75c, 85c, and shades of blue and made at and embroidered at gowns in same qualities and shades as at 45, 50, 55 and 75c. Men's night shirts of material at 75 and Oak of the Corner as already announced in these the cornerstone of the new St. Stephen's Episcopal Church of Mount Carmel will be The service begins promptly at 10:45 The session should be witnessed by In Archdeacon of is in the and there are also present many of the laity and clergy from neighboring Judicial number of prisoners are being illegally detained in the Lycoming county and in just the county may find itself after they will have been released is hard to Suits for illegal Imprisonment may and will if some of the prisoners carry out their present This condition of affairs exists because Lycoming county is without a and so long as tins vacancy just so long will the men in jail be obliged to remain This is all because Gov. Stone will not appoint until after on account or trying to collect a small amount of money which Henry owed Joseph the latter now has his body pretty well filled with bullet intended leaving when Scutts heard of thinking he had better He found in a saloon and after some hot words the scene was transferred to another where a free for all fight took ending in being shot three After the shooting caped and by some quick work he was arrested in Mahanoy City by Morgan and Waters and taken to Sunbury to await Scutts is benig treated at the Miners Birthday the daughter of Druggist J. E. celebrated her birthday on Monday evening by entertaining some twenty of her After the usual games a dinner was NIGHT PHONE Shamokin Valley company are rapidly completing the work of connecting the Shamokin Valley Line with the Montour and Columbia telephone companies linet as soon as the work is finished an all night telephone will be inaugurated which will greatly the many patrons of the ly requested H Form Trade at 7 o'clock in Curry's John Bummersbach will unions amongst Mt. Carmel arment brick and stone and store All are to with the American of A largo from all the trades named is your breath Then your best friends turn their heads A bad breath means a bad Ayer's Pills are liver They cure 25c. All Tour or board a trown fir rich black 7 w B. P. A every we can not allow ourselves to keep old Our store has been remodeled and we have on display the finest stock of furniture ever seen in this Undertaking a OAK Oct. 22, 1900. blue kinds and shapes AT 15 Novelty
