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50 cents pti Tearf 'APPEAL TO REAQOM, QFRARD, If AN Thoughts by the "Thinkers. Socialism in London, CLASPED TOTHE TRUCKS. ST SL B. iAX2ISTB0XCk Erafle rladly, for tiny hi come. Nestled on breut filled with? richest loret Two parent's eyes beam fondly on a son; Two heart in fond emotion pnlsa in joy.

Frail dimpled rnaooenee in soft bla eyes. Is starlted by the brightness of the world. The sUeae bem break by a sone. From tiny lips and happiness responds. More toil ana care, bat rapture makesr thsnt tight.

Years of calm endurance trials and Bot smiles from baby lips is the reward. That amply pays for all the rngjed thrift. Poverty is the gest of brightest homes! -It shatters health and hurries to the crave. kcrs of tha Air. From the Arena.

(Review, by the author, for the ArrSAi TO Rsasos.) It wasjn 1G03, that the Snpreme Court of the United States-found for the plaintiff in the peat case of Simon Magus, against the mayor, Mermen, et, of Olathe, Kansas. The case was this: A part of Olathe was built on the lands owned by Magus, who acquired an enor-fortnne by selling them. He laid out streets; granting rights of way, "but reserving to himself all other rights in the streets." Keverthe-less, the people of Kansas, as the complaint set forth, wrongfully and maliciously assumed to breathe the air in said streets, and. committed other trespasses upon the rights of said Magus in said The court held, following the "single tax' case (Tawresey v. the Town of Dover, Superior Court of Kent Delaware), that the street was merely for passage.

This finding occasioned greater surprise than the income tax decision of some years past (Pollock Farmers' Lioaa and Trust Cot, and Hyde Continental Trust 158 U. S. 601X and a rehearsing was held. It was urged that the use of the air was necessary to the right of way, and was therefore included in it; but the learned judges pointed out that it was just as necessary to be fed as to breathe, in order to travel, and yet although food unlike air, was. actually produced from the ground, no one had claimed the right to srrow food product on the highway, as an incident to- its use.

The court urged with much force that the LOST OPPORTUNITIES. By Dr. Hereon. The following If the lenaoa, la part, to whUh, the trustee ef the People' Church in Chicago took exeepfctooi and refnied Dr. Herron the farther use ot the pnipit In that church.) A few months ago this nation had the master opportunity of the ages, to far as politics goes, to Initiate an altogether new sort of international politics and diplomacy.

But never in history was a nation falser to Its opportunity; never did a nation more-shamef ully and. ignobly fail, and that in the face of such light as few peoples on earth have known. The attempt to liberate Cuba has resulted in American imperialism and the exploitation of Cuba. The war was unnecessary. Tbe Cubans could have attained their own freedom if it had not been for the influence of the holders of Spanish bonds and their agents in America.

There were many ways in which the Cubans could have achieved liberty without the incubus of American interference. The war was decided purely on commercial grounds, notwithstanding the chivalry and patriotism of our people who were deeply generous and sincere in seeking to liberate the Cubans. But the war came on. The people were moved by noble impulses. The administration gave assurance to the world in opera bpuffe language that it was a war of "humanity." Spectacular language of every sort was employed to declare that fact to the world.

We stood before the nations of the world solemnly pledged to disinterestedness. We stood pledged if we are represented by our government to a war in which there should be no appropriation, no aggression, no forcible annexation, but simply the liberation of the people from the oppressors of the islands of the sea. Never did any nation stand more solemnly pledged to a particular course than we did, and I repeat that we liave as a nation, if we are represented by our government, today placed ourselves before the nations of the world as a perjured nation. Every pledge made has been broken. No single thing promised has been unqnalifiedly fulfilled.

American honor, because of our speculation and the wrongs we have inflicted on rich and poor alike, is a scandal and a by-word in every nation of Europe today. The war from start to finish has become merely a dress rehearsal of the great tragic drama of greed that is taking place in every industrial center of America. Our sons have not been slain upon the field of battle, but by the hordes of speculators and politicians having army pulls and contracts. American greed and commercial debauchery have slain their tens were Spaniards have slain twos. Then, again, the Cubans are not free.

We have driven out Spain, but the secretary of war is proceeding to divide up Cuba among American speculators and corporate interests. We I Time destroys the speculations of man, but is confirms the judgment of nature Cicero. What is man. if his mad and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? Shakes peare. PTrirmiTn.CA fh Ynilita.mr srmrifc In.

a. fnnir' and you will soon waxJTiomas xjayaru. Sccietvis barrtaroTia 1 1 S- VT i fPnhnsf riont man and woman can ret their livinrr without dishonest customs. Emerson. We can no more stop the progress of democracy where it now is than we can take the race back to the garden of Eden.

Ilerron. We havps mrm mnvcr thn.n will- nml it it often by way of excuse to ourselves that we fancy things are impossible-7-Rochefoucauld. We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it is beyond thei? sym pathies. Goethe The use of the law as the instrument of social injustice and industrial lawlessness is a form of anarchy from which our nation urgently needs redemption. Herron.

Humanity has not a minute to lose. Quickl Quick Lei us hasten. The wretched have their- feet on red-hot iron. They hunger, they thirst, they sufTer Victor Hugo. Every man speaks wei of the bridge that carries him over.

Thes, M-ho have made fortunes by the present industrial system are apt to speak well of it. Charles Kicgley. In order to do anything worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the banki and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can Sydney Smith. We owe all that we have tr thA sfparlv ad vance of the human race against the compact mass or tnose wno nave already cried out and still cry out as lustily as ever." "Don't disturb the existing order of things." Wm. E.

Gaynor. Our nation cannot endure the present social anarchy of speculative and competitive industrialism. It is destructive to the best forces cf the individual life, and constitutes the common life in the very anti-Christ order ot society. Herron. The Cuban army must be disbanded immediately and the men compelled to go home and put in the crops.

If. they do not obey, but leave the plantations and turn brigands, us has been threatened, then let them be shot." Gen. Ludlow. What we call obscure condition on vulgar society, is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written but which you shall presently make as enviable and renowned as any. Accept your genius and say what you think.

Emerson. Land Is net, and cannot be, property in the sense that movable things are property. Every human being born into this planet must live upon the land if he lives at all. The land in any country is already the proper ty of the nation which occupies it. Froude.

So long as all the increased wealth which progress brings, goes but to build up gTeat fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the house of Have and the house of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent-IIenry George. George Sand was an ardent socialist. Sba wrote to Flaubert: "I am plunged in the doctrines of socialism. I have found in them strength, faith, hope; and the patient and persevering love of humanity treasures of my "youth, which I had dreamed of in Luxury at present can only be enjoyed by the ignorant. The crudest man.

living could not sit at his own feast unless he sat blindfolded. Raise the veil boldly! Face the lightl And if, as yet, the light of the eye can only be through tears, go thou forth weeping! Ruskin. No man need be afraid to be called a Utopian or a socialist, or an anarchist, who says that the time is coming when the legislatures of the civilized nations in the world will be busy settling social questions; time is coming when every man will have to work. Max Private property is a creature of society, and is subject of the calls of that society wherever its necessities will require it, even to its last farthing. Its contributions therefore" to the public exigencies are the returns of an obligation previously received, or the payment of ft just debt.

Benj. Franklin. Since the evils of society flow from igncranct and inordinate desire, men will never cease be tormented till they become intelligent and wise; till they shall practice the art of justice founded on the knowledge of the various relations in which they stand and the laws of their own organization. Volney. There is not in history record of anything sa disgraceful to the human intellect as that the commercial text, "Buy in the cheapest market, sell in the dearest," could represent an available system of economy.

Charcoal may ba cheap among your roof-timbers after a fire, and bricks may be cheap after an earthquake. Ruskin. Seek through this universe, if with othei than owl's eye3, thou wilt find nothing nourished there, nothing kept in life, but what has right to nourishment and life. The rest, looked at with other than owl's eyes, is not living, is jdl dying, i3 all as good as dead. Justice was ordained from the foundation of the world, and will last with the world, and longer.

Citrlyle. No law can make two corporations, any mora than two individuals, actively undersell each other if they do not wish to do 50. They can cease doing it by agreeing in public or in private upon a price below which neither will sell. If they can not do this publicly they will assuredly do it privately. Charles Francis Adams, Ex-President Union Pacific Railway.

Man is so prone to occupy himself with what is most common, the soul and the senses are so easily blunted to the impressions of the beautiful and the perfect, that one ought by all means to preserve the capability of feeling it. Wa ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see an excellent painting, and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. Goethe. Fight on, thou brave, true hearts, and faltei not, through dark fortune and through bright. The cause thou tightest for, so far as it is true, no farther, yet precisely so far, is very sure of victory.

The falsehood alone of it will be conquered, will be abolished, as it ought to be, but the truth of it is part of Nature's own laws, co-operates with the world's eternal tendencies, and cannot be conquered. Carlyle. Once to every man and nation, comes the mo ment to decide, In the strife of Truth and Falsehood, for the good or evil side. Some great cause, God's new Messiah, ofTerin each the bloom or blight, Parti the goats upon the left-hand, and the sheep upon the right. Lowell.

la cf 10 for a yenr zl scs J. Etitt Wilaon, in Social Grander, THE organization in Great Britain, as we can see, which may be called the trustee of the socialist cause here, is the Social Democratic Federation, of which probably Mr. H. M- Hyndiman is at present the strongest representative. There were 137 societies represented at the last conference.

The Independent Labor Party, of which Mr. Keir Hardie is president, has considerable strengtbTand is doing good work. Their fighting forces are getting better organized and drilled for action in municipal elections. One important part of their work is the instruction of members in the art of conducting electoral campaigns. I have had the pleasure already of becoming acquainted with Mr.

John Penny, the secretary, and other members of the executive council. They vigorously emphasize the need for independent political action on the part of the working class. I am more than pleased to report that last year the proposition to unite the S. D. F.

and the I. L. P. met with decided approval from both sides. The Leeds conference at Easter will take the matter up and it is to be hoped that these two bodies, together with Trades Union, Co-operative and Independent Societies will soon present a solid front to reconstruct the Bew society which must come as capitalization totters to its fall.

The Fabian Society seems to me to be not appreciated enouarh by the more radical bodies. They are socialist educators. They collect information on ail details of the labor movement, investigate the powers and duties of the various governmental bodies, and then, free of charge, offer to answer the questions of interested per-eons, to advise labor members of local bodies, or any other persons, concerning the best source of information, etc. They have ever 100 small circulating libraries on economics scattered over the city for the use of students and the various organizations. They organize lecture courses and correspondence classes.

They have sent such lecturers as Mr. Martin and Mr. Sidney Webb on world-wide lecture tours; many of our Chicago friends will remember the visit of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb last summer.

Thev do not seek members, they seek to make socialists. Their methods of work generally, and their systematic tract and lecture work will bear- imitation. There are four Fabians on the London school board and six on the London city council. The Clarion, edited by Robert Blatchford, the noted author of "Merrie England," is the most widely read socialist paper in England. Last year it took a socialist referendum on the main ouestions of socialist policy.

Among other things, the result of the vote showed (1) that one party was desirable; (2) that they should adopt a practical parliamentry program; (It) that the railroads, mines, liquor traffic, should all be nationalized. Over 97 per cent of the vote cast declared for one party. Mr. Blatchford said, in reference to the object of the referendum: "I felt and feel, that British socialism squanders its strength in utterly purposeless and meaningless divisions perpetuated only to serve the ambitions and vanities of individual leaders." Evidently the heat and glow of the socialist cause in England is yet to burn up these accursed anti-social ambitions and vanities which aTe almost as villainous in their social effect as the lust of gold. Socialism in East London1.

We are indeed fortunate in our new local surroundings as far as the whole labor movement is concerned. Mansfield House is in the heart of the great East London tenement district, in the Borough of West Ham. Mr. Percy Alden, the warden, is a councillor, and will doubtless be the next mayor of the borough, and he is but one of 25 socialist aldermen and councillors in the West Ham council. Three years ago there were but seven labor representatives in' the municipal council; now the labor party have a majority and are carrying out with great wisdom and vigor a socialist municipal program.

We have already attended one of the council meetings, and it was the most refreshing sight we have witnessed since our arrival. Here we saw the quality of the new municipal council of the twentieth century. There sat the representatives of the working classes, with brave and courageous faces, casting their votes for the emancipation of labor. They now have completed parks for the people, built a technical institute and founded new libraries. Public baths are being erected.

They are now about to take over the street railways, and the water supply is up for municipal ownership On the night of our visit they voted the erection of a hospital to cost 8200,000. The council will proceed to build it through its own works department. They are tearing down unsanitary buildings and building sanitary homes to be rented to the working people. Never did I witness such a concrete example of the class struggle a9 while watching the proceedings of this council. The capitalist councillors opposed the enforcement of the Trades Unioa schedules.

The labor party voted to a man to cancel a contract awarded unless the contractor would immediately comply with the requirements of the Unionists. The capitalists made sport of the proposition to the hospital. "Give the labor party rope enough and it will hang itself," said one of them. When, as a matter of fact, the only redeeming features of these tenement and slum districts are the baths, libraries, parks, public institutions and other social efforts of this labor party. Mr.

Alden, when seriously questioned as to the future of East London, said that the only hope he saw for the people was along the line of this municipal reform. The Salvation Army has failed in East London. The churches are a failure. The earnest and humane socialist, climbing his way to the municipal council is now on the way to at least make life more livable to multitudes of people. And let not our readers think that West Ham is a village.

It is as large as the city of Milwaukee and as it lies in such a relation to the great metropolis we hail with a delight and joy the grand achievements of these socialists, who hold in their programs the only colitical and social hope of the people. Competition Makes Thieves. Dubuque Exchange The Iowa board of control has found the com petitive system for the purchase of supplies to be unsatisfactory. VVnen tne lowest prices ob tain inferior goods are received, and all who are furnishing supplies have to be closely watched to prevent fraud. The competitive contract system is vicious and unsatisfactory.

No man who lets a building of his own to be built ever lets it to the lowest bidder, provided he expects good work. Contractors who bid too low must a. A 1 11 eiiner cneas or cut uowu me wages ui meir employes', The present position which we, the educated and well-to-do classes, occupy is that of the 'old man of the sea" riding on the poor man's back; only, unlike the "old man of the sea," we x'pfv snrrv for the Tjoor man: verv sorrv: and we will do almost anything for the poor man srelier. we-win nos oniy supply mm with food sufficient to keep him on pis legs, but We will teach him and instruct him and point out to him the beauties of we a I frill discourse sweet music mm ana give aim of advice. we will do almost anything for tho poor-man, anything bufrget off Msiack.

Tolstoy. i It entered this sweet home and silenced one. And the lone boy cried, "My poor mother's deadl paie coiu race aeatn mi lea on tne one, Who cos her many a sigh of joy and fear. And her last thought and prayer was bat irr BOYr In a brief time the father too succumbed. To grief and that most deadly poison, waxt.

TA.B.T m. Oat in the cold drear world the boy is thrust. To struggle in tfcs task of pettinar bread! Frowns and sneers nd slamming door and growls He daily until hi heart grow sad. Shame and eonf as ton dog his aching feet, And hsnger aad distress make htm a waif; With appetites fed from scavenger tabs The law's stern, eye perceives bis ragged form, And flaunts a heartless threat into his face. Out from tbe cload of smoke and sin he flees, Pale, trena blingr, for the crime of being poor! His haggard face yearn for a distant town, And on the trucks of palace-car ha climbs.

With the car is luxury and wealth; Beneath is dust and dizziness and death! Within is song and wine awl merry WITHOUT nn GSOAXS AND CRIES A'S 1HBXXKS ASTD PRATXBS! Within are silks and diamonds and gold; Without are rags and shivering and tears But a and on tne palace rushed through space, Heedless of the dead mother's blue-eyed boy. At last the goal is reached and lights and sound! Charm eye and ear and merry feet alight; And as the inspector clinks the heavy wheels He finds the dark crimson of a life crashed out- And tiny severed arm clasped to the trucks. THE SIN OrBEING OLD. Yer wornts a job, yer dew, An you're only sixty-tewl Thenke, we've all the paralitica as we're needin, with art you. This ain't no bloomin 'crspital, this factory is net We tikes on men that's young an smart an strong an on the spot, An thet is whort yer ain't, my friend, nort by a tidy lot.

It aint nor yoose ter try; So tike an paws awye Thur'a the young uns close be'ind yer, and youre blockin up the wye. An whur are yer to go? Ow the dickens shad I know? Thur's no one 'ungrin fur yer when you're sixty-tew or so. Yer 'as a fust clawss chericter: yer don't go on the booze; Yer've got a hit strength still left as you'd be prard ter yoose. But evrywhur yer awsks for wuk yer finds as they refoose An ev'rywhar you're told You're art, right art, clean bowled. Aye, the sin tket's paws furgivin is the sin o' bein old.

An thur's nutthink as yerll getr Penshing schemes is orf, yer bet. Thur mye be thet good time comin but it ain't a-comin yet. "With the growth thrifty 'abits it is wrong ter interfere; Likewise, we 'asn't got no twenty millying paruds a year, An one thing is too different, an t'other thing's too dear; Old iio 'as doue your triek; So jest yer mawch off quick; Thur's thewuk'ouse an the cemetery yer've only got pick. London Chronicle. Original.

BUILT ON FALSEHOOD. HUNGRY UXKXOUTS. If it is right that one strong man Dares to enslave another, Still grasping all the gold he can Is mau to man to man a brotber? Are we then children of one God, Born equal to inherit? Is the mo3t lying fraud, The man of the most merit? If this is right, then all is right; And a 1 these things so hellish Should never cause a tear or blight-God meant them to embellish. And God. a lover of warm Delights to see it spilling; Ami, midst the battle's crimson food, He aids strong arms in killing.

If this is right, then, all is right, And God love3 all transgressing; In bloody war takes great delight, And murder is a blessing, For all these crimes are to enslave A weaker, meeker brother, i dig for him a bloody grave i. In earth, our common mother. A lie, a liel all brutal lies! All lies to favor scheming. 1 The gTeat Almishty feast his eyes On murder? Face all beaming O'er with smiles a heavenly smile At snilDng stench of battle? In times of peace a God beguile Himself with slave chains' rattle? Original. THE STRIKERS.

O. W. nCGEIS. Back tD your hovels, back to your crust, To your starving wife and child. Back to your rags, to your grime and rust, Where the wolf of want runs wild.

Back to your drudging, ye thankless enrs. Praise ye all the hosts of might. That you are allowed the scraps that fall From the rich man's feast tonight. Your masters revel this night ye dogs, At a million-dollar feast; Diamonds will sparkle and wine will flow. You can tuisk.

of this at least. Your freedom stolen, your birthright sold For a rich man's careless nod. Ye have worshipped well your gods of gold, Now writhe 'neath the rich man's rod. Have done your growling you cowardly hounds. For you bark and howl in vain Grovel in want and rot in your rags.

But vote with your masters again. Vote with your drivers, ye fools and blind, Stand firm in their ranks, nor yield, Though kicks and curses you get for pay And a grave in potter's field THE MAN I'LL VOTE FOR. The man that of clothes, -will give me one suit (an old one) And in handing out justice will give me the boot, Permit me to work thirteen hours every day, And when I am sick, take it out of my pav, When, through ovebpkocuction, things get Kind siacic, Will say, quite politely, your tools you may pack. When at home we are feasting on taties and herrinjr, On the' best of the land, at his home he is farhiEr. The man that will lead me (my head through a noose) And occasionally give me a skinful of booze.

That's the man that I'll vote for, despite what you say, ThaVs the man that I'll vote for and shout for. Hooray I An American Voter and Most Every Other. Socialism In the Churches. Father Ducey, of Leo's Church, New York City, uttered the following remarks on bocial ism: "I know my duty as a priest of the church and I am willing to go before the arch bishop or the public on my record. Today we have a substitute church ianity.

Churchianlty believes not much in kings, but it does believe in a golden rule. The rule of gold in the church as well ajs'in the state by which it tries to influence the laws in the interest of Injustices, oppression and wronir, covering sin with the mantle of Money is king with tthe churches end can "do no wrong. The creature of wretched circumstances is avoided, but the rich malicious sir nex is honored and received in- Churchiaaltw railroads were also highways, in which the peo ple have special rights (Munn v. People of Illi nois, U4 If. S.

Supreme Court). And that cars were necessary to their use; but that it could not be claimed that the right to the use of the roaa-oea gave a right to the free use or tne cars. It was urged that the finding was in violatien of the right of the people peaceably to assemble as provided in Amendment 1, United States Constitution. But, citing "The Commonwealth v. Davis" (Massachusetts Law Reports, June, 1897), the court held that by taking the proper steps and paying the fee, any citizen could obtain license to breathe the air in public highways (Same case, 140 Mass.

4S5), taxing immigration had been uni formly upheld (Edsre et aL v. Robertson Circuit Court E. D. Nt Y. 18S3), and such laws denied the use not only of the air, but even of access, without payment of the fee.

It was further said, that the ordinances opening the streets, in their form, excluded such use, and that the principle of the ordinance was- constitutional. (Dillon's Municipal Corporations, 2o0, 2d cd.) The new doctrine was extended, and injunc tions obtained against certain strikers, who breathed the air upon roads belonging to the company, on the principle laid down Mackail v. Ratchford, 82 41. The Appellate Court justly said in sustaining the ini unctions, that common property in air worked very well in primitive times; but so did common property in land. The general experience of mankind, however, had improved upon those plans.

"There is no force," said the learned court, "la the strenuous contention of counsel for the defendants, that the doctrine of rights in air was new, for we fi nd in Blackstone, Book II, Chap, xx vi, Sec. 3i: 'Ancient Lights. Thus, too, the benefit of the elements, the light, the air, and the water, can be appropriated bv oceupancy. If I have an ancient window overlooking my neighbor's- ground, he may not erect any blind to obstruct the It follows that casements of wind and even of light were, and still are, allowed in England. Nor is the decision of the lower court in contravention of the 5th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right to life and liberty, for' it' is open to any one to become an air lord.

(See cases cited on behalf of Warren Bridge, inJCharles River Beidge v. Warren Bridge 7 Pick. 344 Mass.) The decision was quickly followed in the house of lords, the chamber of. deputies, and the high courts of other countries and as nearly all land owners have rights in the streets, numerous suits wereinstituted. In fact, one shyster attorney, the owner of a little plot which was mortgaged for all it was worth, had summonses printed, and, relying upon the principle that everyone has a right to sue everyone else, served them upon every person who passed, at the rate of several hundred every day.

Nearly every one failed to answer, and the costs brought him in a pretty fortune. Capital came to the rescue, and the Pneumatic Tube Company, to which a franchise was granted in 1807, to lav tubes under New York streets, supplied "penny-in-the-slot" flexible tubes, from which air might be inhaled as pedestrians passed over land whose proprietors had reserved their rights in air" Boxes of condensed air. to be carried on the back, were also supplied at a nominal charge. Knowing that the poorest boy might become an air lord himself, just as he might become president, and that "competition among owners would keep prices down to a reasonable figure," just as it had kept down the price of rent, the peode acquiesced, and were just as contented as they are now. -Bolton IIall.

Mast Own the Trusts. Mayor Jones of Toledo has of late been be sieced with all sorts of economic questions. A man named Brooker, of North Baltimore, asks, "Why are American citizens reduced to such hardships that the almost daily plea is, 'For God's sake, give us more Mayor Jcnes says in reply: "It is not for lack of -vjork that ought to be done. Thousands of miles of impassable roads all over northern Ohio every winter keep thousands of people in the- rural districts almost as effectually shut out from communication and association with their fellow men as though they were under a siege. Let us add to the wealth of the country by making beautiful roads, good at all seasons of the year.

"Millions of American citizens have walked the streets of our cities this winter with wet feet for want of shoes, in this vain search for work, while thousands of shoemakers were locked out of Massachusetts shoe factories because the 'markets were overstocked, and wages had to be reduced to afford the manufacturer a profit. "Other thousands have faced the chilling winter winds, having only a thin coat pinned under the chin to cover the lack of a shirt, while our largest and best clothing houses and several American cities have gone to the wall on account of 'lack of trade. 'The price of brick is so low that the manu facturies are in danger of bankruptcy, yet thousands of babies have had the young life frozen out of their bodies, as their parents have tried to rear them in huts unfit to house a dog, without coal, while coal miners starved in Ohio for want of work and killed each other in Illinois in the fratricidal strife for a chance to work for a living. "Why plead for the continuance of the competitive system that is so conspicuous a failure? Why not work for the inauguration of a better system? The trusts go merrily on. We make laws against them, but still they thrive, a3 any system is bound to thrive that climates the wicked waste of cut-throat competition.

The trusts are showing us how we may co-operate, not for the selfish purpose that inspires the trusts, but for the patriotic purpose of providing a plan to take care of alt Society -that is, all of us will be forced to adopt their methods as a matter of self preservation; in short we must eventually own the have driven out mediieval Spain, but American exploitation has gone in. There is not the slightest intention on the part of this administration, moreover, to set Cuba free. It is a fore gone conclusion, so far as the existing order of things is concerned, that Cuba shall be annexed and, if necessary, civil strife induced in order that we shall come in to preserve the order by which we shall annex the Annexation is the purpose and craft of the present moment to keep all we can get: to ge all that we can. It is absolutely certain that this administration never had any policy or principles beyond pleasing its masters. I do not doubt for one moment that President McKinley is a sincere mau a man who piously thinks that the well-being of this nation depends on the government of America being administered for private corporations but the most dangerous man in any crisis of the world is the well meaning man without principles, who becomes merely characterless putty in the hands of his masters.

It is to the Philippine islands, however, that we must turn when the question of imperialism is raised. What did we find there? a people who had for a long time struggled for their liberties; a patriot leader whom Americans at that time were wont toparalell with Washington; a people in reality almost on the verge of victory. Iheir exiled leaders were invited to return. They came back trusting us. They helped us conquer the Spaniards in the archipelago.

They were victors as well as we. We invited them to renew their struggle upon the expectation that we would gain for them their freedom. Their congress met. "A provisional government was adopted, far in advance of any provisional government adopted during the American revolution. Then what did America? First of all, we shamefully and persistently misrepresented the Filipinos to the people of America! What next? We refused to treat with their envoys.

It is said we have killed more Filipinos in three months than Spain killed in three centuries. Whether that be true or not, we have been guilty of shooting down men and women seeking for nothing except to a chance to assert their liberty. Think of it the country of Jefferson and Lincoln and Phillips and Garrison, moved by gigantic commercial interests, today engaged in striking at the heart of a people who are in the springtime of the first dawn of national liberty. Corporate interests have their way of denying the right of these people to even attempt self-government. I say to you that if you follow blindly in that ruthless slaughter of the first birth of liberty, your turn will come.

it is the premeditated and deliberate purpose that your turn shall come. Then there comes the ghastly demand of the pulpit that expansion is the thine because it will enable us to carry the gospel to these people. If anything could ten thousand times justify the criticisms I have made of the protestant pulpit, this cry for the carrying of the blessings of American civilization is that justification. It should be the day and night prayer of every one who bears the name of the lowly Christ that the islands of the sea should be delivered from the hideous devil-worship that we call Christianity. A Prison Factory.

'Twine sales at this institution up to date aggregate 3,500,000 pounds, consisting of small cash orders and club orders in carload lots received direct from farmers," says Warden Henry Wolfer, of the Minnesota penitentiary, in speaking of the binding twine plant at Stillwater. "Cash orders received daily aggregate from $6,000 to $7,000, and club orders in carloads amount to from eight to twelve cars. Every pound of pure manilla twine in stock has been ordered and from now on we will only have manilla and sisal mixed. "This is the only twine we will manufacture the remainder of this season, inasmuch as we can get out more twine by manufacturing only one grade. I receive from 400 to 500 letters daily, and fully two-thirds of them contain remittances for twine.

"If the factory continues to run at full blast the remainder of the twine season, the best we can do will be to manufacture 5,700,000 pounds, and there is now no question but thatthis entire amount will be sold direct to farmers before May 7, and that there will not be a pound of twine left for dealers. "Since the board of managers fixed prices on twine up to May 1, based upon the cost of raw material, we have secured material enough to keep the factory running until July 15, which will practically be the close of the twine sea son." Work, work, work, Till the brain begins to swim; Work, work, work Till the eyss are heavy and dim; Beam and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream. -''Hood. 1 4.