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1 1 BUG LliC ALI TIIU RSI )AY, A I'IuITtiSsHI 1'. I). IlAIiniAN, Editor. Late of Co. 13111, and 147th Ills.

Tuft. Tifiy ('outs a Year In Advance. Entered at the Marysville, Kansas, Postof-lice, as second class mail matter. Labor Notes. Four thousand citizens of Lake, 111., met recently and pledged themselves to support the strikers on the Gould roads.

At Augusta, the presidents of eight cotton mills will not recognize the knights of labor, but say they will treat with the men only as individuals. Wm. S. Sutter, a representative of Moulders assembly No. 1755, of Chicago, has been inquiring into the prices paid in Milwaukee, and has made considerable progress towards organizing those employed at hollow-ware moulding.

A demand will soon be made for an increase of pay and shorter hours. The Champion machine company of Springfield, Ohio, is being boycotted by the knights of labor. This, it will be remembered, is the company which discharged 500 men some time ago because they were knights of labor, and openly said that that was the sole reason for their discharge. Topeka Daily who at that time were in the middle walk of life, who with twenty years added, have grown gray, and become decrepit. It is for these men, not for myself, that I speak, lie-cause I have no occasion for a governmental position.

It was for them that this plea was made. That is fraternity, and fraternity towards those who have marched right up into the jaws of death and the gates of hell. It is our duty to say, that between two men, one of whom did his duty in the army, and the other of whom failed to go to the front, that we do not stand on the side of the man who did not go. If the same application of my obligation as a comrade of the Grand Army of the Republic and its strength had actuated some of you in 1865, it wouldn't be said that the government of this county had placed on the books a statute which, for eighteen years, has been almost totally ignored. Three years ago, in the city of New York, as is stated in the little circular which all of you have, it was a crime, almost, for a man to apply for a public position and present an honorable discharge from the service of the United States, and claim recognition.

To-day, from the president of this grand country, I am glad to say, down to the lowest subordinate with some kind of appointing power, you get a respectful attention when you present those claims. (Applause.) I want to say to you, without mentioning any names, my idea of comradeship is that which induced persons to go from the state of New York to Washington, when Wilson was made pension agent, to go on his bond for 5100,000. That is comradeship, that is fraternity. I want to ask you to endorse the report of this minority of the committee, because that report means fraternity in every er than appoint according to the spirit and letter of the law. For this reason the boys in the states mentioned organized for the purpose of securing the rights to the veterans who were entitled to them.

At the meeting of the National Fncampnient, held at Portland, Maine, in 1S85, the following resolutions were adopted, with an amendment that a committee of five should be appointed to proceed to Washington with the resolutions and urge upon the heads of departments the carrying out of the law in its spirit and letter. Whereas, There is organized in the states of New York and Pennsylvania a G. A. R. Veterans' Rights Union, composed of members of the G.

A. R. in the departments named, which has been re-organized and endorsed by the departments of the G. A. R.

in those states who are entitled thereto under the laws, either city, stale, or National, preference in the civil employ of the governments thereof; and Wiierkas, This object is one of the strongest links in the chain which binds us together, and our bounden duty as comrades; and Wukrkas, Such attention as may be necessary to protect the rights of the veterans of the war is one of the highest principles we can advance, therefore be it Rksoi.vkd, That the National encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, in annual session assembled, urge upon all with power of appointment to or removal from public office, or employment under any government, whether the same be National, state, or municipal, to give full force and effect to laws now existing or that hereafter may be enacted, having in view any preference the people of the country may give to those who were in the military or naval service, and were honorably discharged therefrom. it als Rksolved, That this encampment recognizes and endorses to the fullest extent the objects of the Veterans' Rights Union, and recommends and requests the various departments of the Grand Army of the Republic to institute aid perfect in each department an organization similar to those already in existence in the departments of New York and Pennsylvania for the protection of the rights of the veteran under the law. He it als Mrs. Elizabeth Walton, of Junction City, Davis county, has received $1,200 hack pension. Thirty-five thousand soldiers of the 70,000 who fought in the war with Mexico, are now living.

Mrs. Fmily Jenkins, of Clay Center, has been appointed an aid on the staff of the National president. The question as to what regimental flag was first planted on Missionary ridge is now being discussed. Mrs. Elizabeth Sheer, of Yates Center, Woodson county, has been placed on the pension rolls at $17 per month.

May 30, decoration day, comes this year on Sunday. The law makes Monday the legal decoration day in such years. Mrs. P. I).

Sinex, l'eabody, would like to know if her husband, Jacob Sinex, Co. 2(1 Colorado Cavalry, is alive or dead. Mrs. Sarah Craner, Downs, Osborne county, received back pension to the amount of $2,042.40 on account of the death of her son. Corps No.

7y, at Clyde, recently superintended a series of plays given by Col. Dobbs and troupe, and made money for their relief fund. The Woman's Relief corps, at Abilene, assisted by the post, held a fair at that place lately, which added $1,000 to their treasury. John W. Thornton, ol Lawrence, Kansas, a sufferer from Quantrell's raid, has been put on the pension roll.

This is the first case of the kind on record. Judson Kilpatrick post, of Newton, had quite a debate at a recent meeting, on the bill now before congress fin the equalization of the pay of the soldier, with the pay of the bondholder. A. J. Bradford, of Cornforth post No.

159, of Clyde, under date of the 4th, says: "We had the 'Spy of Atlanta' played here March 11,12 and 13 for the benefit of the relief fund, from which we realized $120 above expenses." Orseanius Greene, private from company D. 6th Michigan volunteer infantry, last heard of at Webb City, but having gone from there to Kansas, whose present address is unknown, is hereby notified that his pension has been received, anil is wailing for him at Paw l'aw, ichigan. VoteraiiH' KifrliL Union. Nineteen years ago the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States passed a law, known as the Veterans' Rights law, and which remained on our statute books as a dead letter, until about two or three years ago when the Grand Army boys of New York and Pennsylvania organized a Veterans' Rights Union in those states and determined to see that the worthy ex-soldiers of the late war should get their just deserts. The law as passed, was, in effect that in dispensing patronage by all officers making appointments, "soldiers honorably discharged from the service of the United States should have the preference." Of course it was to the interest of members of Congress and head of departments to prefer to make appointments from among their political friends whom they could use in securing a re-election, rath Capital and labor seem to be getting farther apart every day.

Recently the furniture manufacturers organized to resist the demands of the unions. A dispatch says: There are about seventy-five manufacturers and some 4,000 working men, and it is probable that if there should be any trouble the 4,000 would "get away" with the seventy-five. Ex. A bill has been introduced into the British parliament which provides that no one shall be permitted to own more than one hundred acres of land. If that bill passes, William Scully, a resident of London, and owner of 75,000 acres of farming land in the state of Illinois, from which he derives an annual income of more than one hundred thousand dollars, will have to leave that blasted country.

Our Country. The popular impression is that the knights of labor is an organization of hoodlums, or at the most, an association of discontented, unreasonable and impracticable laboring men, who are tainted with communism, nihilism, socialism, and every other social and political heresy, and that it is the duty of the government and of all good citizens to stamp them out. The fact is the knights of labor is nothing more nor less than an organization of the industrial classes for the express and only purpose of protecting themselves, and of bringing about by peaceble and lawful means, a better understanding between themselves and their employers, and thus maintain a more wholesome condition of affairs. Atchison Trades Union. shape.

We have made this fight, comrades, with never one single man having an ambition to raise above his level. Money cannot buy; position cannot tempt. And we stand that position, and fight for these men; but we want to feel that you stand behind us; anil when we ask what we have, we think we have asked very reasonable things. I don't want to occupy your time any more, but I want to say to you; that if fraternity, charity and loyalty mean anything to day, how much more important they are to us as we travel down the valley towards death. While we live, let us stand by each other, comrades, no matter what others may say.

Ex. He Saw the Sign. It was on the piazza of a Tucson hotel. Three men sat there in the warm and drowsy afternoon. They had uncovered their heads for comfort, and they were bald.

A little streak of sunlight gilded the skulls, and as the men sat there another came up and looked at them. Then he slowly took out his revolver. A simultaneous movement took place on the part of the three men, but the stranger waved hand for peace and, holding up his weapon, asked the middle man: "How much will you give me on it?" "What do you mean?" "How much will you give me on it?" "Sir! Do you take this for a pawn-broker's shop?" "Well, I didn't know. I sec the sign there three balls," and every man put on his hat as he took in the situation. San Francisco Rksoi.vkd, That a copy of these resolutions, properly attested, be forwarded to the president and vice president of the United States, and the several members of the cabinet, as the voice of the 300,000 members of this organization on this question.

Comrade J. W. Kay, of New York, in speaking on the resolutions, before their adoption, said: "I feel that in addressing you I am addressing men who know more in five minutes than I will in five years; nevertheless, inspired by what I believe to be my duty as a comrade of the Grand Army, I have taken hold of this matter, and I want the help of the 300,000 men who are behind us to see that these laws are carried into effect. L. Wilson, a soldier of the late war, crippled as Tanner was, was a candidate for a little postmastership in the state of New York, but because he wouldn't help the congressman in the district, the president sent in the name of a girl in the place of a crippled soldier.

We hung the nomination on a peg in the senate from the iSth day of February until the 19th day of June before it was taken down and this girl confirmed. It turned out eventually that this case became known from New England to California, and inspired those who have an interest in these things, and excited a sympathy throughout the Union. I believe if these resolutions are passed, it will result in presenting an unbroken front to the enemy. Wilson to-day is pension agent at Washington, in the district of Columbia, placed there as the result of this fight, anil the congressman who inaugurated it is relegated to private life. (Applause.) Put we go iurther than this The law, Section 1754, was put upon the statute book in the day when you and boys, many of us didn't want help from the government.

We came home feeling that we could take care of ourselves. Put there were men who enlisted,.