The Unionist from Fort Scott, Kansas • 1

PA TATTVlTYi TOTl United we Stand, IN UNION There is Strength Divided we Fall. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE FORT SCOTT AND 'PARSONS CENTRAL LABOR UNIONS. II. FORT SCOTT, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1904. No.

26. 61 I 111 1 I I ra He Roasted Rockefeller, Remember The Little Member 1 Playing craps for pennies is the most heinous offense yet punished by the police court. Pirn those Pi we is. Watch Repairing. tOthickS Co I The Only Abstract Books in the County IBM Watches need attention; all machinery does.

And the better the watch the more particular its owner should be to have it looked after. Watches should be oiled every eighteen months or two years, even if they are doing satisfactory work. Oiling involves cleaning, for fine dust finds its way inside the watch and eventually works an injury. We have the best men we know of for repairing watches employ none but skilled workmen and, of course, we guarantee the work, which means that we can afford to do only work that is first class. This applies as well to the finest Swiss hand-made watches as to good American movements.

A new mainspring put in for Cleaning, carefully and thoroughly done, $1,50. Mainsprings and cleaning for $2.25. We will set and regulate your watch and do it with our compliments; or, you can stop in at any time and set it by the Government "ticker" that gives correct time from the Washington Observatory. wru 1 Burkholder, ffl THE JEWELER. Lumber, Doors, Cement, Lime, and Brick.

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1 One block south T. depot. Rev. Jos. E.

Vance, of Chicago, roasted John D. Rockefeller to a turn in a recent sermon. He said: "This man, who is looked on as the most successful in this country, is, in the last analysis, a gambler or a highway robber. He is not even a creator of money, much less, of man hood, but a bandit who has held up the public for millions. "There Is no difference in principle between holding up a nation at the mouth of a pipe line and holding up a man at the mouth of a gun.

"There exists a supreme contempt for law. Why, this is apparent. A criminal will always have contempt for laws that go unenforced1 against him, and a mayor who pardons, for political purposes, a policeman whose hand is open to graft, and a justice court that allows itself to be systematically worked by professional bondsmen, have much more to do with unenforced laws than a paucity of policemen. "There is a feeling abroad that money controls state and federal leg- slation; that some United States senators have admitted to purchasing seats, and that the money power today makes laws for private convenience. So we shall have to go deeper to explain an era of crime.

An overvaluation of money and an undervaluation of manhood is at the bottom of it all." They Should Be Brothers. At Victor, Colorado, on January 26, as cage wa1? coming o'U of a mine shaft loaded with fifteen workmen, the machinery becann iinm.t and the cage struck the beams above and broke the cable. The men foil 1,500 feet and were cruched into an undistlnguishable mass. At Chiswick, Pennsylvania, January 25th, an explosion took place in a mine and 190 workmen were buried alive and suffocated to death by the deadly fire damp. In each of these cases the avaiiee of the mine owners resulted in mur der.

And such murder. Death is looked upon from many view-points. Some profess to be willing to welcome it at any time, some are indifferent as long as it doesn't touch them; but the death they all picture is softened by homelike scenes, of sorrowing friends and hopeful words, be'ied by features frantic with distress; of last E'oodbyes to all the loved onas, nnJ then rest. But these scenes of honor happening at almost the same time in Colorado and Pennsylvania lacked no detail of being as dreadful as possible. It seems that the sympathy of the nation should turn to men who live underground and run the risk of being caught like rats in a trap at any moment.

And it seems reasonable that they should demand that those they labor with, each dependent upon the others for safety, shall not be gathered from the riffraff of the earth reckless and Irresponsible, but shall be all brothers in the union, bound to companions by social ties as well as by these of interest. Senator Burton one time ran for congress inthe fifth district and the people paid his campaign expenses. Tnis Is how he worked it. When he was nominated he had no money or credit. He was a notorions dead beat, in fact his creditors were his main backers, hoping to cash out whenever he got something, He went to the bank of Belleville and borrowed $2500 giving a note signed by himself and two other politicians equally as depressed financially as himself.

The hank was county depository and failed when Burton was defeated. The note was sold at auction for fifty cents. So the taxpayers of Republic county have reason to remember Burton. The mayor of Chicago and a dozen minor officials have been arrested for complicity In the Iroquois theater horror. A campaign for eivlc house-cleaning in that city has been started.

An organization called the anti-crime association is attempting to raise JlOO.Ono to hire men to see that city officials do their duty and enforce the laws. This is an ironical commentary on the class of cattle they elect to office. Merchants are having plenty of opportunities to Invest in advertising schemes. They seem to count that day lest low, descending sun sees nothing spent on some blame son of a gun. or words to that effect.

Some cf these advertising schemes are fakes of the rankest kinds, others are quite so bad but all are nuis ances to the advertisers and eye-sores to the paiilic. It is noticeable thn each Eiicreeriing schema werks a new set of suckers Seme of thece schemes pnrpnit to be made under the pices ef the labor unlcns. No such authority has beer given to any one. It is safp to say if the columns of the cannet 1 th nanvs of top i inviting the r-f ion '3 it V. 9 to mak You may keep your feet from slipping And your hands from evil deeds, But to guard your tongue from trip Ping, What unceasing care it needs! Be you old or be you young, Oh, beware, Take good cave Of the tittle-tattle, telltale tongue You may feel inclined to quarrel With the doctrine that I preach, But the soundnes of the moral Sad expe'ience will teach: Be it said or be it sung Everywhere, Oh, beware Of the tittle-tattle, telltale tongue St.

Nicholas. A LABOR PRAYER. At the labor convention held in Springfield, last week President Behrens introduced Colonel John G. Newbill, publisher of the Springfield a member of Typographical Union No. 158, who made the following invocation: "Our Father who art in heaven, if we have any claim upon Thy favor or any right to call Thee Father may it be because we have not knowingly trampled upon the rights of any of Thy children.

"Hallowed be Thy name; may the reverent heart find Thy presence everywhere and seek to work in harmony with the mighty forces that work righteousness and peace. "Thy kingdom come; may we speed its coming by. making the acts of our legislatures accord with the eternal laws of that moral government which is supreme over all the nations. "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; may we prove the sincerity of our faith by practicing in senate chambers the lofty precepts which we profess in the sanctuary. "Give us this day our daily bread.

We do not ask for the bread of others. Give us the bread that is ours by the right of useful labor. May the claims of justice be satisfied in the laws of the land, that all may have bread and that the starving millions may be fed, not by the hand of charity, but by the labor that wears no chains and knows no master. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; save us from that egotism which magnifies the faults of others, while blinded in our justice grant us, in the of eternal justice, grant us only that measure of liberty we accord to-the weakest of our neighbors. "Lead us not into temptation; grant us the moral courage to turn our back upon the alluring vjsions of thejdng-doms of this world and their glory, remembering that righteousness alone exalteth a nation.

'Deliver us from evil; now, when the chains are being forged and the golden padlocks are being fashioned for our lips; now, when men are forgetting the faith of their fathers In the strength of armies and the majesty of fleets, now, before the choice goes by forever, deliver us from the greed that takes refuge in the sanction of the law, save us from the turice accursed murderer that kills in the name of the prince of peace. We consecrate ourselves anew to liberty that our fathers purchased at so great a price. Before the sacred altar of our fathers' God we pledge renewed devotion to the principles which have made the flag we love the emblem of hope to the oppressed of all the world. On that solemn day which comes to men and to nations, when the seeds of our sowing shall have borne fruit in national character, and the destiny shall be revealed which our hands are shaping, forbid that we shall have to point for justification to thrones and altars founded upon tiie bodies and souls of our fel- lowmen; standing before the tribunal of meicy, may we be able to point with to. the fact that we have followed the golden rule of justice.

May we never covet the gold that drips with the tears of bondsmen. May we never feel strong enough to do wrong. May we do justly and love mercy and walk humbly with our God and to Him shall be the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever: Amen." Duty is net transferable. We cannot worship God by telephone or fight the battles of righteousness by substitutes. Religion reaches into every detail of life and includes our duty as citizens.

may serve God at the ballot box as certainly as at church. The man who evades his duty as a citizen by leaving the. conduct of af fairs- in the band of the professional politicians is guilty before GiJ. Suffrage is not only a privilege but an obligation. And the man who hold? himself ton gocd to vcte is bad for the kiiig.lora ff hiSv.r:.

L. A. Cra- of Chlcsto. are Pc-abody and Parry, the poiitieians. The parties now trying to raise capital to put in a pipe line, perhaps claim the name of capitalists from the fact that they live in the capital.

Capitalist D. D. McCray, Capitalist C. E. Foote and Capitalist Parker, having got a franchise to pipe gas to this city are out skirmishing for the capital with which to do it.

The political contest in Kansas this year should not be fought on the poor and paltry issue of who is to hold the offices, merely a mad scramble of the outs against the ins. The rank and file of the voters are ripe for a house-cleaning. The power of the ballot is getting back to the common people. May it be used for honesty and good government. Stiennuosity seems to have been in troduced into the social functions of the White House.

At the New Year reception several hundred policemen steered the callers through the yard up the steps, along the hall, and out of doors again, calling out loudly "Hurry up "Move "Don't stop" and other expressions of of hospitality, as if officiating over a herd of hogs. One of the things that handicaps the Hoch revolution is the many dif ferent ways in which the name is pronounced. When one man tells what a good fellow Ed Hoke is, and another says that Mr. Hotch is a statesman, and another remarks that Hoche is a good Methodist, and still another relates some story designed to impress one with the high order of intellect of one Hock, an interested listener might be forgiven for think ing the parties were talking of differ ent persons entirely. Si vTetary Cortelyou of the new de parts, nt of Commerce and Labor spoke at a board of trade banquet at Washington recently and promised to enforce fairly and impartially and with sanity and conservatism" the laws under which his department op erates.

As this is the first sign of life he has made since starting out a year ago, "conservative" Is certainly a very apt term for him to use. It is beginning to dawn upon the people that the new department is not fulfilling the expectations of its promoters. Senator J. R. Burton has been indicted by the federal grand jury at St.

Louis for accepting boodle from a get rich quick company. Few are surprised at this. As in the case of "Honest Dan" the people seem to have been expecting exposure of some kind. This climax to his career will eliminate J. R.

Burton from Kansas politics in which he has been an unique figure for twenty years, and it is better for the state. Purgatives are sometimes useful and necessary in politics as well as in hygiene. Kansas is going to take a bigger dose yet, soon. Having had a good puke she can resume her old business of aspiring to the stars. Wrhen Waite was governor of Colorado, some ten years ago, a strike for an eight-hour day took place in the Cripple Crek district in which a clash of authority took place between a sheriff and the governor.The sheriff was opposed to the strikers aud raised an army of fifteen hundred deputies to put down the strike.

The governor sent a squad of militia to protect the strikers. The controversy assumed a very serious tone for a time, but the governor refused to be bluffed and ordered the militia to. disperse the deputies which was done. By his prompt action and manifest sympathy the governor so encouraged the strikers that their efforts were crowned with success. Two years later Waite was defeated for governor by the very men whom he had so specially favored.

As expected our remarks last week abcut the partnership existing between the Walker Street contingent and the gamblers and the city officials was the subject of some comment. Several have been in to commend our sentiments while some deplore cur lack of discretion. We believe laxness in the enforcement of law is reflected in looseness of morals throughout the community. Permission for prostitutes to ply their trade over the streets indicates a recognition cf harlotry as a legitimate! profession, and it is but a Step further to catch two middle-aged married people in a vacant house clad In less clothes than the Venus de Medici, and not even the excuse of looking better that way. The promiscumis patronage cif the brothels is only a first degree to a sort of hed-feiiow exchange set-fifty that Is said to be rtnin? a brisk business here.

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