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EVERY man in Kansas, this fall will have to make bis mark--when he goes to vote. PRoF. TOTTEN says this unrest and trouble will be worse before it is better, but that it is the immediate predecessor of the mihennium. If all men would "Do unto others as they would have others do unto them," the millennium would appear tomorrow. TIN REGISTER agrees with the Midland Mechanic that a little of Lucy ParsoN's anarchial speech goes a great was--or for that matter the speech of any one else who counsels violent revolution.

Revolution and reformation may be needed but it must come aS did death to Jepthah's -not by violence. IN several quarters the demand that cities shall issue bonds in small denominations with which to employ unemployed labor. in public improvements is being made. The mayor of Kansas City has proposed that solution of the question for that point, and has met with considerable favor but no definite action has yet been taken. IN these times of financial distress no member of any labor organization should be suspended for non- payment of dues, unless his dereliction is result of wilful neglect.

Bear with indigent members. On the other hand every one who is able should keep his dues paid up that the treasurers may be able to stand the demands made upon them. CONGRESSMEN and officials have hitherto, when voting and working contrary to the platform upon which they were elected, endeavored by subterfuge and plausible pretexts to cover up desertion from principle, but it can not be said of those in power now tha, they are making any effort to conceal their determination to prove that party platforms are mere waves of sound. Ir may at length be said that the miners' strike is ended. The officials have declared the strike off at Leavenworth, at Osage City, and in the sontheast all the operators bave come to time and opened up, except the Kansas and Texas, which is working a full force of colored miners behind stockades.

The miners claim that the operators met them more than half way and that they are fairly well satistied with their efforts. WHO does not like that man or woman who always has a good word to say of their friends whether deserved or not? It is so pleasant in these days of criticism to meet one who still believes there is some good in humanity, and who illustrates his point by pointing out the virtues of some friends. Since all are guilty of some foible, which in nearly all cases amounts to downright evil, would it not be well to pluck the beams out of our own eyes before attempting to get the mote out of our brother's eyes? Labor Day. Next Monday is the day we celebrateLabor Day. It is the day which is beginning to mean to the toiling masses, the true aristocrats, what the Fourth of July means to the American citizen and what Christmas means to the Christian.

To P. J. McGuire, secretary of the Brotherhcod of Carpenters and Joiners of America, belongs the honor of originating the idea of Labor Day. Twelve years ago he sug gested to the Central Labor Union of New York that a day be annually set aside, on which, by appropriate exercises and fitting ceremenies, the progress of labor might be exemplified. In 1882 the body to whom he made the suggestion adopted the idea and made a demonstration and parade.

The thought commended itself to laboring men everywhere and spread with wonderful rapididity. This year there will scarcely be a sate or territory in this nation in which this day is not cel. ebrated. In twenty-six states it has been made a legal holiday, the first Monday in September being the day usually set apart for that purpose. The time is near at band when it will be made a national holiday.

Labor Day is unique, different from all other days that are observed as fete days. It commemorates no great event of the past as does the Fourth of July or Christmas; it does not designate the beginning of any period as does New Years; it is not at all like Thanksgiving, although every devout workingman should witness its recurrence with feelings of gratitude and thankfulness to the Great Father who is leading his special wards, the poor and oppressed, upward to a broader plane of manhood and womanhood where they will be free indeed, and Labor Day is one of the mile-stones in the upward path. It does not, like many fete days, commemorate a decisive battle in which some great general led an army to victory. With it go no thoughts of ruthless slaughter or bloody conquest. Yet, like our great national holiday, it is a day on which the spirit of independence brightly in the hearts of the toilers, of brain and brawn, especially those of this blessed nation; it is a day that gives the Railroad Register BY MORGAN DUNN.

Entered at the postoffice at Topeka, Kansas, for distribution through the mails a8 second class matter. LABEL NO FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1893. For county G. Hamuelson For county attorney For county For register of Brooks For coroner. For George H.

Price WORKINGMEN'S COUNTY TICKET For sheriff E. Cook Still At It. The replies to our request that delinquints send in the amounts they owed us by August 30 were alarmingly scarce. To the 830 requests sent out not more than eighteen or twenty have replied. We sume that the main reason for this has been the fact that there was no pay day in August, but we also believe that one reason lies in the neglectfulness of those to whom we sent statements We have had faith that all those who were able to raise the money due us would do so when we told them of our need, and hope that as soon as the pay car rolls by--and we have been informed that it will come out within the next five days--that every delinquent will immediately send us the amount due us, no matter how large or how small it is.

In the name of justice do this before Septemher 15, and aid the REGISTER to get through this crisis, during which it appears that men are closing their hearts to all appeals for mercy, heap or even justice. If there is any error in your account, point it out, and it will be rectified; if you are utterly unable through misfortune or otherwise to pay let us know that we may not be at the expense of sending the paper to you any longer; (several have made this statement and we have freely forgiven them their debts and discontinued their paper.) if you are so utterly lost to all sense of justice as to think you ought not to pay what you owe us, frankly say SO that we may be able to place you ou the category of the dead beats, along with those who pay no attention to our appeals; (one man has had the frankness to do this, and we admire his courage, while despising his principles) but if you can possibly raise the money and do not want to go on our dead beat list, which we keep for our own use and not for publication--just to re member the boys by, and to always feel that we have something due us--we say, if you possibly can raise the money, send it in between now and September 15 and win the lusting gratitude of MORGAN DUNN. N. B. This article will be marked.

If it does not apply to you, thank your lucky stars and revel in the virtue of having discharged your duty; if it does, make a break for the nearest post office and send us a postal note or express money order for amount due. Do not send personal checks. We can't use them. Banks won't cash them. M.

D. Now would be a good time for some congressman to introduce a postal saving bank bill. NEVER was the importance of through organization more apparent. Don't let your interests in organization be lessened pow. POLITICAL organizations of all kinds and under all names are becoming as numerous as islands in the archipelago.

T'is no good sign. WHEN congress decides to bring eyerything to a gold standard, as it seems evi-dent it will, what is it going to do with the thousands of laboring men out of employment? DAN HONIN, who has been attempting for years to run a railroad labor paper at Omaha, gaining much favor and notoriety at the expense of great labor and all his finance is now preparing to make a new venture in the same line in Denver. TWELVE hundred Polish and Hungarian laborers are said to have left Pennsylvania for their European homes since the financial depression and consequent lack of employment. This country will bear with the present situation of things a few months longer if cheap European labor will but follow the example of those chaps. masses a lift of many, leagues toward that a equality tor which they have been struggling for centuries, it is al day typical of the true spirit of assertive democracy pregnant with grand possibilities in the future.

On this day Labor, the mistress of the nation and state, bids her stalwart hosts shut down the furnace and forge and calls them from the whirring wheel and clattering loom, from clinking hammer and resistless machine, from clicking type und gliding pen, and from all their varied and man fold duties, to array themselves before those who have hitherto been considered her superiors, in all their strength of numbers, muscle and mind. In frout of this mighty army, this resistless host, stronger than all the armies of ancient times, more numerous than the innumerable hosts of Xenophon; in front of this massive multitude, whose tread when they march shakes the earth and whose cries cause the crumbling walls of tyranny and oppression to fall even as the walls of Jericho fell, Labor stands and turning to the awed kings and rulers, to the hitherto "superior" classes, to the aristocracy of blood and pelf, she says: "Are these not your equals? Yea, are not these your superiors? Is not this the true Can you much longer deny the right to an equitable share in the product of their toil? Can you much longer lead them to believe in your assumed superiority? Was it not from these ranks that all the truly great and heroic of the world's history has sprung? Was not the world's greatest Teacher a son of the humble Virgin, the adopted son of the carpenter Joseph? Were not His associates and His fearless apostles drawn from this same class From what element of society came those whose names this nation delights to honor if not from these ranks of toilers? Behold them. ye vaunting, boasting sous of aristocracy. Their blood is red as thine and their power is Behold them, but tremble only for your prejudices and opinions. An ye but speedily acknowledge their rights and equality ye shall be brethren and all the world shall be at peace, while prosperity and happiness shall breathe in every gale and spread to every land." Such is the message which Labor on this day set apart to her children delivers to the listening world.

A few more decades and all classes will join in celebrating Labor Day, for the masses will gain their rights; fraternity and equality will prevail; reforms will no longer be demanded, for the need of reform will have passed away. Labor, the long deposed s- vereign, will- occupy her right' in the councils of the nation, and her other self, Capital, will no longer force her to occupy an unhappy, constrained position, but as twin sisters, hand in hand, they will move throughout the land their equal rule. Welcome Labor Day, thrice welcome art thou. Thou art not come in honor of saints, kings or warriors but in honor of the foundation principles on which rest the universal Brotherhood of man and the Eternal Fatherhood of God. Hit It Exactly.

A subscriber in the southern part of the state in renewing his subscription adds 8 a good word by saying: it is any satisfaction to you I am free to confess that your course is admirable while difficult; not herding with corporation or plutocrats, yet, while condeming the evil, approving the good; and on the other hand while endeavoring to protect the laborer as worthy of his bire, yet you ignore the hue and cry of the common mob of anarchists, socialists and their ilk." That subscriber has evidently been reading the REGISTER to some purpose. P'INTERS. Organize, and then organize others. Partisanship perpetuates politicians in power. Genuine unionism, like christianity, has no selfishness-in it.

An inspiration to write docs not always inspire men to write right. Two equal partners who are yet always quarreling--capital and labor. Isn't it queer that the man who needs a free pass least always has one? A good time is coming, it's almost here, but it's been a long, long time on the way. "The hungry man," says the Ram's Horn, "never calls for cake; what he wants is Is your burden heavy? Aid some one else to bear theirs and yours will grow wonderfully light. Nearly all producing organized labor now has a distinctive brand for its product.

Look for the label. "Actions speak louder than words," says the old adage, but words are sometimes better than nothing. Even those who oppose labor organizations organize their opposition. Consistency, thy name is "pants." In union is strength and in brotherhood is -but there is a Friend that sticketh closer than a brother. "It never puts the devil back an inch for stiogy man to talk in church," is another apt saying of the Ram's Horn.

In the multiplicity of counsel is wisdom, but he is a wise man who is always able to discern and appropriate the wisdom. Good deeds, kind words: these are drafts that that will be honored when banks are failing and the check of a plutocrat is worthless. Many men mistake volubility for wisdom, and vice versa, many think silence, wisdom. The truly wise know when to speak and when to keep silent. That a man is tonguey and eloquent is no evidence that he can cast a more intelligent ballot than that old chap who sits in the corner and says nothing.

The editor of the Ram's Horn hits the labor problem a center shot when writing the following paragraphs: man who owes God mos. is the man who has done the least for his fellow man." "No man can walk with God who refuses to take the hand of his brother who needs help." Until Better Times. Westera Laborer. Owing to stringency of money matters in railroad circles the Railway Record has suspended publication until times get better. By taking this action the propeietors of that most excellent paper have, we beheve, shown good judgment and business tact.

It will probably be several months before the railroads get back to their normal condition, and until then a paper like the Record, which caters to railroads and their employes would necessarily lose money on every issue. The field fora firstclass railway organ will not take wings in the meantime, but become more fertile. We sincerely hope that Messrs. Kennedy, Clark Riggs may soon take up the publication of the Railway Record under more favorable circumstances. Unification, Not Federation.

Western Laborer. For many weeks railroad circles have been wrought up over the promised visit of Eugene V. Debs, head of the new organization of railroad employes. Last Tuesday Mr. Debs arrived in Omaha and held forth to a large uadience in the hall of Y.

M. C. A. building. Mr.

Debs is very much in earnest and favorably impressed his hearers. So much so that at the close of his remarks a local organization of railway employes was organized on the spot. Mr. Debs takes the ground that the old system of organization and federation is too costly and out of date. He asserted that one half of the effort of labor is wasted in senseless rivalry and bickering between the many Mifferent national trade organizations.

His plan is to have only one head, Eugene V. Debs, when everything will be O. K. and plain sailing. Each railway trade shall organize as a trade, as a part of one general whole.

When a helper graduates into a blacksmith such promotion takes him from the helper's union into the blacksmiths' union. The plan is exatly similar to the plan of the Knights of Labor. Mr. Debs is a wonderful talker of limitless expansion. Whether the organization will succeed or not, it is evident Broth Debs is born to prosper.

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It has handled thousands, of applications for inventions, but it would like to handle thousands more. There is plenty of inventive talent at large in this country, needing nothing but encouragement to produce practical results. That encouragement the Pressing Claims Company proposes to give. NOT SO HARD AS IT SEEMS. A patent strikes most people as an appallingly formidable thing.

The idea is that an inventor must be a natural genius, like Edison or Bell; that he must devote vears to delving in complicated mechanical problems, and that he must spend a fortune on delicate experiments before he can get a new device to a patentable degree of perfection. This delusion the company desires to dispel. It desires to get into the head of the public a clear comprehension of the fact that it is not the great, complex and expensive inventions that bring the best returns to their authors, but the little, simple, and cheap ones--the things that seem so absurdly trivial that the average citizen would feel somewhat ashamed of bringing them to the attention of the patent office. Edison says that the profits he has received from the patents on all his marvelous inventions have not been sufficient to pay the cost of his experiments. But the man who conceived the idea, of fastening.

a bit of rubber cord to a child's ball, so: that it would come back to the hand when thrown, made a fortune out of the scheme. The modern sewing machine is a miracle of ingenuity--the product of the toil of hundreds of busy brains through a hundred and fifty years, but the whole brilliant result rests upon the simple device of putting the eye of the needle at the point instead of at the other end. THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALUABLE. Comparatively few people regard themselves as inventors, but almost everybody has been struck, at one time or another, with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce some of the little frictions of life. Usually such ideas are dismissed without further thought.

"Why don't the railroad company make its car windows so that they can be slid up and down without breaking the passenger's backs?" exclaims, the traveler. "If I were running the road I would make them in such a way." "What was the man that made this saucepan thinking of?" grumbles the cook. "He never had to work over a stove, or he would have, known how it ought to have been "Hang such a collar button!" growls the man who is late for breakfast. "If I were in the business I'd make buttons that wouldn't slip out, or break off, or gouge out the back of my And then the various sufferers forget about their grievances and begin to think of something else. they would sit down at the next convenient opportunity, put their ideas about car windows, saucepans, and collar buttons into practical shape, and then apply for patents, they might find themselves as independently wealthy as the man who invented the iron umbrella ring, or the one who patented the fifteen puzzle.

A TEMPTING OFFER. To induce people to keep track of their bright ideas and see what there is in them, the Press Claims Company has resolved to offer a prize. To the person who submits to it the simplest and most promising invention, from a commercial point of view, the company will give twenty-five hundred dollars in cash. in addition to refunding the fees for securing the patent. And will also advertise the invention free of charge.

This offer is subject to the following conditions: Every competitor must obtain patent for his invention through the company. He must first apply for a preliminary search, the cost of which will be five dollars. Should this search show his invention to be unpatentable, he can withdraw without further expense. Otherwise he will be expected to complete his application and take out a patent in the regular way. The total expense, including government and bureau fees, will be seventy dollars.

For this, whether he secures the prize or not, the inventor will have a patent that ought to be a valuable property to him. The prize will be awarded by a jury consisting of three reputable patent attorneys of Washington. Intending competitors should fill out the following blank, and forward it with their application: 1893. "I submit the within described invention in competition for the Twenty-five Hundred Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims Company. NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION.

This is a competition of rather an unusual nature. It is common to offer prizes for the best story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the competitors risking the loss their labor and the successful one merely selling his for the amount of' the prize. But the Press Claims Company's offer is something entirely different. Each person is asked merely to help himself, and the one who helps himself to the best advantage is to be rewarded for doing it. The prize is only a stimulus to do something that would be well worth doing without it.

The architect whose competitive plan for a club house on a certain corner is not accepted has spent his labor on something of very little use to him. But the person who patents a simple and useful device in the Press Claims Company's competition, need not worry if he fail to secure the prize. He has a substantial result to show for his work-one that will command its value in the market at any time. The plain man who uses any article in his daily work ought to know better how to improve it than the mechanical expert who studies it only from the theoretical point of view. Get rid of the idea that an improvement c.n be too simple to be worth patenting.

The simpler the better. The person who best succeeds in combinsimplicity and popularity, will get the Press Claims Company's twenty-five hundred dollars. The responsibility of this company may be judged from the fact that its stock is held by about three hundred of the leading newspapers of the United States. Address the Press Claims Company, John Wedderburn, managing attorney, 618 street, N. Washington D.

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