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Weekly, Thre months, 35 cent: DIRECT LE GISLATION. Didn't Call Him "Commodore." WORKERS. -7 THE WHITE SLAVE'S -BUR- DEN. i Pile on the white man's burden. Whip your blonde slaves at home; Ye need no "vaster empire" As England did and Rome." Ye've killed or cowed your red men, Ye tire of lynching blacks; Lack sport? Then hunt white quarry- Shoot miners in the backs.

First rob them of their coal lands, Fence in each carbon hill, Starve, goad them into mutiny, DIVINE RIGHTS. CL W. Ayers, in Farmer Voice. Little Jo had been listening to his father reading about the starving miners. He was too young to understand Caesar a way; ho only-heard the voice of nature as it spoke within him.

He was not old enough to be contaminated by vices and devices of law yers and land-sharks, bogus statesmen and political mountebanks, boodlers and coal barons. He had heard his father reading and talking about something wrong in the affairs of mankind, and he was trying to find out the "why." So he let the natural voice of truth and justice speak: 'Father, why don't those miners dig out some coal and trade it for something to eat?" "Because, Joey, they don't own. the coal mines." "Who does own the coal mines?" "They are owned by some men in Chi cago. "Did these men in Chicago make the coal. and put it down in the mines, father?" "Oh, no Joey; God made it." "What did he make it for?" "Why, he made it for fuel, my child, to keep us warm and to cook our food." 'Did God make it for those men in Chi-oago?" "No, not exclusively; he made it for everybody." "Well, then, if he made it for everybody, didn't he make some of it for those miners?" "Why, jes, 1 suppose so; but you see, my dear little Joey, those miners are too poor to own anything." "Oh, yes, I see; God made the coal for everybody that's rich." "No, no, Joey; he made the coal for all, but the poor are not able to buy the mines, and so they can't own them." "How much does God charge for the coal mines, father?" "Why, my boy, he doesn't charge anything for the coal, more than the trouble of digging it out." "Do those men in Chicago ever dig any of it out?" "Oh no; they hire those miners to do that" "Well, father, if God made the coal for all and don't charge anything for it and those miners take all the trouble and labor to get it out, why don't they xown it after they have dug it out?" "Well, Joey, my boy, I know it does look that way to your young and childish mind, but as you get older you will understand how it comes about.that a great many of God's creatures that he sends here fail to get what he made for them." "If they fail to get what God intended for them, who does get it, father?" "Why, it is the shrewd business men who get it" "How do they get it?" "Why, Joey, 1 don't know as 1 can understand it; but Til tell you once upon a time, long, long ago, a certain king rose up and seized 'the earth and the fullness and said, It all belongs to the Now, when the king did that, he actually confiscated or, if you don't understand that word, stole everybody's interest in the earth and all the earth contains." "Why, father, I should't have thought the people would let the king do such a thing." "Well, you see, Joey, the lawyers told the people that the king could do no wrong, and the people were foolish enough to believe the lawyers." "Well, then, that is how those men in Chicago came to own the miners' coal, is it?" "Yes, Joey, the king divided up the earth among his favorites; and they parceled it out to such as were rich enough to buy, and those who were poor lost their inheritance.

It is the business of the Appeal to tell you where you can get literature that will give you information concerning reforms, as much as to try and teach you certain principles. Unless some medium of gigantic proportions like the Appeal is created, the publishers of such works will be unable to reach the people who really desire such information. When I began the study of economics I knew of no works that would teach me the things that I wanted to know, and I wasted much time and expense before I got into the circle of thought that brought me into contact with the works then exis-tant. Every once in a while I come across a little thing worked out patiently by some unknown writer and it gives me pleasure to recognize it, and while there are many such work3 which my time will not allow me read, and which may be a3 good or better than some I do read, I always present to my readers such works. Such a work is a little 30 page pamphlet by Geo.

J. Bryan, entitled, "Advances in Tax Law." It is a study of the tax laws of New Zealand and the other colonies in the southern hemisphere and the result they have had on the people. He use3 it as an argument for the single tax, and whether you like that or not. it is a valuable little work. It is 5 cents a copy and will be mailed you by him, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, or from this office.

APPEAL TO REASON PAMPHLETS. Much literature for little money. An Open Letter to the Rich. Flint. 5c.

Direct Legislation in Switzerland. Sullivan. 5c Ten Men of Money Island. Norton. 5c.

Hard Times; Cause and Cure. Gordon. 5c. Herbert Spencer on Land Ownership. 2c.

Land, Machinery and Inheritance. Pyburn. 5a Property. Pyburn. 5c.

Labor, the Creator of Capital. Pyburn. 5c. -Human Nature Under Socialism. Pyburn.

5. Publie Ownership of R.U. lOo The Society of the Future, Abbott, 5c. Poems For the People; 50 Gems, 5c. A Possible 20th Century Trust, 32p, 75c.

nerlOO. Wanted A New Conscience, 32p, 75c. per 100. Story of a Mining Camp, 32p, 75c. per 100.

Appeal in clubs of io for a year at 30c each No people can be self governing who have not the right to vote yes or no on every law by which they are to be governed. Direct LicnsLATioN-Lawmakingbythe voxers. The Initiative- The proposal of a law by a percentage of the voters, which must then go the Referendum. mX The Referendum The vote at the polls of a law proposed through the Initiative, or on any law passed by a law-making body Trhose reference is petitioned for by a percentage of the voters. Maryland now has a direct legislation association.

In 18G0 but 34 of the Swiss had the erendum. Now more 90 have it With Direct Legislation in operation the voter would be a great man 365 days a year instead oi only on election day, as now. There are 22 states (called cantons) fn Switzerland, made up from 2,796 townships and the referendum is in operation in nearly all of them. In Zurich, Switzerland, the people rejected a proposition providing for com- pulsory insurance on furniture, the business to be carried on by the canton. If the people do not know enough to vote on the laws that are to govern them then they do not know enough to vote on the men to make the laws for them.

The grand council of Bale, Switzerland, having rejected the socialist proposition to pay public notaries out of the public funds, the socialist party will prepare an initiative on the subject The legislature of Washington submitted a constitutional amendment to the people granting women the use of the ballot. The proposition was defeated. For, against, 33,850. The city of Berne, Switzerland, rejected the last bill of appropriation submitted be cause it was not sufficiently conservative. mi A a 'xne great American voting King never votes on such things as that He pays the bills.

The legislature of Zurich canton, Switzerland, consists of one house of 100 mem- oers. it passes less man lour laws a year and these laws must then be voted upon by the people who accept or reject them. A jnemosr ot tne legislature gets si.zu per day while attending sessions. jjirect contemplates giving the people the jower to govern themselves, At present they do not! do this. They have a chance to vote for two or three men- candidates who were selected by a ring and who will serve that ring.

If the people had the power the. dishonest job bery which their representatives often in; flict upon them the thieves would not care for the onice. As it is the public em ploy a servant and the servant can steal openly and his employers are unable to either stop it or make him return what he ha3 taken. Wise public 1 Prof. Frank Parsons, professor in Bos- ton university school- oi iaw, also pro fessor of political economy in Pennsylvania State Agricultural College, and one of the foremost economic authorities of our time, writes: "Is self-government light? If so, the referendum and initiative follow.

I believe in self-government for the sake of jastice, safety, manhood, education, development and therefore I believe in the referendum, the most promising means of enabling the people to exert more real and effective con trol over legislation, whereby we may hope to secure a more perfect government by and for the people. 4 'Direct legislation means simply an actual instead of a mere theoretic sov ereignity of the people. We are governed today, not by a democracy, but by an eler tive aristocracy holding for a term. The people are sovereign only at the moment of the election tfle men they elect become their masters for one, two, lour, six years, fii the case mav be. Kelt-government is one thing the choosing of the men who are to govern you is a very dilferent thing.

A child mav choose its guardian: a slave miorht be sriven a voice in the selection of v. nntnni onrl T-ot i Vcnl it nl tail Vnpot I to his dominion after the choice were maae. "Power will be used in the interests of Vu- U- ooo Tf tVio nnvor nf rrnvprnrntrnt 10 D6 useu lue mier-au uj. iuo yeup-io tk -J I hey must nave continuous anu euecuve possession oi ine 4 srovernment. can our legislators "agents" and the people their 'principal" queer, agents who can cive away their principal's property despite his protest, and are not responsible to him during their term of service queer principal that cannot veto his "agents' plans, no matter how much he objects to them, nor instruct his agents what to do whenever he sees fit, nor discharge said agents when refuse to carry out hi3 orders; queer principal who has to obey the commands of his "aerents instead oi ctvinsr them or der3.

"Legislatures and citv councils not in requently submit to the people questions of importance on which they wish to enact an honest law, but they never submit a franchise steal to the people; when they are acting from honest motives they often find the referendum very helpful in coining to a wise and lust conclusion, but when they are ftctincr from corrupt and selfish motives thev have no use for the referendum. Tal- uable gas, electric light and street railway franchises would not be civen away to lobbying corporations if we had the refer- CUUUUb Get three or four comrades and work together I Mrs. O'Brien Simply Said "Gerry" so There Was a Row and She Was Arrested. SWJS: Persons who visit the rooms of the Gerry So- address the agents the society with the utmost respect. Mrs.

Mary O'Brien, of 409 Eas Fifty-ninth street called at the rooms of tSIJSS Th her so? to inquire about another son, and. failing to understand in whose aufust presence she stood, she addressed the Gerry agent as she wouia a common mortal. Bo the Gerrv asent arrested her and had her locked up in the East Twenty-second street station. He locked up her son Edward in the society's rooms. ne woman and her two sons were arraigned in the Yorkville Police Court today.

iierry Agent Fogarty told Magistrate Cornell that he arrested the younger son. James. 6 years old, for begging last night at Third avenue and Fifty-third street. "This woman came to our rooms last nisrht the agent went on, "and said she had heard that Gerry had her son locked up." juaaam asked, where were you brought Ireland, she answered." I thought I said, 'or you would know fetter than to use such disrespectful language If you refer to Mr. Gerry you should address him as Commodore Elbridge T.

Gerry. Mi you refer to the society which has the honor to be governed by him you should speak of it as the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children lour Honor, the language the woman used in our rooms was shocking, and I was obliged to arrest her to teach her a lesson." "Will you let me speak:" asked the woman, The Magistrate granted her request. "I was excited over the arrest of my little boy when I went to the Gerry rooms," she said, "and 1 might have used some hasty words, oecause the people there refused te tell me anything about my child. I was told else where that the society had the boy, and I asked the man politely enough if James was there. He would not tell me.

but ordered me to go and ask the police. "I have nine children, your Honor, and 1 have a G-months-old baby which I left at home when I went out to look for my son James. "The woman was intoxicated when she entered our rooms," interrupted the Gerry agent. The woman said that was not true: that she had not taken any intoxicating liquor in a week "bhe don take proper care of her children and should be sent to the Workhouse," went on the Gerry agent On your report I will commit her to the workhouse for one month in default of $100 bail," announced Magistrate Cornell "Don't take me from my children," the woman pleaded. "What will my baby do with out me?" "The society makes a bad report about you, responded the Magistrate.

"Judge, don't break up our little home," interrupted the woman's husband, who stood on the bridge. "Mv wife is not a drunkard. What will be come of the children without their The Gerry agent suggested that his society could take care of them. Brien, the father, said he camp from Ireland three years ago and that he was a laborer. "Won't you let my wife go home" he again asked.

1 cannot do so on the report made by the Children's society," announced the Magistrate. Mrs. Brien was taken down to the prison. "What do you want done with Edward O'Brien?" the Magistrate asked the Gerry agent. "Commit him to our society, as I found him without any the Gerry man re plied "When did you so tind the inquired 'After 1 had arrested his mother, was the reply.

i ti lien you look away xns iruuruiu.ii, iuier rupted the boy father. "I will commit the twobovs to the Children's society for examination Saturday," announced the Magistrate The boys were turned over to the Gerry agent and Brien lefcourt. A. l. Sun, March The Gerry Society is again seeking to place itself in a position which will render it impossible for any of the officers of the state, except the judiciary, to supervise or investigate its administration.

It seeks to make the society a law unto itself. The society received in 1898 of which $35,175 was spent in salaries and wages, and $31.60 for "temporary relief to starv inw families." The difference between the payroll and the "relief" is sufficiently marked to need no comment S. Y. Ver dict, March 27. Robbins Withdraws.

W. G. Robbin3 handed in his resignation Vnd quit the game in San Francisco a few days ago. He left a diary which may or may not prove of interest. To competition may be charged up this failure of society to properly perform its functions.

Thousands of similar cases may be so charged and thousands of others will be. Did it ever occur to vou that possibly some of you or vours mierht meet a similar fate? But d.uu.i. reau irom wuuuiu u.a.j. March 3. No chance of getting anything A Ml .1 -T y-v -x I here.

wnai Will 1 uo xuuiifv, nu lricnus, nn Wit.h hpart. trrmhlft and asthma. me March 7. Cannot find anj thing yet. March S.

I am living on doughnuts at 5 cents a dav. Don't know where to go or what to do. March 9. My last quarter gone for room rent. March 10.

God help me. Have only 5 cents left. Can get nothing to do. What next? Starvation or March 11. Went to see about two places the first thing this morning but had a chill at the time, so I could not get either.

Sick all day burning fever this afternoon. Had nothing to eat today or since yesterday noon. I'll have to starve or die now. No letter from Fred yet. March 10, '9l.

No work, no friends, no monev; sick, alone and friendless. I have tried to get something to do same answer every- where no help wanted. I have spent my last pent without a friend to help or assist me. What shall I do or where shall I look for aid nickel tonisht and and am desolate ana aes- Shall it be steal, oeg or oie; i nave neer of life, but now I am on the brink death seems the only refuge. God forgive me for all.

Saturday, 11. No chance of anything today again. Nothing to eat since yesterday noon. My head, my head. Good-bye all.

Fire Salel For $1 we will send you $1 worth of books, cur selection, and the Social Gospel 1 year. Mention offer No. 2. The Appbai. in clubs of 50 only 20 cents per year.

Additional names may be added at the same rate. Results we are after. The two Josephs en cousins sent in a few ads of the Appeal which they have printed wim ruDDer types and Ecatter through Chicago. Its work that telh One of inem writes: COUSin CTOea from hrniu in hnnw rlio. tributing the Appeal, to every tenant in one district and do the same another district.

If we see our work has an effect, we will do this all over Chicago and then era to other ritiM and do likewise." A corporation slave sends us 33 names front a western city. He says he is fairly well fixed for wases. Thia shows a de- cidedly remarkable insight into the future lor well paid waseworkers are srenerallv pretty much dead. They 4hink that things are all right now even though they meet lots of tramps that used to believe that way. We are oblized to reauest that loner let- I Ml ters be avoided when possible.

The work, both in the editorial and business depart ments is growing very heavy and long letters consume much valuable time. Comrade Haworth, of Kansas City, turned in 10 subscribers from the Kaw river town. That will do more to convert them than 52 speeches. Comrade Kennedy, of Elgin, 111., hits us with a-club of 21 yearlies. We can stand any amount of clubbing like that.

A New York policeman wouldn't please the Ar-peaI half so well as the Elgin style. Matthew Pickle, of Long Beach, evidently wants the co-operative commonwealth in his own time and day and is willing to work for it There's no flies on his labors either even if it is one of love. 50 yearly subscriptions and a liberal order for city ownership and books is the size of it. The boys put the municipal ownership edition in both the republican and democratic primaries at Winona, Minn. There's nothing like exploding a shell right in the mess of the "enemy." Realty, republicans and democrats are not our enemies.

They are socialists, a little behind the times. Go right after them gents, just like the people at Winona does. S. P. Reed, of Minden, sends in $6.40 for subscriptions.

He is a farmer and says he thinks the farmers will soon see that they cannot exist under private ownership. Reed is one of the men that will open their eyes. Mrs. Lisk, who ordered a hundred extras not long since sends us another subscriber and says that the extras are doing good work. Mr.

pin, of Vancouver, sends in renewal and says he is waiting for the time when the newsboys will be calling the name of a socialist daily. That time is coming rapidly but while we wait, the Appeal to Reason is hitting the sides of brick blocks. We have about 10 newsboys who handle the paper. Last week a new one started at Ohio, with an order for over 70 papers. He sold 60 the first time he went out This week we have received or ders irom.

tour newsooys. The paper ought to sell well at 5 cents per month delivered on Saturday. Comrade Fox, secretary of the D. L. league, in Spiingvilie, N.

Y. turns in $10 worth of subscriptions. He says that the Appeal has started a few people to think ing in Springville. The Appeal don't ask any one to believe but it wants everyone to think. Rev.

A. L. Taylor turns in 8 subscrip tions from Medford, this week. Some preachers are afraid to move forward to advanced ground for fear of losing their jobs. The average preacher of today is a beggar and he knows it.

He is the butt of "yeliowlegged chicken" jokes when heac- cepts an invitation to dinner. ine race will always have its teachers of ethies and the parsons who fail to see the difference Detween a nerron ana a nam are the ones who will be the uninvited guest of men who produce food the rest of their short days. One of the saddest things that has lately come to hand is the news that an Appeal subscription trust has been formed in Terre Haute, Indiana, by Enderlin and Oneal. Mr. Wayland shed 3 tears when he heard of it and it was necessary to put Phelps in irons the balanc3 of the day.

The boys start out with 19 yearly subscriptions. They have heretofore worked independently but now the cost will be reduced and the output increased. Go after the Alameda crowd they are making the people "dis contented. Comrades Boyce, of Fall River, and Roe, of Omaha, each secured a bath cabinet this week on clubs. At present we have to ship from Nashville.

Comrade Roe says his boy, 14 years old raised the 10 yearlies to get it and now he is going to get another one himself. We don see what he wants two for in one family but we can stand it These cabinets are a rich article and we would like to have all the boys get cne. They are the best cabinet on the market and weighs but four pounds. By having one you can take a vapor or turkish bath that would cost a dollar in a city at a cost of from one to three cents. The vapor baths can be medicated or perfumed.

10 yearly subscriptions at 50 cents each gets one. The retail price i3 $5. Editor Appeal to Reason: I picked up a copy of your paper on the streets the other day and saw the heading 'Appeal to Reason." Well, what is that? Looked at it and read "socialist" Oh, that is an anarchist paper. I read it over. No, it is good sense.

I am a repupblican, been one all my life. Got disgusted and can't vote any more; so send me your paper for one year. I like the bold ring of it; I think 1 am a full socials t. W. H.

McGaby. Riverside; Cala. Ana tnen aim low to kill. Spill blood, cheap blood of bondsmen' Scant loss, tho hundreds bleed; For each one maimed or murdered Ten for his place shall plead. They swarm from field and forest, From prairie, vale and hill; They beg the boon of labor In market, mine andmili.

Prairies still yearn for ploughshares, Forests for axe and saw They're locked 'gainst labor's "trespass" By "penalty of law." Thus sang our singer, Lowell: of unpeopled soil Walled round by paper titles 'Gainst homeless sons of toil;" So herd them in your cities, In alleys foul and pent; They bid for paupers' wages, They raise the earthlord's rent. Teach them from polished pulpits That priestly, pious fraud Hunger is sent from Heaven, Willed by a niggard God, Earth is too poor to prosper Its population dense Be sure ye prove your preaching By miles of barbed fence. Tho' gross, yet veiled and subtle, Your ownership of men; How serfs are held unfettered Transcends your white slave's ken; He boasts himself a ruler, The ballot in his hand; He loves his "Land of Freedom," Ye own his dear "free land." Ye own "his land" and own him; But, dreaming he is free, To serve himself, he serves you With two-fold energy; Poorer he grows, ye richer, As his life's toil is spent He builds a statelier city, Ye charge a higher rent. Pile on the white man's burden, Let go the black and brown; Yoke your own bovine brothers; Bend their stiff shoulders down; In home-bred slaves you're richer Than England, or than Rome, Seek then no "vaster empire," Breed blondes for slaves at home. Malcolm McDonald.

UNCLE SAAVS MISSION. J. W. HOFSTE. 9 Take up the white man's burden, Beyond our western star, And show those heathen nations, The latest thing in war: Take up the white man's burden, Go.

give those people light; Teach them, this noble precept, That might is ever right. Take up the white man's burden, Put money in thy purse; Send forth the ultimatum, Dread not the heathen curse. Take up the, white man's burden, Go occupy the land; What rights have Filipinos -That in our way should stand? Take up the white man's burden, Grab all and spare them not; And if they prove rebellious. Then shoot them on the spot. Take up the white man's burden, Instil this lesson well; That we enforce our edicts, Withiisolid shot and shell.

Take up the white man's burden," High duty bids us go; And destiny invites us, These blessings to-bestow. Take up the white man's burden, With kindliness and grace; As erst we have the Indians, Annihilate the race. Take up the white man's Upon that far-olf shore, While heedless of the danger. That's growing at our door. Take up the white man's burden, Beyond our western star; And teach those ill-bred people, The use of bolt and bar.

In pity of their blindness, Go. raise the cross on high Teach them that men should always do As they would be done by. JACOB AND ESAU. iTane "Corain thro' the If a Jacob meet an Esau, Starving in the street, If he offer soup to Esau Why not, Esau, eat? Every freeman has a stomach Sjup is quite a treat 3Iake haste to sell your birthright, Esau, Jacob would not cheat! If a brother meet a brother, Struggling hard for bread, If a brother starve a brother, Need there tears be shed? Every man for self must tattle-Drag his neighbor down, Such gospel sweet, with soup to eat! Go gulp without a frown. If a party meet a party, Fighting spoils to share If a party beat a party, Need a party care? Every pluty knows his duty Whichever one may win, Each party goes where boodle flows And calmly scoops it in.

If a party shocks two parties Next election day. If a party knocks two parties Down the "broad broad way," Every worn and wretched toiler Now by greed oppressed Shall then arise and seize his prize His birthright repossessed. Charles A. Sheffield; Prices Slaughtered! Offer 4. Living Issues, (published weekly at $1.00 per year)5and $1.00 worth of our selection- all for $1.00.

Mention offer 4. U.S. postage takeoa Bubscxiptioa at par or a club of 50. Easy thing to uow.