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' Jf Clay n o Z ^nanaj Reformer (’. 0. MANDKKVLLLE, Editor. VOLUME I. REV, DR. TALMAGE. THB BROOKLYN DIYINRB SUN BAY SBKMON. Subject: “Siege of Lucknow.” ■JYxt i “When ihou #h:i!t’msiug • a city a long limn iu making wir against ft tot k<* it. thou shalt not destroy (lie ir *ch th- r o' in forcing an ax against them.”-—Deuterono¬ my xx., 19. The awfuleat thing in wir is b<**iegcine»t. for to the work of deadly weapon* it a-l-l* hunger nod starvation nnu plague. Bed<*g. - ipent is sometimes neoassary, but my t«xi commands im-rcy even in that. The frit t trees must lie span ! becansa thev affor I iood for man. “Thou shalt not destroy the trots thereof by forcing an nx agaiu-i them." Hut In my recent Journey rounlihe tVJWld I (bin*! nr Title!; now. full-i. there na'ns of the irost merciless be»iegem**ut of the ages, and I proceed to tell you that story for four great reasons—*o show you w mt a hor rid thing war Is and to make you ail advo¬ cates for pence, to show you what genuine Christian character is mi fer bo nbar Imeir, lo put a coronation on Chris:Inn courage, and to show you how splcn Lily goo l people As our (rain glide l iuto the dimly Hr'ito 1 station I asked the guard, “Is this Luck¬ now?" and hnansw *red, “Lucknow,” at the pronunciation ot which proper name strong emotions rushed through tody, mini and sou*. The word is a synonym or suffering, of cruelty, Rested by of hardly heroism, o* other horror such I. as We Is su ; thirty-five any wor hnv 1 mr years boon reading of th agonies there endure 1 au t the daring deeds 1 hern witnessed. It was my great dosiro to hnv 1 sotno one who hud witnessed the scenes transacted in Lucknow in 1857 con¬ duct u* over the place. We fou 11 1 just the man. Ho was a young soldier at the time the greatest mutiny of the ages broke out, nnd ho w is put with others Inside the residency, making which was a cluster o." buildings a lortross tu which the representa¬ tives of the English Govercmnnt lived mi l which was to be tile scene ot an endurtnee and a tonhar.lment the story of which poetry aud painting an i history and secular and sacred eloquence have been trymgtodc piot. Our escort not only had a goo i memory of what hud huppomd, but had talent enough to rehearse the irage ly. In the early part of 1857 all over India the unlives were ren iy to break out in rebellion against all foreigners and especially against the civil mid military representatives oi tin English Government. A hall dozen causes nen mentioned for the feelltig of discontent and insurrection tint was evinced throughout India. Tu • most •f these causes were mere pretexts. Greased cartridges were no doubt mi exasperation. The grease ordered by the English Govern¬ ment to be use! 011 these cartridges was taken from cows or pig-*, au l grease to the Hindoos is unclean, mi 1 to bite these car¬ tridges at the loading ot U 10 guns would bo nn oitcusfi to the Hin loo religion. Tue lenders of the Hlu loos sail that Pies) greased carl ridges was only part of an at the lompt natives by the English Government to m ixe give up their religion ; houee, uu bounded Indiguaiion was aroused. Another cause of the mutiny was that a ii •therdnrge province ofln lia had been a>i ncxwl to the British empire, an I tliousan In o officials in the employ o. ihc King of th it province were thrown out oJ position, au l they wore nil ready for tro iolo making. Another cause was 9 dd to bo tho bu I gov¬ ernment exercised by sotno English oflRiais in India. Tho simple fact was that tho uitiv >s of ru din were a conquered r ico, na l tho E-a ;lis \ weirti tho nouquerarv. For 101 years tha British scepter nad been wave t over In lia, .and the Indians wanted to break that s iep i*»r. There never had bo m any love or sym¬ Europeans. pathy between ttio natives of India an l tin There is none now. Before tha time or the groat mutiny the English Government risked much power in tho bands of the natives. Too many of i h m manued the forts. Too many of them were in tho Governmental employ. And now the time had come for a wide out wreak. The natives had p irsu 1 1e«l theais i vos th r they COUld send the English Government ilyiti, - nud firearms to accomplish and it dig ;or an t mvoi* 1 aui , mutilation and slaughter mint do their worst. It was evident in Luckuow that the u i tives worn about to ris i an i put to de it U all “ 1 he Europeans they could lav llieir «nd into hauls ou. the residency theCamtinu pap¬ ulation of Lucknow huste ie l for defense from tho tigers iu human (or n w lieh wor i growling for their victims Tile occupants of live residency, or fort, wore—military an 1 —•in noa-coephatautx, number men, women anl children about 1692. I suggest in one sentence some of the chief woes to which they wore subject© l when I say that these people were in 1 1> » change residency five months without it sing.o heat ot clothing; some of th ’time tm at 1*20 aud 13d degrees , the place black with flies and all a-squirn with vermin; firing of the enemy upon them ceasing neither with dny nor night; the hospital crowd- l Ibe dying; smallpox, scurvy, cholera, adding their work to tuat ot snot and shell ; women brought up in all comfort au I never having known want, crowded and sacri¬ ficed in a cellar where nine children were bom ; less and less foo i; uo water ox cept that which was brought Iro n a wil under the enemy's lire, so Unit the water o > tabled was at thepricc of blo.o l; the st-nc i of tne dead hors *s aid *d to the effluvia of corpses, anl all waiting lor tho moment when the army of 63,000 shrieking Hin loo devils should break in upon the garrison of the residency, now re .ue 1 1 by woun is an l sickness and death to 976 meu, wo nen ail l children. “Gall me early,” I said, “to-morrow morn rag’*,aud , Jet US Uti.-u the esidency oeforethe r sun bscirnes too hot. ’ At 7 o'clock in the morning we lott our hotel in Lucknow, .anl X said to our obliging, gentlemanly ocorr, “Pleasetake us along the road by which Havelock and Outram came to the relief of tb« residency." That was tho way we went. There was a solemn stillness as we ap¬ proached the gate of the residency. Bit t«r*d nnd torn is the masonry of the on ©f trance. Signature of shot and punctuation cannon ball ail up and down nut every¬ where. “Here to tho lert," said our escort, “ars tnsremsius of a building tae flr-t floor of which in other days had been use i os a ban¬ quet *ug Ball, but then was used as a hos¬ pital. At this part the amputations took place, and all such patteuts died. The heat W»8 to great and tho loo t so insufficient that tho poor fellows could not recover from the loss ot blood. They all died. Ampu All iii tho Wt * re performed witnout ehlorotorm. anaesthetics were exhausted. A fracture that in other climates and un¬ der other circumstances would have come to «B»y convaleeoene - here prove l tutu*. Yon¬ der was Dr. Fayrer's houso, who w.vs sur roou of the place an t is now Queen Victor¬ ia* doctor. This upper room was tho offi¬ cers room, and there Sir Henry Liwreuoe our dear coalman } ei . ( vvas woiw , While hesat then* a shell struck the room, au i some one sugtestel that ho hn i better leave ike room, but be emded au l sai I ’Lightning place.’ »#v*r Hurdiv nfrikes twioo in the same had ho said this When another shell tore off hist big j, an i was the carried dying into Dr. Fayrer's * house OB other side ol the road, gir Henry Lawrence hud beau In poor health for a iwng the Urn* Ifldl.ift before servira the muting He had been m ffor years, auiheh-i started getting tor England tin to recover his health ».ut m far Bombay the English t©iu? rmr.ent awhile.- requ-stod giro to remain nt Jer Jus coat id sot be spared ift such ibiDKcrous limes. • H 4 <• iqw* hare to , tttt l far Casing the siege Oi this „ r* --m-tor. Ther,n, and autnr and charcoal nnd fo U»r for tha oxen and h»v for the hors«". Bat now. at th** time whan nil the peor> 1 « wer** *oo t»n? fo him for wis lorn and courage, Sir Henry is dvinjr.” Our escort describes the seem, lin*qu«, tender, beautiful an l overpowering, »n I while I stood on <lha very spot where the siehs and srroans of the beaietsd an t !a-*«ri ted and broken hearted met the whiz o’ bu' let», and the detnonine hiss of burs!In* she’!, and particulars. the roar of batteries, my escort gave nu the had “Vs soon as Sir Henry w is toll that he not many hours no live h« askel the ehao'ain to administer to him the holv eom •oanion. He felt Daftlculari.V nnxiou® for M, e sa'ety of the wo.U'U iu the r*«Mencv, who, at any mo neat. mtyu ha subjected to th * savig's who howlel around the res dency, their br.nk'mr in only a mattero’ time notes* r -*n'oreaneot should po**v\ 1 “ woull frequently say to thos« who stir, ronoiel itis death couch: * 8 av* the 'a lie«. Go i help the no >r women an l ch>' dreu !’ Ho uruve directions for the desperate '’efens'* of the p’ lco He asked forziveness of all thos > whom ’.<« micriit unintentionally have n 'elected or off.*n to l. He leTt a mes¬ sage for nil his fri<»n 1". He forgot not to give directions for tiio card of his favorite '•ors'*. He ch ir-ro 1 Ms offl *'*rs. saj-in*? *Bv no means surr-m let*. .Make no treaty or n’sn with desperadoes. ' '■'itnp -o the Dio 1 tiding.’ Hutook charge of tha asylum he • 1 l establish© 1 for the children of soldier*, fe guv* directions for his burial, say ng: ‘No nonsense, no fuss. Let nu bo buried with the men.* He dictate 1 *is own eoitip’i, which l real nhova his *o*nb: ‘II re lies Hanrv Lawrence, who iriod to do his duty. M iy the Lor l havi mercy on his sou’.’ He said t ‘I would like to hnv 1 a p issuge of Scrintur i a He l to the vor Is on my gray, such as, “To the Lor t our Go 1 beionjf mercies an 1 forgivenesses, hough w 1 have rebelled against Him." nn’t it fruit I) mini?’ 80 as hr ivi a man as rbin l or Lilia ever saw expirel. The -oldiers lifts 1 tilt) cover fro n his fici >ni kiss) l him before they carrie 1 bi n out. The chaplain offered a pr iver. T mi hoy removed the great hero amid the ru¬ ling hail of the guns anl put him down among other soldiers buried at the same dm'*.’’ All of which I state for tha bmMlt >f those who would have us believe that th > Christian religion is fir only for wo n i l in ie eighties an l children under seven. Tver 0 vas glory enough iu that departure to halo Christendom. “There,” said out* assort, “Bob the Nailer did the work." “Wno wis Bo’) the Nailer?’’ “Oh. he was the A'rican who sat at l hat point, and wuon any one of our man ventured across the roal ho would drop dm by a riflu ball. Bob was a sure marks¬ man. Tie only way to get ucross the roal : or water from the wall was to wait until ais gnu flashel nu t then instantly cross boiore he had time to load. The only way WO could get rid of him was by digging a nine under the houso wiero ho was hidden. When the house was blown uo, Bab the Nailer wont with It.” I sai 1 to him, “Had you made up your minis what you and the other sufferers would do in cisa tho llend9 notually broke in?" “0 1 , yes!” said my escort. “We had it all planue 1 , for t ie probability was every hour for nearly (Ivy months that they would break in. You must remember it was 160.) against 60,00), an i for the latter part of tho time it wis DO) against 60,000, anl the residency mil the oarthworks arouu t it were not put uu for such an attack. It vras only from the mercy of Go l that wo were not tuassacrU soon after tho besiegement. We were rc solved not to allow ourselves to get into the hands of those desperadoes. You must re¬ member that wo and all the women ha l heard of the butchery at Cawnpur, and we knew what defeat meant. If uuable to hoi l out any longer we would have blown our¬ selves up aud all gone out of life together.” “.Show me,” I said, “the roo ns where tue won«n and children staid during those aw.u! months,” Then we crossed over an l w*nt down into the cellar of tho resllency. With a shudder of horror indescribable I eu lered the cellars where 622 women an l chil¬ dren had been crowded until the whole floor was fuli. I know the exact numoer, tori counted their names on the roil. As one of the ladles wrote in her diary—speasing of these women she satd, “They lay upon tao floor titling into eaca other like bits iu a puzzle. ’ Wives had obtained from their husbands tho promise that the hus¬ bands would shoot them rather than let them fall into the hunts of these desper¬ adoes. The women withiu thi residency were kept on the smatl*»st allowance that would maintain life. No opportunity of privacy. Tha death nugel and tao oirt 1 angel touche l wings as tney passed. Flies, place, mosquitoes, vermin in full possession of tin an 1 these women in momentary ex pactatiou that the enraged savages wou l rush upon them, iu a violence of which ciu > an 1 sword and torch and throat cutting would be the milder forms. Our escort told us again and again of the bravery of these women. They did not d«- 8 pair. They encouraged tho soldiery. They waited on the wounded an t dying iata» hospital. They gave up their stoemugs tor hollers of the grapeshor. They soiicei each ot hor wlieu their children died. Wueu a bus mud or lather fell, such prayers o. sympathy were offered as only worn*n cm offer. They endured without complaint. They prepare 1 tneir own callhren tor uuri u. They were inspired for tha men wno stooJ at their posts fighting till tney droppef. Our escort told us that again aud again news nad come that Havelock anl Outran Were on the why to letca these b siege 1 ones out o! tnolr wretchedues. They na t received a letter from HavdiooK rolle i up >u a quill an 1 carrie l in the mouth of a dis¬ guised messenger, a letter telling them tnat he was on the way, but tho next nows was that Havelock had been compella 1 10 r - treat. It was constant vacillation between hope an l despair. But one day tney near, tho guns of relief sounding nearer imi nearer. Yet all the houses of Luckuow wer • fortresses filled with armed miscreants, and every step of H iveioek an l his army was contested—tiring irom bous-tops. firing from windows, firing from doorways. I asked our frieu t if ue thourut that tha world famous story of u Scotc i lass in nar delirium hearing the Seated bagpipes ad¬ vancing with tho Scotch regiment was a tru) story. He satd he did not kuow but tuat it was true. Without this man's tellin ' me I knew from my o wn observation that de¬ lirium sometimes quickens some ot tne fac¬ ulties, and I rather think the Scotch lass iu her delirium was the first to hear the bag¬ pipes. 1 decline to believe that class ol peoplo who would like to kill all the poetry of tho world anl banish all the ffuj sen¬ timent. They tell us that SVnit tier’a poem about Barbara Freitchie was founded on a delusion, nnd that Longfellow's poems immortalized things taat never oc¬ curred. The Scotch loss did hear the slo¬ gan. I almost heard it myself as I stoo 1 in¬ side the residency while my escort told of the coming of the Seventy-eighth Higaianf Regiment. “Wore you present when Havelock cvne in?” I asked, for I ooutfl suppress the ques¬ tion uo longer. His an iwor c*acu3; ‘ I was not at the moment present, but with some other young fellows I saw so. diers dancing while two nignlan t pip*« played, and I saiJ, ‘Want is all tats, excite Then we came up an i saw ta it Havelook was iu, aud Outrun was in, aal the regiments were pouring iu." ‘‘Show us where they cams iu," I ox claimed, for I kuow that tney did not enter through the gate of the residency, that be* *•* bankal up inskto to keap the murderers ? U J* it is,’ answered my escort. 11 is—tbo embrasure througi waica 1 hey came " ' Vo up to «POt. It is now a broken down pUe of bricks a dozeu yards from the gate. Ling gross now, batriea 4 blood spattered, bullet scattered opsniuf ui thnwaii. A * * e s;o< ? J rh,?r< N although tho fgyga was thirty-seven , years 1 them coneiu ago, saw i“S*!f- l * , "‘“* B “ ro '“ ?wuw tM er4Bj,J “ The Voice of tlie People is f lie Voice of God.” FORT GAIN ES, GA„ FRIDAY NOVEMBER 80, 1894. “dVhnt then happen®*’?” I said to my e«. con. “Oh,” t'e s»i I, “that is Impossible to t*»ll. Ti« **arth was rernov* 1 from the gate, and soon all the army or relief entered, and soma o r us langhe’, and some cried, and some pray**», ntl I some danod. Hiehiau d**r« so .last covered and enough blood an l woun is on tb**ir faces to make them un r-*cognizahle snatched the babes out of their mothers’ arms and kissed them an l PH*s»d the babies along for other sol. dWs to k ; s-, and the woun led ni“n crawl»d out of the hospital to join in the cheering aud it was wild jubilee until, the first exc’tement pass-d, the story of bow many of the advancing armv had been si iin on t*>« way began to have tearful effect, cn.d the story of suffering that ha l been endured inside the fort, an i the an¬ nouncement to children that thev were fatherless, and to wives that they wn widow*, submerged the shouts of joy wita wailing of agony. “But were you not embarrassed by the ar¬ rival o f Hav“look an I 1400 men who brought no iood with them?” He answered; “JJ course wo w*re put on smaller rations im« m«!iately In order that they might shin with u», tiu* wo kn**w that the coming o' bis re-^nforcemeat would help uslo hold th » p'ace until further relief should come. H id not this first r«linf arrive i as it did in a lav or ! wo at most and perhaps fn any hour th » '>esieg *rs would have broken in, and our an l woul I have come, The Sepoys had dug six mines un ler the residency aal would soon hav« explo led ai'.*’ After we had obtained a f<*w bulLts that had heen picke l out of the w iP, an l a piec > o f the bombshell, we walke 1 around the elo¬ quent ruins and put our hands into the scars or the shattered masonry an l explore d t ie cameterv inside the fort, where hun Ire is o£ •he <T«art solliers await the coming of the Lori of Hosts «t the last day, anl wo cnul l endure no more. My nerves were all a-’.remole, anl my emotions were wrung out, and I said, “Let us go.” I had seen the resid *ncy at Luckno w the day before with a beloved missionary, an l he told me many interesting facts con¬ cerning the besiegmneut of that place, but this morning I ha l seen it in company wil l one wno in that awful 1S57 of the la lia i rautinv with his own fire had fou ;at the >e siegers, yell and with his own ear hal heird the of the miscreants as they tried to stor u the walls, an l with his own eyes hal wit¬ nessed a scene of pang an l sacrifice an 1 en •lurance and bereavement and prowess an l rescue which has ma le ail this L*ir«o>v fortress an l its surroun lings the Mount Cal¬ vary of the nineteenth century. On the following day, about four miles from the residency, I visited the grave of Havelock. The scenes of hardship an i salt’ sacrifice through which he hid pissed wire too much ior mortal endurance, and a fe.v •lays a ter Havelock left the residency whie i he had relieve d he lay in a tent a-dying. while his son, whom I saw in London on my way here, was reading to the old hero the consolatory Scriptures. The telegrap i wires had told all Nations that H ive iock was sick unto death. IIe h 1 1 received themessa to of congr ituiatio i fra u Queen Victoria ov*r his triumpns anl hi l oeeu knigiite 1 , an l such a recap* ioa as E i - land never gave to any man since IVeiliu ; ton ca ne back from Waterloo aw tite l i » return. Bu" he will never again see his a i tive laud. He has led his last arny in l pi tnued the last battle. Yet he is to giiv another victory. Ho declared it wao.i in ids la 3 t hours he saldto General Outrrn “I die happy and comento d. I have for forty years so ruled my life that when deat : o i;u s I might face it without fear. To dieU gain.” Indeed this was no new sentimen¬ tality with him. He once stated that in hoynood with tour companions he was ac custo ned to seek the “seclusion ofonoof the dormitories for purposes of devotiou, though certain in those day's of being brand «1 as Metho lists an 1 canting hypocrites." He had in early life been immersed iu a Bap¬ tist church. He acknowledged Go din every victory an i save in ona of his diso ite.iei that he owes it “to the power of the Eafleld rtfia in British ban Is. to British pluck aud to the blessiu' of Almighty Go l on a mos: righteous cause.” Ha was accustomed to spend two nours every morning in pnyee auiliibie re a ling, an i if tue armv w is to mirch at 8 o’cioe c he arose for purposes of religious devo.iou at fi o’clock, au l if hi ar ny was to m tre i at (Jo’elock he arose at !. A plain monunent marks Hav dock’s e-rave nut the eicnaon is as beautiful aa 1 co noranensive as auytnia ' i n ive eyer.sa u, an 11 copie i it taen an t taere. an l it is as oiiows: “Hero rest the mortal remtini o’ deury Havelock, mijorgeueril in t ie Brit *so army and Kuight C om nan <er of t u 4ath, wuodiel at Dilkoos ta Lac ta c v o: dyseutry inp'iign pro inel by the hardships o’ i c iu w lie l ho achieve l i;u n irtal a n«, on the 2 ith of Novem >or, 1.i3r. lew is corn on tie 5;i of Apr! 1 , 1795. u Bis lops, Wer noutb County. Darhim, Eaf m “. Entered the ar ny 1815. Came to fa da 1821 an i serve 1 tnere with little inter¬ ruption till his death. H s bor e aa hoaor.i >1 * part, iu tao wars of Bar ai, Afga iaistan, :ac ^lahratta campaign of 1813 an l the Sntii j of 1845. Retained by ai verso circu ustaucas .u susorlinate position, it was tas aim of -iis life to show taat the profession of a Christian is consistent with the fullest tiscaarge of the dut.es of a sol liar. fl i cvn nan le-i a division iu the Persian exp- •titio i of 1857. Iu the terriole coava sio i of mat year nis genius an l chiructer wire at l**agta mily deyslopel an i known to t i> world, saved from s lipwreek on the C >y ou coast oy tne Pr >videuce wuicu design i t him for greater things, n« was noniuml to t ie co n nan d of tae colu an destine l to relievo tae or ive gurrisou of Lucca i.v. Tula object, after a! nost suoeriit nn x-rt : oa, ne, by the blessing of G>!. AO conplisaed. But ho was not spared to r> oeive on eartu the rowird he so dear y earned. Tae Diviae Muster whom h • served saw fit to remove him from the sphere t of nis la >or in tne mo neat of his greatest triumpas. Ha departed to ais rest in hum¬ ble but confi dent expectation of far greater rew ir !s an 1 donors whicn a grateful cou i iry wasaaxious to bestow. Iu him the skid o a commander, the courage an t deration of a soidier, tne learning of a scholar, the grace or a nighiy ore l gentiemaa aa l ait tne social and domestic virtues of a hus oand, father an i friend were blen 1 - «d together, an l streagtueuc J, h ir noaizs l an i aiorued by the spirit of a true Curis tian, the result of the infinauca of the Holy Spirit on his neart. an t of an humble reli¬ ance on the mer ts of a crucified Saviour. II Timothy, iv„ 7, 8 : *1 have fougat a goo l fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faitn. Henceforth tnere is laid up or me a crown of rignteousness which the Lord, the ngnteous Judge, shall give me at tuat day, and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing.’ This tnouum*-nt is erected by nis sorrowing widow and lamily.” Is not that magnificent? But I said while standing Haveioci’s gra*vc, , Way does at not England take his oust to nerself, an l in Westminster aoboy make him a pillow? In ail her ntstory of wars there is no name so magnetic, yet she has expressed nothing on this man’s tomb. His widow reard i th j tombstone. Do von say, “Let him sleep in rue regiou wherenedi t nis grandest dee is?” Tae same reason would have buried Wel¬ sailles, lington in Belgium, an t Von Moltke at Ver¬ and Grant at VieKsourg. an i Stoni wall Jackson lar away from his beloved Lexington, land! Vs. Take him home, O Eng¬ The rescuer of the men, women and children at Lucknow! His ear now duileii could not hear tne rod oi the organ wa«n it sounds through the venerable abbey the national anthem. Bar it would bear the sime trumpet that brings up irom among those sacred walls the form of Outram, his fellow hero in the overthrow of the Iu linn mutiny. Let Pur iament mike appropria¬ tion irom the national treasury, aui some great war ship under some favorite admiral sail across Mediteran-an and AbraOiau se ts, nnd wait at Bombay harbor for the coming Of this conqueror of conquerors, and taen, saluted by iae shipping ot all free nations, irt him pass on apt 1 pais up and coop? uu Jer the arouas of tas abbey nu t along the aisles where have oeeu earned the mightiest d©*d of many centum*, IS THERE NO PITY? UNEQUAL CONTEST BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE. Millions Without Work—The Strong l)r rours the Weak —A Timely and For¬ cible Address From the Kloqueut Rob¬ ert G. Ingersofl; Invention has tilled the world with rompetitors not only of laborers, but of mechanics—mechanics of highest skill. To-day the ordinary laborer is, for the most part, a peg in the wheel. He works with the tireless—he feeds the insatiable. When the monster stops, the man is out of employment— out of bread. He has not saved any¬ thing. The machine that he fed was not feeding him—the invention was not for his benefit. The other day I heard a man say that it was almost impossible for thousands of good mechanics to get employment, and that in his judgment the govern¬ ment ought to furnish work for the people. A few minutes later I heard another saj r that he was selling a patent for cutting out cloth, that one of the machines could do the work of twenty tailors, and that only the Week before he had sold two to a great house in New York and that over forty' cut¬ ters had been discharged. On every side men are being dis¬ charged and machines are being- in¬ vented to take their places. When the great factory shuts down the workers who inhabited it and gave it life, as thoughts to the brain, go away, and it stands there like an empty skull. A few workmen by the force of habits, gather about the closed doors and broken windows aud talk about dis¬ tress, the price of food and the coming winter. They are convinced that they have not had their share of what their labor created. They feel certain that the machines inside were not their friends. They look at the mansion of the employer—but have nothing them¬ selves. The employer seem to have enough. Even when employers fail, when they become bankrupt, they are far better off than the laborers ever Were. Tlieir worst is better than the toiler's best The capitalist comes forward with this specific. He tells the vvorkingmau that he must be economical—-and yet, under the present system, economy would only lessen wages. Under the great law of supply and demand every saving, frugal, self denying workman is unconsconsciously doing what little he can do to reduce the compensation of himself and his fellows. The slaves who did not wish to run away helped fasten chains on those who did. So the saving mechanic is a certificate that wages are high enough. Does the great law demand that every worker should live on the least possible amount of bread? Is it his fate to woi-k one day that he may get enough food to be able to work another? Is that to be his only hope—4hat and death? Capital has always claimed, and still claims, the right to combine. Manu¬ facturers meet and determine prices, even in spite of the great law of sup¬ ply and demand. Have the laborers the same right to consult and com¬ bine? The rich meet in the bank, club house or parlor. Workingmen when they combine gather in the street. All the organized forces of so¬ ciety are against them. Capital has the army and the navy, the legisla¬ ture, the judicial and executive de¬ partments. When the rich combine it is for the purpose of “exchanging ideas. ” When the poor combine it is a “conspiracy.” If they act in concert, if they really do something, it. is a "mob.” If they defend themselves it is treason. How is it the rich can con¬ trol the departments of government? In this country the political power is equally divided among men. There are certainly more poor than rich. Why should the rich control? Why should not the laborers combine for the purpose of controlling the execu¬ tive, the legislative and judicial de¬ partments? Will they ever find how powerful they are? A cry comes from the oppressed, the hungry, from the downtrodden, from the unfortunate, from the despised, from men who despair and from women who weep. There are times when mendicants be¬ come revolutionists—when a rag be¬ comes a banner, under which the no¬ blest and the bravest battle for right. How are we to settle the unequal contest between man and machine? Will the machine finally go into part¬ nership with the laborer? Can those forces of nature be controlled for the benefit of her suffering children? Will extravagance keep pace with ingenu¬ ity? Will the workmen become intel¬ ligent enough and strong enough to become owners of machine*? Will these giants, these Titans, shorten or lengthen the hours of labor? Will they make leisure for the industrious, or will they make the rich richer and the poor poorer? Is man involved in the “general scheme” of things. Is there no pity, no mercy? Can man be¬ come intelligent enough to be gener¬ ous, to be just, or does the same law of facts contrcfl him as controls the animals or vegetable world? The great oak steals the sunligfct irasq the smaller trees, '/be strong animal de¬ vours the w©ok—everything 9$ the mercy of beak, and claw, and hoof, and tooth—of hand, and club, and brain, and greed—inequality, injustice cvery where. The poor horse standing in the street with his drat*, over worked, overwhipped and underfed, when he sees other horses groomed to mirror, glistening with gold and silver, scorning Witli proud feet the very earth, probably indulges iu tile usual socialistic reflections; and tins same horse, worn out aud old, deserted by his master, turned into the dusty road, leans his head on the topmost rail, looks at the donkeys ill the field of clover, and feels like a nihilist. In the days of cannibalism the strong’ devoured the weak—actually ate their fiesh. In spite of all laws that man has made,in spite of all advances in science, the strong, the heartless still live on the weak, the unfortunate, the foolish. True, they do not eat their flesh or drink their blood, but they live on their labor, on their self-denial, their weariness and want. The poor man who deforms himself by toil, who la¬ bors for his wife and children through all his anxious, barren, wasted life— who goes to the grave without ever having a luxury—has been the f<rt>d of others. He has been devoured by his fellow men. The poor woman living in the bare aud lonely room, cheerless and fireless, sewing night and day to keep starvation from her child, is slowly being eaten by her fellow' men When I take into consideration the agony of civilized life—the failures, the anxiety, the tears, the withered hopes, the bitter realities, the hunger, the crime, the humiliation, the shame —I am almost forced to say that can¬ nibalism, after all, is the most merciful • form , . winch man has ever lived upon in his fellow man. It is impossible for » man with :i good heart to be satisfied with this world as it is now. No man can truly enjoy even what he earns—w'hat lie knows to he bis own—knowing that millions of his fellow men are in misery and want. When we think of the famished, we feel that it is almost heartless to eat. To meet the ragged aud shivering makes one almost ashamed to be well dressed and warm —one feels as though his heart was as cold as their bodies. In a world filled with millions and millions of acres of land waiting to be tilled, where one man can raise the food for hundreds, yet millions are on the edge of famine. Who can eompre hend the stupidity at the bottom of this truth? Is there to tie no change? Are the laws of “supply and de maud,” invention and science, monopo ly and competition, capital and iegisla tion, always to he enemies of those who toil? Will the workers always be ignorant enough and stupid enough to give their earnings to the useless. "Will they support millions of soldiers to kill the sons of other workingmen? Will they always liuild temples and live in huts and dens themselves? Will they forever allow parasites and vampires to live on upon their blood? Will they remain the slaves of the beggars they support? Will honest men stop taking off their hats to successful fraud? Will industry, in the presence of crowned idleness, forever fall upon’ its knees— and will the lips unstained by lies for¬ ever kiss the robber's and impostor's bands? * Will they understand that beggars can not lie generous, and that every healthy man must earn the right to live? Will they finally say that the man who has had equal privileges with all others has no right to complain or will they follow the example that has been set by their oppressors? Will they learn that force, to succeed, must have thought behind it aud that any¬ thing done, in order that it may suc¬ ceed, must rest on justice? Why a New Party? Honest and patriotic men are asking: What need is there of a new party? Why not stick to the old party and fight out the great questions of the day under the same old banner? Let us see. The labor question is as pregnant with revolution as the slave question ever was, and with this question the politicians of the old parties are tern porizing, and perhaps will continue to temporize until the soldier is again called upon to settle it. Invention is every year giving capi tal greater power to oppress manual labor in the field of production. Every year, through the agency of “s-r-2 e n those vh se onh capital is tiuii product, but capital is -athcring in all thisincrea.se. From this merease, millionaires are multiplying 1 u every hand, while labor is perishing of want and destitn ' A few great monopolists who have are reaping the benefits of the progress of this ingenious age. wliile the genius which invents and the labor which operates these inventions are scarcely above want. Labor, perceiving the great increase of wealth and wonderifig wbv a part pt it does not fall to its share, is becom¬ ing dissatisfied, stubborn. relieliious. Bi The most stupid peveeive that our system of production is rapidly ehang ing. t our politicians, whose Only ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. issues are the honors and spoils of office, see no danger ahead, and car© nothing for the necessity of effcct ing a corresponding and just system of distribution. They do not seem to understand why labor is muttering aud threatenin'. They fail to see that a new historic period is crowding* upon the nation. ’I’hey overlook the fact that every issue which gave rise to the two old parties, is settled in history. They are blind to the fact that new i issues are pressing to the frout for i adjustment, If they are cognizant of these facta, they are endeavoring, solely for selfish purposes, to keep in the background 1 the issues of the hour, They are trying to infuse life and virtue into political organizations long since dead and damned. ’ Whenever a political party lias set tied the issues upon which it was or ganized, and then exists simply to use its power and influence to secure posi¬ tions for spoils seeking politicians, it lias survived its own death, and intelli¬ gent. patriotic people should see to it that it is removed to the political grave¬ yard to make room for a live party with living issues. Every age has its issues and these must have their party, America is a land of. growth and progress, Here have been solved already some of the higher problems, It will continue for many, many years the battle ground of new thoughts and ideas. The battle of industrial freedom, the right of eacli man to what he produces, has yet to be fought. I I Ins t lie . of ... the day. , is issue If it is not the crowning eondiet of eivilization.it is at least the next in order. We do most earnestly believe that ; the People's party is the most promis : ing movement in the direction of in dustrial freedom that lias ever heen set in motion, If wisely conducted it will mark an j epoch in history, of even greater im portanee to the race, and to eiviliza tion, than the memorable Fourth of July, 3770. Let the ropresentatives of American j industry and of revolutionary ancestors j put their shouldurs together, touch elbows and inarch in a solid phalanx to the polls next November and con sign to the to.nb the dead carcasses of j the old parties, whose souls have long ! Iceen resting in the bosoms of Jeffer j son, Jackson aud Lincoln, but whose j bodies yet cumber the ground and ; whose stench ascends to high heaven, Democracy in New York. Democratic editors have recently had much to say about Populism in Colo¬ rado. Suppose we take one of tlieir strong holds and ask them to defend the way they govern it. Take New York city. It is demo cratic from top to bottom. They hold every place of power from governor and mayor down to scavenger and street sweeper. How do they govern the imperial city of the Union? How* do they administer law in that great metropolis of civilization and Christianity? In a manner which disgraces human nature, defies justice and mocks God. They plunder the business men of $10,000,000 per year to fatten a horde of ward heelers, political parasites, bums, thugs, repeaters, shoulder hit¬ ters and election manipulators. They levy blackmail upon all trades and professions. Their police “stand in” with crimi¬ nals and force tribute from the inno cent in return for “protection.” Their judges aid them in stealing election returns and in wringing money out of honest tradesmen who have committed no crime save that they re¬ fuse to join Tammany. In the judicial investigation now going on in New York it has been proved that the democracy of New York has committed every crime known to human depravity; that the demo cratic sway in New York has debauched every branch of the public service, and turned the machinery of government into a mere instrument of political greed to extort money out of the people, Before our democratic friends get too much engrossed with “Populism in Colorado,” we advise them to read up 55SW2K4-S. a He can tell them all about Tam ventions, dictates policies lor southern democracy: takes a bribe of a million from a Broadway street car company, aud a tribute of $5 from a wretched peanut seller who dares not go with “JXTLSSrZZL 3 ot trod. haTe Dotlli tost „ dem00 . racy in New York?’ Simply because the Tammany lead ers are the subsidized allies of the money power. Wall street “buys its peace” from Tammany; pays roundly for it; hut having paid the tribute, gets value re oe Wail .\'* e ^ ^ street never service. yet started . game rbafc the Tammany tiger did not help to pull it down. Whenever the money p^wer goes op the warpath the Tammany braves falj into line,—people’* Tarty Taper,, NUMBER 27 Fame. How sweet to mortal ears the voice of Fame! Like music, it doth touch the strings of pride. Doth promise an imperishable name, An aureole which ever shall abide. And yet, of all the phantoms of the mind There's none moro unsubstantial, more ab¬ surd Thau Fame. Who seeks her leaves repose behind, Content to struggle for au empty word. —Milton Goldsmith, in Philadelphia Ledger. HUMOROUS. A word to the wise is sufficient, but a fool needs the whole book. “Hoes she love music? “NT— yes. lint not enough to keop from the piano.” * Poets are born, not made, The present state of the market wouldn’t warrant their manufacture. As long as man can assign tliu pro¬ perty of his creditors over to his wife marriage is not wholly a failure. I11 groceries, ns in other things, ’Tls well to unilerstand, A man will never make his weigh Without a lot of saad. Bucon.—Does Penman make any¬ thing out of his writings? Edbert,— I don’t know. I never could make anything out of them. Tho reason why peoplo who see what they think are ghosts never grapple with them is that they know it is dangerous to hug a delusion* .Landsman—When T , two ... boats are in of collision, which one ateevs oil’ami gets out of the way? Yachts man—llio one that’s last painted, «i >q>i a ver y j, ar j j 0 part,” he said While standing fondly boro; Blie glanced at his smooth, gleaming head, And said, “You mean your hair." Maud—How do you define love? Marie—Love is the lifo of illusions. Maud—And what is marriage? Marie marriage is the death of them. Gertrude—I thought you said Mr. Casey’s face was enough to turn a girl’s head. You must havo very queei taste. Jessie—So it is enough to turn ft girl s head in another diveetion. Visitor—These are m\ k>,fgraduates, e h? X suppose many of them will ye! become professors. President—Yes, —if they Btudy hard for a few yearn longer and get to know a little loss. The race not always is to hiu\ Who hustles ’round and hollers Some victors from an office dim Just ladle out tho dollars. “When a man’s wife tells a funny story I’d like to know how he’s going to know when she’s got to th > point. ” “Easy enough. The point’s the part she tells half an hour after she’s fin ished the story.” “See, there comes Hummel. I don’t want to meet the man. Only last I week I asked him to lend me 100 marks.” “He might have given you the money; he is rich enough. ” “Well —urn—the fact is, he did.” Thinkitt—How complete the big * dry goods stores are nowadays. Do you know that they serve luncheon for shoppers ? Knowit-t—Yes, but they don’t provide board and lodging for customers waiting for their change. Propagating Albino Trout. The Game and Fish Commissioners of Minnesota have succeeded in pro pagatiug, at the State fish hatchery in g t Pau i, a bree d of trout that cannot be duplicated anywhere in the known world. The albino trout is nothing more or less than a freak of nature, and up to three years ago. when these fish began to make their appiearance at the Miu nesota hatchery, none was known to. exist. Three years ago Snperintend ent S. S. Watkins secured thirty-nine specimens, though where he got them is a secret locked in the breast of the g ra y -haired official. From these fish he succeeded in bringing thirteen to matnrity, but only three specimens wintered successfully. At tho spawn in sea£on there were found to be two jar*: the hatching 147 fish, but of (his nnm, "; r ; ,rriv ’- ,dat m » tnnt r - The forty-nino have amce . multiplied, until now Mr. Watkins has 700 albino trout iu tho tanka I The Superintendent is exceedingly 1 careful of the beauties, and well may be token of them, for, with their pare white bodice handsomely dotted with pink spots—with their pmk fin* | ftn< | eves _they are a curiosity 1 D °* *' , e duplicated. . .. . - — Minneapolis Mi Journal. Aji Impostor. Father-mSo you have returned after eloping with the coachman, have yaa? Daughter (pvddigaD—Papn, I was deceived in tmn m. Fathers*My child, te Daughter—I have disoov bo ft oal; a foreign apbleiaa