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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MAY 10 
Publishers' Desk. 
Prompt is always at the Fore. 
FOR THE BOYS. 
Young man, do you want to go 
to the agricultural college next 
September? 
Father, do you want your boy 
to possess greater means for 
battling with the problems of 
farming than you have pos¬ 
sessed? 
Mother, shall your son come to 
manhood better fitted for the war¬ 
fare of life by reason of his hav¬ 
ing a greater command of the re¬ 
sources of the colleges and ex¬ 
periment stations which the gen¬ 
eral government has founded for 
his benefit? 
THESE BENEFITS MAY BE 
HIS, so far as in him lies. 
How? We shall point the way 
in our next issue. 
WHAT DO YOU LIKE ? 
What do you like in the R. N.-Y.? What 
do you like from page one to 16 ? 
What do you dislike in the R. N.-Y. ? 
What would you have changed in any of 
its features ? 
What do you like or dislike in any of the 
methods in vogue in our way of conducting 
the paper ? 
What good do you get from the R. N.-Y.? 
If it benefits you it may benefit others 
likewise. Your pointing the way will do 
no harm and it may do some good ; may 
help others to see the way to make the 
paper of more value to them. R. s. P. v. 
THERE’S MONEY IN IT. 
Many pleasant letters come to the Desk 
from old and new friends of the R. N.-Y. 
extolling its virtues and relating, literally, 
hundreds of incidents wherein the paper 
has saved their crops, saved them money, 
gained them higher prices on products 
sold, increased their crops, and, best of all, 
made life better worth living.* A long 
train of benefits to be derived from a $2.00 
investment, surely. Bug that is just the 
mission of the Rural New-Yorker which 
we want to make the liveliest, brightest, 
ablest, MOST USEFUL rural journal in 
the world. And how, pray, can we do this, 
or know that we are doing or not doing it, 
unless you, its readers, tell us frankly of 
your wishes, likes and dislikes in this con¬ 
nection ? 
So we, editors and publishers, are espec¬ 
ially grateful for these many words of 
commendation for the work of the Rural 
New-Yorker, past and present, that 
brighten the hours of labor, like spring 
flowers and autumn fruits. 
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The News. 
DOMESTIC. 
SATURDAY. May73, 1890. 
The great May Day labor demonstrations 
at the principal labor centers in this coun¬ 
try passed off quietly, iwhich spoke well for 
the intelligence as well as the self-restraint 
of the American workman. True, Anar¬ 
chists and other like pestiferous peace-dis¬ 
turbers tried in New York and Chicago to 
take a leading part in the day’s proceedings, 
but the real, honest workmen indignantly 
brushed them aside. Moreover, the police 
were prepared for prompt and \igorous 
action at the first appearance of trouble. 
Over 30,000 men took part in the grand 
parade in Chicago, presenting the greatest 
demonstration of the kind that ever took 
E lace in this country. In New York and 
Brooklyn there were sevtral smaller par¬ 
ades, and the same was the case in St.Louis, 
Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Phila¬ 
delphia, Boston and some other large 
cities. As a rule, all over the country the car¬ 
penters struck or were ready to strike for 
the eight-hour day. In a great number of 
cases their demands were at once granted. 
In others they were refused and the men 
“went out.” The great Chicago strike 
still continues. A new Master Carpenters’ 
Union has been formed, however, and is 
negotiating with the strikers. It is willing 
to concede the eight-hour day, but the men 
insist that steady employment must be 
provided for about four fifths of them. In 
some cases a nine-hours’ day has been 
agreed upon. In most cases the question 
of wages has been settled, at least tempo¬ 
rarily, by paying by the hour instead of by 
the day. The strikes hitherto have been 
mostly confined to the carpenters, the in¬ 
tention being to let other trades strike one 
at a time, as soon as the carpenters’ strike 
is settled one way or the other. A consid¬ 
erable number of other trades have, how¬ 
ever, struck here and there for eight hours 
or higher wages, but there has been no gen¬ 
eral strike of any of them. The struggle 
has only begun, and will last, now here, 
now there, now with one trade, now with 
another, all through this year and for many 
succeeding ones. Indeeci, it is likely to 
last in one shape or another so long as the 
employee sees the employer in possession 
of something which he himself covets. 
Farmers should study the movement and 
learn from it at least the enormous force of 
combined action. 
Kemmler, the Buffalo wife murderer, 
who was to suffer death by electrocution at 
Auburn, N. Y., last Wednesday, has had 
another respite. A lawyer appealed to 
Judge Wallace of the United States Dis¬ 
trict Court, for a stay of proceedings until 
the United States Courts had passed upon 
the constitutionality of the law. It is 
claimed that the United States Constitu¬ 
tion prohibits the infliction of cruel and 
unusual punishment, and that electrocu¬ 
tion comes within this category. Good 
lawyers, however, declare that the Consti¬ 
tution merely forbids the United States to 
inflict such punishment; but that the pro¬ 
vision does not affect the laws of any State. 
There is much mystery about the party or 
paities back of the affair, who are paying 
the heavy expenses of the case; but there 
is a general belief that the Westinghouse 
Electric Company foots the bill now as it 
has done all along. There is much disgust 
among the public at this pettyfogging 
business, and a bill is being rushed through 
the New York legislature abolishing capi¬ 
tal punishment altogether. 
Tnere’s a report that Secretary Windom 
intends to enforce very rigidly the law 
against importations of foreign wage- 
earners who have made contracts before 
their arrival here; hence the transfer of the 
Castle Garden business from the New York 
State to United States officials. The Con¬ 
tract Labor Law is being strictly enforced 
against workmen who live in Canada, but 
are accustomed to cross the line to work 
every day in the United States. Even 
Canadian sailors working on American 
vessels in the St. Lawrence and the Lakes 
have been arrested and sent back to Canada 
in large numbers. 
Fresh crevasses in the Mississippi levees 
have flooded fresh areas of country and 
added to the old flood which had begun to 
subside in many places. The General 
Government has promptly made an appro¬ 
priation of $150,000 for the relief of the 
sufferers, but the planters in Mississippi 
and Louisiana are vigorously protesting 
against any regular issue of rations to 
either blacks or whites. 
Tremendous rains have also flooded all 
the rivers of Northern Texas, and in undated 
Dallas, now the most populous city in the 
State. The Red River, which separates 
Texas from the Indian Territory, is higher 
than it has been for 40 years, and the loss 
throughout the submerged lowlands is in¬ 
calculable. 
A recent decision by the Iowa Supreme 
Court places the responsibility for the safe 
transportation and delivery of perishable 
freight upon the railroads. The case was 
one concerning the transportation of but¬ 
ter. For want of ice the butter was spoiled. 
The road disclaimed all responsibility, 
since it owned no lefrigerator cars. The 
Court, however, was of opinion that by 
receiving the goods it bound itself to de¬ 
liver them safely. This is a highly impor¬ 
tant precedent. If it shall serve that pur¬ 
pose in other states as well as in Iowa, the 
decision will be of immense importance to 
farmers and truckmen, who now, as a rule, 
have no adequate redress for the loss of 
perishable produce in transit. 
The Farmers’ Alliance and the Grange 
have locked horns before Congress. Pres¬ 
ident Polk of the Alliance, and Grand 
Master Brigham of the Grange, are now in 
Washington vigorously urging their views 
on national legislation upon the members 
of the different committees in charge of 
various bills bearing on matters of interest 
to farmers and especially upon the mem¬ 
bers of the Senate and House Committees 
on Agriculture. The principal measure 
urged by the Alliance is the establishment 
of a Government warehouse in every coun¬ 
ty in all the States, in which farmers 
can deposit their products and borrow 
from the Government 80 per cent, of their 
value. It also wants the Government to 
issue paper currency direct ly to the people at 
a low rate of interest “ which shall be legal 
tender for all debts, public and private.” 
Grand Master Br’gham in behalf of the 
National Grange, is very outspoken in his 
opposition to the ware house scheme as 
extravagantly expensive as well as im¬ 
practicable. He thinks it would not afford 
farmers any relief, and that if the ware¬ 
houses were built they wouldn’t patronize 
them. He is more tolerant, however, with 
regard to the second proposition, as the 
Grange, especially as regards its Western 
and Southern branches, has always been a 
Green-backer. 
On May 1, ex-President Cleveland was 
admitted to the bar of the United States 
Saprpme Court at Washington, where he 
paid his $10 and got his parchment author¬ 
izing him to practice before the Supreme 
Court. He is retained in the great drainage 
cases for New Orleans, which will probably 
go over to the November term. By the 
way, from the bitterness with which he is 
persistently assailed by the hostile Demo¬ 
cratic and Republican papers, there is 
little doubt that Cleveland leads the field 
miles ahead of all other candidates for the 
Democratic nomination for President in 
1892. Just now, the chief, if not the only 
causes of villification of the man are his 
weight and size, but in spite of these he’s 
making a very lively run for that nomi¬ 
nation. 
There are 213 presbyteries in all in the 
Presbyterian Church, 193 of which have 
voted on the question of a revision of the 
Westminster Confession of Faith. Of this 
number 127 have voted in favor of the revi¬ 
sion, 61 have voted against it, and five have 
not voted at all. There are returns yet to 
come from 20 presbyteries, and the indica¬ 
tions are that the final result will be a 
little short of the needed two-thirds for 
revision. 
The New York legislature having re¬ 
pealed the demagogic law allowing $2 a 
day to all laborers employed on the public 
works of the State, Governor Hill has just 
allowed it to become a law without his sig¬ 
nature. Representative Connell of Nebras¬ 
ka, has, however, just introduced into Con¬ 
gress a bill declaring that no person em¬ 
ployed as a laborer for the general govern¬ 
ment shall receive less than $2 per day. and 
also that eight hours’ work shall constitute 
a day’s labor for such workmen, and pro¬ 
viding penalties for violation of the law. 
Years ago Congress passed an eight-hour 
law; but, as a rule, it has been ignored as 
the men who wanted only eight hours’ 
work received only eight hours’ pay. A 
lot of lawyer sharks are now pressing 
claims for back pay amounting to several 
millions against the government before the 
Court of Claims for money which they 
allege the men ought to have received in 
accordance with this law. Of course, if 
successful, the lawyers will pocket most of 
the funds. 
Representative Hall of Minnesota, has in¬ 
troduced a bill providing that after Janu¬ 
ary 1, an annual income tax of from one- 
fourth of one to one percent, shall be levied 
upon the annual income of all persons in 
the United States. If such a tax could be 
honestly collected it would probably be the 
fairest form of taxation ; but experience 
everywhere shows the utter impossibility 
of securing the honest payment of such a 
tax, however searching the inquisition into 
the private affairs of the tax-payers ; while 
no form of taxation meets with such ran¬ 
corous opposition. 
It is seriously proposed to appoint a 
special court to interpret tariff laws. At 
all the receiving centers custom-house 
officers are constantly making blunders in 
their interpretation of such laws, and even 
when appeals are made to the Treasury 
officers at Washington, their decisions are 
frequently overruled by the United States 
Supreme Court, entailing on the govern¬ 
ment the necessity of refunding millions of 
dollars illegally collected. Of course, one 
never hears.of blunders favorable to the im¬ 
porters. 
The Massachusetts House has followed 
the recent example of Rhode Island by 
abolishing the poll tax as a prerequisite to 
the exercise of the right, or privilege, of 
suffrage. 
Of the 17 nations represented in the Pan- 
American Congress, nine have signed the 
formal treaty of arbitration drawn up by 
the Conference. These are the United 
States, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador, 
Honduras, Bolivia, Ecuador, Hayti, and 
the United States of Brazil. It is expected 
that three more signatures and seals will be 
added soon, and it is hoped that the signa¬ 
tures of all the powers will be secured in 
the course of the summer and autumn. 
I f this treaty should prove a real bar to 
war or even a powerful check upon it, it 
would amply repay the cost and trouble of 
the Congress even if no’other benefit accrued 
from it. 
The political campaign in Alabama is 
rapidly narrowing down to a struggle be¬ 
tween the Farmers’ Alliance and the Demo¬ 
cratic organization. R. F. Kolb, State Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture, is the Alliance’s 
candidate for Governor and it has already 
secured a certainty of four counties for 
him. The programme is to gaiu nu¬ 
merical strength by admitting farmers 
of all political creeds and then capture the 
Democratic party machinery throughout 
the State. The Convention to nominate 
State officers will meet May 28. There are, 
in all, five candidates for Governor. 
There is also a fierce struggle in South 
Carolina where the adherents of the Alli¬ 
ance are fighting strongly for “farmers’ 
rights ” regardless of “ party or ‘ color ’ 
lines.” In both States many of the enrolled 
farmers, however, haven’t the spunk to 
stick to their organization in the face of 
the storm of opprobrium to which they are 
subjected. 
“ Field Marshall ” Murat Halstead, once 
editor of the Cincinnati Commercial and 
afterwards of the composite paper, Com- 
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