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Would I advise going into politics? Yes. For by and through politics we are governed, and to the government must we look for relief. It should have been done before. The sufferings and hardships of the laboring men of our country are due to a large extent to the weakness of our labor organizations on this point. I do not mean partisan politics. God forbid, for party politics have been the curse of the race. But why can not organized labor stand together for its own advantage as the capitalists do for theirs? There can certainly be a better industrial system devised than the one under which we are existing at present, but not until the people get the law-making power into their own hands will it be brought about.

Let the organized forces make a united demand for direct legislation, through the initiative and referendum, and insist upon that point until it is gained. When the corrupt and ever-ready-to-sell politician is relegated to oblivion the question of the unemployed will in a great measure have been solved, and our future welfare can be safely trusted to the intelligence and patriotism of the masses.

In conclusion I wish to congratulate No. 6 upon overcoming political prejudice and admitting social economics for discussion at its meetings. Denver union has also taken an advanced step by renting a box in the church of Rev. Myron Reed, the greatest expounder of social doctrines in the west.

Full Points.

BY SAM L. LEFFINGWELL.

A "kicker" is not necessarily an enemy. Exchange which is not equitable is robbery. Even one's nearest friend may go wrong some time.

If you must use compliment, be sure you use truth.

To be wicked is not much worse than to be indiscreet.

Tyranny is of itself anarchy, if not treason to the populace.

What is the difference between anarchy and judicial injunction?

Insured equivalence would soften many of the suffering ills of life.

It is not always safe to hastily give assent to those who talk over-much.

A man should be able himself to stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

That government is the best which respects most of all the freedom of the governed.

Happy is that man who has in him nothing servile, nor affected, nothing worthy of blame, nothing which seeks a hiding place.

Lying even in indifferent things weakens the understanding, and lying maliciously is as great a moral offense as a man can be guilty of.

It is not every man who could find his life's record hung up where all could see it and not himself feel the ignominy of its exposure.

It was one of the apostles who said that the world was full of envious, jealous and malignant people, and a man might be well content to get out of it.

A wise philosopher it was who said that the only thing we can be robbed of is the present. The past is lost; the future we know not of. We can not be robbed of that which we have not.

Some men write without the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, without regard to a knowledge of right or wrong-only troubling themselves about what their intimates may think or say.

That man does not seek nor desire truth who will not change when he is convinced that he does not think and act right. There is no injury in truth; but much to him who abides in error and ignorance.

There is nothing profitable or of lasting value in anything that shall compel a man to break his promise, to lose his self-respect, to act the hypocrite, to practice anything which needs walls and curtains.

It is a waste of energy to exert oneself only for the applause of others. Approbation is a serious question of value. The clapping of hands, like the clapping of tongues, is of fame won and lost in a breath.

There is great deception in those who practice the infliction of long-drawn sentences pretending to inform and enlighten, but which, when subjected to purposes of digestion, are found to be the result of mere flatulency.

Some men seeking fame reach only notoriety. After the most exalted fame, finally comes oblivion. After notoriety comes what? Life is a mere sojourn. We embark, make the voyage, long or short, come to the shore-get out.

A man may rave through column after column of pot-house wit and back-alley humor, to "split the ears of the groundlings," and yet show a natural weakness of appreciation of the ethic and a total ignorance of what is politic.

A good man for one to emulate is he who can express approbation without noisy display and possess much of knowledge without ostentation. There is much room for the toleration of ignorant persons and those who form opinions without consideration.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS.

Special "Want” advertisements will be inserted in these columns at the uniform price of ONE CENT A WORD each insertion. Answers can be sent in care of The Typographical Journal, if desired. All letters received will be promptly forwarded to parties for whom intended, without extra charge.

COMPETENT, steady and reliable man of many years' experience, who has been foreman and proofreader, desires a similar situation. Address WILSON, care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

ADVERTISING SOLICITORS-Every printer, wheth er employed or not, can very easily coin several hundred dollars during the spring advertising season, with our new practical device for placing ads; every business goes into it, one hustler did Meadville and oil City, Pa., in one day, clearing over $30, others average $10 daily; inexpensive placing ads; diagrammed outfit, 25 cents. KEYSTONE ADVERTISING AGENCY, Scranton, Pa.

AN all-round printer and practical newspaper man,

who has filled all positions editor, reporter, foreman, proofreader, etc., desires work in some healthy town or city of the South. Address C. K., care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

FOR SALE-A complete job printing plant and book bindery in a northern Ohio city of 40.000 inhabitants; a great manufacturing center, with business diversified. This plant has ten modern presses, fully equipped job composing room and a complete book bindery, all doing 60.000 business per annum, during the last two years. Established 1871.' Can be purchased on very liberal terms; good reasons for selling. Address C. C. PHILBRICK, III and 113 South Pearl street, Columbus, Ohio.

FOR SALE-Book and job printing establishment. Good business opportunity. One drum cylinder Cottrell press, 30 x 43 bed, one two-revolution Cottrell press, 26 x 37 bed; one Colt's Armory press; two Gordons; one Brown & Carver Cutter. 32-inch one stapling machine; stereotyping outfit; 40 fonts of types, stones, racks, cases, electric motor and appliances, etc. Address JOHN WALTERS, 610 Vine street, Scranton, Pa.

FOR SALE Leffingwell's Manual and Rules of Order for Parliamentary Debate." 10 cents per copy. Can be ordered through TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL. FOR SALE-A Plow paper cutter; cuts 28x30 in., cheap. Address L. C., TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

FOR SALE Washington hand-press, in first-class shape; bed 30x46, platen 26x42; a bargain. Address CLAY, TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

FOR SALE-Four-horse power Otto gas engine, in first-class condition. Address MUNGER, care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

FOR SALE-Cheap, a 6-column Army press. Has never been used. Address J. H. B., care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

FOR SALE-A Universal rule shaper, good as new and can be bought at a bargain. Address MUNGER, care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

FOR SALE-A column Cincinnati cylinder press,

bed 33x48; this press has never been used, and can be bought at a sacrifice. Address FRANK H., care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

FOR SALE-A large assortment of display type, on the old bodies; the type is all new, and will be sold for less than half price. Send for specimen sheet. Address MUNGER, care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

SITUATION WANTED—By a first-class linotype machinist: eight years' experience. Address "LINO care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

TYPE.

TRAVELING MEN and everybody else wanted to han dle H. E. Hanna's "Little Wonder" Detachable Door and Transom Lock; not larger than an ordinary jack-knife: carried in the pocket: keyless and nonpickable Nickel-plated and a handsome pocket novelty. Guaranteed to securely fasten any door or transom on the inside. Send 50 cents for sample and terms. Address, H. E. HANNA, Hutchinson. Kan. WANTED-A first-class ad man on a morning newspaper: must be sober and reliable. Address "RAPID, care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

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Prominent in the printing, book-making, stationery, paper-making and allied trades.

AMERICAN BOOK-MAKER, a journal of technical art and information for printers, bookbinders and publishers. Published monthly; $2 per annum; single cop ies, 25 cents. Howard Lockwood & Co., publishers, 143 Bleecker street, corner West Broadway, New York.

AMERICAN PRESSMAN, official organ of the International Printing Pressmen's Union of North America. A technical trade journal devoted to the interests of presswork and to all pressmen. $1 per annum. Sample copies 10 cents. Advertising rates on application. If you want to keep up with the times in your trade subscribe for it. If you want to sell good goods at a profit advertise in it. Robert D. Sawyer, editor, 181 Washington street, Chicago.

AMERICAN STATIONER; established 1874; every Thursday: $2 a year; single copies, 10 cents. Howard Lockwood & Co., publishers, N. W. corner of Bleecker street and South Fifth avenue, New York.

AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF PRINTING AND BOOKMAKING, 600 pages, profusely illustrated; half bound, price $12, delivered. This standard work contains all that is known of the printing and allied trades, from the earliest to the present time. A copy should bẹ owned by every ambitious printer. Address, Howard Lockwood & Co., publishers, 143 Bleecker street, corner of West Broadway, New York.

BRITISH AND COLONIAL PRINTER AND STATIONER, a weekly journal of British, colonial and foreign printing and stationery trade intelligence, mechanical and other inventions illustrated, novelties in leather and fancy goods, books and book manufacture, patents, gazette and unique financial trade news. Subscription, $3 per annum. Post free to any address in the three Americas. Published by W. John Stonehill, 58 Shoe Lane, London, England. Specimen copy gratis and post free on application. Established 1878,

INTERNATIONAL ART PRINTER. A book of specimens of printing. Issued on the last of each month. The American edition commences in February. In will appear no advertisements, except on the cover pages. The Canadian edition will carry any legitimate ad. If you have anything to sell to Canadian printers, an ad in the I. A. P. is guaranteed a larger circulation than any other printers' Journal circulating in Canada. Subscription, either edition, $2 per year. Single copies, 25 cents. No free samples. ARTHUR M. RUTHERFORD, Publisher, 130-132 Poulett street, Owen Sound, Canada.

NEW ENGLAND STATIONER AND PRINTER is now in the tenth year of its publication, and its forty odd pages are each month replete with interesting trade matter. Send 50 cents if you are interested, and we will mail you the paper regularly for nine months. Sample copies 10 cents. Address, Chas. C. Walden, publisher, Springfield, Mass.

THE INLAND PRINTER is unquestionably the leading trade journal of the world in the printing industry. Issued promptly on the first of every month. Replete with valuable technical information, articles of general interest and elegant illustrations. Only $2 per year, $1 for six months, 20 cents per copy-none free. INLAND PRINTER COMPANY, 212–214 Monroe street, Chicago.

THE ENGRAVER AND PRINTER, leading journal in its line in the East. Most artistic periodical published. Strongest line of contributors of any printers' or engravers' trade journal. Known circulation. $2 per year; 25 cents per copy. No free sample copies. THE ENGRAVER AND PRINTER COMPANY, Publishers, Boston, Mass.

UNITED STATES PAPER-MAKER, devoted to the interests of paper-makers. Published monthly: $2 per annum; sample copies, 20 cents. Charles C. Walden, publisher, 132 Nassau street, New York.

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WHILE the JOURNAL is thankful to many friends who are securing new subscribers, it is reluctantly constrained to inform them that numbers previous to March 1 can not be furnished, consequently they are requested to date new subscriptions from the beginning of this month, thus avoiding confusion and disappointment.

If we want to have governmental affairs shaped to our liking and advantage, we must abolish proxy representation and have our work done by direct legislation. First submit through servants properly delegated just what kind of law you want framed, then have it sent back to the people for approval or disapproval. When the time arrives when we can escape the clutches of corporation lawyers and the moneyed trust lobbies we can begin to look for something like fairness and justice in legislation.

THE curtain was finally rung down on the farce comedy which has been so long on the boards of the United States Circuit Court at Chicago. On Monday of last week a nolle prosequi was entered in that court in the case against Eugene V. Debs charged with interfering with the mails during the great strike. If that court If that court could recall the tragic phases of its action at the beginning of this huge travesty on justice, the taint of contempt would not cling so tenaciously to the brutal exercise of authority in depriving a man of his liberty without regard to his rights under the constitution. History, however, is inexorable, and will make no mistake, at least in this instance. Due process of law is only in the memories of the past.

ONE of the pet phrases used by the monopoly press is "the despotism of the trades-union." How would it do to say something about the "despotism" of the man who defends himself against highway robbery, housebreaking or any other of the many playful methods of taking away one's property? To systematically deprive a man of the larger portion of what he himself earns by the act of production is only a species of genteel robbery. In many cases the larger the amount stolen the more respectable the robber. The man who produces the finished article

from the raw material has as much right to say how much of material interest he has in its production as the man who owns the article his labor has produced. His labor is part of the cost, and because he desires to fix a price upon what he has contributed toward fixing any price whatever to the finished production, he is termed a "despot." It would be a difficult matter to rate the despotism of a monopolistic editor.

THE ten-cent nickel lapel button having met with greater favor than was anticipated and generated a demand for a more ornate and expensive emblem, the International officers have endeavored to meet that demand and are now prepared to sell for 50 cents apiece a beautiful rolled-gold enameled button with patent screw back. Those who have seen it are unanimous in expressing the opinion that it is the most handsome and durable button ever furnished for the money. Those desirous of accepting agencies for the nickel and gold buttons can obtain advantageous terms by writing this office.

A NEW fad in the monopoly line is the fire insurance trust.

THE union label is a sure "detective" against "sweatshop" and convict contract production.

ADVERTISERS should not be slow in reaching the many thousand readers of THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

THE Mexican supreme court judges hold office for six years only, and the Mexican senate is elected by a vote of the people. Happy Mexicanos!

IN selecting men for the next Congress try and secure a representative, without regard to party sentiment or affiliation, who will favor the government ownership of the telegraph system of the country.

RECENTLY Wm. B. Hallett retired from the office of financial secretary of Kalamazoo typographical union. He had held the office for a period of nine years, being elected in 1887. The union tendered him a vote of thanks for his long and faithful services.

SPEAKING of the shorter work-day, there is a tendency at almost every point to violate the government eight-hour law. Friends of organized labor should be on constant watch where the government law is being violated. See to it the proper penalty is enforced.

As the JOURNAL has been unusually lenient in admitting the correspondence of Messrs. Owen J. Kindelon and Stephen Bell in discussing the ability, qualifications, availability, etc., of Amos J. Cummings, and as both sides have been heard to what may be considered an extent sufficient for the interest of the great mass of JOURNAL readers, we hope the gentlemen will rest the case without further argument, and let it stand upon its merits with what has already been said in the premises.

MANY men who loudly profess unionism are full of suggestive reforms, but they do not act. They generally do the suggesting and the urging, but wait always for some one else to pitch in and carry out the work. When you think you have a good thing in the way of an idea for improvement jump in yourself and test it to conclusion. Some one may call you a "crank." Don't let that pester you.

There never was a man yet

with a new idea that wasn't thought to be a little off. Galileo, Columbus, Newton and other great men of new ideas were all thought to be crazy, or as we now term them, "cranks." Don't scout an idea because some one else suggested it. We may not all be Galileos nor Newtons, but the only test of a suggested theory is to give it a practical trial. Even if we fail we sometimes develop thought in a direction that may bring beneficial results from unlooked-for sources. Don't only think, but act.

THERE is one thing that organized labor should not overlook, and that is the material encouragement of merchants, grocerymen and others who advertise in labor papers. It has now come that in almost every town of any size where labor is organized a newspaper is printed in the interest of labor. It is not only the duty of organized labor to encourage and support their own local newspaper, but to patronize those who patronize it by advertising in its columns. Let them know that you fully appreciate their assistance. In doing this you will not only be helping them, helping your struggling publisher, but helping yourselves.

DETROIT TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION NO. 18 promises a new paper to be called "The Detroit Printer." In addition to making special effort against the unfair firm, John F. Eby & Co., it will make itself useful in advancing the interests of the printing craft and the upbuilding of labor organizations generally.

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