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Title: Pass free u. THEaere [theater]
Author: Kerista Commune
Publisher: Hamilton College Library
Place published: Clinton, New York, United States
Text: ‘ Pass Free U. irimaere Meets each Wednesday at 6 PM Behind The All Saints Building at 1350 Waller Street in San Francisco THIS NEW '1‘!-IEATRICAL EXPERIENCE is open to you if you have a» strong desire to meet other men and women like yourself who are free of the old-fashioned concepts which have become obsolete in the space-travel age. YOU ARE WELCOME to come and spend an evening with us. Bring your sharpest wit and ‘/our heady intellect for we are building a mighty "Mind Circus" with Magic Jack as the Master of Ceremonies. THE HOLY MAN JAM at the Family Dog introduced a concept which has beheaded all of the old concerts of religion. The holv men have come into the theatre. So he prefrared to meet the holv men from all corners of this small rvlanet inour Pass Free U. TI-IEatre. Be prepared to discover new talent, some of it your own, and be prepared for encounter and conflict. THE CENTER OF THE ACTION may come to our theater. A new-age may be born in our theatre. YOU...
Show more‘ Pass Free U. irimaere Meets each Wednesday at 6 PM Behind The All Saints Building at 1350 Waller Street in San Francisco THIS NEW '1‘!-IEATRICAL EXPERIENCE is open to you if you have a» strong desire to meet other men and women like yourself who are free of the old-fashioned concepts which have become obsolete in the space-travel age. YOU ARE WELCOME to come and spend an evening with us. Bring your sharpest wit and ‘/our heady intellect for we are building a mighty "Mind Circus" with Magic Jack as the Master of Ceremonies. THE HOLY MAN JAM at the Family Dog introduced a concept which has beheaded all of the old concerts of religion. The holv men have come into the theatre. So he prefrared to meet the holv men from all corners of this small rvlanet inour Pass Free U. TI-IEatre. Be prepared to discover new talent, some of it your own, and be prepared for encounter and conflict. THE CENTER OF THE ACTION may come to our theater. A new-age may be born in our theatre. YOU may be discovered in our theater. The new ideas which you hear in our theater for the first time will stimulate you and generate you, at last, to re-start your education and continue with the important long-range objective of putting your creative energies "on stream" in the war on Izoverty. Many workshops on the art of theatre are being formed. Music workshops and acting workshops and dance workshops and film workshops. Many are being formed and perhaps you should be in one of your own choice? ASK YOIJRSELF: " What have I got to lose?" And _if' the answer is: "Nothing but some time." -— come and see us and see what we look like. we may be just the kind of people you may have been dreaming about for a long time and hoping you would meet one day. We are real people. Men and women dedicated to a world of art and technology blended into utopian-oriented living for each man, woman and child on this globe. Think gloahally. We are a league of voting eartheners and that speils DOVE. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS phone Jim or Jud in San Francisco at 386-9931;
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Geography: San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Alternative lifestyles--California, Communal living--California--San Francisco
Identifier: yhm-spe-ker-eph-123
Is part of: Kerista Commune Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Performing Arts Social Society, Inc., a brief history
Author: Kerista Commune
Publisher: Hamilton College Library
Place published: Clinton, New York, United States
Text: PERFORMING ARTS SOCIAL SOCIETY, INC. A BRIEF HISTORY PERFORMING ARTS SOCIAL SOCIETY, Recently, in an effort to establish a means INC. was incorporated as a nonprofit organi- for bringing together isolated artists and in- zation on August 28, 1968. Since that time, dividuals connected to positive social change its members have been involved in a number they have formed The San Francisco Dance of programs and happenings both on a one Society. Here economically disadvantaged time and a continuing basis. P.A.S.S., Inc. persons and others engage in social events has had experience operating a free-food regularly, which feature live music, graphic program serving the Haight Ashbury commu- exhibits and a congenial atmosphere. This nity for two years. Another of their programs provides a means for people to meet others was the establishment of half-way houses inanon-hostile environment. which linked students and persons who had recently arrived into the San Francisco Bay Area to workshops a...
Show morePERFORMING ARTS SOCIAL SOCIETY, INC. A BRIEF HISTORY PERFORMING ARTS SOCIAL SOCIETY, Recently, in an effort to establish a means INC. was incorporated as a nonprofit organi- for bringing together isolated artists and in- zation on August 28, 1968. Since that time, dividuals connected to positive social change its members have been involved in a number they have formed The San Francisco Dance of programs and happenings both on a one Society. Here economically disadvantaged time and a continuing basis. P.A.S.S., Inc. persons and others engage in social events has had experience operating a free-food regularly, which feature live music, graphic program serving the Haight Ashbury commu- exhibits and a congenial atmosphere. This nity for two years. Another of their programs provides a means for people to meet others was the establishment of half-way houses inanon-hostile environment. which linked students and persons who had recently arrived into the San Francisco Bay Area to workshops and’a.r't opportunities.‘ The volunteer educators of P.A.S.S. Free U. ' xperimental ‘College are presently involved in publishing a newspaper entitled The Store- front Classroom. This periodical comes out bi-monthly, is free, and features art and use- ful information in the areas of health, alter- native education and childcare programs. The periodical is related to a learning facility called The Storefront Classroom, which houses The Learning Room, an educational unit which utilizes film and video systems. The publication provides P.A.S.S., Inc. with a means for fund-raising. One of the sections in the paper is the Where-To-Find-It-Directory, in which Supportive Associates for Greater Education can be listed in exchange for a donation into P.A.S.S., Inc. On July 20, 1969, P.A.S.S., Inc. established P.A.S.S. Free U. Experimental College, dedi- cated to the astronauts of Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins, the first human crew to set foot on the moon. The goal of P.A.S.S. Free U. is to use the same technology, which enabled such a monumental achievement for hu- manity, for the betterment of society. P.A.S.S. Free U. is an alternative institution which provides members with the opportuni- ty to participate in art, academic and euthenic workshops, classes, forums and discussion groups. The experimental college features “educational crossmatching” a service which connects individuals with similar interests. P.A.S.S., Inc. is chartered as an educational child-care community. In addition to support- ing the aforementioned programs, funds are for the development of Camp Basic and Rustic, an educational complex which will coordinate the energy4)f resident learning counselors in The League of Volunteer Edu- cators. These volunteers will be working with children of single parent families on a com- prehensive educational program. An additional program of P.A.S.S., Inc. is The Project P.A.S.S. Mobile School. This is a service which takes children and volunteer educators on learning trips around the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. Besides motoring trips, The Mobile School introduces children and volunteer educators to other educational recreation travel—study adventures, such as a class in geography which features local area helicopter rides. Through The Mobile School, people have maximum use of all educational facilities in the city and country, e.g., parks, museums, science pavil- ions, zoos, farms, etc.
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Geography: San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Alternative lifestyles--California, Communal living--California--San Francisco
Identifier: yhm-spe-ker-eph-116
Is part of: Kerista Commune Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Personal lifestyle design: forming a multiple adult family
Author: Kerista Commune
Publisher: Hamilton College Library
Place published: Clinton, New York, United States
Geography: San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Alternative lifestyles--California, Communal living--California--San Francisco
Identifier: yhm-spe-ker-eph-139
Is part of: Kerista Commune Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Philanthropy as an art form: Kerista Village is not a place
Author: Kerista Commune
Publisher: Hamilton College Library
Place published: Clinton, New York, United States
Geography: San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Alternative lifestyles--California, Communal living--California--San Francisco
Identifier: yhm-spe-ker-eph-086
Is part of: Kerista Commune Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Plowshare and pruning hook
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1937, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-1895
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
Prospectus: Periodical publication of the Koreshan Unity, founded by Dr. Cyrus R. Teed (Koresh), Chicago, Illinois. Published: Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 1, 1891)-v. 3 no. 4 (Jan. 26, 1895); Weekly, 1891 June 1-1895; Monthly, 1891 May 1.
Notes: Periodical publication of the Koreshan Unity, founded by Dr. Cyrus R. Teed (Koresh), Chicago, Illinois. Published: Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 1, 1891)-v. 3 no. 4 (Jan. 26, 1895); Weekly, 1891 June 1-1895; Monthly, 1891 May 1.
Geography: Chicago (Ill.), San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo
Is part of: Koreshan Unity Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 01 (May 1, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1937, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-05-01
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
Text: ., \ (Iran-:i:: . W. ZHKORESH, FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR. ..:__\_ ._-One’¥ear in advance, 3 One Copy, - I - — 5 ‘ “ - ~ Vol. 1. ‘No.1? lowshare nd Pruning Hook. -l t 1891. ISSUED MONTHLY 1_3Y D-_i’l‘HE BUREAU or EQUITABLE COMMERCE. U 2257 Market St. San Francisco, Cal. 0. J. VMAGDLAUGHLIN, - - Editor. ‘PROF. 0, F. L’AMOREAUX, P11. 1)., j . . Contributors. 1' PROF. ROYAL O. SPEAR, dlxidilress all communications, Editor of: Plowshare and Pruning Hook, 32539 Noe Street, — SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 50 cts. “ -Sample Copy Free. Discount to Clubs. V _TH~EcMlSS'ION OF THIS PAPER. "prophet Isaiah in speaking of the i 'l'_ or end of the cycle of hlazzaroth, ‘Aw-hioh:’is» at hand, said, that the people _Would “beat their swords into plowshares, , _their_ spears into pruning hooks.” By, Thichlhe meant that the contention and e~_tof that most destructive tenet of y,':*the competitive system of com- ‘vc‘e,;would be convertedinto the true eshanity, as a Divine exposition of &ap...
Show more., \ (Iran-:i:: . W. ZHKORESH, FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR. ..:__\_ ._-One’¥ear in advance, 3 One Copy, - I - — 5 ‘ “ - ~ Vol. 1. ‘No.1? lowshare nd Pruning Hook. -l t 1891. ISSUED MONTHLY 1_3Y D-_i’l‘HE BUREAU or EQUITABLE COMMERCE. U 2257 Market St. San Francisco, Cal. 0. J. VMAGDLAUGHLIN, - - Editor. ‘PROF. 0, F. L’AMOREAUX, P11. 1)., j . . Contributors. 1' PROF. ROYAL O. SPEAR, dlxidilress all communications, Editor of: Plowshare and Pruning Hook, 32539 Noe Street, — SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 50 cts. “ -Sample Copy Free. Discount to Clubs. V _TH~EcMlSS'ION OF THIS PAPER. "prophet Isaiah in speaking of the i 'l'_ or end of the cycle of hlazzaroth, ‘Aw-hioh:’is» at hand, said, that the people _Would “beat their swords into plowshares, , _their_ spears into pruning hooks.” By, Thichlhe meant that the contention and e~_tof that most destructive tenet of y,':*the competitive system of com- ‘vc‘e,;would be convertedinto the true eshanity, as a Divine exposition of ' of being, in promulgating its in- 13: Drithe;solutio_n.of’tl1e appalling so- '_ro'bl‘en1s-.A which _ to-day confront the q ’ -;therefore.»‘ﬁtthigly: voiced by. a - e.. ng the ab ve -un ‘ue and D us r-X lllllllllllllllllllllllﬂllllllllllllllllfl San Francisco, Cal, This paper, in consonance with every other department of effort of the Koresh- a11 System of Science, moving in advance of the tidal wave of human progress, will prcsage the. day when, sickened by the delusions of selﬁshness, men and women in myriads of cohorts will marshall under the banner of Divine Communism, and labor alone for the common weal. \Vith the plowshare of love we will turn up in humanity's ﬁeld the soil so long hidden froirn the warmth of God’s wisdom and with the pruning hook of truth we will trim the Tree of Life of its hell poisoned branches until “the wilder- ness and solitary places shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.” VVe purpose to lay bare the hideous baseness" of the so-called political econ- omy at present in vogue, in all its .ac- cursed ramiﬁcations, and while we prune with our two—edged hook the capitalistic cormorants who grind the face of the poor, we shall not be oblivious to the A re- taliating but iniquitous tactics of the Trades—Union laborer. VVe will trim the Tree 'of Life let it cutwhom it may. Dif- ferentiating from other current so-called social reforms,.,while we tear down we will yet build up. \Vhile we prune we will yet plow. Hurling from its pedestal the fetish of modern commerce we will unveil the magniﬁcent product of com- mercial equation, whereby money issued by the people to the people shall equi- tably and imperishably unite the produ- X cer and consumer, effect abalance, and bid the hoary head of famine to wing’ its flight. “We are well aware, of the fact that this. moutain, Remove hence’ to yonder" plaid and it shall remove; and nothing eh ‘I impossible unto you.” The time s at hand for the establishment of Christa Kingdom in Earth and the great boulder ' of competisin, blockading the mountai , ‘pass of human destiny, by the Divine edict, must and shall be removed. ‘_‘God helps those who help themselves‘ * T is a trite aphorism but none the less’. a’ plicable to the stupendous work wh h Koreshans have undertaken/in their en- deavors to revolutionize the commceri ‘ the world. I This journal should beifd to every man’ and woman solicitous for the welfare of humanity, and as its interé ests are enhanced, so will the people’ : cause, as championed .by our invulne able system of equitable commerce, r , ceive an impetus. I _ \_ _ ' , \Vork for this paper. D Subscribe for it yourself and get your neighbors iii 1 ‘ ed in its plans and we will; create a 1 . nalistic power on the Paciﬁc Coast fo th adjustment of social evils, that will forth its notes of condemnation in‘: ton of thunder that shall be music to the e of -the just but strike terror: to fthe hearts of evil doers. Salute this messenger of good ‘tidings to an oppressed humanity! _ . v, ' _ 0.:J.*.M.{' JOURNALISTTC POWER. ’ V i That journal will ‘ultimately’ win.’ support and sway minds f the‘ ' which is able to dernonstrat _ ‘D and comp1'ehensive ipuérposetosa: 2 I _ .The,Pl1owshare and Pruning Hook. . ' AN EXAPOSITION or THE TRUE svsnam or COMMERCE. A Practical Plan of’ Social Adj ustmeiit. The entire legislative powers of the Congress ‘of the United States, and its al- lies, ‘the state legislatures, are devoted to the creation of laws to prevent the people from the exercise of the liberties which the Congress was originally intended to guarantee. Let us take, for example the question of a circulating medium for the people. To provide against an adequate me- dium for the representation of the business transactions necessary to meet the require- ments’ of the commercial operation._s of the country, the Congress has placed certain speciﬁc restraints upon, and created laws to govern, the manufacture of what it de- nominates, money. The people constitute the government; and as comprising the government they could adopt either of two methods to provide for a medium of commercial exchange. ()ne of these could be through the legislative body elected by the people representing them in such provision, the other, to issue the medium of exchange directly without the interven- tion of Congress. So far, it seems, we have chosen and applied the former a11d poorer plan. The laws of Congress strictly and un- equivocally forbid o11r manufacture and circulation of money not made and issued through the channel of legislation. Through the Congress then, that we have instituted, our right to adopt a monetary issue and circulation to the growing de- mands of commercial activity is curtailed. Instead of maintaining for ourselves the right to manufacture, secure and circulate a medium which will register and denote commercial transactions from the time’ the negotiations are opened till they are closed, we have voluntarily yielded our- selves to the prestidigitations of “wire pullers," originating in the slums and ter- minating with the bankers, who rob us of our possessions. The wealth we create ﬂows into the treasury of the go\m;§g11e1it where, through the hands of our Congress, turned over to the bankers without inter- est, and from whom we borrow at great disadvantage. It is our money, we lend ' it through our agents (to whom we pay large salaries) without interest, for the" sake of the great satisfaction we ﬁnd in being robbed. Is it surprising that the real Wealth creator, the laboring mass, finds it- self poverty stricken and restless under the self imposed burden‘? _Now which is better, for the people‘ to make their own notes or checks with the mere expense of issuing them, which would ~ - 39.. se- paying no interest and receiving none; or to issue them through a system. of legis- lativg thievery by which a great banking system compels us to pay i-Alﬁrest on'our est from us through Congress and we paying them inte1‘est before we can obtain it for circulation ?- Every man who makes a negotiable note violates the law which he has made through Congress. If I have a right to issue one note of hand, to pass as a piece of negotiable paper, I have a right to issue two, and if two, then three, and I may multiply my notes of hand ad infz‘n- 1'/um if I possess the right to make a doz- en. I may issue a note of hand written or printed, and place upon it my signa- ture with or without interest, and if my promise to pa_v is backed by substantial wealth the note of hand will circulate wherever m_v credit is good, and that is wherever I am known. But we say, through Congress, that we shall not make anything to circulate as negotiable paper or coin under penalty: for the first offense, an imprisonment of six months, and for the second, five years with other provi- sions. This law is violated every day in every ‘state in the Union. 1 The Koreshan Unity will give to the people an adequate circulating medium secured by the people’s wealth, incorpo- rated by the people themselves to the amount of one billion, or ten billions of dollars or as much or as little as neces- sary for their uses, withoutintercst, pro- viding that through a public sentiment strong enough, they will say to Congress: Keep your hands off! The only thing which stands in the wa_v of this scheme for the alleviation of the distress of the millions ground to earth by the unscrupu- lous speculator, is the great dog which stands guard over our bone. \Ve have placed the dog there, we own him, and we have the power to chain him. Have we the courage to undertake the job of placing him under the proper restriction? This cannot be accomplished short of a radical revolution in our public adminis- tration. Our plan is to kill‘ the dog, not by illegal methods, or in any violation of the laws we have made, but by changing the system, peacefully, and still by revo- lutionary force. 2; ' The Congressional machine has been run long enough in the interests of in the interests of the people. Every attempt, so far, to settle the ﬁnan- cial problem has been an effort to patch up the old system. It is useless to put a new piece of cloth into an old garment. The remedy for the people’s evil, to be effectual, must be radical and revolution- 1.-..._..-... ‘ , of course be" a nominal consideration,‘ own money, they receiving it without inter—' thieves; let us now undertake something ' 1 ary, and the solution must be reduced‘ -. a few simple propositions. ‘ . Value for value must comprise the h of every exchange. Any deviation or :3 pa1't.ur(3 from this rule involves the el mentoif destruction to commercial equ tion. K , I i The creation of "an eﬁicient medium the registration of commercial transa tions, and its free circulation, does not con stitute the remedy for the evil unde which the burden bearer is made to groan; The registration of transactions must sus" tain a special relation to wealth and th wealth producer. V The circulation of what we denominat money must have a substantial and se‘ cure basis of issue for the protection 0 its uses. It can only enter upon a legiti mate circulation as the issue and circula tiofi represent values of interchangb. ' There must be a source of issue and th V ‘ amount circulated must not exceed the wealth which constitutes the basis of i ‘ seﬂirity. This need not be gold norsilf ver, but every kind of wealth, not to e- clude land, and the wealth which com- prises the foundation of such security: should be the intrinsic value of the sub-‘ stantial bond of obligation. In a com- monwealth, the people own the founda- tion and origin of issue as a body,“ from this body the individual derives the repre- sentative of interchange of values. If we have discovered the true source whenc should originate the note or check of ex ‘- change, we ought to be able to discover the second factor of commercial inter course, namely, the right to circulate. There is just one obligation to be met at this point, value 7'ecc1‘L-crl. Either somuch use for so much of the common stoc not contained in the check, but behind it or a certain amount of goods which Il'1_!1S represent the use to be registered by. t _ check denoting the transaction. ALL EXCHANGE SHOULD BE EQUAL, win-:'rin:R or‘ LABOR, MERUHANDISI-I on Es'r.vri:. The cry for the circulation of more mon- ey is the howl of the wolf for the ﬂea he wishes to tear i11 pieces and devou Remove the wolf, the gormand, and th‘ sheep can easily provide for themsel from the material resources of Wealth namely, industry. and the bounties of n V ture. ' _ ~. The cry for ‘bread shall be met throug _ y the application of the level. Exalt th low and bring down the high till equili rium is restored. The sure way is th peaceful one, and the peaceful way is the - organic. There must arise a constructivﬁ power equal to the harnioiiization of di‘ versity of interest, or rather what seem a diversity of interest through the com petitive system, must be made the unit of interest on the basis of commonwealth. ‘ they are typical. The Plowshare and Pruningipﬂookip .Place- a billion of dollars in circulation, and under the present system, in a little Nirhile the money gormand has stowed it away in his maw. The employer works the employee as he does his horse. The so-called capital- ist gets the reward for the labor and the man the pittance. VALUE roa VALUE must be the war cry of the Revolution and the war must be w'H.,O- ed upon the basis of organic force, not upon" theory, which is the dismal wail of despair. “The cattle upon a thousand hills are mine,” saith Jehovah, “and I will dist tribute them who have groaned under the progress of events till the ripeness of time.” The_ remedy lies in a substantial basis of equiii(n'iznn. A few millionaires and the masses are surging towards the straits of despair; later, the fewer billionaires and the mass have entered the strait. This point reached and the billionaire confronts the catastrophe. We reiterate, that neither gold nor sil- ver shpuld constitute or be made a stand- ard of ‘value, except in so far as they are restored to their intrinsic commercial and normal uses, then they may safely desig- nate standards of value, but only because It is denied by some that there is a standard of value. There certainly is somewhere a standard of in- tegrity in commercial activities, as there is a standard of religious and moral ob- ligation. As gold and silver are the types of integrity or wholeness because the typ- ical metallic substances, they may be taken as types of commercial wealth; but in no case should they be used solely as the basis of security, but as a part of the in- tegralism. The standard of integrity must be the equitable distribution of wealth through the process of commer- ' cial equation. The money problem is only a part of the issue; the maintenance of balance the other part. The Koreshan certiﬁcate a11d check system is the medium through which the level can be adjusted, and this involves the direction of human uses to the one end, namely, the common good. As the Koreshan Unity issues its cer- tiﬁcates and -checks, it proposes to deal in every negotiable‘ thing from the cam- bric needle to the most extensive system of railroad, for the people. It will man- ufacture and employ labor. It will ne- gotiate labor as it does every other com- modity, alwayswith full remuneration in view. It proposes to employ_ labor of every description, reducing the hours of labor and increasing the renuineration _for the same, paying the laborer as much as is required to meet the common de- mand of every day life, then constituting him a shareholder in the common stock, his dividends to be made proportionate to the amount of stock which his surplus earnings entitle him. He becomes a Patron of Equitable Commerce and shares pro.porti011ably. As the basis of wealth augments and extends, his ratio of pro- portion increases till the true balancc is attained.-- I\'ore.~-h. —— <9». «>--__ May the Resurrected Christ Drive the Money Changers from the Temple. The peop1e——some of them——vainl_v im- agine that the thieves at the Capitol of the Nation and in our state le;;'islaii111'os are representatives. The masses liowever are becoming con- scious that to legislate in favor of'rail— road monopolies, land spcciilalors and mining‘ and banking interests agaiiist the rights of the sovereigntv of the Common- wealth is not representation. \\'l1at has the popular will to do with tho wliolesale robbery in operation by the men whose right to plunder depends upon the rum- sucker at the dens of iniquity called the primaries where i11 reality the laws of our country have their ori;_;-in? There can be no remedy but in revolution. The clergy pretend to be the conservators of the pub- lic ilitegrity and the supporters of the morality of the nation, but dare tlicy lend their presence, where, midst the roitcniicss of degenerated air cells the rum puti-cs- cenccfu1i1i;:;ates the atniosplierc and the poisonous nicotincsnuulges, vitiatos, and chokes the respiration, and where our log- islation derives its earliest impulse and in- spiration? Our clerg'y, the _I/nod, the pu/‘N, the 7'1}/itlcftrzcs, the mc11 who can pruic of love to God and devotion to the 11ci,',;'l1l)o1‘ may stand on tiptoe and at arms lengtli drop their tickets into the slot of the ballot box and hasten from the cesspool of corrupt- io11 for fear of coiitalniiialion, but dare the cowards boldly step into the ;_;'uilc1's of the nal.ion’s lilth and remove the gar- bage of a ccnt1u'y’s accuniixlation? Is it 11ot time that some (-lca11si11;_§' process be applied to climinate the putri- fyiligfoiilm-ss with whicll the entire fabric of our political cconomy is (le;;‘o1i(-1'aic<l? \Vill farliiersl alliances, labor fedor- ations and 1‘ei'orn1atory combinations (H'- cassionally drop a sound apple into a bar- rel of rotten ones in the hope that the sound apples will restore the barrel? As well do this as to send a ,-mpposcil sound man to stem thc tide of moral and politi- cal corruption coinprising the occupation of our leg'islative halls. The capitol at Vliasliington has become a den of theivcs. The capitalists of the country at our le;;'is~ lative cente1's, robbers who have grown ﬁnancially corpulent by sucking the blr 0.1 .3 of thosc they have reduced to penury, are the law 1)1ﬁ.l{('l'.\‘ whom the poverty stricken trust to guide their ship of state. The remedy for the dire straits to which the people are reduced, and the avm'tin;_;' of the impending catnst1'opl1e, is with the inusscs, who may yet, if they will, arise like a miglity and liastciiiiro; wl1irl- wind, sweep with the besom of renovation the usurpers from their seats and prepare the way for the wholesome adjustment of their riglits. The time has come for the educating of the sovoreigiis of this great country to the standzzrd of the si;,;‘11iﬁca1ice of individual fran(-liise, and the liberty to noininnte as well as vote for the men to bc phu-<»d in oﬁi<'(-,. Let the arise as one body and dc<-l-»Lrc that they have had cnou;_;'l1 of le;_»;islalIio11. commonality Institute measures of reform and carry tlicm out indepen- dently of leg_;'islati\'c assemblies. ~le-volution need not come with violence. Insinnatc the remedy and then with <«ombinution its operation. If (‘H1110 any attempt at legislative intc1'fcrcm'o say to the mountebanks: l'iands off! This is our remedy for the preservaiiion of our state, our home, our individuality. cnf< yrce tlicrc The l{o1'vslm11 Iinity has opened the conduits of relief‘; the Patrons of Equit- able (‘omm<-rue will e-i1for(~(» the reinedy. The people shall build their railroads, and that which is falst-ly called the govern- ment may bolster a totte1'in,¢,;‘ monopoly till lnonopoly and a fallacious govern- ment crumble t()g‘(‘tll(‘.1', and from the crumbled ruins of a rotten olig;'ar(-,l1y there shall arise the gloriously resurrected icniplc of true lib(~rt_v and rocoiistructed i11t{*;.§‘1'ii,‘\.’.— I\'r»I'¢'s/71. T,‘,,,,., ,,,_ Tlic (-oi1t1'o\‘<-1'sy between the gold and silver 1111-11 in their relation tolabor is this: it is a liglit betw(-en the lion and tiger in the p1'es<-m'o of :1 man lost in the wil- (l4‘l'il(‘,\‘H. The lion says to the man, “help me to lilll the i.i;;'cr, and you are safe.” The tiger says "help me to slay the lion, and your safety is insured.” As to whi('-.h linally has the satisi'a<~iio11 of eating the man, depends upon their relative powers in the use of persuasive sophistry. The man is, however, Htlell up just the same. _ _. ?H,._.__w_ The true cud of <-oninu-rr:e, or the inter- clz.-u.11_-_;'c of tile products of nature and in- llll:s‘i,l'), is the lcgitiiiizite distribution of tltcsc products for the normal uses of life. Once destroy iiciitioiis valuations, begin- ning with ;5ol<la1ulsil\'er. and every com- modity is 1‘<‘<l11<,-ed to its normal relative value. l-"roi<~i-tion of one class of people rue-ans. inevitably, the impoverishment of another class. 4. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. KORESHAN UNITY. BUREAU OF CONSOCIATIVE EQUITA- BLE COMMERCE. FAITHFUL T0 PATRONS. The object of this Bureau of Commerce is to open and effect a communication of trade between the Koreshan Unity, and the public, through which the general*com- munity may be accommodated to goods at moderate prices, of reliable qualities, and prompt deliverance. . As a guarantee of our ﬁdelity to the public and their interests, we have pro- cured the cooperation and service of re'lia- ble citizens who will act as a Bureau of Trust for the Consoeiation and who will guarantee a faithful discharge to the pub- lic, of the obligations and responsibilities assumed by the Unity. It is the purpose of the Consociation to engage in every department of trade, and we are very conscious of the fact that to secure a liberal patronage from the pub- lic, a special regard for its interests, and ﬁdelity to its trusts, must be observed. VVe engage to supply the best that the market affords more reasonably than can be done by any other combination or ﬁrm. The Consociation issues 100,000 shares of stock, each share limited to ﬁve dollars ($5.00), and the number to be held by any one person is not to exceed one thousand shares. Prices of goods shall be so regulated as to deﬁne a general uniform percentage of proﬁt in each department of trade, the percentage to be named and made public. This is the ﬁrst great step towards the inauguration of the righteous kingdom. Share holders shall be entitled to the following rates of discount, below the general ﬁxed rates. Shares, 1 2 3 4 5 ltates of discount, 58 0/0 {/0 % 12% 3% Shares, 6 7 8 9 10 1% 1t% 13% 2% 2:2”/o In addition to these rates of discounts in trade, parties holding ﬁfty ‘dollars and upwards are entitled to semi—annual divi- dends of a quarter per cent of proﬁts. There shall be seven trustees, fourto be elected by the share holders, and three by the Koreshan Unity for every district. This is not a stock company but a mu- tual agreement by which the Koreshan Unity engages to furnish produce or other goods according to special rates of per- centage and discount named and agreed upon, the guarantees of faithfulness to trust, ﬁxed, as provided in the certiﬁcates of the Bureau. The general fund shall be held in trust by the responsible Board of Trustees .to whom regular reports shall Rites of discount, be made in daily, Weekly and monthly statements. ‘ . The books of the Consociation shall alwaysibe open to the inspection of all share holders and patrons. _ The Board shall meet once a month to investigate and report, and there shall be made to the share holders a monthly statement of the exact ﬁnancial status of the business. The account of purchases, sales and losses of stock shall be so regulated as to constitute a constant inventory, that there may be a monthly statement to the Bureau of the exact amount of goods on hand and the special condition of trade at the end of each month. _ The prime incentive to the inaugura- tioifof the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, is the determination of the Koreshan Unity to restore the Commercial interests of the world to their legitimate uses, and for the protection of the divinely legitimatized trafﬁc of the world from the cormorants of speculation. Its operations are founded upon the principle of love to the neighbor. All persons, male or female, holding Certiﬁcates, shall have the right to vote for officers of the Boards, but no person shall be entitled to more than one vote. Patrons of the system who are not mem- bers of the Unity shall vote for their repre- sentatives, but those who represent the Unity shall be placed in ofﬁce by the Society Arch-Triumphant. For particulars inquire at the office of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, No 2257 Market Street, or at the Koreshan Unity, 220 Noe Street, San Francisco, Cal. —.:4o>o<o>——— If the people are taxed by those who are elected to guard their interests, and these “guards” take the people’s money and loan ‘it to banks without demanding any return, the people meanwhile being compelled to pay to the banks six per cent interest for what originally belonged to them, how long will they endure this when they have within their own hands the needful remedy? Ask the Farmers’ Alliance for a solution to this problem. Capital is the combined product of the relation of mental aiiclplxysical activity to the resources of nature. The economical direction a11d application of these consti- tute wealth. The greatest wealth of a country is the best adaptation of the relation of human life, or human activity or artisanship, agri- culture, etc. , to the productive resources of nature for the supply of the demands of life. Equitable Coznmerce,” is made a “Pa EVERY MAN HIS OWN BANKE. Every person holding a “Certiﬁcate of Equitable Commerce.” The central principle of the Associa is “COMMERCIAL EQUA'r1oN.” , The Koreshan Unity issues the Cer cates from denominations of ﬁve to thousand dollars. -" Every person holding a Certiﬁcate h started a bank on a small scale and c._ comes a banker for the medium of Eq V table Exchange. Accompanying the " sue of Certiﬁcates are checks or notes -‘ various denominations which will be r. ceived by the Koresha-11 Unity for gol silver 01' paper money, goods or wor at the face of, the check where offered 9'- the Unity. ’ The checks are of a certain denomin‘ . tio11 when issued. ‘Vixen used for t purchase of goods or work, the amou purchased is checked off. This chang the denomination from, we will say, five, it is a check of that denomination, to av denomination of lhree, if two dollars ha’ been checked. These checks may p :. from hand to hand, but will purch ' more goods or work from the Koresha Unity than any other kind of money. i The Unity will take them up for gel at their face at all times. i It is the purpose of the Unity to .pla these checks in the hands of the peop directly from the Koreshan Unity witho V A interest. The Unity will purchase diie ly of the producer and through the 1 tiﬁcatc and check system, will meet tli consumer, giving him the entire advan age of immediate a11d direct exchange '1 It will give to the laboring man 1; 0 entire beneﬁt of his labor. For instan a man employs ﬁve hundred men and pa them 100 cents each while every ma‘ Five hundred men \ ': bring the capitalist ﬁve hundred dolla per day while the ﬁve hundred dolla allowed them is distributed to the 2 hundred, It is proposed to make t Certiﬁcate and Check system the basis f the equation of wages, by distribution.’ the one thousand dollaigs to the ﬁve h = dred men, instead of the distribution 0, them of only one half of their earnin but only half the check system will ‘ present be employed until such a ti I_, when educated public sentiment checkmate Congressional interferen with our plan. The Koreshan U11ity p y poses to share equally in the labor E: therefore equally in the proceeds of lali with all other ope1'at.ives.-—Kore.s-h. 7 earns 200 cents. No system of inodeiih-’ cdnunerce all comparable to the Koreshan Sys :3, of Commercial Equation. ‘ld ce )lO ut ct- ir- he he ice Lys an /ill l.1'S Irs ive die for O1 to S9: at me tall ace .1-0- Lnd her The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 5 THE COMING CRISIS. Abraham Lincoln, Who, at a time of in- ternecine strife, through Divine appoint- ment, carried this American Democracy over to the end of the dispensation, which is now approaching, and who by his ster- ling integrity and humanitarianism won the admiration of his fellowmen, in speak- ing of impending disasters consequent up- on dishonest legislative manipulation by a nefarious money power, gave utterance to the following prophetic sentences: “I see in the near future a crisis arising that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result" of the war corporations have been en- throned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic destroyed. I feel at this point, more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before even in the midst of war”. Thus this splendid soul who, like John Brown, is now “marching on” to aid in the ﬁnal consummation of truth’s triumph, ﬂung upon the breezes of time a signal of danger, and then was ignomin- iously immolated at the shrine of sectional hate. VVhen the storms of social fury have spent their madness and leave the gaudy castles of plutocracy in shapeless ruins, vain-glorious man will point to this superb abolition hero and add ten fold to his lofty prestige. “The wages of sin is death” and the peculations and high handed usurpation of monied coxcembs and their periidious puppets must inevitably end in an awful crash. The present deplorable social condi- tions are not, as many suppose, the prod- uct of a few years or even of a few centu- ries of misrnle, for by the incontroverti- ble science of Koreshanity they are clear- ly proven to be the cumulative corruption of aicycle. From time immemorial nations have met their crises and spilt blood in the twilight of their day. Reine ﬂoun- dered amid the debauchery of her citizens; England at one time, threw off the gan- grene of royal oppression; and France wallowed in the ﬁlth of revolution only to again temporarily regain her footing. But here in America in the closing days of azodiacal year, upon so-called freedom’s soil, the last refuge of a curse-stricken humanity, where is demonstrated the ulti- mate and signal failure of all human gov- ernment, there is soon to be launched a tidal wave of revolution that will sweep over the whole world. We now confront the ﬁnal conflict for the lifting of the curse of labor under a governmental sys- 2 temmwhich has fostered the greatest indi- vidual prerogatives a11d sufI"ered to be amassed the most colossal fortunes known to the history of nations. Themillionaire Wl1O was once viewed as a__phenomenon by puritanic simplicity now pales before the menacing advent of the billionaire. Sturdy progenitors who spilt their blood at Bunker Hill and rounded out their days in simple habit now behold the pro(ligality of a laseivious posterity. Tillers of the soil, and teilcrs at the bench .who from rising sun to blush of night spent their best years in drudgery can now see their grand children with higher hopes curtailing labor to eight hours a day and dictating by concerted effortitheir own compensatory returns. All this is signiﬁcatery of the fact that men are ﬁnally and speedily awak- ening to their individual a11d Ged—given sovereignty and in the might of their in- dignation, aroused from the slumbers of ignorance, looking down the ages with disgust upon an abject submission to ar- rogated authority they will precipitate the most frightful and gigantic revolution of a cycle’s history. ' Evoked in the fabric of a crumbling republic it will hurl its shafts of destruc- tion at every system of government, and amid the howl of an int'u1'iated populacc, the shrieks of the unfortunate, the thun- der of pillage and the rush of humanity’s blood, a new nation shall be born in a day, competism will bite the dust, and commer- cial equity, through Divine communism, proudly lift its head. Let every thinking mind he reconcil- ed to the above log'icn.l and irrcsistiblc sequence to a world’s social disorder and adjust itself according'l_v. There is :1 balm There is an escape from the Sodom and Gomor- rah of human sellishness and folly, if men in Gilead and a physician there. It lies in the Koreshan system of commercial equation whereby through an crpiitable mcdium of excliange, the produ(-er and consumer become atlined to the exclusion of the in- satiable b1'okc1'. This is the (tod-appointed means for rescuing humanity from bar- and women will cnlbrace it. barism and perpetuating its life. \Vl1ilc the vivid ﬂash of social mad- ness plays amid the crags of a stricken race, men and women in the sun kissed valleys of Koreshan conimercial order may rest safe and serene. (7. J. rll. The fact that the modern sectarian preacliers take to Nationalism a11d Chris- tian Socialisni, is the thorough condemna- tion of both these social efforts as now in- augurated. OPPORTUNITY FOR OBSERVATION. It is interesting, sometimes, to get at the true inwardness of the commercial direction of these times. I was making a ﬂying trip to Chicago from San Francisco and while at break- fast, on the dining car, I sat opposite an enterprising appearing gentleman and entered into conversation with him. The sum of our conversation was as follows: “Are you an Eastern man?” “No,I am a Californian. I came originally from Ohio; I left there about eight years ago.” I remarked, “California is a marvelous country.” Said the gentleman, “It is {he country. A man leaving the East and remaining a few months in California is a ﬁxture there; it has become his home.” “It yet requires one thing to make it Grod’s own land; the introduction of seine liberal civilization. California is in the hands of monopoly. There needs to be a competing line of railroad.” “llailroading is cheap,” said the gentle- man. “It costs a fortune to transport freight.” “Only eight dollars,” he replied, “from New York to San .l*‘raneisco. I wish it were forty; it would be all the better for the capitalist.” “()hl Beg‘ pardon! I did not think of that. I happened to be thinking of the man who was not I/u: r(//u"/al[.~'/. Perhaps _vou belong to the capitalistic side. I am more particularly interested in a process of equation; something‘ that will improve the circllinstaiices of the nlasses,” “livcry man has a chance to get rich in this country and if he is enterprising there is no reason \vhy he should not ]ll.‘l.l((5 hc:ulway. If one man is a sluggard there is no reason why others should be hcld in the rear.” This is a fair illustration of the ten- dcncy of the issue, purpose and combina- tion of wealth. There are two distinct classes and tcndeiicies. Eacli day renders more apparent the dcterinination of capi- tal to expand the breach of distinction, and each day numbers one more approach to the pronunciation of a plutocratic aris- toc1':1cy which shall say to the “plebian;” “despite the opportunity of a ‘free’ cou11— try to thwart the aspirations of wealth, we will yet rise above and grind you to powder under our feet.” The capitalist of America has no other end in view but to make the mass his tool, and, if possible, prevent their prog- ress toward the goal of happiness which providential supcrnlnindance offers to all the world. The producers and consumers must be Ultimately they brought face to face. must become one and identical.‘ The . .,,,.,u ‘. . ..-.4... i..,.. . V52. 6- The P1owshare"and Pruuing Hook. great obstacle and barrier to the progress of the civilization of the mass shall be re- moved, and through a great reduction of the hours of labor, giving time for recre- ation of a wholesome kind, and culture of the reﬁning character, the now poverty stricken shall be made the ﬁtting associ- ates of those at present beyond their reach.——Km'esh. ——-4»-o—«»——— THE STRUGGLE FOR BREAD. There is nothing organic or inorganic which does not strugglefor bread. It is a law that all things must subsist on something else. The law of growth is that of constant change, which means to throw off and take on. That which is elim- inated is called waste, while that which is appropriated is called food. Food (bread) is that which sustains life. It is that which is consumed in the operation of the law of, progression. - Every condition of substance is food for some other condition or state of sub- stance. Every domain, whether spiritual or physical, is food and nourishment for some higher or lower domain. Every state or quality of substance is a ge11erat- or of nourishment for that which is above and below it. _ The great earth is a stomach which cries for food. The sun, moon and stars send spiritual, but non-vital, food to this great stomach of the universe. All ma- terial forms which ﬁnd lodgment on the surface of the earth are food and nour- ishment for this great laboratory. The mineral domain appropriates the forces from the sun, moon and stars, as well as the precipitation from the changes which take place among the bodies on the sur- face of the earth. Sunlight, air and water are the sources from which vegetation receives its food. These physical forces and substances are digested in the great changes which take place in the organic life of vegetation. The animal domain feeds on all other or- ganic forms. Man does the same thing. Nature is bountiful in her productions, but man in his greed has seen ﬁt to violate every law of equitable distribution of the products of nature. Because of this violation of the great law of the natural equation of the products of the earth, man has been forced to compete with his fellow for a fair share of that which sustains him. “The struggle for bread” grows more serious each day. The cause of this strug- gle is the ﬁctitious valuation given to the Bread has its val- ue placed by gold and not by a hungry stomach. VVe vie with one another to secure ‘this gold. VVe are competitors in medium of exchange. a desperate struggle to secure money. If we can check this great struggle for gold We can check “the struggle for bread.” As long as money is the basis of valuation so long will men struggl.e for bread. The stronger, more successful a11d least honest man secures control over large quanti- ties of gold, by which control he is able to hoard that which sustains life. Bread is plentiful; the medium with which it is secured is plentiful; but the great fault is in a lack of equal distribu- tion of gold or money. Of course if we would forever stop the struggle for bread we must do away with the present basis of its value. Not until hungry stomachs and tire(l muscles become the basis of the value of food will the starving millions be fed, and gambling iii the necessaries of ' life be done away with. Men of brains and integrity let us arise in the might of our voice a11d vote, and sink the great curse of money, the “root af all evil,” into nothingness, and by so doing set free the food of the world that it may satisfy the cravings of millions of the sons and families of toil! Men, arise in your might and secure that which be- longs to you!—]i. 0. S. in The F[amI'n_(/ Sword. —————»—¢g»+T THE LOT OF TRUE GREATNESS. Seine idea may be gathered of the po- sition held by that great champion of an- ti-slavery, W'endell Phillipps, in the eyes of “respectable” people forty years ago, from comments made, at that time, by a New York paper upon the condition of affairs in the city of Boston. The editorial observes: * * * The peace of the city is undisturbed, though two armed negroes have been examined . and held to bail. Square, with pistols and knives concealed They seem to have acted on the silly advice given by \Vcndcll Phillipps, in his speech on Boston Common last week for he, it seems, stood as bail for both prisoners. This \V'endell Phil- lipps is a man of property, and a graduate They were found in Court about their persons, of Harvard College, where he gave prom- ise of real usefuli.-ess to society by his early literary acquirements. * * * \Vcndell Phillipps has been devoted to the vocation in which he has been engaged in connec- tion with the Abolitionists, and he might have had some inﬂuence, till he exhibited his recent inﬂammatory spirit. His own bad counsels, however, have overturned now his power to do any great evil. He may incite the ignorant to illegal violence; but the retribution will be severe upon himself and the victims of his dangerous advice.” Thus heroes in all ages of history have been stigmatized and contemned by the’ “genteel” portion of society for truth’si_ sake. Let any man with the genius to fathom the depths of social injustice and the fearlessness and power to apply a re- medy proclaim his purpose and convic- tion and he is at once made a target of infamy by grovelling contemporaries. But he who is entrusted with a great mission for the welfare of mankind, is as oblivi- ous to such poltroonery, as is the majestic lion to the braying of an ass. The cup of society is new full to over- ﬂowing with misery, and, when by the in- exorable law of retribution, the sordid and selfish have drank this pestiferous ﬂuid to its dregs, there will be one, who, by the magic wand of commercial equa- tion will ﬂood it with the milk and honey of a revolutionized unive1'se.—C. J. M. '5 4.>§ Commerce. \Vhat is Commerce? Commerce is the interchange of prod- ucts for the necessities of life. Its true end is the legitimate distribution of these products for normal uses. Commerce to be true must be equitable. Equitable Commerce must include the true relationship of natural production, and artificial means related to natural re- sources with an adjusted industry. Industry, or the performance of use, must constitute the only claim to products. Man has a right to that for which he performs use. The Commonwealth be- longs to the people. Its object is the equitable adjustment of supply and de- mand, that the happiness of all men may be insured. If in the sphere a11d progress of national activity a11d prosperity there comes a time when the interests of one class seem to conﬂict with the interests of « another, and political issues are founded C upon the supposed wrongs to either party ' to the issue, the inevitable conclusion _ must be that there is something radically defective in the administration of public . affairs. The love and use of ﬁctitious money is « the foundation of the competitive system i of activity, and it should be destroyed to in- ' sure that genuine and universal prosperity . to which the masses, 11ot alone the few, are entitled. Let gold, silver and paper fall back to‘ their intrinsic commercial value. The C people do not want money. Substance is 1 Establish what they want and must have. equitable distributive storehouse depart- ments throughout the land. Restore gov- ernment to first principles; make ita com-‘ monwealth, and distribute equitably to the‘ people the just reward of their faithful performance of use.—Kores-h. $ ‘pulse to human activity. -million of people, labor ﬁeld is truly growing ominous. TKORESHAN ECONOMY. There are two distinct systems of im- One of these has its foundation in the law of God as infolded in the decalogue, and promulga- ted from Mount Sinai, and summarized by the Lord Jesus, in the two command- ments: hive to God, and [ore to flu: m:z'gh- bor. The other originates in human self- ishness, and is exempliﬁed in the many phasesiand modifications of competism which constitute the incentives to so-call- ed private, corporate and public enter- prise. The Kore.~'han, S3/slmn of economy has its foundation in the law of love, made applicable to human life and relations, as the proper channel for its genuine ex- pression. First, Koreshism holds to the doctrine, that love to the neighbor is a principle having a practicable possibility, and ap- plication in material or natural life. Second, ifman loves his neighbor as him- self, in honor prefering l1i1n, it logically follows that there can be no conllicting competitive rivalries between man and ‘man. There is such a thing as a legit- imate or Divine rivalry. provides for activity in the direction of the sacriﬁce of self-interest, to the inter- ests of the general good; a strife in which This however one shall vie with a-nother in the perform- ance of use to the neighbor, which in its true interpretation is the effort to pro- vide for the welfare of each hrough the commonwealth, or the welfare of all. The Koreshan System embraces in its formula the expressed conviction, that in fulﬁllment of the Lords prayer “Th y King- dom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven,” God will establish a King- dom of righteousness, and, accordingly, the Kingdrmzs of the old age will become the Kingdom of God in the age now davn1ing.—Kore.<h. 4C>4———'~j REPRESSING NEWS. The monopolistic press has given little, if any report of the serious outbreak that recently occurred at the coal mines in Scottdale, Pa. charged upon by the militia, and lives were lost. It is now quietly reported that all harmonious relations between employ- ing' and employed miners in the coal re- The striking miners were r gions have terminated by the adjournment sine die of the inter—state convention of miners and operators at Pittsburg, April 9. and thatiseventy-ﬁve thousand; miners . / will stop Work on May 1., affecting a half- The situation in the The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. THE FOLLY OF TRADES UNIONS. The first of May or Labor Day wit- nessed all over the civilized world noisy parades, denunciatory gatherings and other demonstrations of labor, calculated to disturb capital and foment the ever in- creasing unrest of the commercial cen- tres. So phenomenal has been the growth of labor organizations and interest in labor themes within the last decade that the annual recurrence of Labor Day has be- gun to be viewed with alarm both by Monarchies and Republics. Austria this year prohibited labor demonstrations on that day; Germany feared the ostentatious exhibitions of growth and inﬂuence of her Socialists; English aristocracy and French Bourbonism bit their lips at the irresisti- ble evidences of labor’s augmenting power; and the usurpers of freedom's rights in the United States stopped their cars at the portentious acclamations of toil. Following the course of the sun, labor on the first of May, broke forth in one continuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs until dame Earth resounded with the shouts of the true wealtl1-pro- ducing class. Trades Unions have swelled to such gi- gantic proportions that every avenue of industr_v is no\v organized for a11 offensive Nor is In obedience to the law of po- and defensive war upon capital. this all. larity which must obtain in every avenue of intrinsic and extrinsic creation, these trades unions are centering their diver- siﬁed f()1‘(‘(‘S in nr/('14)/', such as the order of the Knights of Labor whose potential energy is pivoted iii the alert Mr. Pow- derly. Simultaneous with this aggregative ten- dency of labor, capital is amassing itself into trusts which will soon be focalized by controlling heads, embracing all pro- tentious monied investments. Thus gog and magog, the roof and floor, or capital and labor, are amassing their strength for the final and inevitable conﬂict. This is simply the polarization of evo- luted selﬁshness, and, while it is in obe- dienee to the inalterable law of the uni- verse, and will leave in the wake of its operation millions of slaughtered lives, yet it is 11ot a hopeless task to endeavor to show to reasonable and temperate workingmen the futility and madness of their narrow, retaliating policy. \Ve urge the true wealth -producing classes to soberly weigh the merits of Koreshan philosophy touching upon the vital theme of the solution of labor’s pro- blems. Retaliation is as inseperably link- ed with conﬂict and demoralization as is sin with death. “To me belongeth ven- geance, and recompense,” saith the Lord, and the boomerang of self-intrelnchment or selﬁshness cast by labor, while the nat- ural concomitant of capitalistic encroach- ment, mlist as surely rebound and disin- tegrate its projectors as will the malevo- lent'manoeuvres of monopoly shatter its own strength. Many men, however, are as heedless to such invulnerable logic as an infuriated steed speeding toward a precipice, and they must therefore take the death plunge of revolution. But to those who would rather help to create a new system than exhaust their energies in destroying the old one —which is no more wasteful, however, than the attempt to ])rese7'1:e this same system—the Koreshan Bureau of Equi- table Commerce offers the only feasible plan of social adjustment; the only escape from human barbarism. It is one which is bound to succeed be- cause it springs from the only organization that contains the vital forces of human life, to wit: Love to God and the neighbor. Eliminate these poteneies from the human race and it would sink into extinction. Flagrant wrongs have been perpetrated upon labor but when workingmen spend their time in forging thunderbolts to hurl at capitalists they only render themselves the pliant emissaries of the Devil whose sole compensation is destruction. Equitable commercial life can never emanate from trades unions any more than from trusts and logical, humanity- loving men—~and thank God a few such still survive this degenerate age—will come out from among such rock-strewn ports and in the gathering social storm seek safety in the haven of Divine com- munistic order. For those who unequivocably, and in the face of reason, persistently reject the operation of Divine law as a part of an integral universe there is little hope. VVe offer them the beneﬁts of our harmoni- ous system of commercial equation, but, as the wages of the workingmen, under the present nefarious competitive regime, are, at best, but meagre with a constant tendency downward, this can only yield them partial beneﬁt. Let all God-loving citizens desert the fallacious competism of the world’s tot- tering political economy, leave the revenge and selﬁshness of commercial retaliation to those in whose mouths such putridity rolls as a sweet morsel, and I join hands with the greatest movement of the age; the harbinger of true manhood and W0- manhood; the only hope of a dying hu- manity; the Koreshan system of universal economy and of true communistic life.— 0.J.1lI. Do not Fail to Read - THE PLQWSHARE nu PRUNING “HOOK, ———~—?>< OH \Vhile the 1ne1‘(‘iless foe of eve1'_V form of Goveihlnental . usurpation and thievery, and of ('.01'1m1‘ate ]l101l()P()l_V,1)t)11l‘l11§_{' hot shot into the fortifications of the nnoiwy power, and ex- posing the iniquity of the present banking systeiii; it yet promulgates a niasterful system of <-oIn1ne1'(-ial equation, whereby the producer and consumer are brought face to face, which is the only true nieans of rt-scuin;: lm1nanity—lo\'i1'g men _and women from the inai-lstroni \\'l1l('.l1 must soon engulf -‘ society. , Truth on all live issues, plainly, p1ll}g‘(‘.Y1tl-)' and fearlessly expressed. V 50 CTS. A YEAR. SAMPLE COPY FREE. 0 THE PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING HOOK. 220 Noe Street, SAN FRANCISCO, - - CAL. it Golden Gate Branch ~-*2-OF THE-{~- GUIDING STAR PUBLISHING HOUSE. Fine J ob Printing. BOOK AND PAMPHLET WORK A SPECIALTY. All Work Promptly Attended to at ' . _, Lowest Prices. 2257 MARKET STREET, A SAN FRANCISCO, - - CAL. _ .4. 4.4..» uis The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. A V..‘ .- . . ..-. ..;.p":v.:.’_«x‘r.=';am...;k«x:..4a&g ..qb.€L,~\'.:;1¢'::::aen'ue.; ' -’ . R EA: The Flarning Sxzvord. Tliose who desire a true knowledge of the science of innnortal life, of the cosinos and antl11'op0sticla\v, and seek a i harinonization of Biblical teaching to philosophical thought, should peruse this valuable expounder of KonEsnAN1TY,_\vhich " is a Divinely orgaiiized movement destined to‘revolutionize ' the world. $1.00 a Year, 01‘ with THEIPLOYISHARE AND PRUNING HOOK, $1.25. '1 Address : THE FLAMING SWORD, 3617 Uotta,«,;'e(:‘r1'()Ve Ave., — - CHICAGO, ILL. 220 N00 Street, — - SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Attention! Farmers, Attention! We would call the Attention of Farmers and Fruitgrowers to the fact that The Bureau of Equitable Commerce is prepared to handle, either on commission or otherwise, their respective -‘ goods, affording them better and quicker returns than they can realize through any other channel. I<:c>:cesh.a.r.:. Literature- Our hooks and pamphlets contain a, brief exposition of Koreshan Science which uncovers all the niysteries of the ages. Human thought heretofore has failed to disvever all the laws, forms and relations of Being and existence. Iiurr.-.~'lnmily is a genuine interpretation of phenomena and form as uxpn-sse(l in the uriiverse. It is a true index to the character of God and man, and their relations. All intelligent people should read this literature and move in advance of the tidal wave of progress. The most radical sub_jects are ably, freely and fearlessly (liseusscd. Re—incarnation, or the Resurrection of the Dead. Br Crlxes, - - - - Emanuel Swedenborg. 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Notes: Original digital object name: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-01
Geography: Chicago (Ill.), San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-01
Is part of: Koreshan Unity Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 02 (June 1, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1938, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-06-01
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
Text: s EQUATION Vol. 1. No. 2. San Francisco, Cal., June, 1. 1891. Five Cents a Copy. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY The Bureau of Equitable Commerce. 2257 Market Street, - San Francisco, Cal. KORESH, - — 4 - - - - - Founder and 1)irm-tor. C. J. MACLAUGHLIN, — — - - - - - Editor. Address all money orders and communications to ‘ c. .1. MACLAUGHLIN. STATION G. 220 Noe Street, San Francisco, Cal One Year in advance, - - - - - - - 50 um. Ono Copy, - - - - - - - - 5 “ Sample Copy on Application. A Spiritual Baby (in favor of Spirits) Born After me is against me." Per cazzlra, we say : ' this gigantic dragon of evil, is for it. " This cowardly first effort - at reform, the political phase of which had its birth at Cincinnati . butafew days since, has placed itself on record in favor of the f most appalling evil the people of this country ever fostered, worse Seven Months Gestation. Another spiritual child came into existence at Cincinnati on May 2...
Show mores EQUATION Vol. 1. No. 2. San Francisco, Cal., June, 1. 1891. Five Cents a Copy. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY The Bureau of Equitable Commerce. 2257 Market Street, - San Francisco, Cal. KORESH, - — 4 - - - - - Founder and 1)irm-tor. C. J. MACLAUGHLIN, — — - - - - - Editor. Address all money orders and communications to ‘ c. .1. MACLAUGHLIN. STATION G. 220 Noe Street, San Francisco, Cal One Year in advance, - - - - - - - 50 um. Ono Copy, - - - - - - - - 5 “ Sample Copy on Application. A Spiritual Baby (in favor of Spirits) Born After me is against me." Per cazzlra, we say : ' this gigantic dragon of evil, is for it. " This cowardly first effort - at reform, the political phase of which had its birth at Cincinnati . butafew days since, has placed itself on record in favor of the f most appalling evil the people of this country ever fostered, worse Seven Months Gestation. Another spiritual child came into existence at Cincinnati on May 20th; we mean a child afraid to boldly and defiantly confront the rum curse, hence an endorser of the traffic, spiritual in its con- ception and birth. It wont do for a material age. The greatest reformer of the world said: “lie who is not for “He who is not agaiiist even than the curse of African slavery. It \vil1 never become any- thing but an other wire to the automaton of the intrigues by which the people are made thejuinping jack of the political prcstidigita- ‘- tent. The party is insincere. lt is not a party of reform. lfit had been honestl in favor of the im )1‘OV€Ill€Ilt of the conditions of the Y l :‘ 1‘worl-:ing-man it would have placed upon its platform an avowal of ~its sincerity in an open condemnation of that to which a large ._ proportion of the common poverty owes its origin. It does not wish to pronounce against the men who manufac- 7 ture drink, and through government allowance and endorsement, sustain the whiskey power; in other words, it courts the aid of the . Whiskey inﬂuence and thus demonstrates its weakness, and unlit- ness to survive. We may not altogether approve of the met/1012’: of the Prohibition party to accomplish its purpose, but we do approve of the determination to exterminate the rum evil, if its abettors are also exterminated iii the struggle, and we have no sympathy with any party afraid to confront the crime of national protection to the whiskey trust. If the new party shows any signs of vigor, the political denia- g()j”ll€S, who have always manipulated the wires of the partyjun1p- ingjack, will take their customary positions at the tape, and the same process of corruption will continue under another name. The “pcoplc" will not ﬁnd in this new movement the panacea for which it was thought there was reason to hope. One of the essential evils of the new party policy, lies in the fact that instead of removing an evil it has applied an oil silk bandage to the ulcer which obscures from observation its true con- dition while at the same time it conﬁnes the pus, thus increasing the danger. It has not touched the true theory of remedial agency for the ﬁnancial distress. _ The principle is the same, whether the people borrow money of themselves at six or two per cent. Two per cent embraces the additional evil of recklessiicss and proﬂigacy in borrowing‘, and we are yet unable to see how there is any thing made by borrowing our own money at any per cent. . \Vl1at the people want is the right to make their own money; in other words they will insure the removal of the usurped au- thority of the demagogue to place legal restriction upon inherent prerogatives of their sovereignty. ' The masses require education to the standard of their rights as sovereigns of a commonwealth. VVQ are a people ofkings and will assert our supreniacy not through Congresses and Legislatures too corrupt for reforniation, but tliroiigli the institution of a direct na- tional administration in which is embodied the principle of every needed reform.—[\". ->49. 4-- Industry does not imply drudgery, but it does mean organic equilibrium; and therefore the reduction of labor by its equitable adjustment to its minimum for every man, woman and child in the connnonwcalth. There is l)ut one remedy for the ﬁnancial evils now afllicting a long suffering world; namely, the destruction of fictitious money. Q>—4 A Queer place.——‘ ‘\\'hat is \\'all Street .9 " asked an Englishinan. “It is a place,” replied the American, “where the charitable poor contribute money to support the deserving rich. "——rlImzscy’s Weel’/y. 2 I E is The Piowshare ’a;zidiii3ruriing nook; THE BUREAU OF ' EQIIITABLE ‘COMMERCE ‘ has completed its organization and is now in the market for the ne- gotiation of its certiﬁcates of stock. It differs from all other cor- porate institutions in its purpose, and in the methods employed to consummate it. . In our Board of Mutual Conﬁdence, a provision made in the By-Laws of the corporation, we have a safeguard to the trusts of patrons, who, through the state laws under which we are incor- porated, become sharers in its interests and entitled to dividends the same as the capital stock holders. We have made the amount of a share, ten dollars, in order to bﬁng the beneﬁciary purpose of the enterprise within the reach of the common laborer, as it is for the ultimate beneﬁt of the working classes, more than any other, that the Bureau of Equitable Commerce is instituted. The Koreshan Unity proposes to employ every man, woman and child, now out of employment and who wishes to perform use and become self-supporting at the highest remuneration, and it has inaugurated the Bureau of Equitable Commerce as a medium of accomplishing the end in view. The Bureau will employ those who are out of employment ﬁrst, not at starvation wages. It will give them a suﬂﬁcient means of support and to this, will add a surplus to be accredited to stock for which the laborer will receive his certiﬁcate. It will devise means and assist in accomplishing the result of applying the principles of economy for those whose circumstances prevent them from taking advantage of the provisions of wealth for the necessaries of life. As society is now organized, the rich, who are in the least, need pay the least for the common wants, while the poor who are in the greatest need, are compelled to pay the largest sums for their daily supply. This is all wrong, and the Koreshan brains are at the service of the poor people of God’s country, and regardless of reli- gious conviction or creed it is our purpose to inaugurate a system of equation, and we call upon all who through poverty, or through interest in the elevation of the race from its degradation, desire to ' help themselves or others to the acquisition of the storehouse of abundance, treasured in the resources of nature, agriculture, and artisanship. Those who are interested in the improvement of their own conditions, and who are in sympathy with a movement to revolu- tionize the coniiiiercial world, may ﬁnd it to their advantage to inquire into the purposes and methods of this Bureau of Equitable Commerce whose Headquarters are at present No. 220 Noe Street San Francisco Cal. A A _v The Attitude of the Clergy toward Social Reform. If there is one thing above another which must have impressed the close observer of the present chaotic social state, it is the apathy of the so—called ministers of God toward the grievous wrongs which have fatally diseased the body politic. And if there is one reason above another to account for the growth of atheism it is this crim- inal indifference of the clergy to social reform. The world is given to understand that these men are called of God to preach the gospel and to further, in their eiiibassadorial work, the Divine plan of saving humanity. VVe can readily see the appalling gap that lies between the supernal mission of these men and their fulﬁllment of the same, assuming that they have such a mission to perform. The discovery of this fact naturally sets the mind to thinking. People justly reason thus: If these men are called of God to execute his plans for the salvation of the world, we do not care to have anything to do with that kind of a God or with his church, hence they throw overboard all belief in Deity and the bible and plunge headlong into atheism. Is not such action simply the logical sequence of the hypocricy and spuriousness of the Church and clergy? Now what is the attitude of the clergy toward social reform? Including the whole clerical band of every denomination from the Atlantic to the Paciﬁc can you count ten of them who evince any honest and fearless purpose to labor for truth ? VVe fear that ' . this number would exhaust the numerical strength of the englis speaking curates whose express aim lies in an unselﬁsh devotie, . to mankind: an aim presupposing an uncompromising antagonis to every form of social injustice and oppression.‘ 5 Christian ministers’ are simply feeders at the public trough" and like pigs they know that if the trough is destroyed they mus look elsewhere for swill. The swill that supplies the ininisteria trough is furnished by land monopolists, tariff robbers, nationai bank thieves, railroad potentates and their iniddle»class ﬂunkies, The commonest swine never consumed such putrid stuff. It i wrung fron1_the toil of the overworked and underpaid masses; fro s’ the millions of hollow-e_ved men and women and orphaned children who labor in our factories, our mines and our stores for a pittance; that their employers and obsequious overseers may luxuriate with‘ their families in wealth and plenty. Is it any wonder that thes , pulpiteers grow fat and smile with the affability of princes. Why. should’nt they ? Both classes live off of the people, humbug the people and render them no return. L The clergyman knows as soon as he attacks the glaring social‘, iniquities which face him upon every side, but which bolster him-i self and family, that his pulpit will be declared vacant, and he 4 must then work for a living. The Prince knows if he fails to sup- port the corrupt institutions which niaiiitain royalty at the people’s_’ expense that he must become a nobody as nature designed him. '_ Human nature seldom relinquishes a certainty for an uncer-:5 taiiity, and so long as public opinion supports or permits to be sup-" ported the presumptive claims of these classes, just so long will the ﬂowery beds upon which they recline continue to be certainties,‘ but as the hanging gardens of Babylon fell at last, so must the nests of such perfidious knaves, foistered upon the vacuity of popular de-1» lusion surely collapse and be shattered to pieces on the rocks of- just retribution. ” Two great problems to-day confront the people; namely, the- iiioney question and the land question. The solution of the second?’ question rests upon the solution of the ﬁrst, and the solution of the. ﬁrst is dependent upon the elimination of coinpetisni from human; affairs and the establishment of an equitable commonwealth. If I Jesus Christ, the professed leader of the clergy, taught anything it. was the principle of the brotherhood of men, but oblivious to his- teachings and to the deniaiids of the poor and oppressed, these men, insulate themselves in the environments of a fallacious theology and f quaff the poetic perfumes of sentiment while the wails and .inipre- 3 cations of a suffering humanity ﬂoat ominously upon the air. ' VVe bid them beware of their vaunted Divine functions for the) very rottenness of their claims, their ostentatious roguery, and " their contemptuous charlantry will, with the majestic sweep of justice be scattered to the four winds of Heaven. I These men should be driven from their rostruins by public i sentiment like thieves from their rookeries, the modern ‘Church (which is rotten to the core), should be demolished, and men and, women discarding every form of cant and insiiicerity, should seek , the true system of Divine doctrine and of equitable commercial ' life. The world yearns for the truth and will shortly ﬁnd it. —-————-—-v-4 INSURANCE. VVhat is insurance? Insurance is an operation whereby the ; people pay money to certain ororanizations of capital, supposed to : control a portion of the wealth of a community, and which under— ’ take to reimburse the people for loss of goods, or property, and even. of life or limb, resulting from ﬁre, water or by accidents of what- V ever kind. Now as these things are beyond the power of man to foretell it is nothing more nor less than a lottery or chance specula tion in which, like most other games of chance, the odds seen to be against the house and in favor of the players, while in reality ‘I just the contrary is the case. i 1 For example, a Fire Insurance Company takes the stand that so niany ﬁres occur every year in a community and no one .‘ knows where they will be. It issues policies of insurance to the . amount of say $1,000,000. The holders of these policies have paid I in, on an average, about $10 per thousand. The company has.‘ therefore received in cold cash $10,000 and has given the people who ' ~ .,w,..» The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 3 hold the policies a piece of paper which is a promise or guarantee to pay an amount equal to two hundred times the value received for the paper in case there is a ﬁre which damages the holder’s property to that amount. The risk is divided up between perhaps 1000 people; and these people are honest in so far that they do not destroy their own property in order to get the insurance, although _ ﬁres from such causes often occur. If a ﬁre occurs only one per cent of these people receive back any part of the money paid to the company. The proﬁts which naturally accrue to the company from ' this transaction are therefore very large; and that is not all. \Vith themoney paid in for policies the company proceeds to speculate in various ways expecting to derive great proﬁt therefrom. If the company wins it pockets the gains, if however it loses and a big ﬁre occurs and it cannot pay for the damages, it declares itself bankrupt and the policy holders get nothing. “But what are you going to do about it?" is the question everyone asks. “It has always been so, it must always be so." Not necessarily, my friend; the time has come for the equitable ad- justment of everything pertaining to human affairs an(l an unjust ' and gambling system of insurance must go with the other unjust and gambling systems now in vogue to rob the people. Bear this in mind, however; we do not pretend to say that the promoters of insurance companies are any worse than other people, in fact they generally stand very high in the estimation of their fellow citizens because of their upright dealings. They are not to blame. It is the pernicious competitive system which compels them to invest their capital in these enterprises that is censurable; and when the people realize the danger to the country which must arise from such unsound business relations, they will change it. We offer in our system of Equitable Commerce, a solution of the various social and ﬁnancial problems, including insurance. It is proposed by the Consociative Bureau of Equitable Commerce, ' under the direction of the Koreshan Unity, to operate a system of insurance whereby its patrons may share in the proﬁts accruing to the Bureau of Insurance from the legitimate use of the money which, the people have paid up for the policies they hold as well as the shareholders whose capital is invested in the enterprise. This will give the people an advantage which they have never before had with any other company in the world. By this plan must the Koreshan Unity, through its Bureau of Equitable Commerce, event- ually control the entire system of insurance throughout the world.—G. E C. The Kaweah Colony Difficulty. MR. EDITOR. The persecution of Kaweah Colony in its land cases, plainly demonstrates who are the rulers of our country. This money mon- archy is doing its worst to rob an honest lot of poor settlers, of their hard earned homes and turn their lands over to a wealthy lumber syndicate. It is clear evidence ofjobbery, bribery and cor- ruption, if settlers who are known and respected as honest, well- - meaning citizens, by their neighbors, and public oflicials of the county in which they dwell, through a misapplication of the law in the courts, be maligned, slandered, persecuted and thrust into jail, for honestly endeavoring to bring about a better state of so- ciety, through co-operation in business, fraternity of interests and feelings. This colony some ﬁve years ago, ﬁled and located upon some Government land in an inaccessible part of the Sierra Nevada range then in the market for settlement, fulfilled all of the require- ments of the law, constructed avaluable mountain road, opened up ‘and developed the natural resources of the country, built homes, i‘ established schools and factories, lived peaceably with their neigh- bors, and paid their debts. Now upon the eve of their success, the San Joaquin Lumber Trust, seeing a dangerous rival, with the aid of the Plutocratic ’ > Government, which, it seems, is afraid a little Commercial justice might be established in the land, commences a series of malicious persecutions to destroy its reputation, wrest from them their rights, ani break up the institution. Our sympathy is with this little band of patriots, and our in- dignation is aroused at the injustice of the bloodsucking cormo-‘ rants of monopoly, with their despicable minions, who are antag- onizing them. A most villainous, false and malicious article was recently cir- culated through the country by the Associated Press hirelings, to the effect that 15 children in the colony died of starvation in one month, and that the trustees and leaders were a lot of thieves and villains, bent upon robbing the poor deluded members. These and many more monstrous and vindicative reports have been fully de- nied and refuted, not only by the members, on the grounds of the colony, but by many prominent business men; bankers, doctors and public oﬁicials of Visalia and Tulare County. This was done to influence public sentiment, and to destroy the confidence of the outside members, of whom there are many; not only in the United States, but in different parts of the world, for the purpose of cutting off their income, and preventing them from properly defending their cases when tried in Equity. The recent adverse decision of Secretary of the Interior Noble, and the trial and conviction ofthe Trustees in Los Angeles,a1e acts of inexcusable injustice committed by the heads of our reputed honest Government. The writer speaks thus positively, because he happens to be in a position to know the facts. And we hope that the people and friends ofjustice will raise their voicesjn indignant protest against this wrong, and cover the guilty parties with shame and igno1niny.—['.' I). i JUSTICE. (BY VULCAN.) From the voice of nine-tenths of the people we hear the plea for justice. The struggle among the masses in her behalf is almost as clamorous as the brokers in the wheat and corn pits in the va- rious boards of trade in the country. If noise and commotion were signs of the restoration of the great principle of equal rights for the people, twenty four hours would hardly pass before all the ex- isting institutions of men would be blotted from human memory. The wail from the millions is fanning the ﬂame of pain and indig- nation, until the conllagration is-about to set the world on ﬁre; while the icebergs of long editorials, well ﬁlled conventions, reform- atory movements etc. are kept in stock to cool the heads of those who will demand justice at any sacriﬁce. Alas ! for human suffer- ing, justice‘is an unknown and unknowable quantity, and injustice occupies the seats of power in every land under the sun. As long as the masses submit to the present condition of human relations, and existing institutions, as the most rational and per- fect within the scope of intellect and reason, so long will justice be unknown. The only way to set justice on the chief seats, before which ach- ing hearts and tired hands must bow in humble need for that which will sustain them, is for the great mass of humanity to swear alle- giance to integrity, instead of swearing it to any country. VVhcn men have suffered at the hands of their oppressors until the struggle for life becomes more painful than that for bread, then and not till then, will men, women and children, declare in favor of a new order of things in which, man and child, in all the affairs ofhuman rela- tions and institutions, will be free and equal; in these institutions, (both social and governmental) all sobs and sighs, all want and pov- erty, all injustice and inequality will be dethroned, and in their stead, equity: the noble queen at whose hands the toiling millions will be fe(l, clothed and sheltered, will reign. Let men, women and children, meet under such auspices as will set them free from existing serfdom, and secure for them that kind of social, political and commercial equation which they so much desire but which ‘they know not how to gain; an equation that sets them above the slave, ﬁlls their hearts with such love as will send the glow and vigor of youth to every face; that will cool their brows with freedom‘s gentle breezes and kiss their fair cheeks with the honeyed lips of majestic justice as she sits enthroned on every human heart, with her ear ever eager to listen to all injustices and her wt.-ll supplied hands ever ready to grant relief. .-.u-um. -«'.<.» ‘I. » The Plowshare and Pruning‘ Hook. 0 STANFORD’S SCHEME To Pull the Wool Over the Eyes of the Farmers - Alliance. Mr. Stanford has made himself rich in wholesale speculations. He is as much ofa political trickster as he is a ﬁnancial speculator. He now makes a bid to the Farmers Alliance for the Presiden- cy. It is possible that they n1ay be cajoled by his sophistical ﬁnan- cial scheme. CAN A MILLIONAIRE, wHo HAS NOT THE FIRST sPARK. on GEN- EROSITY, AND WHO HAS HEAPED UP HIS MILLIONS BY SPECULATIONS ON FICTION BE VERY SINCERE IN ANY SCHEME To BENEFIT THE WORKING PEOPLE wHoM HE HAS ROBBED wIIiI,i3 HOARDING 'rHI,;IR WEALTH ? He wants to become a public benefactor by giving the people plenty of money. \Vhy does he not inaugurate an industrial sys» tern, paying the laborer all that he earns, and at the same time make him a stockholder in the industry? If the people, through their 7/zzlwrepreseiitatives, should issue ten billions of dollars through their treasury, then hire it to them- selves at two per cent interest, the sharks would very soon possess it, and the notes would be held by the speculators and the poor people would be compelled to disgorge to the tune of the billion- aire’s ﬁddle. Real estate has a certain recognized value. This value is more or less governed by the valuation of gold, the sale of which depends upon its market as insured through its monetary value. Gold has a market because it is the world’s standard of valuation. If its monetary value is destroyed by removing from it the govern- ment stamp of the various- nationalities, Kingdoms, Empires and Republics, which give it the stamp and therefore its market, it would drop ﬂat and the price of everything depending upon it would do the same. Gold would have very little commercial val- ue were it not for the stamp of Caesar. Suppose a Government like the United States should issue its promise to pay on paper without limitation, as proposed by Stan- ford, on the basis of its power to tax sixty millions of people with a wealth of state behind them, estimated upon the present valua. tion of a certain amount of gold and alloy. A certain weight of gold, with a proportion of alloy, and a fictitious margin created by a stamp which provides for it a market, is called one dollar. This one dollar has relation to a certain amount of labor or a certain number of hours of labor. This is subject to ﬂuctuation according to the stateof supply and demand. It would be difficult to say just where the ﬂuctuation obtained, whether at the labor or gold point. Let us see what would become of the nation foolhardy enough to ~ institute such a scheme: First; Paper money loaned to the people at two per cent. Second; ‘The market value of gold destroyed iir the United States. Third; The market value of gold maintained in other countries. Fourth; The gold would be bought cheap in this country by the speculators and taken to the countries where it had a market value. Fifth; The Millionaires, that is; the men who had gotten the gold out of the way, would very soon accumulate the government notes bearing two per cent interest with mortgages on all the real estate in the country at a great value, demanding interest on the mortgages at a depreciated valuation of the land. — This is the perfection of Henry George's scheme of single tax. The millionaires at one end of therope with government bonds or notes bearing two per cent interest with no tax, and tax on the land bonded for payment of the loa11 at the other end. Henry George seems to be making more headway than ever he had calculated. Stanford’s scheme if carried out would bankrupt the nation were it not for the fact still remaining, that the people are here, and constitute, after all, the govermnent, and at the same time are being educated to the standard of connnercial righteousness, com- mercial equation. THE LAST STRAVV. We hope Stanford will get there. It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back, and we think the camel has carried his load about as long as is good for the interests of the people.—K'. SUCCESSFUL CONCEPTION. The “BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE,” a co-operative cl» poration, has been formed in San Francisco as a part of a univer ~ or general consociation of Bureau chambers, the purpose of whic‘ is to provide for the co—operation of auniversal patronage calledt “Patrons of Equitable Commerce,” with the corporate body call the Bureau of Equitable Commerce. ‘ The San Francisco Bureau of Equitable Commerce is organiz upon the basis of a co-operative stock company of a million dolla : (1,000,000) capital stock. ‘ To show something of the character of its inspiration we ca truthfully state that at the opening of the books for the sale -I stock for the purpose of incorporation, there was subscribed in on‘ hour's time, the amount of nearly sixty thousand dollars, in te dollar shares, the lrighest amount subscribed by one stock put chaser being twenty thousand dollars, (2o,ooo,) other purchas ranging from ten dollars to eight thousand dollars. C The company now exists as a legalized stock company and-i closing its arrangements for the broadest possible mercantile prog ress. . 3 The one great end for which the company has been inaugura ted, is the ﬁnal employment of all people who are out of labor- whether they be young or old, black or white, skilled or unskilled- objectively, to secure to them the full beneﬁts of their industry,- providing for them the means by which they may become stock- holders entitled to the dividends on the proﬁts of the corporation. Like other corporations, this is under the protection of th state laws, with the same opportunity under such laws to institut, iceburg processes for “freezing out" its smaller stockholders, and cheating the eye teeth out of its patrons. We say that, so far as the law is concerned and the protection of the state goes, it isjust. like all other legalized corporations. We can, however, assure our?“ patrons that in the by-lawsuof the Bureau of Equitable Commerc we have so thoroughly provided for the protection of the interests, of the owners of stock and the patrons of the system that it is ut-_ terly impossible for anything but justice to be done to those who’, in any way patronize the Bureau _ J" In another col_umn is a statement of the general scope of that‘ Bureau ’s operations. In addition to the provisions enumerated inf the articles of incorporation every branch of industry will be in- angurated and fostered, and the basis of distribution of wealth{ shall be the two special factors of frugality. namely; industry and" econo1uy.———/K’. ' i —: —<ovO<o>——————- COMMERCIAL ABSURDITY. The people who comprise the government want money. T/1.2 Pazple. Make it and loan it to yourselves at two per cent interest, ' Stnigford, impulsed by the Farmers Alliance, and a bid for the Presidency of the United States. \Ve do not readily conceive of a more economical plan for the." people to get plenty of money, than to make it, through their agents at Washington, and to loan it to themselves at two per cent interest, giving bonds_and mortgages on their real estate for the payment of L the interest, to 70/mm? Sharks. , The market value of real estate is now predicated upon the; basis of a ﬁctitious valuation placed upon gold; Caesar’s Stamp. i The foundation upon which rests the value of what is called a.‘., hundred cents, whether of estate, produce, or labor, is the stamp Z of Caesar which gives to gold a market value it does not intrinsi- ' cally possess. ' ' f Remove the stamp from gold in our own country and allow it, to remain in others, and what is now one hundred cents is almost’: valueless here. Real Estate, labor and produce would become ; valueless in the United States. The Equation of money, is the destruction of the stamp of ‘- Caesar, but to insure equilibrium there must be a corresponding equation of production and consumption. The producer and con- — sumer must become a unit. VVe call this quarlratic commercial - egua‘tion.—-K'. ’ of is ‘'al The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 5 THE IN}-IER'ENT wEAKNi:ss or -CURRENT REFORM MOVEMENTS. The times are ripe for radical reform. At certain periods for the past few centuries twigs of protestation against abuse of p0\ver have blossomed on the tree of human thought, giving promise of the day when humanity, reaching the climax of its c,yclic destiny, should bloom in all the redolence of its consummate power. That time is now at hand, and in consequence we ﬁnd all sorts of reform movements sprouting for the solution of the perplexing social prob- lems which to day baffle the skill of men. Passing over the various reforniatory religious systems, such as Swedenborgiaiiisni, Unitarianism, Christian Science and Theo- sophy, the adherents to each of which claiming that his system is able to harmonize social relations through a gradual regeneration of man, we will mention such secular organizations—if such they can be called—as Nationalism. Socialism, Single Tax and Anarch- ism.‘ These movements, founded upon the ideas of Lasalle, Proud- hon, Rousseau and Bellamy, are jostling along in a disjointed sort of way, quarreling an(l wrangling among themselves and arriving at no deﬁnite or tangible state of organization. One can attend a meeting of any of these schools of political economy and hear ideas expressed with no more indication of unity or harmony than would be found in a coiiclave of Kilkeniiy cats, yet.those attached to these organizations expect to revolution- ize the world through the supremacy of their particular system. The thought embodied in the aforesaid movements is two or three hundred years old, and yet what practical beneﬁt has accrued to humanity through its inculcation? Many of the ideas of such men as La Salle, Proudhon, Rousseau and Bellamy are good, but they have all failed to effect any uniﬁcation of effort among social refomiers. Modern sociology, so far, has contributed nothing to the world but theory. The realm of practice lies a barren waste, while the social storm gathers to devastate the human race. i\' o singleness of purpose has yet been etfectetl in man efforts for the world’s salvation. The Farmers Alliance is the most substantial and healthy of any reform movement. It is an organization composed of intelli- gent, temperate, industrious men, tillers of the soil, the life blood of the commonwealth. These men have effected such a powerful organization that the railroad poteiitates begin to fear them, against which class the farmers are planning an aggressive cani- paign. They purposc to demonstrate that they can play the i110- nopolist as well as the rapacious beasts of Wall street, the inflation- ists and extorters of exorbitant freight rates, and yet this Fariners Alliance is cut up into factions, fiirrowed with contention and handicapped by intrigue. Each self-constituted leader in that body has a pet plan, a following and a selﬁsh purpose to serve, and each will push his plan, marshall his following and remain steadfast to the accomplishment of his purpose even if the pursu- ance of such a course disintegrates the Alliance itself. . Only through the centralization of power and obedience to the mandates of that power can efficiency and potency be obtained in any line of work. Decentralization always signiﬁes chaos and dis- integration. Thomas Jetferson was opposed to centralization of power in government and yet advocated it, \vhich fact is clearly proven by his doctrine of states rights. 111 the gubernatorial office of the different states, in the method of state representation in Con- gress, in the oﬁice of niayorality of our cities, in all vested autlior- ity, whether civic or religious, is clearly expressed the essential principle of centralization without which any semblance to organi- zation would prove a failure. The more perfect the centralizing power the more complete the system formulated. While the Jeffersonian idea was simply in consoiiance with the unfoldment of destiny by its inculcation of the doctrine of human sovereignty, yet it was designed by the hand of fate to be but in- strumental in leading men to that point where they will be able to see that the power of human sovereignty lies only in the achieve- ment of selfsovereignty. De-centralization as a conclusive govern- mental _system is not tenable and therefore Jefferson by ii1aintain— ing the adequacy of such a system, should forfeit the tribute of being a profound statesman. We do not claim, however, that his opponent, Alexander Hamilton the advocate of imperialistic re- publicanism was right, as the day is too far spent for the advisa- bility of instituting imperialism, as humanity is at present coiisti- tuted. Both were necessarily short sighted. Both built for their day but lacked the discrimination to provide for the morrow when human selﬁshness, growing more and more bold should ﬁnally set at deﬁance all law and tradition, ruthlessly t1lTUSL aside human rights and seek to monopolize all. VVhile the centralization of power in the hands of a selfish humanity gives freedom to tyranny, yet it is the only plan that will insure any sort of perpetuity to an established system. The four great empires of history, the Babylonian, the Medo-Persian, the Grecian and the Roman, were founded and maintained solely upon the principle of centralization, and it is to be observed that Rome gave clear indications of her downfall when she first elected her three consulary executives, thus disintegrating theimperialistic power. The secret of the vitality of the Ronian Church lies in the fact that absolute power is vested in the Pope. \Vhen amid the rapid rise and fall of ecclesiastical systems one notes the vitality of the Roman Church the conclusion is forced upon the mind that centralization of power is imperative to all effectual organization. England, (lermany, Russia, Austria and Spain held fast while the blasts of revolution swept over Europe, because they adhered to this principle of centrality. France has been tossed about by every wind of impulse because she deserted tliisprinciple. The United States government despite its boasted population of sixty-ﬂve millions, its vast territory and unlimited wealth, ﬁnds itself, when just past its liundretli birthday, about to go to pieces. \Vhile by the edict oflaw and destiny all this must be, while revo- lution must rend into fragments this fabric of democracy, and while decentralization must obtain to effect such revolution, it nevertlic— less dcnionstratcs the eﬂicacy of the eternal doctrine of integral power. livery line of energy whether in the physical or mental doin- ains, iimst have its focaliziug centre; efficient, powerful organiza- tion can only be effected when men conform to this undcviating law. \Ve have endeavored to show herein that uniﬁcation of purpose can never be effected by the various reform movements enumerated. Every man in them is traveling on his own hook though professed- ly belonging to a special brigade, but like a flock of sheep without a shepherd, these brigades must become disnieinbered and lost. Herein lies the inherent weakness ofliunian reforinatory effort. Now there must arise a power to meet the present emergency which will resist the encroachments of indivitlualisiii. hope of the world. This is the only There is a potency existing to-day, though unrecognized by the masses, which will focalize the inharmonie:~: of human opinion, establish commercial equity, effect a unity of action through the vi- taliziug energy of Divine truth and by concentrating the forces of progressive thought and sterling integrity in the Cominoiiwealth, bridge the awful chasm which must soon engulf heeilless, selfish men. Search for it! ———— -<»o«>——-—~ BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. The Bureau of Iiquitable commerce, is incorporated as a co- operative stock company of one million ($1,000,000) of dollars. It has a paid capital stock of sixty thousand ($(io,ooo) dollars. It is established upon the basis of a public guarantee, which renders it impossible for its directors to gull or hoodwink its stock- holders. lt purposes to establish industries which will give einplo_vnient to every man woman and child upon the plan of full rcniuuera‘;ion for labor or the performance of use. It proposes to reduce the hours of labor with increase of pay. It will make its employees stockholders, with a voice in the conduct of the company and their proportioniite share of dividends of profits. Our books are open for sale of stock, and we promise to show to the commercial world a trick with the //11/it/1/vs that will make the millionaire howl and the poor laboring man rejoice. Letters of inquiry may be arldressed to PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING HOOK. SAN l~‘RANClSC(), CAL. 220 N01‘) STRl*3l£'l‘. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. THE IMPERATIVE DEMAND , Of the Commonwealth upon our Foreign,Born Population. The discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, offered a place of refuge for “the oppressed of every clime. ” Plymouth Rock rested the weary feet of the Puritanic pilgrim and Manhattan Island nurtured the rest-seeking souls who had em- barked from Dutch soil. France, Spain, and other countries con- tributed their share of sturdy pioneers who aﬁiliated with and became a part of that new race known as American. Unprece- dented in its growth and development, matchless in its conception of human rights, unrivaled in the progress of its thought, it is a race destined to be peerless as an architect of human destiny; the oasis of hope in a desert of human despair; the God-appointed vine- yard for the redemption of a dying humanity. The aforesaid settlers of this country constituted its bone and sinew. evolved some of the most magniﬁcent personalities known to history. Such men as VVashington, Franklin and Lincoln, leaped to the pin: acle of mortal fame. Had not our ancestors yielded to the essential behests of affiliation, America, to-day, would be but the camping ground of the wanderer, the ro/osting place of the misanthrope and the glory of the savage. But for aﬁiliation the ground could never have been broken for freedom, the last lap in the course of a cycle could never have been run, and the ultimate consummation of hu- man, hope for true liberty, yet to come, would forever have been blasted; ‘ Since, then, association is a fundamental factor in the for- mation of a successful commonwealth, it behooves the people of these United States to have a care, lest this basic principle of gov- ernment be trampled upon by recalcitrant clansmen. Our shores harbor to-day an ever increasing horde of Italians, Hungarians and Chinese, who are totally inimical to our social institutions. Com- posing the dregs of society in their own countries, often-times crim- inals and vagrants, they have caused this country to become the cess-pool of foreign offal. California, but for a recent restrictive guard, while loaded up already, would have been literally infested with the “heathen chinee.” As it is, his cueship, in direct violation of law, (which, however, was only enacted by congress to allay the common protest of workingmen, and more especially because California capital alone, not general capital, utilized his cheap labor) aided by un- scrupulous shipping agents and border sentinels, is still smuggled upon us in large numbers. Notwithstanding their undeniable industry Chinamen are unﬁt to populate this country because they cannot and will not aﬂiliate with us, and while the subject of Chinese immigration has been well nigh exhausted by the California press, it is a lasting disgrace to our Government that they should be permitted to live with us. It is a question which, as a national issue, can never grow moss, so long as the Chinaman resists, and is unﬁt for American affilia- tion. Italians and Hungarians land penniless_at Castle Garden,— . thanks to the enterprise of our steamship companies and the vil- lainy of tarilTbarons,—live in (lenson black bread, displace American toilers in the mines and other industries, and by the practice of re- volting niggardliness labor to acquire a competency sufficient to enable them to return and live comfortably in their native country. Having served the ends of the sordid capitalist who controls the legislator, what matters it to our national assembly that by such ﬂagrant outrages the basic principles of social law are shamelessly ignored and deﬁed. Public sentiment should strenuously resist and antagonize such a vile encroachment upon the import and intent of our government- al system, and demand the immediate pruning of all this rotten, i reparable stuffin our social fabric. Having contributed nothing to either the wealth or progress of the commonwealth, let the banana and peanut vender go back and bask in the zephyrs of sunny Italy, the organ grinder dmce his monkey before Italian villas and the black faced I-Inns, the Chinese, and every other clannish, irremediable junto of They were the best blood of their own people and have‘ aliens, leave a land and people which must lead by co-operative ef fort in the coming solution of the world's social problems, and be take themselves to their native haunts, whose only hope of re trievement depends upon the renovating flood of revolution heap ~ ing up in the reservoir of untrammeled, God-inspired thought. V —'—~<»o«-.~»j FR (BY VULCAN.) Every where on the globe the hungry millions are crying for‘ deliverance. They seek relief from cruel oppression by all means within their power to devise. They have not yet found a way to = lift the load that weighs them down, nor break the yoke that —' chokes them with sobs and sighs, as day by day they ﬁnd the " struggle for bread more serious. Children of tender age have to shift as best they can to secure -- a little food, poor clothing and poorer shelter. Girls and boys are 2 bound as slaves to those who pretend to remunerate them for their " IO to 14 hours hard work. Young women are compelled to seek re- 1 lief from hunger and cold at the hands of some one who can use ‘ their abilities to the best advantage. They l1ave no hope of’ relief from these burdens. If they are honest and love an inherent I principle of true womanhood, it is difficult for them to earn enough * to keep the wolf from the door. Young men are playing in serf , dom’s drama in better luck. They earn plenty in many cases, but ' they are too free with it. They usually earn more than they re- ceive, and some one else secures the balance. \Von1en of all ages ; even to gray-haired mothers are compelled to do hard labor for the privilege of continuing in the body for a few years longer. ,. Aged fathers with bent forms, gray hairs, stiff joints, weak arms ‘ bowed down with sorrow, are compelled to face a Godless world and -v earn their bread by the sweat of their brow. ‘ If one has an element of humanity in him, if he has any love, » any sense of equity, freedom and integrity within his make ‘ up, most certainly he is pained beyond expression to see old and ,, decrepid fathers and mothers, young boys and girls, and the entire I woman-kind being compelled to compete with yo11ng and middle I aged men for that which feeds and clothes them. In all parts of the world the great battle has begun on both sides, (money and , poverty). On the side of MoN1cv, hence power, men are in open - competition and combat with o11c another, making a desperate effort to secure the most of that power (money) that will aid them to con- i trol more of the enemy (wage workers). On the side of labor or - the servants of toil, stout men are in active competition with one ;_ another, with aged people and with children for that which sus-1 tains and clothes them. It is a sad sight to see a set of conditions existing in a land of " plenty that compels a young man to compete with his aged father * who can scarcely stand erect, for that by which both may live—- bread. It is a sadder sight to see men of brains and muscle ’ entering the struggle with boys, girls, sisters and mothers. Thi. is the present serfdom of the race. In the United States it is as _ elsewhere. Men who are strong and brave are forming societies ~ and various organizations for protection. \‘\'ho1n do they seek to A protect? None but those in their special lines. There are no, old men, gray—haired aged mothers, weakly women, sickly defense : less girls and an army of youth in the service ofthe railroads. No that service demands the best talent and muscle, therefore all the " organizations among railroad men are only to combine the strong wage workers and give them greater security, perhaps, of possess- ing a fair share of the necessaries of life. The mechanics of the country are not the weak and defenseless, the old and sickly. They ._ are brave, true, strong men, who are combining to protect tl1em- " selves and no one else. In fact nearly all of the labor organizations » are for men who dare speak in defense of what they believe 'to be ., their rights. The weakly, sickly, aged and poor are left to Ll.ll3' cruel oppressor and to struggle for bread until the only hope of the I aged is death; that of the young boy is to grow to manhood and) perchance enter one or more of the organizations composed of strong men. The only relief to the poor girl is to get married and take: chances on bettering her condition, (which but few do), or else, turn to the sale of her virtue and live in luxury for a few short, years after which she must either take her own life or re—enter the contest with the wage workers. ’ 7 From every hungry mouth and thinly clad forn1 the wail gees.-'_ forth for relief. It does not come. Men of brains have sought it‘, and failed. Men of muscle have attempted to force it, but the lawf compels them to desist. The methods suggested, by which to take; this awful load fron1 human kind and let them feel safe and secure- in the necessaries of life by reasonable work, have failed. ' W It would seem that some one could present a plan that will not‘: only bring the relief sought by able m'en but it would forever set- old people, defenseless women ’ and children, free. No Inan can lay claim to having done the suffering race a really good service who cannot cause to be set in operation a plan that will make all: the nations freemen. 'We do not want a plan that will relieve ' that have good paying positions. \r’Ve want and must have 8 plan that will secure to every individual equality, the practical ‘use of which plan takes from his shoulders the cares and anx- 'eties about something to eat and a place to sleep. We want ‘our boys, bright little men as they are, to enter that organization that will secure for them every necessary -thing. They should make it their business to enter at once into any plan that will se- . cure for them suitable wages and future partnership in the busi- -_._ ness at which they work. Girls should be well paid for their work - 5 ii and should be made equal partners in the work they do. Young, ’ ladies and young men should not be led into false theories any . ‘ longer. We need and must have that spirit of freedom take pos- -E . session of our wage workers, both young and old. that will cause « them to leave, at once, the ranks of all who hire and refuse to give f value received. \Ve need and must have boys and girls, men - i and women enter that line of uses in accordance with a \vell deﬁned <plan that will bring to them all plenty, without labor. \\"ork is glorious, but labor is torturous. if one loves his work and can live thereby without solicitude, he is exercising his faculties in the . ﬁeld of equitable uses, If all wage workers'are anxious for relief, and if hunger has caused them to wish to make a glorious tight to secure that relief. we assure them that the plan as defined in this paper is the only one that can secure the rights of the many and release them from the bondage of low wages. \Ve do not want a hundred organizations, each with its own special plan, the operation of which cannot - release all wage workers; but we do want, demand and will have the successful operation of just one plan which cuts asunder the cords that tie the sacks of plenty and compels earth ‘s millions to suffer for bread; aplan that will set every wage worker free, ., ‘ make all men equal, and compel a free and equitable distribution ‘‘ '0!" the riches of the soil and the product of muscle. 1 _ . , T Articles of Incorporation of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce. i J KNOWALL .l[E.\' 1! Y ’1'IIl2'.\’IL' Pli’E.\'E.\'T.\': That we, the uiulc-1'sig1i(-ti 3 rcsidents and citizens of the State of California, lmvc this day voluntarily as- 3 sociated ourselves togotln-r for the purpose of forining at U()—()I’I<II.'.t Tl V12’ f _ BUSINESS C01.’I’01.’.i1[O.\', and of incorporating under tho laws of said State 1 _ _ oi California a corporation to be known by the mono of “B L'11’J;'.rt U ()1v'1<JQ U1- 1 TABLE U031)! ERG y.“’— t ,_ AND WE DO HEREBY ()Ell'l‘IFY AND DECLARE, , I. ,r ‘ That. the name of said corporation shall be and is l:U1:’]:'.1 U 011' L'QUIT- e ABLE (.'0.l[1tlEROE.— ;_ II. That the purposes for nihich srr 1'41 curpoz-alivnl, is f2'am(>rl, anrl frlruzcrl, arc to )f . _‘; purchase, acquire, buy, contract for, bond, hold, lczisc, and deal in real estate , f‘ ‘ Ind personal property in the State of California ; to borrow money, and to |_' ‘~__ mortgage and hypothecatc any real estate or personal property, to socurc tho .6 p payment of the same, and to sell, lens:-, I1l('>l't_L’,‘:.l.§,,'(‘, convey, and dispose of any is , real estate or personal property acquired, owned, or hold by tho said corpor- LS atlon, and to buy, sell, lease and contract. for roztl cstatc upon commission, and is to negotiate loans upon real estate or porsoiizil property. Also to buy, sell, :0 ,‘ contract for and deal in, upon commission or otlicrwisc, canned goods, gr-oc<-r- ,O ’’ tes,__provisions, fruits of all kinds, fresh, cured or canned, vegetables, incats of e_ all kinds, both fresh and salted. dry goods, furniture and wooden wzirc of all 0 kinds, wood nnd coal, hay and grain, cutlery, crockery, glass—\varo agricultural H; implements and manufactured articles, and \\':Ll'(‘S ofall kinds, Stationr-ry, pzipm‘, ,g printing materials, and all kinds of goods, wares, and merchandise. Also to con- _s§_ struct and maintain a printing oilicc, and to O])(‘l‘E‘lt€ the same, if the said print- ,e lng oﬂice should be deemed convenient or useful to further the main objects of By the said corporation. Also to build, construct, purvlnisc, loasc, acquire, and hold n_ T such houses, buildings, machinery, and improvements as may be convenient “S V » or useful in said business, with power to soil, loasc, inortgaigo, transfer, and be S convey the same. Also to buy, purchase, acquire, and hold tools, machim-.ry, he patents, patent rights, and personal property of all kinds that may be useful, he ‘ -beneﬁcial, or proper in said business, with full power and authority to sell nd sud dispose of the same, and generally to do and perform all other acts and Hg things pertaining thereto. or connected thereuith, or which may be necessary ke or useful to further the main objects of this corporation. The said corporation lse being framed and formed as a co-operative business corporation, for the pur- )~rt poses above speciﬁed, and with all the rights and privileges of a co-operative he , hllllness corporation as are deﬂncd and set forth in, “An Act to define co-opcr- \ ~ 0 business corporations, and to provide for the organization and govern- CS 4 thereo ,” approved April 1st, 1878, and contained in Statutes of California, .1 t 1B'rl--18, at pages 883 and 884.- _ III. aw . _ Thattheplcwe where its principal business is to be transacted is in tho Oily ' ‘:6 d San ﬁuncisco, State of California.— .11'e ~ ‘ _ * - IV. V That the term for which it is to exist is ﬁfty years, from and after the date “Gt 0! its incorporation.- sct V. tan That the number of its 1)irnotors or Trustees shall be seven (7), and that the ice names and residences of those who are appointed for the ﬂrst year, are :— all ' NAMES RESIDENCES. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. VI. That the amount of the Capital Stool: of this corporation shall be one Million, ($],000,000,00) ])ollm's, divided into one hundred thousand (100,000) slrures of the par value of Ten ($10,00) Dollars eacl1.—— VII. ' _ That the amount of .-rrirl Capital Stock which has boon actually subscribed, is l~'if!_z/ Thousuml, .\.'m~ezL Ilundrerl and ’1'hiri'_I/ (.,\‘5li,7.‘;’(),0(J) ])ollm'.s', and tho sznno has boon subscribed by the following named persons, and in the following amounts, rcspoctivcly, to wit :— X.-IJIES OF S L']:’b'(,'1r'1]}E1x’S. NO. OF SIIA ICES. 41.11 0 UNT S U1;'S(/'1»’I]2’E1). IN lV1TlV'I~.'.\'S W]IEIi‘}v.'()I" wc have hereunto set. our hands and seals this 18th day of April A. 1). 18.91. [Names Signed and Sc-a1cd.] 18'-z‘gnc(/, mu], .\'m1lnrl in [he I’7‘e.~'mu'c of WALTER J. BARTNETT. ST.-t’1‘lv1 I)FU.r1LII<'()l1’2\'lA, % ss_ CI TY .l1‘\'D U()l'.\”1‘l' OF SAN FI1’.1J\'(,’1.\'(,'(). on this n1c11'rm:NT11 day of APRIL, in the year Oxn THOUSAND, Eronr IIL'.\'1)nE1> AND N1xETY'-o.\'1:, bcfoi-c inc, OT1s V. SAWYEIK, a NOTARY I’u1sL1c in and for the said CITY AND COUNTY or SAN FRANCISCO, residing thorcin, duly coniniis.-‘-ioncd and sworn, personally zippcared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. each pcrsonailly known to me to be the person described in, whose name is subscribed to, and who (-Xccutcri the within and annexed instrument, cach described the1'c— in as a married wonnui, and upon an zanaminalioit of each without the hearizrg of licr ill1Si)d.ll(i, or the liusband of any of the parties horoto, I made her ac- quainted with the contents of the said instrument, and thereupon she llt‘/1')I.(Ill7l4‘(l{](‘(l to 71:0 [hat she zarreculed the same, and that sbc docs not wish to rotract such cxocution.— IN lVl’1ZVEl\'N WHl'31r‘l2'(/F I lnwe liorounto set my hand and nfﬁxcd my oﬁir-ial seal, at my office in tho said City and County of San Francisco, the day and year llrst in this certiﬁcate above written. (L. S} OTIS V. S.»’tWYE1t, NOTARY, SIA T13‘ OF (,'.»iLII<‘()1.‘.\'lA, % (,1 '1')’ .-1 N1) U()l'.\"1')' OF SAN Fl1’A.\"(}lS(,'0. Ox THIS nlorirnnnrn DAY or Arnu. in the your One Tiiousand Eight hun- dred and 1\'incty—ono, before me, ()T1s V. SA\Vl’E1I, a Notary Public in and for the said City and County of San Francisco, residing thcroin, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . known LU me to bc thc persons dos<:ribcd in, whose names are subscribed to, and who (‘X(‘tJlltt?(i the within and annexed instrument, and t/my duly acknowledged to me that l/(my e.r,omzte:l the same.- IN Wl’1‘r\’1n'1\‘S I/l'l1I*Jl1‘]y'0FI have hereunto set my hand and (l_«ﬂ'i.L't’d my nﬁicial seal, at my oflicc in the said City and County of San Francisco, tho day and year in this ccrtilicatc iirst 21l)o\‘c written.- (L. S.) OTIS V. SAWYER, NOTARY PUBLIC. o»4——___ INCONGRUOUS RESOLUTION S. The new political party born at Cincinnati May 20, expects to reform American politics. \Vitl1 this great end in view it starts out by demanding “the free and unlimited coinage of silver,” not- witlistanding the passage of a subsequent resolution, “that taxation —National, State or Municipal—shail not be used to build up one interest or class at the expense of another.” \Vhat nonsense and inconsistency! The coinage of silver di- rectly and expressly favors the silver men because their metal is stamped by the government with a fictitious value, the difference between which and its intrinsic worth accrues, of course, to the silver mine owners. The copper, platinum, brass and iron men have an equal right to demand that their metal shall hold the Gov- . ernment stamp as money, with a fictitious valuation, so that they also may reap a harvest at the people's expense. Now, as a matter of fact, the silver men are largely interested in this so-called “Peoples Party“ for the purpose of feathering their own nests at the people’s expense, just as the leaders of the old parties have done. “The l’eoplc’s Party,” indeed! “Hen fruit,” dear farmers, is only another name for eggs: likewise this new movement branded “The People's Party” is but another scheme of the monopolists to clieckmate your efforts for the triumph ofjustice. Beware of it! ?————Ho> 4-——— - Sample of Letter Received. GRANTS PASS, Or. MAY 14. 1891. PRUNING Hoox PUB. Co., 220 Noe St., San Francisco Cal. Dear frz'em2’.r. THE PLO\VSHARl<2 AND PRUNING H001: meets a longfelt want. Please send me about 20 more copies for one year, for which I enclose Express order for ten dollars, subscriptions to commence with No. 1, if you have them on hand. Sincerely yours, J. R. HALE. , The Plowshare and Pruning I-Iook. a o 4 o A‘). /\ V . Citizens of the C0llllVI0lIlYEllLTH! C«>~-——- VVe urge you to iiivestigztle our system of C¢mIlIi(,'l‘(‘l:ll -‘Equation by which we purpose to r(‘\‘oluiionize the coin- inerce of the world and institute justice in the inierr-lIa1I;;'e of products. _' The establishnient of equitable L’UIll1llC1'(‘l2Ll relations be- tween man and man is not only of vital important-e to you as a. producer and consunier, but also to the Uoinnionwealtli whose sacred interests, entrusted to the custodianship of our legislative bodies, have been 1'LIt,l1lcssly almsed and betrayed, so that the very fabric of government is seriously threatened with (lisinenibernient and decay. For the pro1i1nl;:_'ation of this systeni, to effect a (iU1l11llC1’(‘l2Ll balance, we have issued this journal, which, while it means to proclaim and establish G-olden L Grate Branch ' —w:-or THE-<+-— GUIDING STIR PUBLISHING HOUSE. Fine Job Printing. BOOK AND PAMPHLET WORK A SPECIALTY. 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Address: THE FLAMING SWORD, 3617 Cotta.-.;'e Grove Ave, — — CHICAGO, ILL. a new and incoinparable method of trade destined to “freeze out” monopoly, brokerage and li]l£L\’(:1'_V, will yet be the sharp . and pungeiit critic_ and opponent of <-vcigv violation of sorial ethics,_l'earlessly assailing the 1none_v power and the present ‘banking sjfsteni, the greed of the (capitalists, the perﬁd_v of public functiona1‘ios, the l1(\'p()(i'1'isy of the Church, the iniqui- ty of federate labor. the f,l‘I!:t(:ll(¥1'}' of the daily press, and the criminal apathy of the people to an inselent usurpatioii of their sovereigrn riglits. An eight page paper t<m(-lIiI1;,;' tei-sel_v and eo1nprehen— sively upon all live questions, Tm: I’I.owsII.\1ua AND Pizuxixc I'I()0K will be issued XVISEKLY at the noniinnl price of FIFTY CENTS A YEAR, in advance. “'0 solicit your early subscription for this inatcliless chanipion of the cause of hu- manity whose civilization and perpetuitv is threatened. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 220 NOE STREET,‘ SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Sample Copy on Application. Attention! Farmers, Attention! \\'e would call the Attention of 1<‘arnIers and I*‘ruitgrowers to the fact that The Bureau of Equitable Coninierce is prepared to liandlc, either on coimuissioli or otherwise, their respective goods, al”for<ling them better‘ and qiiicker returns than they can realize tlirougli any other cliannel. Iioreshan. Literature- Our l)(ml<S and paiiiplilets contain a hriel‘ exposition of Korcslian Sviencc which lllll‘1)\"Ul‘S all the mysteries of the zL§.;‘z'h'. llunian thought her(-tofore lias failed to (llHCHV(‘1‘ all the laws, forms and relations of Being arid existence. linm-.~'-lIaI1it_y is a geiulinc iiiterlwetalion of phenmnena and form as ('X}_|J'(‘H.‘a(‘(llI1lllLV1ll1l\’UI'?i~C. It is a true index to the I-liziracter of (led and Inau, and H14-ir‘rela1ions. 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Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-02
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Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 03 (June 6, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1939, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-06-06
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
Text: Vol. 1. No. 8. San Francisco, Cal., June, 6. 1891. Five;Cents a Copy. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 2257 Market Street, - San Francisco, Cal. KORESH, - - - - - - - Founder and Director. 0. J. MAGLAUGHLIN, - — - - - - ~ - Editor. Address all money orders and communications to O. J. MAGLAUGHLIN, ' Station G. 220 Noe Street, San Francisco, Cal. One Year in advance, - - - - - - - 50 ets. One Copy, - - - - - - - - , 5 “ Sample Copy on Application. THE English public is very much disturbed over the fact that I the Prince of Wales was master of ceremonies in a game of bacca- rat, at which one Sir William Gordon-Cumming was caught cheat- ing. Now why should this circumstance ruffle the tranquility of the Britains? Surely Albert Edward has as much right to assume the responsibilities of such an oftice and even to gamble himself, if he so choses, as any other fellow in the Kingdom, and the fact that he is living oil‘ of t...
Show moreVol. 1. No. 8. San Francisco, Cal., June, 6. 1891. Five;Cents a Copy. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 2257 Market Street, - San Francisco, Cal. KORESH, - - - - - - - Founder and Director. 0. J. MAGLAUGHLIN, - — - - - - ~ - Editor. Address all money orders and communications to O. J. MAGLAUGHLIN, ' Station G. 220 Noe Street, San Francisco, Cal. One Year in advance, - - - - - - - 50 ets. One Copy, - - - - - - - - , 5 “ Sample Copy on Application. THE English public is very much disturbed over the fact that I the Prince of Wales was master of ceremonies in a game of bacca- rat, at which one Sir William Gordon-Cumming was caught cheat- ing. Now why should this circumstance ruffle the tranquility of the Britains? Surely Albert Edward has as much right to assume the responsibilities of such an oftice and even to gamble himself, if he so choses, as any other fellow in the Kingdom, and the fact that he is living oil‘ of the English people at a cost of many thousand pounds a year and running heavily in debt beside, shouldn't alter the aspectof the case a particle. If our English cousins desire to - maintain a horde of idlers in royal splendor, why not allow them to play baccarat, eat rat, or do anything else that will lend pleas- ure to their useless existence. .-.-. VVe print in another column extracts from a speech by General Ordway with comments by a correspondent who, in an accompany- ing letter does not hit wide of the mark when he says: "I believe in my soul that General Ordway speech is but the echo of a band of conspirators who are aiming to overthrow whatever remains of the liberty we now possess as a people, and to establish under some of the semblances of republican government, an oligaichy, in which papacy is to be a ruling factor.” ’ _ _?H.Hi% Those receiving THE l’L0\VS1—lARI£ AND PRl,'.\'11\'G HOOK with- out having ordered the same, may know, that it is sent at the re- quest of a friend for examination. curred by its reception. No ﬁnancial obligation is in- " ‘f .‘ .\;>e:d:Zy,:n:uc atria re.mll__ {fr lriump’ . u ' L i ‘ is a usurpation) ut to a governmen o - e peop e. 10 KILL THE DRAGON. I11 another column we have borrowed a statement of an appall- ing state of affairs as it pertains to thousands of people out of em- ployment or who live in poverty, though as producers entitled to a proportionate share in the wealth they have assisted in creating. There prevails a common fallacy, or if not a fallacy, a subter- fuge of the rich or well to do, that in this country of liberty and plenty there is no excuse for poverty. One of the greatest causes of poverty throughout our land is the habitual use of intoxicating drinks and tobacco. The production, manufacture and sale of these causes of poverty and crime, called industries, are encouraged and fostered by the government, and sustained by the church. Human nature is too weak to resist temptation. and if the crime of placing temptation before the people is indulged as a legitimate pursuit supported by the church aml state, the church and state ought to be made in some way responsible for the poverty induced, and be compelled to provide for the poverty stricken. It is not true that all people who are poor are made so by lack of willingness to labor. All are not equally skilled, and unskilled labor is measurably unremunerative. and there is not the demand for unskilled as for skilled, and as long as a system so corrupt as the competitive. is allowed to exist. so long will the avaricious under its impetus devise schemes criminal in the sight of God if not in the eyes of men who legalize crime. The responsibility of the poverty and crime under which we suifei lies at the door of the very liberty of this people. There is a remedy, and that remedy lies in the application of commercial equation. This involves the issue of a medium of ex- change by the people through a Bureau empowered to protect the interests of all /nztrwzs who may become shareis in the capital stock through such protection. The question of the issue of money in- dependently of Congiess. is one, it appears, which puzzles the minds of those who have so long depended upon such authority. \Ve are continually asked the question, how can it be done? Not without a sentiment strong enough to sustain us in the purpose and prosecution of the work. The Koreshan Unity intends by a system of education in its school of 1Valiw1a[ economy (we employ this term in lieu of politic- al economy) to discipline the people in the actual and practical work of organizing a national “party” called Patrons of Equitable Commerce. The system of education will consist in the practical work of forming assembly and congressional districts or that which corresponds to these, but under other names. In the progress of the work industrial systems will be inaugurated that, in the very e peop e s l Y... 57?; 2 _ The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. outset, will conduce to the self-support of all who enter into the enterprise. All American born citizens above the age of eighteen with intellectual and moral qualiﬁcations, male and female, will possess the right to vote, and those who are not American born will possess privileges according to deﬁned, restricted, but just ‘rights. . We shall place lecturers in the ﬁeld with a practical knowledge of our national ideas, and prosecute the work of revolution till we shall have freed ourselves from the tyranny of the oligarchy, the old dragon that now enthralls us and will so continue till the entr- ance to his rapacious maw receives its ﬁnal mutilation at the hand of the child brought forth by the Goddess of wisdom.—l(. O ARBITRATION AND LITIGATION. Government Falling to Pieces of Its Own Rot- tenness.. 0 By 0. F. L’AMOREAUX, PH. D. A writer in the Ea'z'2zbm'g/1 lfezrzkzzl says, that connnercial litiga- tion has largely diminished in England, notwithstanding the very large increase of commercial transactions. “Moreover, it is notori- ous that commercial men are continuously engaged in arbitrations, which means that they prefer a domestic forum to that which the state places at their disposal.” The great and constantly growing abuses and oppressions of the courts are rapidly rendering them useless as means of obtaining justice between n1an and man. \Vhe1e the desire is simply to secure the ends of justice, in consequence of the endless delays and mis—carriages because of technical points sprung by cunning lawyers, and the great cost of court proceedings, and attorney’s fees, and the great expense of witnesses that must often be brought from long distances and kept, perhaps repeatedly, for weeks at a time, there is not sufficient encouragement to induce prudent people to enter upon a course of law, unless the sum at stake is large and the evidence clear. Even then the ignorance and venality of jurors, the short-sightedness or corruption of the court, the power of the opposing attorney to make white appear black and black white, render a lawsuit more perilous to a man’s good name and money interests than a sea voyage is to his life. The expensiveness of courts renders justice a commodity beyond the reach of the great mass of citizens who constitute the poorer classes and who are in the greatest need of it. Arbitration, to these, fur- nishes the only hope of anything like justice, and, as resort to this is voluntary on the part of both parties, where the other party re- fuses to submit to it, which he usually does, there is absolutely no alternative but to submit to wrong and robbery. Were those monstrosities in legislation, (private corporations for gain, which now furnish much of the material for the action of courts and most of the great fees for lawyers), destroyed, there would be small need of courts and lawyers, and the world, so far as ap- pears, would be vastly better oil" than now if both went by the board. Such, comes very near being the conclusion of judges themselves as expressed during the recent investigation of a legislative committee in the case of Chicago judges. A distinguished lawyer recently said to me that he sometimes thought it would be an advantage to the people if our courts were abolished. In more than nine cases out of ten the chances of justice would be greatly improved over the present methods if the simple facts were submitted to three in- telligent disinterested arbitrators. A vast amount of valuable time, money and patience would thereby be saved. We have now in the matter of the administration of the laws as in everything else, the work accomplished not by the common- wealth or the people for the people, but by a guild or separate and highly selﬁsh and powerful class, the lawyers, primarily and principally for the beneﬁt of that class. The justice of lieathen Roman law would not permit such a class to ply their calling for gain.. What is true of the administra- tion of our laws is equally true of every other means of obtaining a sustenance. A powerful, organized banditti entrenched in unjust legislation stands at the entrance of every avenue to the means of defense and production, and as a condition pre-requisite to allowing any man ‘arbitration, by the mutual agreement of the masses of the people.-5 V the genuine adaptation of use to ends would preclude the possibili to earn an honest living or securing protection to life or property,f‘ demands a heavy fee or the payment of an extortionate tax. You" cannot even buy or sell unless you have the mark of this beast up-, on you. Such combinations now control not only all means of pro’-" duction, except, in part, those of the farmer, which they depressii and rob by means of unjust monetary and transportation legislation; but their hitherto securest, because least understood, means of: robbery has been their control and manipulation of money—the in-,‘ strument of exchanges. In this as in the other cases, a guild, or class, and that, the class whose numbers have always been th 5 great oppressors of mankind, the n1oney—changers, whom the great’: Communist eighteen hundred years ago drove out of the temple of God which they had made a den of thieves, have seized the prerog-, ' atives of government and managed the issue of money, not in the‘ interests of the people, as the good of the commonwealth and our_ constitution required, but in the interests of their own robber clan." The correction of this greatest, foulest, most destructive wrong will require the destruction of money itself, the great instrument of‘ oppression and injustice, the love of which is the “root of all evil.”j This cannot be accomplished by law, but in a manner similar to agreeing to trade with each other, not in the manner provided by government, but in some simple way of their own devising. ‘ Q~<9>—-2-— Industry and Economy Must Ultimately Constitutei the Basis of Individual and National Existence. ' It ought to be one of the ﬁrst oflices of education to impress upon the mind of the world the fact that industry does not imply_ drudgery. To insure to the people the advantages of the judicious performance of uses, their orderly ministration ‘should constitute an essential, if not the most essential factor in economics. V’ One of the prostitutions of industry and trade, leading to crim inality and bankruptcy, is the universal and inordinate display 0 wares, particularly in the line of the ornamental, through which the principle of competism seduces the shop goer. ,' “The pride of the eye” is the channel through which thi species of proﬂigacy aborts the true design of commercial exchange. Genuine and economical use, that which accrues from love 1 f the neighbor provides in the adaptation of use to legitimate ends, the creation of supply adequate to and not beyond the essential de mand, with a corresponding and distributed ornamentation. By .-i distributed ornamentation, we mean that equitable diversiﬁcatio of the ‘beautiful which lends universal charm, culture and enjoy- ment. ‘ Thousands are deprived of the beautiful whose tastes and in '5 clinations are exquisite, while many who are dull are constantlz. snrfeited in the luxuriation of superabundance. True industry, us. ty of a great surplus of production. But then you say, how can the laborer be supplied with work. To supply with work is not the great demand of the age. Le 5 work and a proper distribution of the proceeds of industry is th crying adequacy of the times. Diminish the hours of industri‘ use to the minimum; to that point where labor becomes a recreation This might mean a reduction to four hours a day. To meet there quirement of public demand for employment, threbble the workin force and make industry the criterion for distribution. Labor sav. ing inventions should be multiplied and the advantages deriv should always accrue to the domain of industry. . The regulation of commerce and industry, to insure a prop administration of economy must and will become national, and th which now is denominated politics and conducted by rogues a » demagogues, will be relegated to the people, the masses of whi will have become cultured into an adequate knowledge of the rights, and have learned the process of national.administration.e-V A CASE OF TRIANGULAR EXCELLENCE. CHARLES PRATT, the twenty-millionaire, who died sudden last week, was a devout Christian, a generous giver to chaiita objects, and an active Standard Oil monopolist. This is a combi ation of characteristics that makes a person one of the “ﬁttest" « this day and generation, He made the most of both worlds.—2,_ Caztury. ..-w‘<taQu-—-.4 .. , - i i'13he" Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 3' - - pollstie Control of the Press. managing editor of the New York II/orla’, $20,000 a year, (which faet most every- ,kno_w's), has reaignedhis position because the stockholders of _ ®-Iﬁtﬂct its hitherto liberal policy. :;~’ ' the "World has been more outspoken ~|« .-social evils than any" other daily sheet ’_ _ ,4 York, and this has been the secret of its great the daily circulation double that of the Herald an(l . that of the London Yimex, obtained in a phenomenally “’ 1 e, it ought to serve as a lesson to the newspaper fraterni- g_qu,the.value and necessity of an untrammeled policy in the ,r« Qt«'d:i0ufﬂ8llSI11. The masses, in this age of social upheavals, d,-fearless and truthful utterances from the daily press, and , }s_vh_ich—.more nearly voices the public mind is the one . secure the most hearty support. Every daily paper in 'Yptk,Cily, and for that matter, in every other city, is under éheel of monopoly, but the H/orltz’ had not quite, reached that hence its independent policy, but now it appears that that : headed monster, which holds the Government in its grasp, 4 ﬁemiteofbankmptcy, and is circumscribing its course, before ‘ ingvit-to the company of puppets which disgraces the walks ,~= an Yes the World’, like every other daily sheet, must ‘i ‘3to,.them,a.ndate3 of‘ greedy, unscrupulous and insatiate " fancies it has climbed one more round on the ladder of hell- - . » ‘silty- 'l;‘h_e daily press, under such dictation, sedulously conceals ; reports which are detrimental to the interests of controlling a ' 'c combinations. The bugle blasts which are being . ‘ad-along. the line of the laboring masses, the spasmodic con- of growing discontent, the repeated occurrence of mob vio- -agndpf governmental interference by military force, the .- l -_ .power of labor organizations, as evinced by their annual cdemonstrations on the 1st of May, the eloquent and i1npas- gmed appeals of orators quickening the lethargic movement of the -.—: .- a to an annihilation of existing wrongs and overthrow of i -- tyrants, the unerring indications of disintegration in our -ﬁnd religious institutions; all these mighty portends of the of right are, as far as possible, studiously concealed, , the fool-born oligarchy which dictates legislative enactments, '-.; that immediate calamity is suspended, lulls itself to sleep . the illusory perfumes of self-indulgence. The Associated Press, the United Press Association and other ~- - - created for the dissemination of news, upon which the gnugtgdepend for its intelligence of recurring events, are __g:gn;o:polistic combines and manipulated to enhance their H The-sunlight of truth cannot pierce this devil- ~ mist-of falsehood -and therefore nothing but the monsoon of re- »-- can clear away the blackness of night which hovers about v baﬂes the honest effort of an outraged people. The telegraphic ' service which rightfully belongs to the Commonwealth is prosti- u, 4- to the wishesof infamous thieves. V isnot asingle daily paper in the United States which truth. Not one of them has ever given the people and correct elucidation of the present monetary system. _ pnrposelykmystify this subject so that the masses shall re- _ ' They: cannot give a justiﬁable reason for the dfgold as. the standard of money values. Their explanations jthis subject are thinner than isinglass. Equally transparent 4. attempted vindication of the National Banking system, so,oneof.the most infamous outrages ever perpetrated upon - - - . Any question which immediately effects the in- ‘ people’ they carefully veil, and always will so long as _ t _ 'v system is in vogue. Newspapers are nothing but 'a1enteqnrises-and with them every issue must become sub- tlto the one great, absorbing aim; namely, the acquisition of - advocacy-of true social reform is as spurious as the am : .of the harlot regarding her virginity; of the two, how- thehtteris the.more susceptible to redemption, for the daily -iiaimply the catspaw of a debauched aristocracy. Thus’ public sentiment is choked off and the money. Now the people desire and will ﬁnally obtain adaily paper that will tell the whole truth unﬂinchingly, a paper that will uncom- promisingly oppose every form of social wrong, and in‘ the face of all opposition, will ever and anon advocate a policy deep enough and broad enough to take in the whole human family. THE PLOW- SHARE AND PRUNIM; HOOK, established for the promulgation of an equitable system of commerce, advancing side by side of this magniﬁcent plan for the adjustment of the ﬁnancial problem which Congress has demonstrated itself incompetent to handle, enlisting public sentiment and conﬁdence and aggregating to itself a strong and substantial constituency, will ﬁnally be converted into just such a daily paper as is the crying need of the hour. The J esuitieal Power in Politics. Extract from :1 Letter Received. It was my fortune to have spent some eighteen years of my public life in VVashingtou, which ended about ﬁve years ago. This gave me good opportunity to observe and reﬂect much upon the state of the country as reﬂected in what I there saw of men and things in public and private life. I shall not attempt to enter into the particulars which established in my mind the conclusion that the capital of this nation is the most patent centre of Jesuitical inﬂu- ence in the United States. Gen. Ordway’s lecture herewith enclosed is only one of the many signs I have observed in time past which tend to conﬁrm me in this impression. I will only re- late one incident in my Washington experience which, because it made a deep impression on my mind at the time as having import- ant signiﬁcance in connection with events transpiring at that time, I have treasured and often thought of since. K As I recall the circumstance now, I remember that the public mind at the capital, as elsewhere, had been n1uch stirred up and concerned over the possible turn the riot in Martinsburg, West- Virginia, in 1877 might take. I was employed in the Treasury Department at the time; and there was serious talk in government circles of arming the employees for the defense of the public build- ings. , \Nhile this cloud was passing over, I was-one evening walking under the shadow of the Post Office Department, near the Depart- ment of the Interior, when I was politely accosted by a gentleman in a black suit‘, and immediately joined in conversation with him. He seemed deeply interested in the subject of the Martinsburg occurences, and began to question me very earnestly as to what I thought of the matter. I talked with him freely, and the convers- ation gradually took a wider range; as to the possibility of similar and even greater uprisings of the kind in the future; the causes and ﬁnal outcome of these things. The conversation did not close till he had drawn from me an expression like this; that the troubles would increase more and more until the laboring classes, smarting under the wrongs and injustice of their moneyed lords, the capital- ists, would ﬁnd their oppressions no longer bearable, and that the end thereof would be Anarchy. I had little or no hope that the differences existing could be settled peaceably; for" I felt that “without the shedding of blood there could be no remission of sins." The stranger appeared 10 be agman of more than ordinary ability and education. He was in substantial agreement with me. We soon parted, and I never saw him again. As he turned to go away, I looked at him more closely, and the impression came full upon n1e,—/ze is a jemif, rum’ 2': only feeling around lo getpozhters. I have some other more recent facts in this line to communi- cate, but must delay to another time. * * * {move-aj WAR CLOUDS, Chili is convulsed by an internal revolt; Russia is liable, at any moment, to commence hostilities with Turkey; Germany is internally unsettled through Socialistic agitation and in its inter- national relations is growing restless; France now, as ever, is liable to be seized with the spasm of war; England is fearful over the pos- sibilities of a general European outbreak in which she must be the principal actor; Italy will watch for revenge on the United States for her disposition of the Maﬁa issue, and this Democracy is creaking and lurching like a disabled craft on a tempestuous sea. But these things must be, for Christ fortold how in the last days, “nation would rise against nation and kingdom against king- dom. ” ' I iS,aféi$Elxpat1o1_‘ c -t to agovernrnen ‘o - e peop e. .L’0 t e peop_e_ AFTER REVOLUTION WHAT? Admitting that the present social conditions will soon culmin- ate in a revolution that will embrace both this country and Europe, a statement which no reﬂective, practical mind can question, the next query is: What will be the outcome of revolution? Here social reformers are nonplussed. You ask them this question and they reply: “Well, when the social war is over we will see. ” They probably will see if they are not caught in the vortex of the storm, as many of them in their zeal for retribution will be. Viewing humanity as it is this question confounds philosoph- ers. When disease takes hold of a person as a result ofviolation of law, does that disease enrich or impoverish the system? Close investigators are bold enough to hint that medical science, so-called, has very little to do with the convalesence of a sick person, but often much to do with his succumbing to disease. They claim that there is a hidden force, destiny perhaps, which determines the number of our days, and that men would often recover more quickly from disease without the interference of doctors. No scientist has yet been able to explain, from a material standpoint, the secret of the curative properties of homeopathic medicines. Like allopathic nostrums, they frequently contain none, but that which they some- times do contain lies in the xpz'rz'l1ml ]>0t‘€m‘y of the medicine. Shakespeare says: “There is a divinity which shapes our ends rough hew them though we will." Whether men believe it or not, there is an invisible power which determines the trend of human thought and action. VVhen humanity sinks into the quagmire of social war and every civilized nation is convulsed by the horrors of blood and carnage, when the whole social fabric is dismembered and barbarism seems imminent, we ask thinking men what natural power; what potency exists in a fallen selﬁsh race any more than in a diseased body, to save it from extinguishment? No man, rea- soning upon a material- basis, can demonstrate that there is any. Look this matter squarely in the face! Let us have no begging of the question! The coming social strife will not be conﬁned to one nation or continent but will be cosmopolitical in its scope. Labor, all over the universe, is united against capital, and both are un- mistakably preparing for the great conflict of the age. As universal as the calamity of death, thrusting aside racial barriers, the social problem has become the common issue of oppressed humanity,‘ and when the tide of indignation has risen it will reach its ﬂood at all points almost simultaneously, effecting the dissolution of the selﬁsh and corrupt bodies politic. No man, notwithstanding his expressed views, can believe that the human race is going to sink into barbarism although he is un- able to indicate any natural force in mankind which, at the present juncture, can save it from such a fate. Such an idea is as revolt- ing to the human mind as that of the termination of consciousness with death. There never lived a person, who, despite the most pronounced atheistic views, has not spanned the chasm of death’s _mysteries with the bridge of hope. Hamlet in his soliloquy says: “To die ;-—to sleep ;—To sleep, perchanec to dream ;—ay. there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death _what dreams»-may come. When we have shuffled oﬁ" this mortal coil, Must give us pause :” Perpetuity is a universal law. Modern science, despite its vagaries, clearly proves that this earth has existed for, at least, one hundred thousand years; it must ever continue to exist. The plant droops as the year nears its close, just as humanity now droops with the close of a zodiacal year. But because that plant droops must it necessarily die? No. In the spring the vitalizing energy of the eternal sun will restore it to its pristine purity. Humanity will not die amid the fury of social chaos; it will rather enter upon a new career, just as the spirit after leaving the body is wafted to another realm. Its new career, however, will not be directed by selﬁsh human momentum, for that power, having spent its force, will be impotent: A Divine energy, through the precipitation of a personality (strange as this statement may appear) will have im- pregnated the race with a new impulse, and, through the efﬁcacy of this motory centre, the wheels of real progress will be started and like amighty engine with its labyrinth of machinery, in fulﬁl- ment of the Utopian dream, humanity will harmonize and labor co- The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. operatively for the common good of all. . 1 This is true civilization and must obtain because it is in con-‘ sonance with the operation of law. Is such a social_ arrangement ,‘ practical? Is it essential? At this time it is absolutely indispens--'3. able. Then it musi be practical. ‘ But before this new order of things is ushered in a few preli-_‘ minary steps are necessary. VVhen the grand social break up occurs there must be somewhere an established system which can?‘ withstand the blasts of revolution else the future of the race would be hopeless. There is but one genuine co-operative system¥and 1 that is only in its infancy—whicl1 is operated upon a basis of; united harmonious effort; all others must prove failures, because: they are planned upon the basis of individualism. This system is , in practical operation; others have advanced no further than " theory. VVe speak now of those projects under consideration whose. sole aim is to reconstruct society upon an equitable _footing.~ The system referred to, is the Koreshan Unity, which has now '_ had a practical existence for over three years, and is gradually extending its branches north, east, south and west. ‘f This organization has established a Bureau of Equitable Com-V merce whereby commercial relations have been instituted which.‘ are entirely foreign to the tactics of modern trade. Dealing in all kinds of merchandise, negotiating a’z'ren‘Zy with the producer, it; sells certiﬁcates to its patrons, of different denominations, providing‘ them with checks so arranged that the amounts of their purchases- from the Bureau can be punched until i the whole amount of the'_ check ($5,oo) is exhausted. This Bureau will sell merchandise_at" a lower ﬁgure than the same can be purchased from retailers. Na- -. turally enough, with the extention of the business of the Bureau,- these certiﬁcates and checks will possess a greater purchasablé power than United States currency and will therefore be preferred‘ by the patrons of the Bureau to Government money. Thus the Koreshan Unity _will build up a system of commerce of its own, operated upon square principles for the sole beneﬁt of its patrons; who become part owners of the corporation. if There is a wide difference between this and other co-operative: plans. The Koreshan Unity was founded, built and will be main-_ tained upon the fulﬁllment of God’s law as revealed through 'biblic_, al prophecy. \Vith a triangular basis of true social, scientiﬁc an theological law, it was designed by Divine authority for the regen-. eration of a fallen humanity and by no other impulse could it con- tinue to exist. Other co-operative systems must become the pre ~ of selﬁsh, designing men, because they are not founded upon th Decalogue, the anchorage of humanity’s bark, which alone -_' save it in the drift of social contention. VVhen the social revolutio is upon us and every department of effort, which now obtains, w 2 have been disintegrated by human selﬁshness, the Koreshan Unit with its Bureau of Equitable Commerce will stand forth uniﬁed harmonious and powerful, an invincible fortress, the true indicate of commercial equity, the consummate master of the situatio . People will ﬂee to it as to an ark of safety, and the true Common’ wealth, which Christ prophecied and for which men have pray will be an accomplished fact. " .4" c o-¢.—_._ INDUSTRY AND FRUGALITY THE FOUNDATIO ’ STONES OF ECONOMY. The Koreshan Unity through its corporate legal body purpo‘ to circulate its money directly to the people. The people are d manding money, and the question arises, how can they obtain ii If it is issued by what is denominated government, the matt takes about the following form: Of course the people comprise the government. No one ., dispute the truth of this in theory. VVe—-the people—must er ploy agents to perform our work. Of course we must! Busine‘ can't be accomplished in any other way, so we institute congr and legislatures as our agencies, but especially Congress. N a. what is Congress? It is made up of two or more classes of men -: represent two or more distinct parties of diverse interests, one u‘ the right, the other on the left. The set of men on the right rea the ﬂoor of the House through the gauntlet of personal abuse f «- the party press representing the class on the left and the =_i The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 'v~- ‘their position on the ﬂoor by running the gaunt- ‘phrtjwpiess representing. the class on the right. Accord- préss representing one side, the opposite class is made . ,-§¥‘iitIet.ot‘_1:utthroats and vagabonds. It may be true, but the press is no criterion. ‘Do these classes represent the people ?, ow-id,ence,'that they do, has not yet appeared. These said ’ ‘ or A 7 i ' __determine the affairs of the people, and every ‘ interests must be subject to the uncertainty , uence of speculators to control their votes either ‘favor of the measure. This is legislation and upon -0 people depend for their rights. VVe must have money. shall we obtain it? Why borrow it of course, there is no other it when a man has lost his credit. But having lost credit the banks won‘t lend. Why, borrow it of ourselves? - we have lost credit and no one else will lend, there is but dlternative, we must borrow of ourselves. How shall we do ' «- for us, and we, through our agents will borrow our own money, but to make the scheme practicable we must borrow it at «our standard bearer as the representative of cheap money, and the overthrow of the National Banking system which demands so »**Pi1iNme HOOK: Don’t- you make a slight mistake somewhere in your estimate? If you pay two per cent interest on the money i borrow, admitting that you borrow of these people who com- the government, does not that :money go into the treasury "ere it is employed for the interests of the whole people after all, and are you not, therefore, .beneﬁtted by the two per cent you pay to yourselves through your representatives? To the above query we answer, if the people have the right to ’ money and lend it why demand any interest for its use? If "4 ent can make a dollar to lend, why not make one to put in treasury? For the simple reason that it would be a relief to the pﬁple and that is just what the nabobs do not desire. The specu- lators like Senator Stanford know that money lent to the people at two per cent will induce personal bankruptcy throughout the land and-that when this is accomplished, if the scheme “pans out” the V are at the feet of the plutocr acy. The representation in Washington, made up as it is of the rich, ind through wealth alone comprising a codﬁsh aristocracy beyond elgsocial recognition of their constituency, cannot be trusted with [the settlement of our ﬁnancial problem. Any attempt to adjust Otn‘ ﬁnances will be an effort to make it the instrument of the mil- Jionaire by which he still further subjugates and depresses the C begging at his door, while the congressional nabob fattens "-crib. , - . ‘ ‘can't be reformed and there is but one remedy for the ‘people. This is offered by the Commercial system of the Koreshan _nity through ,the medium of the BUREAU or EQU1TAnLF. COM- inner. I.‘ The Koreshan Unity will bring the producer and consumer v toface, ultimately making them a unit. It will accomplish 1 gh its certificate and check system. It will make the ‘I1-I‘1\l"of commercial interchange, and issue it, in any conceive- -. quantity to all who desire to and will perform the uses of life. its system of Commercial equation it will destroy legislative, ' d, and trustmonopolies. It will supply the people with their _ um of circulation without interest, to any amount, and will i nstrate to the people their right to practically control their cial interests. The people should possess money without in- , by right of ownership through service performed. This - bethe only recognized and legitimate right to the use of tive of exchange-—K ': . V W‘. . IT WILL PAY YOU TO BECOME A PATRON AND v‘ OCKHOLDER OF THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COM- ’ ' CE. _ALL CERTIFICATE-HOLDERS AS VVELL AS I K-HOLDERS WII_;L SHARE IN THE PROFITS OF ' 3 - BUREAU. A JESUITICAL SCHEME. There comes from Rome the report that parish schools are to be organized in this country for the catholic children of the differ- ent nationalities, the German, French, Italian, etc. with monks and nuns of like racial origin associated with each, whereby the different ethnological lines may live in the United States without the necessity of admixture with other races. This is a beautiful scheme; so much in harmony with the spirit of American institutions. VVhat an excellent opportunity it would afford the Catholic church to solidify its strongholds in this country. Catholic aliens would then have but two interests to serve; namely, the Church and the capitalists; and, if the Church can thus prevent foreign born laborers from becoming familiar with American habits and customs, why, of course, it would’nt be long before Jesuitism and Plutocracy would come to an agreeable understanding whereby the papacy might wriggle itself into gov- ernmental control. Sucha scheme may look visionary on paper, but it is just whatjesuitism to day has in its mind. Let the people of these United States mark it well that this ecclesiastical power is laying its wires, and purposes to gain political ascendency in this country. It is the power behind Nationalism, the Farmers Alli- ance and the money oligarchy. It is ready to seize the ﬁrst opportunity, whether in the ostensible interest of labor or capital, to fasten its fangs in the body politic, and it will advocate any scheme, no matter how inimical it may be to the principles of a democracy, that will lead to a consummation of such an end. Jesuitism, with an unbroken front, laughs at the segregated efforts of Protestantism and when men talk about the continued separation of Church and State it points to history from the most ancient times, to the early and later periods of atheistic revolt and relapse into religious organity, and, holding its sides, roars with laughter at the ignorance and gullibility of the shallow and blatant. From the earliest historical records religion has existed and in a more tangible form than that which passes current to-day as re- ligion. The Egyptians, the natives of ancient India and the Chaldeans believed in a consciousness after death and could de- monstrate their belief more logically than the modern Christian. Church and State are to-day separated and have been for several centuries. The divorce ot these two great factors in society always precedes its general disintegration, but does any one suppose that religion can forever be blotted from the face of the earth. One great religious system grows old and is replaced by another, thus it will ever be through the ceaseless cycles of time: declension of Christianity it fails to serve the purposes for which it was intended, it will be replaced by another religious system; thus humanity will ever be revitalized, otherwise it would die. It is not our purpose here to enter upon a religious discussion but we desire to enunciate the fact that the human mind could no more be deprived of its inspirational dependencies and still be per- petuated then a lame man could be bereft of his crutches without falling by the way. The Jesuit knows this full well and he pur- poses to take advantage of the present ephemeral demonstration of self-dependence on the part of vain-glorious man, and ﬁrmly rebind his mossbacked ecclesiastical system to our governmental machin- ery. But there exists a power he has not reckoned upon in his calculations whichwill yet baﬁle his well laid plans. It is however thoroughly in keeping with the characteristic effrontery of this ecclesiastical intriguer that he should devise such a scheme, as the above, to be operated under a democratic form of government whose very life is dependent upon the connningling of its citizens. Racial distinctions and clans can never be recognized or tolerated under such a form of government otherwise it must be- come segregated, which, unhappily,is the unmistakeable tendency of the United States government to-day. Watch Jesuitism and you will soon note some interesting developments. It is going to show its hand, politically. The Jesuit order has a total membership of 12,300 divided into 27 provinces. Founded by Ignatius Loyola to restore the prestige of the Church, lost through sacerdotal licentiousness, this order is the most alert, skilled, and subtle organization in existence. p ~ o a'governr_nen “o - e peop ~ . L0 1 - e peop e_ VVhen in the L IN CASE OF A RIOT. General Ordway discourses to the Officers of the National Guard. ANARCHY AND SOCIALISM. The Dangers of the Future—Men Who Have Military Skill Direct Move- ments of Rioters—FeW Workingmen Ever Found in Mobs ~The Law and the Soldier. From the Washington Ezvcning Star of Saturday, May 9th. There were no Anarchists in the audience that listened attentively last Monday Evening to Gen. Albert Ordway, as that scholarly soldier delivered a lecture on “Street Riot Duty.” The instructive talk was unanimously and noisily applauded; and that fact proved concliisively the truthfulness of the - ‘statement that there were no anarchists in the ﬂrst battalion officers room on .the occasion referred to. The subject was one of which the District National «Guard knows but little, and the Generalcommanding had come to the conclu- sion that a few remarks on such an interesting topic might be productive of much good. A large numbe-r of the more enthusiastic officers were present, and when the lecture was ended did their best to sufficiently thank Gen. Ord- wayfor the amount of information and doctrine which he had so freely given. Some little time was spent by the General in asserting the general sover- -eignty of the civil power, and the consequent subordination of the military forces; and then he went on to discuss legal matters, quoting the 1'iot section of the District law, which is as follows : “That when there is in the District of Columbia a tumult, riot, mob, or body of men acting together by force, with attempt to commit a felony, or to offer violence to persons or property, or by force and violence to break and resist the laws or when such tmnult, riot, or mob is threatem=:l, it shall be la\vful for the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or for the U. S. Marshal for the District of Columbia, to call on the Commander-in-chief to aid them in sup- pressing such violence and enforcing the laws; the Commander-in-chief shall thereupon order out so much and such portions of the militia as he may deem necessary to suppress the same; and no member there-of who shall be thus ordered out by proper authority for any such duty shall be liable to civil or criminal prosecution for any act done in the discharge of his military duty.” THE LAW AND THE GUARDSMAN. The question of civic control of militia when so ordered out was then dis- ‘ -cussed at some length and in a most interesting manner, numerous eases being .cited interestingly. The seizure and use of private property for public pur- poses was talked of for awhile;and then touching upon the question of the liability and responsibility of officers the General said: “I have seen it stated .by one writer that if assailed by force too strong for its ordinary processes, the law calls force to its defense ; but from its exalted throne it judges both its as- zsailants and its defenders.’ I cannot agree with this writer. I believe that ‘when law calls upon force to defend it, that law will protect those it calls to its . idefense so long as the means employed by force and the results of employing 1 ‘those means are kept within the prc-established precepts laid down by law it- ,7 . self. The impression is too general, and has been too long uncontradicted, " that a military ofﬁcer puts himself in great jeopardy of civil or criminal p11n- :3;-,, ishment on the one hand, or court-martial on the other, in the discharge of " duties imposed on him by law. I cannot assent to this doctrine; In fact I ven- ture to contradict it. To admit it would paralyze the efficiency of the military .-.13 . ..nr»-r/»v«\ force, and make all their efforts weak and vacillating.” I‘ THE NECESSITY FOR PREPARATION. The duty of officers in case of riot was then clearly summed up, and the _- General proceeded as follows: “Having considered the legal aspect of riots, and relations that exist between the military and civil authorities in suppress- ing them, it now remains for us to consider the equally important military questions involved in the methods of applying military force to this practice It is fully as important in this country to prepare for internal disorder as for external danger, as much reason to provide for suppressing riots as to provide _ for coast defense. Our people seem to be wholly blind to the lessons of the , ‘ '_ - past, the dangers of the present, or the possibilities of the future. In 1877 an 7 if insignificant trouble at the small town of Martinsburg, in West-Virginia, sud- denly developed proportions that overshadowed the whole country. In less than forty-eight hours 50,000 miles of railway were inoperative, and great _ sovereign States were appealing in the most abject manner to the federal gov- . 7 ' ernment for protection. Millions of dollars worth of property was destroyed, —millions of dollars worth of human labor lost,—and the fabric of lawful order V received a severe blow, If all of this was done in 1877 without premeditation, and without a definite purpose in view, for which previous organization under competent leaders had been made, it is fearful to contemplate what might oc- cur in the future. Since that time our country has been overrun with hun- dreds of thousands of the most criminal and ignorant classes of Europe, who can neither assimilate with our people, nor appreciate or understand the mean- ingof our institutions, or the force of our laws; men who know no law but force, and can appreciate no punishment less than death. THE PROFESSIONAL AGITATOR. “Following in the wake of this horde of immigrants have come the pro- fessional agitators, who may be called the pimps of the professional leaders, who have come to live on the tolls they levy on these ignorant people while they organize and train them for their own diabolical purposes. These profession- al leaders are by no means to be despised. They are generally men who have '6 u The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. had a military education; have held rank and position in various armies; have 0 had experience in war; but who through their own vices have been dismissed from all honorable service, and ostracized from all respectable society; and though having been reared to despise those who labor, make dupes of them 1 that they may liveupon their contributions and the possibilities of the future. — “If you ever have occasion to meet these men, you will find that they are no tyros in the art of war, and will be a match for the best intelligence " ‘we can bring to bear against them. The hand of these people is not shown in ' ' _ ordinary affairs, but we know enough of them,——of the organizations they con- , trol, of their purposes, and of their means of accomplishing these purposes.— ‘‘ to know that when the time comes, that they consider favorable, the riots of 1877 will be remembered as triﬂing affairs compared with what will then con- front us. THE DANGERS OF THE FUTURE. “Any thoughtful person, and especially a military observer, must realize the fact that riots in the future will be more frequent and moreformidable than in the past, in as much as when honest but misguided men may be brought to the sudden frenzy of resisting lawful government, the opportunity will be seized by the professional rioter and anarchist to accomplish their own pur- poses. This vic\v is amply sustained by many facts known to the police author- ities, and is clearly indicated by the brief cablegrams contained in our news- papers describing rccent riots in Europe. A few weeks ago the cable account of a riot in Bradford, England, said that the riotcrs not only barricaded the streets in their front, b11t that they also barriczuled all the side-streets on their Flanks, It was certainly no novice who conducted that defense. “The cablegrams of the past few days describing riots that occurred in Various cities in Europe on the first of May, though meager in detail, contain enough to justify the same conclusion. The fearful slaughter of the brave (ll!) policemen of Chicago in Haymarkct Square was only one feature of a prc-ar- ranged plan that failed simply by lack of co-operation, and the single dynamite bomb that caused their death was only one of many that had been prepared ; for far more serious work. Are we to hope or expect that such an attempt will never be made again? or that when made, the anarchists will not profit by their former failure, while we pay not the slightest attention to the lessons ’" that the attempt should have taught us ‘: LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. “In considering the riotous elements of society, distinction should be made ‘ between labor organizations, socialists, and anarchists. All of these terms seem foreign to our institutions; but nevertheless they are transplanted to 0111' 2 midst, and we must learn their purposes and understand their meaning. “Labor organizations are formed with the praiscworthy purpose of amelio- rating or improving the condition of laborers by peaceful and legal organiza- tions (sic). that may follow are another. The power in the hands of these organizations is tremendous. It would be necessary to assert human infallibility to assume that this power will never be exercised to promote the fortunes or purposes of unscrupulous leaders who may get control of it. We know that it has been done on some occasions in the past, and we know that it will be more likely to ' occur in the future in proportion to the introduction of foreign labor and _ foreign ideas. This is indicated by the fact that the labor organizations, after failing in any other way to accomplish a declared purpose, such as increase of : wages, fewer hours of work, the restoration of a discharged laborer, resort to a ‘strike’ to accomplish it. A ‘strike’ means the employment and exercise of force. It forces the unwilling to cease labor, and forcibly prevents the willing from assuming labor. balance of his payment : long the life of an invalid wife, and in the care of his helpless children : resisting us; but you shall not work.’ “’I‘hcsc are not labor organizations or methods that any f1‘(‘t‘i)O1‘Il American , They are cruel and tyrannical powers, enforc- ' Force bc- ‘ can tolerate or sympathize with. ing the worst form of human slavery by the exercise of brutal force. gets force. If the workingmen adopt the methods of anarchy they must know that the elements of anarchy will seek to co-operate with them, and that they , will be involved in the fate that must always finally come to anarchy—ruin or ' despotisin. WORKINGMEN SELDOM FOUND IN MOBS. “It has, however, thus far, been greatly to the credit of intelligent labor, - and is a hopeful sign of the future, that they are seldom found in the ranks of a mob, no matter for what grievances they may be endeavoring to procure re- j It was stated by one officer in reference to the riots of 1877 in Pennsyl- ’ vania that ‘not 15 per cent. of the railroad emp1oye’s were participants or sym- .' pathizers.’( !) It was stated still more strongly by another officer that the mobs ' dress. were ‘composed of roughs,tra1nps, and unknown 1nen——from where no one kncw—and a few striking railroad men.’ “These facts should teach the l&l.\\'l('SFi element among the workingmen; that if they listen to the specious arguments of the anarchist they will not have i: the support of their fellow workmen; and should also convince the soldier (ll v that any mob he may be called upon to face, and which has been organized under the plea of wrongs of labor to be redressed, is in reality composed of at 0' least 85 per cent. of roughs, tramps, thieves, convicts, and anarchists ; and that 5, he need have no compunctions in effectually eradicating them( l ! 1) THE SOCIALIST AND THE ANARCHIST. “The socialists should not be confounded with the anarchists. The socialist‘ is generally a mild sort of being who indulges in vague theories of the proper‘, He is a dreamer, and no more to be feared" construction of human society. » .. .........~ The good intentions of such organizations are one thing; the results ' It says to the contented( l ) laborer who has his pleasant - home( I ), partly paid for (ll ), and who is cheerfully laboring to discharge the . ‘You shall not work’, and it says to the skilled laborer 1 who may have expended the last dollar of his savings in endeavoring to pro- ‘Your ’ wife may die—your children may starvc—and you may become a convict for r 7 -1- -. anarchist is the natural product of socialistic theories practically ap- i ) He believes, or asserts a belief in a condition of society in which there 17 he no law, or no supreme power; and in which every individual shall do “ he pleases with perfect impunity. Even Hell is assumed to have a he is generally pictured as not only a most powerful but a most ruler. ,1! one could imagine Hell without a ru1cr,he might form a slight ~ - on’ of :what this earth would be if anarchy should prevail. The anar- fessional riotcr, and he brings to his profession all of the arts of V the skill of science, and the knowledge of experience. If you are brought into contact with a mob, let us hope that the anarchist will consti- the front ranks, if not the entire body of it. What otherwise might be a will then become a pleasure.” (l) ——-——>—<o>-+-j- THE KAWEAH COLONY. , H’. Editor. It might be well to mention a. few of the facts upon the basis - hich the injustice and persecution of the Kaweah land cases is claimed, ac- ’ - ; to the Govcrnmcnt’s own showing. First, they have the written affidavit of the Local Land Office officials of the 2 -Land District, that ﬂlings were made and money tendered in strict ‘ >4 plhmoe with the requirements of the Law; Second, they have a copy of the , i from the General Land Oiiice to investigate these very claims. He describes ' ttlers as honest, industrious, well meaning citizens, and bona iide settlers, v on by fire, caused by careless shecpherders and hunters, not connected colony; Third,—The decision of commissioner Groff of the General Department was a favorable one, indicating that their claims were legal, recommended the withdrawal of all Departmental interference. _ spite of all this showing Secretary of the Interior Noble says, in effect: ,i we will send a. troop of cavalry and put them off of these lands and let -in whistle to congress for remuneration for their extensive improvements.” illslgniﬂcant fact that immediately after his decision, commissioner Groff inhis resignation, presumably for the reason that he would not be a to such bare faced iniquity and injustice, or, because the political ' brought to bear upon him by the monied plutocracy of monopolistic , hlssiding with the poor settlers, was more than he chose to stand, ‘ pound feel that he is now better off in leading an honest life as a , _ citizen in his beautiful home in Los Angeles. This decision of Secre- -Nol:le,we are glad to say, does not effect the legal status of the case, as the ‘ . ' of the Interior is in no sense a judicial ofﬁccr and can no more do- "the case ﬁnally than any other citizen. ptjuslice, set aside these lands as a.National Park Reservation, with- ﬁtoxision in the Bill for remuneration for the value of the lands in nor for the improvements upon them, aggregating nearly a half mil- .-.. upon them, such as the arrest and conviction of the trustees upon ding charge of cutting ﬂve straggling pine trees upon the very lands - -- , calling it Government land. This the defense did not attempt to the workmen, while they were building the road and not for specu- for the market, and the cutting of timber even upon bona flde Gov- 1 ' ‘‘ -in,a‘ca.se of this kind, were it is not cut for profit, is allowable. "into consideration the millions of feet of Government timber Oloheing constantly appropriated by wealthy lumber companies, which wfulappropriation of public property is only winked at by Government . C1,, the persecution of the Kaweah settlers seems all the more shameful. Wjohroglnd to know that many of the newspapers of the Southern counties . up their voices in indignant protest, having awakened to a realiza- that the great Lumber Combination of the Paciﬂc Coast is at ollthe troubles that have in the past beset the Kaweah colonists, ‘great trust has had inﬂuence enough to prevent said co-operative ' eceeding in securing title to their lands. The valuable road ﬁe» -: the §&nJoaquin Valley, all of Southern California and Arizona hneettimber. Hence it is easily seen why the Lumber Monopoly is anxious and desirous of choking off this enterprise. It knows that on for the interests of the people, and that it will under no cir- d in with the extortioners of high prices. The animus of the t,'who, when asked by a lady colonist in Ncw—Mexico, while on m 1 tour through the country, what the Government meant by , ts-lands, replied thus: “Every citizen in the United‘ States; i man, is entitled to 160 acres of Government Land, but that ..n- tted to undermine the Great American Republic, ma- - that co-operation, fraternity, and justice in commercial hats in with this “Great American Republic.” We quote - _lda1ul{a1'.l,‘whieh puts the case very intolligently.—F. I). J. - hctabecome known in connection with the Kaweah colony, which is aholltthirty miles north of Visalia on the Kaweah river, it becomes evi- ' iyrantly or wilfully, the oﬁicers of this government are perpetrat- ' - us injustice upon the colonists. Not only are they doing this, but actually Violating the law which they are sworn to uphold, in an at- no v - eremains a. mistery. Look at the facts in the case: It is about ﬂve years since a body of men, with their families, located upon the lands which have since been known as those of the Kaweah colony. They took every legal step to make their claim upon the realty valid. The land had been surveyed and thrown open to settlers under the laws of the United Stated. They ﬁled upon it under the statute applying to timber lands. Their ﬁlings were duly accepted and became a part of United States land ofﬁce records. Still acting in accordance with the law, they went upon the land, built homes and made improvements which, up to the present time, have aggregated hundreds of thousands of dollars in val.ue. Now the law says, and the constitution of the United States says, that rights thus legally acquired cannot be taken from the individual except by the law of eminent domain, and then only upon due compensation made. Such rights are as inviolablc, and more so, than the tenure by which a monarch holds his throne; they are sacred or a government for the people is a mockery. Yet, regardless of right and law, the oﬂicials of the federal government are now engaged in an outrageous attempt to take from these people the very property in the secure possession of which Uncle Sam’s faith is pledged to protect them. Of course these officials are not acting without some form, some empty shell of law on which to base a defense of their wrong. Here is their position, and the reader shall judge how tawdry and tinsel a thing it is: After these colonists had presented their filings ; after those ﬁlings had been duly accepted by the governmental agents at the land office; after they had settled upon the land under the right thus acquired, and had in good faith made valuable im- provemcnts; after all these events, we say, the congress of the United States passed a law—or an attempted law—withdrawing this land from market and forming of it a national park. Now, congress is a potent and mighty body, but it has no power to make such a law as that, because the federal constitution ex- pressly provides that it cannot make ex post facto laws or those impairing the obligation of contracts. This great nation, through its agents, had made a contract with a little colony at Kaweah, and it was and is just as sacred, just as inviolablc, as if its parties were humble citizens John J ones and Thomas Smith. So stands the case to-day, and it is one which is of utmost importance to every citizen, because if injustice and violation of the constitution are permit- ted in one instance no man may know when he himself shall be the victim of similar wrong. The Kaweah colonists are as exemplary a class of citizens as a. community could \vcll receive, they make great improvements; they are honest, energetic and, best of all, progressive. All these facts may make one sympa- thize the more with them, but, after all, when the great principle at stake in the matter is considered, questions of individual and person disappear. The matter to be decided is whether a contract of this nation with its citizens is good; whether even Congress can back out of an agreement which has. been squarely made and acted upon by the other party to it. Those are the questions in- volved in the Kaweah affair. Their importance will be recognized. The constitution says that the obligation of contracts shall be inviolable. Shall the constitution stand, or shall the servants of the people over-ride its pro- visions? It rests with 1c electors finally to say, and they cannot too_ entirely understand that in the case of the Kaweah colonists and the government’s ac- tion thereon, rights which have heretofore been held sacred are menaced. When the nation attempts, by superior power, to steal a half million dollars’ worth of improvements from them, it places itself exactly in the position of the highwayman who uses the shotgun argument to secure your money. people of the great republic should not permit the Kaweah robbery to be con- su1nmatcd.—Sf0¢'kton. Mail. —%——Ho>+—-———:- A Statement of Fact, But an Inadequate Remedy. One hundred thousand men, women and children, in the city of New York, ' with the going down of the sun each day, do not know where their living for the next day is coming from. Is not this a most appalling record of poverty and human dcstitution? Among these are the producers of wealth; but how small a part do they share of the wealth they create? Mighty little, you’ may be sure, or they would not be forced to accept this scanty condition for life’s daily wants. ' ‘Now, is anybody responsible for this beside themselves? Is society, which embodies the moral sentiment and the combined elements of the individualities of which it is made up, guiltless in this matter? Or is it perfectly irresponsible and unconcerned about the wretched condition of a part of the members of which it is composed? Should 100,000 people be compelled to struggle for a. bare existence in the heart of a great city, where there is a plenty and enough to spare? It is a sad and discouraging spectacle to look upon, especially from the standpoint of christian civilization, which distinguishes the era in which we live. Well may the considerate observer exclaim, “Time veil it; ’twill darken thy scroll !” How long this state of things will continue, we may not say. It is certainly a great social evil, and it seems as if some remedy might be suggested by which very much of it could be abated. Let the guardians of society and the powers of the state be invoked to lend a helping hand. Let the accumulators of wealth, who live upon the gains produced by these people, come to their aid, and divide a portion with them in some organized plan of self-help, by which they may supply the necessities of their condition. In doing this they will not only help the needy, but, as well, protect themselves from the dangers to which they are exposed by the near presence of so much _ poverty, which, if left unsupplicd, by its nearness to vice and crime, exists as a menancc to property, and society itself. Certainly it will be well to reﬂect on this contingency and to contrive some practical way whereby help can be supplied and the dangers can be avoided to which we refer.~The National View. m._.4»o-4o»__. Public Sentiment Strong-er than Oligarchal Government. I believe that a private company or individual should have as much right to issue money as the rulers at Washington or the people who own the National banks; as much right to carry stamped letters as the rulers who run the post office, but if I could get laws passed to that effect by turning my hand over I would not take the trouble to do even so simple a thing as that. All that is necessary is to get a. sufficient number of people to believe as I do. The money lenders and the post oﬂicc monopolists could not maintain themselves an hour against public sentiment. Again I say expensive lawmakers are not necessary to make you free. All that is necessary is simply to ignore the laws which bind you.—Tzcentieth Century. 5 Sta. ?"=<- -oi» " - agovernmen o e peep . rorepeo e The ' 8 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. ‘A Citizens of the MMONWEALTH! \Ve urge you to investigate our system of Commercial Equation by which we purpose to revolutionize the com- merce of the world and institute justice in the interchange of products. The establishment of equitable comniercial relations be- tween man and man is not only of vital importance to you as a producer and consumer, but also to the Commonwealth whose sacred interests, entrusted to the custodianship of our legislative bodies, have been ruthlessly abused and betrayed, so that the very fabric of government is seriously threatened with disniemberment and decay. For the promulgation of this system, to effect a commercial balance, we have issued this journal, which, while it means to proclaim and establish a new and incomparable method of trade, destined to “freeze out” monopoly brokerage and knavery, will yet be the sharp and pungent critic and opponent of every violation of social ethics, fearlessly assailing the money power and the present bankingisystem, the greed of the capitalists, the perﬁdy of public functionaries, the hypocrisy of the Church, the iniqui- ty of federate labor, the treachery of the daily press, and the criminal apathy of the people to an insolent usurpation of their sovereign rights. An eight page paper touching tersely an(l con1prehen- sively upon all live questions, THE PLowsHAnE AND PRUNING Hoox will be issued KVEEKLY at the nominal price of FIFTY CENTS A YEAR, in advance. \Ve solicit your early subscription for this matchless champion of the cause of hu- E manity whose civilization and perpetuity is threatened. 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Geography: Chicago (Ill.), San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
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Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 04 (June 13, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1940, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-06-13
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
Text: jlllﬂlllllllﬂllllllllllﬂl W" INDKATOR it .__ 01-‘“TitFeM”Err( Illllllllllllllll ]ml“W uI Hlll ll :7 f7§El:%EOUATlON"T2‘ San Francisco, Cal., June, 18. 1891. Five Cents a Copy. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. A 1891. L: ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY ‘, THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. ~.9257 Market Street, - San Francisco, Cal. H, - - - - - - - FUllLltlt'l' and Dll'(‘(:lUl‘. -:0. J. MACLAUGHLIN, - - - - - - - Editor, all money orders and coiiiniuuications to C. J. MACLAUGHLIN, - I - Station G. 220 Noe Street, _ _ Fnnciwo, Cal. One Year in advance, - - - — - - - 50 ets. ."0°PY. ' ' ' ' - - r - , 5 “ Sample Copy on Application. “ LORD Chief Justice Coleridge is a toady. ng things interesting in England soon. 'THE London omnibus drivers are 011 a strike. This news from gland will be deemed more important by the thoughtful than e account of the baccarat case which has ﬁlled three and four um_ns daily of our newspapers. . - minois Legisla...
Show morejlllﬂlllllllﬂllllllllllﬂl W" INDKATOR it .__ 01-‘“TitFeM”Err( Illllllllllllllll ]ml“W uI Hlll ll :7 f7§El:%EOUATlON"T2‘ San Francisco, Cal., June, 18. 1891. Five Cents a Copy. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. A 1891. L: ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY ‘, THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. ~.9257 Market Street, - San Francisco, Cal. H, - - - - - - - FUllLltlt'l' and Dll'(‘(:lUl‘. -:0. J. MACLAUGHLIN, - - - - - - - Editor, all money orders and coiiiniuuications to C. J. MACLAUGHLIN, - I - Station G. 220 Noe Street, _ _ Fnnciwo, Cal. One Year in advance, - - - — - - - 50 ets. ."0°PY. ' ' ' ' - - r - , 5 “ Sample Copy on Application. “ LORD Chief Justice Coleridge is a toady. ng things interesting in England soon. 'THE London omnibus drivers are 011 a strike. This news from gland will be deemed more important by the thoughtful than e account of the baccarat case which has ﬁlled three and four um_ns daily of our newspapers. . - minois Legislature two members of the upper house v , ’ ing heated in a controversy over the passage of a certain bill A. to punching each other. This is not surprising for when there jcongsiderable punch in the «interior, as is usually tl1e case with sgatesmen, there is apt to be some punching done in the ex- o . ' 3‘HElChicago Society for the aid of indigent Hebrews is stren- ’ opposed to the Baron Hirsch plan of shipping large num- pssian Jews to the principal cities of the United States. ‘- _ _, ..refuse to lend any aid to the number which it is in- - sent to that city. They say they already have rieedy families of their race to provide for than they can well - e.’ When this alert people run ashore ﬁnancially it is an un- Indication of the gravity of the social situation, for they ebeen schooled for countless generations in the commercial a‘ud~1-arely fail to turn a penny where there is one to turn. en the Jews are caught in the icebergs of destitution it be- ‘ : a “very cold day" for the Gentiles, WE are just now having another of those periodical exposures of corruption in Pennsylvania politics which have always distin- guished that state above every other in this particular. The gullibility of the average Keystone citizen is something amazing. They really appear as if they liked to be ﬁlched. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been stolen from their state treasury. from time to time by adroit political tricksters; favorite banks have ever fed upon this same treasury, using millions of the people’s money without interest; and the municipality of Philadelphia, in regard to its money matters, has been like a tub of lemonade with many straws in it, which are always engaged by the ward “roost- ers. ’ ’ City Treasurer Bardsley havingjust sucked out about $300,000 worth of this municipal beverage, has resigned his straw to some one else and retired. But then the dear people keep supplying the lemons and sugar. Our Pennsylvania brethren are so accommo- dating in this way. How they do love their tariff barons and their highly protected pig iron. They fairly dote over Andrew Carnegie, the beneﬁcent library donator, who, having accumulated about $20,000,000 off of the products of their state through accomodating tariff laws, naturally thinks a great deal of them in return. And as for Jingo Jim, if he ever cares to pose again as a Presidential candidate he knows that his native state can always be relied upon for, at least, 75,000 majority. Should VVilliam Penn now come back and contemplate his name-sake he would doubtless regret that he ever took the job off of the hands of the Indians. ROYALTY. One of the strangest things to note in connection with this progressive age is the silly and stupid homage that is still paid to royalty, particularly in England, where there is more genuine al- legiance to the Crown than can be found in any other kingdom or empire of Europe. Founded upon feudalism or brute force, royalty has nevertheless held undisputed sway in England with the ex- ception of the period marking the Cromwell reign, for hundreds of years. From the time that \Villiam the Conqueror unfurled his imperialistic ensign the Britains have rendered an abject submis- sion to kings and queens until this homage to royalty or indolence or impudence (which ever term is preferable), has become so en- grafted in the British mind that the average Englishman would feel as lonely without his Sovereign as without his chop for break- fast. This obeisance to royalty is not however universal in England, as the iconoclastic utterances of the inimitable Labouchere would indicate. 0 agovernmen ‘o e peop . :0 "e ppe In the columns of Trztlﬁ the Royal family and particu- ' 2 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. ac larly the heir to the throne, Albert Edward, have not infrequently received a severe drubbing at the hand of this radical leader, but the childlike submission of the English people in general to a lineal assumption of authority, born of outlawry, is pitiful to be- hold. Here we have a fellow, called the Prince of ‘Wales, support- ed by the English people at an expense of many thousand pounds a year, who, if he has a preference for anything more salutary to intellectual growth than gambling, horse-racing, stec-ple—cl1asing or woman chasing, it has not yet been made manifest to tl1e public. This man fritters away fortunes every year in the pursuit of pleasure and then permits applications to be made to Parliament for the liquidation of his debts. This personage has just given us a sample of that innate 1'e« ﬁnenient we have heard so much of as belonging to royal kinship. The heir presumptive to the English throne plays at baccarat in his host's dra_wing room at Tranby—Croft, when, if the like were done at the most ordinary Club or inn, the directory or keeper of such a social rendezvous or hostelry would be open, under the English law, to prosecution. But then he is VVales, you know, and that makes all the difference in the world to perverted English sense. Sir Edward Clarke, counsel for the plaintiff in the baccarat case, had the courage and manhood, in open court, to speak out pointed- ly regarding this Royal dandy’s relation to the (}ordon—Crimming case, for which he will win the plaudits of the substantial portion of his countrymen. Enough, however, of this baccarat case. Eng- lish aristocracy, so—called, and American codﬁsh aristocracy, well- called, have been more exercised over this trial exposing the silliness of a Prince than if it had been a decisive battle of contend- ing armies involving the fate of Britain. ‘Chauncey M. Depew tells us that the Prince of W'ales is a great man, but before we are willing to acquiesce with the after- dinner speaker in this particular, we want to know whether he is competent to pass judgment upon true greatness, and, since a man’s conduct denotes his real capacity to formulate such an opin- ion, from the records ﬁled regarding the President of the New York Central “(public be d , —-d)” Railroad, we think the public will conclude that /223‘ opinion is not sufficiently potential to elevate this Royal English sport to such a lofty pedestal. If -the Prince of Wales is as sagacious in reading the future as he is said to be shrewd in betting on a race horse he will make the best of the next few years in baccarat playing or “lady killing" for roya1ty’sjig is nearly up. Truth, the exponent of genuine royalty, with majestic sweetness must soon assert herself in the British Isles, then regalism with all its gaudy retinue like the glittering chariots of Pompeii, will, with the descent of the lava ofjust retribution be buried in the ashes of a decayed and discarded social economy. ————~—«- Q 49>“: A WASHINGTON correspondent gives some idea of the accumu- lation of matters of State requiring attention in the following dis- patch: , ' “The recent events in the Chilean situation zultlctl COIllpli‘.\'lly to the al- fairs, and there is now a long docket of unsolvorl diplomatic ]tl‘()l|l(‘lllH, as tol- lowsz Italian and Behring Son complications, Canadian 1'ecip1‘or:ity and Now- foundland fisheries negotiations, Chilean troubles, Spanisli agrw,-,t-,1m-lit. Venezuelan treaty, Hayti-an coaling station, the refusal of China to receive our Minister, the trouble over the failure of the Consul at \'ietori.r to roast tin- Queen, and quite a. number of minor matters, inclluling the ulainis of the ‘ Barrundia. family.” If our diplomatic relations continue to grow as interesting Blaine will either have to recover from his gout or else g’ out of oﬂice and let some other Republican politician take the helm of state, otherwise business will pile up in that branch of the govern- ment as fast as the cases on the docket of the United States Su- preme Court and then the Department of State will be an entirely useless governmental appendage. The Supreme Court has about reached this point, for when a litigant must tarry three years be- fore the Court of last resort after having spent about the same length of time with the lower courts-in quest ofjustice, it is time that a sign was nailed on the door of the highest tribunal bearing the inscription: “Gone to its ﬁnal rest.” But while Congress is making an appropriation for LhlS purpose it should make it large enough to provide for three signs, for beside the Supreme Court, the Senate Chamber and House of Representatives will also soon need such indications of their ﬁnal repose. ‘cated where the same is freely sold and let them then and there_ THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. The very foolish notion of Boston prohibitionists, that peopl_ would drink less if they had to sit at a table instead of standing '_ a bar, has, after a ycar’s legal test, been abandoned. It was foun, to increase rather than diminish drunkenness. The liquor ques# tion, like every other, can never be settled by any sort of compio misc. ’l‘1rn<: l’Rt7N1.\'(; Iloox in dealing with this question strongly advocates heroic treatment. If liquor is a poison, as has been proven, then it is just as dangerous, as an article of merchandise, as any of the prohibited drugs, and the man who sells it should be made as-amendable to the law as the apothecary who illegally dis-* purses laudanum. Let us have no more fence straddling regardin‘ this issue! \\7e would like to brand as a “Hell Hole” every gro shop in the universe, as well as every despicable hireling who dis , penses liquor, for such have been the eniissaries of perdition _i- lilling thousands of graves with unhonored dead, driving widow to ruin and death, and rendering houseless the countless sons and daughters of inebriates whose only refuge has been sin and vagran- cy. , These are our sentiments on the liquor question ; if they meet‘ with favor well and good; if not, no one is compelled to read us. V ‘\Ve constantly hear ofjust such reports as the following: “This morning thirty prominent students of Harvard, members of the Alpha Delta Phi Club, whose rooms were raided by the police this week and large seizures of liquor made, were lined $65 each in - Cambridge court." These young men are sent to the above insti-. tution for an education which is supposed to include a moral well as an intellectual training; if educational systems do not in-- clude this then they are a decided failure, and if apologists for th_ liquor evil believe that college students should be allowed a ‘\‘fre rope” in the matter of liquor drinking why not turn our gin ‘mill into class rooms and keep whisky constantly on tap? Cases 0 liquor in dormitories and barrels of liquor in groggeries are on‘ and the same thing, so far as the evil that is wrought is concerned Let us license the sale of liquor and send our sons to colleges o_, in youth, permit to be acquired a taste for liquor which subsequent" years will never shake off! Feed the brain with knowledge, and at the same time, poison it with alcohol ! This is economy fo you; but by what prefix shall we denominate it? It isn’t political or social economy. It must be fool’s economy. Let a man, parti ularly a young man, once acquire drinking habits and he is ren dered incapacitated for superior work. It needs neither morali nor temperance lecturer to enuneiate this fact; it is dictated b .- common sense; and the person who does not favor such legislatio as will prohibit the sale of liqour thereby placing it out of th reach of the rising generation, in and out of school, who won] never acquire a taste for the stuff if it were not thrown in the" way, is sadly lacking in that essential element of character. Men of bibulous habits may, in the ecstacy of their stimulat glee, declare with Iago: “Come, come, good wine is a good fami, iar creature, if it be well used; exclaim no more against it.” B r we will place against this utterance of a villain the lament of th honest Cassio: “Oh tho-.1 invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast 11 name to be known by, let us call thee devil!” RUM IS A CURS and the day is not far distant when public sentiment, awakened ‘. last to the enormity of the vice, will drive it from the face of t earth, and its incorrigible defenders may then speed their ﬂight ‘ Bacchus and join him in his hellish Ievelries. _ , The news is current that the whiskey trust has purchased th only opposing distilleries of any size in the VVest—thosc owned ' Shuefeldt & Co. and the Calumet Distilling Company, a sale i volving $2,oeo,ooo. Thus, like a gigantic tarantula, is this '-= combine extending its arms in every direction, manipulating le latures, subsidizing Congress and rendering procedure against z‘ liquor traﬂic more difficult and dubious. This combinewould op, wide the ﬂood—gate of human appetite, and, while ﬁlling its colf_ watch with delight the headlong rush of humanity to madness ' destruction. Come! Let us call a halt upon this iniquitous 0‘ rage to public morals and sense, and relegating to their place _f dough—faced apologists for and praters upon this accursed marshall all the forces of true manhood and womanhood in I Commonwealth. and declare; in the name of virtue which has I r \ The Plowshare and Pruning I-Iook. gnanhood which has been destroyed, of integrity » blighted and of the nations honor which has been deﬁ_-led, that we will cleanse the social fabric of the . mm I "V /_.Ingal1s announces that notwithstanding news- ,.h.e,will»not enter the lecture ﬁeld. This intelligence A ‘itheigeneralr public with regret, for now that the , . but of public life, with no probability of getting sit is quite likely that, with his well turned periods, he ‘the people some interesting and spicy discourses upon inatters in general’ and the Republican party in particular. , uld now, doubtless, say a good many things that he not have said while in oﬂice. A dose of “innocuous desire- has 8. tendency to draw out the better side ofa man's nature. in-public life and Ingalls in private life will be as dissim- lfhe tadpole and the bullfrog. We strongly favor the ‘ of Queensbury rules which oppose the practice of ‘ ‘hitting - .-- while he is down." The difference between lngalls and his ,sena.torial colleagues is that he has the brains to sustain in a public effort and the majority of them have not. In- a poor man while the Shermans and Stanfords of the Senate -wealth. The American public, from this signiﬁcant state- liwlll draw its own conclusions respecting the relative claims ?two classes, in formulating their ultimate opinion of them. 153.3‘ ,: - cagopoliceman who posed for the statue, erected in -' ‘, in memory of the ofﬁcers of the law who were killed at ' V Haymarket riot, has been dismissed from the force for inatten- ‘ ‘V. . This was a commendable action on the part of the Police of Chicago, for it might have been supposed, owing of his having performed such distinguished services to , ' icipality, that this policeman would have been retained on - -. ' despite his shortcomings. The circumstance shows that ' fevulsion of sentiment regarding the unwarrantable an(l : execution of the condemned Anarchists, the fellow who ‘.1§bbe_rly-carcass to the sculptor’s chisel, thereby debasir.g must pass under the rod of well—earned obloquy. ..:__;.4.;.._j i elast national census taken, announces the fact that dur- glastdecade, insanity has increased at the rate of 73,53 per _ an appalling advance along the line of dementia and lidication of the intense pressure that is being brought _ “this time, upon the human mind. Never in a c_vcle's « :have. men and women been wrought into such a state of -= Never has the gray matter of the brain been kept V ﬁance activity. People have reached such a state of nerv- tenient that calm consideration of any subject appears, i then: impossible. _ . .-_ ore any avenue of industry or indolence and ﬁnd ‘ i "of affairs existing. The stock and wheat exchanges -s eeentres of this unrest in the commercial domain. Search ‘direful eﬂects of competism upon the intellect and they will to focalized in this ﬁnancial apex. Men on these if ,§xchange rush to and fro gesticulating and hollowing ; On margin sales millions are passed from one hand telegraph dispatches whirled across the continent. -,3 . is ahandsome thriving city, to'morrow she may '39) some millionaire speculator may be rolling in . 'm6ﬁ'0W_r£hrough this ﬁre ﬁend of competism he may I . M_en‘are fully alive to the chances involved in the ‘take, of this commercial grab game and it works them in- ‘ ‘ "anxiety which must sooner or later end in one of the Cocktails, brandy, and ﬁnally absinthe; équally destructive and highly stimulating‘ cordizl. ' ’ A desperate race for p *~ and each competitor will spare no available at ahead. On the Bourse, suicides from sudden T iiofso common occurrence as to merely excite o g ‘French gamblers. The Roman chariot races were overturned by collision and their occupants , t are not to be compared, for barbarism, to the stockgamblers in their scamper for gold. . ,ment of trade radiating from this centre of 3 competitive inﬂux the same ‘frenzied zeal can be found, though in a less intensiﬁed form. In the professions 2 the stage, the pulpit, the bar and the medical practice this same spirit of “Get there, Eli," “ Every fellow for himself and the devil take the hind- most," is to be found. Even our smooth faced, fat chopped di- vines do not hesitate to vie with each other in the ﬂowery embel- lishment of their periods and in their hot chase after fashionable and lucrative parishes. Actresses tear each other‘s hair on ac- count ofjealousy, lawyers convert courts ofjustice into prize rings, and doctors frequently resort to any expedient to circumvent a rival practitioner. In matters of love, competism has wrought sad havoc. The bosom of many a stream has hushed the moans and sighs of an outrivaled suitor and maidens’ lips are disﬁgured by the bitings of j ealousy born of a competing nymph. While competism in trade has supplied our insane asylums with patients, compe- tism in love has ﬁlled its garrets; with about a hundred years more of the competitive system we will be a nation of idiots. This prevalent mania demands a mental stimulus which must be aug- mented with each succeding year. Humanity, at present, is like an express train with throttle open speeding on in its madness to certain wreckage, or like a steed goaded to fury by the merciless lash. Tighter and tighter are the reins of commerce drawn, steep- er and steeper grows the declivity of destiny; amid jeers, impre- cations, lust, and blasphemy, a distracted race is rushing on to the chasm of revolution, and then with a fearful leap millions are lost in the foam of tumult. “(), Judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason 1” Compctism has nearly done its wdrk: its span is nearly run and its role enacted. The devise of the thoughtless, the selﬁsh and the unrighteous, it leaves mankind poor indeed. Coming gen- erations will say of it what the conscience stricken Macbeth said of life: ~ “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Si;:niiying uotiiin;z.”~ - - ’ The Labor Victory In Belgium. The great strikes in ]3el_w_:ium, which according to tho dispatches received yr-slmwlay, have just lwcu order<-d “oi'l',” liave been of a far more serious nature than ordinary disputxos between (\.mpl:)yers and employed. Their gravity has been due, not so much to the bruadtli of the area over which they have extend- ed, or to their p:Lraly7.iu;: cl't'nct, on every kind of Belgian industry, as to their political rrlnmir-1.c1'. It was not for an increase of xvagcs that the Working classes t.l1rou;:,liout the Kingdoin struck, but for an increase of political rights. They Li(‘lll;tI1Ll<‘Il nothing less than a revision of the national constitution and the con<-<~ssion of universal suiTra3.:c. To this the 11ppcr classes, and in par- ticular the l&11l(lml proprietors, the great m:Lnuf:I.cturcrs, and the capitalists of all kinds, \verc strontgly opposed. The present restricted franchise which lim- its the electorate of at country with OV'e1‘ G,l)Oil,l)D0 inhabitants to a more handful of 1:~i:l,04)lI wealthy voters appcari-d to them the strongest and surest bulwark for the (lofonsc of their interests, since it involved the retention of the entire powers of ;.:ovm'nm(-nt intheir own hands. The light has been characterized by great iIlll1l‘l‘ll(‘..‘$S on both sides. The Belgian workingman even at his best, is a rour_:l1, obstinate and ql1;u‘rclso1ne individual, and when his passions are :Ll‘0llS<':l he is apt. to l.)\¥(?Olll1* both ugly and d.u1gcrous. Ten days ago the atti- tude of the strikers bceainc so menacing that the Government deemed it neces- sary to place under arms the second and third classes of the national militia, which of course added to the s;,miei~.1.l perturbation, since it took large numbers of lllt‘l1 t‘ll;.;‘:l;;'l)Il in m«-rcanlile, industrial and professional pursuits away from their daily avocations. A revolution appearetl imminent, and King Leopold, frag», took pains to point. out to the moneyed classes that unless they abandoned their opposition and :1;,’1'0(‘(l to the demands of the masses for the political fran- chise not only their monoply of power but even their possessions and wealth might be torn trom them by the infuriated people. It would appear that the classes have at lmigtli 1‘(‘tl.ll'/i(‘tl their dinigcr, and have decided to abandon a po- Iitienl platform which they can no longer retain without serious peril. They haw, in fact, struck tlnir colors, and announced their readiness to consent to :1 l‘t'\'l.‘<.l0ll of the constitution in the direction of universal sllffrage. It is the victory of labor over mtpiiatl in one of the most important industrial centers of F.uropc. It remains to be soon what use the working classes will make of their siicccss. It is doubtful wln-.t.l1cr the rank and file of the Labor party have any corr:-ct comprehension of that universal suffrage for which they have been ilgliting with such lll‘t(‘I‘IlllllillZl0l] and persislcncy. They look upon it as a. kind of bank check on the future, as a sort of talisman by the help of which Working hours will be rcducml and wages increased. Possibly it may prove to be so in the long run; but its failure to bring about those desitlerata at once will create a disaippoinlmvnt whieli may lead to an even still graver crisis than that which appears to have just come to a close in Bclgium.—New York Tribune (1361).), I rlltly 22. who has all along declared himsi-lf in favor of the conscssion of universal suf- ' 4 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. Capital, with the so-called government, to be sustained by the military arm of power, unite to meet the emergency of conﬂict arising with the steady progress of boycotting labor organizations. Surely Gog and Magog hasten to the conﬂict of organized deter- mination. The doom will crack before the unsuspecting perceive the danger. Can nothing arouse the slumberer to the insecurity of his claim to freedom? Our boasted liberty is but an evanescent dream. The crash will come and they who sleep will awake to anarchy.—K'. ' EVERY species of activity is instituted and perpetuated, in these days, upon the basis of policy. It is political, religious, mercantile, and social policy. Why can’t we have a little right- eousness sandwiched in, just the slightest modicum for variety? Why can’t there be some pronounced, radical and aggressive com- munism like that demonstrated by the Christ when he entered the temple and drove out the speculators, burst their safes, spilled their money and kicked over their desks? We do not advise the method he employed, that was too Anarchistic, but it was no doubt demanded by the times. Let the press proclaim for righteousness despite the inﬂuence of organizations who may hold the balance of political power. Away with specious policy and give us liberty of conscience ! Humanity is almost too cowardly to breathe. The conscience of to day is stultiﬁed, and warped by the conventionalisms which force men to violate the laws of righteousness. Religion and morals must be kept out of business. Lie, behind the counter and in the count- ing room six days in the week, but say the 19/Iterrmster, in the pew once in the seven. Business is business, religion is religion, but they won’t mix. They are like oil and water, the oil is outside and on top, the water at the bottom. There comes however a day of reckoning, and the plumb line will be suspended and the level will be applied“-——A'. _.._.¢+>o—: The Rabble is as Dangerous as Capital. VVhile it may be thoroughly understood that THE PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING HOOK is in sympathy with the honest laborer from old to young, it cannot sustain the abomination of boycotting, nor the compulsion of American citizens by Trades Unions and the various labor organizations which compel men to become members against their will or else fail to obtain employment. There never was exercised a more accursed and abominable tyranny than that instituted by some of the labor organizations, especially by the Trades Unions. They are inaugurated by a foreign rabble; lead by demagogues, and like a great boa constrictor, they are gradual- ly winding the coils of their oppression and smothering the liberty of Americans. Capital is not the only danger. gog is equally dangerous.—K. Gog is ‘determined, but Ma- -——-<o>o<o>———— A Great Danger Threatens a Slumbering People. The liberty of the American is dissipating. The boa constrictor of oppression folds his stealthy coils and soon will crush the vitals from the unsuspecting, that no man may either buy or sell 7m'l/1071! t/Le mar/e of 2‘/ze beast or t/ze mm;/zer of/12': mime. Every honest American citizen, be he native or foreign born, is entitled to the protection of our laws, and if we have no statutes which will protect the individual laborer from the boycott and ty- rannical encroachments of Labor Unions let us make them. -T he cowardice of a party press subsidized in the interests of political knavery should not be tolerated. When a political party sustained by a capitalistic press becomes so dishonest, and direlict as to ne- glect the rights of the individual to the protection of the laws it is pledged to sustain, the time has come for it to go. Powerful organizations made up of the oversloppings of the old world are allowed to dictate to the native born American the terms upon which he shall earn his daily bread, and because these pow- ers have political inﬂuence the press and so called government allow them to usurp authority, violate the laws of liberty, and over- ride the honest worker. How long shall these things be tolerated? THE REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS. - The Koreshan Unity, which stands behind the Bureau of Equf table Commerce, and through which the Bureau derives its vi‘. pulses, is working for theequation of labor, and the equitable di tribution of wealth. The College is now inaugurating its practic school of National Economy, accompanying which, will proceed tli formulation of industries. It is the purpose of the system to -‘ termine its operations as rapidly as possible toward the one end u giving the poor the proceeds of their labor, and to reduce the hou of labor, that what now is pursued as a drudgery shall becom the recreating performance of use. ‘I In future issues, the details of the plan of organic effort will a clearly deﬁned and the simplicity of the system for equaliz _. wealth made to appeal to the masses of the people. The reconcil iation of capital and labor will be‘ the ﬁnal settlement of the ﬁ nancial problem, but it will obtain as the result of other fore than those which now characterize the waging conﬂict, soon to r.- a raging one. The present usurpation, called government, insti-' gated by the wealth of the country, sustained by the military’, wi comprise one side to the coming controversy. A great forei all rabble will constitute the opposing side. A z‘/1z'rz2’;5omér will wres from /1027; I/zese 1‘/16 rzg/zls (J 1/16 ]5£’0]>/6 and from the debris of crumr ling ruins will arise the Utopia of human dreams to become th reality of a Divine Brotherhood.—-1x‘'. ‘ I A _j.{ 9;. Patrons of Equitable Commerce. The Patrons of Equitable’ Commerce will comprise a party t central principle of which is equation of labor, equitable distrib tion of wealth, and the destruction of ﬁctitious money. DEFINITION or lVlONEY. Genuine or true money is “the guard or criterion of commerci interchange and uses of life.—F[amz'7zg swam’, Dec. 7th 188 “The term money (Latin moneta.) had its origin from Juno; being a surname of that Goddess. Juno was the sister and wi ofjupiter. She was the Queen of heaven, the guardian Deity ' woman and the foundress of marriage. The word monere, fro, which moneta is derived signiﬁes to warn or guard women. 1 In its opposite or false sense, it means to seduce or decei’ woman. ’ ‘-1/zm’ ‘ Errnoroor on THE ’I‘r.RM. It is from the latin moneta, or Greek moneo. Its true signi cance is to ‘7U(l7’7Z. This involves the idea of protection. Mone- from the Greek mama signiﬁes to stay, to tarry, to abide, to rema by one, hence to guard or protect. Money is the guard and -_ terion of commerce and its uses. Commerce is the interchange r commodities (products of nature and industry) for the uses of li THE Tm’:-‘, CHARACTER on l\l0NF,Y AS THE GF,NI'I.\Tl~‘, GYARD .. THE COMMERCIAL INTEREST. True commerce must have true money. Commerce to be t », or genuine must be equitable. Equitable Commerce includes v true relationship of natural production, and artiﬁcial means relat to natural resource, with an adjusted industry. Man has a rig to that only for 'which he performs use. Honesty is the true ba of the guard or criterion of the just relationship of use or industr True commerce has true money, false commerce, false money. I BRASS. (C/leek, Fare.) VVhat is brass money? Brass is a yellow metalic alloy, so times of copper and zinc, but it may be compounded of gold . other metalic substances to harden it. Brass may be compoun of gold and copper. This is a most deceptive kind of brass .'=_ those who create it and place a lie upon it, by aﬂixing a gov ment stamp, calling it gold and money are brazen faced, that‘, they have cheek. 1'1‘ IS THE FIRST DUTY of the Patrons of Eqr; able Commerce to remove this cheek, in other words to rem. the ﬁction placed upon gold, by the alloy and stamp; to destroy } system of watering stock and reduce the price of gold to its no :_‘ value, its intrinsic worth, that which it will bring in the mar_ when its market value depends upon its commercial demand ‘The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 5 .. ity. It is an embryo party in which men and e equal voice. Its purpose is to unite the producers of '. s in one body, so relating them to their own Bureau, neuuiof Consociative Equitable Commerce, as to insure all ‘ (and producers the entire values of their industry. in 'Fi1tm'eissues of the PLOWSHARE AND PRUN1.\*(; HOOK will ' —...tj1e_ system in detail.—K. —:-<o>OVo»j- AVERT THE DANGER. ‘ The right to a voice in the public administration is the sover- eign and crowning franchise of the American Commonwealth. It istherefore worthy of the guardianship of our most righteous pro- tection, the religious and moral bulwarks of national integrity. : All things equal, including moral and intellectual capacity ; ‘aim! qualiﬁcations, every citizen of the United States government, A atthe age of eighteen, both male and female, should be allowed to vote. This right however should be restricted by a just discrimi- - nation which ought, at least, toinclude a familiarity with the com- mon concerns of our government. No person should vote who cannot -read the English language, and it is a preposterous violation of the principles of liberty, for political parties, for party purposes »-and ends to permit and foster those gross encroachments, abuses, A and inequalities which entitle the ignorant and barbarous alien to "" déthe manhood and womanhood of our intelligent sons and V daughters. A barbaric foreign element, of various nationalities, is swarn1- ing our country under the direction and discipline of Jesuitism. _ Corrupt party oﬂicials are conniving with a process of suing- gling, by which this rabble, almost as soon as its feet touch our shores, encroach upon our liberties by defrauding us of our, so far, greatest franchise; the right to protect ourselves in the freedom so dearly bought, and, through a providential dispensation, com- ﬁlittedtothe custodianship of the American. By the American veiﬁean the citizen who either native or adopted _ acquires under roper and just restrictions, the right to our liberty, and a voice i in the administration of our affairs. It is high time that the people awake, from the indifference to public demands into which the uncontrollable lust for ﬁnancial ggain has lead them, to behold the great danger imminent through xvﬁeijesuitical control of a barbarous horde disciplined for the pur- pose of regaining Papal secular authority. This is no chimera, nor dream of an enthusiast, it is the sober, earnest, and matured “conclusion of discretionary observation and experience. Let the people of this America, if they will perpetuate their liberties, arise speedily and place the essential legal restraint upon the further progress of the threatened danger.—K ——<o>O«o>-—-— OUTLINE OF OUR PLAN OF WORK. Our plan for the establishment of a suﬂiciently powerful pub- lic sentiment to carry into effect the creation of an independent 2- issue of an anti-ﬁction medium of exchange, is to push the organi- zation of our assembly district schools. In this collegiate method ' brace: . i q, the education of the people as to what constitutes their rights as American citizens. ' ‘ff Second, the initiation of men and women, having attained to their eighteenth year, into practical conventional work, associat- ing with the school-practice the actual formation of a working -i).Iati_ona.l party. It does not, in its incipiency, have any practical 1 - 'ngs upon the present political system. Its inﬂuence, then, re- 2 for_a future consideration. The primary object is, of course, gurate a peaceful revolution in public administration. _ _ ed must remain in slrztu gun till the new order has l'¢C¢lI'a1nﬁ,cient strength to wrest from usurpation the monopoly '*‘“‘of public and private rights. - Third, accompanying the educational system and the inaugu- of a working party, will be the institution of an industrial ‘ : -m ‘which will be carried? forward under the auspices of the Hurenu of Equitable Commerce. It is t11e purpose of the Bureau with those who, though industrious, for want of superior skill, cannot compete with the skilled artizan who may always ﬁnd ready employment-. Tlie collegiate system embraces the school of national econo- my (politics). Tlﬁs is our dependence for educating the people. It will be conducted upon the practical basis of conventions to be held throughout the United States. The Bureau of Equitable Commerce in every state, becomes so related that the entire Bureau System will form the Bureau of con- sociation, called the Bureau of Consociative Equitable Commerce. VVe are deprived of our own circulating medium of exchange, be- cause the so called government, misrepresentative of the people, prorogues its power to oppress, through the most consummately de- vised scheme of oppression possible to human conception, namely’, the National Bank. It is the foundation of all that is devilish in the hands of designing men to defraud the “common” people of their libertics.—1x' Owe Key to Unlock the Door to Freedom. By T. Comz. There have been many reform movements; eloquent voices have been raised in plans and purposes for the amelioration of a down troddcn humanity; countless earnest hearts have beaten in unison with the common impetus to bring about a new order of things; to put bread into hungry mouths; to lift the stupendous burden of excessive toil; to relieve the mental strain incident to the stern necessities of the bread winners. ‘And yet; the dull, listless days of dogged endurance in the pursuit of the bare necessaries of life, drag monotonously, maddeningly on; the heavy, lagging hours of weary, fruitless waiting, alternating between hope de- ferred, which makes the heart sick, and reactionary, inevitable despair which chills it, making the gift of the world to be like un- to a stone, when the importunate hungering soul cries for bread. The heavy hours slowly and surely multiply. W'herein lies the diﬂiculty ? The failure of plans and purposes conceived and expressed by profoundly earnest sympathizers and workers in the common cause of humanity for relief, for improve- ment and re-adjustment? There is always a secret incident to failure, ‘and a secret of success. Why has failure attended all the gigantic schemes, the most earnest endeavor of the sincere Social- ist, the American Party, Nationalists and the like? I reply; two indisputable, indispensable factors have, so far, been absent, over- looked, and disregarded, in the purpose of these respective bodies. First, there has been laid no ﬁrm foundation, and the “shift- ing sands” upon which have been raised the structures of hope, of promised beneﬁts and blessings, have parted, only to sink the long watching, waiting ones, in greater heaviness and darkness, in hopeless discouragement and despair. . VVhat s/Ioulzz’ be the foundation governing all aspiration, all effort toward the uplifting, the release of the oppressed and heavy- laden ? VVho ﬁrst gave to the world the holy teaching of brotherly love; of uprightness of dealing, one with his brother or neighbor? Who first exempliﬁed the possibility of equal adjustment, of uniform enjoyment of the fullness of the earth? Christ; the lowly, majestic teacher of men, and upon this foundation, this simple pure religion, would these different organizations build in unity of thought, and singlencss of purpose; build to stand immutable as eternal law itself. Second, there has appeared among these respective bodies no one representative power invested and endowed with sufﬁcient elli- cacy to command, as a leader, the supreme control, the unswerving devotion and allegiance which the present conditions of reformation involve, and demand. And yet, this presence exists among men. The hand with the power of equitable adjustment is outstretched, remedial efﬁcacy within its possession; peace and blessing en1anat- ing from the divinity which endowed it. . The time is at hand ! Behold, the night is upon us; its winds sigh, and make moan; an ominous chill strikes apprehension and terror; tragedy born of despair seems slowly to envelope us; and darkness falls upon the face of the 1)ecp. But the time is at /lama’. The hour of deliverance is near. Arouse ye, who sleep! Stand - forth like men! Cease from your vain wailings and repinings, your useless threats and retaliations, and listen to the words. of wisdom which God has vouchsafed His people! Receive from the hand outstretched for your uplifting, the solution of all ydur diﬂi- cultiesand distresses! Learn the path of ycnir deliverance and walk ye in it! And the air, now ﬁlled with dirges voicing dark mutterings of discontent and insurrection, shall resound with glad and martial music; Divine harmony, the spirit of true Freedom, the inspiration born of victory over the greatest wrongs, the chief- est evils, for which the world has ever needed, and found a leader and deliverer. ————.»«o><—:-— 'EQUITABLE COMMERCIAL SYSTEM INTRODUCED TO THE SOCIALISTS OF CHICAGO. The subject of the Koreshan Equitable. Commercial System was introduced to the Socialists of Chicago at their Sunday afternoon meeting of may 24th, by Mr. J as. Heaver, who until recently has been an active member of that social- istic body. - Mr. Heaver has for the past twenty years been deeply interested in the social and labor questions and has investigated their systems, both in Eng- land and in America. A few months ago he was led to investigate the Koreshan System of Equitable Commerce (now being p11t into practical opei'ation- in San Francisco,) and endorses it as the only system that gives any 1n'a<'tical solution of the labor broblem. Being still in hearty sympathy with the interests of Socialists, he naturally desired to present this new System for their consideration, which he was given opportunity to do at the meeting above mentioned, which was very fully attend- ed and the audience much interested, although they could not get a full under- standing of the System at one brief presentation. Mr. Heaver ﬂrst gave an outline of this Commercial System, and of its aims to supplant the middlemen and bring the consumers and producers face to face, and eventually make all industries co-operative for the mutual beneﬁt and proﬁt of those engaged in labor. He called their attention to the fact that Dr. Teed, the founder of this sys- tem would soon be in Chicago and would hold a series of conventions, when this System would be more fully discussed, and invited all Socialists and their friends to attend. ' He then voiced some of what he considered would be their objections to this movement. First, that it was led by what they term a “religious crank.” But in support of the idea that religious leadership was not objectionable to re- formers, and was one in which many had hope, he quoted from a speech of Senator Pcffer, at the la.te Alliance Convention of Cincinnati, that the people of that Convention were the harbingers of a revolution that would detnrone money and re-establish the authority of the people ; and that they would ﬁght “with ballots and prayers, as the Alliance is in a great measure taking the place of the churches.” He also referred to the fact that Laurence Gronland had propl1e- sied that in the near future some great religious mind would spring up, outside of the established Church, and lead this movement to success. But Socialists were so opposed to religious ideas that he supposed they would dethrone their great leaders if they dared to endorse a system that eminated l'rom a religious mind. He asked them seriously if they had already had too much of the religion which said, “Love thy neighbor as thy self." and “Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you”? His opinion was that so far they had had very little practical working of that sort of religion, which was the basis of Dr. Teed’s Commercial System and which,condemncd the present competitive systein and the so-called Christian churches as strongly as the Socialists themselves con- demned them : and that the money power of the competitive system was the great power that all labor organizations had to contend against. His next point was that they would say that his plan would lead the people away from the State. But, according to his understanding, the people are the State; (applause); and whatever the majority endorse is a part of the State’s affairs. And although at present these who endorse this System might not be in the majority, still had’nt they the right to go into business? MONOPOLY TO BE OVERTHROWN BY MONOPOLY. He said it took the like to cure the like. Was it not monopoly that was grinding their faces into the earth? Then the people must. organize a bigger monopoly than the capitalists; a monopoly that instead of taking in a few indi- viduals in order to help each other pile up wealth, would take in every work- man or woman in the world, who wanted to come in, and operate for the mu- tual beneﬂt of every member; and by this immense monopoly they could get their rights by either swallowing up the other monopolists or bringing them to terms. It might be urged that these co-operative scltemes have been tried before and have always fallen through after a short time. Why? Because the people who operated them always eventually failed to keep to their own rules ; and if the Socialists could not obey their own rules, and govern themselves they would fail in this as in any other thing they undertook; and that it was useless for them to put themselves at the head of a ticket to be elected to govern the people when they could not govern themselves. Who are the enemies of Socialism? Not only the Goulds and Vanderbilts, but every little retailer in the land who casts his vote for or against Socialistie measures, and who supports the competitive system. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. Would it not be to our interests to have a clause in our tleclaration of prin‘ ciplcs that we pledge ourselves to use every lawful a.nd constitutional means change the competitive system into a co-operative system? If so, then W0ul_ it not be proﬁtable for us to establish this co-operative system, and pledge our-f selves to put into it every cent we could take out of'the competitive system? C This would be taking the trade out of the hands of our enemies, the re_ tailors. This ‘would, you think, lower wages. No, you have a remedy for that,‘ according to your own claims, which is that if you can take the unemployed- labor out of the market you can dictate terms of wages; and if your co-opera tive system were to employ all the unemployed then you would be in just the position to ﬁx the terms of your own wages. ' Of course, in time this would place the employers in a position where they. could not employ you; they would have to break 11p; but that is what you want, and by that time there would be place for all of you in your own enterprise I Then the verse from Revelations would be fulflled, which says, “And the mer chants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her, for no man buyeth their merchandise anymore.” (great applausel. '_ Although I have been, like yourselves, an infidel and agnostic, I tell you _. that Book contains the whole labor movement from beginning to end. The T trouble was, you and I did not understand it, and we have allowed the blind ' leaders to lead us, until we have become as blind as they; and unless you wake ‘- up and practice what you preach you are coming down to the end of this age 1' into the terrible revolution that the writer of Ca:sar’s Column pictures. ‘- We are like the old Israelitish slaves way back in Egypt; our masters will not let us go. B11t we will have a Moses who will make them let us go; and we will pass through the Red Sea, the sea of revolution, but we will pass through with clean hands and dry feet, by entering into this system of equity; those who follow the pharaohs of the competitive system are the ones who will fall ' in the Red Sea and be distroycd. In conclusion Mr. Heaver said that, as “The principles of Socialism em- ‘ brace all efforts towards the attainment of better conditions for the working 7 class,” he moved a resolution, “That this meeting pledge itself to attend the conferences shortly to be held on this Commercial System by Dr. Teed, that they 1 may thoroughly dicuss the new system, and if found praetieable, support. it.”~. A. ill. M. in I"lauII'I:_r/ Slrorrl, CI:ieago_ .>4 MONEY VS. PROPERTY. Property Is Some Material Thing, Having Color, _A Size, Shape, Etc. ‘ Money Has None of These, for It Is an Ideal Thing, Having No x Substance at All. R My friend, J. M. Calkins, asks me to explain some things. He is searching ' for more light. He should have it. He evidently believes, like the “uncircum- cised” world, that moneyis property. ' . I did not believe him in earnest; only tliought he aimed to bring out more ’. proof and emphasize, the great truth that. money is “not property ;” until I came , to this: “Why, then, is it [money] not property, like other things which are invented and created by man? I ask in all seriousness. Please tell me through THE VIEW if you know a good reason why it [money] should not be [considered , property]?” Mr. Calkins, I will do so cheerfully. Money should not be considered prop- erty, because it is not property. Now, forthe proof. Property is some material _ thing. It has weight, color, size and shape. Money l1as none of these qualities. _' The material out of which money is made has all of the qualities or attributes _ mentioned, but money has not. Money is an ideal thing. It is not a substance at all; 11ot as much so as a ray of heat or light. Moonshine is more of a sub- A stantial thing than money. Congress says, “Be it enacted that 25.8 grains of gold is and shall be a dol- I lar,” a11d it is so. Congress did not create a grain of gold, but it did create the _' thing which we call a dollar. You can lay the Gold Eagle on the Railroad ,_. track and after the tra.in passes over it the gold‘ is there, but it is not money " now. You can lay the eagle on an anvil and knock the $10 out of it at one lick. _ If all the money in the states was burned up, the loss would be but little. , The gold and silver could be recoined with small expense, and the paper to coin C the $l0,000,000,000 which our country needs would cost less than the spelling books used in our common schools. , Money lacks much of being property as the shadow of a man lacks of " being a‘ man. Money don’t. even represent property. It only represents the [wise value in labor of property. That is exactly what it was invented for, and, the only thing it should be allowed to do. 2 No, Brother Oalkins; when a man receives money for any article, he has not received pay. He receives pay when he spends the money for seine _Other article. Men don’t want money for its own sake, but because it will procure other things which they need. It may be that the miser wants gold for its own glit- - tering qualities, but it is because he is crazy. N0 sane man does. ‘ It does not follow that because money is legal tender it is property. The ‘ legal tender quality is placed there to stop the sheriff. It is the debtor’s breast-1' work of defense. Men are not compelled to take even legal tender money e ‘ cept in payment of debts. If there were no debtor class there would be no: necessity for the legal tender clause. 7 ' Money is a check on society beyond all peradventure. It shows (or should .; . show) that the owner has invested in the common stock, labor, or products of? labor, to the amount expressed by his money; and having invested, he has it. .,,...‘. *'.l3,h_elP1oWshare and Pruning Hook. » 7 to the amount of his check. _ exp ss the price value in labor of property - 'A ‘ money, Brother Calkins, that was not _ miller 1 cent to the thousand-dollar - 18 the ﬂrst price paid for all prop- ‘ ‘hat equivalents in labor should be - invented and is created in order to . ‘tin: because a thing is “invented” it must be inventions are not property. Speech or language - , and writing or printing is perhaps the most use: y) our race, but these inventions are not property. The yjis a relic of barbarism. It is the idea of swapping or _ , of intrinsic value for another thing of equal intrinsic value. . ' idea of money is that the mate'rial out of \vhicl1 money is 0 They brought a. penny to the master, when they tried to “ paying tux. He said, when he looked at it, “Whose ption is this?” They answered, “Caesars” Then said he, ereign power or government in any and every country makes ‘country: This explained the nature of money over 1800 is is public and not a. private thing. No one man needs then hundreds of thousands and millions of other men. pernicious, mistaken idea that money is property, deranges the ; Considering it property, men hold and hoard it, buy and sell it, using it to do business with, it is made a thing to deal in. ground. If this barbaric idea could be removed from men’s M ﬁmid disappear from our world, for it has no other foundation property money is enslaving the world. It is engulﬁng our N maelstrom or bottomless pit of usury. Men claim to own _ ' 6!‘ money; hold it in banks, locked and bolted from business, ‘ pay for the use of this thing which was created by all and for all. ' "0! property money has produced all the debts in our world. gigantic money power stands. Out of this the national banking ,, me. It is responsible for the millions of mortgages plastered homes of the people. This is the proliﬂc source of the poverty in the byltem of property money builds great cities and ﬁlls them with pau- oriminals. It buildsthc palace for the idle money-monger, the toilets into tenement-houses, cellars and garrets. By and ‘mum of this property money, crime is increasing, prisons are politics are corrupted until an election is but a game of chance are the stakes, and boodle the winning card). - ‘m of property money has already demoralized our government have arepublie in name only. Practically we are on a level with the of the old world. System of money be devised, unfettered by usury ; liberty, freedom imposslbilities, republics are shams, and the Declaration of In- ‘W mockery, and the blood shed in establishing and de- , and stripes was but a waste of life. '0! Calkins, if you want more, come again. ~ w,Ill. April, 21, 1891.—The National View. __‘—.oc>. of the Causes, for the Rapid Accumulation ‘saith in a few Hands, Well Stated, but the D. OGLESBY. pulation, New York contained only 33,000 inhabitants in 1790, and berhad increased to 313,000. It is now over 1,800,000 and the 6_f'-population in the cities has risen from twelve to thirty per cent. ,tbta.l of over 18,000,000 in the cities of the grand total of 65,000,000 pop- ¢f.-- the whole United States. Similarly with the ratio of increase of ,3 in the cities, and especially in the great cities, the accumulation of thby individuals has maintained the rapid pace. If, at the period _on of the government, any citizen possessed one million dollars ention or record of the fact has never appeared. Stephen ' elphia, who died in 1831, leaving an estate valued at less than ' rs,,.was the richest man in the republic. The larger portion of _ made during the war with Great Britain of 1812. John Ja- il" Donough, of Baltimore, and subsequently of New Orleans, " nBselaer—the patroon——with their fewer millions, ranked ehes, and, in all the United States, there were not fifty ’ a million. Now the estimated wealth of the Astors is V v million dollars; that of the Vanderbilts is fully as much ; . , vu is placed beyond one hundred million dollars, and in many of ‘-‘ ﬂzens whose possessions are rated from ten million dollars up without exaggeration, besides the thousands and more ‘not less than one million, and many of them all the way up to 862, Sam Brennan and Don Able Stearns, of Los Angeles, BY PROF. R. O. SPEAR, - - - were reputed the richest men in California ; but neither of them was rated be- yond one million. There are now in San Francisco a score whose fortunes are estimated beyond ten millions and high forty millions. More than one hundred in other portions of the State are rated at from one million to ten millions. Similarly in Oregon and Washington. As late as 1859, when Oregon was admitted into the Union, and Washington was still a- sparsely inhabited Te1'rit01‘y, there was not a resident of either who was possessed of one million, Now, in the city of l’ortland—-grown from a village of a few thousand in this time to a population of sixty-live thousan(l—tlierc are pioneer citizens worth from ten millions to twenty millions, and at least a score with from one million to ‘live niillions, and the same is true of Tacoma, Seattle, Walla Walla, and other cities and sections of the new State. It is generally true of every portion of the ' re public. The causes for this modern aggregation of population in the cities and this extraordinary accumulation by individuals of colossal wealth are various and generally obvious. Coniparativcly very fe\v—they did not exceed a dozen swore materially enriched by the war with Mexico in 1846-47. Corcoran and Riggs, the bankers at Washington, to whom was c()]_1iidod the negotiating of the LVVU-lllllltll'C(l-illlill()i.l-Llollitl‘ loan to carry on the war, realized a handsome fortune from the trust—they almost alone; but owners of steamers and con- tractors in New Orleans and cities of the North derived substantial profit from the war directly, and the consequences which ﬂowed from the war powerfully contributed to change the condition of the United States and of the commercial world, and led to the quiekening of the processes to large fortunes. The dis- covery of gold in California was the mainspring of the astonishing impetus which enlivened commerce, accelerated trade, stimulated emigration to the Pacific, and attracted tlionsands from every quarter and country of the globe. The ﬂowing, marvelous treasure of California, poured out upon the world, created the quick change from former conditions and methods which incited speculation, and advanced and encouraged enterprise in broader ﬁelds. It pro- duced the era of ocean clippers that surpassed in speed tl1c_ ﬂeetest ever known, and the American merchant marine progressed to the supremacy of the seas, in steam and sail alike. The continuous and undiminished regular ﬂow of California gold to the Atlantic and to Europe lubricated the means to enterprise and wealth at home, and supplied abroad the chief element to general prosper- ity. The immigration from Europe and other portions of the world largely increased from 1850 until 1860, and since then, the increase has been greater from continental non-English—speaking peoples, many of whom are undesirable and most objectionable, as abhorrent to the people of the Atlantic side as the Chinese are to the people of tho Paciﬁc Coast. The Civil War wrought the greatest difference in conditions and methods in the United States, and since have come the most important factors affecting the aggregation of population in the cities and the rapid accumulation of wealth by individuals. The war destroyed fortunes, but it caused the sudden and ab- normal acquisition of fortunes far in excess of losses. New and novel and extraordinary means and devices were brought into play for gain and plunder. Great riches was the object; the means to it too often utterly disregarded. Wild and reckless gambling in gold and stocks and securities in the east; desperate and unscrupulous gambling in mines and shares on this coast; in- flation and extravagance everywhere, had their run and left their sad effects. But many had by careful methods and sagacious management amassed great fortunes, and these have since swelled into enormous individual wealth. A very few are numbered in the list who increased their riches to high ﬁgures by legitimate and customary course of business and conduct.—San Francisco Argonwai. Koreshan Literature- Our books and pamphlets contain a brief exposition of Koresh-an Science which uncovers all the mysteries of the ages. Human thought heretofore has failed to discover all the laws, forms and relations of Being and Existence. Koreshanity is a genuine interpretation of phenomena and form as expressed in the universe. It is a true index to the character of God and man, and their relations. All intelligent people should read this literature and move in advance of the tidal wave of progress. The most radical subjects are ably, freely and fearlessly discussed. Re-Incarnation, or the Resurrection of the Dead. BY CYRUS, - - - - - PRICE 15 GT8. Emanuel Swedenborg. By CYRUS, - - - - PRICE 15 CTS. Identiﬁcation of the Children of Israel. BY DR. Aniiizrnvs, - - - PRICE 15 crs. National Suicide and Its Prevention. BY PROF. L’AMoREAUx, - - CLOTH $1.00. PAPER 50 (yrs. Koreshan Astronomy. THE EARTH A HOLLOVV GLOBE, BY PROF. ll. 0. SPEAK, - - Is the Earth Convex? PRICE 50 crs. BY Pnor. ll. 0. SPEAK, - PRICE 5 crs. Proclamation and Judgment. AN EXPOSITION OF THE SEX QUESTION, BY CYRUS, - - - - Solution of the Financial Problem. BY CYRUS, - - - - Controversy Bnrxvnmz PROF. SPEAR AND ALVA MAY, Pinon 10 cats. PRICE. 10 (yrs. PRICE 10 crs. THE ENTIRE SERIES, PAPER, $1.50. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. A Citizens of the COMMONWEALTH! ----<o>~O<o>—-~—— \Ve urge you to investigate our s_vstem of Commr.-1'<-ial Equation by which we purpose to revolnlio11i7.e the com- merce of the world and institute justice in the interchange of products. The establishment of equitable commercial relations be- tween man and man is not only of vital importance to you as a producer and consumer, but also to the Commonwealth whose sacred interests, entrusted to the custodianship of our legislative bodies, have been ruthlessly abused and betrayed, so that the Very fabric of government is seriously threatened with dismemberment and decay. For the promulgation of this system, to effect a commercial balance, we have issued this ‘journal, which, while it means to proclaim and establish a new and incomparable method of trade, destined to “freeze out” mo11opoly brokerage and knavery, will yet be the sharp and pungent critic and opponent of every violation of social ethics, fearlessly assailing the money power and the present banking system, the greed of the capitalists, the perﬁdy of public functionaries, the hypocrisy of the Church, the iniqui- ty of federate labor, the treachery of the daily press, and the criminal apathy of the people to an insolent usurpation of their sovereign rights. An eight page paper touching tersely and comprehen- sively upon all live questions, THE PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING H001; will be issued VVEEKLY at the nominal price of FIFTY CENTS A YEAR, in advance. \Ve solicit your early subscription for this matchless champion of the cause of hu- manity whose civilization and perpetuity is threatened. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 220 NOE STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. Sample Copy on Application. o A o -" . ’. .\ / I 9 1 0 BUREAU or EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 lilrorit Street. San Francisco, _: ,_.gz;§.i»;. . \VHOLESALE AND RETAIL Grocery House. CONDUCTED ON THE CO-OPERATIVE PLAN. .-,»;-r o ——— o._v<1.=§,,-<1>‘»— ——— The attention of the public is invited to the Co—operative Plan of Distribution and Collection adopted by the Bureau of _ Equitable Commerce, which enables every one to become a sharer in the proﬁts of the organization. Certificates of Equi- table Commerce range in price from $5,00 to 9(?~100,00. Certi- ﬁcate purchasers become patrons of the system and receive with their certiﬁcates, checlis of $5,()() denomination which amount is stamped on the checks in amounts of 5cts., 10cts., 20cts., 25 cts., and 50 cts.. 011 the opposite side of these numerals is the name of the purchaser. These checks are better than gold for the purchase of any goods at any of our stores. \Vhen all the amounts are punched out of the check by the purchase of goods the same is taken up and the certiﬁcate cancelled. Many of the goods handled by the Bureau are consigned directly by the producer on commission which permits of their being sold at a much lower ﬁgure than if they had to pay a proﬁt to three or more dealers, according to the prevailing commercial methods, before reaching the consumer. You are invited to call and inspect our stock of sugar, teas» coffees, canned goods, butter, cheese, eggs, hams, bacon, lar(l, and all other goods usually kept in a first class grocery house. All our merchandise will be sold for cash at the lowest living prices. Try the co-operative plan and get goods at wholesale prices. BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street. San Francisco Cal. Cal.
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Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-04
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Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 05 (June 20, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1941, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-06-20
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
Text: ill INDKATOK ll mlllilfiiiill mun mm‘ ll. San Francisco, Cal., June, 20. 1891. Five Cents a Copy. e Plowshare and Pruning ,Hook. 1891. ' ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. ,5? Market Street, - San Francisco, Cal. Founder and Director. Editor. J“‘lt_Ai:LAUGHL1N, _ - . ~ sll money orders and communicutimis to A C. _J. MACLAUGHLIN, , Station G. 220 Noe SI,r'eet,' . °.i.°°; Year in advance, - - - - - Oopy. - - — — — - Sample Copy on Application. IPOSE Wales should elope with Lady Brooke now that tl1e Nothing is impossible in this age of idiosyncracies. _uld, we might sympathize even with Lady Brooke. ‘ THE London omnibus drivers have been on a strike, and now - _washerwomen of that metropolishave laid down their wash- ‘ I: and soap and demand less hours and more pay. This is the disastrous of all the recent strikes, for, with the ﬁlth which 1y come to light over there, it behooves the Britons, at no dispense with their washing. - ‘5ECRETARY Rusk purpos...
Show moreill INDKATOK ll mlllilfiiiill mun mm‘ ll. San Francisco, Cal., June, 20. 1891. Five Cents a Copy. e Plowshare and Pruning ,Hook. 1891. ' ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. ,5? Market Street, - San Francisco, Cal. Founder and Director. Editor. J“‘lt_Ai:LAUGHL1N, _ - . ~ sll money orders and communicutimis to A C. _J. MACLAUGHLIN, , Station G. 220 Noe SI,r'eet,' . °.i.°°; Year in advance, - - - - - Oopy. - - — — — - Sample Copy on Application. IPOSE Wales should elope with Lady Brooke now that tl1e Nothing is impossible in this age of idiosyncracies. _uld, we might sympathize even with Lady Brooke. ‘ THE London omnibus drivers have been on a strike, and now - _washerwomen of that metropolishave laid down their wash- ‘ I: and soap and demand less hours and more pay. This is the disastrous of all the recent strikes, for, with the ﬁlth which 1y come to light over there, it behooves the Britons, at no dispense with their washing. - ‘5ECRETARY Rusk purposes toinstitute a iiiicmscopic examina- f our hogs in order that France and Germany might have no ' for excluding them from their ports. \Ve cannot under- e animus of France and Germany in this matter. ,we ship thousands of hogs to these countries. who, through I robbery, devour a large part of the products of our labor ‘- would suffer by a critical scrutiny. \Vhy is this unjust ug distinction conceded ? livery TI-IE telephone company of this city after charging a good price for putting in a phone, and then a monthly rentage of $5.00, levies a tax of ﬁve cents on every message sent over the wires. This rate would appear, at ﬁrst sight, reasonable, but when one re- members that comparatively few persons will hire a phone who do 11ot give it constant use, the charge appears at once exorbitant. It is another of the clever gouging schemes of monopoly. “Well, if you don't like it, what are you going to do about it?” This is the watchword of modern commerce. ' It is reported from London that Lord Londonderry, a heavy land holder, has come to the conclusion that the sway of English landlordism in Ireland is approaching the hour of its dissolution and he has therefore concluded to sell his Irish estates to the ten- ants upon terms as agreed upon by parties selected by both sides. This is a philosophical conclusion for Londonderry to reach and also a most extraordinary one considering the general phlegniatic indifference of the class to which his Lordship belongs as to the urgent need of immediate action toward a solution of the land question which threatens the overthrow of English sovereignty. At the Ascot races last week, after the partial instructions of Chiefjustice Coleridge to thejury in the famous baccarat case, and its rendering of a verdict in favor of the Wilsons, the Prince of V-Vales was hooted at by the English middle class. Such expressions as these greeted his ears: “Have you brought your counters with you?" VVales, it is said, became pale with anger, but was power- less to help himself, Unless Queen Victoria abdicates the British throne or else rounds out her earthly career soon, it is almost cer- tain that King Edward viii will never be known to history. OHIO is uncommonly noted for its political “back numbers”, or what, in vulgar parlance, are called “chestnuts.” There are R. B. Hayes, Ex-President and nonentity; John Sherman, U. S. Senator and Gibraltic candidate for President; “calico Charley,” who, after a political repose of a decade has been resurrected and now holds the Treasury portfolio; good old bandanna Thurman; ‘£1-IIER Mollinger is reported to possess ll121r\‘L*l:v1lS powers as ,t6whom thousands are ﬂocking in Pittsburg to obtain wble aid. Can this great healer cleanse the race of the “of selﬁshness which is carrying it to dest1‘ur:tion ? If not, us ted potentiality is weak and ephemeral. Selﬁshness is leper with which =11un1anity is cursed. Where is the blow-fly Halstead, whose ﬁnal reward of the German mission for long continued services rendered the Republican party, was dis- allowed by a recalcitrant Senate; and now comes McKinley, who, after being sqiielched by a popular disapproval of his high tariﬁ" bill, bobs up serenely as a gubernatorial candidate. VVitl1 punned pen we are forced to ejaculate O ! Hie‘! O I L The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. ONE of those heart rending, every day accidents occurred the other day at an iron foundry in Dortmund, Prussia; a chain gave way letting the molten iron from a converter fall upon eight work- men. The dispatch reporting the calamity stated that the ﬂesh was almost entirely stripped from their bones and that ﬁve others were so badly burned that they are in a critical condition. All lost their eyesight. The operators of this foundry aided by a high protective tax, are doubtless persons of wealth, while these un- fortunates, now deprived of their means of securing a livelihood, must either be supported by their friends who are, doubtless, like themselves, in straitened circumstances, or else live on govern- mental charity, which at best, is a heartless, miserable portion. Of course none will expect the employers, under whose hire these men were disabled, to come forward and offer assistance; like vassals, having ceased to be of service, they will be left to die in their distress, deserted by the hands they have helped to enrich- , This is one of the results of the competitive system, which is up- held by a so-called advanced civilization and fostered by the 111od- ern Christian Church. In the light of such facts, what can we think of the clergymen who will excuse, or the laity who will ‘uphold such a damnable "system of social economy. A VVorkmerr’s Pension bill, which “. is‘_about;to become a law in France, provides that by paying a cent or two'_daily"'into a Gov- ernment fund according to whether his insurance is for $60.. or $r2o. yearly, that the French workman will have “something to fall back on” when his bones get old and creaky and he cannot work any more. [It is said that this bill will strengthen the Government. Well, it probably will. Since the workman toils at small wages for the upper class which controls the ﬁnances of the country and therefore the Government, this class will necessarily be strength- ened by having the money paid out for labor returned again to its custodianship. As to the pensions, which, according to the bill, will accrue to the workmen, it remains to be seen how long they are paid; if paid at all. As long as the money power of France can proﬁtably succeed in robbing the people just so long will they al- low these small:pensions to be paid; but when the present ﬁnan- cial gig breaks down in; France her workmen can sing for their rides, earned_by:agreement through money invested. At the typographicalgconvention held in Boston the other day Edward Atkinson in addressing the convention reaﬂirmed his opinion “that no man should be deprived of his liberty to work as longhas hepleasedjand at whatever wages he pleased without re- gard to organization." Shouts of “rats!’ ’ and hisses from the dele- gates:_drowned his:voice. These are the kind of men who expect to solve the labor problem. They propose to tyrannize labor and thus form a voluntary and involuntary phalanx against capital. Society has no more dangerous enemy than the man who would molest his brother in the execise of his privilege to work where he choses, as long as:he’choses, and at whatever compensation he sees ﬁt to ac- cept. Capital never resorted to plan more arbitrary than this. Such tactics are the _“_resort of the cowardly anarchist and assassin. The labor problem can never be solved in this way. In the present chaotic state of society, pending a true adjustment of its relations, let the workman who seeks to maintain his family, labor independ- ently of these Unions, and if menaced in so doing, defend himself according to his prerogatives as a citizen of the Commonwealth. This is an unjust societal system,the labor question will be solved, but we will not tolerate here in America any interference with the sovereign rights of our citizens in the matter of their hire. ARISTOCRACY is rotten to the core. Its history is blotted all over with scandals. It is largely a “free love” institution covered with the cloak of exclusiveness. Nothing in the world but money and the peoples’ idiocy have insured its continuance; money wrongfully obtained from the masses and an idiocy born of oppres- sion. How long can such a state of affairs continue to last? In’ England as an example, we have a Lady Brooke, who, soon after her marriage is said to have earned a tarnished reputation involv- ing no less than fourteen corespondents, among whom were numbered H. R. H. Albert Edward. Lady Colin Campbell with .-:- .4... _.u ’-.....~-,»-.‘-1-:;'...." '—» her familiar escapades affords another specimen of the real charac‘-"_ ter of the British elite. The pages of history have ever bee‘ blackened with the licentiousness of the rich and powerful; the Cleopatras, the Caesars, the Lucretia Borgias, the Popes and nota- bly the Kings of France with their notorius retinues. And why; should not this be so? This class of people from time immemorial, have had nothing to do but eat, sleep, carouse and ﬂirt. Here in‘ America the same condition obtains among our high—bloods (?)..', New-York, Chicago and San Francisco society is kept in a con-' stant state of hubbub over a new exposure of sensuality involving ; a leader of some charmed circle. We will mention the l\IcCrea _ affair as a good illustration of the growing abandon of our so-called ; aristocracy. A man by the name of Snell goes to Chicago while 2 it is a small but rapidly growing town, buys up real estate for a ' song, becomes very rich, and then dies leaving his large fortune to ’ two or three children, among whom there is a Mrs. McCrea, who, ‘ tiring of her husband, gets a divorce, moves to New York and with ' unlimited wealth at her command, branches out into all the gaye- - ties of Metropolitan swelldom. We are not prepared to say that this _ woman penetrated the ecstatic domain of Ward Mc Allister and his , “4oo”, but she, at least, circulated among several “high toned” sets and lo! the ﬁrst thing we hear she elopes with a married man I and carries off her prey-—or they carry each other off, we don‘t A know which—to Europe, where they have been billing and cooing , like polaristic wrens. Now this is a faithful picture of the moral ’ stamina of our American aristocracy. As a matter of choice, be-' tween it and the European article we think it is a case of the penny and the cake. “High” society is the curse of our modern civi- ’ lization. It is composed largely of swindlers, gamblers, libertines, ' voluptuaries and sirens. It must go. j.A<o>O«>—-—-— . THE GREAT MIDDLE CLASS. There are three great classes of people in SOCi€’ty: the upper, « middle and lower classes. The lower class is the reﬂex or opposite pole of the upper class while the middle is the one which sustains ‘ or balances them both. The upper could not exist without the lower class. They are represented by the Prince and the pauper, _ and properly constitute the dregs of society, the one the scum on top and the other the mud at the bottom, the difference being‘ that the scum is the essence of the mud. Sometimes through the agi- tation of the waters of society the mud rises to the top and the V‘ scum is carried to the bottom. This is almost invariably found to = be the case. The richest come from the lowest order and because ._ this is so, they are at a loss to know how to conduct themselves . toward their fellows when they reach the highest order. These ' orders are denominated by a ﬁnancial rating not by a mental and .~ moral one, but there comes a time in the course of every cycle p when they must desert their extreme positions and come together. This is the ﬁght between Gog and Magog spoken of in the bible or ’ the contest between capital and labor which is now culminating. ‘ The middle class refuses to sustain any longer the relation of balance; it will step aside and allow capital and labor to destroy ; each other. This is the true signiﬁcance of the coming revolution. It is not necessarily the poor that constitute the lower class, but g the idlers and criminals reduced to wretchedness through intem- , perance and vice. . Compare these with the people of the upper class and with 1 the exception of the gold which the latter possess where is the‘ distinction between them? The one uses more whitewash than the other, but they both live for the one purpose; self gratiﬁcation, and a masterly indifference to the effect that the execution of that V‘ purpose may have upon humanity in general. The people—-—and I when we say this, we mean the great middle class which is the main pillar of society—know considerably about the dregs of so- ciety but not much in regard to the scum, which is really worse, ‘_ for, as we have said, the scum is the essence of the dregs and’, therefore a more virulent form of degeneracy. The upper class or , scum lives purely for pleasure, but does more damage to society ’ by so living than the lower class or dregs. The former exerts ; more inﬂuence than the latter and for this reason is the more dan- 1, gerous factor of the two. The former in its pursuit of pleasure . whi1e_theiau~.er ‘only the few. “ The ‘ while the latter waits upon itself. percilious, while the latter is at least V _ al cleanliness and use of lang- &t with the lower class when sub- »: Debauchery, vice, prodigality, ,‘not in poverty‘. Luxury is always the hope of a nation. It sustains the same relation as does the great Mississippi valley, carrying off _ of ‘the two wings‘ of the United States, it is ever the I Iﬁpendence of the Commonwealth. The great middle ‘ , .— the focal point from which verge the various lines ental energy. It was from this nucleus that the Com- . was projected. The Franklins, the Hancocks, the C .. Lees, the Patrick Henrys, the George VVashingtons, erbockers, were all the product of the middle class, the »,people; and, so long as American society revolved tcenter of impregnable energy, its rotations were jafe, but when, infused with the eﬂluvium of inordi- ltjshot oil‘ in meteoric madness, having strayed from its ‘ it, it must at last become disintegrated in conse- mevitable collision. a.mLincoln was the last expression in the executive ' the Government of the potentiality of the middle class in ailhirs. This honest rail splitter focalized the earnest, of true Americans for good government and only ” the centre of this focalization were we enabled to I monster of slavery.- That war marked the ramifying .. .. ‘can energy. was that greed, disloyalty, dishonesty and plutocracy from the main line of true Americanism and sought . ‘e ﬁelds of operation. Then it was that the weakness "'y3~ofour governmental fabric was made manifest. A ‘C s wolves bore down upon the National treasury 8 and Vandals upon waning Rome; secession aimed blows at the head of Columbia; VVall street crouching ... sprang at the throat of our ﬁnances; contractors for ' liesstaggered under the loot of ill earned_ remuneration; 'onaries, faithless to the obligations of a public trust, ﬁle levyof high import duties for the disbursement of 1 Created through the calamity of war, piled up wealth "35 the coﬂers of our citizens until their personal possess- ‘_ lelost to humble; gaze amid the giddy heights of excess. lofty columns »interco'mmunication was established, catch slight glimpses of another world which we sup- ‘ gorgeous splendor, its dazzling brilliancy; we hear . j -1'evelry and dance born updn the sweet scented from these Elysian palaces of C1'(ES11S; these hang- -: of modern Babylon, with their disportiug nymphs and i 4 nies, who far away from squalor, want and wretch- Iii the ascending essence of the peoples’ industry and _ middle class looks beyond at this unprecedented -i I then beneath at the caverns and cesspools of desti- élinanating therefrom songs of ribaldry, lewdness, ' dcatches the stench of squalidity; the intonations of gbove and the wails of poverty rising from below duagiving birth to the song of REVOLUTION whose ng stronger, echoing and re-echoing among the corri- mnst at last peel forth in tones of thunder causing so- ’ and precipitating these Babylonish air castles to the A‘ eiifllowshare and Pruning‘, Hook. S 3 The great middle class has endured patiently the vast inroads upon its resources; it has adhered to the main line of action, name- ly, the consummation of human destiny. The middle class is the pillar of state; the womb of progress. It has given birth to the countless heroes who mark the pages of history. It is the domain for the evolution of genius. The direct line of human progress we ﬁnd dotted with its milestones; Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Elijah, CHRIST, the Supernal Arch; Marcus Aurelius, Martin Luther, Shakespeare, Goethe, La Salle, Madame de Stael, George Eliot and all the native ancestry dear to American hearts. In the present mighty era of competism and social crises the‘ middle class is bewildered. It sees the danger ahead and yet is undecided as to the proper course to take. It will neither plunge into the wilderness of anarchy nor yet trust itself to the deceptive quagmire of plutocracy. It can ﬁnd no standing ground among re- puted reformatory measures and parties of the day with their short sighted and pusillanimous platforms and organizations, and still it stands aghast at the knavery and insincerity of the old parties. It turns with despair from the monopoly—tuned professions of the Republicans, to the craft and rapacity of the Democrats, and, being alive to the impracticability and insuﬁﬁciency of Nationalism, Sin- gle taxism and the like, is undecided as to which horn of the two great party dilemmas to cling to. In this emergency it‘ ﬂoats the signal of distress and sends up its rockets, that they may be seen by some messenger of succor on the horizon of thought. The mid- dle class is at last awakening to the fact that society is going to piecesgnbut where is the Moses to snatch the temperate, the honest and the frugal from the debris of revolution? Lawrence Gronlund has prophecied that in the near future some great religious mind will spring up outside of the established Church and lead the clamoring spirit of reform, with which the air and people are rife, to a great and ﬁnal victory. VVe enjoin upon the middle class; the great plain people, to look well into this ques- tion so vital to its future welfare; to cast about in the approaching storm for a haven of refuge; to seek the only port which can shelter its storm-tossed bark from the raging sea of the coming woe. There does exist an established system; a practical organity; an invul- nerable and genuine religious system, predicated upon the laws of Sinai, which, despite the raillery of inﬁdelity superinduced by the hypocrisy of the modern Church, are, and ever shall be the i1n- ' pregnable and immutable guide of the human race. This system has applied the plumb line and level to commercial transactions and will revolutionize trade through the rendering of value for value. _ Commercial Equation, projected from the center of rational conception, is the key to the ﬁnancial situation. « 4s>...__ Who are the Idlers. ldlo CfLl‘1)GIll’.01‘S stood around on the street corners of this city last sea- son, Without any indication of scarcity of money whcrewitll to procure tobacco and whiskey, much longer than was agiw-.cal>lc to members of otlu-.1‘ trades who were assessed to kccpthom idlo. Principle is a line thing to stand for, but - there are some things. that strain it terribly, one of which is to work hard and contribute a per cent. of the wcck’s earnings to support ablc-bodied men who object to putting in a full day’s work for 1.l1oins<-lves.—Oregonizm. Members of corporations, usurcrs, real estate speculators, ctc. year in and year out, are doing what. those idle r-a.rpentcrs did for a few days, but the press never comment upon it, yet the per cent. of the weeks wages that the workingmcn give to support tliom in idleness is enormous compared with any- thing they are over yet called upon to givo in support of strikers. Of the two it is certainly more :Lgrocal>lc and more honorziblc to maintain the strikers in idleness and tobacco for a fcw days, when they a1.ro striving to maintain an ex- istcnco for labor against the greed of employers, than it is to support those speculators and usurcrs, (etc., who never do an honest day’s work and whose strike never ends. In some parts of South America the lot of tho laboring classes is so hard that it is considored by them a luxury to commit a crime whereby they can be p11t in jail and fed and housed at. the public expense. Labor, in the present condition of affairs, is <lcgm<li11g. Those who have no means of support save their daily wages are slaves. They have no time to cultivate their liner natures, no time or means to enjoy anything; life to tlicm is one long torture. Yot it is the working people tllcnisolves who are responsible for this condition of things. There is plenty for all ; and just as soon as the labor world will unite and work togctlicr for tho good of all (their clforts so for have been just as selfish as are those of their masters) peace and prosperity will be Ilnivcrsnl, and people will be free. Humanity must awaken a better consciousness 1)«-fore a lmH.e1" con- dition of a1‘f:I.irs can preva.il.—T/Le. Worlzls Adzvamre Wrought. Genuine religion should enter into and constitute the founda- tion of business transactions. But moral and social equity have been tabooed from the domain of commercial activity, and the cu- pidity and avarice of the money seeker have stunted every right moral and social sense. Financial acquirements are devoted largely to the support of conventionalism and the creation of class discrim- inations and distinctions, hence any appeal to the race for the im- provement of its conditions must be directed to such cupidity and avarice. Notwithstanding the fact that human greed actuates the rich and poor alike, there remains the principle of commercial equity, and independently of moral and social obligation, it may force an entrance into the concerns of business and be made the bulwark and fortiﬁcation of enterprise. Commercial integrity does not im- ply honesty of heart. The principle of arbitration applied to the settlement of the questions that Vex the mind, engender strife, .breed tumult and lead to war, does not imply improvement in so- cial, moral or religious life. It is the applied law of business economy. Men may settle, otherwise, legal questions by arbitra- tion, because, to take their settlement into court means to pamper the rapacity of the great legal maw at the expense of uncertainty, with the possible loss of the possession for which they contend. Courts of so called justice and the augmenting army of legal para- sites and leaches, threaten the stability of economic prudence, and commercial discretion dictates the wise course, not because of moral force or impulse, but rather because rapacity is accompanied with the serpenl of ﬁnancial skill. The Bureau of Equitable Commerce provides for the applica- tion of economy on business, not moral integrity. By business integrity we mean that in no case shall a small amount be ex- changed for a large amount, and no labor shall be performed in which the one who performs the use does 11ot receive the full re- ward of his service. If the Bureau has seventy-ﬁve dollars worth of goods, and expends twenty-ﬁve dollars worth of labor in getting those goods into the hands of the consumer, it is entitled to one hundred dollars. More than this amount is robbery. If a man labors for one dollar and his employer derives more for that labor than the amounts he adds in an accompanying use for the full avail of that labor, he robs the employee of his earnings. THE PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING HooK, as the instrument of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, has, as a provision of its usefulness, the education of the people to the standard of their rights, as involved in the integrity of commerce.-K. ~40» LANDLORD AND TENANT. In the great struggle for bread, a contest in which the syste- matic and licenced millionaire robber is pitted against his slave brother, there is no more abject degredation than that in which the tenant is related to the Landlords of our great cities. So long as the competitive system obtains, and the unscrupu- lous man of commercial rapacity, wisdom, and ability, is permitted to wage a contest for the last dollar for which the poor man strug- gles, there is no hope for the latter. The grim monster of drudgery and starvation, spectre-like, but none the less real, stalks as the as- sociate of poverty, and the christian brother in the same church with the poverty stricken, with his carpeted and cushioned pew, cloaked in hypocrisy the better to ply his avocation of ﬁlching his brother’s gain, revels in luxury. Is the christian system a farce? or will there come a day when the prayer indited by the Lord “thy kingdom come and thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven,” will meet an answer, and the kingdom be established? Will the day come to the world when some great power of justice and judgment, moving the mass, as the power of God actuated the single personality of Christ when he entered the temple on the memorable day of the discomforture of the brokers, shall rid it of the great Pagan and anti-christian system of competism which curses humanity? VVill it come to hurl the thunderbolts of Jove and annihilate the oppressor of the poor and conﬁrm the oft repeated promises, and threats of dire ven- geance upon those “who oppress the hireling in his wages?” Will the Lord come again to complete the work of restoration and apply The Plowshare and Pruning Hook.’ r the plumb line of integrity and the level of equation, and by -an square the relation of man to man? God has promised, and as there is no remission of sin with: the shedding of blood, and as prophetic prescicnce has been - abled to predict the end from the beginning, and as there can " no escape from the dictum of ]ehovah’s word, “the third woe” - _ culminate at the time allotted, and a more disastrous “black f_ day,” will devastate the millions “heaped up against the day ' wrath, ” than that in which V\'all Street was ever consternated. Cou prayer avert the dire calamity impending over the rich who exerci if an oppression greater than was practiced upon the Israelite in h Egyptian bondage, the time would have come for the righteo i man to pray, but the prayer offered in the order of Divine la is the prayer for relief from the oppression of competism and in i ~ answer must bring despoliation to the oppressor. T ‘The ire of God is kindled, and the inspiration of the righteous man is consonant with the declared purpose of Jehovah to institut equation when upon the opening of the third seal there shall go fort the black horse whose rider carries the ballances; emblem of justic accompanied with a voice: “a measure of wheat for a penny, an three measures of barley for a penny. ” There will be no corner in the market then, and the bulls and the bears will constitute a lively menagerie for the amusement of those in whose interests th revolution is adjusted. “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come and thy will be done in earth as it is done in heaven, and give us this day our daily bread," 0 which we have been robbed by the rich speculator who grinds us to earth, and thy name shall be gloriﬁed by those whom thou dos deliver. Fulﬁl thy promises, and give us who groan under th oppre-ssor’s hand. speedy deliverance.——K. —————-HO The Significance of the Bell Punch. “You are a thief,” is its voice, and when one rides in a street‘ or railroad car and beholds his fellow-man with the bell-punch, hanging from his neck, his ﬁrst impression is, well, it is his only escape from the penitentiary or the gallows, and after all, it is . very great act of benevolence on the part of his employer to afford the employee this safeguard against the temptation which might: land him in the penitentiary or on the scaffold. It sets a man'to' thinking and when the mind once begins to work it does not know always just when to stop. That is, it suggests the idea of dishon- esty; the proximity of a thief is obvious, and you look at the man’ who wears it and you say: That is a good face, I could trust that man, ifI paid him what he deserves. He can't be the thief that the bell punch represents. ‘Where is he then? is the next ques- tion, and I begin to contrast the soft genial face of the man who wears it with the man who hung it there, and I at once decide: t/mt . is the man I would not trust. I have discovered the thief, and ﬁnd also that he has heaped up his millions by the systematic robbery he has been perpetrating upon his fellow man, and he fears I‘ that the man he employs may think it not robbery to recover his ’ own,—thus the invention of the punch. The bell-punch and the whiskey-punch are both instituted by men high in ﬁnancial, intellectual and social position, but desti- tute of any moral or humane inclination or desire. These punches . should both take their (leparture.—K ' .__.oo¢-——— IN FULL BLAST. The Bureau of Equitable Commerce is in full blast. Our sys- tem of Commercial Equation is receiving the attention of public, and business men, and as they become familiar with its purposes and scope, it is regarded as a great and laudable undertaking and ' meets with favor. Behind the Bureau is an integrity of purpose to ameliorate the C conditions of those who live from hand to mouth, and who, because of inability to purchase goods in large quantities and to pay in ad- . vance, are compelled to obtain the necessaries of life at great disad-- vantage. C , Our system of Commercial Equation will inaugurate a revolu-. tion in trade and enforce, by rapid processes, the adjustment of the:_ plumbline and level and bring the st/uare of 1/1607} to the application of _;§rm‘z‘z're. . The 'middle man is the great barrier to the intercourse of the , producer and consumer. The producer will ﬁnd it to his advantage - to study the Commercial system of the Bureau and proﬁt by the ad-’ vantages in trade which it offers.——K. - = i s The Plowshare, and ‘Pruning Hook. THEISSUE OF FINANCE. unblem can never be solved until the money pro- and this will defy a solution so long as the present and interests obtain. “fieither a. borrower, nor a lender be; ‘ or loan oft loses both itself and friend ; dborrowing dulls the edge of husbandry,” I V advice to his son, which is just as wholesome "to-day as when it emanated from the proliﬂc brain The present monetary system boiled down is one d lend and such a system must sooner or later inevi- in bankruptcy. There isn't one sound egg among all this age-worn ﬁnancial hen has hatched. debt, debt stares us in the face on every side. Every , ere the methods of modern ﬁnance have been operated ﬁver ears in debt. There is a bonded indebtedness on the of this country of about $2,ooo,ooo,ooo; land, corporations, 313; everything is in debt. Each day we expect to hear of . u ation of that impending crisis which will completely e present monetary system. There is no escape from it boner men are reconciled to this fact and act accordingly it will be for them. Competism with its ﬁctitious area ‘must go. . 2. u e money as plentiful "as the sands of the sea and vgfcondition of things will obtain because the pur- er of money is regulated by our national banking ' also controls therates of transportation; for the bond- railrbad operators belong to the same clan and they ‘on the people’s coat collar which they don ‘t intend to . .' ' This coat which the people have been wearing so gotten and useless; why not discard it ? Let the people ’ out of this worn-out garment and make another one for which they can easily do if they really want to. Let ‘ﬁieirown money to be utilized upon a basis of value will not admit of the borrowing or lending fallacy signiﬁes simply equitable exchange. This old coat that _ power holds in its grasp, which is simply a popular to"a traditional fallacy, is useless without the people who have been perpetuated for ages simply upon popular '-Ioilndation stone. When will the people awaken to a of their strength and employ it to an adjustment of nces? Why tax themselves by instituting a govern- of two per cent on property as the designing leaders of es Party” would have them do? There is no necessity - l for the people, who constitute the state, the government, Ives. Why propose a governmental tax on land, tothe people. Single taxism plays right into the ey power. Dispossess the people of their land by ..: on the same, and, with the present monetary would soon be-a nation of abject_ slaves. We would _ ed the acme of a blighting vassalage whose paral- been recorded in history. eedom doesnot lay in the avenues of land tax- tloans or in the augmentation of the volume of 'cy. The people, if they would be free, must he for themselves paved with the blastings Oiﬁommercial E_quation, which constitutes the _>atoneof~the1true Commonwealth. VVe do not favor ofland but unhesitatingly assert that land as v can never obtain upon any other basis than _e_rcia.l exchange, whereby the producer and con- ‘ u it face to face. To consummate this peerless plan ’ "an oppressed people from the plutocratic yoke u cal commercial revolution. It means the ex- ;_ journals without number and reform meas- with all its theory has never until now been _'ple of sound reformatory practice. PROGRESS. Upward, Upward press the peoples to that pure, exalted plane, Where no throne shall cast a shadow and no slave shall wear a chain. They have trampled on the fagots, broken cruciﬂx and wheel, Banished rack, and thong, and hemlock, and the headsman’s bloody steel.’ Forced the Church-hold to surrender stake, and scourge, and bolt and bar— Torn the keys from off its girdle, thrown the Gates of Truth ajar. They have forced the titled tyrants human rights to recognize, And with bayonet and saber, they have slain a legion lies. They are lighting lamps of freedom on a million altar-stones With the torches they have kindled at the blaze of burning thrones; And this light shall sweep each circle to the very ends of earth, Touching with immortal beauty every hem t and every hearth. Thrilling every human being underneath the speechless skies, And transﬂguring our planet to a perfect Paradise. As We higher march, and higher, on into this light serene, Every man will be a Kaiser, every woman be a Queen— ; * Aye, Queen-rcgnant, then, and ransomed from the thralls she wears to day; While her lover, son and brother walk unfettered on their way. She hath wept and prayed in passion—-bitterly hath made her moan~— All the terrors and the tortures of the tyrant she hath known, Still, the blood that ﬂo\vs for freedom ﬂows for man, and man alone. Nay, behold ! the light is burning with a strong, and stronger ﬂame, And the foremost in the phalanx see the stark and stinging shame- Sce the biting, blasting, burning shame of sex-oppression now, And with hearts and hands uplifted, swear a grand and god-like vow, That, despite the fangs of Custom, and despite the Church’s frown, ‘Womanhood shall wield its scepter, womanhood slifall wear its crown. She hath borne with man his crosses, she hath worn with man his chains, She hath suffered all his losses, she hath suffered all his pains. She shall stand with him, co-equal, on the pure exalted planes! W’1'll. II. Kerntm in “Lucifer.” ——?-—>«o N ATIONALISM. Some Reasons for its So-called Failure in Practical’ Lines. By J. T. Ooan, What is Nationalism? Propound this question to twenty persons, and you will elicit almost as many replies; and the answers will be as widely dif- ferent, as the individual minds from which they emanate. Herein lies an element of failure from the beginning, which, later on will receive farther no- tice. Who, than Edward Bellamy, was more supriscd at the unprecedented, intense interest awakened by the introduction of his book, “Looking Back- Ward?” True, some read and laid it aside calling it a fabric of idle dreams; in one sense it is, inasmuch as, while it voices condemnation of crying evils, and sympathetic relation with the oppressed and suffering, it offers no clearly laid plans by which those evils denounced may be obliterated, nor the oppressed and suffering extricated from the bondage which enthralls them. Yet it has done a work for good, in that its se1Lt1',m.en.L9 found response in thousands of anxious, and earnest hearts; its spirit gave impetus and incentive in the direc—. tion of reform and reconstruction. First, It struck the dominant chord, if not the Key—note. “Liberty Or- der, Equality, these three watchwords were claimed to form the basic prin- ciples involved and indispensable in the Nationalistic platform. Second, A profession of a belief that Jesus of Nazareth gave to the world a holy example of right living which should bring peace and plenty, love and harmony, and the highest spiritual development and attainment. Third, An expressed conviction that the outcome of adherence to these principles and simple creeds, would so strengthen the forces of this party of a day, that ultimately all evils of monopoly, cf trusts and syndicates; all the in- justices of present Legislation, and barbarous laws governing grim competism, should be swept away and in their place should reign equal distribution, just and honorable laws having for their foundation love to the neighbor and ﬂnally be established, Co—operation, the fond dream of the true Communist. Surely these are high aspirations and worthy of earnest pursuance. But while the above expressions of belief were embraced in the platform, factions, differences of opinion, personal prejudices, and widespread unbolief in Deity, were constantly occurring to mar and vitiate the power for good; to preclude the possibility of successful attainment. Nevertheless, is Nationalism quite a failure? Has it not served a Divine purpose? Is any effort, any sacri- ﬁce in the direction of right, of honor, of justice, ever lost, or without effect? how be it gigantic plans and mighty purposes fail through want of concentra- tion, of powerful construction, and above all, of leadm-slrip? Nay; for— “never yet Share of truth was vainly set . The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. In the world’s wide fallow; After hands shall sow the seed, After hands from hill and meed. Reap the harvest yellow.” And upon every seed planted, must fall the early, and the latter rains for promise of awakening, for hope of fruition. . V In the sympathy with suffering and oppression, in the earnest, deepest plans for its amelioration and extinction, in the Divine patience of those who have toiled early and late for this consummation, the ﬂrst seed planting has been accomplished. The seed has been planted in the minds of a down-trodden outraged humanity; and likewise the first showers have descended, their re- freshing dews being the fair new hopes engendered ; the uplifting of the parch- ed and thirsty soul with an impetus to reach out and grasp the possibilities of possession laid before longing eyes, to lay hold upon and appropriate to their legitimate uses, the boundless gifts, the marvelous plcntitudes. of this super- abundant earth. But the hour has come when the fair buds of promise languish, the early dews of the morning have been dissipated; a languor, a blight seems Settling upon the face of the soil. Behold I the latter rains are delayed; dryness and un- profltablencss prevail. And do we still stand face to face with invincible ene- mies, want, outrage and despair; with their malign, menacing presence, and the utter hopelessness of their departure from our midst? Has the glowing holy fire of enthusiasm in the common cause of groaning humanity turned cold and lifeless within us? No; a thousand times, no 1 But the work of theo- retical reconstruction, of planning new methods, of adopting new principles, was new and untried; the plans and the methods lacked foundation: needed a concentrated pivotal power, which should in its magnitude, its boundless pos- sibilities, guidc, direct, and pe7;fcet the work of radical, yet peaceful revolution for which the hungry, the disheartened and justly rebellious, are clamoring. The Koreshan system of quadratic equation, of equitable adjustment, offers a superb, faultless elucidation of the intricate, profoundly vcxatious problems of reformatory, reconstructive methods; and above all, its Leader and Founder possesses the Supreme Power to grasp every phase and detail of the momentous question, the wisdom and skill to face, over-ride and subdue every difficulty on the tortuous path to flnal consummation and achievement of the grandest cause in the Universe; the redemption from competitive, capitalistic bondage, the inestimable gift of rightful ownership, and true, indisputable possession of Heaven-bestowed privilege and endowments. ——-—+«»«—————— THE SQUANDERING OF WEALTH. Joseph Rorles Iluchanan, in the Arena for June. There is a crime which has r11n in wild, unbridled career around the globe, from the most ancient recorded time, beginning in barbaric tyranny, and robbery of the toilcr, advancing with the power and wealth of nations, and ﬂourishing unchecked in modern civilization, sapping the strength of nations, paralyzing the conscience of humanity, impoverishing the spirit and power of benevolence, stimuiating, with alcoholic energy, the mad rush for wealth and power, and making abortive the greater part of what saints, heroes, and martyrs might achieve for human redemption. But alas! such has been its insinuating and blinding power, that it has never been opposed by legislation, a11d never ar- rested by the Church, which assumes to obey the sinless Martyr of Jerusalem and to war against all sins, and yet has never made war upon this giant sin, but has fondled it and caressed it so kindly, that the pious and conscientious, believing it_ no sin or crime, have lost all conception of its enormity, and may never realize it until an enlightened people shall po11r their hot indignation up- on the crime and the unconscious criminals. This crime which the world’s dazzled intellect and torpid conscience has so long tolerated without resistance, and which antiquity admired in its despotic rulers, splendid in proportion to the pcople’s misery, is that misleading form of intense. and heartless selfishness which grasps the elements of life and happiness, the wealth of a nation, to squander and destroy it in that ostentation which has no other purpose than to uplift the man of wealth and humble his poorer brother. That purpose is a crime; a crime incompatible with genuine Christianity. Its criminality is not so much in the heartless motive as in its wanton destruction of happiness and life to achieve a. selﬁsh purpose. That Squandcring wealth in ostentation an(l lux- ury is a crime, becomes very apparent by a close examination of the act. There would be no harm in building a $700,000 stable for his horses, like :1 Syracuse millionaire, or in placing a $50,000 service on the dinner table, like a New York Astor, if money were as free as air and water; b11t every dollar represents an average day’s labor. Hence the $700,000 stable represents the labor of 1,000 men for two years and four months. It also represents 700 lives, for $1,000 would meet the costs of the first ten years of a child, and the cost of the second ten years would be fully repaid by his labor. The fancy stable, therefore, repre- sents the physical basis of 700 lives, and affirms that the owner values it more highly, or is willing that 700 should die that his vanity may be gratified. The desire for ostentation, as one of the great aims of life, is inwoven into the whole fabric of society to the exclusion of nobler motives, for ostentation is death to benevolence. How many bankruptcies, how many defalcations and frauds, how many absconding criminals, how many struggles ending in brokcn—down con- st.itutions, how many social wrccks and embittered lives are due to its seduc- tivc influences, because the Church and the moral sentiment of society have 11ot taken a stand against it, and education has never checked it, for it runs riot at the universities patronized by the wealthy ? What is it but a matter uf course, and fashionably proper, for a minister representing the moncylcss and homeless income of an American citizen. But has any man a right to indulge in needless, and, therefore, proﬂigate expenditure for himself while misery unrelicved sur- Saint of Jerusalem, to spend in various ways ten or twenty times the average" rounds him ? I can imagine the voice of the million which says to the m 1, aire, we do not ask you to he a hero and leap in to save the drowning; wee‘, even require you to be a manly man, and bestir yourself before a life is but we do say that the drowning man shall not be doomed to drown by indifference; that if there is a rope which may be thrown to him, or a pl .,‘ uphold him, that rope or that plank shall be used, even if you forbid, and ‘ them as your vested rights. I am not assailing millionaires as wors . other men, the fault lies in our social system. Whether a better system is ; sible that would prevent them is not now under consideration, but surely , must be a system which will make unlimited wealth and unlimited povert ‘ possible; for such conditions are incompatible with a permanent, peaceful,'_‘ prosperous republic. As well might we expect a successful voyage from with four-ﬂfths of its cargo on the upper deck, as from a republic, top-h with millionaire capital. According to the careful statistics of Mr. Shear less than two per cent of our population holds seveu—tenths of our wealth, ° are rapidly advancing to nine-tenths, their progress being assisted by the i rcct taxation which places the burden of government on the shoulders of pov J We are drifting in the rapids; how far oft’ is our Niagara. ' j-é-9-+Q><————~ THE CHURCH. It must be apparent to every one, that all the reformatory work of world is being done outside and apart from the Church. To every one of the crying evils of socicty~evils so great that they sh; move a heart of stone to feeling a'nd action, and that are receiving the ear attention of men who have thrown off all allegiance to religious institutio the Church stands in utter indifference. It is dumb. It crosses by on’ other side of every social ill and evil, and will not so much as cast a glance the direction where it should be the ﬂrst to succor and save. So strongly is the Church intrenchcd in its masterly do-nothing po that its inﬂuence is to wholly separate what is called religious from see things; to draw the lines fast and hard between the realm of thought and th '5 action, and in so doing to set up false standards of religious life and re moral development. So strong and almost incradicable is this tendency, n-3 it is considered “bad form” to touch upon any of the leading vital issues of -_ day. The result is that what is called the Christian church has no more 11 on the every-day affairs of life and the consciences of men, and upon the thi that determine character, than if it were not in existence. It is a form f t‘ which life has departed. It has ceased to bear fruit. Why, then, cumbe ' the. ground. 3 These are not mere assertions. Facts will substantiate the statement Look at this thing called Christian civilization; look at the empire liquor;sce the myriad of souls year after year plunged into almost hope I ruin; see the desolate hearths, the blackened homesteauls, the broken—h(-a wives and mothers; listen to the shrieks and cries of murdered victims, s" upon the altar of liquor; and then behold the shadow of the scaﬂ'old, wh men are tortured to death. Observe the fearful results of the liquor t upon the morals of the people, exciting the animal nature, weakening the power, obliterating all that is God-like in humanity, and making beasts of u —and the Church is silent. Turn to the social evil, fed and kept alive througli the ministry of liqu observe the guilded house of hell, where vice puts on an alluring aspect; lower dow11 in the social scale to the haunts and dives, where the bes nature is seen in all its hideous proportions with none of the allurem' that make the resorts of the wealthy attractive; look at the bloated, disflgu degraded men and women in their mad rioting with death; men and wont children of the living God, and for whose redemption from sin, and the be age of the animal nature, Christ died—and the Church is silent. There is tr. l i11 young girls of tender age to supply this Golgotha of social life; there the sale of nude Japanese girls in San Francisco to meet the demands 0 foul civilization; there is cruelty to young children in the marts of trade, n‘ description, and—the Church is silent. ’ i There are gambling hells, legal and illegal; the former clothed in «. garb of respectability, to better carry o11 its nefarious practices of come ' the food products of a nation, and starving its people; the latter, and - haps the better of the two, divested of all appearances of respectability; ': by cheating and pillaging, and not only is the Church silent, but welcomes places of honor the men who amass wealth through the wllolesalc dc:-‘true’ of others. ' And now that the great moral question of the age is at last up for adji - cation and final settlement, the right of a man to his tabor product, the right‘ all men to life, liberty, and happiness; the conformity of trade to the Gel Rule; now that the question is before the world, shall or shall not the law’ Christ, of identity of human interest become the law of civilization—the Chu‘ is silent and by her silence confesses her disloyalty to the nmstor, whom ;‘ professes to serve. V Nor isit to be wondered at, when we rcﬂeet that the men who sup the Church are those who support and keep alive the social and busin systems that are in deadly hostility to the precepts of Christ. The Chu ’ in its refusal to touch secular things, has itself become so secularized, it has lost the spiritual life it once possessed. , It is absolutely necessary that we should look below the surf. o' things, and discriminate between Christianity and the Church, between universal life and its local temporary form. The Church is a human . strument that has been utilized in giving force and power to a Divine »" that of Divine and human relations. It has done its work; it is passing to a state of decrepitude; it is dying.—Imogene (J. Fales in Twcntietlt 6 f -= hand security. Every ﬁnancial center , and those who have money in\'(-stcd - ‘ n : brewing. There is a vast feeling of uneasi- . _ . - since the operations leading up to the Baring » u her. The center of ﬂnancial disturbance is evident- : to the Irish Sea there is a manifest disposition of . oil. "Hen are inclined to turn available securities into mon- ' .flf‘the banks. The movement of gold to St. Petersburg is V’ onsinoe last January, and even with these vast exportations I-market is not one whit more secure than it was in Decem- v is that almost every nation in Europe is weakened ﬁnan- . ﬁisrd lnnkruptey. This is apparent enough in Italy, Spain *8’ less so in Russia, Germany and England. The annual tcsupport armies and armaments is beginning to tell. Natu- the first to feel the approaching shock. The work- , down to the point of revolt and the rich are losing their lllld speculation. Financial managers of governments and banking ‘ Ire catching at straws like drowning men, and are making heroic :p themselves’ and each other aﬂoat. This condit.ion of money af- : is felt in every corner of civilization. In South America the ‘ w- hopeless, where not only fortunes in Brazil, Argentine, Int those from London, Paris and Berlin have been drawn into I ‘ épeonlstion and engulfed beyond redemption. In the United ; nu: inﬂuences upon European bourses are felt in less degree, class, causing anxiety and fear. The long delayed event, in $g)MvhJch evdry nation in Europe has bankrupted itself, appears al- ‘biimk, and, if war does not come soon, a tremendous social up- , - which, in turn, appears destined to drag down upon the Old . James: ﬁnancial crisis the nineteenth century has ever seen. How can be averted is beyond the ken of any prophet which no\v has attgnﬂon. In such an event America is in a position to gather what- my arise from the misfortunes of other nations, but prosperity is i -- we built up upon the losses of war or speculation, and the cal- ‘about to fall in Europe will be a common misfortune to all " : Herald. . 'STANFORD’S LITTLE BOOM. V Stanford as candidate of the People’s party might inject a surﬁ- ' - into the campaign to make it pay dividends to the heelcrs, run at a loss to all stockholders.— Washington Star. . 6 Stanford is said to be a bidder for the Presidential o".People’s party ticket. There is only one way for him to get 5 ls beginning now to “fry fat.” The process may prove as alluring song.-—St. Joseph Hearld. i (1 Stanford spends for the People’s party the money he has made 'rp'llroad monopoly, he will be a truly great reformer. Perhaps all the ; will ﬂock to Lealand’s standard when they hear that he wants to Vt.-;‘Lou1'.rri1le Oourier-Journal. i Vihniord of California is said to be the choice of the Peoplc’s ‘ entlal candidate, if he will accept the nomination. The sweet - . .. of a party opposed to “the money power” putting up for Presi- .d the richest men in the country must be apparent to alI.—Troy Ti uws. -CAL ESTATE. ~ BRANCH NO. 1. Bureau is prepared to transact a gener- H-Estgate Business. Those looking for A Business or Investment Properties fty or country, will do well to investi- ;,‘B'A.RGAINS before purchasing else- Correspondence solicited. _' Ma;rStOn, Managing Agent. "628 Market Street- . ._,MS,a.n Francisco, Cal. Golden Gate Branch GUIDING STAR PUBLIS G HOUSE. Fine Job Printing. BOOK AND PAMPHLET WORK A SPECIALTY ALL WORK PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO AT LOWEST PRICES. 2257 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. READ THE FLAMING SWORD. Those who desire a true knowledge of the science of immortal life, the cosmos and anthropostic law, and seek a liarnionization of Biblical teaching to scientiﬁc thought, should peruse this valuable expounder of KOltES1{AN1'fY, which is a Divinely organized movement destined to revolutionize the world. $1.00 A YEAR. SAMPLE COPY FREE. Address : THE FLAMING SWORD, 3617 Cottage Grove Ave., - - CHICAGO, ILL. Attention! Farmers, Attention! 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The Plowshare and Pruning Hook, \ as «>3» «>3» , ~ Citizens of the COMMONWEALTH! j——<»Q4.p_?_ VVe urge you to investigate our system of Commercial Equation by which we purpose to revolutionize the com- merce of the world and institute justice in the interchange of products: Theestablishment of equitable commercial relations be- tween man and mail is not only of vital importance to you as a producer and consumer, but also to the Commonwealth whose sacred’interests, entrusted to the custodianship of our legislative bodies, have been ruthlessly abused and betrayed, so that the very fabric of government is seriously threatened with dismemberment and decay. For the promulgation of this system, to effect a commercial balance, we have issued this journal, Which, while it means to proclaim and establish - a new and incomparable method of trade, destined to “freeze out” monopoly brokerage and knavery, will yet be the sharp and pungent critic and opponent of every violation of social ethics, fearlessly assailing the money power and the present banking system, the greed of the capitalists, the perﬁdy of public functionaries, the hypocrisy of the Church, the iniqui- ty of federate labor, the treachery of the daily press, and the criminal apathy of the people to an insolent usurpation of their sovereign rights. An eight page paper touching tersely and ‘comprehen- sively upon all live questions, THE PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING 'HooK will be issued WEEKLY at the nominal price of FIFTY CENTS A YEAR, in advance. We solicit your early subscription for this matchless champion of the cause of hu- manity whose civilization and perpetuity is threatened. 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VVhen all th amounts are punched out of the check by the purchase 0 goods the same is taken up and the certiﬁcate cancelled. Many of the goods handled by the Bureau are consign directly by the producer on commission which permits of the being sold at a much lower ﬁgure than if they had to pay J proﬁt to three or more dealers, according to the prevailin commercial methods, before reaching the consumer. You are invited to call and inspect our stock of sugar, tef coffees, canned goods, butter, cheese, eggs, hams, bacon, laiti and all other goods usually kept in a ﬁrst class grocery houi All our merchandise will be sold for cash at the lowest livia, prices. Try the co-operative plan and get goods at wholes prices. ,—:._.s.~....«‘».*:,...-ea-s.k¢.:§v»§.~a.a.xbs.-‘:1,-.L,.;.a:::.:.. . -«L7 . ~ ~ — ~-' >6, '4‘ V * ‘
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Geography: Chicago (Ill.), San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-05
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Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 06 (June 17, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1942, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-06-27
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
Text: San Francisleo, Cal, i1B91. Five Cents a Copy. *4 Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY -BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. ‘ Q 214 1r‘ront Street, - San Francisco, Cal. —» _W,. _’_>_.__, _, -.., o C. J. MACLAUGHLIN. 212 & 214 Front Street. San Frar‘1<:i-=;r.-'0, HIIIVKIICG, - .7 -VWEWw “V Sample Copy on Application. ' , ‘ T RAILROAD BUBBLE AND HOW TO PRICK IT. merchants of the Paciﬁc Coast and those whose lives de- '% - . . alpme extent upon them aregetting their eyes open to the -they are being devoured by a set of railroad sharks. a i i on of merciless cormorants whose rapacious and hungry «ﬁever Satisﬁed with the last drop, even of the lifc’s blood ‘ dupes. . M ‘pon their unsuspecting victims, as the railroad its‘ prey upon their degraded slaves and appropriate the ' ﬁlched from the blinded and dumb servants of their ‘ be no redress through political parties as they now _ '93] institutions are manipulated by legal cut-throats. ‘...
Show moreSan Francisleo, Cal, i1B91. Five Cents a Copy. *4 Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY -BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. ‘ Q 214 1r‘ront Street, - San Francisco, Cal. —» _W,. _’_>_.__, _, -.., o C. J. MACLAUGHLIN. 212 & 214 Front Street. San Frar‘1<:i-=;r.-'0, HIIIVKIICG, - .7 -VWEWw “V Sample Copy on Application. ' , ‘ T RAILROAD BUBBLE AND HOW TO PRICK IT. merchants of the Paciﬁc Coast and those whose lives de- '% - . . alpme extent upon them aregetting their eyes open to the -they are being devoured by a set of railroad sharks. a i i on of merciless cormorants whose rapacious and hungry «ﬁever Satisﬁed with the last drop, even of the lifc’s blood ‘ dupes. . M ‘pon their unsuspecting victims, as the railroad its‘ prey upon their degraded slaves and appropriate the ' ﬁlched from the blinded and dumb servants of their ‘ be no redress through political parties as they now _ '93] institutions are manipulated by legal cut-throats. ‘ I and state legislatures are made up of the vagabond- V -four thousand years accumulation of political garb- I-‘. " crust of our society, and that which determines our ; ‘isithe scum of ages of debauchery. \V'a-let;-,--the type - monopoly is a gigantic power but it is not strong- le. The power of combined “capital" is an inﬂu- ding opposition'to the interests of the people, but .-lbééoltles denionstrated, as it will be, that something I tgold. silver, and paper, can purchase bread and then the great railroad curse of the st .'J/ ﬂ .L,(_. .‘ Cm‘ the Lord went into the temple he drove out the money changers, a No banditti of highwaymen ever so remorse- 4 A that standard every man must be made to submit. Founder and Director, ,3 ‘xi .UGHLIN» ~ - — - Editor. i ' ' "' * - . i.. »v-' may be rated~:t:¢a—th~ird rate engine of oppression and not _—~:ts . ‘ the prime inﬂuence of a people's bondage. 9; road combine will be the nobobs of the near future, for their bobbing ' over the people’s degradation will have taken that kind ofbail that secures the renegade. There must be some standard of commercial integrity and to VVhat is this standard of commercial integrity? If it can be deﬁned the people will fall into line. The perpendicular of geometrical equation is the plumbline. Can we adjust th ‘)’l'iiinbline to the business transactions of the age ' and institute eq 11 tion? If we cannot the crack of doom will soon j startle the ears of the (leaf to the entreat_v of the oppressed. VVhen ‘M-. ﬁgure ofthe first important step to be taken in this degenerate age. Let us drive the money changers out of the temple and save its fur- ther desecration. God's poor comprise the temple, trodden under foot by pagan vandalism. Let the citizens of the commonwealth combine and re—construct the government taking the commercial ‘ plumbline as the beginning of their system of integralism. Commercial righteousness. commercial integrity, commercial upriglitness, the commercial pendicular. \Vhat is it? VVhat is the plumblinc to which we can adjust the commercial level and form the square of human equation and happiness? It is use for use, value for value. Render an equivalent for every act of use, destroy the power of speculation. and through it adjust the level. Let the people get down to business, inaugurate their own sys- tems ofindustry and share the beneﬁts. Labor is capital. Let the laborer enjoy the proceeds of his industry. ‘ Combine not upon the basis of competism "but rather on the basis of equitable distribution of \vealth.——/C THE SILVER QUESTION. In Mr. Stewart's reply to Knox the monometallist. he is report- ed to have said “The silver miners will be satisﬁed with free coin- age. They do not ask the government to buy their silver. They have no more right to do so than the farmer or manufacturer has to demand that the government shall buy the commodity that he pro- duces." “7 71¢‘ rilrver //./2'/mix‘ 2'./2'/Z /we .»‘:r/‘/'.\;7‘z'm’ ‘zw/1/" _//’('t’ L‘/21'/11753." \V ell. what is free coinage? It ineans to coin all the silver bullion that the miners can produce at the rate of an increase of twenty per cent above the market price of the silver on the basis of a valuation es- tablished in creating a market for it by calling it money. nu crn sifnmnh n 9 119011 ._ . ’l‘he nabobs oi the rail-. § Silver is comparatively valueless in the market except as 111011- This the silver miners know, hencevtheir anxiety to monetize it. A certain amount of silver bullion is worth eighty cents. Place _ the government stamp upon it and it is worth one hundred cents. VVhy is it worth eighty cents? Because of its partial m0neti'/.ation. Its use as money has ﬁxed its price. Suppose it should be entirely , deiuonetized. we will say by its displacement with paper, what I would it then be worth? Not much! The same with gold, hence the opposition of a powerful combinatiou—tl1e gold and silver—- against the original greenback idea. The greenback would be good for the peoplesbut the gold and silver for the money sharks. V\~'ho or what constitutes the government? It \vas once, the people, -it is now the thieves who misrepresent tl1e1u: it was once ey. “to form a niore perfect union: establish justice; insure domestic tranquility: provide for the common defense: promote the general welfare; and secure the blessings of libert_\‘."' to the people. It is to provide by a conclave of lawyers for the obscuration of all these. through instruments so couched in legal technicalities. that the true ends of justice shall be defeated and that the people may the more easily become a prey to the legal adviser who has transformed their liberties to the automatic />m/r// and juda for their amusement while the wire pullers manipulate their treasury. The silver men don't want much. All they want is for the gov- ernment to make about twenty cents worth of almost worthless met- al. worth one hundred cents to be paid in the blood of the people’s martyrdom. Theyjust want the government (?) to place its ﬁat on all the silver that they can get out of the mines, so that they can pass it for money at an advance of sixty or seventy per cent. lfthepcople want an honest g >vernment why do they not com- pel themselves totake the stamp off from e\'erytl1iug, thus remov- ing the fiction which is nothing less than the watering of stock for the beneﬁt of the rich and murderous speculator? Remove the ﬁction from gold andsilver and there remains but little foundation for the business of the thieving broker who gor- mandi'/.es on the blood oo'/.ing from the pores of l1is vietims.—K. The abominable onslaught of one set of drunken, ignorant, foreign vagabonds, upon another set, perhaps equally vicious, is a disgrace to the pretended civilization of this couutr_\'. The villains. ruflians, v. ho urder the infitiice o‘ an in uairantzableiace animus- ity and poison wliiskey assaulted the Italian workingmeu at St. Louis should meet a speedy trial and be given the full extent of the law. as much as any other class of people, and so long as our laws of A drunken Irishman or l)utchman is no better than a rabid Italian Italian citizens are entitled to the protection of our laws naturalization remain as they are tliey should be respected. and when any of these posse-‘s pass from under the supervision of the general police force they should be acconlpauied by a special protective force. There ought to be adniinistered some wholesome discipline in which it should be understood that an _—\merican of one nationality By an American we mean a regularly naturalized citizen according to has as good a right to employment in this country as another. the laws of the country, well as the native born, and the ad- ministration of this lesson should be so extensive as to include the working organizations using their combined authority as to inter- fere with the irdividual laborer who does not happen to belong to a trades union, or labor organization. The matter should be taken in hand promptly. for the time is fast approaching when every workniati will be compelled to join that from which his moral and social obligation revolts. Sometimes to be fore-warned is to be fore-armed. but this aphorism does not always operate. The proph- ecy that there shall come a time when no man can buy or sell without the mark of the beast may be nearer a fulﬁlment than many people imagine. At least it looks as if the drunken rabble is allowed to continue its course that whiskey will rule the world, and especially does it so appear when the good church people vote for “/11:;/1 Zz'¢w1.re."—K. But then thg The curtain there now turns out to be a National Bank fraud. National Bank swindlers have nearly had their day. will soon be rung down upon them. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. ‘ instigation and in the interest of a paltry few who constitut BEIIINI) the great deﬁcit of the Philadelpliia City Treasure“\_< OUR MERCILESS MONEY POWER. How can it be Destroyed? By 0. F. L’AMo1:EAUx, Ph. D. In this government professedly of the people, by the _ and for the people, in the beginning of the second century n, existence, we find the hands of the masses of the people so ,_ pletely bound b_v what are professedly their servants, a class of money-changers, that they are utterly defenceless 35: any exaction, or robbery, which their masters may choose to_ :- trate. The enormous evil has grown out of the unanibitious: confidiug character of the masses who have been deceived‘ voting the power to put shackles upon themselves into the u of unprincipled politicians and party bosses. The principal‘ through whom such a result has been possible has been the yer. who now, as eighteen hundred years ago, makes it his ness, for which now, as he was forbidden to do then, he ch enormous fees. “to bind heavy burdens and place them on n shoulders. ' But how are the masses ever to be able to throw off thi pressive yoke? There are just two ways possible, leaving 0 I volution and the interposition of a power higher than the ord human. One is to educate the masses as to their own ii and to inspire in them a determination to regain and mai them: the other is to devise some means for overthrowini present enormous money power that will not antagonize 5‘ or possible law. ' ‘I In the face of the present irresistible power of money to newspapers, legislators, office holders, orators, even ministe_ well as voters. and all influences that have any power to C_ public sentiment, how will it be possible ever to instruct the ‘ ses as to their rights? But if success in this were possible have we gained? The great majority of actual Voters 0 present are not secure in their possession of the means of pro, ing their existence for a twelve-month. Under such circumst casting an entirely free ballot with them is a matter requiri courage which the mass of them do not, can not under p" conditions, command. As at present situated, it is entirely to expect to right the grievous wrongs of the people entirel even mainly, by the educational process. Leaving out then ., availing the educational, and as undesirable the revoluti process of regaining the people's rights, let us consider the p cability of reaching the same end by the use of some priva V vise. This must be so contrived as to act as a substitu j money and yet escape the law against counterfeiting legal «i From seventy-three to seventy-ﬁve per cent of the trans » commodities are now effected without the use of anything it shape of legal money. The necessity to procure legal money; bankers and money changers to transfer the camparatively , balance, enables them, by determining the quantity and so I the price of the money others must borrow to ﬁx also the p I.‘ other peoples‘ commodities, and the avails of other people’s and how much of such avails they will take for their servi y if they do not themselves take, will entirely destroy by low =1 caused by an insuﬁicient supply of money to effect all th changes that must be made. All the real value is in the co -= ities exchanged and all the need of money is a need of som to keep the tally, or record of these exchanges, and if that does this, does anything more, it does it at the cost of the co ities. A simple receipt or check which shows that the E has transferred a service or commodity, the avails of which e: not consumed, ought to be sufficient to enable him to buy a lar amount of other services or commodities of which he may need. Under some such system, usury and panics, and . misery and pauperism, and drunkenness and crime they en would be impossible, and the abolition of these would al ‘ enough to turn the hell of the present into a paradise. I ————>~oH————— . The Freucli ‘*dia.moud necklace” aﬂ"a.i1', found the courts ready to'_ the Crown from scandal, and in four years court and Crown faced the '1 RevolutioL1.—-1’hilacleh>hia Press. ‘ ' P‘ . -.: of the abandoned, the dissolute and the reckless; be ‘.-u whom these sharks depend for the sale of their bonds. ' '.‘arena in the struggle for bread and fame. There are men The Plowshare and P_'r'i1_ningj_IlZool;. f the States in which the Louisiana Lottery ‘ ~10 openly ply its trade. In the Southern foot and in some of the VVestcrn States, but, be of the Eastern States that they have passed ’ out this ﬂagrant form of gambling. It is a le of California that they allow the open sale ‘ Ind tolerate the advertising of this iniquity in = ‘ his lottery scheme is an incipient form of gamb- ‘ . v ent enough to whet the taste for a more substan- _‘ . ":11 form of the vice. month in the Louisiana Lottery for twenty years and j \Ve have known persons to T .» At six per cent interest the amount thus invested ‘ . ite a comfortable sum of money for a poor man be- , _ - ofa certain per centage of integrity and dignity; - 'of gambling however slight includes a certain siukage . j i nt elements of character. . u ever invested in any game of chance when taking ,_ ’—stepsiof such a practice without feeling a drainage = character. As the practice is continued, this loss, of A perceptible because the person so indulging has, to jﬁgree, stupeﬁed his innate promptings. The Prince of fixiymple, being an inveterate gambler, would not feel ' a punctions of conscience by playing at cards for ‘ he would by quaﬂing a glass of champagne, or, as a ,by ﬂirting with some other woman. We are well ' _ fact that these matters are looked upon lightly b_v a j’ of the male as well, indeed, ofthe female portion of Vnity, but they none the less alter the credentials of sto true manhood and womanhood. No real lady or v will gamble. Most of the material which passes under . . ens is. bogus, and the claimants can show no genuine ' professions. There will soon be a readjustment of that we can tell without difficulty w_liich is which. The p _‘ an and Italian gambling resorts frequented by titled .; where immense sums of money are lost and won. are rendezvouses of ladies and gentlenien; they are the focali7.- pr vagabouds. Such persons as naturally seek these —.: the pig the swill barrel. - ing is one of the worst of vices because it primarily steal. Under the competitive system money earned by i of the face is hard earned money. The lottery companies ‘ jutethe poor into investing their earnings in a concern ' emay obtain his neighb0r’s hard earned dollars with- uleffort. The scheme l.1ad its origin in the brain of ﬁilonging to that opulent class which seeks by alert J _ live off of the drudgery of others, and for this reason, other, lottery tickets and lottery companies should be by self-respecting. honest working people; for this is the Ill le fancy that they can alford to sink those inherent pronipt- the heeding of which the true lady or gentleman is evolved 0 so, but let them also remember there is soon coming a “Sense and worth all o’er the eartli Shall bear the ’gree and a‘ that," world will admit the truth of that sentiment long Alexander Pope: “An honest n1a.n’s the noblest work of Goal." The Graduating Season. this time the colleges, universities, seminarics and are pouring forth their graduates young and old to A. Qheing graduated from these institutions, and striplings ‘e. Those in the forties have but a short race ahead ing the meridian of life when they will have to slack get speed_into' something like a jogvtrot. We do not , existing str1iggle—'l))' a collegiate course, i without limit. - preachers. ything more foolhardy in these days of intense practi- calities than for a person, particularly a poor person, to enter our ; colleges and universities at the age of thirty ﬁve or forty, fnr the At this ' purpose of equipping himself for life‘siucisive battle. time of terrilic.competism it needs the youngest and best blood to 1 even make a fair living without capital, and how such persons, as : the foregoing, expect to add anything to their capacity for “hust- ‘ ling“—\vhich quality alone can cause the individual to survive the which, in plain parlance “is‘nt worth sliucks" in the. channels oftrade, ismore than a mind, inuured to the requirements of the hour,'can conceive. We have known men to graduate from theological seniiuarics - and colleges of jurisprudrmce at such an age that they had about time to pronounce. just a little p;ematurel_v, their own eulogies. or Such del ud :d creatures are to be pitied; they have greater yearnings for scholarship than practical sense. adjudicate their last wills and testanients. The quantity of “swelled heads" too,——to use a ‘i familiar phrase,—th-at are turned loose every summer with batch- ’ elor degrees to inflict the world with their inordinate musli-room . conceit is quite large. It will take the average young man a half do’/.en yeats after graduating to reduce his head to a normal si7.e. This desideratuin is accomplished by rubbing it against a hard, scl- tish, indifl}:rcnt world, which gradual process of filing proves effect- ual. ‘ This month there have burst upon an already burdened uni- verse, salutatorics. valedictories, essays, (nations and class poems ;\nd graduates have sailed forth expecting soon to electrify the world as orators, statesmen, lawyers, authors or— .—\s for the humbler walks of life, they are entirely ig- nored by these sk_v-scrapers; yet, ifone looks for these same persons a few years afterwards they will mostly be found filling positions as clerks at small salaries or else strand‘-d upon the shoals of im- pecuniosity. The professions are over-crowded and positively cannot support the vast hordes constantly ﬂocking‘ to them. Seventy-live per cent of the young men graduating from our legal and medical schools must inevitably succuinb ifthey expect to gain a livelihood in eith- er of these calliugs; and as for the pulpit it has become “an excrcsu cence upon the laudscape;" the class of minds flocking to this inse- cure haven is very poor ind :e«:l and with the g;o\_.ving apathy of the people chuichwise, the future life of the average parson is not a happy one. Dr. Joseph Parker of London recently remarked that if ninety per cent of l*‘.ngland‘s clergymen were never to preach again they would perform an inestiinablc service to the Britons. But this class of men mm! get a living somehow, and preaching is about the easiest device to which they can resort in order to accom- plish that end. \Vhen money is so difficult to earn and the press for positions is so intense there is no accomplishment so valuable to a poor young man as to be skilled in some one of the mechanical arts, and for that reason a school for artisans is the niost valuable institu- tion that he can attend. Watchmakiug, architectural drawing, engineering, carpentering, printing, and the like, offer an honor- able and useful field for youthful activity. The coming man is not the supercilious lawyer nor the quack doctor, but the honest mechanic—-let men believe this or not as they please. The hour draweth nigh when the barrister with his high fees and studied delays in litigation will b: a superlluity-—he is really that now but the people are just awakening to the truth of this fact. The rendering the courts, the judges and the lawyers innst soon take a back seat, As for the medical practice, while it has discarded the system of body leeching it has substituted that of pocket leeching, which, in of long delayed justice, transforms it into injustice; hence the end is more harmful to the people. Humbuggery holds a high seat in this domain, and most young men would be better off in other ﬁelds of labor. Nazareth was a carpenter and the fact that he followed that vocation. presages the day when the lowly, but honest pur- Jesus of suits shall be exalted, and the high, but ignoble ones, abased. Young man, if you are poor in these days of fierce competism do not go to college‘; If you are rich and prefer to serve yourself in- stead of your fellow man it is quite immaterial where you go, for hell holds a mortgage on you, which it is sure to foreclose. THE total number of strikes last month is stated at 49,000. THIS \\‘F.r«:i<’s has been delayed on account of our removal to other quarters. our new location every facility greatest reform paper in America. “What are you Going to do About it?” This is the platform of monopoly. If you do not like the way things are done in the various avenues of commerce, how are you going to help yourself? Suppose fruit does grow in California so plentiful as to be in excess, and suppose that produce men, instead of letting the people have it at very low cost, prefer to dump it in- to the Bay. What are you going to do about it? Suppose the city telephone company does charge $5.00 a month for a phone and 5 cents for every message. They have the monopoly and what are you going to do about it 3 Suppose railroad com outrageous rates and your monthl_v fre are enormous and eat up your profits, about it? Suppose banking institutions do bust up and your hard earned money is lost. These gentry have the run of n1one— tary affairs and what are you going to do about it? On every hand under the competitive system this insolent question confronts the people. Monopoly has mounted the throne of imperialism and will make governments, commerce and people bow to its sway. \\'e make a distinction between governments and people, it will be noticed, for the people now a da_vs have nothing to do with governments: these are in the hands of the politicians to whom they have been subl on and the issue well drawn. Barefaced injustice has arrayed it- self against the people and defiantly holds the citadel of power. How long will the people submit to such an arrogant usurpation of their rights ? panics do charge ight bills as a business man \r\"hat are you going to do ct by the iuonopolists. The fight is There is but one kind of governincnt that can ever rid us of these piratical hordes, but to establ process of beginning all over again. The axe must be laid at the root of the tree. Let competism and its daughter monopoly, retain their dominion, but let the people upon an equitable exchange build up their ow they will thereby undermine the ill- with its gorgeous canopies, which will tumble and be crushed to pieces carrying down with it the whole nest of public robbers. oppressors and their minions, who have occupied the chairs of state and the stools of affluence. effectually ish it involves the independent basis of 11 commercial system and gotten throne of the plutocrats Christian Families and Chr istian Business Men. An exchange says that there are probably 400 Christian fami- lies in this country with an annual income, over and above expen- 'The Plowshare and -Pruning Hook. » i issue of TH): l’I.ows1~i.»\m«: AND }’n1v_\:r.\'(; HOOK In is afforded to ultimately print the stupified his senses a" made things seem what they are not. If the fallacies of modern theology tirpate it were not suﬂicient to , shortly, from the social fabric, the glaring inconsistencief in Church practice would be more than enough to render it -,3’ l stench in the nostrils of honest, huinanit f Walk into our fashionable 1 modern Christian churches which has I y-loving men and women. churches and observe the clear demon strations of class distinction which obtain there. merchant for example, at the head of a large w l Seeithat princely / dry goods house and notice also hi I I holesale and retail s family. There they are seated‘ in one of the finest pews, which is elegantly carpeted and cushion , ed. They are dressed in the most {as raiment; bonuets with magnificent‘ ostrich feathers; ﬂowers and ,' ribbons of elegant design and rich color; dresses and wraps of silk and satin bearing the most unique trimmings; and jewelry spark-' ling with precious gems. profuse in quantity. Then observe the- demeanor of these opulent worshippers. It is haughty, unbending, exclusive. "Their eyes stand out with fatness; they have more { than heart could wish.” Having finished this interesting i let your eyes wander to the rear of the church and see a poorly clad young woman, shrinking from gaze, who is em- ‘ ployed by this merchant in his great store as a saleswoman, and -‘ who receives the weekly compensation of $4,5o. She works from i 8 in the morning until 6 in the evening, is obliged to stand all day whether waiting on customers or not, and is allowed a half hour for lunch which must be eaten in the basement of the great store where the air is stuffy and the drainage, doubtless, able. She pays -143,00 a week for board habitated by vulgar, hionable and expensiv survey ‘- there you will unbear- in a third rate house . abandoned young men, and young women oi indifferent virtne—shop girls, like herself, who through insuﬂi- cient wages, resort to fatal expedieuts to meet the essential de- mands of their living expenses. After paying her weekly board bill this girl has $1.5o left for car fare, clothes, laundry, and sundry expenses. But we are wandering, and must return to the church. There the shop girl sits in her shabby clothes, watching the fine ladies as they enter and are shown to their pews by the usher whose manner toward such is one of profound deference if not of syco- phaucy. She gazes at these great people with wondrous eyes and wishes there might be some one who cared for her-—lonely and forsaken in a cold world where money alone is the architect of social recognition. She heaves a sigh and listens to the magnifi- cent ogan it peals forth its rich tones and to the choir of classic- ally trained voices as they composers. sing in harmony anthems by great And then the rector appears in the chancel with his assistant and reads the morning prayers in stereotyped tones, with lifeless responses from the parishioners. Then this clerical gentle- man with his ﬂowing robes and big salary preaches the sermon, which formula his parishioners hear in the same spirit as they would the gong at the race ti ack. The poor shop girl cannot ﬁnd any comfort in the words of that preacher. They are coined to suit the ears of her wealthy employer. She goes to church be- ses averaging halfa million dollars apiece: and 8,000 Christian families with an average income above expenses of $25,000 each, and 100,000 Christian families with an aver age income of $10,000 above expenses. Also that a great share of the .‘Fr,4o0,ooo,ooo added yearly to the capital of the country belongs to Christian business men. This statement will strike the days of glaring wrongs, fallacious. critical, observant mind in these as exceedingly grotesque if not decidedly To say in such times of want and suffering that there are 8,000 C/17‘I'sI'z'a// families with an average income above expenses of $25,000 each, and ioo,ooo similar families w ith an average in- cause_ she understands it to be the proper thing to do, but she de- rives L0 more consolation from the sermon than from the words of the floor-‘walker in the store. But the people here portrayed, as constituting the parish ofsnch churches, pass for christian families and christian business men, and we are even told that a great share of the $i,4o0,0o0,0oo added yearly to the capital ‘of the country belongs to C//rz'xlz'm1 business men; that is to say a large part of the money taken from the working people through national bank, railroad and other schemes goes into the coffers of “Christian businessmen." Shades of martyred heroes, that we should live in the nineteenth century and hear such a travesty on come of $10,000 above expenses sounds somewhat queer. VVe understand :1 Christian according to Cl1rist's teachings, to be one who loves his neighbor as himself, and if he has an income of $25,000 above expenses, which he retains for his own use, when he observes the millions about him in can he be fulfiliug the requirements that real Christianity exacts from him as regards his neighbor? The person who made this statement either doesn‘t know what it means to be a Christian ac- cording to the biblical interpretation of that term or else has inhaled the efﬂuvium issuing from those pagan temples known as poverty and misery, how - ‘ _‘,_._~_<.,. r,4.v~2-3: : -.'->2‘Fv~'* -1->5? " -'~ ~ the word Christian 3 V\7hen the rich young man came to Christ inquiring of the way to inherit Iiternal life he was told to sell all he had and give it to the poor, and he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions. ‘ There is but one class of people who should dare to call them- selves Christians and they are those _who practice true love to the neighbor by having all things in common. C0-operation or com- innnisin is the first requisite to an attainment of that condition of life where men and women can truly claim to belong to the body of Christ, that is, if biblical teaching is worth anything. The day . ri,-.;..-—-» ‘ -. .y V.~ this money? Then, after you have got the property, are The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 5 ‘ ﬂ‘l‘—in§incere and hypocritical professions will be who wear the mantle of religious deceit will be sepnlchres, full of dead men's bones and of all declared the publicans and harlots to be Even the prostitute is morally superior to those 3hexnselves_(_2hristians and “oppress the hireling in A316 prostitute attempts no concealment while —————Ho»-<———— Difficulties and How be Met. They Can I - ¢'§enntor—-Carllsle, of Kentucky——who sent off, with a ﬂea thing to think upon, in connection with their own wild « and hazy ﬂelds of politics and demagogy, a delegation of reformers to cure every ill of the government in the in- poop "' who called upon him to ascertain his views as to ilwrailroads, telegraph lines, and transportation systems Senator Carlisle listened patiently to their spokesman. ' . ' tor. He asked: “Do you propose to get possession of ~ -~ ibyioonﬂscation?” They answered: “No; that wouldn’t be ignite: remarked: “Then you must buy them, and to buy them ' ' for them, and to pay for them you must tax yoursclves,’’and -1 to them the situation and condition in this form: ' any idea how much it would cost? Our government debt, at ' r ,was more than $2,000,000,000, and we have been almost. half of it. The railroads, telegraphs, telephone lines, and ilntry represent about $10,000,000,000 invested capital; bonded indebtedness, which must be paid. Are you ready to 4- ‘ "yoiu-selves to operate it, for the government never yet suc- ’ ' business ata. proﬂt? Consider another effect: such a plan ,l,ﬂJ0,000 men and women to the roll of government em- mild you ever succeed in turning out of power an administra- gehourses at its command? The more corrupt it was, tho'more be to displace it.” Intheirconvention resoluted and declared. They had neglected the manner of their “reform" . _ -- and the “dear people” and oonfounded them. unnu- procedure and the conse- generally. Carlisle’s remarks They retired, sad but wiser men. _orop will spring from the same soil and grow to rank ‘re the great campaign of next year. They are as the quacks lyputtingoffupon the public the kill-or-cure stui’fs—no curn,no declare to be speciﬁcs for every ill that aﬂlicts the body, the *: mortiﬂos the ﬂesh. Barnum was right—the world likes end there are always domagogues and empirics and frauds '’ otodullty, to prey upon and ﬂeece them while they fool in other matters.—Szm Francisco Argnnaut. - _onthat the men, as a body, composing the so-called > " are “demagogues and empirics and frauds” is not ,« i statement of fact; on the contrary to aﬂirm that the en voting the Republican and Democratic tickets are d empirics and frauds” is not only founded upon fact to observing, thinking people. That 21 large ‘ed people cling to these two parties no one _t'the truth of the assertion regarding a majority “ts to the Republican and Democratic parties is ' 4 to the Argotzaut as to any other able and comprehen- The trouble, however, with such papers is that they ntaining miasma that X I . liciaries—-which every newspaper should be-— 1 it themselves to apologize for an existing social "when subjected to a critical analysis does not con- ue to recommend it to the continued support and ‘too conﬁding people. ‘ ‘ Peoples Party received its impetus from desire‘ of a large portion of the community to ‘fimpoverished condition; a condition obtaining inery of govermnent is unmistakably in the hands , and the platform of this party is simply a pro- e insolence of plutocrats. The party is doubt- by tricksters and demagogues but itwas conceived ple otherwise it never could have had its birth. A' is like the Republican party,which, though it t-ocorruption was built upon the potentiality of rks of Senator Carlisle to the delegation from movement were quite practical and pertinent, did not refute the fact that the wrong which this new party is ostensibly laboring to remove, does not exist. The Kentucky _statesman’s words however should be of value in arousing the people to the gravity of the disease inﬂicting the body politic. As he said, the railroads, telegraphs, telephone lines and steamboats in the c invested capital w rs in paying half of our government debt of $2,ooo,ooo,ooo; so that it ought to be patent to every practical mind that genuine reform within such a governmental system with its pulling is not possible and the s harmless democracy is hopelessly Our national banking system social structure; the church., dc; and the same system con- trols our railroads and diiferent corporate enterprises, and you could no more remove this nefarious life destroyer from the present governmental system then you could a cancer whose tendrils have spread through a human frame. It has become the government itself. There is but one way out of the dilemma and that is to desert the old hulk and to build anew. Let the people trade among themselves upon a system of checks and certiﬁcates as in- augurated by the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, and ignore the present monetary system which is fast going to pieces. The fi- nancial crash must soon come; it cannot be much longer delayed. The failure of the Baring Bros. in London .was simply the fore- runner of the coming storm. Inﬂated values in stocks and real estate must soon collapse and with them will go the whole commercial raft foisted upon bubbles. It is but an idle dream to talk about saving any part of such a sy destroying any part without the whole. oratory will obliterate the fact that this infected with disease, and must die. banking plan is the very blood of the present false methods of political economy and the one will never go until the whole fabric is dismembered. A new sociology is arising, though now only in its infancy, which when the old one is dissolved, having focalized the best forces of the Commonwealth, will adjust man's relations with man upon a basis of equity and righteousness. ——~;><oH——-—-——— Perseeution of the Jews. A I‘t‘:1(ll'1)§_{ of tho rcports of the expulsion of the Jews from Russia makes it diﬁ‘icu1t to l>eliu\'c that this is the nineteenth century. These expulsions are nt is going about the work so boldly‘ gh to make an im- pression, but the Cossack’s umlcr Chmie.-lnicki’s leadership sncceded in destroying 250,000 Polish Jews within ten years. This was more than three hundred years a;2:o, but the ilcrcc ‘ plc who have no home, no native land goes on in a manner less barbaric but equally ferocious. The ex- per-icnco of Herr Gnldhergcr, which is related to day, shows the despotic character of the war upon the Jcwish people. The common ground of the ex- cuse for these cxpulsious st-cnls to bc jealousy of the business sllcccss of the Jcws in all parts of Russia. They have the upper hand, and while the govern- ment itself feels S(‘('llI‘(* a,r:;aiI1st flll:lll(€l:Ll troubles that may follow the turning out ofJcws11nd their money, thc indi\'idual is likely to feel the loss.——Iml‘ia7za- polis New-s. -———€—>-<O>-<-----——- Breaking Away From Party Lines. The unmistakable cvidcnccs every (fay presented that party fealty is losiiig its power .-Imong the rank and mo of the people, and the fact that with one accord the great common people in all sections of the country are an- nouncinga d4-termination to vote their principles regardless of party lines, does not indicate any Cll:1l);Z4‘ of principles on the part. of the people. It is a rebellion against tyr.-tnny and oppression, because it is tyranny and oppression for the party “machine” to stiﬂc frnc thought and speech by prescribing a political platform that must be adopted under penalty of expulsion.-—Naticmal Economist. (Farmers Alliance.) MINE AND TI-IINE. By f T. Cmm. Common usage has relegated the evils and signiﬁcance of competism, to the domain of socialistic, economic province, but it is also one of the fundamental elements composing the general evil, called selﬁshness. Competition as a motive power is waging war individually, and within, equally with creating strife and con- fusion,_collective1y and without. Man is competing much of the time with some evil purpose, some unholy desire, some fallacious tendency against his higher, nobler nature; and the invidiousness and supremacy of the foe is made manifest in the signal failures, the weak descent into the sin of unrighteousness which abound. The ‘French Revolution is a l-ine of demarkation between the reign premacy of the sword, and the monarchial imperial sway of " now ruling over economic and ﬁnancial ecital and su the “balance of power One turns in dismay and abhorrence from the r of the carnage and wholesale butchery of those fanatical times: from the contemplation of the barbarity of the feudal ages; the French fanatics in their wild thirst for blood, the robber barons of feudal times, in all their inhumanity and barbarism, fade into in- signiﬁcance, compared with the iron rule ofthe despotic potentates who wield their unholy sway over the people en masse in this ad- vanced age, in this land of boasted, (travestied) freedom. Man turns in mighty aversion from the tales of bloodshed and destruction of past ages; he condemns and denounces and makes many words over the crueller, subtler evils existent to-day, but be he ever so earnest in his desires and work for public good, how shall he hope for fruition of justice, for impartial adjudication, while the secret places in his own being, bearing evil fruits of selﬁshness, of malign competing forces, go unguarded and hence unchecked, dissipating all power of concentration, dissipating all force for good, which a determined, unswerving adherence to the laws of perfectness alone can accomplish. Seeking, striving, pursuing, perchance catching, ere while faint glimpses of latent possibilities for attainment of exalted standard and ideal realizations, yet anon fainting, dejected. dis- heartened-, a prey to world-weariness, which is ever the penalty of failure; the inevitable punishment awaiting broken faith, un- tled purpose, and transgression in the smallest degree of this same “Law of Perfectness." How familiar these experiences to those who do sometimes look within! VVhat then shall be the outcome? ultimate failure and despair; despoliation of fair gifts, a wrecking of highest life purposes? Nay: “but a return from to- morrow, for, behold it is to-day.“ A renewed aspiration at least to consummate perfection; a rigid determination to eliminate the selﬁsh competitive system reigning within, that we may become factors for the work of its extermination in the nation and the government, in whose cause we would gladly, cheerfully die, but for which, we ﬁnd it much more diﬁicult, to live consistent, un- selﬁsh, holy lives. questions. set --——————><O The Plowshare and Pruning Hookﬁ . A SHALLOW , SYCOPHANT. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll has said at times some true and forcible things with regard to social abuses, but, like a good many other men who oc- casionally have a Word of {1[J[)l‘0V'.ll for the labor movement,he evidently has no sincere convictions on the subject or strong sympathies with the masscsin their struggle for their rights. A paper from his pen in the current North American. I.’ez~iw«-, entitled "Is Avarico Triumphant?” in reply to a11 indict- ment of existing conditions in the same number by General Rush 0. Hawkins, is about the most shallow, false and absurd piece of rhodomontade. buncombe that has been published for some time. The absurdly optimistic view of so- ciety and national life which Colonel Ingcrsoll presents can only impose on those who are profoundly ignorant of the actual conditions of life among the poor and the current events of the day. Ingersoll evidently speaks as the paid rctainer of the railroad corporations when he undertakes, as he does, to justify the granting of enormous subsidies to build railroads, and contends that the watering of railroad stock is a harmless and dc,fensible practice, be- cause the actual value of the road remains the same whatever nominal estimate He entirely overlooks the glaring fact that when wages ﬁxed in relation to the profits of the road atcring affords the pretext for extortion and robbery on the ground that thc linc docs not pay. In the light of the re- peated outrages upon thc frcc speech and the right of public. meeting by police acting at the bidding oi‘ the wt-althy classes, what could be more absurdly un- truc than the following: . “'l‘hcrc is now freedom of spccclt. Men are allowed to utter their thoughts. Lips are no longer scaled by mobs." It is surprising that, with the instance of the wcll-dressed and respect.- able New Orlcans mob who ctfcctually scaled the lips of eleven Italians in the , silence of death still fresh in the public mind, Ingcrsoll should have had the hardihood to make such a statcnn-nt. Again he says: “Herc in America is a liner sense of what is duc from man to man than you llnd in othcr lands. Wu do not cringe to those whom chance has crowned‘ - -wc stand crccl.“ Docs the Morcwood massacrc or the course of capitalism generally in -s of strikes and labor troubles indicate “a ﬁne sense of what is due from man to man?“ Ingcrsoll raiscs the “patriotic” cry ~al\vays thc favorite resort of tricky, shallow declainu-rs of his calibre and in- tercsted defenders of abuses. He charges those who ventilate social abuses 5 with decrying the country and giving its enemies a chance to snecr at free i institutions, as though the snccrs of all the monarchists, aristocrats and reacti- onarics in thc world could cvcr inﬂ_ict a tenth part of the injury upon demo- cratic institutions that rcsults from tho spectacle presented by America to-day .1 owing to the avarice, oppression and dotlancc of popular rights by the corpor- ations and millionaires. 'l‘hc truest patriot is the man who tries to rectify abuses and maltc the institutions of his country what they should be, instead of closing his eyes to_all dofcrvts and trying to hide fcstt-ring corruption and = social ulcers under the folds of the stars and stripes. The whole tone of ‘_ shows him to be a sycophant and a trimmer writing for the 1' ﬂuential, by pandering to whose views he has won position and cmolumcnt. He is not a friend of thc masses, and though _ hc somctimcs indulges in ch:-ap and bombastic talk of popular l‘r¢-cdom and rights, ctc., on every practical matter he takes sidcs with their worst enemies. ——TIoc Jovwnal of the Knig/Izls of ].aho:'. 5 may be placed on it. and freight and passenger rates are the inflation of the capital by stock w connection with a long sci-it I Ingcrsollis paper applause of the wealthy and in _._..<..g..>__. The First Step. The saloon is the tool of every corrupt interest. seeking legislative action; or political triumph. When Jay Gould, according to (fol. George Bliss, had 350,000 or .*';~‘100,000 to spend for political purposes a few years ago where did he, take it? To Johnny ()‘l3ricn, the loading Republican saloon politician in New The Flood of Immigration. The curre increasing force. arrivals from Austria-H11 Russia and S Great Britain and Ireland and Switzerland. was 85,001, against 64,212 in the same month last year. had not already acquired such a momentum on the lines laid out for it in last two centuries it is hard to tell what. sort of country it would become. tainly it would not be an English-speaking one. who landed here in April only 17,199 had English for their native language The Germans alone outnumbered those from Great Britain and Ir 5,500. There were a third more from Ital Austria- from Russia as from Scotland. But. the very mixture of nationaliti 30,000 Hungarians, 5 here in a single year they have to ﬁnd some way other. The Russian will not learn German nor the Hungarian Italian. Th easiest thing for all to do is to acquire the speech of the 60,000,000 American among whom they have dropped like watt-rspouts in the sea. When they hav done that, they are on the road to good citizenship. If \ve can contrive to kcc, out the. incapable, the diseased and the vicious of each race we can manage t ngary, Germany, Italy, the Nctliorlalnls, Poland The total immigration for Apri nt of immigration continues to set from its new direction with The returns for the month of April show an increase in the wed-.=n and Norway, and a dcclinc in those from Denmark, Francc, If the United Statcs the Cer- Out of the 853,000 immigrants eland by over y than from Ireland, a halt more from Hungary than from England and Wales, and more than twice as many es contains an element of safety. When 0,000 llussians, 80,000 Italians and 150,000 Germans land of communicating with each York. When $400,000 was raised by Wanamaker, according to Republican atl-‘ missions, in the canipaign of 1898 am] placed in the hands of Quay, what \va8',' done with it‘? It was applicd. also by licpublican admissions, to the slum wards. of this city to turn a national clection. When New York State is the pivot 0 - our natimial clcctions, wln-rc do the leaders of both old parties make thei, strongest light ‘B Right hcro in the slum districts, and through the saloon pol_ ticians that constitute the power of Tammany Hall. The condition is simi in almost cvcry city in the country. But more than this, the saloon is conti ually tlcbauching and dcg1‘atling the units of government——thc individua _ It not only scctircs thc selection of corrupt architect,s and builders of 0] Temples of State, but it is rotting the material out of which any architect - builder must. erect tho 'l‘t-mplcs. It not only a_ﬁ'ords a rt-ndczvous for t forces of corruption, but it creates the forct-s tliciusclvcs to avast degree, wh it takes men with sclf-rcspcct, manhood, ambition, and turns them into bru zr impervious to all scntinn-nts of patriotism, incapable of any of the duties ' citi7.cnship.—’l'I:c l'oit‘c, “ l . ¢oa..._. Society Like a Tree. 6* When I wont to a trcc, and looked at it from one point of view, I thou s I saw just how it ought to be pruned. But when I went on the other side I‘ e I changcd my mind. I soon learned, as every farmer does, that you must ne_ p begin on a tree until you have gone all around it and studied it from ev 0 point of the coinpass. Society in this countryto-day is like the trees in _ assimilate the rest..———San Francisco Ematitiner. 0rehard.——’1‘orm2to I‘resbyterian. ft: The Chicago Graphic. '01 the urban population is one of the most surprising featur- ,_ verwas a greater dearth of farm laborers. This is the crv from ' states, and from states in sections other than New Eng- ‘:p§y from $16 to $25 per month and board, yet. while the cities Ilisrmy of unemployed, men cannot be induced to go to the labor is needed. It is a sign of the times worth more than a oe; because it throwsa hint on the industrial problem altogether _ mnsidered. One explanation given for this strange condition of _ » that city workmen are not pliysically suited to the exhausting labor ids; but there is a truer reason in the fact that country isolation docs - their social instincts and animal propensities. Hence, thousands of -mi men to whom farm work is no hardship, are steadily flocking to ,_there to engage in an unwholcsoine struggle, to the detriment of fel- en already crowded, and leaving behind them health, independence I prospect of acquiring a competence. Another cause of discontent _ farm laborers grows out of the eight-hour agitation. The agricultural -. ilnd it necessary to work about sixteen hours a day during a large of the year. They are usually up at four o’clock in the morning, and it is = ly dark before they have finished their “cliorcs”. The eight—hour day ~ at beneﬁt the farm hands, and they resent the idea of putting in double’ 0 when they might strike an easy job in the town. Workers of the other . i ‘ gre no wiser. They are employed as many hours as the men, and are ever , out to escape the drudgery of country service. The country girl is fasci- ‘ with the glitter of the city shops, or prefers the factory to domestic ‘ on the farm. Thus the same stress under which the farmer ﬁnds him- tho endeavor to get sufﬂcicnt help to plant the fields, is experienced by \"er’s wife in securing assistance in the home. The agricultural and r. classes have heretofore been nearly equally divided. So long as the - ::: of the cities was not made at the expense of the rural districts, it was - 1' of gratulation, but since it has come to devour the best and strongest Igricultural population, with absolutely no movement in the opposite on, It is a migration which may well be looked upon with anxiety. It is ‘impossible to forecast. Any serious industrial dislocation would breed v : 0n~a.nd disaster,‘ which will tax the wisdom of the ablest and strongest ' I ant to ameliorate. No scheme of benevolence could be more timely one which should be able to change the tide of migration from city to _ ‘ ‘and transfer the surplus and idle population from the unwholcsomo n. Ind alleys to the paradise of the farm. .¢o§..— COMING TOO FAST. ‘ Thegreat debate that has been going on over the immigration question 08 the citizens of New Orleans lynched the eleven members of the Mafia ‘ nes. It has been stimulated by the large and almost unprecedented btforelgners that has been going on during the past four months. '.l'he1-esiilt has been to strengthen vastly the demand for a more stringent _ on of the undesirable elements among the immigrants to this country_ : are few journals that have notvoiccd such a demand. The only differ- of opinion seems who in regard to the extent of the restriction that is . I’!- It is an undoubted fact that the average quality of the immigrants of to- C’. is considerably inferior to that of the immigrants who came to this country ' years ago. The movement of population from Western and Northwest- lﬂirope is declining, while that from Southern Europe, Hungary, Russia ‘Poland is_rapid1y increasing. Furthermore, it was formerly the most in- . _ nt part of the population that sought our shores, led by a knowledge of ; advantages America offered to men who wished to beneﬁt themselves. To- -. itls largely the most ignorant and debased that are turning to this country_ pirt this is due to the cupidity of the steamship companies who send their over Europe arousing the ignorant by tales of the fabulous riches to be ed by any one that will cross the ocean. The steamship companies wish ,the passage money, and leave their dupes to join the turbulent and discon- class that is so rapidly increasing in this country. ..‘!‘he coal barons and the cheap labor contractors of all kinds are likewise 2 inlmporting a class of labor that can be depended on to press down wages foreign governments are also assisting to swell our population by shipping »: .: and paupers to be supported here in spite of the laws that forbid them ttlmce. ‘here is 9. strong and growing opinion that the shutting out of the Mafia the class of men who created the recent riots in Pennsylvania is not the thing to be sought.- There is a rising demand that the interests of labor orlea should be protected. The men who have been driven out of the of Pennsylvania by the cheap labor imported to cut down wages are an of what has been going on in many occupations. Their demand that of cheap labor that takes bread out of their mouths should not be ad- ‘ls likely to grow in strength with the continued and increasing inﬂux. there is so large a body of idle workmen in the United States as we have the last few years the demand that a stricter choice be exercised over tshas reason in it. It is a great thing to be the refuge of nations and 0'0! the oppressed, but the philanthropy that begins at home and looks M; and clothing the people we have here before calling for everybody to “In and help himself is a. good deal more practical.--—T/Le San Francisco BEER AND HEALTH V A study made by Dr. J. Scudtncr of the duration of life and the causes of death among workers in the beer industry offers an excellent illustration of in- jurious results from the mis-use of alcohol. From an experiment of that kind Munich appears to offer the best ﬁeld, as more beer is drank there than in any other city of the \vorld. The yearly consumption for each person in all Ger- manyis 88 liters, in Bavaria 209 liters and in Munich in particular 531 liters in 1888 and high as 565 liters in 1889. From obvious causes the workers in the beer business drink more than other citizens of Munich. The almost incom- prehensible excess to which a single person can indulgt-.,‘is shown in the ease of abrewcr of Munich, who had been ill in at Berlin hospital for a long time as a result of drink; having consumed daily almost 20 liters. It has long been known that alcohol, in its \vork of destruction, spares almost no organ of the body, but it is only of late years that attention has been turned to the fact that the excessive use of beer is the cause of many diseases of the heart. Professor Bollingcr has shown that the astonishing increase of heart disease is an im- mediate result of the extravagant consumption of beer. From what Dr. Seudt- ner has now demonstrated, it is easy to see the connection between these two factors in the causes of mortality, both being directly traceable to the excessive drinking of beer. The materials for the statistics were found in the registers of death during the last 30 years. The average age in Munich for something over 20 years has been 53‘/gyears, which is somewhat less than in other parts of Germany; and the average duration of life has been determined as follows: Alehouse keepers, (male) 51.35 years; ale-house keepers (female) 59.95 years; brewers 42.33 years; waiters 35.80 years; bar-maids 26.80 years; wine-house keepers, (male) 40.70 years; wine—house keepers, (female) 47,40 years; and distillers 50.00 years. While the maximum duration of life among the whole population of Munich is from 50 to 70 years for men, and from 70'—to 80 for women among ale~house keepers, it lies between the ages of 40 and 50, among brewers between 30 and 40 and among waiters between 20 and 30 years. Among the causes of death, heart-disease heads the list. The acute form of tuberculous diseases find many more victims among drinkers than other people. The bad forms of inﬂammation of the lungs among people of this class is well known. The unfortunate terminations of these forms of disease result from the weakening of the heart power, and the con- sequent lack of resistance in the whole body.—Translatedfrom. the New York Bellctristisvltes Journal. ' - -¢o9- The Courtesies of Life. , Civility is a very desirable trait of character, and sensible people should make a point of keeping it on hand; Civility is one of the Christian graces; it is obligatory upon a lady or a gentleman, and it is excellent stock in trade for those who wish to get on in the world. We mean civility, not servility. To cringe and t'awn and flatter is despicable. Ostentatious politeness, with a profusion of bows and ﬂne speeches, may be burdensome; but a kind word of greeting, a polite attention, a little act of courtesy is quite another thing. There are people who have a great deal of that pride, which gives one the as- surance of being “just as good as anybody else, if not a little better,” fancy that to care nothing for what others feel, to take the best and be the foremost by dint of pushing, and never on any account to allow another precedence, is to assert themselves properly. This is a great mistake; such conduct, instead of being an evidence of true independence of character, is a. mark of ignorance and vulgarity.—l\'ew York Ledger WANTED. A Good Male Cook for Plain Cooking at 220 Nde Street. REAL ESTATE. BUREAU or ipiiiihii. coppuci. BRANCH NO. 1. This Bureau is prepared to transact a gener- al Real Estate Business. Those looking for Homes, Business or Investment Properties,‘ either in city or country, will do well to investi- gate our BARGAINS before purchasing else- where. Correspondence solicited. Those having properties for SALE or EXCHANGE either in CITY or COUNTRY are requested to place them in our hands for disposal, C)l'l'CSp0ll(lCllCC solicited. Randolph Ma,1‘StOn, Managing Agent. Ofﬁce 628 A/.L'a:r1:et Street. ” San Francisco, Cal. ‘ FI_F TY CENTS A YEAR, in advance. Citizens of the COMMONWEALTH! ——<»Q«» ——.—- ‘ VVe urge you to investiga‘_e our system of Commer<-ia.l Equation by which we purpose to revolutionize the com- merce of the world and institute justice i11 the intercliange (iproducts. The establishment of ‘equitable’conimercial relations be- tween man and man is not only of vital importance to you i _ as a producer and consumer, but also to the Co1ri11ion\\'ealt_h whose sacred interests, entrusted to the eustodiansliip of our legislative bodies, have been ruthlessly abused and betrayed, so that the very fabric of government is seriously threatened with dismemberment and decay. For the promulgation of this system, to effect a commercial balance, we have issued this journal, which, while it meansto proclaim and establish a new and incomparable method of trade, destined to “freeze out” monopoly brokerage and knavery, will yet be the shapp and pungent critic a11d opponent of every violation of social ethics, fearlessly assailing the money power and the present banking system, the greed of the capitalists, the perﬁdy of public fun_cti0na1'ies, the hypocrisy of'the Church, the iniqui- ty of federate labor, the treachery of the daily press, and the criminal apathy of the people to an insolent usurpation of their sovereign rights. An eight page paper touching terscly and comprehen- sively upon all live questions, THE PLowsu.\1:E AND I’1m,\'1x<; HOOK will be issued VVEEKLY at the nominal price of ‘Ye solicit your early subscription for this matchless champion of the cause of hu- manity whose civilization and perpetuity is tlireatened. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 212 &, 214 FRONT ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Sample Copy on Application. A ' I /. ‘\/ \ /\ / v The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. Q ’¢ BUREAU or EQUITABLE Comment 212 & 214 Front Street. C San Francisco, Cal. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Grocery House. : CONDUCTED ON THE CO-OPERATIVE PLAN. >———~~ _Thc attention of the public is invited to the Co-operative Plan of Distribution and Collection adopted by the Bureau of p Equitable Commerce, which enables every one to become a y sharer in the proﬁts of the organization. Certiﬁcates of Conso- V‘ ciative Commerce range in price from $5,00 to $100,00. Certi— 1 ﬁcate purchasers become patrons of the system and receive with their certiﬁcates, checks of $5,00 denomination which amount is ’ stamped on the checks in amounts of 5cts., 1Ucts., 20cts., 25’ cts., and 50 ets.. On the opposite side of these numerals is the . name of the purchaser. These checks are better than gold for ‘ the purchase of any goods at any of our stores. VVhen all the 7‘ amounts are punched out of the check by the ’ purchase of goods the same is taken up and the certiﬁcate cancelled. Many of the goods handled by the Bureau are consigned ; directly by the producer on conunission which permits of their being sold at a much lower ﬁgure than if they had to pay a ; proﬁt to three or more dealers, according to the prevailing commercial methods, before reaching the consumer. You are invited to call and inspect our stock of sugar, teas, coffees, canned goods, butter, cheese, eggs, hams, bacon, lard, :- and all other goods usually kept iii a ﬁrst class grocery house. i All our merchandise will be sold for cash at the lowest living prices. Try the co—operative plan and get goods at wholesale : prices.
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Notes: Original digital object name: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-06
Geography: Chicago (Ill.), San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-06
Is part of: Koreshan Unity Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 07 (July 4, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1943, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-07-04
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
Text: '-E ’ ' i7rL§EOUATioNT::i E San Francisco, Cal, July, 4. 1891. Five Cents a Copy. Plovvshare and Pruning Hook. 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street, - San Francisco, Cal. KORESH, ‘ - - - - - _- — Founder and Dircretoi‘ C. J. MACLAUGHLIN, - — - — . - . Editolg Address all eoiiiniuuiczitions to the Editor. One Year in advance, - - - - . - - 50 L-ts_ One Copy, - - _ - ’ 5 cs Sample Copy on Application. I Ve 701'/Zsezzziarzy one THE /’[.() I1/SI/A RE /l.‘\7l) I’/x’ (L/V[1V(;' HOOK wz lria/far om’ ///om‘/1 all rei'e1'p[ of ten cents 1'21 fa//_vl1z,;e xtaxlzpf. 170 710? [fl 5716/! tm 01>/>07’!/miév xlip to re:‘e[i'e for l/ml lg/1,7,-~l»’z of time l/te most uulrpo/zen amt’ fearless weekly paper pi;/2/z'.s‘/[M 2'11 .4.///grim. Jlail us #15 mzmvs zfarzy of your frz'cm2’s 7U/10/zzyuu I/11';//e '1'U(/It/cl’ [1225 to inzrestzgate om’ /P/air/’zlei‘s System 13/’ (J0//...
Show more'-E ’ ' i7rL§EOUATioNT::i E San Francisco, Cal, July, 4. 1891. Five Cents a Copy. Plovvshare and Pruning Hook. 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street, - San Francisco, Cal. KORESH, ‘ - - - - - _- — Founder and Dircretoi‘ C. J. MACLAUGHLIN, - — - — . - . Editolg Address all eoiiiniuuiczitions to the Editor. One Year in advance, - - - - . - - 50 L-ts_ One Copy, - - _ - ’ 5 cs Sample Copy on Application. I Ve 701'/Zsezzziarzy one THE /’[.() I1/SI/A RE /l.‘\7l) I’/x’ (L/V[1V(;' HOOK wz lria/far om’ ///om‘/1 all rei'e1'p[ of ten cents 1'21 fa//_vl1z,;e xtaxlzpf. 170 710? [fl 5716/! tm 01>/>07’!/miév xlip to re:‘e[i'e for l/ml lg/1,7,-~l»’z of time l/te most uulrpo/zen amt’ fearless weekly paper pi;/2/z'.s‘/[M 2'11 .4.///grim. Jlail us #15 mzmvs zfarzy of your frz'cm2’s 7U/10/zzyuu I/11';//e '1'U(/It/cl’ [1225 to inzrestzgate om’ /P/air/’zlei‘s System 13/’ (J0/////zerre. II/2' 7wi[/ semi la 0/! JIM‘/l two zkszres af t/zis paper FREE. 1V0 /z‘mz/zr'z}z/ 0/I/z,';atz'wz 2'5 Dzzzzrrea’ by [/2055 rcceiwfrzg I/ze 5111113. I V/mz you /zarie ram’yoz¢r />a[>cr /zamz’ i/ la some one 70/tom yuu I/link {ls (1//zle/115 -wuzz/a’ 1'/zlcrest. lozmmix cozzszmz/mzlz‘z/,; a lﬁezrolzzlzb/z in Co//1//zerae. LA/301x T0 SECURE U5 5L'1;5c'/e//11;/ms‘. T/mi‘ 4/0 yourparf EQUITABLE COMMERCE. What is it‘? The equation of commerce will be reached by steps. The Bu- reau will first suspend the plunibline of equation. This implies an absolute revolution in all commercial methods. The competitive system is a scholastic cult wherein men, women and Chiidren are educated to cheat, steal, and lie for gain, and almost unconsciously thetylfallliiito the terrible ‘habit of every man robbing his neighbor, .'in e urch and out of it, and many see the sure road to an ‘interminable hell, but no way of escape. and execute the way out of the diﬂiculty. We have established our blacksmith shop in hades, Cl()V\.'ﬁ The Bureau will suggest among the speculators on Front Street, where we will sell goods to consumers at as near wholesale prices as it is possible to make them. VVe call it a blacksmith shop because we intend to forge some tliuiiderbolts of Jove (Jehovah). VVe expect to heat our coals with the wrath of those who dwell and do business in Hades and make the ﬁre ﬂy from the haimner and anvil of justice to the laborer, clerk and every day consumer, robbed by the merchant, who is getting fat in purse, while the ordinary consumer is getting lean. It is the Bureau's object to become the producer by a process of growth to that end, and to make every consumer his own produc- er and thus break down the niiddle—nian curse. We expect, of course. to have a “monkey and a parrot time”of it, for all the devils will peranibulate on their auriﬁc prominence, without doubt. For this we have prepared ourselves, and shall march right over the rubbish of generations of false education in hiisiness We do not anticipate the accomplishment of the process of adjusting the level of equation to the pluiiibline of commercial in- tegrity independently of the aid of every person interested in the work of abolishing the system of conipetisni through which is in- augurated the corruption of this age of abominable barbarisiii, “civ- ili7.ation"(?) If the community at large is interested inﬁthe regu- lation of prices, and the application of the laws of economy in the various avenues of trade let it put its shoulder to the WHEEL. Competing Railroads. "A Constant Reader" writes to the Daily Report, “Sir : As you are the people‘s advocate as against the railroads, why not constantly advocate postal telegraphy, Government supervision of railroads, and election of United States Senators by the people? These are popular reforms wanted by all, regardless of party. \Vhy not have all people as well as Californians sounding your praise?" The Refer! responds as follows: “One thing at a time is a good rule. Till the people of San Francisco awake to the necessity of a competing trans-continental railroad, it is hardly worth while to bother them about such things as postal telegraphs or directly elected U. S. senators.” The people of New York State wanted a competing railroad, and helped to build the VVest Shore road to compete with the re- gular Vanderbilt line,—the New York Central. VVell, they suc- ceeded in making a good competing road, when Vanderbilt was mean enough to purchase it. did. Competing roads do not seem to benefit the “people” very much generally. There is already too much competition but it does not work, so far as we have been able to discover, to the v awn <-~ v~.'. - . -1 I578 I n THP ﬁ?5TY1\-[P It doesn’t compete as much as it ‘ _ effectual than competing railroads. “people's” advantage. Can‘t we invent something a little more How many competing grocer- ies does it take to reduce the price of the nectssaries of life? If there were forty competing railroads, every one of which was working for its own interest, they would be pooled to keep up the price of the freight and passenger traﬁic. A competing road, to be of use, should be owned by the people and controlled for their 1 beneﬁt, and no plan has ever been presented, that offers the people an extrication from their dilemma but the revolutionary one of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce originatin g with the Koreshan Unity. Let the people watch and pray, showing their faith by their works, and in a little while something will show up to their ad- vantage. The Compromise of the Farmers Alliance with the Silver Nabobs. Ifthere were nothing else to show the true animus and tendency of the Farmers Alliance, and its inﬁdelity to the people, than its bar- gain with the silver miners, it has already ﬁxed its condemnation; its language is: “Give us money at two per cent interest and we will give you unlimited coinage of silver.” To strike hands with the silver Shylocks is as bad as to be manipulated by the gold cormorants. Free and unlimited coinage of silver means that the government promises to insure a market price on stuff which has comparitively ltttle market value, for the exclusive beneﬁt of Millionaire Silver mine owners. The farmers will discover to their ﬁnal discomﬁture that bor- rowing money at two per cent will not free them from the grasp of the tentacles of the dezlzlﬁs/'2 ﬂoating in the watered stocks of Railroad Monopolists. Why should the people pay any usury on that which they can better provide without interest, on the basis proposed by the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, with the Koreshan Unity behind it? If the people comprise the government they can have what they want if they will dispose of the thieving Congress and banditti legislatures. Too much legislation enacted by official lawyers for the sole beneﬁt of the legal profession is what the people do not want and what they will not have when they once get their eyes open to their rights, and methods of securing them. — Tolstoi appears to have stirred up a hornet’s nest among French literators by his denunciation of liquor and tobacco, and yet every one knows that both these stimulants have a reactionary tendency and are therefore injurious, particularly to literary men. If a per- son can write well when under the control of one or both of these vices, poor writing must be the result of a literary effort on the part of such a person when not under such influence. Therefore good writing can in the end be uniformly produced by this same one if these stimulants areentirely dispensed with. An excited brain is not a safe brain. A good marksman always needs a clear head and steady nerve when ﬁring at the target, which necessaries are never superinduced by a use of liquor and tobacco. Ifthere ever was a time when the wielder of the pen needs these requisite qualities in forging thunderbolts to hurl at social abuses that time is now. No‘ T olstoi is right and his literary contemporaries of France are wrong. Liquor and tobacco are injurious to the brain and should be discarded, especially by brain workers. The Summer Vacation. The minister, the teacheiintaheiiprosperotxs business man, the lawyer, the doctor, the dead beat,—all take a vacation during the -summer, while the millionaire has access to one whenever he wants it. About this time the steamers to Europe are crowded with for- tunate people seeking recreation in foreign lands. The amount of money thus transferred to European interests in one year by Amer- icans is prodigious. Summer pleasure-seeking in this country has grown to be a mania. People will leave magniﬁcent residences surrounded by spacious grounds located in the suburbs of our cit- ies, when old Sol becomes so affectionate in the beamings of his coun- tenance, and hie themselves to Europe, to the seashore or to the The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. mountains. It is vacation time you know, and they must go away along with their neighbors. Those who through ﬁnancial reverses cannot afford to rusticate at this season of the year, but who stand in favor with the fashionable, are said to close up the front of their houses and live in the back portion of them until the fall so that the impression may not get abroad that they are not taking their usual summer outing. Ministers, after freely throwing sweet missiles to the fat-pursed parishioners during the fall, winter and spring, take a respite from their base-ball exercise during the summer in order that in the fall they may be re« uperated from their exacting athletic sport involv- ing great expenditure of muscle and brain force; particularly that of the brain. Then there are the lawyers who have been lying for nine or ten months, they must get a rest or else impair the volubil- ity of their tongues. The prosperous business man, too, must cease for a spell from commercial prevarication, otherwise his operations for cheating his neighbor might lag through an over—expenditure of mental energy. The doctor and the dead beat, who prey upon all classes, but particularly the wealthy, must also “take the wings of the morning and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth" with the ‘ ides of June or else they would not reap so rich a harvest “when the robins nest again". , ' But who do not get a vacation during the warm, sweltering weather ? Well, the clerk of the prosperous businessman frequently gets no vacation, but works all summer long-at his desk early and late for ten or ﬁfteen dollars a week; the poor widow who sews for a living doesn’t get a vacation; though, poor soul! with her family of little ones she needs it badly enough. The store girl is often forced to take a vacation; without pay during warm weather owing to a slack in trade. These are a few of the classes of people who do not get a vacation, and yet with their long hours oftoil are they not more entitled to one than the classes ﬁrst enumerated? If so, why do they not get the same ? ‘ —--«wow» ——-—— THE FOURTH OF JULY. A day of national celebration which once was commemorated as a genuine expression of fealty to the common welfare but whose observance has latterly degenerated into a farce. And yet some of the methods employed by living celebrants to express their inexpli- cable jubilation are eminently beﬁtting the times and the occasion. The sky rocket, for example, as utilized by Americans upon this festive day is wonderfully symbolic of the prevailing methods employed by_this new civilization of ours. The sky rocket explodes with a great noise, leaps far into the ethereal blue, then, bursting with a second report and dazzling brilliancy, soon fades into noth- ingness. This masterful production of the pyrotechnist as it spreads its ﬁery plumage mid-air is, as it were, a handwriting on the wall to this age of competism and speculation. It foretells im- pending disaster to the ﬁnancial centres. Railway corporations and other combines are launched upon the world with a sounding of trumpets and by a watering of stock leap quickly into fame and favor; yet a little while and these same concerns which receive an impetus from inflation and falsiﬁcation will burst and be dissipated. But the dabblers in ﬁctitious values fail to note the signiﬁcance of unerring prognostications thus expressed. \/Vhen afctc is observed it is customary to have a clear concept of the motive prompting such celebration, yet Napoleon standing before the Sphinx was not confronted with such an enigma as that which faces the American in his efforts to explain the reasons for a national recognition and commemoration of the fourth day of July. Once the happy reminder of a nation's independence‘ dearly won, now nothing but the portend of its dissolution. The stars and stripes which were originally the emblem of a potential democracy, are now, with their red and white bars, a fore—runner of a revolution’s blood and a nation’s virtues disintegrated. The picture of George Washington which once fed the ardor of patriots now looks down with reproach upon a country doomed to dismemberment through corruption and prodigality. ' No man can tell why we celebrate the fourth of July. Not because of our independence as a people, for that has ‘long since departed; nor for the blessings that we can hand down to our pos- . - 9 the conduct of public affairs. 7 prejudice and fallacy. S‘ The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. ‘ terity ‘for We will have nothing to leave of the American Republic :,‘but a reminiscence of its once hopeful career. And yet this should 5t be a matter of regret for nations .in the co irse of destiny are Ibut as “A poor player who struts and trots his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more.” ‘The money thatis wasted in ﬁreworks on this day is another il- lustration of the people’s foolish extravagance. One, two, ﬁve and ‘ten thousand dollars are sent skyward in two or three hours. Eyes are blown out, faces disﬁgured for life and otherparts of the body maimed, for what? Well, that is the conundrum we would like some one to answer, for to us it is a poser. It is not enough that a people should be deprived of their liberties but on the day set . apart for a farcical celebration of the original achievement of now ' lost liberty to run the risk of being killed by stray bullets or disa- bledby exploding ﬁreworks is somewhat galling. Since, however, ,_ the fourth of July is a national holiday, thoughtful, truth—loving citizens who are alive to the gross injustice of existing conditions should appropriate it not for a meaningless exhibition of enthusi- asm or a foolish expenditure of money for that which soon ends in noise and smoke, but for the indulgence of health-giving recrea- " tion, which, under the competitive system, our over-worked and under-paid millions so urgently need. ———-— <o»O<«-»-——- The Vitality of Our System. Some people fancy that this paper can not win to its support S ‘ a constituency large enough to make it a potential factor in journal- ism; but herein they will ﬁnd themselves mistaken. THE PLOW- ‘SHARE and PRUNING H()()K will win to itselfa larger and more powerful support than any other paper published and we are able to give our reasons for making this statement. There are plenty jofjournals published and some which advocate reform measures in Most publications, however, lack the moral courage to tell the 1:»/zole truth; while they may be edited -with skill and ability and their pages give every evidence of eru- dition, their inﬂuence and circulation can prove but ephemeral ‘ owing to the fact that they are reposing upon moral sentiment long since made but which has decayed. In other words their main mission for circulating, is to live off of and cater to popular Such a journalistic policy in these days of rapid and radical change must prove but short lived and disastrous. A great crisis has been reached in the world of thought and the journalist who attempts to evade, ridicule, or deny such a self- _ evident proposition is either a kuave, a trifler or an idiot, whose paper no matter how large its existing circulation or apparent inﬂuence, must soon be buried in the debris of the crumbling and worthless system of social economy which he labors to support. Appearances are oftentimes deceitful, and popular support when not founded upon a great moral principle invariably proves ﬁckle and evanescent. The gentlemen may cry for peace to their hearts content; they may employ their most subtle powers in deceiving the people as to the true status of social affairs; they may apilogize for and con- ‘: ceal the true animus ofa governmental policy which does not con- tain one redeeming feature; they may pooh-pooh the portentous signs of approaching revolution; but none of these shallow exped- ients will avert the consummation of an effect heaped up by the operation of a known cause. Modern culture and -re lnement with all its piccadillies cannot thwart the operation of law and there- fore the sooner the literati and the "utterly uttah” become recon- iciled to the inevitable and face the music the better it will be for "them. As soon as the impending ﬁnancial crash becomes a reality ,and the millions are running to and fro for bread, the pedantic and ‘didactic “literary feller” with his high sounding periods and es- wic notions, the urcrupulous journalist, famous for his “nose for_'news”, and the chit-chat paragiapher with his lightweight 4' aliber, will, with their instruments of public communication—- their lying dailies, society weeklies and erudite monthlies——be left tdperish by a public driven frantic in its efforts for self-preserva- itioh. Passing witticisms, clever epigranrs and elusive though well- ‘turned sentences will then fall ﬁat upon the terrified ears of a ca- 'i-'l’zna‘H' -V ‘ lamity-stricken race, The booming of the cannon at Fort Sumpter fell with startling surprise upon the ears of that large class of optimsts who ridiculed the approach of rebellion, and when this bloody struggle for the triumph of a great moral principle had ac- complished its work and the slavery of the black-man was but a m rtter of history, there vanished with the Southern Confederacy and the arrogant Southern planter a host of respectable, patroniz- : ing, aimless journals and journalists who were relegated to ob- scurity because they lacked the moral courage to ride upon the crest ofa great reform wave. History but repeats itself and the very clever fellows who fancy they are doing just the thing to cater to a vitiated public sense will someday be left to reﬂect upon their folly within the conﬁnes of “innocuous desuetude.” There are some reform journals which are seemingly fearless in their advocacy of right but a close observation will reveal the fact that their aim is unskilled and abortive. It will not do to alone tear down; there must also be some upbuilding. That is a fool- ish man who would demolish his present abode, no matter how di- lapidated it may have become, before supplying another place wherein to lay his head‘. Self-preservation is the ﬁrst law of na- ture and must therefore always obtain on the chess—board of life. Calculating, sober people, no matter how desirous they may be for good government, will never desert the old hulk until they have signaled another ship and that is the reason why the various reform- atory sclzemes which have had their birth only in the minds of en- thusiast c theorists can never win the conﬁdence of any but the wild, untutoi ed and demzrralized. VVhat the people are looking for is a tangible system of reform which instead of blatant denuncia- tion can erect a solid platform upon which to stand and spread, and this is more than socialism, nationalism, or any of the other isms can do—hence they have no substantial support. The Bureau of Equitable Connnerce does project a practical, workable and 7w2‘1¢z'}zg plan which, in puerile vernacular, is “as easy as r »llin off a log," and hue bound to obtain because it meets every requirement. The Patrons of Equitable Com:11erce become at once part own- ers and sharcrs of the proﬁts of the system. bound to get, and plenty of them too, because we are able to supply groceries and provisions at less than retail prices. \Vhile we are thus supplying the public with the necessaries of life at lessthan current prices we are also building up our own system of exchange which must soon render United States currency of small value to our Patrons. But this is not all. We shall at once establisha school of National Ecmomy where we will educate the people in the true principles of governinent and commercial exchange which are as different from the methods now in vogue in political and commercial life as light is from darkness. This School will be established through the niediumship of conventions. If you want to win the unwavering support of the masses to a particular method of operation, put food into their stoniaichs and you have struck the right nerve. It must at once be apparent to‘ the clear sighted admitting the practicability of our commercial plan, that through its o,)3ratio.i we will aggregate to ourselves an ever increasing czmstituency which will be more compact and in- vulnerable than a Grecian phalanx. The interests of our Patrois will be our interests and i w ll be to the common interest to rapidly spread and multiply our branches of commerce so that all may be beneﬁted thereby. Every Patron will also quite naturally become a reader of and agent for THE PLOWSHARE and PRUNING nook, which, having no ir.terest to serve but that of the people, and be- ing afraid of no party or corporation, will hit the nail on the head ,e'-Jery time, and through its ever augmenting circulation and en- thusiastic support will become such a power in the land as has never been known to journalism This slight review of our plans for the reformation of a down-trodden world and revolution of C0111- mercial methods, gii es some idea of the amount of 7'z'2‘a"l!z‘y possessed by the Koreshan system of philosophy. _ Believing in the potency of centralization and the futility of decentralization we have an acknowledged head to our system who is the master spirit of the whole movement, in its theological, scien- tiﬁc and commercial phases. Our conceptions of the economy of life are not inspired by musty books or worn out methods but have been evoluted from the influx of culminating destiny. Our modes of '14‘ ‘fn n’ 0-nwc-7-'n~rnr-*m'l*‘°n 1- A no‘-win" And patrons, we are. 4 H°°L procedure are logical, methodical and equitable, and our labyrinth of machinery whilejust unfolding is without a ﬂaw in its masterful conception. \Ve shall demonstrate to the world by our movements that we hold the key to the situation. The Koreshan system of universal economy will demolish the modern church with its hypoc- risy, demonstrate the fallacies of modern science, and by its match- less system of equitable exchange seal the doom of the money changer and obliterate the legislative dens of thievery. -——- <»Q<o>——- THE PLUMBER. The plumber, like the broker, is one of the evolutions of the nineteenth century. The plumber is shrewd. He has carefully gauged the situation and purposes to make the most of it. The assassin may execute his bloody work but “murder will out" and the gallows ﬁxes his doom; the bank cashier may embezzle funds but detection is sure to follow; the policeman may go to sleep on his beat but the sergeant or lieutenant is sure, some day, to catch him napping; the lover can prove false to his betrothed and is met with the inevitable suit for breach of promise; a woman can declare that she is “just 19" when screened by the friendly aid of paint, powder, and stays, but some day when taken unawares she looms up in all her aged hideousness and the lie is out; the mer- chant may misrepresent his wares but his customers are sure to find out that he has been deceiving them, and then, so far as they are concerned his “goose is cooked“; the politician may hood- wink his constituents and ﬁnally pay the penalty amid the shades of private life; the Prince of VVales may gamble at baccarat and at last have the facts aired in court; the colored gentleman may pil- fer the hennery and pay the penalty with a load of buckshot or by a basilar incision of canine teeth; the small boy may get among the jellies yet cannot escape a maternal rebuke; the rat may tain- per with the pantry and even he will round out his illustrious ca- reer in the tenacious tentacles of the trap; but the plumber, Oh‘. the plumber‘. Have any of his nefarious tribe ever been intercepted in their villainy? ’ Like “Jack, the Ripper,” he stands out in bold relief as the masterful evader of justice. Has any one ever dared to follow the plumber in his work of devastation among the ramifications of the lead pipe? Did he ever confess? Was he ever known to loosen his death-like grip upon the suffering house-holder? Are his visitations not more frequent than those of the doctor, the dunner or the book agent? Did you ever note the artless non-commital expression of his face? If the plum- ber were ever to make a clean breast of it his would eclipse any tale recorded in the annals of crime. But, no! He cannot, he dare not, confess. He is a close student of men andmethods and knows full well that the policy adopted in the commercial world is: “Dog eat dog,” and that piracy today is peerless in the methods it employs for the acquisition of gold. He has adopted aprofession that absolutely deﬁes detection in its dishonesty and how he chuckles over a knowledge of this fact‘. How long must we endure him? Well, the methods of the plumber afford a good indication of the business relations of mankind. VVhen the present commercial tactics are revolutionized we will have honest plumbers; not before. .:_.—o4-Q... THE HIDDEN HAND. , [From (I [Vern E nglaml Correspomlent] “In all deceivableness of unrighteousness” the Jesuitical power is everywhere in this country working with cunning hand, and with comprehensive and far-reaching schemes, for the subver- sion of civil and religious liberty: and yet our people seeing, see not, and hearing do not understand, nor even dream of what is in preparation for them. Particularly is this manifest in the busi- ness centres of New England where factories abound and foreign- ers mostly congregate. Here where I an1 is a large manufacturing town, comprising—as all such towns do—people who are chieﬂy of foreign birth. Two or three years ago a military company was formed, and was furnished with arms by the state authorities. This company meets frequently for exercise in the manual of arms. Now I am credibly informed that this company, over 2 50 in num- ber, is constituted almost wholly of Catholics; and I am told that military companies similarly composed are springing into exist- ence in the large factory towns all over New England. Can it be that military companies thus constituted are merely fortuitous? What sane man can believe this? In John C. Calhoun‘s time, and for not less than ﬁfteen years preceeding our war of the rebellion, military companies were formed and kept in active drill, periodi- cally, throughout the Southern States, until the war-cloud burst upon us in 186i. Should not one such lesson be a suﬁicient warn- ing? But we are not wanting in other signiﬁcators bearing in the same direction. VVhile your correspondent was in Boston last autumn,(I think it was early in the month ofOctober) there occur- red one of the largest processions of Catholicsl had ever seen- marching through the principal streets of the city under arms! For two full hours the street on which I stood was blocked by the passing pageant. They were Father Mathew Temperance So- cieties;—at least so their banners said. What at once struck me as remarkable was the fact that no oneI talked with on the subject seemed to think there was any thing incongruous in the matter of a body of temperance men bearing arms: still less did it seem to occur to any one that these were Catholics—in large proportion, of foreign birth—marching in cadence to the music of Rome--whither and for what purpose the rank and ﬁle of them may have but the faintest perception to day. ‘Tis likely the average Bostonian would have smiled compassionately at me had 1 given him a full ' translation of the thoughts that passed through my mind on that occasion; and certainly no daily paper in the city, would have dared put them in print. Three years ago this month (June) the people of this town were much stirred up on the important (?)question whether its High School graduating excercises should be opened with prayer,- a Catholic priest, being one of the School-committeemen at the time, strenuously objecting on the grounds that the expenses attending the same, being paid out of the common school fund, it was not the intention of the public that the town's money should be ex- pended for religious purposes of any kind. “Catholics,” he said “cannot attend the religious exercises of any denomination but their own without offending against the rules of their church. We oppose prayer in the public school: why should we not oppose it at graduation?” Then in answer to a question he said: “Yes, there will be prayer at the graduation; but it is against‘ n1y solemn protest. I am but one against two. The scholars have voted on the matter. and a majority of them are in favor of having prayer; but if may lie rwllfur I/zest people to re/zze/zzlzer I/ml t/Ie time is coming when they will not lie in tile majority. VVhen that time comes they may be able to see this matter in a different light,—erpecz'ally tlze Cat/zolicx 5/zoula’ atleuzpt tujbrce z‘/Lem lo15artz'czj)ale in relzgzbzzs rxercises wlzic/1 are distaxteful to I/zcm.” I make no point here of the fact that his reverence, the priest, objected to protestant prayers or other religious exercises on the occasion referred to; because I do not my- self believe that prayers, made to order and merely formal in their character, can be regarded as particularly efficacious or morally help- ful on such occasions. I only give it as the furnishing cause of the intimation pregnant with which the priest followed it, namely, —‘‘that the time is (oi/zz'7zg 70/zen I/zey will not lie in tile 771a/'orz'zj/E” The past history of the Catholic Church, and the volcanic and barbaric elements which so largely compose its present following, do not give us a very assuring or rose colored view of what we may reasonably expect in the day of its ascendancy and triumph, if that should ever come; which seems now far from improbable. Indeed this is the one bright hope which the Romish Church most often, and with the greatest persistency, holds up to the eyes of her deluded children. \\'hen we see her myrmidons swarming to our shores from the sinking kingdoms of dying Europe, do we realize the Jesuitical forces which are at work on both sides of the great ocean to marshal them on their way hither, and to distribute V” and direct them after their arrival?—on thelone side, with money ; in hand to put them on ship—board and pay their fare (money fur- " nished, as is known, through labor-contract agencies, by millionaire . mining and railroad corporations, because these want and will have V V ,—.-.-:-r ,.~.;.¢. - The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 5 cheap labor, at what ever peril to the country); and on the other, to receive and send them forth like cattle where they are wanted? Any one who will take the pains to inquire will find that these foreign (labor-contract agencies are mostly, and perhaps entire1y—except , China and Japan—n1anipulated by Jesuits. An Italian told me thisvery day that all Italians who come to this country through these agencies are supposed to be Catholics; and that their pass- ’ . age money is paid, and their tickets furnished to them by or through said agencies. Those who can pay for them. do so; and those who cannot, get them all the same. As to the question of a State furnishing arms to societies—re- ligious or other—for holiday occasions; or even to companies of State militia constituted exclusively of any particular party or sect; it is a thing which for obvious reasons ought never to be done. The very fact of a body of men so composed making such a request, should cast it under immediate suspicion. One may ask “Why not?——_What is the special danger to be apprehended from it ?" ‘Well, let us take the Father Mathew procession in Boston last fall -as an instance. Pleading precedent, it may continue to have such processions, and march under arms on holiday occasions till it be- comes an established usage. Bye and bye, in some one of the many labor-troubles that are becoming more and more frequent and clam- orous as the years roll on, there will be one of those great popular uprisings‘-—another Martinsburg affair, only on a far grander scale —such as Gen. Ordway so graphically described in his address to a Washington audience not long ago. It reaches such appalling proportions that the whole country is paralyzed and the strong arm of the government finds itself over—matched in its methods of deal- ing with it. Rome's myrmidons are in it, and among them are ‘the chief conspirators. The lords of Mammon tremble; for it is Rome’s opportunity. The Romish Church is the only strong uni- tary political and religious body in the United States, and they know it; and that she is ready to make “friends of the mammon of un- righteousness" for religious and political ascendancy they also know , right well. A word from her to the leaders of her legions will stop ' _ the fray and “peace will reign in Warsaw.” Under such stress of dire calamity involving their own ruin, what price will the gamblers of the nation—the lords of Mammon—-not pay to end the reign of anarchy which their own greed and avarice will have brought upon the country? Will they haggle with Rome for terms then in order to save some faint shadow of the free government which their own hands will have destroyed, when a word from her to her legions would stop the burning and the slaughter? Believe it not! More might be said; more ought to be said; nay, more will be said on this subject hereafter: for other pens will be employed as the heat of the campaign increases; but this must suffice for now. TWENTY—EIGH’l‘ members of the New York Stock Exchange ~ have been disciplined for running across the board room ﬂoor. They were ﬁned ;$1,oo each. This is’nt a circumstance to the dis- cipline they will some day receive at the hands of the people upon Whom they have been living by their gambling methods. MONEY—~- PARTIES. Having reviewed the history of our money, and shown how iniquitous is our present financial system upon the debtor and the laboror and producer, we pause to reﬂcct and ask ourselves “how came these things to be?" They came through laws passed by Congress from time to time. Who was in Con- gress? The men whom our votes sent there. Why did not our representative oppose such laws? For reasons of his own. Why, at least, has he not told us about it himself? Because, perhaps, he did not understand it himself, and did not care to acknowledge his ignorance; perhaps he was a party to it and had more sense than to tell of his misdeeds. Perhaps the caucus favored these blame it on the “other party." The party to be blamed, I have often noticed, is always like the soft side of a brick, “the other side.” It would be best to -educate yourself thoroughly on the subject and then ask him to explain. Be sure, too, to ﬁnd out his record from (not him) the Congressional Record. Can either party (Republican or Democratic) prove their innocence in this great game of enslaving the people on the “European plan, led on by England?” The measure providing for and originating contraction (passed April 12, 1867) ‘r shows in the Congressional Record that in the House ﬂfty-five Republicans In the Senate all but seven voted for ajority of both parties voted for _t,v The act to resume specie payments——that is, to declare that the paper laws, and he believed in serving the party, not the people. He probably will ‘ money with which the soldier and laborer and producer had been paid was not good, and we must go to specie or coin. The Republicans voted for it and the Democrats solidly against it, because it called for this resumption in four years instead of immediately. My grounds for this assertion are solid. Read them. Democratic platform of 1876: “We denounce the financial imbecility and immorality of that party (the Republican) which * * * while annually professing to intend a speedy return to specie payments, has annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As such a hindrance we denounce the act of 1875.” Both parties in favor of it; only the Democrats wanted it at once. speech in New York, September 23., 1880, Senator Bayard said: “I am for resumption, and the Democratic candidates for President and Vico—President want the Samc kind of resumption that I do~a real and not a sham resumption.” _ In a letter written in December, 1879, Senator Wade Hampton said: “It would be sound policy, therefore, for us to do our duty and wipe out the grecnbacks.” President Hayes’ message, the same year and month, said: “The retiremont from circulation of the United States notes is a stop to be taken in our progress toward a. safe and stable currency.’ John Sherman, Republican chairman of the Senate Committee on Fi- nance, reported in favor of the same. Certainly both parties were in favor of contraction of the currency, and both favored resumption of specie payment and destruction of greenbacks. ‘ o\v let us examine the records of the two parties upon the national bank question. The Republican party instituted and has ever fostered the national banks; although Lincoln gave them a parting warning when he said that he feared that “in the near future all wealth would be aggregated in the hands of the few, and the Republic destroyed.” Is it not time that Republic- ans were hecding this prophecy of the grcatcst Republican? In a speech in New York in September, 1880, Senator Bayard said : “I have seen it charged that the Domocratic party were foes to national banks; but I am at a loss to know the authority for this. The platforms of the party contain no such suggestion and admit of no such construction; and it is very certain that for second place on our ticket we have named Mr. Wm. H. English, of Indiana, one of tho ablcst ilnancicrs and best business men in the whole country, whose management of the affairs of a national bank of which he was president was conspicuous for its success.” Ina Having failed in their ticket with a man favoring the banks as “second place,” the Democrats next time p11t one known to favor them in the first place and the Wall street mugwumps elected Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland in re- turn for their votes m-ado Manning Secretary of the Treasury; Jordan, United States Treasurer, and Canda, sub-treasurer at New York»—all three of them being stockholders and officers in the Wosto1‘n National Bank of New York. In 1887 President Cleveland (or his secrutary, with his knowledge and consent), instituted the placing of largo sums of government money with the national banks free of charge. And this same pet bank (tho Western National) received eleven hundred thousand of it. The Hon. John G. Carlisle, that paragon and priest of this latter-day democracy, who with withering emphasis pronounces the Alliance sub-treasury bill “un-Democratic,” has a record also. The national banks not satisﬁed with the great power and iniquitous privileges alroady granted, desired to be further favored. They are allowed to issue bank notes to the amount of 90 per cent of their government bonds. They desired to issue up to the full value. The bill when introduced had to be referred to the Committee on~Banking. Mr. Carlisle as Speaker of the House had the appointment of that committee, and he put on it a majority of men known to be friends of the banks. And yet John G. Carlisle sets himself up as a judge and expoundcr of democracy. Cleveland has become the great Democrat and Bayard the pure apostle of faith. If they be Democrats at all, they _must be better Democrats than were Thomas Jeffer- son, Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun; for we have handed down to us the records of those great men; men whose names will never fade, nor whose words be forgotten so long as America has a history, or liborty a resting place for the Solo of her foot. Hear the words of Thomas Jefferson, the father of democracy : "I sincerely believe with you that banks are more dangerous than stand- ing armies. Put down the banks, and if this country cannot be carried through tho longest war against her most powerful enemy, without loading us with perpetual debt, I know nothing of my countrymen.” Again, i11 a letter dated December 13, 1803, Mr. Jefferson says: “This institution is one of most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. That it is hostile we know—flrst, from a knowledge of tho p1‘i110iples of the persons who compose the body ‘of their directors and stockholders; second, from the sentiments of the news- papers they support. Treasury bills or notes, bottomed on taxes, and thrown into circulation, will take the place of so much gold and silver, but bank paper must be suppressed and the circulation restored to whom it belongs,” Andrew Jackson, in his farewell address, devoted a long space to the old United States bank, every word of it endcavoring to impress upon Congress the danger to our government and liberties from that institution. I select from it these words: “The result of the ill-advised legislation which established this great monopoly was to concentrate the whole moneyed power of the Union, with boundless meansof corruption and its numerous dependents, under the direc- tion and command of one acknowledged head; thus organizing this particular interest as one body, and enabling it to bring forward upon any occasion its entire strength to support or defeat any measure of government. In the hands of this formidable power, thus perfectly organized, was also placed un .751 G-,fl'I'F .ﬁ'E$T5{B 6 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. limited dominion over the amount of the circulating medium, giving it the power to regulate the value of property and the fruits of labor.” From a speech of John C. Calhoun, in the United States Senate, I give the following clipping: “Place the money power in the hands of a combination of a few individu- als, and they, by expanding or contracting the currency, may raise or sink prices at pleasure; and by purchasing when at the greatest depression, and selling when at the greatest elevation, may command the whole property and industry of the community, and control its ﬁscal operations. The banking system places this power in the hands of those who control it. Never was any engine invented better calculated to place the destiny of the many in the hands of the few, or less favorable to that equality and independence which lies at the bottom of our free institutions.” Read the words of Lincoln and Jefferson, Jackson and Calhoun, and then compare with them the words and deeds of these latter saints. No honest man, with any sense at all, can fail to admit that the leaders of both parties are renegades and apostates to the teachings of the great statesmen who founded them. That man who supports Harrison, Sherman, Foster, etc., and yet calls himself 8. Lincoln Republican, is assaulting the honor and fame of that great American, and places himself in the same category as Wilkes Booth. And for the followers of Cleveland and Carlisle to call themselves Jeiforsonian Demo- crats is to profane the tomb at Monticello. The party names are still shouted and the party organization kept up, but the principles taught by the founders have been forgotten, and now the leaders teach the very opposite. The parties now stand like a once holy ediﬁce, and the congregation is in it and the preach- er is preaching; but if the gospel is no longer taught, and instead idolatry, that is certainly no longera church of God. I think it is high time for all honest men in the Democratic party to be Democrats. Andrew Jackson, in 1829, put this plank in the Democratic platform 2 “A national bank is unconstitutional and dangerous to liberty,” and it staid there, and they won on it from then until 1860, with two exceptions only. The Supreme Court decided that they were constitutional ; but it: can not be decided that they are not dangerous to liberty. It would be well for some one to tell us when they became “democratic-.” It is in order now for Mr. Carlislc, the great expoundcr, to expound on the subject. J. Brad Iiezw-lg:/, in Alliance Farnwr, ]’_epz»rslnu'g, I72. Q»-4———j Russian Treatment of the Jew. "!1‘he']‘$ussian laws governing the Jews are oppressive, cruel, and perse- "tiutive. 'il‘.hey are compelled to live within the prescribed pale in the ilfteen ;pnovince£ in which they are allowed, but must. not go nearer than ﬁfty vcrsts ——a.bouttt£xirty-three miles-—from the frontier. This is on account of the large ‘smuggling business the Russians carry on, from which the Jews are excluded, asitiiswery profitable. 'l‘hey are excluded from the villages and are permitted in bhacxtiities and towns only, and are interdicted from the employments of skilleliaartis-ans, which embrace the trades and occupations of better wages. Printers, bakers, glaziers, and vinegar-makers are not included among skilled .art.-isans. Jews are not allowed in the Grand Duchy of Finland and in Cour- lla.-nid, or Riga, as they formerly were, and the widows of former resident Jews fare expelled thence. In none of the important commercial centres are Jews zailowed to live, either in Russia or Siberia, and those driven from interdicted iplaces to the pale are forced to travel under military convoy, like prisoners, in llarge gangs. In some place:-'., they are prosecuted and punished as vagrants, ‘vagabonds, or rogues, and any who are not duly registered are accounted as falien trespassers. Jews are compelled to military service as soldiers, but are not allowed to hold even the lowest rank as officers, and no Jcw is permitted service in the navy. The penalty for a Jew in evading military service is more 7 severe than that inflicted upon the Russians. The Jews are not allowed :schools of their own, and the children of Jews who attend school are required to be present on Jewish holidays, in spite of the religion of their parents. But .Jews of the highest degrees of university learning are permitted the privilege vof living outside the pale. Jews are forbidden the sale of intoxicants, except in houses they occupy as fl‘(¥(‘h0lt10l‘S, and are in terdicted from mining indus- tries, the possession or dealing in mining shares, or being agents in the indus- '.try or barter; from forwarding goods from frontier custom-houses to localiti:-s ‘outside the pale, as principal agents, or employees. Christians are prohibited {from serving as domestics in Jewish families, and Jewish domestics may be v employed only in Jewish families. A special tax is levied on animals slaugh- ; tcred for food uses, according to the Jewish method, and on the retail sales of r such meats, and this tax is farmed out to Russians, who are strict in its collec- 2 tion to their own gain. Special taxes and imposts are likewise levied on the l household property of Jews, on their business profits, on the skull-caps they X wear at prayers, and on the Sabbath candles they use. Jewish agriculturists :: and rural communities of Jews are required to keep apart from settlers of an- : other persuasion. No Jew can be chosen mayor, or judge, or to\vn oﬁicer-—tho ‘. law holds that “the duties of a judge cannot be intrusted to Jews with conven- i ience or decency"; and the Russian law declares all Jews to be aliens, whose :' several rights and privileges are l‘Gf.:l1l:l.l’.etl by specitl ortlinanc-es, thus placing . them in the pariah caste, subject to the oﬁlcials and to all Christian denomina- : tions. The Jews are compelled to obtain police sanction for every thing they do, : and hence they are the victims of continual black-mail and ﬂeecing by the po- ; lice. Synagogues are allowed only in localities of not less than eighty Jewish . houses, and houses of prayer only where there are not less than thirty Jewish houses. At the age of fourteen years, Jews can be received into the Russian v Orthodox Church, notwithstanding the objection of their parents or guardians and on conversion they receive money-payment and are, thenceforth, free from the disqualifications and restrictions enforced against the faithful. Jews‘; holding religious worship in their own houses, without permission of the an-.7 h orities, are punished by law, and special technical schools built and endow- H- cd by rich Jews in Russia are limited by law in the proportion of Jewish pupils .. or students to those of Christian denominations. But it appears that, with all ‘ ese ‘ ‘ " a11d , "" ' th“ exclusion enforced against Jews in‘ Russia—thc government is not satisﬁed, and the unhappy people are now‘ 1-?’ I3’ bcing expelled by harsh measures and actual force from the empire. The 5 great scheme of Baron Hirsch and other wealthy J cws of Europe, to colonize ‘ the refugees in South America, will relieve thousands of them. Still their lot : is sad to contempl.-tte.—T//.e. Argummt of Sim Frarwisco, Oul. ‘bam- Ring Rule in Cities. The case of John Bardsley, City Treasurer of Philadelphia, appears to be f one of the worst of its kind that has ever occurred. It is not yet known how much of the public money has been lost through his peculiar methods of doing business, but the amount exceeds $1,000,000, at least, and may turn out to be considerably larger. The most interesting and suggestive feature of the matter, however, is not that which pertains to the extent of the loss, but that which shows how easily the funds of a city may be abstracted, and how little the people know about the manner in which municipal affairs are being conducted. Philadelphia, New.York and every other large city, is practically governed by a . ring of speculators and boodli-rs. These rings have control of the political ma- chinery, and are able thus to dictate nominations and control elections. Some- times they are of one party and sometimes of the other. They have no politic- al convictions cxcept for purposes of plunder, and systematic corruption marks their course in all contingencies. Their only object is to manipulate contracts, to blackmail corporations, and to get as much money out of the city as possible. There is little or no opportunity to defeat the jobs of those conspirators, be- cause they have men in most or all of the municipal offices who do their bid- ding in every respect, if. not for a share of the proﬁts, then in consideration of political favors. The people have no means of protection when once the ring gets possession of the legislative and executive appliances. They are purpose- ly kept in ignorance of the general operations of the different branches of the public service, and it is impossible for them to learn more than the ring is willing to disclose. There is no proper sense of responsibility on the part of the officers, since they hold their places by the grace of the boodlers and feel entirely safe so long as this support can be retained. The reports of the vari- ous di-purtmeiits, when reports are made, do not represent the facts in a plain and satisfactory way; there is always more concealed than revealed. Such a thing as a complete statement of city finances is unknown. The tax-payers contribute a certain amount of money each year for the maintenance of the city government, and it is <-xpcmloil, or squamlered, according to rules which are so adjiisted as to suit the designs of the ring, regardless of all other con- sidt-rations.——Z/‘lu» St. Louis /Ilolu-—Ilmnoc,-at, —--—~- ooo Q- 7 _, The Modern Scientist. A morning paper deplores the small salaries paid to scientists by the government, while the truth is they get much more than they are worth. All that is necessary to produce 99 per cent of the so called scientists is a pair of large spectacles and a political pull. All the departments are loaded with them. There is Prof. A., of the Agricultural Department, who is so scientiﬁc . that he measures the flow of an irrigation well in Dakota with a bucket. An- other of the same kind sits up late at night to see the bugs and worms make their evening toilet a11d retire. Another professor in the Smithsonian National Museum, a short time ago examined cert.-Lin premises and pronounced the specimens obtained to be decomposed granite, b11t the owners of the premises put good every day sense against scientillc ignorance and the result is a mine of excellent granite. In the Fish Commission it has cost the government fully $5,000 to have one of tliese so-called scientific gentry undertake to flnd o‘ut if the hilkt". fish will breed the tape worm. A few unpronounceable names, a cer- tain amount of brass, and a large fund of ignorance constitutes the usual makc—up of the av<-rage scientist of the present time. Their present compens- ation is ample, and the greater part could serve their country better in the b11siiu~ss-x of sawing wood or hoeing cotton.~The Nativmal Econoniisl. -j———>-«Q»-4j———— Usury is Theft. Hy-re is the way some of the human vampires flourish in our midst: A lady bought a bill of goods (furniture) and gave the regulation chattel mort- gage on them. They were worth about $65 and her bill was something over ‘$200. She paid on them until there were only $14 left unpaid. Then, for reasons that need not be explained, she was unable to pay more, and the goods were taken away and stored to await final payment. In three months’ time the hill ran up to $27,and they told her that unless she paid it and took them away they would soon all be sold. Then she went to a money lender, a modern Shylock, and he agreed to loan her the money, but she would have to pay $l0 lawye-1"S fee, besides usurious interest, and if the money was not returned in three months he reserved the privilege of selling the furniture. Then the choice seemed to lay between this and paying usurious rent for a little furnish- ed room while doing without her furniture. But the only choice, in fact, was as to which vampire should have. her life-blood.——C’im-iimati Living Issue. But One Salvation. The work for personal temperance is in competent hands, and is eLl(‘l' . - pushed. From their nature, all the social, moral, religious aml ass forces are arrayed against inteniperaiiae, and their et‘f<-ctiwness is in- ‘ug steadily; but there is one class that all these efforts cannot l‘9ii4‘ll. refer to that too numerous class who, through weakness, or ignorance, or ‘ urroundings, are outside the pale of the moral and social and other fO1‘(‘L‘S I are potent with those on a higher plane. i8alvation——that is through Prohibition, to crush the traffic and render it — possible for them to become the slaves of drink. The problem then pre- “Shall the state remedy their lack of ability or desire control the appetite for drink by rendering it, through legal means, \'(‘l'y ‘cult or impossible of gratification?” Public sentiment is growing iI1 favor )1 ‘an aﬂlrmative answer to this question. It is l>I+coming well undcrstoo(l that K increase of c1'ime is directly traceable to drink, that the rapid increase in I the percentage of the insane and other defective classes is largI-ly due to the same cause, and consequently that the increase of the public burden of sup- the machinery of the criminal courts, and of our penal reformatorics 5/and charitable institutions comes chieﬂy from the Rum traffic. 'l‘o this is ’ (led the deﬁant attitude of the Rum Power toward all legislation intended toprotcct society; its evasion and defiance of laws which interfere in any way ‘ th it, notably the Sunday laws ; and its utter unmanageablencss in every way gs men to understand that there can be but one el‘foctivc \vay of dealing the evil—that is to crush, destroy, exterminate its cause. The Rum jraﬂlc is not a legitimate business. It supplies no proper human need, being :_. ply a. pander to vice and crime. It is a minister to human depravity, with- out one redeeming feature or one logical excuse for existence. The work of jjersonal temperance needs be supplemented by the state reaching out the arm the law to Pulverize the Rum Powcr.—Toledo Blade. e———><Q+-4?-—-———— Already Upon us. ~ _ The coke strike in Pennsylvania has cost about $3,000,000, including the ‘ loss to the workmen in wages. Ten men and three women have been killed over thirty were seriously wounded; more than one thousand persons been evicted from their homes. If this is not social war, what is it?— Journal of the Knights of Labor. ould You Not Like To Act As Our Ago11t,. VVe will pay you 50 per cent. ON ALL CASH SUBSCRIPTIONS! A .93; THE EASIEST PAPER IN AMERICA FOR WHICH SECURE SUBSCRIPTIONS. T0 BRANCH NO. I1. This Bureau is prepared to transact a gener- iial Real Estate Business. 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Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 08 (July 11, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1944, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-07-11
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
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I/Ve will seml /0 all smlz [700 issztcs of //zis paper FREE. /V0 jfmmezlzl olIlz;gzzlz'o/z ix mrzzrrerl lg» llzose reeeevzkzg llze same. LI//zen you /rave z*eazl}/()zzr/7zz- per lztzml it lo some one wlzom you llzfzz/c {ls mule/12‘: ruozllzl interest. 77:11.5 do your part loruarzlx eozzxzmzz/zzzlzkzg //ze Re?/olulioiz in Co/mzzeree. -LABOR T0 SECURE US SUB.S‘C]\’/])’E[€5. It remains for the Bureau of Equitable Commerce to (lemon- , strate that "labor" is capital, by the practicable application of in- dustry in the storage of productions for distributive use. The ' mission of the Bureau does not cease with the establishment of a . provision department on the basis of public supply, at cheap rates. It scarcely begins there. Its purpose is to inaugurate a great in- '.dustrial and economic system by which tl.1e world living from hand 7,”-to mouth may glory in anabundance. _ This can and will be eiTect— ed through the general substitution of the commonwealth for that ofcompetition, now in vogue to the curse of nineteen twentieths of the mass of mankind. CHINA is now reported as being on the verge of revolution. The celestials are said to be tired of the present form of govern- merit and will soon rise in their might and overthrow it. Truly- every indication conﬁrms the fact that we have reached the end of a cycle of time when all things shall be made new. BAI.MAcI«:DA, the dictator, seems to be exercising Napoleonic sway in Chile. He can order the execution of any one whom he deems inimical to the new government, or issue any decree agree- able to His Excellency; he has also been empowered by the New Chilean Congress to ﬁne any one he sees ﬁt to the amount of twenty millions and if the ﬁne imposed in any case is not paid he can inﬂict such punishment as may seem to him proper. We need no longer to retrospect to the days of Rome. when the Caesars reigned with dominating hand but can point to the sweet scented, sun-scorched tropics just across the gulf for an example of resur- rected imperialism. However, Balmaceda may get bitten by a killing frost; it is a Chile(ly) country, you know. The BooCtCﬂCln7The—()7tiier Foot. The grangers, through the Farmers Alliance, now propose to do a little cornering of wheat themselves. The money kings on the wheat boards have had their inning at wheat cornering and therefore should not object, if now, the farmers try their hand awhile at the little game. They intend to hold their wheat crop until it commands a higher price than it does now. The move- ment may include the 6,000,000 members of the Farmers Alli- ance. Some of the farmers may be temporarily inconvenienced thereby but those manipulating the scheme claim that they will be subsequently reimbursed through the raise in the price of wheat consequent upon such a mode of procedure. This will cer- tainly make a pretty mess and be a stern retaliation upon the tamperers with the wheat market. But how is it going to beneﬁt the people? That is the question which interests us more than anything else. The people will be just as much the suﬂerers by this new combine as they are by the other, and more so, for a cornering of wheat through the concerted action of its producers must seriously effect the consumer because carried on upon such a gigantic scale. VVell, well! This competitive system is working out its destiny sure enough but before releasing its hold if it doesn‘t make some bones crack it won‘t be the fault of the two contending parties in the controversy. It would appear, however, that the hayseed in the granger’s hair, respecting which he has been so often twitted, seems at last to have been turned to some account. it -11:- - ___._ ..;.:_.'.\ .L,.4. ._ A ___,;,,,,,,,,,,,L ,i";1 1 2 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. ‘ Nothing the Matter with Blaine. Blaine, is not sick. He is merely prostrated. His intellect, if anything is better than it was. He can’t walk, but that’s only because he is weak. He has ﬁve physicians.-in daily attendance, but that’s only because he don’t like solitariness. He will be all right for the coming campaign. The above comprises some of the reports of Blaines condition and demands, made by his friends who do not wish to see his chances weakened for the Presidency. The Plumed Knight has lost his grip. If he has not, the fact that he has ﬁve medical “ex- perts” after him is proof that he will lose it. No man can submit himself to the exploitations of ﬁve modern medical gentlemen and endure the pressure for any great length of time except that he is unusually well put together. The fact is, his friends are lying about him. He has seen his best days, and now the most that remains is his wealth and the leeches are after that The system of commercial equation inaugurated by the Koresh- an Unity and operated through the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, means the establishment of a system of exchange by which labor may be exchanged for labor, value for value, and the products of nature and art secured through industry, distributed directly to the people. It means that the laboring classes may be insured the products of their service in full, becoming equitable share owners in the proceeds of the various branches and departments of industry. It means that every working man, woman and child, may possess the abundant means of support. It means that one mind with brains and power to organize labor, shall devote the same to the interests of the laboring masses, giving them the beneﬁt of all its effort. N ATURALIZATION. Alien-born citizens of this democracy are, most of them, unﬁt to be granted the right of suﬂfrage. It is the laxity of our regu- lations regarding the naturalization of our citizens that will fatal- ly compromise this government. And it is useless to try to amend matters now for the mischief is done; the horse has already escaped from the barn; the sluice gate has been opened and the mud has poured The coming revolution which will shake this country from centre to circumference will bring to the surface the vast horde of the depraved, ignorant and dissolute, whom our enterprising steamship companies and manufacturers have been the means of bringing to our shores, and the smart politician, fear- ful of loosing a vote, has quietly stood by and watched this vast procession of foreign belligerents land without scarcely raising a word of protest in our legislative halls. Impregnated with Jesuit- ism these immigrants can be depended upon to consummate the work of chaos fomented by capital and labor. If wisdom had been exercised in the enactment of our laws regarding the naturalization of citizens this large and ever increas- ing class of our population would have had no voice in the affairs of government and never could have been manipulated by design- ing men. Most of these people can neither read nor write. They not only do not understand our language but have no more than a meagre knowledge of their own, the grade of their intelligence being much below par. To place the ballot in the hands of such people, after a few years stay with us is a more foolish act than if we were to give the same to our ten year old children; for the latter have, proportionately. more intelligence and a clearer concept of the laws regulating society than these pestiferous alien hordes. Yet we would not entertain the idea of granting our boys the right to vote. These alien-born voters are driven in herdes to the polls, and, without knowing for whom they are voting or the measure under public consideration, by the proffer of a cigar or a glass of whisky, they immolate one of the mainsprings of human sovereignty at the altar of ignorance and degradation. Monopoly lifts its hoary head, not by the sanction of the intelligent native—born or the apt alien-born citizens of this republic, but by the grace of the ignorant, groveling rabble, who infest us and who are bought like sheep by --v-e ‘A r ’ * ' ‘ ‘ ” ’"::5:,« .:-.—;-_..:‘ . ‘-" '-*5‘ "1: . «.4; ‘A the political auctioneer whose demagogic doings have led a nation, which has waded through rivers of blood for liberty, to the verge of an awful precipice from whence it must be hurled into the revo- lutionary gorge below. Monopoly and demagogy are responsible for the myriads of branches of foreign illiteracy that have been en- grafted upon the American tree and therefore they with their im- ported dupes must bite the dust when the monsoon of catastrophe sweeps over a land made desolate by wrong. Capitalistic greed and political trickery by importing contract labor, cast an arrow at the honest, industrious citizens of this Commonwealth, which, like a boomerang, having turned in its course, is speeding back, will soon strike with deadly force its iniquitous projectors, and be shattered topieces itself by the collision. No one should be permitted to exercise the right of franchise in this country who cannot read and write the English language with facility and demonstrate his understanding and acceptance of fundamental societal laws as dictated, not by politicians with their specious interpretation of the same, nor yet by subsidized ex- pounders of jurisprudence, but by the behests of that manhood evolved through the unition of rationalism, integrity, and godli- ness, which supernal trinity of elemental forces has ever propelled the world. A Big Strike Coming. It is reported that the printing houses along the coast employ- ing union labor are signing an agreement to stand by each other in the event of a boycott instituted against any of those in the compact, as a result of a violation of stipulations with the typo- graphical union in the matter of hiring apprentices. Such action is sure to raise a breeze. The printers will not stand it, but it appears that the printing houses intend to assert their undoubted right to employ as many apprentices as they choose, and this will bring about an extended strike, The capitalists in this industry purpose to hold out at any cost and the typographers are quietly but just as determinedly preparing for a long vacation. There is no doubt but that this strike, when inaugurated, involving the most important of all the trades, will spread very rapidly eastward and may be the instrument for the precipitation of the pending conﬂict between Gog and Magog (capital and labor); a conﬂict which will involve all the different lines of industry, effecting the railroads, the telegraph lines, the building enterprise--—in fact, all the producing interests of the commonwealth. THE PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING HOOK says to the printers and to their brethren in the different ﬁelds of labor: You have no more to gain by strikes than you have by supporting the competi- tive system which makes them possible. Capital has rights as well as labor; both are selﬁsh. No adjustment of labor’s wrongs will ever ensue from its conﬂict with capital, as none will ever obtain through the instrumentality of capital. ' As between capital and labor it is six of one and a half-dozen of the other. Put the laborer in the position of the capitalist and you will have just as bad a tyrant. This has been clearly demonstrated by the elevation of laboring men to wealth, by the success of what is called “self- made men.” Of all the capitalistic tyrants there are none who equal these “self-made men. ” Look at Carnegie, Pullman, and their ilk for a conﬁrmation of this fact. These are selﬁsh men who, by skillful elbowing, having gotten ahead of ‘their fellows, now turn and lash them. Such a mode of procedure, however, is simply in keeping with the characteristics of frail human nature. The very element which brings prosperity to such men is the one employed by them in their subsequent policy of arrogance. It should therefore be patent to the logical, reasoning mind that the labor question can never be solved until selﬁshness, the instigator of the present diﬂiculties, is eliminated fr0n1 the human mind. This great deszkleratu//z and essentiality to the perpetuity of the race will be effected shortly, but it does not come within the province of this article to indicate the way (directed by true science and philosophy). _ Capital and labor can never work harmoniously together, and the reasons therefore are obvious. Capital while shouldering the responsibility takes the cash and not infrequently shifts the head- = I’ -a ' -‘*-“—-- - ' The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 3 _ work upon the shoulders of poorly paid subordinates. Self-pres- "ervation is a quality naturally inherent in the capitalist as is also greed; these same qualities are not foreign to the composition of the workingman, but he doesn’t get much of an opportunity to exercise them. The accumulation of the money, then, in the hands of the capitalist must logically ensue, since, under the com- , gation. This the laborer doesn't like for he is after the lucre, too. . And thus we have the economic situation which some men, who know better, pretend to tell us is not a serious one. The sequel to the controversy, the bloody phase of which is almost upon us, must be that both capital and labor will go. It is utterly impos- sible, under the competitive system, for labor to wrench power from capital, and it is equally impracticable for capital to suppose that it can much longer keep labor in subjection. As the condi- tion of the workingman grows more deplorable the attitude of the capitalist becomes more arrogant. In the midst of the existing dilemma we would invite the at- tention of typographers, preparing for a strike, as well as that of every other class of workmen, to investigate the Koreshan System of Economy as expressed through the Bureau of Equitable Com- merce and its system of co-operative industry. The people operat- ing this organization are thoroughly in sympathy with labor and also pity the capitalist “for the misery thatishall come upon" him. These people will not be carried down in the maelstrom of revo- lution for having seized the life line of commercial equity they are ‘ pulling for the shore of universal order and invite all those who desire to live and labor for the common weal of all, instead of scratching each others eyes out while the great storm is gathering, to join them in their safe and practical undertaking for the solu- tion of our tangled economics. o>—4—>—:- THE MIDDLE MAN. The middle man is quite an institution. He is the go-between, the diplomat, the great aqueduct of human eﬁbrt, indeed the fence straddler. He keeps his own counsel and pockets part of the pro- duct of human plans. His motto is: “Addition, division and si- 1ence”. Wherever there is any money gathered, there you will see theimiddle man and he usually manages to keep out of work, too. He is a sort of ornament to society; always well dressed, af- fable, mysterious, scheming. VVhat a fellow is the middle man. He is in every quarrel but never gets hurt because he gets some one else to do the punching. He is the colossal shirk and shark of the nineteenth century. His eyes and ears are everywhere and he is as slick and irrepressible as the California ﬂea. \Vhat he don’t know “ain’t worth knowing”. Let us examine him as he appears in the diversiﬁed walks of life. In the antics of minstrelsy he ﬁrst catches our eye. Here he is a portly, digniﬁed, suave gentleman of (temporary) color. He sort of fans the genius on his right and left ultimates and is well paid for it, too, though the great value of his services is not ap- parent; still, in this, as in every other channel in which he ﬁgures, he has the faculty of impressing the management and ‘public of his superlative importance. It must have struck the observing ffrequenter of burnt cork spectacles, though, that ‘a well manip- ulated automaton might ﬁll the bill equally as well as this high salaried poser and mediocre. At the prize ﬁght the middle man I gets there. While he lets some one else do the pummeling, which is certainly the drawing attraction at such beastly exhibitions, he deftly arranges matters and gets a big slice of the prize money for . his cleverness without carrying away from the grounds a broken nose, broken ribs, blackened eyes or without being carried away lifeless, as are often the men whom he urges on to a participation ii such bouts. In love aﬂ"airs this Iago of modern society material- ues. Ingratiating himself into the favor and conﬁdence of con- cting parties in wedlock, he or she, as the case may be, usually nages, with that kindness which is so inherent in this person- e, the details of the wedding—the trousseau, the wedding trip, residence for the newly wedded pair, the furniture and house petitive system, he commands the elements necessary to its aggre-’ centage or otherwise reimburse our middle friend for a valuable expenditure of skill. Not infrequently this irrepressible admix- ture of character, in love affairs, where he has been called in for his indispensable counsel, has quickly settled the matter by carry- ing off the bride himself. He is a very clever chap, is the middle man. As we have said he is everywhere; in every branch of indus- try. But where he does his slickest work is in the legitimate lines of business; here he reaps a harvest. On the stock or wheat exchange he looms up as the consummate rascal and depredator. If any onegets “squeezed” you may be sure it will be the cus- tomer; seldom the middle man. In this phase of his activity he is more slippery than the eel. His mission is to shear, not to be shorn. In the real estate business he reaps a handsome proﬁt by vibrating between the buyer and seller. He makes the liveliest pendulum that the world has ever seen, and is such a swingeing liar that he often makes more out of a bargain than do either of the contracting parties. He is a cold calculator. He will insure your life and beat the insurance company, or beat you; it makes no difference to him so long as he gets the money. There isn’t a character in the world who has such an eye to business as the middle man. In the produce business if he can ’t get a fair proﬁt on consigned goods, why, without the least hesitancy, he will dump them into the Bay, advise the consignor that the market is glutted and the goods have spoiled, and laugh when told that that produce would have fed many poor families. VVhat does he care for poor families ? Now, what are we going to do with this fellow; this blood- sucker; this vampire; this rogue?‘ He is simply imposing on ignorance and good nature. He isn’t necessary to the community. He never produced anything in his life but is like the english sparrow imported into this country which spends its time in ﬁghting with its kind and picking the seed sown for the harvest. Let us get rid of the pest! Discard him! Snub him! Kick him out! Starve him awhile, if that were possible! But get rid of him anyhow, for he clogs the wheels of commerce which must be ad- justed upon an equitable basis by bringing the producer and con- sumerface toface. It is the mission of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce to wipe out this superﬂuity from the marts of trade and with your help we will do it. The middle man is a “back number;” his scalp is due. -—2:—HQ»4———————- THE GREAT DESTROYER. VVhen Gladstone declared before the House of Commons that drink had inflicted on the world greater evils than war, pestilence and famine combined, (says T /16 Voice) was he indulging in a mere rhetorical exaggeration? VVhen the Supreme Court of the United States solemnly declared in its oﬂicial decision in the case of Cali- fornia vs. Christiansen (1890) that a greater amount of crime and misery is shown by the statistics of every State to be attributable to drink “than to any other source,” was it, for the moment, indul- ging in a thoughtless statement for the purpose of pleasing the “temperance people?” VVell, perhaps so. Gladstone may have been out of his head and the Supreme Court may have been hypno- tized. Let us make a little excursion into mathematics to see. In 1888 “The British Medical journal” published the result of ‘an in- quiry made by the British Medical Association (the principal as- sociation of the kind in England, or, perhaps in the world). The inquiry was conducted during a period of nineteen months (May 9, 1885, to Dec. 1 1, 1886), and related to the effects of drink on mor- tality. Each of the doctors contributing to the inquiry (178 in all, i11 dilferent sections of Great Britain) took his death-certiﬁcate book and from the counterfoils of three years gave, in the case of each death of a male over 25 years of age, the immediate cause of death, the age at death, and the drink-habits of the man who died. From the data supplied to this inquiry, has been carefully reckoned (see “Prohibition, the Principle, the Policy, the Party,” by Wheeler Appendix, Note C.) the number (120,000) of intemperate persons dying every year in England and Wales, from all causes, and, what is more important, the number of these who are killed by drink. This latter number is a little over 30,000. It does not in- ! . ~l;i':.-.4. ...-.;_...u{u‘u..a.»:.¢t.;.4- 5..;.~.. * r at 51.. ........!..- . ru<...4.f.. .........1._ 4 T'he’P1owshare and Pruning Hook. elude those (infants and others) dying as a result of crime or negli- gence on the part of drinkers, or as a. result of inherited defects; but simply those who kill themselves with alcohol. The number is about the same for the United States, estimating on the basis of the ratio of absolute alcohol consumed in the two countries. Thirty thousand killed each year in the United States, 30,000 more in England. Let us go further. In the report of the Swiss Federal Council, in 1885, after a special and exhaustive investigation, it appears that the amount of alcohol consumed in the countries of Canada, Norway, Sweden, United States, Great Britain and Ireland, Austro-Hungary, France, Russia. German-Zollverein, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Denmark, is 676,724,985 gallons or about six times as much as in England and the United States alone. The same amount of absolute alcohol can be safely reckoned as causing an equal amount of mortality, on an average, in all these countries. Six times 60,000 equals 36o,ooo—the number of deaths each year caused in these countries by drink. Three hun- dred and Sixty thousand a year! In an average generation of 33 years the number is nearly twelve millions (11,88o,ooo). In the life-time of a man of 70 years, the aggregate death roll will reach the amazing ﬁgure of over twenty-ﬁve millions (25,2oo,ooo). Re- member, in looking at these stupendous ﬁgures, that they repre- sent, not the number of drinkers who have died, but the number whe were killed by drink, Remember, the estimate is based on reliable data furnished by one of the best scientiﬁc associations on the face of the earth. Remember that in these ﬁgures is not included the large, but undeterminate number of those dying as the result of inherited defects due to drink, or the result of crime and negligence on the part of drunken men and women. Remem- ber that the estimate above is lower by one-half than the usual es- timates given of all persons slain by drink. And remember that the above countries do not comprise by any means, all those in which the devastation of drink is spread. Among those not in- cluded are Australia, South America, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Oriental countries. How old are you? The young man of 20 can truthfully say that in his lifetime drink has slain, in the countries named, over seven millons. The man of 30 can say that it has slain over eleven millions. The man of 40 can say over fourteen and one-half millions; the man of 50, over eighteen millions; the man of 60, over twenty-one and one-half millions; the man of 70 over twenty-ﬁve millions. These are ﬁgures for which reliable data are in hand. If we could obtain reliable data for an estimate of the millions not included in the above reckoning, we should stand, if possible, still more aghast before the known ravages of this Gigan- tic Destroyer. But even then the story would not be half told. For every man who goes to his grave through drink, how many are there w_hose lives are shadowed by the disgrace and sorrow? “No man liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself." These are the millions who are slain; how many are the millions who mourn! And to think that, from ﬁrst to last, this amazing curse is created by man and can be removed by man-—all of it, every vestige of it. ——-4» &4~»—— THE RUSSIAN JEW. “The Jew must be got rid of at any price—-—as one would get rid of ‘microbes, ” cries Prince Metchersky. “He must be shown," said Mr. Skalkoffsky, “that his halcyon days in Russia have gone by.” Therefore the penal laws against him are enforced, say they; and these laws the Jew can easily avoid by leaving the country. This sounds very reasonable and plausible; but let the reader (writes -the Countess of Desart in T/ze ]Vz'71eteem‘/1 Ce7ztu7y,) take a map of Russia and look out on it the southwest provinces and the ﬁfteen governments that comprise the “Pale of Settlement.” Perhaps it may astonish him to ﬁnd that its boundaries do not at any one point “march” with the conﬁnes of the empire, but are well inland——one of the laws being that no Jew may settle within a certain number of miles of the frontier. Therefore, the ﬁrst step the Russian Gov- ernment takes for enabling the Jew to rid the country of his presence is to send him well inland! Now it also happens that not only is emigration strictly forbidden in Russia, but that no one may leave the country, even for a short time, from the Grand Dukes down- wards, without special permission from the Government. Of course this means a passport and the spending of money. Are any facil- ities given to the Jews to obtain their passports? Far from it. To any one of them the cost is much greater than to any Christian; and when the document is obtained, there are still all the frontier oth- cials to be met and propitiated—no easy task. What is the result? The rich Jew buys his passport from the minister in Petersburg, paves his way with gold, and settles in other countries where he is looked upon ‘as a fellow-creature, and his tenents are not inquired into. The “middle-c1ass”Jew spends his savings in wandering off to freer regions; the small trader and publican realizes what he can as best he can, and comes penniless to England, ignorant of the language, ignorant of any handicraft, inured to all sorts of misery and hardship, to swell the already overgrown number of the unskill- ed unemployed: having spent his little all in getting out of the country where he was born and could earn a competency, if a mod- est one. The only Jews who remain in Russia are the very poor, the weak and helpless in mind or body. These the Russian Gov- ernment, which is so anxious to get rid of the Jews, compels to stay; and not only compels to stay, but herds together forcibly in such numbers that not only do they prevent each other from earning what they earnedbefore, but they are bound by every law that mod- ern hygiene has discovered, to generate every kind of loathsome and contagious disease. And the rest of the civilized world is to look on at this, and not to raise a word of protest, but to shrug its shoul- ders and echo the parrot-cry of the writer I have before quoted:— “the Russian Jew is like no other Jew. ” Ifthe native of the gloom- iest slum of Bethnal Green were pointed out to the world as the type ofJohn Bull, would any one accept it ? Let “O. K.” build a high wall round a certain portion of Whitechapel; let her be enabled to enforce that no Jew in the home counties shall be allowed to reside anywhere but within that wall; that no Jew shall follow any trade or any profession requiring a legal apprenticeship that only a per- centage of the children shall be taught in the schools, the rest de- pending on any training their toiling parents can ﬁnd time to give them, and I will undertake in twenty years’ time to turn out from within that limit as perfect a specimen of the Russian Jew as can be found at the present day in the Pale of Settlement. Let the Rus- sian authorities say to the Jews, “\Ve do not want you; we will give you so much time in which to realize your assets, and shake the dust of our country off your feet: here are your passports; whoever re- mains beyond the stipulated period, or ever returns, does so at his peril." Provided the given time be ample, though people may dif- fer as to the wisdom of the step, no one will be able to blame the Government that chooses to think it will prosper more without a certain fragment of its population, or ﬁnd fault with it for acting up to its lights. But as long as a Government heaps cruelty and out- rage on a helpless crowd of people, and only lets them go in such guise as to force other nations either in genuine self-defense to shut them out, or else allow them to flood their market—-—as they have done those of England——with masses of unskilled labor and absolute poverty which reduce the rate of wages and increase the misery of the poor native population, it becomes not only the right but the duty of those other nations to lift up their voices in indignant pro- test; to try and shame authorities that call themselves civilized from pursuing-the path of barbarism they have marked out for them- selves; to bring‘to the knowledge of the Tsar laments that, for hu- manity’s sake if for no other, the Englishman trusts can never have reached that august ear before. Just the Same Here. The baccarat scandal, says the journal of tile Kmg/its of Labor, has furnished food for thousands of vigorous articles in the Amer- ican press in condemnation of English monarchy. It has been veryjustly pointed out that the Prince of Wales and his boon com- panions are the products of the monarchial system under which an ' idle class are encouraged to imagine that the world was made for _ them, and that the rest of society only exists for the beneﬁt of the ' American public opinion is practically a unit ‘! in condemning monarchy as a system which, by exalting -one v family above the rest of the community and placing enormous wealth at their disposal while relieving them from the responsi-.; privileged classes. thilities attaching to ordinary citizens, furnishes them with every ivmaentive to lead lives of uselessness, luxury and debauchery. The V surprising part of the matter is that while every amateur moralizer . and: cross-roads journalist can see that the Prince of Wales‘ ’ evil courses’are due to a vicious system by which he is maintained 5. in .luxury on the labor of pthers, hardly any of these sapient critics, who are so keenly alive to the demerits of monarchial institutions ‘ -_' as tending to foster vice and proﬂigacy, can follow out the matter " 0 its » logical conclusion. The Prince of Wales is probably not a bit‘ worse th-an the average man of wealth and leisure. “Society” ~. in both Europe and America abounds in just such individuals, having ample means, no useful occupations and a natural ‘tendency toward vicious pursuits, spend their lives in the pursuit of pleasure and devote their days and nights to eating and drink- ing, gambling and debauchery. Obviously, if the vices of the Prince of Wales are chargeable against the monarchial system, the equally reprehensible habits of the “Four Hundred” of New York, the “pleasant vices” of the men and- women of the privi- eged classes everywhere, are equally due to the social system which enables some to live on the labor of others. It ill becomes . ‘ Americans to throw stones at Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. and his dissolute companions of the British aristocracy, while they ” at the same time uphold a system which in every large city rearing by the thousand men and women who imitate the vices European courts, and who, if they are not called princes, lords ladies, enjoy practically the same privileges of living simply enjoy themselves as parasites upon industry. 3 If 9 is of or to PARNELL’S DEFEAT. After considerable controversy and delay Parnell has at last been compelled by the Irish people to take passage on the Saline ‘Creek. His test candidate in the Carlow district has been de- feated and Parnell's leadership of the Irish cause is at last at an end. The cause assigned for his deposition, to the fair and fear- less mind, should be inadequate. Parnell must go because he ‘ happened to violate that eleventh commandment: “Thou shalt not be found out.” As a political leader this man is probably neither better nor worse than others of the day who presume to be spokesmen for the people. The unfortunate social affair which has been the means of his dethronement is only one of the many similar escapades participated in by public men with the excep- ,-tion that this one has happened to see the light; a pharasaical ipublic therefore decreed that the participants in the same must be ignored». One might think that Parnell would not have been shallow .enough,to suppose that a legal union with his paramour would "subdue the feeling engendered against him by people who are, _ doubtless, not one whit better than the man they down. And if ‘anything else were needed to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the -“Grand Old M_an”—whom it would be more ﬁtting, in the light of his political craft, to designate as the “Grand Old Humbug"—— V we have the missing link of evidence in his perﬁdious desertion of this deposed Irish chieftain. Gladstone knows that Parnell’s morality is as good as that of the majority of his political col- There is something else involved in this case which is quite interﬁsting. Parnell is a protestant, and Jesuitism, in his recent , hart comings, perceived the longed-for pretext for urging l1is re- tirement. Which is preferable for the good of Ireland, Parnell-rule therulevof Rome? Of two evils choose the least, is an old _ inr, -Ireland after two or three centuries of Catholic domination §Q(1,1;ld_be. convinced that Parnell with even the O’Shea appendage in edesirable. Poor Ireland! Disintegrated by the constant tion of her own people, preyed upon by English land-lord- ‘ d blinded by the scales of an accursed ecclesiasticism; the of,her redemption is still far off. Parnell as a political leader 9.s;much conﬁdence as any of his contemporaries in similar s..Wh_ich should be none. Public place, these days, h and retained for purely selﬁsh ends, but the honest, out- " man, viewing the general moral tone of society, turns with - -from such a weak allegation for its overthrow of this \ cal trickster. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. HOW IT WORKS. "A Comparison of “Protection” and “Free Trade” Side by Side. A correspondent of the London Time’: of the 13th gives. some interesting ﬁgures respecting the growth of the population and commerce of Victoria and New South VVales, says the P/zi/azlelp/zia lfetom’; the former a protectionist and the latter a free trade colony. In the ﬁve years 1885-9 the population of Victoria has increased from 951,276 to 1,1 18,028, while the population of New South \/Vales has risen from 921,268 to 1,222,200. During the same period the Victorian imports has increased from £19,201 ,633 to £24,- 4o2,76o and their exports have decreased from £16,o5o,465 to £12,- 734,734. In New South VVales, on the contrary, the imports have decreased from £22,826,985, to £22,546,244, while the exports have increased from £18,251,5o6,to £23,254,151. So that within the past ﬁve years Victoria has increased its population by a little over 16 per cent, while New South VVales has added no less than 32 per cent. The import ﬁgures are even more startling, for while Victoria shows an increase the imports of New South Wales are slightly less than they were ﬁve years ago, although the popula- tion is nearly a third greater. And what will the protectionist say to the exports? The protectionist colony exports considerably less that she used to do, while the free-trader exports considerably more. Per head of population, Victoria. last year imported over £21 and exported over £1 1. At the same time New South Vi/ales imported over £18 and exported over £19. ——-—-—+-40>-<————— Farmers Swindled. “There is every evidence of a ruction in the ranks of the Farmers’ Alliance in Southern Minnesota,” reports the C/zromkle, “owing, it is alleged, to the perpetration of an outrageous swindle by several of its leaders. For a year or two members have been furnished through the Alliance with farming implements, binding twine, etc., at a supposed reduction in price. The greatest saving was to be effected on binding twine. It is true that twine had been supplied at a big reduction, but an investigation made by a sus- picious Alliance man has developed a startling and most barefaced swindle. The Alliance traders had bought a cheap article of sisal twine and had it colored the color of pure Manila, the best twinein market. The twine thus colored was branded Manila and sold for that article, giving the seller a very large margin. It is stated that $15,000 has been made out of the swindle thus worked upon the unsuspecting purchaser. The farmers are very indignant and there is a probability that the whole fabric of the Alliance will succumb in the storm that has been raised." This may or may not have been written in_ the interest of the money power but, whether it be true or not it is a fair illustration of the way things will ﬁnally be manipulated by the men intrusted to the conduct of the affairs of the Alliance. The methods of dem- agogy and chicanery will convince the farmers that this new fangled organization and its associate, the “Peoples‘ Party” with its two per cent govermnent loans do not contain the panacea to cure their ills any more than do the two old parties. They will have to look further yet for an equitable, safe and comprehensive solution of wrongs whose magnitude and power surpass the ability or desire of the present governmental system to rectify. The former must pass away and all things be made new. _*+¢...}.__. things The editor of 1,z'/may wants to know whether we are “prepared to justify Prohibition by the novel argumentimplied inthe expres- sion slow poison to the tinkling of cut glass decanters, used in , reference to liquor-dealers’ business.” Most ‘assuredly. We are prepared to show, by‘the deliverances of science, that “alcohol is an irritant poison." VVe are prepared to show, by common obser- vation, that people are induced, by all manner of excitements, to drink that irritant poison, most of them being ignorant of the fact that it is poison. We are prepared to show, by the investigations of the British Medical Society, that that poison kills 3o,oco persons every year in England and VVales and by a fair inference, an equal , number in this country.—T/ze Voice. \ s 4 ..__'A.. AFLL .. '1‘- LL - -- --«» -— _ ..__‘I‘A -:4»... .....-..—.m5&&,.:.r_\ L.‘:.4- 4...... ..-... 6 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. PRUNINGS. When wages go down interest goes up.—Amerz'ea7z N07250:!- formisl. ' “Twenty pounds of sugar for a dollar, under this administra- tion,” yells the McKinlyite. “Yes,” responds the consumer, “but I have no dollar under this administration.”— I/Vale/mum. The Prince of VVales is suffering from rheumatism. It was brought on, probably, by the recent exposure concerning his debts. ——C/zieago T rilmrze. ‘ You can sometimes remove the soreness from a sprain or a wrench with a porus plaster, but you can ’t remove a porus plaster with a wrench.—Ber,é.v/lire 1Ve7w. “No sir,” exclaimed the politician at the ward caucus, “there is too much talk about helping politicians. All we want is to be allowed to help ourselves."—1Vew York Recorder. The Russian government forbids the Jews from possessing land and then complains that they will not work at agriculture. It forbids them carrying on a mechanical business and ﬁnds fault that they are engaged in trading. Is it any wonder that they join the ranks of the enemies of despotisn1.—P/zz‘1azz'eZ;>/zia _[m‘tz'ee. The power of a party as a moral force declines in proportion to the money used in maintaining its organic integrity. This is in part the explanation of the plight in which the republican party is today. For all that they take the political dollar shall perish by the political dollar.—T /1e 1Vew Natzbn. It is said that Emperor VVilliam censured his uncle, the Prince of Wales, for playing baccarat; then, a few days after, he “announced that he had devised a scheme for a lottery by which he hoped to obtain 8,000,000 marks to be used in the work of com- bating slavery in Africa.” The emperor draws the line, it would appear, not at gambling, but at baccarat.—TzeIe7ztz'ez‘/z Century. At a recent cabinet meeting it was determined to change the form of the public debt statement. It is not quite clear what new deception will be attempted in this line. A clear, plain and com- plete statement of the Treasury Department has not been made for thirty years. It is doubtful if there will be until the people get possession of the government.—1Vaz‘i(mal Ec07zomz'.rz‘. Police Justice Hogan’s opinion of the President of the Society for the Suppression of Vice: “This man Comstock will stoop to any meanness to accomplish an end. He has deliberately lied, as no gentleman would do, in order to cover up his mistakes. He thinks himself mightier than the law. Indeed, I think he is laboring under the impression that the statutes were framed espec- ially for his beneﬁt.”—Tme7ztz'el/z Century. The Missouri legislature closed amid scenes of drunkenness and debauchery. On the Sunday preceding the close, all the sa- loons were running wide open, and were thronged from morning till late at night with the senators and representatives, drinking, singing, yelling and carousing. VVith two or three exceptions the entire St, Louis delegation passed the whole week in one pro- longed spree, drinking, gambling, and otherwise violating the laws.-— Voice. To receive the investiture of citizenship, a man should be able to read and write in the American language and, above all,he should be able to furnish a certiﬁcate of good character. Citizen- ship brings responsibilities, and no man, unable to discharge those responsibilities should be allowed to assume them. We should use common American sense, making the standard of citizenship a test pertaining to the duties that follow the bestowment of the great honor and privilege.—1’rogre:5z'zJe Age. When senator-elect Peifer spoke on behalf of the People ’s party in Cooper Union last week the papers gave the number who attended the meeting as about one thousand. When a meeting of “Anarchists” was held in the same place two evenings later, to protest against the imprisonment of Herr Most, the immense hall was packed. \Vhat does this signify, if ‘anything?—T'we7zIz'et/t Cen- fury. Secretary Foster was so much afraid that it might inconven- ience the national banks to give up the 4% per cent bonds, which mature next September, that he kindly notiﬁed them that they may retain them, if they are willing to accept a lower rate of interest. , This was very kind of Mr, Foster as it saves the banks from having to buy other government bonds at a big premium to deposit with the U. S. Treasurer as security for their circulation; but Mr. Foster always was kind to the national banks, and it may be added that they have always reciprocated.——Telegram. Statistician Dodge says: “The prices which cause so general and deep a feeling of discouragement a year ago have given place to appreciated values, so that the corn and wheat of the past year will be worth more than the large crops of the previous year by about $150,000,000.” who is beneﬁted by all this appreciation of values in corn and wheat? Not the men who raised the grain, but the men who ma- nipulated the money. The contraction of currency compelled the farmers to sell the crop as soon as it was gathered, when the price was the lowest. After it left their hands the price was “appreci- ated.” Farmers were in debt and had to sell at low prices. The bosses of the old parties say this condition of things must contin- ue. Money must be kept scarce so that the farmers can be kept in debt and the opportunity for plundering them be continued forever.—La/Ietle County Stalexman, Omlego, Ktmmx. Society has a way of avenging itself for the wrongs committed on the lowest of all its members. Sir Robert Peel gave his daughter a magniﬁcent riding habit on her nineteenth birthday, and, attired in the embroidered gown, she rode side by side with him in _the parks of London. She had scarcely returned home before she was taken ill with the most malignant form of typhus fever, and in ten days was laid to rest in the churchyard. And the secret was a very simple one. The poor seamstress, in a gar- ret in one of the slums, while she was embroidering that garment, looked upon a husband shivering in the paroxysm of chills, and she took the half ﬁnished garment and laid it over him, and the garment took up the germs of fever and conveyed them from the hovel of the poorest to the palace of the statesman. And so we are bound together in one bundle of social life, and if we neglect the poorest and the lowest, society will avenge herself in the destruc- tion of the highest and the richest and most cultivated.-—0ur Dumlz /1m'/zzals. If money is acquired by methods which enable one man to accumulate in his possession the wealth which ought to have been distributed among thousands of producers, it is obvious that no consideration for the public good in its expenditure, no benevolent notion of making work or furnishing the hungry with bread, can remedy the original wrong. The fact that the money was unjustly acquired outweighs all such alleged beneﬁcent motives in its out- lay. Otherwise the highwayman and pirate who should set apart a portion of their ill-gotten gains to objects of public utility would have an equal claim to be regarded as social benefactors. We can all see that in such cases the wrong done to society by the method of acquisition would not be in any respect lessened by the use to which the money was afterwards put. But it is singular that, in discussing the subject of wealth and the duties of the millionaire, most of our magazine and pulpit moralizers have their attention so closely ﬁxed on the comparatively unimportant question of the manner in which money is employed that they altogether lose sight of the injustice involved in the very existence of large hoards of capital in the hands of individuals.—_/ournal oft/ze Ifmg/tlsof Labor. .,’v 4 5.‘ The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. Of Course it Can’t. Liberty cannot long endure in any country where the tenden- cy of legislation is to concentrate wealth in the hands Of a few. —'-Daniel Webster. /f/1/oz; do 720! receive your paper regzr/ar/y /at us now. , Q Make your /offers o/2'7/zgztz'ry to //Z6 En,/ilor 5/zorz‘ arm’ to [he poinf. Co7ztrz'é2¢t7'o7zs z.'7zvz'/ea’ /ozw/zzkzg on rm issztes. Subscrzption price am oe rmzzﬂea’ éy regisferea’ /et- iter, pqslal note mm’ post-o/ﬁre or express money order ' Orzo mom’/z’s z‘r1'ar/Z "maa’e pa}/dole to C. /I/aolaug/5/2772. ssu6sorz'plz'onp may oe paid in pos/age slamps. JAMES H. BUBBETT; Manager, Branch A. Guiding Star Print- : ing House 212 & 214 Front Street. a.‘ i 1 2} SAMUEL H. DANIELS, Manager, Branch No. 1, Provision De- partment, Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 & 214 Front St. I. R. MARsToN, Managing Agent, Branch NO. 1, Real Estate Department Bureau of Equitable Commerce 628 Market Street. C. J. MAOLAUGHLIN, Editor THE PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING HOOK; Oﬂicial Organ of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 & 214 Front Street. ‘ ~ All business relating to either of these departments of the Koreshan Unity in San Francisco should be addressed to the respective heads Of said departments. General letters of inquiry concerning the Bureau Of Equit- Iiable Commerce or patrons should be addressed to either Dr. s R. Teed, President of the Board of Directors; or Prof. R. Spear, Secretary, 218 & 220 Noe Street, San Francisco, Cal. 7 A Commercial Rerohrtionll F “ 7 B‘ J /‘VB Death To l\Ionopoly. VALUE FOR VALUE. The Bureau of Equitable Commerce invites you to attend THE FIRST GRAND CONVENTION or THE PEOPLE, to be held THURS- DAY EVENING, J ULY 16, in ME'fROl’OLITAN TEMPLE at 8 O’clock, for the purpose of forming a Sci-IOOL or NATIONAL ECONOMY, A NEW POLITICAL PARTY, to institute measures of relief from the GREAT DRAGON or COMPETITION in trade and labor; to in- augurate a universal system of industry and to insure to the producer, (the laborer) full returns for -his services. Give us your aid to this practical, -working enterprise and the MONEY POWER SHALL BE CRUSHED All honest, patriotic, liberty-loving people are invited to be present. Eloquent Speakers. Fine Music. Admission Free. By Order of Committee, Headquarters 212 & 214 Front St. All communications pertaining to the Golden Gate Branch the Koreshan Unity (Church Triumphant, College of Life or ciety Arch Triumphant) should be addressed to Dr. Cyrus R. Teed 2512 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, Cal. All business and inquiries relating to the General Assem- bly of the Koreshan Unity should be addressed to the Guiding Star Assembly, 3617 & 3619 Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, Ills. ,Would You Not Like To Act As Our Agent‘? VVe will pay you ~«>-50 per cent. e~ , ON ALL CASH SUBSCRIPTIONS! -IEASIEST PAPER IN AMERICA FOR WHICH TO SECURE SUBSCRIPTIONS. ICAL! ORIGINAL! CONVINCINGX REAL ESTATE. BRANCH NO. 1. This Bureau is prepared to transact a gener- al Real Estate Business. Those looking for Homes, Business or Investment Properties, either in city or country, will do well to investi- gate our BARGAINS before purchasing else- where. Those having properties for SALE or EXCHANGE either in CITY or COUNTRY are requested to place them in our hands for disposal; correspondence solicited. Randolph Marston, Managing Agent. Ofﬁce 628 Market Street- San Francisco, Cal. , is--/a nsnrzn -4‘ » ‘ 3:131!’ tn& fﬁ f 9.- 8 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. BUIIUIU or EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street. San Francisco, Cal. VVHOLESALE AND RETAIL Grocery House. CONDUCTED ON THE CO-OPERATIVE PLAN. The attention of the public is invited to the Co-operative Plan of Distribution and Collection adopted by the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, which enables every one to become a sharer in the proﬁts of the organization. Certiﬁcates of Conso- ciative Commerce range in price from $5.00 to $100.00. Certi- ﬁcate purchasers become patrons of the system and receive with their certiﬁcates, checks of $5.00 denomination which amount is stamped on the checks in amounts of 5cts., 1(lcts., 20cts., 25 cts., and 50 cts. On the opposite side of these numerals is the name of the purchaser. These checks are better than gold for the purchase of any goods at ally of our stores. VVhen all the amounts are punched out of the check by the purcliase of goods the same is taken up and the certiﬁcate canceled. Many of the goods handled by the Bureau are consigned directly, by the producer on commission’ which permits their being sold at a much lower ﬁgure than if they had to pay a proﬁt to three or more dealers, according to the prevailing commercial methods, before reaching the consumer. You are invited to call and inspect our stock of sugar, teas, coifees, canned goods, butter, cheese, eggs, hams, bacon, lard, and all other goods usually kept in a first class grocery house. All our merchandise will be sold for cash at the lowest living prices. Try the co—operative plan and get goods at wholesale prices. Golden G-ate Branch — ‘*)-‘OF THE-.4»~ GUIDING STIR PUBLISHING HOUSE. Fine Job Printing. BOOK AND PAMPHLET WORK A s1>EcIAL'rY ALL WORK PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO AT LOWEST PRICES. 212 & 214 FRONT STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, — — CAL. READ THE FLAMING SWORD. 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Geography: Chicago (Ill.), San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-08
Is part of: Koreshan Unity Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 09 (July 18, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1945, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-07-18
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
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The plumber is no respecter of persons. Lily Langtry has received a black eye from the man who purchased for her the York House, Regent's Park. But, then, Wales received a black eye not long since at the hands of the Eng- . lish people, and, of course, his former favorite must keep up with the procession. SECRETARY Foster rises to defend the appropriations of the “billion-dollar Congress” in the columns of the New York Recorder, wherein he offers as a reason for the inordinate expenditure of public money by Reed‘s Congress, the statement that this is a billion dollar country. So it is; but what the people want to know is why they happen to be so needy in such a rich country. “fill the “calico” Secretary please explain ? D1's1>i\'1‘cH : Blaine is dying; later, Blaine is better ; still later, Blaine is rapidly improving and will surely be back at his oﬁicial post in the fall. If some patent medicine concern could only unite with our Premier in the “ad” business, how it would distance all competitors ! “BoB" Ingersoll thinks if l\IcKinley were nominated for Presi- dent that he would sweep the country, which is rather a sweeping assertion, though characteristic of its author. By the way, “Bob” doesn't seem to be “sweeping” things himself as he once did. THE C/zroizicle thinks that Secretary Foster shows his good sense by not responding to Powderly’s letter. Very likely. Some letters, you know, are diﬁicult to answer, particularly, ifthey have reference to the ﬁnancial policy of this government. THE wife of Edgar Saltus has procured a divorce on the ground of adultery. Saltus is evidently running “The pace that kills” which he describes in one of his elevating productions. If Saltus and Zola would only combine they could soon run a pace in literature that might kill the sale of their ﬁlthy productions. "|"n {Jan ..;.—.\..1.. 2 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. JUDGE Crisp of Georgia is lik'ely to be elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. Such a choice would be eminently ﬁtting. With Cleveland as President and‘ Crisp as Speaker, con- sidering the brittleness of the presentstate of the country we would not lack the symbolic indications of its being cleaved. THERE is a scheme on foot for a national organization of Farmers Alliance stores whereby the members of the Alliance all over the country may be supplied with merchandise at a ﬁgure a little in advance of the wholesale price. The originators of the enterprise are to be provided with good positions at fat salaries in the managem_ent of the scheme. It will not be a co-operative or- ganization, so, of course, if it should prove a great success some fellows will feather their nests materially. This, of course, means more money in the hands of a few. VVill such a system solve the social problem or will the farmer eventually be beneﬁted by the same ? It means selﬁsh monopoly only under another name. A monopoly of the people under a co—operative plan is all right as a foe to existing monopoly, but individual or corporate monopoly run by the leaders of the Farmers Alliance, as a reformatory measure, is all wrong. A GREAT SUCCESS! First Convention ‘of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce. Metropolitan Temple last Thursday Evening was ﬁlled with an audience of intelligent, liberty loving people, anxious to hear of some feasible plan of co-operation by which men and women may escape from the consequences of human selﬁshness in the great re- volution which is about to fall upon the world. The Temple will seat 2,000 people and was well ﬁlled. Upon the platform sat the speakers for the evening prominent among whom were Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, (Koresh) founder of the Koreshan system of philosophy and pro- mulgator of the new system of Equitable Commerce; Mr. Geo. C. Ludington the Chairman of the meeting, and well known in the business circles of San Francisco, where he has lived for many ‘years in prominent business relations; Mrs. A. G. Ordway, Presi- dent of the Society Arch-Triumphant of the Central Unity of the Koreshan System in Chicago, and Mrs. Mills a lady of unusual mentality and presence prominently identiﬁed with the Golden Gate assembly. Others occupied seats upon the platform includ- ing the President of the San Francisco society and'Dr. R. H. H. Hunt. The hall was beautifully decorated with ﬂowers and the presence upon the stage gave any other indication than that the adherents to Koreshanity were a lot of cranks. The great organ which the ‘hall contains peeled forth the wondrous harmony of Beethoven to the touch of a musical master, and the superior execu- tion of the piano gave to the assembled audience a musical treat, if nothing else. ’ Mr. Ludington opened the convention by explaining tersely and clearly its object and its proposed plan of operation and then introduced the orator of the evening, Dr. Teed, who impressed all present as an earnest, man-loving, alert scholar and thinker, who doubtless, had, at least, evolved a workable, comprehensive and potential plan for the amelioration of the condition of suffering hu- manity. He said among other things that the Commonwealth to-day was a farce—only a commonwealth in name and that there was no use of appealing to the masses from either a standpoint of religion or morals but from the standpoint of selﬁshness—feed the stomach and in that way you will reach the brain, which he pro- posed to do. He explained the admirable certiﬁcate and check system of the Bureau and how it would operate, selling goods to patrons at wholesale prices making each certiﬁcate holder a part owner of the co-operative enterprise. His speech was well re- ceived and heartily applauded, winning to him the esteem and conﬁdence of his audience despite the gross and outrageous villiﬁ- cation which he has received at the hands of the daily press. VVe will not give a lengthy report of the meeting but simply say that the interest manifested in the Koreshan system of econo- my last evening at its ﬁrst convention presaged the day when it 4' iii: will become a great power in the land, crush monopoly by a mono- poly of the people and bid the hoary head of famine to wing its ﬂight. We print elsewhere the C/zrom'cle’.v report of the meeting which though ironical in tone, is compelled to state some truth. 9»; . THE FIGHT IS ON. Now that the conﬂict between that which is falsely distinguish- ed as “Capital and labor” is imminent, and through it the impend- ing revolution of -moral, social and national existence will be made possible, it is well for. the thoughtful to enter into a speciﬁc and analytical study of the impulses of the coming struggle, and ofthe factors conspiring to comprise the energies enforcing our national decay, and impelling us forward to the salvation of American insti- tutions, and the perpetuation of ‘the commonwealth. The struggle of “Capital and labor" is the natural outgrowth of the competitive system of industry and thievery everywhere in vogue, and is the ﬁnal death struggle of a corporate form out of which the spirit is passing with the expiration of the age. I The old church and state is yielding up the ghost, and the con- test of muscle against brains; of poverty against the accumulation and oppressions of wealth; mark the death throes of an expiring system. “Capital,” which is nothing more nor less than a ﬁctitious mar- gin placed upon the common necessaries of life to defraud the labor- er and grind him under the heel of the oppressor, aims to maintain its supremacy against the laborer who through his means of acquir- ing the knowledge of his rights, such means being mainly through the liberty of the press, organizes to overthrow “capital.” The controversy is a bitter one. The factions to the controversy are becoming daily more passionate and determined, the breach is daily widening and the parties to the controversy are becoming more thoroughly equipped for the imminent and inevitable on- slaught of destruction. “Capital" is selﬁsh, determined, unscrup- ulous, unmerciful and tyrannical. “Labor” as represented by trades unions and labor organizations is equally so. Many suppose that the way out of all diﬂiculties is through the offerings of hope promised through the Farmers’ Alliance. It makes no difference in results, and its inﬂuence upon the people who pay for their ﬂour, where the wheat is cornered; whether in the ware houses of the middleman in the market centers of the world, or by a farmers‘ combine which is in the ﬁght to get even with the fellow in the other corner. The Farmers’ Alliance is another fac- tor in the great scheme of competism, which, so soon as it mani- fests indications of political strength will be wielded for the chicane of political intrigue, and for the oppression of the people. The conﬂict of competism is reaching its end in the great com- ing catastrophe. The world is in a maelstrom of iniquity, and as it is an eternal law that there can be “no remission of sin withouttlle shedding of blood,” the people may know the portend of the threatening aspect. Gog and Magog or “Capital and labor” while entering as factors for the precipitation of the revolution, do not describe its spirit. The genuine spirit of the revolution is the ﬁght for the survival of the ﬁttest as between the spirit of love to the neighbor or love for self, which latter is the incentive of both “capital” and “labor.-” Shall the system of competism live in the world and dictate its activities, or shall the principle enunciated by Jesus sway its des- tiny, and in the effort to save the nation and the race, gain the vic-' tory over competition ? Shall it be competism or communism P Shall it be love of self, or love of the neighbor? VVhich of these are to guide the career of the world’s destiny during the coming age? A PLUMBLIN E AND LEVEL. VVe have reached that period in the course of time when there is to be an equitable adjustment in social arrangements; when the haughty shall be brought low and the humble exalted; when the rich shall no longer live oifof the labor of the poor; when that which is now called reputation will be valueless with a recon- structed society; when pretence and humbug shall be laid bare and The Plowshare and-Pruning Hook. ‘ i 3 integrity alone shall be potential. This time is coming and is almost here. It has been prophesied and poets and prose writers have written pages heralding its approach. Robert Burns has probably written the most powerful verse touching upon the ad- justment of the plumbline and level to societal conditions that ever came from modern pen. We have truly come down to the epoch when “Man to man the warld o’er Shall brothers be for a.’ that.” There isn’t a tinge ofjustice in any of the present social ar- rangements. VVealth is fawned upon, no matter how obtained, just so you have it, that is all that is necessary. There is nothing in this world, but character, that money cannot buy. It will buy the ﬁnest kind of a reputation. It is absolutely necessary for political preferment. It is just the thing wherewith to reach a high social position. And beautiful, accomplished women are ready to sell themselves at the matrimonial auction block for the sake of it. The lack of it has either retarded or squelched many an aspiring genius. There are just hundreds of promising young men and women-who are kept from brilliant careers in the arts and letters for the want of money to sustain them in study. Let an artist in any of the skilled channels of endeavor have the sup- port and backing of money and his success is assured. On the other hand let him be a Raphael in painting, a Michael Angelo in sculpture, a Rossini in Music, a Keene in histrionic talent, a VVeb- ster in grasp of intellect, a Macaulay, Keats or Dr. Johnson in letters, or a Robert Fulton in mechanical genius, and if he is with- out the “where-with-all,” in this age, it is problematical if he is ever heard from. If in literature, the lot of an Oliver Goldsmith or the fate of a Chatterton will probably be his. Or if gifted in other directions, unless lightning strikes and illuminates his hum- ble pathway, he will live and die a mediocre like a rare plant grown in a deserted spot. Humanity is entirely out of balance. ' It is quite ﬁtting that gambling in every form should, at present, ﬂourish, for under the dictum of money human success is a pure matter of lottery. Such a state of affairs cannot always obtain. It needs no other light than reason to prove this. The waters of the Niagara go rushing and plunging on to the cataract, dash over it, seethe and foam, but at last ﬁnd a smooth and steady flow. And so humanity will emerge out of its existing chaotic state. "The love of money is the root of all evil” is a statement declared several thousand years ago and it is just as true to-day as it was when spoken. The love of money must therefore be removed before we can strike a balance. The love of accumulating this thing of ﬁctitious valua- tion must be removed. But how can it be removed? Simply by destroying money. You cannot have a love for a thing which has no existence. Commercial equation or the science of rendering value for value, or equitable exchange, is the plumbline that will square things as nothing else can. Money as a medium of exchange of products requires no gov- ernment stamp. If as a temporary substitute for ﬁat money the certiﬁcate or check of a co-operative organization can be used, showing that the person holding the same is entitled to a certain amount of merchandise from such a concern, the same will better answer the desired end than ﬁat money, if said co-operative organ- ization can supply, through the medium of its certiﬁcate or check, merchandise at cheaper rates than can be purchased elsewhere with ﬁat money. Herein lies the whole solution to the ﬁnancial ‘ problem and the people's support of the enterprise means death to ~ the money power, which has speculated with the money ostensibly made for the people, contracted its volume or demonetized a cer- tain form of it, at pleasure; in consequence of which there is neither equity or peace in the relations of mankind. All is strife, confusion, cheating, peculation and wickedness. Conditions will be righted; justice will assert herself; true liberty will obtain and that speedily. ______N,H.___ THE DISTRIBUTION OF ECONOMIC WEALTH. By R. H. II. Hunt. ,The soil is the primal source of all wealth, and its production all its owners, through its various processes until ﬁnal distribu- tion to consumers, is the result of the application of labor. The surplus over and above what is required for immediate consump- tion is called capital-—that part of wealth which is used for the pro- duction of more wealth. Assuming the product of the combination of land, labor and capital to be distributed about equally in the shape of rent to land, wages to labor, and interest to capital, it is clear that in order that either factor should obtain more of the product, one or both of the others must get less. It is as though wealth were a stream pouring into a reser- voir with three outlets, emptying it into three barrels, labeled re- spectively, Rent, Vvages and Interest. Wages cannot get more unless the ﬂow to Rent or Interest, or both is reduced. Supply and demand of houses, lands and money, regulate‘ rates of rent and interest. If the trade of the city were con- centrated into one-half of the stores, the other half would necess- arily be vacated and the occupied portion would not rent as stores for more than half the present rate, or one quarter the former aggre- gate amount, so the ﬂow to the rent barrel would be reduced three- quarters. Again, buying ticket receipts at a discount and using these for the purchase of commodities would practically produce a surplus of money at the same or an indeﬁnite ratio, each time the amount changed hands for this purpose, and so porportionately re- duce the ﬂow into the interest barrel, and as the ﬂow from these is reduced it must per force increase the ﬂow into the wage barrel. Therefore in proportion as the use of ticket receipts for wealth is substituted for wealth, interest would disappear. From this, it is easily seen that the producers of wealth have the power to re- duce the outlet for rent and to abolish the outlet for interest, and to proportionately increase the ﬂow of wealth into the wage barrel. The precious metals would become property at their level value— the labor cost—the same as any other commodity or product of labor, and exchangeable for other products of labor. The labor cost of the product of pig-iron would be as exact a measure of the value of an ounce of gold as this would be of the value of it or any other commodity. Either in common with ‘all other products of labor would be wealth, and exchangeable for all other forms of wealth, none of which would be able to draw interest. As organizing and operating in this way progresses, for every unnecessary position lost by this change, there would be two val- ue-producing positions gained when the organized people so willed it, either as incident to increased consumption, as before stated, or consumption remaining the same, the money now re- quired to pay for the unnecessary labor, rent, etc., would accumu- late and seek investment, and as unnecessary rent, interest and proﬁt could not then absorb it, it would have to return to labor; and assuming that the present unnecessary rent, proﬁt, etc., that would by this plan be eliminated, is, on the average, about equal in amount to the unnecessary labor displaced, the same amount of capital, even if deposited in bank, would, by the laws of ﬁnance, be in continual use or seeking employment, and independent of the owners, would be employing double the amount of labor in value-producing occupations, and thus increase product and lead to increased consumption or decrease of price, or both, to the beneﬁt of all concerned. ' This is a form of economy that differs from that of other labor and expense-saving inventions, in this—that land and capital can- not absorb the benefit in the shape of rent and interest. Its effects will be the very reverse of this. It will check the increase of the absorption of the unearned increment, and the whole beneﬁt will accrue to labor, for it is clear that if the need of one-half of the stores and present distributive expenses are dispensed with, rents must fall. ' _____.,,H__._j -A Curse of Woman. The most marked social change wrought in our time (accord- ing to the New York IVorld) is the extraordinary increase in the number of educated women who voluntarily earn their living by work. As history shall look back and weigh our time it will pret- ty surely regard this change as the happiest of all that we have made. The educated mind needs not only occupation but the obligation of occupation. It is not enough that one shall know how to pass the time; one needs to have duties of a regular and amawwu+.~awﬁmm»m® «' i ‘4. i 53' Jri ’ ‘:;_~'.-I .-.;. _- - . :....._- v‘I_' ~--_ ,.- n I/1».1«D-.Ic4u'..4 4 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. constant character, which must be discharged. In the absence of such obligation, in the absence of work that is interesting for its bread-winning or other practical value, there surely comes ennui, discontent, unhealthfully vague longings and a weary life. It is the curse of women that in our social arrangements they are in so great a degree excluded from systematic work. The very tender- ness of our care for them has been and is an affliction to them. Their lives are arranged upon the assumption that they are to be idlers, or at least that their work is to be of an irregular and in- consequent sort, and a great sum of human suffering, immensur— able but omnipresent, is the consequence. The trouble is that we have educated our women into an intellectual activity that de- mands earnest occupation. and have at the same time continued to maintain social arrangements and social prejudices that were born of a time when women were educated only to be the playthings of men, the companions of their relaxation, not of their endeavor. Our women are of larger mental and moral mold than were those of earlier times, and their needs are larger. Among them is the need of opportunity to use their faculties to the full measure, and they are beginning to ﬁnd out the fact. It is the beginning of a revolution from which the world will greatly proﬁt. _~a¢ 0-9%? A RE-DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ‘ NECESSARY. By A. M. Miller. The Puritans who ﬁrst settled the New England coast, ﬂed to this country expressly to escape from tyranny over their religious affairs, and to have freedom to worship according to the desires of their own hearts, When they and the other colonists had been here over a hun- dred years; during which time the Mother Country had constantly increased her interference and usurpations in civil matters, they took a bold stand for their self-preservation and declared themselves absolutely “free and independent“ of British dominion and tyranny. The Revolutionary Fathers were level-headed when they de- clared:— “We hold these truths to he self-evident: That all men are created equal : that all are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure tliese rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever a form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer where evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the ‘forms to which they are accus- tomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govcrnmen*, and to provide new guards for their future security.” VVe look upon that declaration. as universal truth, proper to be declared and maintained against any tyrannous government under the sun. WE, THE PEOPLE, after having won by a long and bloody struggle the independence we had declared, framed our Constitu- tion and instituted our government for the purpose of securing to ourselves the rights of “life, liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness; ” and the government was designed to derive its only and “just pow- ' ers from the consent of the governed.” But now after more than one hundred years’ trial of this form of government, we ﬁnd that it does not fulﬁl the purpose designed, but has become destructive or inadequate to these ends; that under it we are becoming more abjectly enslaved to tyranny, in another form, than we were to Great Britain; that the governmental powers are not wielded by the consent of the people, but are usurped by a few, the wealthy class, who, by mc ans of their money-power con- trol Congress and pass laws restrictive and detrimental to the rights and prosperity of the people. VVe ﬁnd that any attempt to right these matters through our legally devised method; namely by petition to Congress, is utterly futile, on account of the control of Congress held by this same plu- tocracy; and any effort to changethe existing form of government, legally, through Congressional action, is equally useless. So we, the people, who have twice dearly purchased freedom in this land by pouring out our life—blood, must either submit to the slavery of a worse tyrant than King George, or declare anew our independence and maz'71fai7z it. V VVe have the same right and equal need to now re—declare our independence that we had when we freed ourselves from the yoke of English servitude. Shall we bow the neck under the yoke of a more cruel tyrant, American plutocracy, secretly encouraged and backed by our old enemy, the English gold and the spirit of Eng- lish indifference to the rights of the people ? The people have asjust cause to—day as they had in 1776 to declare, that, “when a long train of abuses and usurpations," (on the part of our present government,) “pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute des- potism, it is their rzig‘//2‘, it is their duty, to throw off such govern- ment, and to provide new guards for their future security. Have we not the same inherent right that we had one hun- dred years ago, to declare ourselves a “free people?” The same right “to alter or to abolish" our present perverted and corrupted system of government and to institute a new one, such as wejudge will better serve our interests and happiness? We declare for liberty and equity throughout this land! Have we the courage and the 7tIz'.m’o/// to establish them? VVe have. Because we have here in ﬂesh and blood, re-embodied in ourselves their descendants, those same brave Fathers of Liberty wholead us from bondage to British tyranny. VVe shall establish ourselves again as a “free people," this time through apeacea/2/e revolution; because we have, added to the wis- dom that framed the Declaration of Independence and the Consti- tution, the wisdom of another hundred years’ experience; and be- ‘ cause we have a great mind here to lead usll .__4....., __ Tuesday the r4th marked the celebration of the destruction of the iniquitous Bastile in Paris. things but it does‘nt seem to. We have :1 Ba stile now days in act- ive operation which consigns the millions to life—long drudgery and wretchedness. Its name is Competition. \\’c will yet set apart a day to commemorate the time of its destruction. History ought to teach men some ——~<o>O<o»j Who are the Dreamers? Those who advocate communism are called dreamers, theorists. in fact, idiots. Perhaps this allegation is true as regards some of them, since there are such persons in all movements; but to say that those seeking co-operation, as a class, are dreamers, theorists or idiots, is an assertion which cannot be substantiated. If an express train were speeding on to certain destruction, through the displacement of a switch, and some of the passengers, seeing the danger ahead, attempted to escape the catastrophe, who would be , the idiots on that train, those who endeavored to avert it or those who calmly laid back and let themselves be hurled to destruction? It needs no more than a fool’s eye to see that we are speeding on to social war by clinging to the train of compctism and in the name of the commonwealtli we urge men to jump for their lives and escape the catastrophe. If he is a dreamer who labors to gather together the torn shreds of the social fabric in order that they may be reconstructed into a new garment, he gives play to that fancy upon which rests the hope of the world. Of such stuff are nature's heroes made. Napoleon once said that imagination ruled the world, and when we look at the wonders which he performed; how he scaled the Alps with a great army; how he landed penniless upon the shores of «France after escaping from the island of Elba and mustered an army of 100,000 men; how he turned princes into peasants and peasants into princes; and how, with imperious sway, he brought the nations of Europe to his feet, we think, despite his Russian campaign, and his ﬁnal overthrow, which was a result of the combined energies of Europe, this great- est of military geniuses, by changing for all time the map ofEurope signally demonstrated that imagination a’oex rule the world. That man is a dreamer, though his wealth should reach a billion, who supposes that God’s humanity can forever be shackled The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. I 5 th the chains-ofa slavery more abject than that of the black ‘an, and that a diabolical and accursed oligarchy can nmch long- - wave its arrogant, despicable banners over the heads of a race of people destined to consummate human sovereignty in its most ,ublime sense. He is a dreamer who fancies that exclusive wealth, the breeder of vice and idiocy, can forever dominate the industri- the temperate and the sagacious. Right has had many con- icts in a cycle’s career, and, in the grasp of its purpose has seemed to succumb to tyranny, but, like the eternal sunbeam hough hidden for a time by the mists of a day it must at last ierce them with its supernal effulgence and shine on to illumine -the souls of men. - K The fate of the world to-day rests upon co-operation, commun- "sm, the overthrow. of the competitive system, and ajust leveling of human conditions. If such hopes be the work of dreamers, the ame are the princes of analogical law and the consummate inas- _. ters of reason, men 's noblest faculty. Error, with the portentious ndications of Constellatory action must succumb to truth, autocracy to freedom, and the segregated and contending factions of men must meet and blend in one universal brotherhood. “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers ; But Error, wounded, writhos with pain, And dies among his worshipers.” -j———94Q Shorter Hours of Labor. What a travesty on the word civilization it is to see the mil- ions of men and boys, women and girls trudging to work six days 'n'the week at 7 o’clock and then trudging home again weary and . discouraged at 6; for what ? To obtain the means for merely a , bare existence. This fact alone ought to impress every reasoning person that there is something radically wrong in our social fabric. ‘ Labor, if anything, is certainly the creator of wealth. The great- i _. est monopolist will not gainsay this proposition; yet the wealth ’ ‘ -producers, the laboring classes, do not get the benefit of the wealth which they produce or create. This is all wrong. Wealtlfcreates _ leisurejust as labor creates wealth, but leisure, the product of wealth, is enjoyed only by those who do not produce that which is essential to leisure. Because this is so is the reason for the coming ', of the impending revolution. All must labor to produce wealth. ‘ By what natural law should one class be granted immunity ' from labor to the injury of another class? By right of property :,_acquired by that class? Pray, upon what basis does private owner- ,'»ship of land rest? Purely, upon an arbitraryngone brute force ; therefore by the dictates of sound social ethics no such right "i ' ould be recognized, and the only reason why, at present, we rec- ognize the same is on account of the existence of the principle asjsystein at present ir1 vogue which enables them to thus luxiuriate, : nd they will discover that their wealth has been acquired at the cost of their fellowmen who must labor incessantly in order that {hey may enjoy the fruits of such labor. The present ﬁnancial ystem is founded upon a steal ; so formulated that one man’s ; arpness may impose upon another man’s stupidity. “\\'ell,” say, “that is perfectly natural ; it is only in keeping with the _ of thebsurvival of the fittest.” Be it so. Let us, however, . , ow out this law to its ultimates and see where it brings us. ' ' Z3 sumed and then there is a row in the kennel for, while dogs to annihilate other dogs they seriously object to being _ilated themselves. Under the existing monetary system ulk of the money can only ﬂow one way; that is, toward the power, the national bank power which purposely devised rder that the money should so How. Mark Twain once t a banquet of ﬁnanciers, in speaking of our agricultural interests, that farmers didn’t make as much money as bank pres- idents but they got more exercise; which remark, because of its truthfulness, made the monied nabobs present laugh heartily. Now what we are after is that the bank president shall get as much “exercise“ as the farmer by throwing up his present job and honestly performing use to his neighbor as he would do if he had the interest of the commonwealth at heart and as he soon will do by the edict of the majority of the people. This earth was not made for a few but for all. Any one who likes such a social sys- tem as the present one is a hyena in human form who will either have to discard the hyenic side of his nature, or share the fate of that genus, whose members will gobble each other up in the coni- ing cataclysm and leave Mother Earth in the possession of decent, order-loving, humanity-loving men and women. A lack of the exercise of mental improvement permits animal- ism to take hold of the individual and, in consequence, we ﬁnd dissipation and dissolution on the side of excess and the same qualities on the side of insuﬁiciency. On the_ one hand we have excess of labor, rendering the individual unﬁt for mental improve- - ment; on the other, insufficiency of labor, rendering the individual indisposed toward the exercise of this same essential requisite to social health and progress. VV ere a balance effected whereby all could labor for the production of wealth then all would enjoy, equally, its products, With the readjustment of society and the equalization of labor, 2 or 3 hours labor daily will be suﬂicient to provide all the people with life's necessaries and luxuries. Then there will be no criminals, because criminality is born of prodi- gality. Self-culture and universal order will be the watchword. Alcohol will have ceased to hold its sway because men and women will not need to resort to the same as a solace (though deceptive) to their cares and tribulations superinduced by the competitive system and a disharmony of man’s relations with man. 4. THE CREATURE OF LAW. A Debt-Mortgaged and Bond-Cursed Nation. The issue is to free labor from the bondage of debt. To do this, observes the /7za’1:s!I’z'a[ Er/II[(I107‘, we must repeal the infamous financial laws that created, fosters and increases the debt. Debt is a creature of la\v. .\Vhere tl1ere_ is no law there is no debt. The Babylonian government was destroyed by debt; Greece perished in debt; Rome went down under a debt which she could not pay; debt was the cause of the French revolution; every acre of land under the dominion of (lreat Briton is mortgaged; every acre of land and city lot in the United States ismortgaged. All Christen- dom is under a legal debt, and there is no law providing for the payment of this legalized robbery. Debt is a burden upon labor. Debt takes the farmer’s corn, wheat and stock before he has pro- duccd them. Tc-tlay a laborer’s wages are taken for interest, rent and taxes before he has completed his day's work. The merchants labor is all taken by transportation companies, rent and interest. The farms are mortgaged; the productions of the farm must be taken to pay the interest on the debt. The merchant's store and goods are mortgaged; the profit taken from the consumer is to pay the interest on the debt. The railroads are mortgaged, the proﬁts taken for transportation are used to pay the interest on the debt. Debt is the cause of 2,000,000 people being out of employment and compelled to tramp in the United States to-day. VVe are a debt- mortgaged and bond-cursed nation. Labor has borne this burden; the chains are becoming more galling; the moans ofthe miserable, made so by oppression, are heard allover the land. As the debt increases labor demands freedom in sterner tones. VVhere shall we go for relief? \\'ill we go to the old Democratic and Republican parties? No! \’Ve must go to the students oflabor, go to the tillers of the soil, go to the shops and mines and factories; and ask all who labor to come together in one grand, independent political or gani:/.ation, then we can liberate labor from this bondage of debt. Then when the farmers are free from debt, and school, county, railroad, state, and national bonded debts are paid, then the labor problem will be solved, for the burden of labor will then be lifted, and he who toils will then have the beneﬁts of his productions. It ,. »:u::..r..;_-... ..‘-. .. ~.-. -n-x’ x 6 i, The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. PRUNINGS. A case of “The biter bit”; The broker broke.—Ex. It isn’t likely that the devil feels much out of place in the company of a man who doésn’t pay for his newspaper.—1?m;z’5 Horn; As soon as church. members begin to give more money for mis- sions than they do for cigars and tobacco the devil will begin to feel uneasy.—1?am’r florn. The devil feels proud of the man who joins the church to make n1oney.—Ram’s Horn. Over in England Colonel North is the Nitrate’ King. In this country Jay Gould is king of both night rate and day rate.—1’ez/3’: Sun. What makes the 4 per cent bonds of the United States worth $1 . 25 on the dollar? Don ’t all answer at once.—ZVa/i0na/ E50720)/zzlci. They had been talking upon religion and theology with six—of- one and half—a-dozen-of-the-other success, when the theologian in- quired: “You believe in spreading the gospel, don ’t you?” “Certainly,” was the clinching response, “but not so thin as you theologians spread it.”—DetrozY Free Preys. The great sensation New York is now making because the ﬁrst negro has been allowed to sit on a jury there, must strike southern people as strange. Here in the south negroes have been allowed on juries ever since they were made free.—Rz'c/mzond State. As soon as the people come into a general knowledge of their condition then the great unanswerahle jury of public opinion will bring in its verdict—educate and agitate.—T/ze Lzg/22‘. Twenty years ago it was estimated that the producing classes owned three-fourths of the wealth of the nation; to-day only about one-fourth of the'nation’s wealth is in the hands of the producing classes, yet the wealth of the nation has been doubled in the same period. They have lost, in comparison to the increase of wealth, two-thirds of their wealth in the last twenty.——.T/1e C2‘/izezz. Women must be virtuous or.be socially damned; men may do as they please provided they pay their club dues and don’t cheat at cards; royalty -—well, there's a divinity doth hedge a King, which makes of his orgies very proper tea-parties. The one sym- pathetic link in these several codes is that nobody—11ot even a wo- man—loses caste unless found out, so that accomplished hypocrisy is almost an ideal condition in the best society. Then you can have your cake and eat it too! VVhat bliss!—Kale Fz'eIzz”s I I”?z5/’zz'7zg- ton. There are some men who cannot stand a little prorsperity. From the very moment that they are inducted into some insig- niﬁcant oﬂice, over which they may be called to preside temporarily, they commence to swell from the head, the malady is sometimes dangerous and the fellow is liable to “bust" at any time.—T//e Adrlzker. As to the signiﬁcance of the times when in twenty—six states of this union, women are allowed to vote on some questions, and almost every day brings news of some victory for woman in the direction of progress, what may not be expected and what will be the ultimatum? It will be equality before the law, and that will bring about many radical changes for the better, and woman’s place will be by the side of man, his counselor, his helpmeet, his companion, as much in the political as in the social world. —- I/Voman’: Exjﬁonent. When you see a politician Crawling through contracted holes, lit-._<_:ging for some fat position In the ring or at the polls; With no Stirling manhood in him Nothing stal>le, broad or sound—— Dostitute of pluck or ballast; Double-sided all around : » Walk, yourself, with ﬁrmer bearing, Throw your moral shoulders back; Show your spine has nerve and Inarr0W— Just the things which his most lack. ’¢1\\ stron;.:¢-1' word was never heard Tlian this; Backbone! A rnodost song, and plainly told. The text is worth a mine of gold; For many men most sadly lack A noble stillness in the back! S 1 —— e octed. My agency in procuring the passage of the national banking ’ It has built up a. It should be E repealed. But before this can be accomplished the people will be I arrayed on one side and the banks on the other in a contest such ': act was the greatest ﬁnancial act of my life. monopoly that affects every interest in the country. as was never seen in this country.—-Setrefzzry C/zase. Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania showed himself a good friend ‘ of the coke and coal barons a couple ofmonths ago, when he called out the militia to shoot down the striking coke workers. He has still further entitled himself to their gratitude by his veto of the compulsory education law. Thanks to this act, there will be a plentiful supply of little children to tend the coal-breakers, and in ,- time a new generation of ignorant and brutalized men and women to ﬁll the mines. Gov. Pattison has served his masters well. 7713 ./Very 1Vatz'07z. I/Vhenever we heara Fourth of July orator with more wind than brains telling all about this glorious republic, we always feel like saying, “go to, thou fool; thou canst not even so much as amuse the children with that fairy story; thou art a back number; go seat thyself upon the rugged edge of some high precipice, and kick thyself offiuto the dark depths of the abyss below, and thus do the world one last, small service,”—Cz)1cz3w1altz' Lz'm'7zg Issue. Every one of the great powers—but especially France, with her eagerness to regain Alsace and Lorraine; Germany, with her young and inpetuous, self—willed emperor; and Russia, with her ceasless vigilance and irrepressible desire toward Turkey and the dominion of the Mediterranean and the East, with perpetual designs on Asia——is restive in the restraint that keeps them from tearing at one another accoi ding to their alliances and interests; and Italy. and Austria must join or oppose agreeably to the arbitrament of their superiors, -while England will strive to make combination with the strongest and most likely to do her interests the least harm after a peace that will leave some prostrate-, will be concluded. But each and all will be driven or dragged into the tremendous light, and it will continue until exhaustion or decisive results will terminate the war.—.S'rIH 1?'i'(z;/£2370 Afgommt. A civilization that does not equalize, upon a scale of equity, the conditions of its classes; that does not only eliminate injustices - but tends to foster and perpetuate them; that breeds class distinc- tions on a purely arbitrary basis; that results in making the rich richer and the poor poorer; that concentrates power and privileges into the hands of the few to the detriment of the many; that pro- vokes antagonism between classes whose real interests are identi- cal; that makes wealth the sole standard of respectability and in- -. iluence, and gives money and almost superhuman power, to the neglect of character, brains and personal worth; that sets up before - ,~ all false aims and makes what the Creator evidently intended should be but the means of reaching a supreme end, an end in it- self; that does all this deﬁantly, arrogantly and autocratically; in‘ , other words, a civilization that has all the'characteristics of medi. ;, zevalisni in that it promotes and exalts plutocracy, such a civiliza- "ii tion is a rank failure, and deserves to be classed with the defunct civilizations of N inevah, Greece and Rome.-—T/ze Alliance. WAR ON CAPITAL. Opening of the Koreshan Campaign. V e Bureau of Equitable Commerce and Its Purposes Explained. , Metropolitan Hall was well ﬁlled last night by a representa- 5. tive San Francisco audience, attracted by the hundreds of invita- ftions sent out by the “Bureau of Equitable Commerce.” A few «were there because they were really interested in the scheme, but he majority were there out of pure curiosity. The. Bureau is the commercial branch of the Koreshan Unity, ;,which claims for its creed the secret of the perpetual existence of 1‘ the human race. The Bureau was incorporated last April, and its " object is the co-operative plan of distribution and collection in .- groceries and other household necessities, as practiced by the Mormon Church in Utah and the big co-operative store of the ’ ‘ Santa Fe Railroad employes in Topeka, Kas. The policy is the ame as that which caused the fatal dissension in the ranks of the — “Commonwealth ofjesus.” . The idea of the Bureau is to do away with the middleman in The patron becomes a sharer in the proﬁts of the or- ‘ Goods are sold at a nominal percentage above cost __ and the customer has the option of a cash discount on the amount I e purchases or a pro rata share in the annual proﬁts of the busi- "ness. - , The meeting last night was ostensibly for the purpose of ad- ‘ vertising the scheme and securing subscribers, but it resolved itself '._before the ﬁnish into a convention in which the relation of capital Y’ to labor, politics and won1an’s rights were bewilderingly inter- I1 mingled. ‘ ‘ George C. Ludington revealed the scheme of the order to be a —revolution in commerce, the establishment of a national school of ‘(economy and the formation of a new political party. Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, the president of the society, was the orator .-‘ofthe evening. “Citizens of a Comn1onwealth—once a Common. .wealth, but now only a farce,” began the doctor with ﬁne irony, _,“the wealth ofthe world has ﬂown beyond the reach of the masses. .7,fThe question for the people of to-day to consider is that of bread ,7 and butter. It must henceforth be a battle to the death between ' organized labor and organized capital.” I The doctor talked some politics and wound up with a warm re- jcommendation of the co-operative plan of purchasing groceries. ‘ Dr. R. H. Hunt followed with a description of the co-opera- ve plan, and Mrs. Mills, and Mrs. Ordway of Chicago dwelt at me length upon women’_s sphere in politics. ' A number of certiﬁcates of membership in the Bureau were issued, and the officers announced that the initial battle of a vigor- ‘ous campaign against organized capital had begun.--.S'm1ﬂ}’a21z‘zlra1 “C/zronzkle. ——-——~v-«O . Carlyle said that when honorable, honor-loving and conscien- -Ttious diligence cannot, by the utmost eﬁbrt of toil, even ﬁnd work. ;‘,'--then society is beginning to die. Thoughtful men are now looking ‘at the vast multitudes of the starving unemployed of London, New are them see much and startling cause for alarm. No man can 3- lwhat an hour may bring forth. Any moment an act may be mmitted which will cause the various elements of an incongruous 1:! 'ety to crash together in conﬂict. It is not too late to apply edies and so cure the evils which threaten death to our civili- tion. The Goths and Vandals, who trampled out the Roman civil- ;o ion, were not more savage and uncivilized than those which ;‘ competitive grab and greed system is rearing in our large cities; V“-H those who sow the wind must reap the whirlwind. We hear ch of dangerous classes nowadays, but the most dangerous class ' ists of those who blindly close their eyes to what even the I might see, and cry, “Peace! Peace! when there is no peace.” It‘seems incomprehensible that statesmen, seeing the rapid entration of wealth and the consequent ever deepening poverty ‘distress, can fail to realize that the end must be the wreck of civilization which causes it.—T/ze Cleve/zzrza’ Cz’z‘z'ze7z. G \ The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. JAMES H. BUBBETT; Manager, Branch A. Guiding Star Print- ing House 212 & 214 Front Street. SAMUEL H. DANIEES, Manager, Branch No. 1, Provision De- partmcnt, Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 & 214 Front St. I. R. MARSTON, Managing Agent, Branch No. 1, Real Estate Department Bureau of Equitable Commerce 628 Market Street. C. J. IVIACLAUGHLIN, Editor THE PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING HooK_; Official Organ of the Bureau of ‘Equitable Commerce 212 & 214 Front Street. All business relating to either of these departments of the Koreshan Unity in San Francisco should be addressed to the respective heads of said departments. General letters of inquiry concerning the Bureau of Equit- able Commerce or patrons should be addressed to either Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, President of the Board of Directors; or Prof. R. O. Spear, Secretary, 218 & 220 Noe Street, San Francisco, Cal. All communications pertaining to the Golden Gate Branch of the Koreshan Unity (Church Triumphant, College of Life or Society Arch Triumphant) should be addressed to Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, 2512 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, Cal. All business and inquiries relating to the General Assem- bly of the Koreshan Unity should be addressed to the Guiding Star Assembly, 3617 & 3619 Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, Ills. “Would You Not Like To Act As Our Agentl9 We will pay you --~>-50 per cent. ~<»~— ON ALL CASH SUBSCRIPTIONS! c\V,_n THE- EASIEST PAPER IN AMERICA FOR WHICH T0 SECURE SUBSCRIPTIONS. RADICAL! ORIGINAL! CONVINCING! REAL IE-ESTATE. BRANCH NO. 1. This Bureau is prepared to transact a gener- al Real Estate Business. Those looking for Homes, Business or Investment Properties, either in city or country, will do Well to investi- gate our BARGAINS before purchasing else- where. Those having properties for SALE or EXCHANGE either in_ CITY or COUNTRY are requested to place them in our hands for disposal; correspondence solicited. I MarStOn, Managing Agent. Ofﬁce 628 Market Street- San Francisco, Cal. . ‘IL!-re-an . ‘ kﬁ¥, , . -1. -l rythe .n¢-rnnle The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. BUREAU or EQUITABLE CUUUURUU. 212 8: 214 F.1‘o11tiSi*ree*t. San Francisco, Cal. _._-..-./.;;;;..,.-. ____ WVHOLESALE AND RETAIL Grocery House. CONDUCTED ON THE CO-OPERATIVE PLAN. ‘Z33 The attention of the public is invited to the Co—operative Plan of Distribution and Collection adopted by the‘ Bureau of Equitable Commerce, which enables. every one to become a sharer in the proﬁts of the organization. Certiiicates of Conso- Ciative Commerce range in price from $45.00 to S:",r§100.00. Certi- ﬁcate purchasers become patrons of the system and receive with their certiﬁcates, checks of 5f55.()0 denomination which amount is stamped on the checks in amounts of 5cts., 10cts., 20cts., 25 cts., and 50 cts. On the opposite side of these numerals is the name of the purchaser.’ These checks are better than gold for the purchase of any goods at any of our stores. \Vhe1i all the amounts are punched out of the check by the purchase of goods the same is taken up and the certiﬁcate canceled. Many of the goods handled by the Bureau are consigned directly by the producer on commission which permits of their being sold at a much lower ﬁgure than if they had to pay a proﬁt to three or more dealers, according to the prevailing commercial methods, before reaching the consumer. You are invited to call and inspect our stock of sug'a1', teas, coffees, canned goods, butter, cheese, eggs, hams, bacon, lard and all other goods usually kept iii a lirst class gro<-,er_\' house. All our merchandise will be sold for cash at the lowest living prices. Try the co—operative p]a11 and get goods at wholesale prices. C“rolc3Ler:. G-ate Branch. ~ -+:~oF THE-(4-— GUUUUG STAR PUBLISHING HOUSE. Fine Job Printing. BOOK AND PAMPI-ILET WORK A SPECIALTY ALL WORK PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO AT LOWEST PRICES. 212 & 214 FRONT STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. READ THE FLAMING SWORD. Those who desire a true knowledge of the science of it immortal life, the cosmos and anthropostic law, and seek a liarnioiiizatioii of Biblical teaching to true scientiﬁc thought, should peruse this valuable expounder of KORESHANITY, which is a Divinely organized movement destined to revolutionize the world. $1.00 A YEAR. SAMPLE COPY FREE. Address: , THE FLAMING SWORD, 3617 Cottage Grove Ave., - - -CHICAGO, ILL. Attentionl Farmers, Attention! 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Notes: Original digital object name: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-09
Geography: Chicago (Ill.), San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-09
Is part of: Koreshan Unity Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 10 (July 25, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1946, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-07-25
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
Text: ‘..,., min INDKATOR F - =;_=§ % ==———=__§—= aiif §.E=s ,3. s2 E“: ;:.=- - " ﬁx E 5*;-. =1 5% gas E E _.=.-_E’“‘.-—=-= E E g E “‘% E ‘ §=_.-FE; 1 v’ oo, - '4 ‘.~_ _ -..=_ "*l*:7$E“=“EO UAT 101$}? * Vol. 1. No. 10. San Francisco, Cal, July, 25. 1891. Five Cents a Copy. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street, - San Francisco, Cal. . Telephone No. 200. KORESH, - - - - - Founder and Director. 0. J. MACLAUGHLIN, - — - - - - - Editor. Address all communications to the Editor. One Year in advance, - 50 cts. Ono Month in advance, - 10 cts. Six Months, “ - - - 25 “ Single Copy, “ - - 5 “ Sainiple Copy on Application. Entered in the S.l.il F1‘a.I1<:lS(3O Post Office as Second Class Matter. If you do not reueize your paper regularly let us know. Make your letters of izzyuiry to t/1:: E.//itor s/zort and to t/ze poi/zt. Co/ztrilzutiozzs ‘ irzziitea’ tour/ziag on live issues. Su./2seri/ﬁtio/2 pr...
Show more‘..,., min INDKATOR F - =;_=§ % ==———=__§—= aiif §.E=s ,3. s2 E“: ;:.=- - " ﬁx E 5*;-. =1 5% gas E E _.=.-_E’“‘.-—=-= E E g E “‘% E ‘ §=_.-FE; 1 v’ oo, - '4 ‘.~_ _ -..=_ "*l*:7$E“=“EO UAT 101$}? * Vol. 1. No. 10. San Francisco, Cal, July, 25. 1891. Five Cents a Copy. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street, - San Francisco, Cal. . Telephone No. 200. KORESH, - - - - - Founder and Director. 0. J. MACLAUGHLIN, - — - - - - - Editor. Address all communications to the Editor. One Year in advance, - 50 cts. Ono Month in advance, - 10 cts. Six Months, “ - - - 25 “ Single Copy, “ - - 5 “ Sainiple Copy on Application. Entered in the S.l.il F1‘a.I1<:lS(3O Post Office as Second Class Matter. If you do not reueize your paper regularly let us know. Make your letters of izzyuiry to t/1:: E.//itor s/zort and to t/ze poi/zt. Co/ztrilzutiozzs ‘ irzziitea’ tour/ziag on live issues. Su./2seri/ﬁtio/2 price can be remittea’ /Iy registerea’ letter, postal note aaa’post—oﬂiee or express money order made payable to C. j Illarlaug/Ilia. O/ze moat/1’s trial sulzserzptzo/1 may be I’ . , paia’ iii postage stamps. II/'e will send Z‘/V/E PLO IVSIIA /RE A./VD P11’ U./VDVG HOOK on trial for one moat/z on receipt of tea ee/its iu postage stamps. -it Do not let sue/z an opportunity slip to reeeizre for t/Iat leagt/z of time t/Ie most outspoken aua’ fearless weekly paper pu/zlis/lea’ in America. [Vail us the names of any of your friends 70/zoo; you t/Ii/zk woula’ like to investi- gate our /I/ate/zless System of Co//mzeree. I/I/e will seaa’ to all sue/2 two issues of t/zis paper free. No _/iaaarial ooligzztzoa is iueurrea’ by t/lose ;- receiving t/ie same. H//zerz you /zaue reaa’ your paper /zaaa’ it to some one 1 fio/low you t/ziué its contents would interest. eousummatiug t/ze [revolution in Commerce. LABOR TO SEXVD US 5 U/>’SC[r’]PT ]O1VS. T /zus do your part tozoarz/s _. T /[ere is 710 system of economy extant tlzat eoutaias t/ze ele//Ieuts esseu~ ' l to a proper solutio/'2 of t/ze ﬂaaaeial pro/ile/21 as does t/1e Kores/zau sys- mof Commercial ‘Er/uatiou, eoaeeizlea’ /Iy its fouzzrler for t/ze sole lverzeﬂt of oppressed a71ez’staroiag /zumauity. It is simple, eompre/zeusizre am’ ade- te to uzeelv all t/ze rer/uiremeuts for feea’iag t/ze people and esta/zlis/ziag ,7; equitable met/zoo’ of commercial ext/zauge. [ts adoption /91 Me people, I causeof its aa’apta/>ility aua’ si//zplieity is iue7rita/2/e, aua’ t/ze a’estruetiou money and of monopoly will speedily eusue as t/1e result of its triuuzp/z. I ‘merchant. What Can be Done With the Great Surplus of Potatoes With Which the San Francisco Market is Glutted ? A Noble Cry for a Civilized Christianity to Offer. I made observation and discovery. \Vhere I found the glutted market I met also the glutted stomach and coiicr of the banker and This was at one yard of the balance. At the other I heard the wail of the starving thousands crying for these potatoes, but the ear of the divinity to which the prayer was offered was deaf to every entreaty. No glutted stomach where I heard that wail. It was the cry of the hungry christian child accompanied with the groans of the christian mother watching over that starv- ing babe while the death pallor was spreading before her discon- solate gaze of grief. The other christian had the glutted coffer. the glutted market, the glutted stomach, but could not hear the wail. He was in his cushioned pew on Sunday listening to a ﬂow- ery discourse gluttcd with theoretical ﬂour, scaring the conscience of the Christian brother with a dissertation on the achievement of civilization under the inﬂuence of the lowly Nazarine who came to save the soul. A Christian age, a Christian people, and starv- ing thousands! Glutted coffers and stomachs; purses plethoric with gold; scanty stomachs where I heard the wail ! ! “A large number of the local produce merchants met this after- noon at 302 Davis St. to discuss the best means of relieving the market of the present tremendous overstock of potatoes.”——S. F. Daily Report. Two methods of relief were suggested. One was to dump the potatoes into the bay to keep up the market price, the other was to send a few more millionaires (the people’s friends) to Congress and petition them for relief in behalf of the hungry mul- titude. ' For God's sake, gentlemen, for the sake of the rich merchant, for the Railroad’s sake, to hasten the tardy progress ofthe impend- ing revolution, dump them into the bay! Be careful that they do not fall into the empty cavities of those hungry people whence the wail originated. That would be utterly hcathenish and disas- trous to the interests of the commonwealth. The integrity and rep- utation of business and ﬁnancial circles, demand that those pota- toes go into the bay. The ocean is too large; ﬁll i-t up with potatoes, let the sharks have them, bridge the two continents with potatoes, but gentlemen, e-’1ristiau gentle/ueu, see to it that they do not find their way to these hungry clamoring» multitudes to impoverish the souls that your Christ came to save! T 00 much ease and comfort, you know, impoverishes the soul, . ‘rs:»a_.usurna£ia1a..trt toaaegoyezanuent ofthﬁ 9301118» - To the people 2 ‘ The Plowshare and PruningHook. and as the soul is the important thing, dry up the body, /tang it-up to dry, but be cautious gentlemen lest by some fortuity those pota- toes and those lank stomachs ﬁnd some avenue of approach. Don’t allow those potatoes to gain access there, the shock would be too great, it might produce an earthquake in San Francisco. God speed the impending crisis! .Let railroad monopolists, and rich merchantmen make another turn of the wheel of fate, take another reef in the straight-jacket of commercial enterprise; one more twist in the knot of human despair and contraction, and hast- en the strides of the imminent revolution, but don't give the peo- ple relief; we prefer revolution.——K THE ﬁnancial situation in Spain is extremely critical. Events are everywhere culminating. Just a little while and then the crash—-and then the masses will direct their attention to the so- lution of the social question. THE anthracite miners of VVilkesbarre are about to go on a strike, and, as usual the companies are preparing to substitute a large force of foreign laborers, lately arrived. The monopolist and the foreign laborer will precipitate the social revolution. It is almost upon us. ANDREW Carnegie thinks there is “danger ahead” and hence has about concluded to shake off the dust of America and seek safety among the Scotland hills. He is said to be in search of a castle in that country, where he may be secure from the wrath _of an oppressed people. Perhaps Scotland will be in a condition sim- ilar to that of America ere long; the mania of radicalism is spread- ing rapidly. IF MEN wish to use tobacco, notwithstanding, that it is in- jurious to their health, it seems reasonable to demand that they should not insist upon others—who do not use the same, and to whom its fumes are distasteful—inhaling the odors that issue from pipes, cigarettes and cigars. Smoking should not be allowed on- public conveyances unless the smokers are shut oﬁ‘ by themselves like the patronizers of opium joints. The number of cars provid- ed by the cable lines is inadequate to provide for all the passen- gers, so that the open portion of the cars should not be resigned to or ruled by smokers. Ladies are frequently compelled to ride in the disenclosed part of these cars and must take all the smoke, ashes, and misdirected saliva that are frequently sent their way by lovers of tobacco. The thing is an outrage and an imposition on the public. If men wish to smoke—-a habit which will at ﬁrst sicken most any one to acquire—-let them betake themselves to their ofﬁces or dwellings, or else, let them gratify this appetite in the open air where those, not in love with the vice, need not be compelled_to partake of its fumes. Gentlemen, at least. should endeavor not to render themselves obnoxious by thus forcing non- tobacconists upon public conveyances to partake of their nicotian exhalations. The Large Number of Suicides and Their Cause. It is appalling to note the large number of suicides occurring daily. Here in San Francisco, last Friday, there were six reported, and there were probably other cases of weary souls who laid life’s heavy burden down to seek repose in vain, of which there is no rec- ord. And most of such cases occur among the young; at a time of life when the future should be hopeful and the springs of life dance and bubble with glee. 011! How sad to see these young barks with sails set starting.out upon life‘s ﬁtful voyage soon to go down in the tempests of misfortune! Is there a soul so_dead ’ that does not love youth with its bloom and its frankness? And if every other appeal to man‘s bennmbed senses cannot arouse him to the seriousness of the times, the heart-rending sacriﬁce of so many young men and women at the altar of an accursed system of social economy should at least lead his mind to a standpoint of honest, manly investigation. The present per centage of suicides is noth- ing to what the rate will be, as the inevitable disasters emanating from competition culminate. I Thousands of yo_ung women are driven, through want and - despair, to lives of shame and thence to self-destruction. VVith ,_ agonizing soul did Hood well exclaim in his “Bridge of Sighs” One more unfortunate Weary of breath Rashly importunate Gone to her death. He voiced but the mournful tune which rises above the sombre mists of night that hover over our busy, heartless cities. If no ‘~ other argument were adduced to consign the present system of sociology to oblivion, that one, we believe, which involves the fate V of our sons and daughters, will prove potential enough to arouse the good men and women of this Commonwealth to a realization - of the folly of competition, and cause them by united, co-operative action to effect its overthrow. There is no other alternative for the people but to desert this cavern of iniquity if they have any love left for their sons and daughters. How many young men might be leading useful, brilliant lives, who, having become discouraged and disheartened by the exactions and meagre gratitude of grasp- ing merchants or the ﬁerce struggle of salesmen to drive a trade, have sought solace in wine and women and been caught in the drag-net of ruin. It is but human that they should do this. The commercial pressure is fearful, and the strain on the nerves intense. Who does not know it? Can it last much longer? No, for if it did, three-fourths of the population would ﬁnd their destiny in suicides’ graves, toward which so many are already tending. The vast majority of young men and women are to-day debarred from matri- mony on account of their ﬁnancial status. As humanity is, at _ present constituted, a union of the sexes, 1nust unavoidably occur either legally or illegally and hence the reason for the startling and ever augmenting conditions of the public morals. The streets of our cities are nightly crowded with young men and women whose main object in frequenting the same is for the doing of sex- ual crime. Look at their faces, particularly those of the women; to one skilled in the study of human nature they are not bad faces. Many of them give evidence of generosity, honesty and good breeding, but one and all bear the stamp of recklessness born of despair. What care they for a world which would leave them to starve? VVhat comfort hope or joy can they ﬁnd in a social system which exacts from them long hours of labor and grinds their aspirations to powder? They seek what pleasure they can ~ ﬁnd; and pleasure men and women must have and will get, if not ‘ of the proper kind, then of the improper kind. VVomen aim to procure by sin at night what they cannot get by hard work during " the day. Great God! VVhat a social crisis! For shame to the editor who will not use his pen to an agi- tation and solution of this fearful question! For shame to the fellow, calling himself public spirited, who would either hide the 7 facts or apologize for their existence! It would seem that if one had but a vestige of love for justice and humanity he would ~ cry out against this daily slaughter of virtue, of promise and of life. The time will soon come when every man who wields the pen . must either employ it to a live and fearless discussion of this evil with its remedy, or, by popular edict lay it down. , W'e will have no evasions, no shuﬂiings, in this matter. .Public journals mm! 7 come to time as regards sociologic affairs or retire from the ﬁeld of journalism. Come, let us hear from our esthetic contemporaries! p" —~——————b—4Q>—<:T— would Like to Wipe Us Out. Now that the commercial interests of San Francisco see that the Bureau of Equitable Commerce means business and that it is I enlisting the sympathy and support of the people, they purpose, V if possible, to down us. They see, if such a system once gains headway and the people once get their eyes open to the cheating ," practices involved in the prevailing methods of trade that there - will be no stopping the progress of such a system, which means i death to middle men and the money power. ‘We have expected . this and shall fortify ourselves for the contest. VVe neither offer " nor shall accept any compromise but shall fearlessly sail right in . regardless of any threats, and drive these money changers from the temple of trade. We have no desire to destroy persona1i- , 3 the horror of which had been intensiﬁed by the failure of himself and his fellow-directors to comply with the law—would have been ﬁlled with sorrow. As Chauncey had no heart, but a stomach We only, he was ﬁlled with wine and rare viands, and out of the full- . of ness of his stomach his mouth spoke. He jeered the Coroner’s '1 the Bureau, but if some do not join us let them clear the way, for juryithat had presumed to indict him, heaped ridicule upon the i" the triumphal car of commercial equation, which means value for notion that railway directors should be expected to do the things ‘i value, is rumbling along and it will ride over every obstacle that they accept pay for doing, instanced a gentleman who was a di- stands ‘in the way of eﬁfectingjustice in the interchange of pro- rector in so many roads that it kept him fully employed drawing j" ducts, _ his numerous salaries, and was altogether hilariously, uproarious- ‘ Our plan is perfectly simple and there is no chance for any ly merry and witty. Then when the time came that Chauncey - ’ subterfuge on the part of any one connected with the organization. usually prepares for his summer pilgrimage among the nobs and The affairs of the Bureau are directed by a Board of Mutual big-wigs of Europe, and the counsel for the people was not quite - Conﬁdence consisting of seven members, three of which represent . the Koreshan Unity and the other four the patrons of the hurry up, for, ready or no, the case must be disposed of in time to let Mr. Depew sail in accordance with his arrangements. And so the “trial" took place, and the verdict was rendered so as, in more senses than one, to suit Mr. Depew’s convenience. The farce has The people ended. Great is law. Let us give thanks for the majestic im- simplicity and partiality of American justice. their opposition they , The Bureau is incorporated , under the state laws, and its constitution andby-laws are for mulat- '."ed upon‘ the simplest and most comprehensive plan. _< «fill patronize our system because of its equity, iclearness, and our friends, the enemy, (for by OH-——————~ "will be our most assiduous advertisers) may as well be resigned to A Difference Between Theory and Praetlee In '-‘thefact that the Bureau of Equitable Commerce has come to stay. eonom ~,It will not only stay but it will rapidly spread until its arms ex- } tend to every city and town in the United States and our admirable jplan of certiﬁcates and checks, as substitutes for U. S. currency- 7which no law of the country can interfere with because they simp- 5ly represent an agreement between two contracting parties—will gradually displace from the different avenues of trade ﬁat money land SY5teTn Which Georgeltes lay 50 much stress “Polls and Proud‘ ‘, and then the peop]e of the new Qommonweajth will say to the hon, whose pen has given inspiration » to modern individualism, smart banker and the funny politician: “Hang up your ﬁddle and and Rosseany Bellan1Y and 3 host Of 0tl1eTS- Herbert Spencer has _your bow; and you, Congress, take a back seat as we have no 5Pent the best Years Ola long life (ll5CnS5lng S0Cl0l0gy On P313533 ffutther use for you_” and, by a large class of thinkers, he is looked upon as the bright .~ and shining 1ight‘of economic philosophy. These men have writ- ten book after book and pamphlet upon pamphlet, upon the social problem, which, with each succeeding decade has come more promi- nently into notice by reason of the fact that its discussion has been forced upon the people as the result of the gradual collapse of the existing social structure which entails miser 7 and poverty upon the masses and which is gradually developing the people in its ghastly and deathlike embrace. VVhen the tocsin was sounded several hundred years ago-— almost simultaneous with the establishment ofithe Bank of Eng- land which is founded upon the same principles whereby the people to-day are being robbed by its daughters, the National banks, ofthis country-—mankind paid no heed to the ringing warning, and the words of La Salle and his coadjutors fell ﬂat The world has been treated or ill-treated to theorism on a new system of sociology for two or three hundred years. Kant, the great German thinker is probably the prince of economic theorists, and there isiLa Salle_ who really can claim the authorship of the j , —————>¢ 09 o-—— American J ustiee. Chauncey Depew and his fellow-directors have been found not fguilty of complicity in the killing of the six people in the tunnel ;disaster. The law was violated, says the verdict, and violated by '?the company. Chauncey and the others were the company; but it [was the company in its corporate capacity, not the members of it }in their individual capacity, that violated it. Consequently, Zthough Chauncey and the others taken ollectively are guilty, yet __ ‘e and they taken separately in their individual capacity are in- Jiocent. We are not sure that we make it plain; we are not sure tit can be made plain. Indeed, to fully understand the why and wherefore of it, it is necessary to take into consideration some- “g that by proper rights ought to have nothing to do with it: e wealth of the accused, for example. The verdict will not sur- rise any one, says the fquriznl of t/ze K'71zg/1fyqfLa/Ior, because every lg elike Chauncey himself looked upon the whole i They‘ say he did not delay nual European trip at all, and was not the least concerned about ~ -- "trial.” Why should he? ’ rue, when the Coroner’s jury 3- ictecl him, some of the great organs of public opinion declared _at the indictment was evidence that the majestic laws of free enca were no respecters of persons, that in the eye of glorious children ’s children through an acquiescence in a monetary policy formulated for the purpose of bald, insolent theft. The years have 'rolled on and the direful days predicted by these philosophers have at last dawned upon us. The short sighted supposed that with the foundation of the American Democracy, humanity would at last ﬁnd a haven of repose and that the nations of Europe would ﬁnally be compelled to pattern their governments, through popu- lar demand, after this one. . VVe fought and won the bloody battles of the Revolutionary war and supposed then that we had settled forever the question of human sovereignty. England was both vanquished and victor in the ﬁght; vanquished, in that she lost her kingly power on American soil; victor, in that her money power, which, in reality, is behind the British throne, gained as- cendancy here and is to-day dictating the policy and ruling the destinies of the American Democracy. If proof is required for this statement it should only be necessary to mention the fact that silver was demonetized in this country in obedience to the man- date of the Rothschilds, ‘who sent their agent over here to see that the scheme, which they had concocted, was properly executed. Shylock had but to pull the string, the doors of Congress ﬂew back and he entered and took possession. British capital is to-day buying up great manufacturing plants on our soil, and when the ﬁnancial crash comes—as come it soon will in London—like an electric ﬂash the ﬁnancial centres of America will be touched, will proceedings as his preparations for his ‘ ,d ofbuncombe, but Chauncey smiled and joked and dined. e philosopher he, he knew that America’s goddess of justice is 3 by a good deal as blind as she is pictured. He looked on the ‘ctment as ajoke. If he had any fault to ﬁnd with it, it was fit was not a good, well-conceived joke—-was rather a clumsy, esome joke, and at his own expense, too. He seemed to think joke»11ot exactly in good taste. At the dinner of the Federal given on the same evening upon which his.bail bonds were , at Delmonico’s, Chauncey made merry over the indictment. ready, he was given to understand by the judge that he had better ' {-3- ~. - —. ~ . nan T - ‘l (;§~;Q ,~I1e11»l9na'E‘:1l¢'-\4V{\t4*.-{>n:a' trnwrnmccnznml-' A!‘ {-119 1'! 9 ...as.z11:.«é.;.c.a.4nvz......z.'Z- v Tn 1'1-In ~:\n'nn.1o- 1: . quiver and then collapse. VVe are tottering ﬁnancially and only await this signal from London ere we fall. Thus England, though apparently vanquished in her conﬂict with our forefathers, with the sabre of her ﬁnancial policy will yet cut our throats. The scarcity of bread and butter, the result of the application of a monetary system emanating from British brains, has forced upon the people the importance of the social question, and, amid the seriousness of the times, when they ask for the bread of prac- tice in sound economics they are given merely the stone of theory. Every man has a plan and an ism, and each one thinks that his will work the best in formulating a new system. As a consequence we have books, tracts, newspapers and periodicals without number, which begin and end in talk. If all the money expended, in pub- lishing reform papers, books and magazines, looking to a solution of the social question, were invested in one great practical enter- prise that would feed the people at a nominal cost upon a basis of common sense, the money power, with its iniquitous system of currency—its gold, its silver, its copper and its paper, differently graded in order that it might speculate upon the same at the people's cost—would long since have found that oblivion which ﬁnally awaits it. Herein lies the inherent weakness of theorism‘ and the po- tentiality of practice. A class of thinkers who in 20 or 25 years cannot, through. the discussion of pet theories effect their practice, had better lay down their arms and join another army. A lack of co-operative, practical effort on the part of the social economists of this age is a fatal confession of the inadequacy of their systems to meet the present exigency. The child which they desired to bring forth was never properly conceived, or else, by this time, it would have been a thriving, bouncing baby. Nationalism, it is true, had its birth as a materializing eﬂbrt here in California, not long since, but soon disintegrated and died, and sterility has been the result of its endeavors; nevertheless it still talks. What is commonly termed communism has been tried as the outgrowth of theory and it has failed. Now, what is left? There are several small col- onies in operation in different parts of the country, but none con- tain those principles of organic unity that are essential to ultimate success, progress and perpetuity. They possess no broad and comprehensive doctrine which can stand the test of conﬂict or spread out until it embraces the whole human race. Nothing short of this can aggregate to itself the multifarious phases of character of which humanity is composed. That system alone can guide the destinies of the race which is cosmopolitan, simple and funda- mental; and in order to contain these elements it must appeal to the rational, inspirational and affectional tendencies of human nature. Furthermore, no system will answer the purpose which cannot, simultaneously, with the promulgation of its theory, apply the remedy. The skill of a marksman is only demonstrated by his ability to hit the mark. None of these theoretical gentlemen in the ﬁeld of economics have hit the mark, although they have oc- cupied the ﬁeld for many years. VVe are therefore forced to but one conclusion; that they lack the capacity which their professions would seem to indicate. Starving men and women would like to see these theorists GET DOWN To BUSINESS and demonstrate the practicality of their plausible theories; but they have nothing more substantial to offer such than wind pudding. Now the Bureau of Equitable Connnerce invites the people to investigate its methods and see if in them are not found all the re- quirements for the solution of the ﬁnancial problem, the building up of industries, the feeding of the hungry and the clothing of the naked. This Bureau is prepared to do all that it says, and, as a proof of its potentiality, it is the result of but afmr mont/zs instead of many years, of theory. It has illustrated the difference between theory and practice in economics by the appliazlzbn of theory. It has tested the soundness of its theory by blending the same with practice, and by selling goods at less than retail prices, it must ul- timately cement the support of the wage worker, dispose of the numerous retail stores and middle men and ﬁrmly establish—inde- pendent of a farcical government—an organic, economic unity and an equitable ﬁnancial policy for the people. Closed all day on the Fourth—Little Johnnie’s eye.—DeZroit T ribmze. ‘_..’ _‘..aV_- . - Commercial Insanity. By A. M. Zlliller. No one in the world to-day is pezfetlly balanced mentally. Among people who are called sane there are all degrees and vari- ations of unbalance in every line of mental activity; yet the degree that virtually amounts to i7zsam'ty is not reached until the mentali- ty leans so far over that it entirely loses its equilibrium and falls, bringing destruction upon itself and injury to others with whom it is related. A tower can lean considerably from the vertical and still be able to stand; but, when it leans beyond a certain angle, it must fall and be destroyed. So a mind, if it leans beyond a cer- tain amount of unbalance, becomes insane and must fall, because insanity throws away the inherent wisdom of self-preservation, which is the balancing power of the mind, and ultirnates in self- destruction. Such an advanced and tottering state of unbalance have the great commercial minds of to-day reached that they are virtually insane. If they were not insane in their insatiable grasp- ing for more and more money or money-power, their schemes would not result in ultimately reducing their source of power; the laboring classes, the producers, either to a state of absolute slav- ery and degradation, wherein they are unﬁtted for performing the best work; or to a state of open rebellion against their oppressors— either state inevitably ruinous to the interests of the capitalists. No sane person would so undermine his own house and bring its ruins crumbling down upon his own head. If capitalists had not passed the Rubicon of self-preservation they would want to “live and let live.” We can calculate, that, if no power more potent than the present labor and reform organization rises up and institutes a balance in the relations of labor and capital, in twenty-ﬁve or ﬁfty years, more or less, the present proud civilization of the world will fall, devoured, like the Kilkenny cats, by the rapacity of its two factions, capital and labor; and savage hordes will pour into their places and devour even the remnants that aw left—the tails. History repeats itself. We have only to look back to the fall of the mighty Roman Empire to realize the ruin that threatens this great so-called Republic, as well as the other great nations, from the almost universal oppression of the masses by a greed- insane plutocracy. We know that the money-power is on the road to its own destruction, and if left to its own gait will in time reach its destination—but it will lead all civilization to ruin with it. The safety of civilization depends upon speedily widening the breach between capital and labor, which capital has already begun to make, and hastening capital on to its destruction alone. The only power that can effect this result; is the power involv- ed in the system of Equitable Commerce. This system, by at ﬁrst supplying the uses of the capitalist to the laborer, and, by teach- ing him, through methods of cooperation, to work without the cap- italist, directs and accelerates the efforts of the laborer to free him- self from his tyrant. The laborer is grasping-in a way—fro1n being so long defrauded of his just earnings. But this greed can be cured by instituting commercial equity and giving him his dues. But the greed of the insane capitalist is past all cure. The ring-leaders of capitalistic power, who are so out of balance as to be impelled by but one faculty—that of n1oney—accun1ulation—-are past restoring to any degree of normal balance. The moderate capitalist may be reformed in harmony with a just commercial sys- 1 2 tem. The money-kings know that with the emancipation of labor all their power vanishes. The mere threat of such a condition is suﬂicient to rouse all their ire and opposition, and they have de- clared that they will ﬁght labor to the bitter end before they will relinquish any of their power. When this Commercial system begins to show by its mobili- zation and direction of the labor forces, that it is diverting labor _ from the dominance of capital, this will be good enough to speed I themoney-kings to an open issue with labor. But, whatever mode 7, of procedure they may institute, it will but lead them to the de- struction of their power; for labor mzzﬂzea’ under one plan and di- rection can stand against any other human power. up his burden of sin no higher, speed the day of equity! In mercy to V suffering humanity, and, in mercy to the oppressor that he heap " The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. A BRILLIANT RECEPTION! I] MRS. A. G. Ordway of Chicago Tendered a Right Royal Welcome by her Sisters in San Francisco. The honre of the San Francisco Koreshan Unity at 218 and 220 Noe Street, presented a scene of gayety and brilliancy last Thurs- _ day evening which would have surprised the outside world if some of its people had stepped in upon the scene. They would have found there rational, entertaining and happy folks who gave no ex- ternal evidence of holding “peculiar” views. It was the occasion of a reception but it differed from affairs which usually go under that head in that there were no liquors consumed and no coquetry ' apparent. “VVhata strange reception it must have been,” says some one, “for I never attended a soiree where the latter quality if not the former article were not present." VVell, it was a strange re- gception in that sense and also in one other: it was a gathering to- gether of people ofall classes who harmonized and affiliated through the comprehension and acceptatiorr of one principle; that of central- ity as the key to the solution of human woes. Every walk of life was represented and the greatest cordiality among all was manifest. It was a great democratic gathering, typifying the day when man- kind shall be blended in one universal brotherhood. There were no silly simperings nor senseless sallies. It was not an assemblage of shallowness bedecked with diamonds and backed by enormous bank accounts but a galaxy of solidity, substantiality and brillian- cy such as no San Francisco reception, though held in the greatest mansion, could boast. It was the coming together of minds, young and old, witty and sedate, including the beautiful of face and the strong in purpose, if less marked in comliness; a people with one love, and that, for a common humanity, and one aim, and that, a personal sacriﬁce for the redemption of the race. Mrs. Annie G. Ordway, President of the Society Arch-Trium- phant of the Koreshan system, from Chicago, paid a visit to the Golden‘Gate Assembly and was nrade the recipient of this enter- tainment. The parlors of the Koreshan Unity were gayly decora- S" ted with ﬂowers, feris and greens, and the lady in whose honor the reception was given was literally loaded with ﬂowers such as only the balmy air and rich soil of California can yield. The President of the Society Arch-Triunrphant is a tall, state- ly woman of strong, yet winning face and pleasing voice, who has i consecrated her life to the cause of womanhood and her freedom from the curse of sex slavery, and in this personage woman has found an able and aggressive advocate. She is a born leader of her sex. Miss Wass, the President of the Golden Gate branch of the Society, made the speech of welcome in neat and appropriate sentences, to which Mrs. Ordway responded in words fraught with heart-felt gratitude and love. Mr. Geo. C. Ludington presented the program for the evening which was varied and entertaining. There was rendered as a piano overture, Rossini's incomparable “Semiramede” by Mrs. J. T. Coan and Miss Daniels, followed by introductions to the official visitor by Mrs. Ludington, a handsome and charming woman, in middle life, with a head of ﬁne, snow white hair artistically dressed, and a most pleasing visage. Mrs. ‘Aimie Jackson rendered a piano solo, and Mrs Mills a song. Then Dr Cyrus R. Teed gave a masterly and spirited exposition of some of the tenets of Koreshanity-—particularly as they embraced the greatest question of the age—that of woman upon whose so- lution, alone, rests the hope of the world—and the admirable corn- ‘ mercial system which he has just launched upon a starving world. His utterances were listened to by the assemblage, composed of many not associated with the Unity, with wrapt attention and in- terest. The founder of a system of ethics destined to revolutionize the world was, upon this occasion, certainly, at his best. Mrs. Renew Benedict, on the part of the Society Arch Triumphant at- large, gave a greeting to its President ﬁlled with deserved encorni- urns and couched in choice rhetoric. Mrs. Currie gave one of her _-inimitable recitations in the Irish dialect, succeeded by “Love’s - Request,”a song happily rendered by Mrs. Coan. The event was Ta pronounced success and yet only a type of the many enjoyable, genuine and soul refreshing reunions which Koreshans, with their goinpany broke up at about 11 o’clock. u I ' her life has been embittered! . reason a few—and a very few—of its facts will be in order. ‘Erapidly augmenting numbers, will give in the future. The happy Mordaunt was one of the Moncrieffe sisters, daughters of Sir Thom- A TITLED ANIMAL: The position of the Prince of \Vales at present may justly be described as critical (writes “Cockaigne” in the /Irgomml‘). To say such a thing of the heir-apparent to one of the great thrones of Europe, and to be able to say it, shows the unquesti_onably demo- cratic tone of popular opinion and feeling in England. The fact is that the people are simply disgusted with their future king, and the rankest Tories give free expression to opinions which you would expect to hear uttered only by the nrost advanced Radicals. How he must curse the baccarat case, for it has been the last straw on the backs of a long-outraged, long-enduring, long-forgiving people and the ﬁnishing touch to a career which has been little short of a downright disgrace to the nation. No one knows exactly the number of acts unbecoming a gentle- man, let alone a prince, which his royal highness can have laid at his door. And you may be sure that they are all raked up now with determined vigor. Away back in the early sixties he began, when, a short time before his marriage to the Princess Alexandra of Denmark, he was stationed at the Curragh, in Ireland, with a battalion of the Grenadier Guards. to which he was attached as a subaltern. He was sent over to the Curragh camp to teach him what soldiering was, in a mild, peaceful way, and, had he been like other young men, he would have gone through the work with a genuine military interest and passed his time in studying his profession. Not content with flirting with the pretty Irish girls who abound in those parts, he must needs go and marry one of them. Of course he did not really marry the girl. According to the rules established upon the settlement of the crown upon the House of Brunswick, it was impossible for one of the royal family to marry a subject without ﬁrst obtaining the consent of Parlia- ment, and this he knew as well as anybody——better, in fact, than many. Yet he went through the form of a marriage with her, and I believe she lived for sonre time as his wife near the camp. At last it was time for him to return to England. His battalion was ordered home and he with it. And so, thereupon, the fat was decidedly in the ﬁre. He could not take his “wife” with him to England, and all sorts of excuses had the prince to mal<e—all but the right one. However, it‘ ﬁnally leaked out, and then the whole business became one of the nrost absorbing, startling scan- dals and was the talk of society for many a long month. But, at length, the affair came to be forgotten, and the prince’s new ex- ploits on his native heath drew away attention from the poor girl left all forlorn. I forget her name, but she was a lady, at all events. What became of her eventually I do not know, but my recollection is that for a long time she lived in the country under the name of “Mrs. Albert.” This little episode would have been enough to ruin the reputa- tion of nrost young men. But Princes have no reputations to ruin. From then on up to his marriage, the Prince of \Vales treated him- self to a beneﬁt whenever occasion offered, and, for princes, occa- sion offers very frequently. He was not always allowed so much pockct—money as he thought essential. One day he‘ wanted-some, and, not ﬁnding the requisite sum in his purse, he quietly slipped out and went to a pawnbroker's in a back street, and unknown as he thought himself, pledged one ofhis rings for U1! needed amount, Next day, the pawnbroker, who had recognized the prince, put the ring in his window and stuck up over his door, directly under the three golden balls, “Pawnbroker to the Prince of VVales.” It was a clever dodge of the Jew. Ile knew he was quite safe. Instead of being arrested and punished for the disrespect, his shop was soon visited by a court eqnerry. who paid whatever he asked for the ring and the removal of the obnoxious sign. Then came the marriage to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. A sweet, pretty, unsophisticated, simple girl she was. But how First the Lady Mordaunt case. All the world nrust know it, or, at all events, has known it, for its events transpired some twenty years ago. There may be some, however, who are not aware of the incidents of that case and to whom all reference to it may consequently be the veriest Greek. For that Lady as Moncrieffe, a Scotch baronet, and all beauties. They were the :4 -was ' =1; ,.M..Ttx1"l1a nniifsti-lip \ is. 22:-.1-?I . , ‘ “2,‘R“.*s\a~T-%‘'7%r:‘=''.$ The Plowshare and Pruningi_Hook. sensation of society some twenty-odd years ago, and their great i beauty did great things for them, one of the greatest being that it was so irresistible as to overcome the ﬁxed aversion of the British male aristocrat to marry where there was not money, for the Mon- crielfes were poor. That is to say, poor for people in their position, and there was a large family. However, one of the girls married the Earl of Dudley, another the Duke of Athole, another Sir Charles Forbes of New (known as Charley Forbes in the Prince of VVales’s set, a dozen years ago), another Mr. Mackenzie, another Sir Charles Mordaunt, and so on. The prince, who has ever kept whatever of his droop—lidded eye he let stay open for the observance of feminine good looks, was not long in discovering faces and forms to his taste in the Moncrieffe girls. It used to be said that he tried to bring on a ﬂirtation with Lady Dudley. But she pretty soon snubbed him into keeping a respectful distance, and even went so far as to turn her back upon him at balls. Her sister, Lady Mordaunt, was, however, a weak character, and—well, Sir Charles Mordaunt eventually brought a suit of divorce against her, making correspondents of Sir Frederick Johnstone, Viscount Cole (the present Earl of Ennis- killen), and some others. The Prince of Wales was not included in the party; but I think nearly everybody who remembers those days, and was in a position to know the talk and opinion of London soci- ety, will admit that it was commonly thought that he ought to have been. Well, he got out of it by the skin of his teeth. But he has gone on—I was going to say, with the same dash- ing effrontery; but there is nothing dashing about Albert Edward. His worst enemy could not accuse him of that. So I will charac- terize his goings on as dull and common-place, but, nevertheless, placidly vicious and methodically continuous. Hislittle escapades with. the Duke of Beaufort, when his grace went on a periodical “tear,” were at one time the talk of the town; but there was noth- ing brilliant about them, nothing excusable from a sentimental point of view. The lower qualities of the animal, and nothing else, showed themselves throughout. Everything was tainted by a ﬁx- ed principle of brutish sensuality, which cared for nothing but the gratiﬁcation to satiety of his propensities. In an ordinary man —I mean a man iii an ordinary sphere—these things might be borne with. But, remember, this man is a prince and the heir to the crown of England. A ? A WAIL OF WOE There are sixty-ﬁve thousand sewing-girls in New York and Brooklyn. (says a writer in T /16 Ladies’ [Io/zze _/ourmz/). Across the sunlight comes their death groan. It is not such a cry as comes from those who are suddenly hurled out of life, but a slow, grind- ing. horrible wasting away. Gather them before you and look in- to their faces—pinched, ghastly, hunger—struck!v Look at their ﬁn- gers, needle-pricked, blood-tipped! See that premature stoop in the shoulders! At a large meeting of these women held in a hall in Philadelphia grand speeches were delivered, but a needle_-woman took the stand, threw aside her faded shawl, and with her shrivel- ed arm hurled a very thunderbolt of eloquence, speaking out the horrors of her own experience. Stand at the corner of a street in New York at six or seven o’clock in the morning, as the women go to work. Many bf them had no breakfast, except the crumbs that were left over from the night before, or the crumbs that they chew on their way through the street. Here they eon1e—the work- ing girls of New York and Brooklyn. These engage in head-work, these in ﬂower-making, in millinery, in paper-box making; but most overworked of all and least compensated, the sewing-woman. Why do they not take the city cars on their way up? They can- not aﬂbrd the 5 cents. If, concluding to deny herself something else, she gets into the car, give her a seat. You want to see how Latimer and Ridley appeared in the ﬁre. Look at that woman and behold a more horrible martyrdom, a hotter ﬁre,_ a more agonizing death. Ask that woman how much she gets for her work, and she will tell you—6 cents for making coarse shirts and furnishing her own thread! The actual status of the poorest and most unfortunate woman in society determines the possible status of every woman.—— II"'o« man’: A /lzkmze PRUNINGS. A subject on which it is very diﬂicult to keep up interest is a mortgage.—Bz}(gr/Ga;/1;>to2z 1€:7§7z/2/z‘ca7z. - There is a man in jail in California for stealing locomotives. If he had only stolen the whole railroad, he might have been pre- sident of it.——Bo5fo7/ [fa/71111’. A system of social and political economy which compels the laborer to toil daily to keep want from his door, and is so inﬂexible that the sickness of a week entails want and destitution upon his family, is one of the worst forms of slavery.—1Ve7eI York I1/orld Temperance Man—“I was glad to observe that at the recent launch your vessel was christened with pure water instead of wine.” Old'Salt—“That’s so. I just said to myself, ‘Cap’n Sea- dog,‘ says I, ‘this thing has got to stop. I ain’t goin’ to waste any more good liquor on such foolishness.’ "-Ex. Instead of undertaking to pass laws restricting immigration we should seek to discover the reason why the same class of im- migration which until lately was a great beneﬁt to the country is now an injury to it.—T/ze Ixsue. According to the careful statistics of Mr. Shearman, less than two per cent. of our population holds seven—tenths of our wealth, and are rapidly advancing to nine—te11ths, their progress being as- sisted by the indirect taxation which places the burden of govern- ment on the shoulders of poverty. \Ve are drifting in the rapids; how far off is our Niagara?—Pu/2/2": Opzhzbn. The people of Ohio should keep their minds ﬁxed on the fact that their votes this fall will determine whether or no John Sher- man will return to the United States Congress. They should also keep it inscribed on the tablets of their memories -that it was John Sherman who engineered the trick by which silver was demone- tized without the knowledge of Congress—a trick which bore bitter fruits in mortgaged homes and ruined industries.—_/ourmzl of tile /Crzzjg/115 cy’ La/207'. Drinking plunges masses of men and women into the mire of misery and the ditch of despair, and by its narcotic action on the will-power makes them contented to remain in the ditch when once there; and herein the liquor system is the great obstacle to reform. If men are to better their condition, they must be made discontented with their surroundings before the ambition comes to better them. — I Vorkers’ Cry The most dreaded class of people at this day, are the very rich and the very poor. One is made pompous and over bearing by the possession of wealth, while the other is made vicious by hunger, cold and the pleadings of famishing family. Although both are to be dreaded, they cann'ot be amalgamated; as liberty and slavery are too foreign to each other to allow blending together. Thus we have the very rich to fear by their superior ﬁnancial advantage, and the extremely poor to fear by inferior ﬁnancial conditions_ Free !’rc's.v One of the most outrageous “ravages" of the money power was exposed in 1874-5 in the Paciﬁc railroad row in Congress when Tom Scott was trying to secure a large subsidy for the Texas Paciﬁc road, and C. P. Huntington was working counter to him for enormous grants and subsidies to the Central Paciﬁc. The case is too long to be elaborated, but extracts from some letters written to General Colton by C. P. Huntington will be suﬂicient to show the audacious and unscrupulous methods to which the mon- ' ey power will go when desiring the accomplishment of an object. In a letter dated Nov. 20, 1874, Huntington wrote, “Scott is prepared, or promises to pay a large amount of money to pass his bill, but I do not think he can pass it, although I think this com- ing session of congress will be composed of the hungriest set of men ever got together, and the d only knows what they will do. "—AZ1z'a7zce T rilzwze. _ B!‘ PROF. R. O. SPEAK, , ‘BY CYRUS, - - The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 7 DR. CYRUS R. TEED, the founder of the Koreshan System of Science, lectures every Sunday Morning at 11 o’clock, and Sunday Evening at 8 o’clock in the McAllister Hall, 106 McAllister Street. All are cordially invited to at- tend these lectures, which are free. and A new incontro- . vertible system of theology, science and g=.>ve1'n111ent is promulgated in these lectures, unfolding the true laws of Being, the real science of the brain and the cosmos, and the .only practicable plan of social adjustment and of sound economics. Koreshanity, by its invulnerable teachings, har- monizes and blends the laws of life. and adapts biblical teaching to true science. Look Out FOR THE LIVELIEST TIME At the next Convention of the Patrons of Eguitable Commerce; the people present, men and women, will be re- solved into an Elective Body.to organize a Protective and Aggressive Movement in the INTEREST OF COMMERCIAL EQUATION. INDUSTRY FOR THE PEOPLE. EC()‘-NOMY FOR THE PEOPLE Reduction of the Hours and Burden of Labor of the Peoplell Thursday Evening, July 30., at 8 o’clock METROPOLITAN TEMPLE. Procedure at once to organization for an irresistible ﬁght against Monopoly for Bread and Butter. * FINE MUSIC. ADMISSION FREE. Come and hear! 4%» Bureau of Equitable Commerce. Headquarters 212 and 214 Front‘ Street. Iioreshan Literature. Our books and pamphlets contain a brief exposition of Koreslian Science which uncovers all the mysteries of the ages. Hum-an thou-glit l]M1‘r‘t(Jf<’)I'o has . It is a true index to the cl.1aracter of God and man, ll intelligent people should read this literature and i’ fmove in advance of the tidal \vave of progres S. - The most radical subjects are ably, free and fearlessly discussed. Re-Incarnation, or the Resurrection of the Dead. BY CYRUS, - - - - - PRICE 15 crs. Emanuel Swedenborg. BY CYRUS, - - - - PRICE 15 crs. Identiﬁcation of the Children of Israel. BY DB. ANDREWS, - - - I’iucE 15 crs. National Suicide and Its Prevention. BY PROF. L’AMonEAUx, - - CLOTH $1.00. PAPER 50 crs. Koreshan Astronomy. THE EARTH A HOLLOVV GLOBE, - - PRICE 50 crs Is the Earth Convex? BY I’nor. R. O. SPEAR, PRICE 5 ms ' ‘ Proclamation and Judgment. AN EXPOSITION OF THE SEX QUESTION, BY CYRUS, — — - PRICE 5 crs. Solution of the Financial Problem. - - RICE. 5 crs. Controversy BETWEEN PROF. SPEAR AND _ALVA MAY, B! PROF. R. O. SPEAK, - - I - ‘ THE ENTIRE SERIES, PAPER, $1.25. PRICE 5 CTS. JAMES H. BUBBETT; Manager, Branch A. Guiding Star Print- ing House 212 & 214 Front Street. SAMUEL H. DANIELS, Manager, Branch No. 1, Provision De- partment, Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 & 21-1 Front St. I. R. MARs'roN, Managing Agent, Branch No. 1, Real Estate Department Bureau of Equitable Commerce 628 Market Street. C. J. l‘vI.~\cLAUGHL1N, Editor THE PLOWSIIARE AND PRUNING Hoox; Official Organ of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 & 21.1. Front Street. All business relating to either of these departments of the Koreshan Unity in San Francisco should be addressed to the respective heads of said departments. General letters of inquiry concerning the Bureau of Equit- able Commerce or patrons should be addressed to either Dr. C_vrus R. Teed, President of the Board of Directors; or Prof. R. O. Spear, Secretary, 218 & 220 Noe Street, San Francisco, Cal. All communications pertaining to the Golden Gate Branch of the Koreshan Unity (Church Triumphant, College of Life or Society Arch Triumphant) should be addressed to Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, 2512 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, Cal. , All business and inquiries relating to the General Assem- bly of the K01-eshan Unity should be addressed to the Guiding Star Assembly, 3617 &.3619 Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, Ills. KVould You Not Like To Act As Our Agent? we will pay you ~-->50 per cent. -<-e ON ALL CASH SUBSCRIPTIONS! THE EASIEST PAPER IN ‘AMERICA FOR WHICH T0 SECURE SUBSCRTPTIONS. RADICAL! ORIGINAL! CONVINCING! REAL ESTATE. BRANCH NO. 1. This Bureau is prepared to transact a gener- al Real Estate Business. Those looking for Honres, Business or Investment Properties, either in city or country, will do well to investi- gate our BARGAINS before purchasing else- Where. Those having properties for SALE or EXCHANGE either in CITY or COUNTRY are requested to place them in our hands for disposal; correspondence solicited. Randolph M&TStOﬂ, Managing Agent. Ofﬂce 628 lﬁarket Street- San Francisco, Cal. . A — 53:4»; .’.-............‘_.....L 2.!‘ :1... -'..,__1-.. rn- 1.1-- ,,...1, 8 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. BUREAU or EQUITABLE COMMERCE. Retail Store I 1.4’-Lt Vfholesale Prices 1 1 At 212 & 2l4 F1‘ont Street. Orders taken at residence and Goods delivered at every point ordered. Telephone No. 200. .—. ’«3';>>.~‘ . s\ ,:,v/ .: \Ve will supply goods of every description.»—“But we will boycott you,” says the wholesaler and middle man, fostered un- der the wings of the Ainericaii Eagle. Do so and you will hear the Eagle scream. “'9 will give the people work and the pro- If you boycott the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, you boycott the last resort of the peo- ple and they will put you out. ductions of labor at living prices. 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Geography: Chicago (Ill.), San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-10
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Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 11 (August 1, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1947, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-08-01
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
Text: ‘ll , § $5 § as E ‘ set‘? E E § V N5“:- Vol. 1. No. 11. San Francisco, Ca1., August 1, 1891. Five Cents a Copy. The Plovvshare and Pruning Hook. 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street, - _ San Francisco, Cal. Telephone No. 200. .KORESH, - - - - - . 0. J. MACLAUGHLIN, - Founder and Director. — - - - ditor. Address all communications to the Editor. One Year in advance, - 50 cts. One Month in advance, - 10 cts. Six Months, “ - 25 “ Single Copy, “ — — 5 “ Sample Copy on Application. _Entered in the San Francisco Post Ofﬁce as Second Class Matter. If you do not reeeizre your paper regularly let us know. ll/one your letters 'to t/ze Editor s/zort and to t/ze point. ing on line issues. Contributions inriteo’ tour/z- Sulzseription price can be remittea’ lgy registerea’ letter, postal note ano’posto/flee or express money order made payable to C. Iliaelauglzlin. stamps. ‘ We will send THE PLO I/I/S11/116E A./V1) PA’ UNIZVG HOOK on tria...
Show more‘ll , § $5 § as E ‘ set‘? E E § V N5“:- Vol. 1. No. 11. San Francisco, Ca1., August 1, 1891. Five Cents a Copy. The Plovvshare and Pruning Hook. 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street, - _ San Francisco, Cal. Telephone No. 200. .KORESH, - - - - - . 0. J. MACLAUGHLIN, - Founder and Director. — - - - ditor. Address all communications to the Editor. One Year in advance, - 50 cts. One Month in advance, - 10 cts. Six Months, “ - 25 “ Single Copy, “ — — 5 “ Sample Copy on Application. _Entered in the San Francisco Post Ofﬁce as Second Class Matter. If you do not reeeizre your paper regularly let us know. ll/one your letters 'to t/ze Editor s/zort and to t/ze point. ing on line issues. Contributions inriteo’ tour/z- Sulzseription price can be remittea’ lgy registerea’ letter, postal note ano’posto/flee or express money order made payable to C. Iliaelauglzlin. stamps. ‘ We will send THE PLO I/I/S11/116E A./V1) PA’ UNIZVG HOOK on trial for one mont/L on receipt of ten eents in postage stamps. ‘ ‘Do not let sue/z an opportunity slip to reeeioe for t/zat lengt/z of time t/ze most outspoken and fearless meeltly paper pulrlis/lea’ in America. A/ail us I/Ie names of any your friends 70/zom you t/zin/c would li/lee to inr'esti— gate our Jllattlzless System of Commerce. IVe will send to all sue/z two issues of t/zis paper free. No financial olzligation is incurred lry t/lose receiving t/ze same. One mont/z’s trial sul7serzption may [76 paid in postage IV/zen you /211776’ read your paper /land it to some one w/mm you t/zinlz its tontents uroula’ interest. con:unw.zalz'ng t/ze Revolution in Commerce. LABOR T0 SECURE US SU1>’SCA’[]>’ERS. T /zus do your part tozuarzls T /zere is no system of eeono/ny extant t/lat contains t/ze elements essen- tial to a proper solution of tlzeﬁnaneial pro/rlem as does t/1e /(ores/Ian sys- tem of Comnzereial Equation, eoneeiz/‘ed by its foumter for Me sole oeneyft of ' an oppressed ana'starz'ing /Iumanity. /t is simple, eompre/zensirve and ade- ___guate to meet all t/ze requirements for feeding t/ze people and estaolis/ling "an eouitable nzet/zoo’ of eommereial exelzange. Its aeloption liy t/ze people, oeeauseof its aa’aptal)ilitv and simplicity is inezritalile, and t/ze a’es/ruetion money and of monopoly will speedily ensue as t/ze result of its triumplz. a-‘a.-.;1asai~' .10 ;au..'.....;.’ L VVhile the riotous and tyrannical mob has compelled the rec- ognized authorities at Briceville to retreat, the Governor is con- sulting the District-Attorney about his right to maintain the in- tegrity of the state. A man who has not independence enough to act vigorously in a crisis had better be out of oﬂice. No posse of men has a right to interpose an obstruction to the free exercise of the rights of other men or of the state. A tyrannical mob is as bad as a tyrannical millionaire. Dispose of them both; bury them however, decently. Put them under ground but make the funeral respectable and legal. In this day we can’t pattern after Jesus Christ the anarchist. He was too radical for our times. He had to meet an imperial Government. Ours is a :Democracy and the voice of the people is the voice of government. There is no necessity for the application of his radical method. To be sure he went into the temple and kicked out the money changers and made havoc of their counting tables; he interfered withgthe legiti- mate exercise of the people's rights guaranteed them in the com- promise of the church and state; he riotously encroached upon the legalized prerogatives of citizens while in the peaceful pursuit of their mercantile avocations, and we admire his grit, but we are not quite so radical. We like his methods for that age, and en- joy very much the wrat/zful side of the Divine character as incited to the overthrow of injustice, but we need not resort to that meth- od to gain our cause. The peaceful process of revolution is the better plan. VVe may institute reform through the power of or- ganic effort applied to the process of leveling the relations of in- dustry and wealth, but let it be done decently, in a sort of civilized way. The deliberate plan is the surest one. Adopt it with cool calculation but through organic power and force equation. In a recent address to the students of the University of V irgin- ia, Henry VVatterson, editor of the Louisville Courier journal and Democratic chieftain said: “Our country is not getting worse; it is getting better, and we are masters of the greatest country on the globe. VVe have the most perfect system of government. \Ve have nothing from without to fear, and within we have but two great dangers——the taste for money and the devil of party spirit.” Passing over the fourth of July ﬁreworks part of this speech as harmless, childlike, though decidedly ﬂat, when Mr. \‘Vatterson says “we have out two great dangers” mentioning love for money and spirit of faction, we would like to inquire how many more than these two does he suppose we as a nation can stand. From present indications these two “buts" are knocking the life out of the Commonwealth. No, “we have nothing from without to fear;” but everything, from within. ~lf;..,,.. ..........'..;a’.»a...2x 1.2.4. 4... .. ......;.....__..__:. -2‘ n. .. -._._-1.. rv- LL - L .._._1 _ 2 The Plowshare and Prunir1gHook. Rev. J. M. Buckley, D. D., (and L. L. D., we think) editor of the New York C/zrz'sz‘z'a7z Aaﬁwale, head organ of Methodism, has an article in Harper’s Magazine for July on “Christianity and So- cialism.” \Vhat Rev. J. M‘. Buckley, D. D., (and L. L. D., we think) does not know about practical Christianity is only equaled by what he does not care to know about Socialism. ’ The scarcity of meat in r\Iunich is reported so great that the police have given orders that no dog: shall be slaughtered for eat- zhgpurjzoses unless adjudged sound by veterinary surgeons. Three butchers have been arrested there for slaughtering and selling meat of stolen dogs. One butcher was sentenced to two months imprisonment for slaughtering thirty stolen mongrels. _ How hor- rible! They Know Just How to Run it. Now that the Bureau of Equitable Commerce is a practical, working, enterprise and there has at last been evolved a system neither depending upon nor drawing its inspiration from any other, we are inundated with a large number of persons who can tell us just how to run it. They have studied the economic ques- tion all their lives and have winnowed the chaff from the wheat in the solution of the problem. Having tested all me.-thods—like the paid certiﬁer to the merits of a certain patent medicine, who has tried everything else without avail fron1 boneset to dogwood—they have now lighted upon just the thing to do the business. Our sys- tem is all right, they say—as far as it goes: but theirs! why, it can just “knock the spots” out of our whole plan. VVhen they un- lock their economic jack—in-the-box and their giant springs up why we, as it were, just take a header and down we go, as graph- ically described in the typical song of “Olivette”, which unique operatic production has lately been revived in this town. Now as a matter of fact we wish to say that our system is complete and satisfactory. VVe do not ﬁnd a need of altering it and shall not alter it for any “Slick Sam” who may or may not be trying “to work” us for his own beneﬁt. If other folks have a very ﬁne thing for the people we say with our whole hearts, Develop it! Work it for all it is worth! And the plan, when applied, which meets with the most hearty approval, is the one, which, like friend Eli, will ﬁnally “get there.” SOME WEAK LYE. , [LIE.] .A very puerile article appeared in a little sheet bearing the title, 7716 Star, suggestive, all things considered, of the method of the child which makes a drawing and writes under it: “This is a horse,” to identify it. After hearing of the article in question we inquired as to the character of the said paper whether it was a weekly or daily, not knowing till about a week since, that such a sheet existed. The gentleman inquired of, is a prominent busi- ness man, an old resident of San Francisco, and when asked if the paper was a daily or weekly, he said “where is it published?" We replied, in San Francisco, “I never heard of it,” said the gentle- man. We are a little fearful that the editor of “The Star” has not followed the common injunction of the Episcopal curate when the contribution box is passed, “Let your light so shine” etc. So far as the article in consideration is concerned we have but to say that from beginning to end there is not one word of truth upon which to predicate the falsehoods with which it is made up. It is composed of malicious, but weak, lies. The principal character- istic of the said weakness was the fact that the editor declared him- self a prophet and a saviour, (he had saved many people by his prescience and saving grace he says) while at the same time h denies the right of others to both the oflice and claim. The weak- ness, was a malignant effort to traduce the character and work of Dr. Teed, of which he is as ignorant as an ass. VVe suppose the item will reach ﬁve hundred people, we are thankful, even for this small amount of gratuitous advertising. We trust, if it be a Star, that it will begin to scintillate. DO YOU VVANT TO REDUCE YOUR EXPENSES? .» This is the question which the Bureau of Equitable Commerce puts to every house-keeper, and certainly one calling for some reply. Do you want to pay the usual retail price for tea, coffee etc., when you can get the same from the Bureau for 10 or 15 cents a pound less P to. We are talking to the great middle class, that knows the val- ue of money because it has to earn it. And this is the class that will patronize the Bureau of Equitable Commerce. Those who have’nt sufficient conﬁdence in this Bureau to buy our certiﬁcates, which range in price from $5 to $100 may deal with us, if ‘they choose, upon the C. O. D. basis and be convinced that there is no chicanery or fraud about our transactions and that this system was established solely for the beneﬁt of the PEOPLE. We purpose to de- stroy onopoly by instituting a monopoly of the people, for the hen- eﬁt of the people. Our checks, which go with the certiﬁcates pur- chased by our patrons answer every requirement of money so far as we and our patrons are concerned. In the purchase of groceries these checks are MORE VALUABLE THAN U. s. CURRENCY because through our store they will purchase more goods than the same amount of U. S. currency can purchase in any retail grocery store. Do you think the people under this consideration will patronize ~ the Bureau of Equitable Commerce? Well, we think so; because the majority of the people, having common sense, will go where they can buy the most goods for the least money. It is not neces- sary for the Patrons of Equitable Commerce to come all the way down to Front street to buy their groceries from us at less than re- tail prices. All they have to do-is to. notify us that they desire to deal with us on either the C. O. D. or check basis and we will send them our self-addressed postal cards, which are so arranged that the quantity of any particular kind of goods desired need but to be set down in a column on the back of these postal cards designed for that purpose; the postal card is then mailed and upon receiving the same we promptly dispatch the order for goods by our delivery service. Nothing could be simpler. ’ Now, as we have frequently reiterated in these columns, as the Bureau of Equitable Commerce begins to yield a proﬁt through its patronage by the people, its certiﬁcate holders—the patrons—will receive 33% per cent of such proﬁt, so that the people will not only be supplied with goods at nearly wholesale prices but they will re- ceive the beneﬁt of the proﬁt side of the business, of the Bureau which was instituted solely for the purpose of bringing the masses into a co—operative unity; breaking up the large number of retail stores; doing away with the middleman; absorbing the producer himself into the system, thus making the producer and consumer one and inseparable, as they should be; molding together upon the co-operative basis all the various lines of industry, thus abolishing small dealers in general; wiping out the present iniquitous system of banking and money, and establishing one great and harmonious commonwealth based upon the principle of commercial integrity, value for value, the performance of use as a requisite to the obtain- ing of the products of the soil and brain and the complete and ﬁnal extirpation of competition as an incentive to industry. This is the ultimate purpose of the Bureau for the accomplish- ment of which it has taken the initiative by the establishment ofa grocery store for the people where prices are only a little in advance of wholesale ﬁgures. Give this organization your patronage and your moral support and we will make such a havoc in the commer- _ cial world such as was never dreamed of. Our patrons are increas- ing in number and our enterprise is sure to be a great success. How Middlemen Rob Producers. It takes years, much labor, much care, and much money to produce a crop of fruit, Then it takes money, time, care and work to get boxes or baskets, gather the fruit, sort it, pack it, mark the packages and then put them on board the cars or boat, consigned to a commission merchant to be sold by him for the best price he can get in the open market. The grower is elated. At last he has realized a beautiful dream andsent some ﬁne fruit to market, and If you do, why just go ahead and throw away your money; . you do not belong to the class of people we are addressing ourselves » The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. now he is to be rewarded for his courage, his toil, his patient wait- ing and hisoutlay. After a little more waiting for the returns from the commission man-, word comes that there was a glut in the V market and his beautiful fruit, his beautiful dreams and fond hopes had to be sacriﬁced; only a nominal price being realized for his product, and this is again reduced by freight and commissions. It is a hard blow, and it makes him stagger. But he is brave; more fruit ripens and he tries it again, for he must have some ready money to meet imperative demands. “Dull sale, slow prices, small margin, light returns” are this time the crushing words of his commission merchant. “Is this possible?" he says, for he has been reading the market reports in the newspapers. He comes with his next consignment to see for himself. He ﬁnds the market good, with a ready sale for his choice fruit. “Fine market to-day, and you are in luck this time,” says the quick—witted and glib , commission man! He has learned his lesson, but what good will it do him? He cannot come with every shipment to see what is the state of the market, and he ﬁnds himself in the hands of a man whose only interest in his welfare is the amount of commissions he can make out of him. He looks about him, now, aroused and suspicious, and tries to learn the real state of the market when his . other shipmen-ts are made. What can he learn? Other commission men have no interest in him, and his very inquiries put them on their guard. He learns nothing—except that he is at the mercy ofa class of men who do not inspire him with unbounded conﬁ- dence! These men seem so heartless and unconcerned, and he ﬁnds that in case of a real glut of the market they do not exert themselves to save his perishable property, but simply let it rot because it does not sell itself without an eﬂbrt on their part. This is a false and vicious system for the sale of fruit or any other farm product. The true, honest and safe way is that promul- gated by the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, which protects the ‘producer and consumer alike, by a quick and equitable dis- " tribution.-——f A. j. Our Commercial Plan Explained. We invite the attention of the public to the Co-operative Plan of Distribution and Collection adopted by the Bureau of Equitable ’ Commerce which enables every one to become a sharer in the prof- " its of the organization, to the amount of 33% per cent and, at the Same time. retails goods at less than retail prices. Every one pur- chasing our certiﬁcates, which range in price from $1 ,oo to $1oo,oo , becomes a Patron of Equitable Commerce and a part owner of the commercial system. Each certiﬁcate purchaser receives a check of denomination equal to that of his certiﬁcate. If, say, the same I befor $5, that amount is stamped upon the check in numerals ranging from 5 cts. to 50 cts., and as goods are purchased from the Bureau these numerals are punched out until the whole amount of the check is exhausted, when the same is taken up. Thus it will i readily be seen that for the purchase of the merchandise handled by the Bureau (which will gradually include every line of supply) its certiﬁcates and accompanying checks by furnishing goods to its Patrons at nearly wholesale prices, will be more valuable to ‘ them than United States currency, and by adhering to the same, * they will establish an equitable system of exchange between the j producer and consumer; (for the Bureau will eventually deal direct- y with the producer in all lines), render superﬂuous ﬁat money .» which the money power can contract or expand at pleasure; and eﬂiect a safe solution to the vexatious ﬁnancial problem which to- _ day confronts us. . T We invite you to inspect our stock of groceries, and other oods usually kept in a first class grocery store, purchase of us, the superﬂuous and rapacious middle men and thus aid in 5-gsummating a radical revolution in the present unjust commer- methods which must inevitably end in ﬁnancial disaster and : .§-Sto1e of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, 212 and 214 I ant Street. Orders taken at residence, or sent on the receipt of e-Bureau’s postal cards, with which its Patrons are supplied, goods delivered at every point ordered. Telephone No. 200. REV. ROBERT COLLYER ON LABOR. I have no hcsitancy in saying that the man who builds a strong, straight wall week days does better than the man who prcachos a weak sermon on Sun- days; that the maid in the kitchen working faithfully takes a far higher rank than the young ladies in the parlor who dawdle through the days reading the last new story—a story, perhaps, which tells of the grand dignity of the worker, while she herself is unable to bake a loaf of bread or wash a shirt. The secret tlire-ad of this life of nobility, my dear peoplc——this life of labor —I feel as free to say as you to hear, lies in the isolation of the vast and ever growing working forces, from those who employ them ;and may I not say also, thatthtsgoncralgreateonteniptoflaborissteadﬂy mninglikoacancorintotho strong manhood of American citizens ? Be proud, my dear people, of the working folks in every calling, not forget that from their ranks have sprung the greatest minds in theology, science, literature and war. When I in memory recall my old friend Garﬁeld, it is then that I recognize to what distinction and honor the laboring men can attain. I trust that ere long the silken thread of honest labor may weave a string which will in turn produce a cable, and then a bridge. upon whose broad span one and all—labor and capital~may stand and cheerfully fraternize. The public is pretty well sickened with this sort of hodge-podge from the clergy. It has grown very stale and tasteless, like a co- coanut without its juice. The clergy, when it indulges in this sort of pulpit prattle is simply talking against time. It is drawing a large salary, (we believe Rev. Mr. Collyer is quoted at $10,000 ayear, —a very comfortable sum to drag through life upon) and must there- fore, you know, say something when it opens its mouth on Sunday. It frequently opens its mouth during the week but mainly for the purpose of masticating turkey,'sirloins, etc. and to sprinkle, in chinese-laundry style, the milk of “christian” kindness upon the heads of the dear ladies and vestrymen of the parish. Harriet Martineau, the great humanitarian said many years ago: “Not even the slave—ho1ding and commercial classes, are so guilty ofthe crime of slavery as the clerical class; their opposition to its abolition is well nigh universal and they use all their authority as religious teachers in favor of slavery, and yet when its abolition is ﬁnally accomplished, they will claim the glory of a reform which they did their uttermost to retard." The clergymen have always taken this same cowardly, hypocritical stand, upon all radical questions —and what question is there of great moral and social importance that is not a radical one? ' . The words quoted from Robert Collyer sound very sweet, no doubt, but they simply deal in generalities. They do not partic- ularize. If this portly, well fed, adherent to the cloth had a sincere love for the poor and oppressed and a righteous contempt for the rich and the lazy——which latter class is the principle factor in the production of his salary—he would not say to these selﬁsh, insipid occupants of cushioned pews when speaking upon the all- absorbing social question, “may I not say” or “be proud, my dear people, of the workingfolks, ” but with that rugged honesty and straight forward speech which characterizes the true friend of humanity he would, in unmistakable accents, DECLARE his honest convictions, and, in so doing would, perforce, denounce un- stintingly the whole nest of tawdry autocrats who presume to ele- vate their necks, like peacocks, above their fellows, because a vitiated body politic has permitted them tosteal and defraud the masses under the gaudy, though rotten cloak of the law. Clergy- men are not denouncing much of anything now days any more than they ever have been in the habit of doing. They can always be depended upon to uphold existing institutions for the reason that upon these rests their material support. If they tread upon the denunciatory line it is always in a weak kind of a way, with one foot, only, so that, if things begin to look risky they can read- ily step back again. On such matters as intemperance or general political corruption they are seemingly very bold, because these are popular points of attack; but let there arise an issue by the adhering to which one’s livelihood, popularity or life ‘are endan- gered, and these n1ild—faced gospel sand slingers will crawl into their holes as slickly and quietly as a ground hog upon the ap- proach of an intruder. Harriet Martineau hit the nail on the head when she declared in the above language the attitude of clergymen toward black slavery. And, just as she says, they have the effrontery, to-day, notwithstanding their ﬂagrant recreance to a great moral obligation, to claim a large share of the credit for the suppression of the re- bellion. True; Starr King, Henry Ward Beecher, Bishop Simpson and do J 7 kg“; __ e -2- . » ,_v-:’J-~_Li,l »V__, * . 2. -.5“ —- ‘..a .. 4 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. and a few others of the cloth, did aid materially by their oratory and counsel at thistrying period, but their support of and interest in abolition were not enlisted as ministers but as czﬁzem of the Republic, and no religious body in this country, with the possible exception of the Eastern Unitarian association, which was ‘then merely in its infancy, and stronger in moral purpose then it is now, gave its support to this great contest, unti1—minister-lil<e—the voice of the North was shown to be unqualiﬁedly in favor of the re- peal of slavery. The real moral stamina existing in modern theol- ogy is demonstrated by the circumstance that the various relig- ious bodies of this country, at the time of the war when the issue was clearly arid unmistakably drawn, were separated, so that to- day in most of the denominations, as instanced by the \Vesleyites, we have a Methodist Church North, and a Methodist Church South; two distinct organizations. But, mark you, it was not the clergymen that effected this separation but the inﬂuence of the laymen of the various denominations; they at last took abolition snuff, and, then, of course, the clergymen sneezed.‘ Why shouldn’t they? Sneezing at such a juncture in the controvers, was rendered safe. The Roman Catholic Church never did come out, in any sense, in favor of abolition. Jesuitism was always in sympathy with the Southern cause, the Pope expressed that sympathy so far as it was prudent for him to do, and the same power actuated and directed the conspiracy which lead to the assassination of Lincoln. These are matters of record which, if every American citizen does not, ought to, know. We may appear to be digressing but when one undertakes to discuss the real attitude of the clergy—and this includes the Catholic clergy—toward existing wrongs one ﬁnds a broad and fertile ﬁeld where little plowing has, as yet, been done. Rev. Robert Collyer who gave utterance to the sentences above quoted and whose pusillanimous and aimless posture touching upon matters of labor is therein apparent, was himself, at one time an iron worker on day wages in a little town of Eastern Pennsyl- vania. This is to his credit. It is quite probable, if this clerical gentleman’s inner consciousness could be probed, it would be dis- covered that he had a more satisfactory opinion of himself at that time when a wage worker and a producer, like the masses, than when, having been elevated through thedevelopement of talent to a station in society where, to maintain himself, he feels prompted to either apologize for the foibles or the injustice of wealth; or else, impelled by the powerful voice of discontent that is everywhere heard, or the heartrending cries of the suffering millions; he is forced to spread a slight, if harmless, layer of reproof upon the faces of his rich pew renters,~in whom moral sense and all impulse of commonality are practically as dead as in ﬁgures of paste. The modern clergyman is the most consummate specimen of insincerity, pliability and moral cowardice, extant. . The Standard Oil Monopoly Abroad. Not satisﬁed with controlling the petroleum trade of this con- tinent says the journal oft/te Ifmg/Its of Labor, the Standard Oil Company has extended its operations to Europe. VVithin the last few months they have secured a combination of the large houses in Bremen and Hamburg engaged in the business and organized them into a gigantic stock company—the German-American Petro- leum Company—in which the Standard magnates hold a control- ling interest. The same plan of operation has been pursued at Rotterdam. Antwerp and Venice. The whole trade of Germany is being absorbed by this enormous combination, their only competi- tor being the German—Russian Naptha Importing Company, which deals in the import from the Baker wells in Russia. It is expected that they, too, will shortly be absorbed by the big American cor- poration, and then the market will be completely in the hands of the Standard monopolists. The German laws against combinations to raise prices of products are powerless against the Standard Oil Company’s encroachnients for the same reason that the laws passed by several American State Legislatures against combina- tions are inefTective—viz.: that the new organization is not a trust or an amalgamation, but a regularly organized mercantile company, such as is strictly within the law. We are curious to see how «- Emperor VVi1liam will deal with the matter. It is a very instruct- ive spectacle as it stands, showing how much stronger the power of accumulated and organized wealth is than the boasted despotic power of the Hohenzollerns. Emperor VVilliam is no mere royal ﬁgure—head. He assumes to govern in fact as well as in name- yet a ﬁnancial corporation mainly controlled by foreigners is able to set his laws at deﬁance and take absolute control of an import- ant branch of industry. The real rulers in these days are not kings, emperors, presidents or legislatures, but millionaires. The situation must excite unpleasant reﬂections in the minds of the nominal rulers of Germany and other European countries as to the result in case the enterprise of the Srandard Oil monopolists were but the forerunner of a series of similar exploitations by the millionaires who control different lines of production in this coun- try. Supposing Armour, for instance, were to acquire control of the meat trade, Carnegie to organize a syndicate and capture the iron industry, and some other American combination to monopolize the market for breadstuﬂ”s—would it not be a serious menace to the political integrity of Germany and, worse, an actual enslavement of the masses of German producers to foreign taskmasters? By the way, it is wonderful how much more clearly people can see the injustice and absurdity of such a system when the spoliators are foreigners or live at a distance, though the principle is just the same when they operate in their native country. THE COMBAT Tl-IICKENS! Another Convention of the Patrons of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce is Held With Pronounced Success. ‘Little advertising was resorted to in order to bring together the 800 people that assembled in Metropolitan Temple last Thurs- , (1.2; evening in response to a second call for a convention of those interested in reducing the cost of living and establishing an equit- able system of commercial exchange. 800 people may seem a Sllldll number to convene for such an important object, but, when it is taken into consideration how indiﬁferent the people have grown E to the guardianship of their vested rights, the number is quite large. The audience was composed of that class who think sober- ly and earnestly upon social questions and who came there for business and not for triﬂing. Efforts had been made to advertise the meeting by the use of a street transparency in a vehicle, such .;~ is usually resorted to for the gathering together of political parties, but the policemen of this city persistently interfered with the passage of the conveyance bearing the same although there is no city ordinance warranting them to take such action. However, as stated, the people came, anyhow, and seemed to come instinct- ively for the meeting was conducted purely in their interest. A number of ladies identiﬁed with the Koreshan Unity occupied seats upon the platform, but Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, the founder of the new system of Commerce was the only speaker, being introduced to the audience by C. J. Maclarighlin, Editor of Tm: PLOWSHARE AND PRCNING HOOK. Dr. Teed began by giving a clear and compre- hensive exposition of his system of commercial equation indicat- ing the plumblin_e---Ems.-grity, to be the means for the leveling of the commercial rt. ‘J;-.tions of mankind and restoring the lost balance in the interchange of products. He said among other things that if the money spent in building and sustaining the churches of San Francisco, where mock worship was held, were utilized in establishing a great industrial system for the people, the poor, who now suffer, wmtld be clothed and fed and the money thus expended thereby turned to some account. The Bureau of Equitable Com- merce, the spa-.l;er continued, had come to stay despite all oppo- ' sition and it was not an advertising dodge to put money in some one’s pocket but a cooperative institution for the sole beneﬁt of its patrons with the ultimate object of establishing a great system of universal economy. If one thousand patrons could be secured from among the citizens of San Francisco, commercial equity was established, a revolution in commerce assured and a new Common- wealth, organized by the people, for the people, an inevitable con- clusion. Bureaus, similar to the one founded in this city it is pro- The Plowshareand Pruning Hook. 5 posed to establish in every city and town in the United States, .until, through the adoption of his system of exchange, by checks, the old money system with its speculating properties would be swept away. The audience gave close attention to his remarks and in response to a call many signiﬁed their desire and intention of patronizing the Bureau of Equitable Commerce and thus give .the new commercial ball a good push forward. Any close observer last Thursday evening at this the second convention of the Bureau might have discovered the fact, that Dr. Teed, notwithstanding the maliciously false reputation he has won at the hands of the press, made then and there a deep impression upon the people as regards his sincerity and capacity as a social engineer, which, tak- ing root, will multiply until the new party, the Koreshan party has become strong and potential, wielding the balance of power in the interest of the masses. The speaker announced that at the next meeting to be held two weeks from that evening in the same place, those present would be resolved into a school of national economy and set to voting. The new and ﬁnal party of reform is at last born. -—-—?r-+O><——-—: A PATHETIC LETTER. DEAR AUNT CHARITIE : I hear that your paper-—thc Vidette, is publish- ed to tell people how to save their homes. and I do wish you would tell us how to get ours back. It was such a pretty home, one we all loved so much, and mama grieves‘ about it all the time, and often cries because we had to give it up, and live in this old rented house. Papa is a farmer and worked hard to pay his debts, but could not, so he mortgaged our home, and thought he could make money enough to pay it up, and we all staid at home, and worked hard, and did not even go to Church on Sundays. I was kept home from school to help work, but still he could not pay up. So one day papa came home looking pale like he was ever so sick, and told mama that the man who had the mortgage on the place was going to take it from us, and we would have to move. Oh l Aunt Charitie, if you had seen us that day you would have thought some of our family were dead, we were all so grieved at the thought of losing all our work on our pretty home. We moved and papa is hired to a man and works away from home, and mama is sick nearly all the time and says she has no heart to work. We still do not attend church or school because we have no good clothes to wear out in company. Mama used to play on the piano, but she is not able to own one now, and all her music books are piled up in one corner of the room, and are right dusty, she does not even sing now. I wish you could see her and say‘ a few cheering words to her, for she needs comforting. I am only a little girl, but I do all I can to keep her in heart. I live in north Louisiana, and when Mr. Tetts was up here last April, the people all went out to hear him and Mr. ' Adams speak. There was a heap said about the homes being niortgaged in Kansas, and other places, but nothing was said about people losing their homes in Louisiana. I suppose it was because they did not know of any in this state was why they did not speak of them. I write this to let you know that there is such suffering here. My papa don’t drink whisky, nor play cards, and , works every day but Sunday, and it looks like we ought to niakc a good ‘ living. Yours affectionately, LITTLE NANNIE. We clip the above from the ﬁreside department of the Farmers’ Vitiefte, Louisiana. Little Nannie describes the condition and ultimate fate of nine millions of homes in the United States, the boasted land of the free. This condition has been forced upon the people to give the proﬁts of labor and the comforts derived there- from to the usurers and Shylocks who control the legislation of this country through the two old parties. As John Sherman said in the senate, that “it became necessary to depreciate the govern- ment issue of money in order to make a sale for the bonds,” so also it became necessary to mortgage the homes of the people in order to get possession of all the wealth that labor produces. It has been said that “of such (as little Nannie) is the kingdom of Heaven.” , She has described the inevitable condition of the producers of -America, unless the united efforts of the industrial organizations ="with their ballots sweep from the halls of legislation, the tools of "the money power. It is said in the Lord ‘s prayer, “Thy king- ’. dom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is done in Heaven.” Are the legislators elected by either of the two old parties trying toproduce the condition prayed for by the Son of Man, or that millions of them mortgaged, and then say to their “beloved hearers” to “be contented with their lot, and submissive to the powers that be?” Is it possible that the teachers and doctors of divinity do not see that the money power must be dethroned before the Lord ’s prayer is fulﬁled on earth ? “Ye cannot serve two masters. "— Karzsas Agitator. -———-———r—v0H—:—— THE CZAR ADMITS HIS RESPONSIBILITY FOR A GREAT OUTRAGE. The speculation which has hitherto been indulged in as to whether or not the Czar had any cognizance of the cruelties which are being inﬂicted in his name upon his 5,000,000 Jewish subjects is now at an end, observes the New York Trzlzzme. Alexander III accepts the responsibility for the barbarous treatment to which they have been subject, and publicly proclaims that he is deter- mined to continue resolutely “to the end” the policy upon which he had entered with a view to the solution of the Jewish diﬂiculty. He declares that the Jews have themselves forced that policy upon him‘ by their conduct, and adds that “there has never been a single Nihilist plot in which the Jews have not been concerned, add that it is they who have been most actively engaged in the propagation of subversive movements.” That the Jews as indi- viduals have been largely identified with Nihilism and other revolutionary movements is undoubtedly true. But the fault lies. at the doors of the Russian government in general and at that of’ the Czar in particular. When the late Emperor ﬁrst inaugurated that era of enlightenment, progress and liberty, which he subse- quently regretted and modiﬁed, the most extraordinary facilities were accorded in the direction of popular instruction. Among those to take advantage thereof were Jews whose superior intelli- gence enabled them to derive far greater beneﬁts from the educa- tional favors accorded by the government than the ordinary Russian moujik or tradesman. Unfortunately, however, all the principal professions and occupations for which their studies had ﬁtted the graduates of the universities and colleges remained closed to members of the Hebrew race. The latter are excluded from the Government service, which is the Alpha and the Omega of everything in Russia, and hindered from pursuing any career in which their educational attainments would enable them to rise‘ in life. Nor has the Government ever attempted in any way to re- medy this state of affairs, and to open up new ﬁelds for their enterprise, industry and intelligence. On the contrary, each year brings with it some fresh ukase restricting the number of occu- pations open to members of the Hebrew race. The consequence is that every Muscovite city and town is thronged with numbers of highly educated and clever Jews, who, being unable to secure any employment or livelihood in keeping with the superior character of their attainments, lead a hand—to-mouth existence. Rendered desperate by starvation, by the utter hopelessness of their future, and by the intolerable persecutions of their race, it is only natural that they should constitute the very kernel of Russian Nihilism. O GOG AND MAGOG. The great Pennsylvania Steel \Vorks at Stcelton——except the machine shop, boiler shop, foundry and frog departn1ents—have shut down because ofa disagreement in regard to wages. The company, it is reported, will endeavor to resume work with non- union men. - co 9 -——v— England is playing a very sharp trick on America in regard to manufacture. Free trade rules there. Protective tariﬂ‘ rules here. Her capitalists own nine-tenths of the manufacturies here, and use the protective tariif, under the guise of paying better wages, to put up prices on us. They wall us in and make us pay extra for it. She takes the balance of the commerce of the world. Instead of paying the better wages here, she sends over her pauper» laborers to work at nearly the same ﬁgures as her own, and wipe up the cash of Americans under false pretense.—/I/om‘go;71ery (A/a.) Alliance. ' I; . hi‘ the neonTe.~‘ To the nenrrle 6 . The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. PRUNINGS. They say Jay Gould's favorite beverage is watered milk.¥- Perks Suu. Prohibitionists should learn that it is not liquor drives men into poverty so‘ much as poverty drives men to liquor.-/1zuerz2‘mz [V072-Coizforuziszt The tariff is played out, Mr. of the stop thief cry, and though you may catch young gudgeons with such baited pin-hooks, you -can’t_catch old reform birds with any such chaff.——f[artforo’ Exam- iuer. 5 " . . . . . ‘ The money which 15 invested in our railroads was largely borrowed in Europe, Our railroad bonds, our municipal bonds,"to say nothing of the advances secured on private credit are largely held abroad.—Sz'ouxCz'z_‘y journal. “What will the harvest be?” Well, hereabouts a pretty good “crap,” a rather hard, hot time for the farmer, a good rake off for the railroad, and a perfect feast for the interest gathering, usury taking, blood sucking shylo,cks.—Imlu5trz'al Uzzirm. The thought of the animal has narrow limitations, and the lower in the animalistic scale it is, the narrower are the limits of its thoughts. The more man approaches the Divine the broader and more universal his thoughts.— W'orlo”x Aa’m7zoo T /zoug/zt. . . . . . . . Whereever wrong is done To the humblest or the weakest ’neath the all-beholding sun, That wrong is also done to us, and they are slaves most base Whose love of right is for themselves and not for all their race.” fame: Russell Lowell. The Standard Oil monopoly has three of its members in the United States senate. The Central Paciﬁc road has its president and two paid attorneys there. is a senator, and the Pennsylvania Central has two attorneys there, besides there are several senators representing less important trusts, national banks, etc.—Ex. There seems to be irrefragable evidence that the American people is in hopeless bondage to corrupt wire pullers, and is sold by them, with hardly the pretence of concealment, to wealthy rob- bers—the ﬁnanciers of speculative trusts and rings, which are real- ly nothing else but organized and state-protected swindle-rs.— I V. S. Lilly, in t/ze Forum. The United States is at the present time England's most prof~ itable dependency. VVhat the war of the revolution failed to ac- complish for that nation its money has done. The United States feeds, clothes and governs itself and annually remits to England a large portion of its net proﬁts in production. This is done through the power of money to oppress.—T/ze Natzolzal Ecouomisf. Sageman—A remarkable girl is that Miss Snapper. You know her pretty well—has she any leaning in the direction of any par- ticular creed? Bluntly—I can’t say deﬁnitely, but from the way she dispos- ed of my marital aspirations last evening I should say she was a Shaker.—Bos2'ou Courier. VVhat right has Mr. Foster to extend those bonds at 2 per cent? \Vhy does every secretary run up to New York and consult the Wall street bankers every time he goes to touch the money in the United States treasury? l)oes the money in the treasury belong to Foster, the people, or the bankers? VVhat rights do the great mass of the people of the United States have anyway? Do the people belong to the officers, or the ofﬁcers to the people? Just think !—Allz'a7za: Farmer, The Georgia Central’s president, The “ladies of the white house” are in Europe. “There is no doubt,” says the Rev. Col. Shepard, in his 11/ail and Express, “that they have consorted with the highest.” This assurance will gratify the American people, who have been told every day by cable that the distinguished visitors were consorting with the lowest—that is, with the noble and corrupt lackeys of royalty.- Li/Ierty Bell. 'Any port in a storm and any excuse in an emergency. Secre- tary Foster's pretext for wishing to extend the maturing 4 1-2 per cents, is that it would prevent contraction of the currency. ‘But the real reason is, and the country knows it, that the treasury can- not pay these bonds in September without taking the risk of a de- ﬁcit, which would have a bad effect on the Republican surplus squanderers in the fall elections. This is the curdled milk in the treasury cocoanut.——]VeuI York ll/orla’. The most dreaded class of people at this day are the very rich and the very poor. One is made pompous and overbearing by the possession of wealth, while the other is made vicious by hunger, cold and the pleading of famishing family. Although both are to be dreaded, they cannot be amalgamated; as liberty and slavery are too foreign to each other to allow blending together. Thus we have the very rich to fear by their superior ﬁnancial advantage, and the extremely poor to fear by inferior ﬁnancial conditio11s.— Pm'uz’er’5 _/ourmzl. All the great agencies of public information are in the hands of capitalists, and the news communicated through them are doc- tored to suit the capitalistic view, whenever it bears on a question of importance to the capitalistic interests. We ﬁnd this demon- strated again and again in our daily papers; their local news items, their telegraphic dispatches, and their cablegrams, all bear the same stamp. A favorite trick, in reporting strikes, is to put them down as lost on the least sign of weakness, or without any sign at all for that 1natter.—Z>’a,éer’s journal. If ever a people needed a leader the laboring people do now. Some mastermind who can rise above the chaos of contention which rends the ranks of labor. A man, whose manly presence will commend him to all; who is above reproach, not a bum and brawler with a mouth full of bad words and a heart full of spite and malice, neither a hare-brained theorist with more fancies than facts, and a tongue honied with promises. But give us a sturdy man, a man of skill and worth, not merely a good fellow. One quick of perception and calm under criticisn1.—Syraou5e T rude Um'o/zisl. ‘ During the last four months twenty men and women com- mitted suicide rather than live by beggary or crime. This was not in India, Africa or any other heathen land, but in New York, in the midst of the blessings of free American institutions, Christ- ian civilization, “triumphant democracy," etc., etc. Possibly, when our churches get through discussing the Briggs case, the Newton case, the Pauline epistles, the Nicene creed and other important theological matters, they may ﬁnd time to inquire into the ques- tion of how it comes that men and women are brought to this aw- ful choice, and say whether a civilization under which such a thing is possible can be in any true sense Christian.—_/ourual of 1/25 A'rzz,';/’zl.v of Labor. The national banks have had their day. Well enough and good enough for the special emergency for which they were cre- ated. The nation was in great straights in the midst of a great war. Something must be done, and done at once, to meet the de- mand for “more money.” S. P.Chase, then secretary of the treas- ury, comprehended the situation. The national bank scheme and the greenback measure were presented to him. He at once adopted them. The rest is known, and the treasury was relieved from all further embarrassment. . But with the close of the war their work was done. Still they kept on. Having realized immense proﬁts from their business c—A-awxl: _, nnections with the government, they were loath to sever the re- ’,lation and go back to a regular legitimate banking system. And . having become entrenched in their position,‘they “held the fort” *1 and are now still at the front.—iI/Vas/zz'ngz‘¢m Vz'e7t'. 2———>-4Qo-4——:——— ‘ The statistics of immigration for the ﬁscal year ended June 30 are instructive and signiﬁcant. Of the 405,654 immigrants landed a1;New. York in that time, 74, 382 came from Germany, 3 5,424 from fl Ireland, 29,389 from England, Scotland and VVa1es, and 40,367 3; from Sweden and Norway. These are, in the main, permanent "1' and valuable additions to the industrial forces of the nation. From Italythere swarmed over no less than 70,776 persons, of whom but 9‘ £12,829 were females. Usually the proportion of the sexes among ‘ immigrants is nearly equal. But these wild—eyed Italians have not come to stay, but only to accumulate a little money and then _ return. They are nearly all of the densely ignorant, unskilled L laboring class. From Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and Poland I have come no less than 85,726 immigrants equally undesirable. I Russia sent 33,504 the majority of whom were Jews. In all there 2': arrived 155,936 unskilled laborers; and to this rabble, imported to 3;; - a great degree under some form of contractual agreement, the " number sent back under the provisions of the Alien Contract Labor law would have added but 510 persons. It is clear that the laws designed to restrict undesirable immigration have failed to answer 7, the purpose for which they were enacted,—[’/12'/;za’e[]>/zia Renard. DR. CYRUS R. TEED, the founder of the Koreshan System of Science, lectures every Sunday Morning at 11 I o'clock, and Sunday Evening at 7-l5'o’clock in the McAllister ;; Hall, 106 McAllister Street. All are cordially invited to at- ’ tend‘ these lectures, which are free. A new and incontro- if‘, vertible system of theology, science and government is 5,‘ promulgated in these lectures, unfolding the true laws of Being, the real science of the brain and the cosmos, and the 7 only practicable plan of social adjustment and of sound economies. Koreshanity, by its invulnerable teachings, har- " Vmonizes and blends the laws of life and adapts biblical 7‘ teaching to true science. Come and hear! Koreshan Litera.tuIe-e Our books and pamphlets contain a brief exposition of Koreshan Science hich uncovers all the mysteries of the ages. Human thought heretofore has oiled to discover all the laws, forms and relations of Being and Existence. _« Koreshanity is a genuine interpretation of pliononiena and form as .,-«expressed in the universe. It is a true index to the character of God and man, ,_ their relations. All intelligent people should read this literature and " ._ move in advance of the tidal wave of progress. ‘ The most radical subjects are ably, freely and fearlessly discussed. Re- ncarnation, or the Resurrection of the Dead. ‘ B! CYRUS, - - - - PRICE 15 ors. Emanuel Swedenborg. 1 Guns, - PRICE 15 ors. Identiﬁcation of the Children of Israel. 1 DB. ANDREWS, - PRICE 15 ers. - National Suicide and Its Prevention. B! PROF. L’AMo1zEAUx, - , - CLOTH $1.00. PAPER 50 ers. Koreshan Astronomy. THE EARTH A HOLLO\V GLOBE, .r_B! Pnor. R. O. SPEAR, - - PRICE 50 crs . , Is the Earth Convex? ‘iB! Pnor. R. 0. SPEAK, - - - "' Proclamation and Judgment. AN EXPOSITION OF THE SEX QUESTION, PRICE 5 CTS PRICE 5 crs. Solution of the Financial Problem. - - - - PRICE. 5 crs. Controversy BETWEEN PROF. SPEAR AND _.ALVA MAY, PROF. R. 0. SPEAK, - - - PRICE 5 (3:95, THE ENTIRE SERIES, PAPER, $1.25. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 7 JAMES H. BUBBETT; Manager, Branch A. Guiding Star Print- ing House 212 &. 214 Front Street. SAMUEL H. DANIELS, Manager, Branch No. 1, Provision De- partment, Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 & 214 Front St. I. R. MAnsTo.\*, Managing Agent, Branch No. 1, Real Estate Department Bureau of Equitable Commerce 628 Market Street. C. J. M.icL,iUeHL1N, Editor THE PLOWSHARE AND FRUNING HOOK; Official Organ of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 &.214 Front Street. Koreshan Unity in San Francisco should be addressed to the respective heads of said departments. General letters of inquiry concerning the Bureau of Equit- able Commerce or patrons should be addressed to either Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, President of the Board of Directors; or Mrs. M. C. Mills, Secretary, 218 & 220 Noe Street, San Francisco, Cal. All communications pertaining to the Golden Gate Branch Society Arch Triumphant) should be addressed to Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, 2512 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, Cal. All business and inquiries relating to the General Assem- bly of the Koreshan Unity should be addressed to the Guiding Star Assembly, 3617 & 3619 Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, Ills. Vifould You Not Like To Act As Our lkgent? We will pay you --->50 per cent. .<-~. ON ALL CASH SUBSCRIPTIONS! .4?» THE EASIEST PAPER IN ‘AMERICA FOR WHICH TO SECURE SUBSCRIPTIONS. RADICAL! ORIGINAL! convmcmcz REAL ESTATE. BRANCH NO. 1. This Bureau is prepared to transact a gener- al Real Estate Business. Those looking for Homes, Business or Investment Properties, either in city or country, will do Well to investi- gate our BARGAINS before purchasing else- where. V 'l‘l1osc having properties for SALE or EXCHANGE either in CITY or COUNTRY are requested to place them in our hands for disposal; correspondence solicited. Randolph Marston; Managing Agent. Ofﬁce 828 Market Street- San Francisco, Cal. -. All business relating to either of these departments of the ‘ of the Koreshan Unity (Church Triumphant, College of Life or" LA? H19 nnnnlb C Tn H19 nphnlh 8 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. BUREAU OF EUUIIIIULE GUUUUUUE. Retail Store 1 1 .A.t V7hol‘esale Prices I. 1 At 212 & 214 Front Street. Orders taken at residence and Goods delivered at every point ordered. Telephone No. 200. ——e-:«as:§§;i»»:- Vfe will supply goods of every description.——“But we will bo ‘cott 'ou,” sa ’s the wholesaler and middle man fostered un- J ‘ der the wings of the American Eagle. Do so and you will hear the Eagle scream. We will give the people work and the pro- ductions of labor at living prices. If yo11 boycott the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, you boycott the last resort of the peo- ple and they will put you out. Labor—saVing machines must be employed to reduce the labor of the people. Four hours a day for the performance of use, the balance of the time to be devoted to the cultivation and reﬁnement of the mass. The creation of a moneyed aris- tocracy, covercd with the scales of corlﬁsh must not be made the barrier to the lies! society. Give yourlpatronage to the Bureau, and the Bureau will mark its goods at cost, advancing its proﬁts ten per cent only, just enough to pay for handling the same. Golden Grate Branch —-¢-oF TH:-:»<~-— GUIUIUU STAR PUBLISHING HOUSE. Fine Job Printing. BOOK AND PAMPHCLET A SPECIALTY - ALL WORK PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO AT LOWEST PRICES. 212 & 214: FRONT STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, - - CAL. READ THE FLAMING SWORD. Those who desire a true knowledge of the science of immortal life, the cosmos and anthropostic law, and seek 'a. ‘ liarmonization of Biblical teaching to true scientiﬁc thought, should peruse this valuable expouncler of KoREsHAN1TY, which . is a Divinely organized movement destined to revolutionize I the world. , $1.00 A YEAR. SAMPLE COPY FREE. Address : THE FLAMING SWORD. 3617 Cottage Grove Ave., - - CHICAGO, ILL. FARMERS ATTENTION I We would call the Attention of Farmers and Fruitgrowers to the fact that the Bureau of Equitable Commerce is prepared to handle, either on commission or otherwise, their respective goods, affording them better and quicker returns than they can realize through any other channel. - ,".’\/‘."\/\/\/O SAN FRANCISCO, - - cAI_v.v§ THE GREATEST REFORM PAPER IN AMERICA, <9 AND EECPOSITOR OF‘ EQITITAELE CQMMERCE- _..?+) @— r—+-S-' [Ye/'ewz'//1 ﬁ/case film’ $ ........................................................ for One Year‘: S2;/2.s‘[z'z’pz‘z’(27z 10 THE PLO PVS/{ARE AND PZQUNING H()O](', a»mmm'ug___..,___r..W I89 ./Vtmzc .... .. V H N T S/reef, or SE31) ALL BIONISY ORDERS TO ‘V C. J. l\IACLAUGHLl.\’, - Editor. I , ‘ 212 & 214 FRONT sr. /"7“"’ ~ SUBSCRIPTION, 50 CEN"TS PER YEAR. S/ale CUT THIS OUT AND USE IT TO SEND US YOUR SUBSCRIPTION OR THAT OF A FRIEND.
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Geography: Chicago (Ill.), San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-11
Is part of: Koreshan Unity Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 12 (August 8, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1948, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-08-08
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
Text: INDKATOR or ’7%M 5»; =-4 E ._E = ——-—:—.E' E E5 . = m=1m%‘EouAno ; Vol. 1. No. C12.‘ and Pruning Hook. The Plovvshare ' 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street, - San Francisco, Cal. Telephone No. 200. KORESH, - - - Founder and Director. C. J. MACLAUGHLIN, - — - - - - - Editor. Address all columnnieations to the Ealitor. One Year in advance, - 50 rats. Ono 1\Ionth in a<lv;Luce, - 10 «ts. Six Months, “ - - 25 “ ‘ - - 5 “ Single Copy, ‘ Sample Copy Free. I Entered in tho San Francisco Post Office as Second Class Matter. If you do not rerez'z'eyou_r paper regularly let us /cnozo. [Voice your letters to 2‘/ze Ea’z'tor s/zorz‘ and to t/ze point. (.'onz‘rz'l2ulz'ons 2'/zmtea’ tour/1- iug on live issues. Sulzsrrzptzo/2 price mu be re/1/1'1/tell /gy regzlvlerea’ letter, postal note zzizrz’/Jo.\‘t—z)jz”ee or express money order /nazle paya/Ile to C. 11/aclauglIlz'n. One mont/z’s tria...
Show moreINDKATOR or ’7%M 5»; =-4 E ._E = ——-—:—.E' E E5 . = m=1m%‘EouAno ; Vol. 1. No. C12.‘ and Pruning Hook. The Plovvshare ' 1891. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street, - San Francisco, Cal. Telephone No. 200. KORESH, - - - Founder and Director. C. J. MACLAUGHLIN, - — - - - - - Editor. Address all columnnieations to the Ealitor. One Year in advance, - 50 rats. Ono 1\Ionth in a<lv;Luce, - 10 «ts. Six Months, “ - - 25 “ ‘ - - 5 “ Single Copy, ‘ Sample Copy Free. I Entered in tho San Francisco Post Office as Second Class Matter. If you do not rerez'z'eyou_r paper regularly let us /cnozo. [Voice your letters to 2‘/ze Ea’z'tor s/zorz‘ and to t/ze point. (.'onz‘rz'l2ulz'ons 2'/zmtea’ tour/1- iug on live issues. Sulzsrrzptzo/2 price mu be re/1/1'1/tell /gy regzlvlerea’ letter, postal note zzizrz’/Jo.\‘t—z)jz”ee or express money order /nazle paya/Ile to C. 11/aclauglIlz'n. One mont/z’s trial su/Iserzptlon may lie pal}! in postage stamps, on reeeipt of 70/112‘/1 we will mail to your 17!/(l7’r’.\‘.Y THE PLO I7”- _ SHARE /1 1V]) 1”]? U/V/NG I/O0/{for 2‘/'/at long-grt/1 of time. Sena’ ‘ us the names of any ofyourfrlenzls 70/zo//(you t//1'/2,5’ 7£'t)Ill(/ ll/ce to z'nz'estz'— : gate our ﬂlate/zless System of Commerce. 11 ’e 7crlll sen/2’ to all sue/1 two N issues of 2‘/zls paper FREE. ]Voﬁua//ez'al ol>ll;a/ton is lnezerrezl /2y 2‘./lose retez'z!z'ng the same. IV/zen you /[NW6 read’ your paper //ana’ it to some one wltom you t/link its rontents would lnteresz‘. T /ms do your part torn/arzls eonsuln/natz'ng’ t/ze /nut/I-needed’ 1i’e7'olutz'on in Com/nerre. LABO/6 T 0 SECUIBE US SU/>’.S'C/(‘I/9El€S. T /(ere is no system of economy extant t/Lat rout tins l/1e ¢'lc?/‘lIL’.1ll.\’ essen— tial to a proper solution of tlzeﬁnaneialprolrlezzl as does 1/ze /{ores/Ian sys- tem of Comzuereial Eauation, eonrefziezz’ /Iy its fem/zler for t/ze sole /Jena/2'! of quote to meet all 2‘/ze reauz're2ue71z_‘s for feeo’z'ng //ze people ana’ estalvlts/1z'ng an equitable met/zoo’ of eo//22/zerelal ext/zange. //s adoptzon lg’ t/ze people, ibecauseof its azz'aptalJz'lz'ty meet s2’/','1plz'rz'zjr is z'11e7'[z‘alrle, and t/1e o’estrue!z'on of the money power and of monopoly will speer.1'z'z_’;» ensue as I/ze result ﬁlls "triump/2. T he plan of tlze Bureau (y' E1/uz'tal2le Co/n//zeree for supplying mer- dtandise is fully explained on page 8. San Francisco, Call, _an oppressed and star Wing //uw.rmz'ty. [Z is simple r..I/Igor:/ze'zsz'z~=, ana’ aa’e— » August 8, 1891. Five Cents a Copy. T /zriee is /ze ar//1’o’, t/lat /lat/1 /zls quarrel just; And /1e but naked’, t/zouglz lo(,é’a’ up in steel, IV/lose eonsclenee 7;’/it/z lnjustlee is corrupted. S/zakespeare. __,__:,__ THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCES OF RADICAL REFORM. In the present state of society when all kinds of deviltry car- ries a high hand and when there is the strongest opposition to real reform, it is no child's play to take a radical stand and hold it. It is not generally understood what is meant by true radicalism. We do not mean that sort which permits one to move along in the even tenor of his way without exciting any special opposition from some particular source or without alienating the friendship ofone’s associ- ates. There is, practically, very little radicalism existing to-day among so-called reformers. \Ve do not know of one of the many so- called leaders of social reform who can justly be termed radical. Rad- icalism means ostricism. Jesus Christ was the Prince ofradicalism. He called men whited sepulchres and a whole concourse of people a generation of vipers. He was the greatest communist that ever lived because he taught the doctrine: “Love thy neighbor as thy- self.” And because of the high moral and social standard which he took he was satirized and stigmatized. \Vhen they brought him a piece of money bearing Caesar’s image and superscription he told them to render unto Caesar the things which were C3esar‘s and unto God the things which were God‘s; meaning that the image and superscription alone were Caesar‘s while the piece of metal bearing the same belonged to God and therefore Caesar had no right to give it a ﬁctitious value by placing his stamp upon it. Christ, herein, laid bare the infamy of money as a medium of exchange. He was a radical of radicals, and the doctors, the lawyers and the n1"ney—cl.1a1igers didn’t like him; they, therefore, crucified him. The man in this age who really takes an invulnerable stand against the money system and lays bare the hypocrisy of the mod- em Christian Church; who can devise a plan that will checkmate the rapacity of the speculator and restore to the people their usurp- ed privileges, giving them the benefit of their own labor by estab- lishing a great system of industry and commercial exchange and bringing together and making one the producer and consumer, is a radical of radicals, a modern Moses. But such a one is sure to pay with his life the penalty of his reformatory genius. Some one must be the sacriﬁce for the iniquity of the age. W'ho shall this one be? VVe will not have long to wait in order to see. ~1g ")3 " .‘ -4£l.4l1914ArE_-. lac,-A. uenm§g’:iéhm'A "!fI1f—4'£L.1.92t1\iPf11vYHﬁﬂt of the neanle_ To the people The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. WHY HARP ON THE TARIFF? As in the last presidential campaign, the tariffissue in 1892 will be the main issue between the Republican and I)en1ocratic parties. The most absurd arguments will be advanced on both sides, and the people will vote the ticket of either party regardless of it all. Ar- gument stands for little now days; the people have passed the ar- gumentative point. If the same had really been potential in decid- ing the existing controversy between the two parties, the Democrats would have elected Cleveland on the tariff issue, for despite the position taken by the Republican party, that protection protects American labor, any blind man can see that wages, under a protect- ive regime, are constantly tending downward. The existence of this fact, however, wasnot suﬁicient to defeat Harrison. The l)em- ocrats gave statistics, cited precedents and rolled proposition after proposition of their tongues to urge the necessity of instituting a tariff for revenue only, while the public yawned. Facts and ﬁgures recede from the average mind as water rolls off a duck‘s back. The day for argument is passed; anyhow, human trickery has be- come so adept that one side of a question, to the average mind, can be made to appear as plausible as the other, so that the poor bewild- ered citizen, talked to death, “goes it blind,” and in nine cases out of ten, votes just as he always did. We are not making this state- ment for the beneﬁt of the politician, for he, through his knowledge of human nature, has long been aware ofits truthfulness;: but we are making it for the beneﬁt of the deluded public—and the public is sadly deluded else it would not submit to so n111cl1 imposition. The tariff question is simply a blind. Let the honest voter be convinced of this statement and save his time and breath! It seems idle to discuss the question for a moment, for sociology on a com petitive basis is so illogical and futile a science that to hold as to- whether one policy under the same would be better than another seems quite nonsensical. But, to suppose a case: if pauper immj- gration and contract foreign labor were prohibited and the people —contrary to their destiny——still desired to live under the compet- itive system and say “what’s ours is our’s,”——which, in reality, they do n0t—protection, for some sections of the country would be better than free trade, and zrzke rrersa. It is child’s play, however, to discuss that question. \Vere you to appease the free traders then the protectionists would howl. Now free trade means low wages, every time, for while the American capitalist (the rogue) has no particular interest in the American workman he can, nevertheless, afford to pay him higher wages when there is a tariff wall built to keep out, in his line, European competition where the population is much greater, and goods, consequently, manufactured cheaper. than if the same were pulled down, thereby forcing him to ﬁnd his commercial level with the foreign influx of trade. This latteris the legitimate course and the only one that should be taken, for a peo- ple, in their grasp ofhuman institutions, should be cosmo-political, and just in proportion as they attain to this concept of human rela- tionship will they secure the ultimate purpose of human existence, which is universal peace and fraternity. If pauper immigration were debarred, wages, under the competitive system, with either a protective or free trade policy, would necessarily suffer in the end, because the principle of human selﬁshness——which means push your neighbor to the wall-—is back of the whole arrangement. Competition means gobble, gobble, gobble, and you have but to watch the biggest hog in a swill trough to know what the out- come of such a system must be. The leaders of both political parties know that the tariff ques- tion as a great issue is all fudge, but just so long as the people will listen to and be inﬂuenced by it they can be depended upon to keep the question alive. Both parties stand for monopoly; both favor the national banking system which is the real cause of the present tempest in the social teapot; and both are solely’ after the spoils. It is a clear case of the pot and the kettle. To hide their real animus, however, the leaders of these wornout and villainous confederacies against the people’s well-being raise the cry of TARII-‘Fl And the masses join in like a lot of parrots. Bah! Let the tarifl question- alone! It is practically a chimera, which, while the peo- ple are discussing, Shylock is depleting their pocket books and taking the bread out of their mouths. When the land is owned by the few and there are 9,000,000 mortgages on the same, most 0 which will be foreclosed; when the wealth of the country is practical-'. ly in the hands of 25.000 persons, o11t ofa population 0f60,00o,0oo;:_ when the inﬂuence of national banks—the greatest thieving insti-: tutions of modern times—permeates every ﬁbre of the governmental: fabric controlling, for its own interest, the currency, which is sup-‘ posed to be issued by the people; what matters it whether we have’ a tariff for revenue only on a 75 per cent tariff? VVihere can the‘ money go but to the HELLISH MONEY rowan-w111c11 WOULD GRIND , THE PEOPLE L‘N’1‘1I. ’1‘H1£v HAVE v11«:L1)1£D U1’ THE LAST POUND OF‘ FLESH? ' ’ Away with such balderdash! Away with a set of men who’ would thus bemuddle the public mind! Send the tariff question‘ to Hades, and in the name of starving humanity, of prostituted vir- 5 tue, and of everything vital to human life and its perpetuity, we con‘ jure the American people to look to themselves and not to the political parties for an adjustment of their wrongs! Let them now, ere the . gaunt ﬁend of famine strides with rapid pace o'er the land, aggre- ; gate into a great co—0perative body, adopt an equitable system of, exchange, leave the gold and accursed bank n0tes,—h0arded for 2 deviltry in the great hell holes of the Commonwealth, the National 7 Banks—t0 the satanic imps who have placed them there, and with i the rod of commercial equation let them, like Moses, smite the rock :5 of human production and consumption and the living waters of 2 peace and plenty will gush forth for all. ‘ j-———>-<0 The State of Europe. That Europe is in an advanced state of degeneracy and is right on the eve of a general war and on the brink of the diss0lu- .3 tion of its kingdoms and empires are facts evidenced by every in- § dication. But of all the portentious signs pointing to the same ,; none are as signiﬁcant as the following ﬁgures showing the enor- mous amount of money appropriated by the different governments ‘ of Europe to maintain their armies and navies and the insigniﬁcant ' Germany ex- pends but 5SI0,0oo,()()<) for schools (exclusive of universities which are largely maintained by private resources) while $185,000,000 is an- nually spent for military and naval purposes. Austria-Hungary lavishes 64,500,000 for its army and navy and only 6,250,000 for edu- cational purposes. Which however is not as bad a showing as that ofltaly where :?§9'3,ooo,o'.)0 are provided for the army and navy as against $4,000,000 for education. France gives $21,000,000 for public instruction while it expends $151,000,000 on its army and navy. But Russia, whose warlike aspect is, at the present time, on a par with Gerniany, goes to the head of the list with $2o9,o00,- 000 for army and navy purposes as compared to $17,000,000 for general tuition. England which is supposed to be the acme of European civilization and which has had the advantage of greater civilizing resources than any of its neighbors demonstrates how much it has practically absorbed of the same by an outlay of but I $24,000,000 for =education while it disburses $156,000,000 for the A - maintenance of its army and navy. And now to show the signiﬁ- cance of these ﬁgures in determining the actual mental and moral status of a people, the present deplorable condition of Spain, its ignorance, its superstition and its state of retrogression are readily accounted for when we know that its government deems the pub- lic intelligence of so little value that merely $1,500,000 are provid- provisions made for the education of their peoples. ed for the same while $100,000,000 goes to the ‘army and navy. ,_ The foregoing ﬁgures unerringly indicate the trend of Europe; the ~ consequences of despotism and caste rule and the inevitable h0r- rors incident to bloody conﬂicts which now await it. ‘A Americans complacently fold their arms and fancy that this country will be exempted from the horrors of war and revolution . by reason of the fact that so large an amount, proportionably, is f expended by the different states for public education. We may be .'. excluded from the misfortunes of war such as await our neighbors -, across the Atlantic but we can neither fly from nor evade a greater \- and_ more terriﬁc strife, an internal war-—the conﬂict ofcapital and 7 labor—which is almqst upon us. The very means which we have used to enlighten our people will be the very instruments through ~'= __.__——————:———m——— _e use of which they will throw off the chains of labor slavery “that bind them. America unlike Europe is too enlightened not to ';be in the vanguard of social reform, and if, therefore, there be one ‘izountry beneath the sun where true liberty, plenty and equality ‘can claim a birthright and ultimately have that claim allowed, it .-»,is here on American soil. The state of Europe is grave but the 3-_state of America is no better. The most enlightened people in the world must soon point the way to the establishment of a universal rotherhood of men. T .ooo- ——--— JOHN I). Rockefeller started into business in 1869 with a cap- tal of$5,oo0 and his income since that time has averaged $6,500,000 ‘each year or every dollar invested has made $1,300 annually. Most people invest all their labor in business, which is the real apital, and then cannot make $1 a day. But then they are not .. - capitalists according to the common acceptation of that term. How- ver the day may come when they will be regarded as such. —:¢:j—-:2- N0 Alliance man is wedded to tho sub-treas11r.'_\' plan if sonn-thin;: bx-ttm‘ ' is offered. VV6‘ wait with impationm\.—/lrlrmlsas E4'mum:i.s-/,. There is no necessity of -mIz't2';/‘q for something better. It is al- ready here. Two per cent government loans offer a poor remedy. , Commercial equation as interpreted by the Bureau of Equit- ', able Commerce is the key to the situation. LORI) Salisbury does not look for a general war in Europe but _then Lord Salisbury may be mistaken in this matter, and from the general indications it is more than likely that he is. -:1:--—:j-1 According to the official statement from the Government Cen- sus Bulletin there are 9,000,000 mortgages in the United States, V most of which are held at a high rate of interest. \\"ho owns this country; the usurer or the people? I-Iow Land Monopoly was Squelehed at Niagara. Those who think that private property in land is a sacred in- J‘ stitution which should be preserved should go to Niagara Falls - ‘ and see how well the opposite policy works there; says a writer in the P/12'/ade/1)//z'a _/'u52‘zl‘e. Vt/hen I last visited Niagara I found that while the cataract itself had not been claimed, the land from which it could be viewed was all “owned" and those who wished to look at it had to pay blackmail to the alleged owners. One of the best points of view is Goat Island, a long and narrow strip of land some seventy-five acres in extent, which lies nearly in the middle of the Niagara river. One end of this Island extends above the rapids, an(l the other divides the .\merican from the Canadian falls. . is reached by a bridge over the American rapids and is a "favorite spot for the tourist because of the line view of both falls, which may be obtained from the edge of the precipice. Under the old system this island owned by the Porter family and its orig- .inal cost was just one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. Later ‘it was found that many people desired to.view the cataract from this point, so a road was constructed, a toll gate erected, and the owner started in to exercise what Mr. Gladstone calls “the func- tions of a landlord.“ As the nation grew more and more, people ame to Niagara every year, and the Porter family waxed fat on ‘their piratical gains. Their annual income grew so fast that a few ears ago they claimed that the net income from the island was ver thirty thousand dollars. 7 « Butjust about this time the people of New York came to the conclusion that the sacred right of private property in the earth as not working just right. .Tourists complained of the swindle, nd the greatest natural curiosity in the world was rapidly getting bad name amongst travelers. Finally the state interfered. Goat Island and a large slice of land 011 the American side of ~ -the river was condemned and turned into a free public park. The Canadian government did the same on the Canada side and the consequence is that anyone can view the falls from any point with- The Plowsharfjnd Pruning _§o31§; Illinois New Republican Maehine. (By 0. F. 1.’/II/Iormux, P11. 1).) The Republican quill drivers of the state of Illinois, to the number of more than a hundred, recently met in connection with the Republican state central committee and formed an organiza- tion to try to maintain, hereafter, as for many years in the past, republican rule in that state. After satisfactorily accomplishing the purpose for which they met (in imitation of the example of England's prospective monarch, who, after his six days of labor in attendance at the baccarat trial in which he was interested, hied him to the Ascot races for a day of recreation at gambling in, or by means of horseflesh), these doughty would-be saviors of the people, or saviors of their own bacon, by means ofthe dear donkies, —the people—hastened to the Garfield Park races for recreation after their arduous labors for the dear laboring people. After taking their turn in imitation of royalty at the statesman- like accomplishment of gambling on horse ﬂesh, there succeeded the feasting and the flow of soul, when it fell to the lot of Illinois’ tall chairman to explain the difference between a running meeting and a political meeting. The chronicler has failed to inform us what those points of difference are according to this Republican, long-legged Solomon, so we will attempt to supply his lack of ser. vice. \Ve will begin by giving some resemblances. The one meet. ing gambles on horses’ muscles; the other on asses’ brains. Both are worshippers of the same detestable, fetish, luck. Both of them, however much they may win, iii the end loose a high sense ofhon- or and justice and a proper regard for the rights and interests of others; be they beasts, or be they men or beings higher than either_ A politician is a being 51'/ze gerzeris: he is unlike God, man or the devil. By his enchantments he can easily tuck under the same blankets men of the most unlike and warring creeds and platforms, On occasion, he makes bed-fellows of republicans, democrats, blat. ant reformers of every hue, religionists of the most bitter antago- nism. In all this his skill bears no comparison to that ofthe stupid z_'p[>azim/zus who has only senseless horses to deal with. His meetings, then, are training schools for the development ofskill and science in the arts of lying and deception, and where is inculcated the doctrine ofhow to appear to do it and yet not do it, nor have the slightest in- tention of ever doing it, while making the most frantic demonstra- tions of headlong zeal for its immediate performance. Surely, that long-eared patient, long suffering “boodle"-furnishing donkey, the Illinois comn1on—wealth-that—should-be, will not be wise enough to escape the wiles ofthese hundred conspirators who have thus band- ed together to lay wait for his haltings and take advantage of his weaknesses unless the opposing party can out—do them in craft and cunning. They must also, in imitation ofroyalty, add to the sharp. ness born of the clash of keen and cunning mind upon mind, the worship of the gambler’s fetish, the blind god, Chance_ These mighty magicians and knights of the windmill may yet make the discovery that: “The best laid plans ofmice and men gang aft aglee. " —~——>-<.v-4——————-—? The Law of Destiny. Again and again sound forth the celestial trumpets. “Awake, Awake! 0, all ye people and work the will of God for man." But the selfish sluggards heed no_t and slumber on. Then leap into life dread A-zvaztrrx with ﬂaming torch and ﬂash- ing blade. Awful incarnations of that constructive energy which first uses the plowshare of destruction in leveling, rending and up turn- ing for another planting—sweep over the earth and the old things are not. Generations of men pass away like sunset shadows. Fruitful ﬁelds are given over to graves. Great cities lie in ruins and mighty nations vanish forever in the smoke of battle.. Then in the freshness and silence of a new morning—theLHus- bandman of a diviner civilization goeth forth and_soweth his _seed. —-—'Far//1er’.r 1/0211’. ' t being ﬁned for the privilege. ‘ Tn +1.. mama- The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. G-OG AND MAG-OGr. We shall endeavor to give our readers, from week to week, as full re- ports, as possible, of the movements of capital and labor in their culminating conﬂict, both in this country and in Europe. We shall depend largely upon labor papers for these reports, as the Associated Press company, being under the control of monopolists, suppresses a good portion of such news. The money power is assiduously laboring to deceive the peopleas to the actual con- dition of our social affairs. The daily press depends largely upon the afore- said news company for most of its telegraphic dispatches, and, being itself largely in the hands of monopolists, it is quite in accor with the policy thus pursued by the Associated Press. But “murder will out”; the daily conflicts and contentions between Gog and Magog (the roof and the ﬂoor, capital and labor), all over the world, are constantly growing in virulence, and the labor world manages to receive intelligence of the same. We wis it understood, however, that we are no more in sympathy with organized labor in this matter than we are with capital, because both are laboring from a selﬁsh motive and if the conditions were reversed, organized labor would be as intolerant as capi- tal. Our object in recording their controversies is to demonstrate 0 our readers the growing hopelessness of social adjustment u on competitive basis; to substantiate, the incontrovertible declaration, (undisputed by think- ing minds) that the existing governmental systems both in America and Europe are fast crumbling to pieces with the (lawn of the new age; and to sound a warning trumpet to humanity-loving men and women in order that they may escape through co-operative, organic, industrial effort, from the most terrific upheaval of society known to history, which is almost upon/us. The miners are on a strike at Evansville, Ind. There is trouble reported at the Montana mines, W. Va. Fort W'ayne, Ind. is reported to be overrun with idle men. London plumbers have struck for 9 hours, and 25cts. per hour. The big strike at Vicksburg which has lasted for four weeks is still on. Operators at Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, are trying to reduce prices and trouble is feared. 3000 idle men are reported to be at Butte City, Montana. Bus- iness is at a stand still. The architectural iron-workers employed by \Vinslow Bros. of Chicago are on a strike. There is trouble among the ship carpenters and calkers at Mil- waukee, Wis. The Island Coal Company at Linton, Ind. has shut down be- cause of trouble with its hands. Business is reported to be at a stand-still at Anaconda, Montzina. All works are shut down. There is a strike among the leather workers at Little Falls, N.Y., against 3. I0 per cent reduction in wages. There is a strike in progress at Pittsburg and Allegheny, I’a., of the carpenters, plumbers and bricklayers. All the street railway employes in Toledo, Ohio, numbering 482, have struck for an advance from $1,65 to $2 per day of 12 hours. Crowds of men are reported to be at Appleton, \Vis. without work. Mill owners and railroad companies are attempting to inun- date the place with idle men, A strike is threatened at Hanna, \Vy0ming. The Union Pacif- ic Coal Company has made two reductions of wages in three months and is attempting a third. American railroads employ 3,000,000, persons most of whom are identiﬁed with labor organizations. VVait until there is a general strike of the railroad systems as there soon will be. At Gallup, New Mexico, there is trouble between the capital- ist and the miners and mine laborers. _ A reduction of 1% cents per ton on prices has been threatened by the mining company at Rich Hill, Mo. A strike is imminent. A strike is threatened of the engineers on the Kansas‘ City, Elevated Railroad, over a reduction in wages from 582,75 to $2,47% 3 per day. Their offer to work for 352,70 per day has been refused by Receiver Edgcrton of the road. The strikers on «the horse car railroads at Toulouse, France, » have destroyed the kiosks on the principal streets and attempted Dragoons were sent to quell ; They charged upon the crowd injuring many " to demolish the tracks of the roads. the disturbance. and making a number of arrests. Diversions. If you want to believe that a man is your friend, never ask him to prove it.-—Lz'/2emto7'. There is one thing which always gives weight to a fish story, and that is-—the scales.—Broo£>1y7z Eagle. A Kentucky man called his horse “Hot Biscuit” because it was the finest bred he knew of.— I I/"as/'1z'2zglo7z Star. A Chicago man pounded his wife with a club because a beef- , .2 steak was tough. Most people would have pounded the steak.- As/1/mm’ Times. . “Go!” she exclaimed imperiously, pointing toward the door. “I shall," he said abjectly, “but, my dear Miss Fortstrete, this is no horse race.’7—Detroz'z Free 1’resx. ‘ The.St. Paul Globe thinks it is a mere coincidence that the Minneapolis barbers raised their tariffs 50 per cent the first day of the editorial convention. It was more than that. Razors cost too much to have them worn out scraping brass without some compen- sation .—Trzze De/2/ozraz‘. Vcritas—I didn’t see my last communication. Edit0r——It was in, I am sure, for I put it in myself. Editor (after Veritas has gone)—-There, Ishouldn’t wonder if he thought I meant in the paper, while the idea I intended to convey was that I put it in the waste basket. VVel1, well, if people will misconstrue one’s mean- ing one cannot be hcld responsible.—B0sto71 Traizszrzft Rev. Mr. Skyles-My friend, here is a little pamphlet, take it —read it—it is called "The Chastening Rod; or, The Sinner En- lightened.” Stranger—I didn’t catch the name of that rod you’re traveling for; but I’n1 selling the “Improved Ajax Lightning Rod,” and I’ll bet a cold hundred I’m taking two orders to your one-_-put up or shut up!——1’ur,é. aﬁ STRONG TALK. It is not enough to make fun of people in distress. Masses of men can better formulate their grievances than their remedies. They know more about wounds than medicine. President Lincoln might have closed the war without settling the question that gave rise to it, undoubtedly, if the radicals about John Brown's grave had not dinned the cause of outraged justice in the ears ofthe nation. The time will soon come when our mugwump friends will for- get to apply the thumb rule to the victims of competition. They will ask how it comes about that 25,000 men own one halfthe prop- erty of a nation 62,000,000 strong? How it is that one man can le_- gally lock up gold, thus dislodging millions in securities deposited as collateral, and then in the night of a ﬁnancial panic, light his way with the glitter of this very gold to the wreckage, and cart off the plunder? How comes it that 10,000 children die annually from starvation in the richest country in the world, and a tenement pop- ulation revolting enough to oifend the eye of an eastern potentate work on without hope, while Henry Clews builds $40,000 onyx marble bath,-rooms and Vanderbilt his palatial hen-houses ?‘—T/’1e 1Vew Natzbn. ,5-.-.»_‘ - PRUNING-S. W'e believe in pluck, not in luck.¥1ntegml Co—o/7ertn‘or. The rulers in the Church are hostile to liberty for a sex sup- _posed for wise purposes to have been subordinated to man by divine decree.—Elz'za/rel/z Carly Stzmlozz. The best temperance plank that the People's party at Cincin- nati.could have put into the platform was for its I 500 delegates to pass one thousand saloons every day and totally 2l.l')Sl2lll1.—-]V€’I['l0Il Iferala’. We boast of our freedom and vested rights, but we have always noticed that under our system of government, individual rights have;to give way to corporation wants.—T/1e‘A/Izerziazzz No2z—Co71- formzlrt. It isn’t right that those who toil and 'produce all the wealth should live in actual poverty, while those who never did an honest .'day’s work in their life should accumulate millions of wealth. ,Lz'oer{y Bell. The tidal-wave" of reform is now on the move. Hence we ad- vise money-grabbers, corporate tools and old-time politicians to get out of the way or they will be swept into oblivion.—-A//wzzy [mie- pelulent Citizen. VVhen the prince of Wales makes his visit to Germany this fall, we would advise His Royal Highness to take along his im- . proved baccarat counters as he will most assuredly meet a number of German counts.—Askla7zt2’ TiI7Ic’3‘- Let the farmer think of what he saves this year by reason of untaxed sugar, and then imagine what he would have saved if he had untaxed woolens, untaxed iron and steel, farming implements, glass, etc., and after he has reﬂected on it he will conclude that he could get along if he was not compelled to labor half his time to protect somebody.—]l/ooile Regixler. The greatnewspapers of the country are controlled by the banks. What they say about ﬁnance is what the banks think and say about ﬁnance. They advocate the bank view, and the bank view is the selﬁsh view. The great newspapers do not represent a public policy calculated to promote the general welfare. They represent a special interest seeking to prosper at the expense of the many.—-Plain T al.é. The bloody work of the mortgage has begun. Out in Kansas a constable went to a farmer to take possession of some mortgaged horses. To give up the horses meant to give up all hope—to give up all means of making bread for his dear wife and little innocent babies, and in sheer desperation he refused to let the horses go; and when the constable undertook to take them by force, the farm- er opened ﬁre on him. Several shots were exchanged and both » men fell mortally wounded.—Aréa7zsa3 Exgﬁositor. The gold base for money is like standing a church on its Steeple. The base is too small, however well balanced. Every jar or thunder storm is liable to bring either the church or the gold basis money system down to wreck. All Europe is in a money panic, and on account of which the business interests of the United States are in distress, because Russia drew a few million dollars in go1d on deposit in England. The gold base is but a scheme to make money dear; to compass all wealth with a small amount of gold, giving to Shylock a corner to exact the pound of ﬂesh, not -7 only=from the debtor, but also from owners of real estate and all industrial interests. No good reason can be given why all credits and why.all wealth shall be measured by the insigniﬁcant amount : (one cent to one hundred dollars) of gold inuexistence. Such is the _ present condition through an alliance known as the “gold basis if conspiracy," which embraces the United States, England,j France and Germauy.—News Reporter ﬁv - ’ .'g_.L1L-x1 .11.! 'A...‘.._...1£L I -5 ’ The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. The complaint which sounds loudest in today is that of man's inhumanity to man. socialism advances for our consideration is t and pressing that modern civilization has to murs of the multitude are as ceaseless and murmurs of the sea. Labor agitation is but one of the symptoms ofa vast, all-prevailing unrest. Turn where we will, society is convulsed by forces which it has no spells to lull. There are every- where present the signs of change and revolution. In the unequal conditions under which men struggle for the n1ea_us of existence is to be found the chief cause of this universal fermeut.—/>’rool’ly7z Ea/gle. the ears of the world The problem which he most momentous deal with. The u1ur- far-reaching as the livery intelligent American citizen the rum power means to rule this Natio rule a good many of our larger cities. newspapers and politicalleaders periodically recognize and scold about this tendency and intent of the rum power, as well as it ‘s general iniquity, but as soon as they have recovere they renew their work by voice and vote for perpetuation of the life of the ogre they have been denouncing. W mit, for argun1ent's sake, and because we want that cowardice is a full explanation of these para same time, we earnestly pray that this class of C encounter some kind of a ﬂood that will deluge them with such a measure of courage as may compel them to open their eyes to the light of conditions as they exist.—1>’o5to2z Troreller. knows in his heart, that u, just as it actually does It is true that metropolitan e are willing to ad- to be charitable, doxes, but, at the owards may soon PRODUCERS, ATTENTION I “'6 would call the Attention ofiFarmers, Fruitgrowers and Producers in general to the fact that the Bureau of Equitable Coinmerce is prepared to handle their goods, either on commis- sion or otherxvise, affording them better and quicker returns than they can realize through any other channel. Ho! For Freedom! The People are at last o1'g2mizii1g a g1'erLt industrial party! Are you a wage worker and would you like to join it? Cheap food, cheap (clothing and cheap fuel for the people; and w all! This is what is coniing if you will ork for give your support to the Bureau of Equitable Coinmort-e;established solely terest of the niasses. in the in- Come to the iicxt convention and be METROPOLITAN TEMPLE Aug. 13th at 8 0’cl0(sk. convinced. Tliursday Eveniiig, Bring your friends! READ THE FLAMING SWORD. Those who desire {L truc knowled,9;c of the science of immortal life, the cosmos and anthropostio law, and seek it l1a1'1no11i7.ation of Biblical teattliiiig to true scientific thought, should peruse this valuable expounder of Ko1:12sH.\N1rr, which is {L Divinely o1'gani7.cd movement the world. $1.00 A YEAR. SAMPLE COPY FREE. Address: THE FLAMING SWORD, 3617 Cottage Grove A\'e., - — CHICAGO, ILL. destined to revolutionize -.3. 57 - V V ’ - u .- . : ’ ' ‘» A ........1’.-. TA ‘-1.. A ‘nu--11‘ «i&..,,- --__— .......'_.:b.l._aai' " - ’ J_‘:.,L ¢.. ;.~.. ..—............._....A_ -1‘ 51.. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. ‘ PRICE LIST Of the PROVISION DEPARTMENT Of the Bureau 01" Euullahle Ganerca. 212 &. 214 FRONT ST. TEAS UNCOLORED BASKET FIRED JAPAN Choiccst No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. per lb. (5 JAPAN TEA Choicest No. 1 Garden Leaf . . . . . . Finest Spring Leaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Young Spring Leaf GUNPOWDER No. 1 Harvest Prince No, 2 Harvest Prince . . . . . . . . . . .. No. 3 Very Fine Prince of Formosa No. 42 A Very Fine Formosa Choice Formosa ENGLISH BREAKFAST TEA No. 1 Prince of China No. 2 Prince of China Choice E. B. Pekoes Hysons etc CO F F E E S Finest Mandehling Java . . . . . . . . . . . Old Government J ava Arabian Mocha Colima Costa Rica S U GA RS Powdered _ . _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 AT !\lARKF.T |'RlCF.S Cube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Granulated . . . . . . . . Ha” Ba/fl-9]_q_ % 0 _ Golden C, . . . . . . . . . . per lb. less. l\Iap1e , , . . . . . . . . . . J M O LASS ES New. Orleans Best C H OCO LAT E Baker’!-i Eagle Chocolate Vanilla . . . . . . . . . . “ Ghirardellis Eagle “ Chirardellis Star “ . . . . . . . . . . . .per gal Bakers’ Eagle Bakers’ Cocoa ‘/2 lb. tins , , , _ . _ Broma . . . . . . . . .. “.. ‘_ . . . . . .. Cocoa Shells Choice Rice 100 lb. bags Choicest 10 to 50 lb, “ per lb. 6 STA RCH , Duryea’s Corn Starch 12 for , , . . , _ _ , . _ , , , _ S/31,10 Duryea’s Corn Starch 40 lb. box 3.25 Other Brands, Best. 12 for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 GLOSS STARCH Gloss Starch 0 lb. boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . Laundry Starch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . per lb. 7 “ V I N EGAR Vinegar(50 per ct Wine of Cider) per Gal. 20 cts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5.70 cts. £6 50 and G0 cts. SPICES Pepper Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . per lb. tins 28 Pepper White “ 40 Cayenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allspice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cinnamon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1 Pea. Beans . 3% cls. No. 2 Pea. Beans “ 4 “ No. 1 Lime “ 4}/4’ “ MACARONI 6:. VERMICELLI Macaroni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. per lb. 10 & 15 cts. Vermicelli . . , _ . _ . _ . . . . , . _ , , .,_ “ 10 & 15 “ per box 75 cts. & $1.00 MEALS White Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. per 10 lbs. Rolled Oats “ “ “ Oatmeal Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. per lb. SALT Liverpool Dairy Salt . , . . . . _ . . . per 50 lb. sk. 50 cts. Fine Table Salt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. per sk 10 “ BACON Bacon (Smoked) . . . . . . . . . .. per lb. 10 Hams (Eastern) . . . . . . . . . .. “ “ 13 LARD Armour’s White Label . . . . . ..per 10 lb. pail $1.10 Armour’s “ “ “ 5 “ “ 55 cts, (I it 3 (K (K U Other Brands equally low in price. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. CHEESE Eastern per lb. 12 to 15 ets. California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ “ 1 to 13 “ Young American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Edam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 45 cts. 55 H 5 u to 15 cts. to 14 “ PICKLES Crosse & Blackwell’s . . . . .. per Crosse 8; Blackwell‘s , . _ _ ,. “ Mixed Pickles Mixed Pickles Gherkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ . . . .. Chow Chow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. EXTRACTS 6 oz qt. bottle 00 cts. t. It H 2 07. Lemon . . . . . .. 10 25 Vanilla . . . . . .. 10 4 07. ’ Cinnamon 10 10 Almond . . . . . .. 10 Strawberry 10 Raspberry . . . 10 CONDENSED MILK Swiss Brand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .14 ct. . Eagle Brand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Highland Brand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Highland Evaporated Creel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 CANNED MEATS Corned Beef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 lbs. 20 cts. Corned Beef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 lb. 14 “ Lunch Tongue Deviled Ham (Cowdreysl SALMON Finest Columbia River. _ . 2 lb. Finest Columbialtiver .. 1 “ “ 11 Canned Lobster, Sardines etc. etc. , _ , . _ . , _ . , . , , ,_ cans 18 AMMONIA Ammonia Ammonia “ Pt, N 15 rs ‘ DRIED FRUIT Raisins, Finest London Layers per box $1.79’ Raisins, Very Fine in bulk per lb. 5, 6 and 7 cts. Evaporated Alden Apples White 25 lb. box $3.50 Evaporated Apples per lb. 12, 13 and 14 cts. Currants (New Choice) . . . . . .. per 10 lbs. 95 cts. Apples, Sun-dried . . . . . . . . . . .. Quarters 6, to 7 cts. Apples “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Sliced 7, to 3 Apricots .. . . . . . . . . , . . . . . .. Bleached 10 Apricots ,_ 11 . . . . . . . . . . . .. All Grades 7, to 10 ' " 8, to 11 “ 8, to 12 Prunes , _ _ , H 3, to 10 Peaches CANNED VEGETABLES Sugar Peas No. 1 Sugar Peas Extra French Peas Extra Fine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . String Beans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lima Beans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tomatoes BUTTER, EGGS. ETC. Butter, Eggs, etc. at the lowest cash prices, according to the market. WOOD EN-WARE, BROOMS, ETC. Tubs All Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 90 to $1.50 cts. Wash-Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . .. 20 to 30 “ Chopping-Bowls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20 to 60 “ Pails Etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20 to L-‘interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 75 to Demijons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 30 to Dusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 45 to Clothes-Bziskets , _ . , _ . . , _ _ , , , _ , _ H 60 to GOAL Cumberland (Only used by blaek—smiths) . Wellin,r_i:ton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Wellington Scotch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. West Hartly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brymbo . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Grate . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Seattle (Genuine) New Seattle $11.75 9.75 9.75 9.75 9.75 9.75 9.25 9.25 8.75 9.25 7.75 From time to time we will add to this list- and still further reduce the quotations al- Articles desired, not on the above list, will be obtained for our patrons ready given. at proportionably low ﬁgures. The self-ad- dressed postal cards of the Bureau for order- ing goods will be sent to your address upon Orders by postal service promptly ﬁlled by our De- receipt of request by mail. livery Department, thus saving you a trip to our store. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .per Qt. bottle 25 ets. ' k The. Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 7 TIIE SOCIETY ARCH-TRIUMPHANT of the Koreshan System meets every Tuesday at 7.30 I’.M. in the parlors of the Koreshan Unity, 218 and 220 Noe Street. You are cordially invited to attend these meetings where every phase of tl1eolog- ical, scientiﬁc and sociological, thought is discussed in an origi- nal, striking and convincing manner, through the application of law by logical methods. A If you are a thinker, unshackled by prejudiceand not com- _ mitted to the well beaten lines of investigation, yo11 will ﬁnd the discussions undertaken in the meetings of this Society “a feast of reason and a ﬂow of soul”. Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, the Founder of the Koreshan System of Science, lectures every Sunday Morning at 11 o’clock, and Sunday Evening at 7-30 o’clock in the McAllister Hall, 106 McAllister Street. All are cordially invited to at- tend these lectures, which are free. vertible system of theology, science, and government is promulgated in these lectures, unfolding the true laws of being, the real science of the brain and the cosmos, and the A new and incontro- only practicable plan of social adjustment and of sound economics. Koreshanity, by its invulnerable teachings, har- monizes and blends the laws of life and adapts biblical teaching to true science. Come and hear! Koreshan Literature- Our books and pamphlets contain a brief exposition of Koreshan Science which uncovers the mysteries of the ages. Modern thought has failed to discover the laws, forms and relations of Being and Existence. oreshanity is a genuine interpretation of phenomena and form as expressed in the universe. It is a true index to the character of God and man, and their relations. All intelligent people should read this literature and move in advance of the tidal wave of progress. The most radical subjects are ably, freely and fearlessly discussed therein. Re-Incarnation, or the Resurrection of the Dead. Br CYRUS, - - - - - PRICE 15 crs. Emanuel Swedenborg. - - - - PRICE 15 ers. Identiﬁcation of the Children of Israel. Br DR. ANDREWS, Pnicn 15 crs. National Suicide and Its Prevention. BY Pnor. L’AMonEAUX, - - CLOTH $1.00. PAPER 50 crs. Proclamation and Judgment. AN EXPOSITION OF THE SEX QUESTION, BY CYRUS, Br CYRUS, - Patel: 5 ems. Solution of the Financial Problem. BY CYRUS, - - - Pnien. 5 crs. THE ENTIRE SERIES, PAPER, $0.75. Golden Gate Branch ﬁe-or: THE-(4-— GUIDING Srnr PUBLISHING Honsn. Fine Job Printing. iilipiiiifiiﬁioiiif .§w.ZiEp§.Z§§” 212 &. 214 FRONT STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, - - CAL. JAMES H. BUBBETT, Manager, Branch A, Guiding Star Print ing House 212 & 214 Front Street. SAMUEL H. DANIELS, Manager, Branch No. 1, Provision De- partment, Bureau of Equitable Coinnierce 212 & 214 Front St. I. R. MARS'FON, Managing Agent, Branch No. 1, Real Estate Department Bureau of Equitable Commerce 628 Market Street. C. J. MACLAUGHLIN, Editor THE PL()WSHAltE AND I’icUNrNd H()0K; Oflicial Organ of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 & 214 Front Street. All business relating to either of these departments of the Koreshan Unity in San Francisco should be addressed to the respective heads of said departments. General letters of inquiry concerning the Bureau of Equit- able Commerce or patrons should be addressed to either Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, President of the Board of Directors; or Mrs. M. C. Mills, Secretary, 218 & 220 Noe Street, San Francisco, Cal. All communications pertaining to the Golden Gate Branch of the Koreshan Unity (Church Triumphant, College of Life or Society Arch Triumphant) should be addressed to Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, 2512 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, Cal. All business and inquiries relating to the General Assem- bly of the Koreshan Unity should be addressed to the Guiding Star Assembly, 3617 & 3619 Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, Ills. \Vould You Not Like To Act As Our Age11t'? We will pay you —-«>50 per cent. -<--- ON ALL CASH SUBSCRIPTIONS! 9?» THE EASIEST PAPER IN AMERICA FOR WHICH TO SECURE SUBSCRIPTIONS. RADICAL! ORIGINAL! CONVINCING! REAL l-_7_JpS_TATE. BRANCH NO. 1. This Bureau is prepared to transact a gener- al Real Estate Business. Those looking for Homes, Business or Investment Properties, either in city or country, will do well to investi- gate our BARGAINS before purchasing else- where. Those having properties for SALE or EXCHANGE either in CITY or COUNTRY are requested to place them in our hands for disposal; correspondence solicited. ’ Randolph Marston, Managing Agent. Ofﬂce 628 3/.Ear1:e‘t Street- San Francisco, Cal. WE ARE IN EARNEST! The chief obstacle to the rapid development of the new system of business just inaugurated in San Francisco by the Bureau of Equitable C()1lllIl€rCe~rlS found in the incredulity of thepeople, who are so trained and ingrained in the overreaching methods of self- ishness; that is, competition, or every fellow for himself and the devil take the hindmost, that they cannot believe it possible for people to enter heart and soul into a movement which honestly aims first, last, and all the time’ to beneﬁt the people, especially poor people, working people, who have to buy from hand to mouth at the corner grocery, and always at high prices’, for they cannot secure bargains because they buy in such sn1all quantities at these little retail stores. Now, it is just for this class of people that a system has been organized by the Bureau of Equitable Commerce which will supply them in small quantities with the very best of goods at as low prices as if they bought a hundred dollars’ worth at a time, with full weight, honest measure, and no deception of any kind. We are not surprised that people hesitate to believe this can be true, simply, strictly, undeniably true; but it is true, and we mean it, every ‘\O ‘d of it, and propose to prove it to the joy and satisfaction of thousands in this city and in the country also. It will not pay us until we have a large patronage, which we well understand, and we have provided accordingly, so that \ve cannot be defeated in our purpose. In the end it will pay well, when producer and consumer are brought together by our system. But, even at the start, wefare_'_selling goods at_ an advance of only The \vhole secret and explanation of the syste111 is revealed in one ten per cent. or one tenth of the price over wholesale prices. word, CO—OPERATION, a common purpose, a common interest, a community system, in a word, a true communism, a conserva- tive communism. All goods are delivered free to any part of the city, and O1‘(l€1‘S:11la_V be sent by postal card, which is furnished to our customers, with printed_address on it. You are invited to give us a trial order. course, at these prices. Bear in mind that our goods are all first class. Second and third class goods can be sold at a proﬁt for less than our goods cost. Our price list is your guide. Telephone No. 200. BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE, 212 and 214 Front Street. The Plowshare and, Pruning .I-Iook. All orders are cash on delivery, as a matter of OUR COMMERCIAL PLAN EXPLAINED‘. \Ve invite the attention of the public to the CO—0PERATI\'E l’I,.\.\l on I)1s'i‘R1i;L"r1oN AND COLLECTION adopted by the BUREAU on !3Q1.‘l’l‘Al$LE COMMERCE, which enables every one to become a sH.\Ri~:R IN THE PROI-‘ITS of the organization, to the amount of 33 '/3' per cent and, at the same time, retails goods at less than retail prices. livery one , urchasing our CERTIFICATES, which range in price from $1,oo to $ior),oo becomes a I‘A’l‘RO.\' 0F EQUI’l‘ABL‘E COM- MERCE and a PART ow_\'ER of the COMMERCIAL SYSTEM: Each cer- tiﬁcate purchaser receives a check of denomination equal to that of his certificate. If, say, the same be for $5,oo, that amount is stamped upon the check in numerals ranging from 5 cts. to 50 cts., and as goods are purchased f1on1 the BUREAU these numerals are punched out until the whole amount of the check is exhausted, when the same is taken up. Thus it will readily be seen that for the purchase of the merchandise handled by the BUREAU (which will gradually include every line of supply) its certiﬁcates and ac- companying checks by‘furnishing goods to its PATRONS at nearly wholesale prices, will be MORE VALUABLE to them than United States currency, and by adhering to the same, they will establish- an equitable system of exchange between the producer and con- sumer: (for the Bureau will eventually deal directly with the pro- dncer in all lines) render superﬂuous ﬁat money which the MONEY 1’0\Vl<.‘R can CONTRACT or Ex1>A.\'1) A’I‘ PLEASURE; and effect a safe solution to the vexatious ﬁnancial problem which to-day confronts us. ' \Ve invite you to inspect our stock of groceries, and other goods usually kept in a first class grocery store, purchase of us, be convinced of the feasibility and economy of the plan-, become a PA’1‘R()I\' of EgUi’r.i13i.E coMuERcE (and thereby a joint owner) dis- possess the SC) ERFI.L'()L'S and RAPACIOFS MIDDLEMEN and thus aid in consummating a radical revolution in the present unjust commercial niethodsﬂwhich must inevitably end in ﬁnancial dis- aster and ruin.—Store of the BUREAU of EQUITABLE COMMERCE, 212 and 214 FRONT STREET. Orders taken at residence, or sent on the receipt of the BUR1~:AU’s postal cards, with which ‘its PA- ‘1‘Ro.\*s‘are supplied, and goods delivered at every point ordered. Telephone No. 200. l[¢'1'czc/1'!/z /2/€053 /[mi ,3‘ . ........ .. PR U1V/ A76 [[0 0A’, C01/2/12c/zdzzg * SAN FRANCISCO, - - c;u_. THE GREATEST REFORM PAPER IN AMERICA,.<@ AND EXPOSITOR OF EQUITAELE CJO3§£Zl.\£..EEC"E- ___,.\.,- I ,V 19\' ﬁn’ O/zc Val/35S2ré5cr1j§[z'o1z to THE PI. 0 I’/V 5 HA RE AND ./\7zzmc. .. ..... .. , _ Straw‘, .... . SEND ALL MONEY ORDERS TO ‘ C. J. uAcLAUoHLr.\'. - Editor. , 212 & 214 FRONT ST. 5: ["7*’” SUBSCRIPTION, 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 189 State CUT THlS OUT AND USE IT TO SEND US YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONCOR THAT OF A FRIEND.
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Geography: Chicago (Ill.), San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-12
Is part of: Koreshan Unity Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 13 (August 15, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1949, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-08-15
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
Text: lm. E. -as§%ss§§ss%. ‘=-'3;-=%" E =~T“-—_=‘*_—5_ § gags. . =1 2: INDKATOR or Tﬁ”%%Mif?lﬁ;“W1_§EOUATlOIT;§‘“;*§”“*:—é San Francisco, Ca1., August 15, 1891. Five Cents a Copy. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE _ BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street, - San Francisco, Cal. Telephone No. 200. KOBESH, - 7 - - - - - Founder and Direetoi. ’ C. J. MAGLAUGHLIN, - — - - - Editor. Address all money orders and correspondence to the Editor. One year, in advance, , - ‘ . 50 cts. One month in advance, - 10 eta- ; Six months, ‘ , “ - - 5 “ 25 “ Single copy Sample copy free. Entered in the San Francisco Post Oﬁloo as Second Class Matter. If you do not receive your paper regularly let us know. ll/alre your letters to the editor s/zort and to the point. Contributions inoitedtouc/2- an live issues. Subscription price can be remitted by registered lélftf, and post-oﬂfce or eapress money order. One Mont/1’s trial ';*.‘mbsert_ption may be paid in postage stamps. Send us t/ze n...
Show morelm. E. -as§%ss§§ss%. ‘=-'3;-=%" E =~T“-—_=‘*_—5_ § gags. . =1 2: INDKATOR or Tﬁ”%%Mif?lﬁ;“W1_§EOUATlOIT;§‘“;*§”“*:—é San Francisco, Ca1., August 15, 1891. Five Cents a Copy. ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE _ BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street, - San Francisco, Cal. Telephone No. 200. KOBESH, - 7 - - - - - Founder and Direetoi. ’ C. J. MAGLAUGHLIN, - — - - - Editor. Address all money orders and correspondence to the Editor. One year, in advance, , - ‘ . 50 cts. One month in advance, - 10 eta- ; Six months, ‘ , “ - - 5 “ 25 “ Single copy Sample copy free. Entered in the San Francisco Post Oﬁloo as Second Class Matter. If you do not receive your paper regularly let us know. ll/alre your letters to the editor s/zort and to the point. Contributions inoitedtouc/2- an live issues. Subscription price can be remitted by registered lélftf, and post-oﬂfce or eapress money order. One Mont/1’s trial ';*.‘mbsert_ption may be paid in postage stamps. Send us t/ze names of any your friends whom you t/zinb would like to in'z'estz};ate our matc/zless Agystem of commerce. l«Ve will send to all suc/I two issues of t/Iis paper ‘free. No ﬁnancial obligration is incurred by t/lose recei7'ing t/ze same. -When you have read your paper /land it to some one 7U/I0/II you tlzink its =tqI¢teJtt&—1oould interest. T /zus do your part towards consu/11/noting t/ze 3tmclz-needed revolution in commerce._ We mean to rezvolutionize t/ze world by obliterating existing monop- Iltroug/: a monopoly of the people. We will do t/zis because we un- ‘derstand and can apply t/ze principle of organic unity 10/Iic/I at/zer reform- systems are ignorant of, and wit/zout w/zic/z no /zu/nan organization, ' oldytan be perpetuated; or new, can be rendered potential. 1Vation— “ilisls and socialists may talk and dream but it remains for Kores/zanit_‘y ‘‘ establish, by etlznic potency, universal order. T /zis it will do alt/long/z , w lit upon every side, and 72/it/zout t/ze aid of at/zer so-called refor/ners, -3- » /fail—despite their apparent grozot/1-to blend t/12 t/zree element zl prin- .« s actuating /zu/nan nature: t/ze rational, t/ze spiritual and t/ze moral. 6 l ‘ T/I6’ plan of t/ze Bureau of Equitable Conzmercefor supplying mer- itdtse is fully explained on page 8. LABOR T0‘ SECURE US 5 UBSC/Y[l>’ERS. SAM.Small the protege of Sam Jones has stopped preaching ‘téturxied to journalism. In the vernacular of “the profession” ‘aminister he had “a small run.” T /zrice is be arnz’d, tdat /zat/z /zis ouarreljztst; And be but naked, t/zouglz lock’d up in steel, IV/zose conscience wit/2 injustice is corrupted. S /zaleespeare. THE persecution of the Russian Jews, while inhuman, is but a recompense for the doings of the usurer of whom the Jew is the father. It is the forerunner of the misery that shall come upon the usurer all over the world. And now the Grand Army of the Republic, twenty-szhc years after the war, has concluded to permit the colored soldiers who fought on the Union side to unite with that organization. We be- lieve the war was prosecuted to free the black man from slavery and make him a citizen of the United States. VVe are glad that after a quarter of a century the Grand Army is ready to recognize the colored man. The San Francisco PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING Hoon seems to exist main- ly for the purpose of attacking Senator Stanford, who is credited with a liking for the sub-treasury plan of the Farmers‘ Alliance as [a means of getting a Presidential nomination from that organization.——Syracu,se E.1:p1'ess. THE PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING HOOK was called into exist- ence to give to the world a new system of ﬁnance, which is simple, comprehensive and will prevail; to show up in their true colors the political humbugs who pose as the people's friend’s; and to lay bare all the devilish schemes that are being concocted to perpetu- ate the people’s slavery under the cover of the Republican, Demo- cratic and so-called “Peoples’ ” parties. The PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING H0011 is a new paper at San Francisco. and is an ably edited paper. Strange to say it bears exactly the same name as our other bright exchange from Winchester, San Diego county. Gentlemen, you had better hitch horses and go it togethcr.——G’arden City Alliance. The paper that hitches with us will have to move at a pretty rapid pace. We have not, as yet, found the one that cared to. VVe will undertake some perilous passes; so, gentlemen, you had better think twice if you contemplate amalgamation. There is nothing mealy—mouthed about this sheet. It will call a spade a spade every time, without fear or favor, and would advise its esteemed contemporary, the Garden City Alliance to drop that two per cent government loan scheme as there is nothing in it for the people. II F-UIFV} urpw uu vvuu» 1:: uuvv B v Any \A\l.l G , . g. , . - . .-- .< -. . \.uu;\.u, , all over the civilized universe or wherever existin A Great Industrial Party. The Koreshan system of ﬁnance which has just had its in- ception through the establishment of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce which proposes to bring the producer and consumer face to face, has. for its ultimate object, the foundation of a vast in- dustrial system whereby all can secure work and receive in ex- charge for the same all the necessaries and luxuries of life without thereby rendering themselves abject slaves or drudges, as wage workers are to day. The public does not, however, appear to un- ders‘and how an industrial system is going to emanate from a grocery store and we cannot blame them for not grasping the sit- nation since they do not comprehend our economic plan. The grocery store is but the ﬁrst step toward the unfoldment of our plan. We will explain. By selling groceries to the consumer at lcsskthan retail prices we necessarily secure a large number of patrons who become part owners of the system as well, (which has been already explained). Our interests are identical with theirs and so we become one. We now, in a bond’ of common afﬁnity, organize ourselves into a Club of National Economy for the pur- pose of making our commercial system the basis of a reform party. Our object. is. ﬁrst, to labor for a constant increase in the number of the Patrons of Equitable Commerce’ thereby turning the trade which now goes to the numerous retail stores, to the one store, thus developing the principle of centrality which the Nationalists talk about but are unable to accomplish. This will be hard on the retailers but easy on the people, and, as it is the latter who should be beneﬁted, we will not waste any tears on the retailers any more than we will on the middlemen, who will have to go, too, be- cause they are just as unnecessary in the working out of the economic problem. The gradual wiping out of the retailers in any line of industry will reduce rent, because there will be less demand for stores in that particular line, and where one line of real estate is affected other lines are also affected. The Club of National Economy is meanwhile augmenting in numbers and power and not only a grocery store is in operation, but other kinds of stores attached to the Bureau of Equitable Commerce spring up such as drug, meat, Confectionery and hardware stores; retailers themselves being gradually absorbed into the system. The system has now devel- oped so far that the. producer is dealt with direct, thereby yielding goods to the patrons for 165.8‘ than ru/zolesale prices. This point reached our check system has become quite a popular method of exchange being by far more valuable to patrons than U. S. cur- rency. The club or clubs of National Economy are now voting for and electing candidates for ofﬁce within the new commmercial body thus creating a little government independent of the thing which now poses as a government. Industries now spring up with this new economic body rendering the producer and consumer one and supplying the outside world with manufactured goods much cheaper than they can be purchased elsewhere. These in- (lustries will include such as box, barrel, shoe and clothing manu- factories, all operated upon the check system. The large number of clubs springing tip in different places necessitating election of officers for the conduct of the economic enterprise, which in turn, will require a centtal seat of govern- meut, launches upon the world THE GREAT INDUSTRIAL PARTY fo inded by Koreshanity, which, with its matchless system of com- merce and ‘ts simple and invulnerable plan of exchange will, with _ the rapid decay of the old ﬁnancial system—rotten now to the core —-create an irresistible vortex (born of industry. economy and real integrity) that will attract and absorb the best life of our so-called Commonwealth, creating THE NEW COMMONWll.\L’l‘I-I of the people, while the old one totters and falls. The same system will extend government has been shattered by revolution admitting of the sure formulation of an equitable governmental organism. ’1‘lu-so people (Koreshans) will get a. body? pul_)liv_ sentiment so ﬁercely d. minst thorn Tl1.Lt it will be uncomfortable to dwell within the Koreshan fold, it - not pause and consider their \vays.—FreetlLou;,':’Lt. Those actuated by a strong moral conviction are not disturbed by such twaddle as the above. The persons in the Koreshan movement have undertaken a great work for humanity which they will accomplish at any cost. We don’t scare worth a cent, weak- kneed contemporary. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. Why We Mix Religion With Our Politics. Koreshanity is about to establish a political party; not a polit- ical party according to the general acceptation of that term, which implies rum, fraud and theft, but a party of the people, created as the result of a necessity. That party to be potential must be founded upon an organic principle, otherwise it would prove as futile as the parties which to-day are rapidly declining in power and inﬂuence. A great organic principle such as will pro- pel the world must be a great religious principle, or if that word be objectionable then a great moral or humanitarian one. Religious conviction is the starting point of all human endeavor and no- where, indeed, is the religious idea carried furtherthan in politics, for a great political party in this country draws its inspiration and its main support from an ecclesiastical system without which it never could have been kept alive so long. Persons say they do not believe in mixing religion with politics. This is because they have no well defined idea of what true religion or politics are. The politics that will notibear a mixture with religion is just the sort of politics that will engulf the governmental system which it con- trols in anarchy. The religion that will not amalgamate with the right kind of politics is a good religion to discard. _ \\'hat the world is crying for, today, is a new system of poli- tics as well as a new system of religion. A church creed that will not stand the test of being applied to the practical affairs of life is a fallacious one, but that is just the nature ofthe creeds that ﬂourish in our midst, for which reason our politics are very cor- rupt; the one emanates from the other. Now we believe the only way to produce a good and pure political system is to carry a fun- damental religious principle to ultimates. Keep the liver healthy and the circulation will be good. A nation's liver is its religion and its circulatory or executive action will correspond in‘ health and purity to the same. Some persons scoff at the idea of religion and yet every one has a religion of some kind. \Vhen Thomas Paine, for example, declared: “The world is my country and to do good my religion”, he gave utterance to the greatest religious con- cept known to the world but he didn't stop to analyze the true im- port of his sublime sentiment, if he had he would have discovered- that it lead him unerringly to divinity, for when this sentiment impulses human thought and action, as it will, men and women, by evolution, will become Gods. So religion is inherent in.us all and one‘s politics is his religion and one‘s religion his politics. But what we need is a new vitalizing central thought, which. when appropriated by humanity will give us a new and regener- ated social life. We say that the co-operative principle is inseperable from a good political system yet co-operation is simply the outgrowth of the teaching of Jesus Christ, the great communist: “Love thy neighbor as thyself". And humanity will have to apply this doc- trine, “the performance of use to the neighbor,” or it will succumb in the revolution which is nearly upon us. ing and its crew wish to man the lifeboat for’ safety, selﬁshness would prompt each man tollook out for himself but it requires the help of all under the direction of one to lower the boat into the water if the men desire to save their lives. Now we apply this principle of co—operative effort as projectedffrom a Divine centre to the body politic and as a result we will ﬁnally secure peace,justice and fraternity in human relations. “INTELLECTUAL PROSTITUTES.” At a dinner recently given the members of the press in New York, a. journalist was called upon to reply to the toast. “An Independent Press.” Knowing we had no independent press among the powerful papers of the nation, ho for a long time refused to reply, but being insisted on to do so, said: “There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in the country towns. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforeliand that it will not appear in print. I am paid $150 per week for keeping honest opinions out of the papers I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should‘ § allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, like Othello, my ’ occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street looking for another job. The busi- -1 When a ship is sink-. You are all slaves‘. _You know it and I know it. , The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. f 3 9 ness of aleading journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to ‘ villify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for ‘daily bread, or for what is about the same, his salary. You know this and I know and what foolory to be toasting an ‘iudegemlent press.’ We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks. They pull the string and we dance. O11r time, our talent. our possibilities are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostit.utes."—E.r,. An honest confession is said to be good for the soul, so the above journalist in thus responding to the toast “An Independent ':Press" will probably receive his reward. It must, however, be a source of great pride to newspaper men to know that they are [simply cat's paws. \Ve never were of the opinion that subsidized journalists, however bright their productions may appear, were any thing more than mediocre men. They lack that indispensable _ element of true genius, which is independence. It is not abso- J ' lutely necessary that an independent man should have strong I moral convictions as instanced in the cases of Napoleon Bonaparte and Aaron Burr, but such men as these would never pose- as “jumping jacks" for any set of men or their views. But our mod- ern journalistic Esaus who sell their birthrights (manhood) for a mess of pottage, (salary) fancy that they are about as smart as the smartest when, in reality, they are, in plain language, jackasses. What can it profit a man to get a large salary and loose his self- respect? If the large majority of men of literary ability care to thus pervert their God-given talents they may, but we prefer to be V excused. It is better to stand for a great moral principle that must ultimately prevail, though isolated for a time, and win a halo of triumph such as history bedecks the brows of heroes with, than to be caught in the passing whirlofpopulaiity by gratify- ing selﬁsh impulse and chaining the promptings oftrue conviction. " The sensational and misleading tendencies ofdailyjournalism, which is a false and pernicious public monitor are well reproved by our respected contemporary, the San Fmm‘z'.\w 1u’21//elilz in the following words: Some recent said occurrences have given an opportunity for the exhibi- tion of sensationalism in journalism which cannot have failed to attract atten- , tion. The duty of the press to ascertain the truth, in cases of public interest will be acknowledged by every one. Newspapers should be bold to expose facts which have a bearing upon events of public importance if there is a. dis- position on the part of oﬁicials to conceal them. If this duty is honestly and conscientiously performed there will be sensations enough for the public good if not enough for sensation-mongers. When, however, public journals enter upon the work of detectives, not for the purpose of arriving at the truth, but in order to secure material for sensational articles, they debase ’ ‘ ‘ ‘ o tl e ‘ L * of their readers. The endeavor to establish the existence of motives, the effort to make it appear that crime has been committed, simply to give a point to long articles which are merely speculative, are unworthy of the men to whom the public looks for simple facts. Wrongs are in this way committed which can never be rectified, and the public appetite for unsavory morsels is kept alive. But the time is near at hand when sensationalism will lose its ﬂavor. It is essentially a fraud upon the public, and that fact will sooner or later be rec- ognized. There are readers who like to have their interest aroused by tales ' of crime, by wild suspicions, and by dark hints, but when they realize that matter of this kind is not designed to give them information, but to deceive, they will begin to protest against such imposition. The truth is strange enough in most cases, even when unvarnished, to satisfy those who delight in the extraordinary. There is a new and better class of minds tending toward jour- nalism and voicing the genuine sentiment of the masses, but which have not, as yet, made their power felt in the dailies for the reason that they are either in the hands of monopolists or sympa- _» thizers with monopolists. Nevertheless this new class ofjournalists I are gradually getting to the front, and when the popular voice asserts itself, as it must, ere long, the perﬁdious pipings of the capitalistic press will be drowned by the ponderous clamor of rising truth. Let those of the press who “fawn at the feet of mammon” _ and stultify their manhood for the sake of salary mark well the lines of Cowper and consider whether it were not better for them serve their God, (humanity), as ‘was \Voolsey's lament that he had not, than to serve their king (money). ', Marble and recording brass decay, And, like the ’gravers’s memory, pass a\va_v'., The works of man inherit, as is just, Their author’s frailty, and return to dust: But truth divine forever stands secure, Its head as guarded,,as its base is sure: Fixed in the rolling ﬂood of endless years, '3 THE USURIOUS JEW DRIVEN OUT BECAUSE OF 4 HIS EXTORTIONS. Conflicting Opinions. (By 0. F L’/1//mrmux, 1’/1. The difficulty of obtaining the exact truth on any subject through the present periodical channels is ﬁnely illustrated by the conﬂicting accounts published in what are generally considered our most trustworthy publications concerning recent persecutions of that most wonderful, as well as most troublesome and troubled peo- ple, the Jews. An apparently candid and truthful article. in thelast ]V0rt/I /4/Ilt’7’lt'[l7l 1€e7'z}’7cI, which backs up its own statements by quotations from what should be competent and reliable witnesses on the ground, represents that the intense feeling against the Jews in Russia and other parts of Europe by the peasantry of those countries. ﬁnding vent in acts of persecution and cruel outrage. and in efforts to drive the whole z'mr'z'.s‘71/I1 gerzm from those countries, has been stirred up, not because of any feeling against their re- ligion, or any race prejudice, or rivalry as laborers, following the same callings and supplanting one another, but almr,-st entirely be- cause of oppression of the native peasants arising from the usuri- ous and speculative practices of the-Jews, on account of which the natives of every community, or village that harbors them, soon [ind themselves robbed and forcibly changed from industrious, simple- hearted citizens into beggars and tramps. In consequence of his inherited propensity to usury, extortion’ and speculation out of other peoples‘ wants, necessities, follies, vices and even crimes. the Jew, like his great ancestor, Jacob, has become everywhere a supplanter and has played, as he is still playing, the part for ex- isting nations thatJuvenal’s supplanted and ruined l\‘o1nan citi7.en, who was sorrowfully fleeing his ungrateful and cruel native’ land to find the means of sustaining an independent and honorable ex- istence, which she no longer furnished such as he. attril utes to the versatile and mercurial Greek of his time. So great has been the Jews penchant for money—making, by whatever means, that even that other intense and inherited ruling propensity of his strong nature, love for his own race, backed and re-enforced, as it has always been, by the severe and strict laws of his God, of which he has ever stood in awe—sternly forbidding usury—has not always protected even his own brethren from its rapacity, as we learn from the Vth chapter of Nehemiah. The inherent probabilities of the case, then, arein favor of the truthfulness of the representation of this article and the reliability of its witnesses. V”ce Counsel Harford, at Sebastopol says that the Russian peasants have in them none of the spirit of intolerance and persecution on account of religious views differing‘ from their own, which have so often impelled the Roman Catholics to like persecutions; and that they are entirely indiﬁferent as to whether foreigners worship “God or the i\Ioon.” He says further that Jews run the liquor saloons, and houses of ill fame, lend money at ex- orbitant rates of usury, rent land in large bodies and sublet it in small lots at murderous rent; take contracts for government, and other jobs, out of which they make excessive proﬁts, and in a thousand ways speculate upon the necessities of others, and, in time, become owners of all the property. The peoplc’s chief en- mity is against the usurer, and the remedy for the evils and per- secutions of which he complains rests with the Jew himself, “who, if he will not refrain from speculating on ignorance and drunken- ness must be prepared to defend himself and his property from 1.11:- certain and natural results of such a policy." Mr Gould said of the Russian peasants: “He doubted whether there was a happier people under the sun so long as they are out of the clutch of the Jews.“ Mr. Puget says: “As sure as he (the Jew) gains a settlement in a village the peasantry become poor." Superadded to this direct, plain, and positive evidence in the case we have strong presumptive evidence of its truth from the well known character of the Jew himself. It would seem as though any other result, from the juxtaposition of two such distinct and separate peoples, would be unreasonable to expect. It is said that Israelites have come to control most of the newspapers of those countries; if so, it is not wonderful that, in countries remote from the seat of the transactions, a widely different version of the facts in the case should be current. Hence in the last number of the ru-vqnvl ll«Il«ll«_i‘l.\) VVLIGL LB L|\JVV 5 ' : ;- ..r; . - - ' .-1.1-.>.. g-_ .' . 4 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. Forum we have other articles, giving a different view of the case in which the offensive and selﬁsh acts of the Jews are left in the back ground, while the severe measures of the Russian peasants to redress their wrongs and rid themselves of the vampires that are sucking their life blood is made to take on the appearance of wanton and causeless persecution The curse of usury has ruined every people that has ever tolerated it, is the verdict of history- Says Bacon: “The usurer trading upon a certainty and all other. men on uncertainties, in the end of the game all the money will be in the box.” Before there can be anything like equality and f . aternity among men, and before the reign of peace on earth can ever be established USURY MUST BE ENTIRELY DESTROYED. His- tory extending over thousands of years conclusively shows that no mere statute forbidding the same can ever fully destroy it. Conditions must be created which will render usury impossible. ’l‘he easiest and most practicable way to do this is to entirely de- stroy money, the love of which “is the root of all evil.” ————>+o»<——-——— GLUTTING THE CITIES. The British census reports contain facts which are particularly suggestive, because they are complemented and emphasized by the American census. It appears that one-third of the population of England and VVales is conﬁned in twenty-eight towns and cities. About one-sixth of this population dwells in London alone, the rate of increase in that city since the last census being ﬁfteen per cent. The population of London, indeed, is greater than that of Ireland, with 1,000,000 human beings to spare. In America, ac- cording to the census of 1890, more than 18,235,000 people live in cities, or twenty-nine per cent of the whole. The urban popula- tion of the United States is less marked than in Great Britain, but the tendency of things seems to be in the same direction. The people of the English-speaking races are forsaking the farm for the forge, and moving fron1 the country into town. The result is that agriculture is threatened with extermination. In Ireland where the greatest emigration has taken place agriculture is al- most ruined. In England and VVales it is approaching that end. England particularly is fast approaching the condition of being a manufacturing nation, buying its food in foreign ports. The en- ervated agriculturists of Great Britain do not begin to supply their native land with bread. The man who reﬂects upon history, upon social and econofnic problems, is already asking himself if a like fate awaits America. There is the same tendency of the popula- tion toward the city. Does it mean the abandonment of the farm also in the United States ? Not in the same degree, perhaps, but doubtless society is tending in that direction even here, and there is need for careful and continued reﬂection upon a problem which is not easy to solve. It is a truism that agriculture is the fundamen- tal industry. To neglect it is to neglect the very life of the nation. —-—/>’a[z‘z'more Herald ' THE COMING MAN. Oh not for the great departed, who framed our country’s laws, And not for the bravest-hearted who died in freedom’s cause, And not for some living hero to whom all bend their knee. My muse would raise her song of praise—but for the man to be. For out of the strife which woman is passing through to-day A man that is more than human shall yet be born, I say. A man in whose pure spirit no dross of self will lurk; A man who is strong to cope with wrong, a man who is proud to work. A man with hope undaunted, a man with God-like power Shall come when the most is wanted, shall come at the needed hour, He shall silence the din and clamor of clan disputing with clan. And t0il’s long ﬁght with purse—proud might shall triumph through this man. I know he is coming, coming, to help, to guide, to save. 'l‘huugh I hear no martial drumming, and see no ﬂags that wave. Imt the great soul-travail of woman, and the bold free thought unfurled, Are heralds that say he is on the way——the coming man of the world. Mourn not for vanished ages with their great heroic men, Who dwell in history’s pages and live in the poet’s pen. For the grandest times are before us, and the world is yet to see The noblest worth of this old Earth in the men that are to be. Ella Wheeler Wilcoa:1'n Irutlz. . x ,-..,--..-- - GOG AND MAGOG. [We shall endeavér to give our readers, from week to week, as full re ports, as possible, of the movements of capital and labor in their culminating’ conﬂict, both in this country and in Europe. We shall depend.-largely‘ upon labor papers for these reports, as the Associated Press company, being under‘ the control of monopolists, suppresses a. good’ portion of such news. The money power is assiduously laboring to deceive the people as to the actual con- dition of our social affairs. labor), all over the world, are constantly growing in virulence, and the labor ' world manages to receive intelligence of the same. We wish it und erstood however, that we are no more ID sympathy with organized labor in this matte; '. than we are with capital, because both are laboring from a selﬂsh if the conditions were reversed, organized labor would be as intolerant as capl- tal. Our object in recording their controversies is to demonstrate to our 4 readers the growing hopelessness of social adjustment upon a. competitive basis; to substantiate, the incontrovertible declaration, (undisputed by think- ing minds) that the existing governmental systems both in A are fast crumbling to pieces with the dawn of the new age; and to sound a warning trumpet to humanity-loving men an escape through co-operative, organic, industrial effort, from the _most terriﬁc upheaval of society known to history, which is almost upon us.] ' The miners at Du Quoin, Ill. are on a strike. The Southern Iowa coal miners are still on a strike. _j___.j__:_ ‘ Thirty-eight yardmen of the Big Four yards at Springﬁeld, ‘ Ohio struck for an advance in wages. Brakemen and switchmen at the Mackinaw yards at Van Wert, Ohio, have struck for higher wages. Masons and bricklayers have struck in Paterson, N. J. against A a reduction of wages from 45 to 40 cents per hour. Sixty men are expected to go out on a strike at Nolan Brother's shoe factory in San Francisco over a reduction of wages. The miners at Hillsboro, Ill. have stopped work’ through trouble with the company over the weekly-payment law. 125 girls employed in Henry D. Klots‘ silk mill in New York have struck on account of an objectionable foreman. The journeymen plumbers in Boston have made a demand for an advance in wages from $3,5o to $4,oo per day which has been - refused. A riot was nearly caused the other day at Vicksburg, over laborers from Alabama taking the place of the strikers at that ' place. A strike affecting 1500 persons is in progress in the lumber A mills at St. Johns, N. B., over the substitution of a ten-hour for a nine-hour day. Three hundred men employed in the lumber-mill of VVeyheuser & Durkman at Rock Island, Ill., have struck through non-com- pliance of the ﬁrm to the weekly-payment law. The miners and laborers in the Nottingham mine near Ply- ' mouth, l’a., have refused to work with the imported labor hired by r the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company. The strike at the Pennsylvania Steel Works at Steelton over .‘ the refusal of the company to sign the Amalgamated Association 7 scale still continues. 3500 men went out. It is reported that the railroad managers of Nebraska will en- ' deavor to defeat the State eight-hour law going into eifect August‘: 1st by preparinglto employ and pay their men by the hour after that date. As the law was passed through the efforts of organ- _ ized labor, trouble is anticipated, and as the crops are now being handled great damage would result from a strike. Women in order that they may i . is urgent. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. ‘ 5 PRUNING-S. "All property is at the mercy" of the money power. ”--T/ms. H Benton. When employers cut down, their employes usually cut up.—‘ Binglmmlon Republzkon. Thirteen more women than men voted at the municipal election in Cawker City, Kan. A.great.ﬁnancier is a thief who succeeds. A thief is a great ﬁnancier- who fails.-—Ex. ‘ There are only two classes now—-wealth producers and wealth _ gatherers.—-./Vorl/zwest Reform journal. What do you suppose the angels think of the preacher who is trying to please all men?-—Ranz’s Iforn. It may appear strange, but it is true, that the broad-minded man seldom has the big head.— Yonkers Statesman. This century will decide the most important question of all ages. Which is greatest the citizen or the dollar? ’ '—-Peoples, Friend. It is a curious spectacle when a man with a black heart re fuses to sit in the same car with a man whose only defect is that he has a black skin.— Western Rural. Julia Ward I-Iowe writes: “The woman suffrage movement is a part of the new order. We are becoming baptized into the great faith of a common humanity. VVoman, now is your time!" Steps should at once be taken to -secure an appropriation at an-wearly day after the assembling of the next congress for the re- lief of the national banks. We are informed by the republican press that they are conducting business at a loss, and this matter should be attended to without delay.—T/ze Adzroeale. Cranks—people who have new ideas and talk about them. Conservatives—people who are too dead to die and too much alive to be buried. ' Fanatics—people to whom you are opposed. Fools—people who know more than their opponents.—C/mm- pion of Progress. France has 4,220,000 industrial workers, 1,050,000 of whom are females, and their average wages are about 28 cents per day. The entire number of wage -workers in France is 14,768,000, among whom 4,415,000 are women. The average daily wages of the French agricultural laborers amount to 25 cents.—]ournal of the Knights of Labor. All honor to the ladies of France. They are setting their faces against the barbarous practice of “adorning” their bonnets with the plumage of birds. They are leaving it to the women of A1ner- ica, who are hardened sinners in this respect. It is a cruel custom, inasmuch as it encourages idle loafers to -snare harmless birds which‘Nature intended should sing their lives out. It encourages swindling, too, because many of the “rare and costly” feathers used for dress are common feathers artiﬁcially touched up and dyed.— W’/zeaton Flail. The London Time: summarizes the harvest prospects of the » world as follows: In Russia there is a grave deﬁcit, the peasantry ,.~are starving and there is small hope of relief. In India there is serious anxiety; a famine prevails over a considerable portion of ..the country; Madras, Rajputana and the Punjab being the worst There is drought in Bengal .and the-need of more rain Bombay alone promises a good harvest. The Amer- .-ican: harvest will be good in quality and amount, but with the fail- rure of the Indian and Russian supplies it is of the utmost import- -sauce that the English crop shall not be short. sufferers. Diversions. The proportion of Angl0—Saxon words in the English;Bible is 97 per cent. of the whole. If you were to take the conceit out of some people, the remains would defy identiﬁcati0n.—St. fosep/z Nerels. - If people talked only of what they knew, wouldn’t’.there be so many lapses of silence that deafness wouldn’t be so grievous a misfortune ? Jones: “How did you become deaf?” Brown: “Oh, I was born that way. below,’ and I got it.—Texas Sz'ftz‘ng5. I wanted ‘but little hear The railroads in this country kill about 2, 500 and wound about 25,000 people per year. Most of the killed and wounded ones are railroad e1nployes.—_/onrnal of 2‘/ze K'nzg/12%‘ of Labor. Rome, in the days of her pride and power, had a circus that would accommodate 159,000 people. With such a multitude, if a boy crawled under the canvas it wasn’t noticed.—C/zampion zy Progress. A venerable clergyman of Portland, Me., lately expressed the opinion that a heathen who had never heard a sermon might hope to attain_'heaven, and another heresy trial case is being prepared for trial. Magistrate—-What’s the charge in thisicase? PlaintifFs Lawyer—Impersonating an oﬂicer,_your honor “What did the prisoner do ?” “He is in the habit of stealing a handful of peanuts every time he passes my client's stand, your honor. ”—Ex. Puck: Farmer Eli—“]ane, I'm goin’ to New York to-morrer.” Mrs. Eli—“For the land’s sake! What you goin’ to New York for?” Farmer Eli—“This paper says the visible supply 0’ pea- nuts this year is 400,000 bush'els an’ I’n1 goin’ down to see them peanuts ef I never go nowhere again.”—]Vationa[ Free Press. PRODUCERS, ATTENTION I We would call the Attention of Farmers, Fruitgrowers and Producers in general to the fact that the Bureau of Equitable Commerce is prepared to handle their goods, either on commis- sion or otherwise, affording them better and quicker returns than they can realize through any other channel. READ THE FLAMING 4 swono. Those who desire a true knowledge of the science of immortal life, the cosmos and anthropostic law, and seek a harinonization of Biblical teachin,r_>; to true scientiﬁc thought, should peruse this Valuable expounder of KORESHANITY, which is a. Divinely organized movement destined to revolutionize the world. $1.00 A YEAR. SAMPLE COPY FREE. Address: THE FLAMING SWORD. 3617 Cottage Grove Ave., - — CHICAGO, ILL. _.. .1 J .... av!‘ ulntj tv vvuau. Lo uuvv . ' ' _ / l">_ _ __A_ V , to 5.051;. vs, ..__1.. '1"- L1... - , ,‘,1.-.;:.\ .L‘-,.;_ L, —_ __-_l A-,..1 ._ l 5 l; i l‘ ....,.,....._....._.-..,~_..A.-.7 A ~. 6 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. PRICE LIST Of the PROVISION DEPARTMENT Of the Bureau of Ellllllﬂlllﬂ llulllllllllca. 212 & 214 FRONT ST. TEAS UNCOLOREI) BASKET FIRED JAPAN Choicest No.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. per lb. Choicest No. 1 Garden Leaf _ . . . . . Fines» spring Leaf , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Young Spring Leaf GUNPOWDER No. 1 Harvest Prince No, 2 Harvest Prince No. 3 Very Fine OOLONG Prince of Formosa No. 42 A Very Fine Formosa Choice Formosa ENGLISH BREAKFAST TEA No. 1 Prince of China No. 2 Prince of China 50 Choice E. B. 25 Pekoes Hysons etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . .. COFFEES Finest Mandellling Java . . . . . . . . . . . Old Government Java Arabian Mocha Colima Costa Rica ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S UGARS Powderecl ' . _ _ _ _ _ . ' _ AT .\lARl-\'l£'l‘ PRICES Half Barrels. per lb. less. Ex. Golden C. . . . . . . Maple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M 0 LA SS E S New Orleans Best CHOCO LAT E Baker’s Eagle Chocolate Vanilla . . . . . . . . . . “ Ghirardellis Eagle “ Chirardellis Star “ . . . . . . . . . . . .per gal Bakers’ Eagle Bakers’ Cocoa ‘A lb. tins Broma Cocoa Shells Choice Rice 100 lb. bags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5.25 ets. Choieest 10 to 50 lb, “ per lb. STA RCH Duryea’s Corn Starch 12 for . . , . .‘ . . . . . . . . . $1.10 Duryea’s Corn Starch 40 lb. box 3.25 Other Brands, Best. 12 for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 GLOSS STARCI-I Gloss Starch 6 lb. boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 and 60 cts. Laundry Starch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . per lb. 7 “ V I N EGAR Vinegar (50 per ct Wine of Cider) per Gal. 20 cts. SPICES Pepper Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. per lb. tins 28 Sage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ : " Majoram, etc., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B E A N S No. 1 Pea Beans . . . , _ _ , _ _ _ _ , _ _ _ ,, per lb. 3 ets. H 4 H No. 2 Pea Beans N0. 1Lima “ “ 3 “ MACARONI &. VERMICELLI Macaroni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. per lb. 10 8: 15' cts. Vermicelli “ 10 Ar 15 “ per box 75 cts. & $1.00 MEALS White Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. per 10 lbs. cs 45 cts. 55 it Oatmeal Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. per lb. 5 “ SALT Liverpool Dairy Salt . . . . . . . . . . per 50 lb. sk. 45 ets. Fine Table Salt , , , _ , . , . . . _ _ . . . , per sk 7 “ BACON Bacon (Smoked) , . , . . _ , , , .. per lb. 10 Hams (Eastern) , . . , , , _ . _ ,. “ “ 13 LARD Armour's White Label . , . . , ,.per 10 lb. pail $1.10 Armour’s “ “ “ 5 “ “ 55 cts, (K H 3 (K (( it Other Brands equally low in price. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. CHEESE Eastern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. per lb. 12 to 15 cts. California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ “ 11 to 13 “ Young American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. SK 56 to 15 cls. to 14 “ PICKLES Crosse & BlaekWell’s . . . . .. per qt. bottle 60 cts. Crosse & Blackwell's , . . . ,. “ pt. “ 35 “ per 5 gal. keg $1.00 Mixed Pickles per qt. botl. 30 cts, H (K (E N Chow Chow . . . , . . . . . . . . . . .. “ “ EXT RACTS 2 oz 6 oz Lemon . . . . . . . 10 25 Vanilla . . . . . . . 10 25 Cinnamon . . . . 4oz Almond . . . . . . . Strawberry . . . Raspberry . . . 25 CONDENSED MILK Swiss Brand . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Eagle Brand . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Highland Brand , . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Highland Evaporated Cream . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 CANNED MEATS Corned Beef , , . , . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 lbs. 20 Corned Beef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 lb. 14 Lunch Tongue 4 Deviled Ham (Cowdreysl SALMON Finest Columbia River. . . 2 lb. ets. Finest Columbia River .. 1 “ “ 11 “ Canned Lobster, Sardines etc. etc. , , . _ . _ . . . . . , . ,. cans 18. AMMONIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .per Qt. bottle’ 25'cts. Ammonia ’ “ Pt; t‘ 15 u Ammonia DRIED FRUIT Raisins, Finest London Layers per box $1.75 Raisins, Very Fine in bulk per lb. 5, 6 and 7 cts. Evaporated Alden Apples White 25 lb. box $3.50 Evaporated Apples per lb. 12, 13 and 14 cts. Currants (New Choice) . . . . per 10 lbs. 95 cts. Apples, Sun-dried . . . . . . . . . . .. Quarters 6, to ets. Apples “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Sliced ,7, to 8 Apricots .. “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Bleached 10 Apricots ._ 11 Peaclles Pears ,, . _ . Plums , _ . . Prunes . , _ _ 8, to 11' 8, to 12 _8, to 10 CANNED VEGETABLES Sugar Peas No. 1 Sugar Peas Extra French Peas Extra ‘Fine . , , _ _ _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ String Beans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Lima Beans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Tomatoes ' BUTTER. EGGS. ETC. Butter, Eggs, etc. at the lowest cash prices, according to the market. SYRUP. Maple, (Log Cabin) . . . . . . . . . . .. )4 gal. can 70 ets. “ “ . . . . . . . . . . .. per qrt. can 40 “ HON E Y . Finest Los Angeles,. . .v . . . . . . . . . . . per frame 30 cts. WOODEN-WARE, BROOMS, ETC. Tubs All Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 90 to $1.50 cts. Wash—Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20 to Chopping—Bowls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20 to Pails Etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20 to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 75 to Demijons . , . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 30 to Dusters . . . . . . . ..' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 45 to Clotllos—Baskets _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 60 to Lanterns GOAL 7 ‘ Cumberland (Only used by blaok—smiths) ,0 Wellington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. New Wellington . _ Scotch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. West Hartly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brymbo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . .. Grate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Seattle (Genuine) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. New Seattle From time to time we will add to this list and still further reduce the quotations al- ready given. above list, will be obtained for our patrons at proportionably low ﬁgures. The se1f-ad- dressed postal cards of the Bureau for order- ing goods will be sent to your address upon receipt of request by mail. Orders by postal service promptly ﬁlled by our De- livery Department, thus saving you a trip to our store. Articles desired, not on the THE SOCIETY ARCH-TRIUMPHANT of the Koreshan 1“ System meets every Tuesday at 7.30 P.M. in the parlors of the Koreshan Unity, 218 and 220 Noe Street. You are cordially invited to attend these meetings where every phase of theolog- ical, scientiﬁc and sociological thought is discussed in an origi- nal, striking and convincing manner, through the application of law by logical methods. ' If you are a thinker, unshackled by prejudice and not com- mitted to the well beaten lines of investigation, you will ﬁnd the ._ discussions undertaken in the meetings of this Society “a feast of reason and a ﬂow of soul”. Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, the Founder of the Koreshan System of Science, lectures every Sunday Morning at 11 o’clock, and Surfday Evening at 7-45 o’clock i11 the McAllister Hall, 106 McAll-ister Street. All are cordially invited to at- tend these lectures, which are free. vertible system of theology, science, and government A new and incontro- is promulgated i11 these lectures, unfolding the true laws of being, the real science of the brain and the cosmos, and the only practicable plan of social adjustment and of sound i economics. Koreshanity, by its invulnerable teachings, har- monizes and blends the laws of life and adapts biblical teaching to true science. Come and hear! Koreshan Literature- - Our books and pamphlets contain a brief exposition of lioreslmn Science , _. which uncovers the mysteries of the ages. Modern thought has failed to discover the laws, forms and relations of Being and Existence. . Koreshanity is a genuine interpretation of phenomena and form as expressed in the universe. It is a true index to the character of God and man, Y and their relations. All intelligent people should read this literature and *» move in advance of the tidal wave of progress. - The most radical subjects are ably, freely and fearlessly discussed therein. the Resurrection of the Dead. PRICE 15 crs. Re-Incarnation, or BYCYRUS, - - . Emanuel Swedenborg. By CYRUS, - - - Identiﬁcation Br DR. ANDREWS, - — Parcrn 15 ore. of the Children of Israel. - - PRICE 15 urs. National Suicide and Its Prevention. Br Pnor. L’AMonEAUx, - - LOTH $1.00. Pnrnr. 50 crs. Proclamation and Judgment. AN EXPOSITION OF THE SEX QUESTION, B! (Imus, - - - - :5 Solution of the Financial Problem. By CYRUS, - - - - THE ENTIRE SERIES, PAPER, $0.75. PRICE 5 crs. PRICE. 5 crs. Printing Departnnent —«+:-or= THE-<+-— Bnnnnn on Eonnnnnn Connnncn. Fine Job Printing. 001: AND PAMPHLEI‘ WORK A SP3 :1 ALTY ALL WORK PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO AT LOWEST PRICES. 212 & 214 FRONT STREET, ’ FRANCISCO, CAL. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. JAMES H. BUBBETT, Manager, Printing Department of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, 212 & 214 Front Street. SAMUEL H. DANIELS, Manager, Branch No. 1, Provision De- partment, Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 & 214 Front St. I. R. Maasron, Managing Agent, Real Estate Department Bureau of Equitable Commerce 628 Market Street. C. J. NIACLAUGHLIN, Editor THE PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING HOOK; Official Organ of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 & 214 Front Street. All business relating to either of these departments of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce in San Francisco should be addressed to the respective heads of said departments. General letters of inquiry concerning the Bureau of Equit- able Commerce or patrons should be addressed to either Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, President of the Board of Directors; or Mrs. M. C. Mills, Secretary, 218 AL 220 Noe Street, San Francisco, Cal. All communications pertaining to the Golden Gate Branch of the Koreshan Unity (Church Triurnphant, College of Life or Society Arch Triumphant) should be addressed to Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, 2512 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, Cal. All business and inquiries relating to the General Assem- bly of the Koreshan Unity should be addressed to the Guiding Star Assembly, 3617 & 5615) Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, Ills. \Vould You Not Like To Act As Our Agent‘? \\7e will pay you -~-:-50. per cent. -<~—- ON ALL CASH SUBSCRIPTIONS! 1424* THE EASIEST PAPER IN AMERICA FOR WHICH TO SECURE SUBSCRIPTIONS. RADICAL! ORIGINAL! CONVINCINGI P REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT. This Bureau is prepared to transact a gener- al Real Estate Business. Those looking for Homes, Business or Investment Properties, either in city or country, will do well to investi- gate our BARGAINS before purchasing else- Where. Those haiing properties for SALE or EXCHANGE either in CITY or COUNTRY are requested to place them in our hands for disposal; correspondence solicited. Randolph Marston, Managing Agent. Ofﬁce 828 Market Street- San Francisco, Cal. n } .1- -4" -1.2; ' \.s ..._., , V I7 V .7 vino mu VVAAU-L '1 {.3 ». I . uvrvv 5 “AA 'x';rl-'4 11.; ;_ ’- u’. \. -5 _ ' I , V 3‘: i§£11ar\an»nTn.i Tnfhn nnrxrsln 8 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. How Middlemen Rob Producers. It takes years, much labor, much care, and much money to produce a crop of fruit. Then it takes money, time, care and work to get boxes or baskets, gather the fruit, sort it, pack it, mark the packages and then put them on board the cars or boat, consigned to a commission merchant to be sold by him for the best price he’ can get in the open market. The grower is elated. At last he has realized a beautiful dream and sent some ﬁne fruit to market. and now he is to be rewarded for his courage-, his toil, his patient wait- ing and his outlay. After a little more waiting for the returns from the commission man, word comes that there was a glut in the mark- et and his beautiful fruit, his beautiful dreams and fond hopes had to be sacriﬁced; only a nominal price being realized for his product, and this is again reduced by freight and commissions. It is a hard blow, and it makes him stagger. But he is brave; more fruit ri- pens and he tries it again for he must have some ready money to meet imperative demands. “DULL SALE. Low PRICES, SMALL MAR- GIN, LIGHT RETURNS" are this time the crushing words of his com- mission merchant. “Is this possible?” he says, for he has been reading the market reports in the newspapers. He comes with his next consignment to see for himself. HE FINDS THE MARKET GOOD, with a ready sale for his choice fruit. “FINE MARKET TO-DAY, AND YOU ARE IN LUCK THIs TIME," says the quick-witted and glib com- mission man‘. He has learned his lesson, but what good will it do him? He cannot come with every shipment to see what is the state of the market, and he ﬁnds himself in the hands of a man WHOSE ONLY INTEREST IN HIS WELFARE Is THE AMOUNT or COM- MISSIONS HE CAN MAKE OUT or HIM. He looks about him, now, aroused and suspicious, and tries to learn the real state of the mar- ket when his other shipments are made. VVhat can he learn? Other commission men have no interest in him, and his very inqui- ries put them on their guard. He learns nothing—except that he is AT THE MERCY OF A CLASS OF MEN WHO DO NoT INSPIRE HIM WITH UNBOUNDED CONFIDENCE! These men seem so heartless and uncon- cerned, and he ﬁnds that in case of a real glut of the market they DO NoT EXERT THEMSELVES To sAvE HIs PERISHABLE PROPERTY, but simply LET IT ROT because it does not sell itself without an effort on their part. This is a false and vicious system for the sale of fruit or any other farm product. The true, honest, and safe way is that promul- gated by the BUREAU or EQUITABLE COMMERCE, which PRO’I‘F.C’I‘S the PRODUCER and CONSUMER alike, by a QUICK and EQUITABLE distribution. WE ARE IN EARNEST! . The chief obstacle to the rapid development of the new system of business just inaugurated in San Francisco by the Bureau of Equitable Commerce is found in the incredulity of the people, who are so trained and ingrained in the overreaching methods of self ishness, that is, competition, or every fellow for himself and the devil take the hindinost, that they cannot believe it possible for people to enter heart and soul i1Ito a movement which honestly aims ﬁrst, last, and all the time to beneﬁt the people, especially poor people, working people, who have to buy from hand to mouth at the corner grocery, and always at high prices, for they cannot secure bargains because they buy in such small quantities at these little retail stores. Now, it is just for this class of people that a system has been organized by the Bureau of Equitable Commerce which will supply them in small quantities with the very best of goods at as low prices as if they boughta hundreddollars' worth at a time, with full weight, honest measure, and no deception of any kind. We are not surprised that people hesitate to believe this can be true, simply, strictly, undeniably true; but it is true, and we mean it, every vxord of it, and propose to prove it to the joy and satisfaction of thousands in this city and in the country also. It will not pay us until we have a large patronage, which we well understand, and we have provided accordingly, so that we cannot be defeated in our purpose. In the end it will pay well, when producer and consumer are brought together by this system. But, even at the start, we are selling goods at an advance of only ten per cent. or one tenth of the price over wholesale prices. The whole secret and explanation of the system is revealed in one word, CO—OPERATION, a common purpose, a common interest, a community system, in a word, a true communism, a conserva- tive communi$n. All goods are delivered free to any part of the city, and orders may be sent by postal card, which is furnished to our customers, with printed address on it. You are invited to give us a trial order. All orders are cash on delivery, as a matter of course, at these prices. Bear in mind that our goods are all first class. Second and third. class goods can be sold at a proﬁt for less than our goods cost. Our price list is your guide. Telephone No. 200. BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE, 212 and 214 Front Street. =(€>‘> THE_,,GREATEST REFORM PAPER IN AMERICA, rt?) .A.IL\'l'ZD EXPOSITOR OF ZEQITITJLELE CO3/JIAIZEECE- _ .A__. to‘ He7'ezu1'[/z p/ease/iiza’ ,3‘ .. .. .........f0I’ One Yea;/5 5u6scVz'/)z‘z'0Iz lo THE PLO FVSIVARE A./VD PR U./V/ZVG H0 ()]{, Commezzcmg . 189 ./Vtmzei, . 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Geography: Chicago (Ill.), San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-13
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Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 14 (August 22, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1950, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-08-22
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
Text: mu“ I:"iiiiii:iii i” “ll Vol. 1. No. 14. San Francisco, Cal., August 22, 1891. Five Cents a Copy ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street, - San Francisco, Cal. Telephone No. 200. KORESH, - - - - - - - Sample copy true. Entered in tl1eS2u1 Francisco Post (,)fl"1<'.c as Sm-<m<l Cl::.<.~' Matter. [fyou do no! reeeizreyour paper regzzlarlv let’ as K’;/om, 11/a/cs your lellers to f/Ie E112’/or s/Iorl aria’ io Me poim‘. (,b7/t.I‘z‘/will//Is z'117'z'tea’ toae/I- ing on live issues. .S‘u/Iser/p.’z'o;z przlre rem be re/1/2'!/ea’ /9» r:jqz's!erez/ lei/er, andposl-oﬁfee or express money order. One ii/oz//‘/1"s [rial sa/Iserz'p/z'o7z may be paid in postage stamps. Se/Ia’ us 2’/1e names of (my 1/ your frziemls whom you 2‘/1z'n,(’ 7Uoula' be z'a[r.'res2‘e.o’ la 2‘/ze '?’1t"?[’S /zereizz expressed’. We will send to all sue/I two issues of 2‘/[ls p...
Show moremu“ I:"iiiiii:iii i” “ll Vol. 1. No. 14. San Francisco, Cal., August 22, 1891. Five Cents a Copy ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE BUREAU OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. 212 & 214 Front Street, - San Francisco, Cal. Telephone No. 200. KORESH, - - - - - - - Sample copy true. Entered in tl1eS2u1 Francisco Post (,)fl"1<'.c as Sm-<m<l Cl::.<.~' Matter. [fyou do no! reeeizreyour paper regzzlarlv let’ as K’;/om, 11/a/cs your lellers to f/Ie E112’/or s/Iorl aria’ io Me poim‘. (,b7/t.I‘z‘/will//Is z'117'z'tea’ toae/I- ing on live issues. .S‘u/Iser/p.’z'o;z przlre rem be re/1/2'!/ea’ /9» r:jqz's!erez/ lei/er, andposl-oﬁfee or express money order. One ii/oz//‘/1"s [rial sa/Iserz'p/z'o7z may be paid in postage stamps. Se/Ia’ us 2’/1e names of (my 1/ your frziemls whom you 2‘/1z'n,(’ 7Uoula' be z'a[r.'res2‘e.o’ la 2‘/ze '?’1t"?[’S /zereizz expressed’. We will send to all sue/I two issues of 2‘/[ls paper free. A/o /ii/amial 0l’llg'(l- lion is z'71eurr('o.’ by I/lose rerez'z'z'7zg f/ze 5171116’. I I "//€21 you /1(I7'(' rma’ your paper band it lo some one 12//to//1 you 1/zinlr [ls mrzle/1:8‘ rrroala’ 2'/zteresl. Labor to seeure us szz/Iserz'bers. Tlms zlo your par! fozc'ara’s eo//sm/1///al- ing the mud: rzeedeo’ reztolutforz in eomozeree. We mean to rezrolulzorzize [be world’ by o/2/z‘z‘.c*ra2’1';/‘q e'.‘t'l‘.s‘llI/‘J monop- oly by a monopoly of t/1e people. ll/’e ‘will do //I/s /remz/se me mzdcrslaiza’ and tan apply 1‘/le prlﬂeiple Q’ organic 7mz'{y 7w'Iz}‘// oz‘//er rzformalory systems are t};n()rant (f, anal ztlll./loaf 7U/lie/1 71/)/[It///all()7j;’(N1l?:<Illi)I/ old, can be perpeluaz‘ea’; or /ze7c', can be remlerea’po/¢wlzal. 1V(2/lo;/(Ilz'.tz‘s‘ mm’ ’ soeialists may talk and dream but if re;/zaz}/s for Xores//am'ly lo establis/2, _ by el/mic potemy, zmiversal order. _ T/zis it will (lo (I////(22/g//y’z)/of./zl apolz ; every side, and 7m't/Ioat t/ze aia’ of of/zer so-ail./ea’ nfor/1/er.c, 7a//o_ﬂzz'l—— ‘W _ dcsptle t/zeir apparent growl/1—lo bleiza’ I/Ie 1‘/zree e/1'///ex/lal prz}'a‘1ple.v ‘A atluatirzg /Iumcm nature: I/ze ralio/zal, I/ze splr,"/Ia/l and Me //I/J}‘r1l. Tbere is no .9/stem Q’ ezorzo/71y exlarzt 1/1.72‘ for//a/ns Z//e e/e///er/2's esse21— _ l to a proper solatzorz of Me ﬁ;7a71ez'al problem as o’/zes I/ze /Cores,/m.Iz sys- ‘ 33?»: of Coozmereial Eouatlozr, eoJzeez'z/ea’ by {is E12412:/e2‘ for [/16 sole .4321»:/ti! qfan oppressed amt’ sz‘ar7'z'ng /zm/za;z2'.fv. [I is .s‘z'.‘,z/vle, ("(2/,-‘/ﬂ}’i"/i’I."/.’.\‘.’-Z'6‘ mm’ adequate to meet all 2‘/1e reozlire/I/e7z2‘sforﬂea’z'2,:;r 1‘//e people am)’ esfa/ilfs/1- fﬂgan eouitable met/zoo’ of eo///I/zerezol €.1‘[/1(Ni‘§’r’. /ts a./option by Me faple, for I/zese reasons, is z'nez'z'z‘a/vle, and Me o’e_«:2‘rzm’z'o;1 o/f //zomjy and ‘ vqfmonopoly must speeo’z'ly ensue as I/ze resull of its lriu///p/1. F01lll(l(‘1‘ and Director. 0. J. MACLAUGHLIN, - — - - - - Editor. Address all Money Orders and Co1'1'espon<lmice to the Enlitni‘. One year, in advance, - 50 ets. Ono month in 2I.1l\'zl.ll(:(|., - 1!) «ts. Six months, “ - 25 “ Single copy, “ - - 5 “ “T /zriee is be ar//z’o’, l/llll /zaz‘/1 /zis gaarreljast; Ana’ be but Izaleeo’, I/wag/2 loeﬂa’ up in sleel, IV/lose to/zseieizee 7:12?/z 2'71/'ustiee is eorraplezl.” The Great Purpose, and Methods of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce Outlined in a Brief Summary. There are certain underlying general, and inevitableprinciples which must forever comprise the foundation stones of integralism, and without which the bond of organic unity cannot be perpetua- ted. There are but two actuating energies of activity, by which human industries are guaranteed. These are distinctively con1pet- itive and participative. The only and sure tendency of the system ofcompetism is the differentiation of caste, disqualifying the race from social unity and precluding the possible equation ofthe enjoy- ments that the lavish provisions of nature purposes in its providen- ces. The competitive system must ﬁnally eventuate in the catas- trophic conflict of a wage serfdom (goaded to desperation by the iron and unrelcntless heel of plutocratic despotism) against its op- pressive oligarchy of accumulated plunderings ofthe wage laborer. The time has gone by when ﬁne spun theories can satisfy the degraded bondmen ofa so-called christian civilization; the time is ripe for the practical inauguration of a system of relief from the bondage of serfdom which degrades the industrious but plundered mass. Through the system of competism, now operative, the wage earner and creator of wealth is systematically and scientiﬁcally robbed of that which he creates and is aggravated to desperation through the merciless tyranny of those who plunder him of his dearly created products of unremitting toil. The Koreshan System through its Bureau of Equitable Com- merce is inaugurating the remedy. Its principles are simple. Fictitious money must be destroyed. The wage system is an abomination and must be destroyed. The people constitute the government and may provide for their own comforts through the equation of the performance of use, (labor which should be so mod- iﬁcd as to be made 21 recreation) and the equitable distribution of wealth. The economical creation of wealth, embraces the factor of the economical employment of brain and muscle to carry forward the activities of the universal requirements of industry. The hap- piness of the race must be secured through a minimum amount of the performance of that kind of use called labor, and the maximum of that kind of use called recreation. ’ 7'€llS{7r'£.S', lﬂtl/Fills‘! , (£711! H147 . , ,,_V,,‘,,,,..,J lIlllﬂ'5J" u/La I LU Wlldl. lb‘ LIUW -...... ..... \1VJA. B _ , 2 ' The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. The right to govern belongs to the people and should be so regulated as to provide for the conduct of things to the uses of man, and not to govern men against their own interests and for the exclu- sive beneﬁts of those for whom the rights of the people are usurped. The economical expenditure of brain and muscle in the crea- tion of wealth, that is. in the products of industry, is the ﬁrst con- sideration. The second, is its economical direct and rapid distribu- tion. The problem becomes simple in proportion as the mind breaks loose from the shackles of environment fabricated to enslave the race. The two great polar laws or principles of motion (action) are freedonz and direction. Freedom relates to the will and direction to the intellect. Liberty does not comprise the acme of human attain- ment because it may be associated either with wise or unwise adapt- ation. Liberty is compatible with the best interests of society only so far as it is made the means to righteous uses. Complete free- dom of action is admissible when wisdom has reached such a su- preme state of virtue as to wisely direct the will. Wisdom or di- rection of action, to be universal, must admit of some speciﬁcally deﬁned, simple propositions easily resolvable to practical applica- tion. The world has been in more or less. universal bondage through past ages because bondage has secured the greatest safety for society. In other words, society has been subject to law because it had not learned obedience and was not entitled to rise above the law and become a law unto itself. Liberty is a progressive factor in human development and commensurately so with the correction of the de- scending tendencies of the will, and is allowed to become complete when wisdom manifests herself, in theperfection of her formulas. COMMERCE is THE Axis OF l\«I0’I‘ION. The less the friction the greater the motion. Motion without friction is compatible with longevity, but with it, the wear and tear of energy conduces to de- struction. The keynote of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce is Com- mercial Equation. The plunibline of Equitable Commerce, the perpendicular, or pillar of integrity, is value for value, the price for service, and the product of service to be placed to the credit of the one performing the use. This may be illustrated as follows: The labor of ten thousand men, including Jay Gould, may combine to create and perpetuate a railroad system worth one billion dollars, the wealth of the system belongsequitably to the ten thousand men. If one man has received ﬁve thousand a year for his services and the value of his service has added to the wealth of the system ﬁve thousand more per annum, though he may have dissipated the ﬁve thousand received, he still has an investment in the system of ﬁve thousand. This is commercial equity. (Continued) The peopleiof New York City have beeifgreatly prostrated by’ the heat which has been unbearable. \\'onder if any of the \Vall Street kings were sun-struck? Probably not; but then their time for being struck has not come yet. VVait ! Ninety-two per cent. of the business of the United States is done on credit.—E rt/mnge. Has this fact any relation to that other fact that about ninety jper cept. of all who engage in business, fail ?—.4/xzerican 1Vwzam- ormzs . W'ell, something. The platforms of tl1e_pui'ties, boiled down, are about as follows, in sub- stance: DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. “You are a thief l” REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. “You are a liar E” - THE I’Eoi>i.E’s PLATFORM “ IV? have no more usefor eitluw the thieves or liars in IIu'.s*vorm.t;',r/, anti. rlmit youforget it.—AsA FORREST, SR. in Iliberty Bell. K()RESH;\_\I PLATFORM. “Value for value.” VVe have no more use for the competitive system which //lakes thieves and liars. This is starting with fundamentals which alo ne can ﬁnally win. The Weakness of the Farmers Alliance- We print in another column a double leaded editorial from the A//zeriam rVzmcoIzfor/71z'.vt warning the Farmers Alliance of the mach- inations carried on within the camp which that paper says it is well aware of. This article clearly outlines the course that will be pursued to break up the apparent strength of the Farmers Alliance and the honest members of that organization may as well be re- signed to the fate awaiting that body. The Farmers Alliance has developed into so formidable a movement against the money power as to arouse its trepidation and cause it to take steps to disintegrate this new, seemingly—honest, political move, which can easily be done, and it is surprising that those so enthusiastic in their sup- port of the Alliance cannot see it. There is no bar that body can put up that will keep traitors out of the camp because its roll of membership is very large to which more names are being added. To claim, in these degenerate days, that all the present members in this Alliance are honest would be ridiculous. There are many hungry, mortgage-ridden, iinpecunious, as well as, slippery citi- zens in this organization who are no more above the acceptation of a bribe than was the biblical Judas above the taking of thirty pieces of silver. The money power, knowing this, already has its agents at work, as the Nonzozzfor/zzzkl declares, for the disruption of the Alliance. It is a political body containing a large number of ambitious men who naturally seek—as human nature always niust-—place and power. You could no more divorce this incentive from men’s motives, as humanity is at present constituted, than you could separate the tares from the wheat in the new political party where this incentive ﬁnds a new ﬁeld of labor. The Farmers Alliance favors the competitive system and men under that system have an eye single to the capture of the almighty V dollar. The big places in this new movement will therefore yield fat returns under the dog-eat-dog regime just‘ as similar places yield like returns in the Republican or Democratic parties. Further than this: if there is any particular locality where we may ultimately look for a colossal steal and ﬂop, it is in the that direc- tion where the popular ear is made deaf by the clamor for reform. We do not mince matters, although not desiring to cast aspersion upon the present leaders of the Alliance. They are, doubtless, fairly honest, though not brilliant men, nor endowed with those masterful qualities of leadership essential to the redemption of the American people from industrial thraldoin. The Republican and Dem- ocratic parties are backed by men of great wealth. craftiness and ability who are more than a match for simply honest men. It will re- quire great genius, as well as honesty, to turn the wheels ofreform in the right direction and bafﬂe the schemes of the money power. The Farmers Alliance gives clear indications of not possessing that genius for by its free coinage of silver and sub-treasury plans it is already playing into the hands of the l1ydra—headed monster that holds the people so tightly in its grasp. The Farmers Alliance is simply traveling the same old, well-beaten path that plutocracy controls and knows so well. Nothing substantial and effective in the people’s interest can accrue from such a course. This Alliance or the “Peoples Party” will, however, serve one good purpose by its inevitable collapse through chicanery: it will demonstrate to - “ reﬁective. yet credulous, minds the impossibility of effecting new social conditions by human effort in an age when mankind is moved entirely’ by selﬁsh impulse and benumbed, as to moral sense, by sensualisni. There is only one hope for the-regeneration of the race and the establishment of social order, and that is by the institution of radically new methods, with which the present reigning power is unacquainted. Napoleon was the greatest military genius of modern times and the master spirit of Europe, whose nations‘ ‘ trembled when he planted his foot upon their doininions, because he came with new mz'[z'lzrry I//e2‘/2011’: such as had never been prac- tised by his contemporaries and of which they were entirely igno- rant. Herein laid the secret of his conquests. VVith small forces he concentrated them to the taking of one position thereby indi- — .. cating that he comprehended the philosophy of centrality. De- ceiving the enemy by an outward show of weakness he would suddenly surprise and confound him by hurling at his army an. _, _eau understand. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. 3 ingeniously planned and marvelously executed move that wrought irresistible havoc. Field oﬂlcers were dumbfounded and nations stood entranced; and although the combined forces of Europe at ‘ last sealed his doom, Bonaparte, n_evertheless, altered the _map of Europe and taught men new methods of military nanoeuvre which they have not forgotten. His genius was never wrought out of books not from the imitative pates of mediocre minds, but was dictated by his “star of destiny” whose power of efflux in the spiritual realm swayed this master mind and made princes and potentates bend to his will. The world never gave birth to a great leader who did not possess the power of receiving and appropria- ting occult forces. For this is the propeller of that majestic, in- vincible and cohesive energy which has ever captivated mankind —genius. The present exigency demands and must- have this sort of a leader; but he is not to be found among the sockless Simp— sons, the Peﬂ"ers, or the Macunes, of Alliance fame; much less among the Blaines, Harrisons, Clevelands, Carlisles or Stanfords of plutocratic repute. There must arise a power in humanity who, wielding the scepter of organic unity, conceiving radical and effec- tual plans, wrapt in the mysterious garb of genius born ofillnmin- ation, unswervingly committed to the cause of truth and justice, I and fearless in his championship of right even to the death, can hurl a shaft of destruction, forged in spiritual and supernal ﬁres, that will crash to pieces the citadels of the arch-enemies of this commonwealth—the money power and Jesuitism. Nothing short of such a power can reconstruct the rapidly disintegrating social forces. Laurence Gronlund has prophetically declared that there will arise a great religious leader outside of the established Church who will solve the social problem. This child of destiny, this Moses, this reembodied Napoleon, the evolved product of human hope, will plant anew in the race an eternal principle, the revitalized Mosaic law, and as the lightning's ﬂash tips the apex of a spire and glides swiftly to its base, so Divine truth——despite the jeers of the shallow and the ribaldry of the profane——projected from the source of all being shall touch in this age the aspiring souls of men and froiu thence penetrate with its revivifying potency to the nethermost hells of human degradation, actuating humanity with a new and better impulse and leveling with the plumbline of com- mercial integrity the unjust and inharmonious relations of men and women. THE GOLDEN AGE. We believe in the good time coming. We do not .‘L(‘(‘Opt the present con- dition as the ultimate type for the human race. Because vvu can see and know wrong, is our oliiet l'('.n.S<)ll for faith that we will attain to a better condition. The mu-,1'gy of the race» formerly spout in war and rapine, is now Spout. in the terrible ooinpotition for gold. Personal sclllsliiioss concentrates all effort on the individual. lt will yet. come to humanity when its (’Dl1([l10l‘i11}.{ energy will be used in seeking the good of all. That is the next period. When that time comes, the ideals of siicmzss will lead only to noble endeavor. Riches will then be scheduled in the noble poss«~ssions of the intellect and soul, and the strug- gle of competition will iirge tho contestants into a growtli of mind and heart that will lit thmn for communion with the Gods. No rich then, because there can be no poor. Comfort in bodily supplies, with no fear of want, will change the whole direction of human effort, and the age of art and education will be, for the Ilrst time, fully horn. Call this a dream, if you please, but it will be . reality when it will no_ longer be the chief aim of life to get gold. Make it suc- V -6635 to be noble in all that ilullos tho pliysio-til fact of death, and a revolution :80 gigantic will occur, that no livin,«_>; prophet or seer, in most wrapted vision, Yet are we on the verge of that Go(l—l)lessm'l era.—Pr0gres- sine Age. Our, earnest contemporary gives clear evidence of thinking in the right direction and the time is near at hand when such exalted struggle, for there is no remission of sins without the shedding of blood. Human selﬁshness, as expressed in capital and labor, must come into conllict because this propensity of the race has been the cause of all sorrow and suffering. It was projected from hell ‘to destroy mankind and to hell it must therefore return, but before it goes a great coimnotion will be stirred up on account of its yield- ing up the ghost. A social revolution is coming upon the world such as it has never witnessed for a cycle of 24,000 years and by its coming the worst elements in society will be destroyed; r. cam»: '15. zmzmzzwe, rma 1409 .. . . .... . . J /aunt} pen wum. Ls now ,5 .51 ' " > it ~ 7,..‘ .' . ‘I. '. % that they will destroy each other. The most pernicious gasses in society are: ﬁrst, our so-called aristocrats who have amassed wealth by legalized theft and oppression and who live solely for themselves, for the gratiﬁcation of their whims, their appetite; End their passions; second, the quarrelsome, ignorant abandongrj orde of forei ners and vao-r ' , - , V This class, which is simpfy :ii(t)rlifi':iise btehatittlede am'0ng us. so-called aristocrats, the political machine andpthe iiiiiigifiiiriji aiiig they Will destroy each other, but fearful havoc will be wrought be- fore this end is accomplished. Women of wealth, beauty and- station will be dragged from their pillaged palaces and ravaged by wretches in the street, for hell will be let loose and the nether will ﬂy to the upper domain of that realm (wealth, to-day, has given way to round after round of hellish revelries and indulgences) Conﬁagrations will destroy millions of dollars worth of propertvi famine and pestilence will reign supreme and capture myriads oi" victims. This inﬂated monetary policy that is now on its last legg will collapse and national banks, railroads and large lbusinegig ﬁrms will go down with the crash. VVar will rage in Europe arirj America and humanity will be in the depths of its ‘sorrow. The middle class comprising those who sincerely desire to establish a co-operative, fraternal relationship between man and man, as expressed in government, will gather themselves into groups, aﬂiliating with that great organic unity which, through its inherent maintenance of economy, industry, integrity and vir- tue, will become, as it were, the ark of safety for a ﬂeeing and terror-stricken race. Family name at that time will cut no ﬁgure neither will the ownership of large estates or vast bank accounts, for the old ﬁnancial system will have gone down in the struggle and nothing will save the people but a resort to an equitable in- terchange of products rendering the producer and consumer one, Such a system as this will have been thoroughly established before that time and it will be the only institution that will hold over from the old condition of things because it will contain the of vitality of the new age. Humanity moves in its retrogressive and progressive periods in consonance with the movement of the sign on" the ecliptic and is coming out now to the golden age, or that period in a cyc1e’S time when there is revealed to the race true science and law and when men and women will sustain chaste relations. Then they wi11 possess that wondrous psychic force that will give them, through the proper development of their spiritual natures the power of the Gods of mythology who were not the product of ﬁction but of tra- dition—of theigolden age of 18,000 years ago. Scientiﬁc writers have evidence of the existence of“Sons of God" thousands of years ago of whom some record has come down to us. Even celebrated spirit iatheistic writers admit the authenticity of such claims and have engrafted them in their works. The sign Aries is now entering the Constellation Aquarius, which signiﬁes scientiﬁc truth, being. the water carrier, and is just leaving the Constellation Pisces (ﬁshes) which is the age of proliﬁcation, hence the great inuititude of people in the world: more than have existed for 24,000 years It takes, however, seventy—ﬁve or eighty years for the sign after entering one constellation to entirely leave the one through which it has been traveling. When it leaves Fishes, which will be about 1914, the old dispensation and the old order of things will have been entirely destroyed and the new or Golden Age‘ —the kingdom of righteousness or the brotherhood of men—wi11 have been ﬁrmly established. But before this point is reached, as we have said, a social convulsion must come. And this is due when the third demarkation of the sign's movement into Aquarius occurs which will be about the time of the VVorld’s Fair toward which every one is looking and none have an idea beyond that time as to the future of this country_ It. is by no accident that this fair will be held in America 400 years after Christopher (Christ—over) Columbus discovered these shores. It will be the greatest exposition of modern times and will gather together the multitudes from all parts of the earth. Jerusalem was destroyed 70 years after the birth of Christ, or, when the sign passed out of the Constellation Aries as predicted by the Nazarene and the same personage was cruciﬁed at Jerusalem when the orientals had congregated for the celebration of the feast of the Passover. nd Pruning Hook. - The sign Libra (balance) is culminating in Virgo (virtue) hence we have reached that time when woman will rise in her majesty, dam back the ﬂood of sensualism in the race and with her reclaimed purity and virtue take her place aside of man in all of the relations of life. The indications are not wanting looking to a speedy consummation of this, won1an‘s desire. The Golden Age is coming that the Progresszhe Age comments upon, but before it gets here some fearful ﬁghts for truth must be fought to bring men and women into just, harmonious and equal relations. Upon this ﬁght T111»: PLOWSHARE AND PRUNING HOOK has entered and invites its contemporaries to follow upon a platform that admits of no compromise or amalgamation with the old system. I : One Loren Fletcher, 21 Republican leader of Minnesota, who has been to see Blaine at Bar Harbor, Maine, reports that he will “live to serve his country many years yet.". Now how much longer will a suffering public have to stand such bosh? When did this now-he’s—sick-and-now-he‘s-well politician ever serve his country ? :—A—:—¢—:: EVERY week we are refreshed with a summing up of the “bus- iness situation“ which invariably concludes by stating that trade continues to show signs of improvement. The commercial world is afflicted with usurious disease and the daily press, like the doc- tor administering to a typhoid fever patient, being well paidfcan al- ways see signs of improvement, until, some day, there will come a sudden collapse; and that day is near for the malady is approacl1- ing a crisis. _..____._..__ The warning that an attempt is to be made to rob the_Treasury by a body of armed men is probably the work of some jOker.—Ree(l-]lIcKinley Contmn1»o— rary. Of course. The Billion Dollar Congress has already been through it.— San F1'a7wz'.-co Ea:aminr=r. (])em.) Which circumstance with the Democrats, is only another case of sour grapes. Nuns are being granted certiﬁcates to teach in the public schools of Texas. Many nuns have passed the required examina- tion and applied for a school. No religious teachings are allowed in public schools and these nuns are supposed to conform to this regulation. But will they? This is a bold move on the‘ part of Jesuitism which is being tried on in remote Texas to note the effect on the public mind. Nuns would never be permitted to teach in secular schools by pontiﬁcal authority except for the deep-seated purpose of surreptitiously getting control of our public school sys- tem which it is partially doing now in some cities.‘ The public school boards in many of the Eastern cities are largely in the hands of Irish catholics, and Irish catholic school teachers in those cities are very numerous. Look out for Jesuit- ism ! She is making her moves on the political chessboard very stealthily unbeknown to the unthinking masses but she will yet be check-mated by a power she has not, as yet, fully reckoned upon, which is watching her very closely and understands every move she makes. Bah ‘. The days of the Jesuitical Devil-fish are numbered’. Koreshanity-deﬁes its most subtle games. GREAT CHRISTIAN ENGLAND, THE WORLD ROBBER AND BRUTALIZER. (By 0. F. L’/lmoreaux, P/2. D. ) A Hindoo lecturer in England says that the British have degraded India and her people to the level of beasts, and that tens of l'.hO11Sa.1l(lS (lie yearly of starvation, and all reports are suppressed:-The (Ihicago Sentinel. “Mammon, the least erected Spirit which fell From heaven; for even i11 heaven his looks and thonglus Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of l1eaven’s pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy, else enjoyed In vision beatiﬂe.”——Mz'lton. This gold-struck god, Mammon, has established his throne on the island of Great Britain and from that seat of empire rules the world. Even where her arms have failed to vanquish all opposers, as in this country, her cunning high priests of Mammon have found a way to enslave all, put out their eyes and make them grind in her mills, for mere slaves’ rations, that she may gather in from thence the glittering grains which, in spite of all pretense, consti- tute all the god she worships. Strange as it may seem, this cunning and conscienceless pow- er which professes to believe that nothing is, or can be money but gold, uses little or no gold at all to purchase in other lands the means of enslaviug her citizens‘, nor anything else but credit, “bank wind;” what passes for her money having, according to the Lon- don Emil./mzzkl, not more than ten per cent of any kind of real val- ue behind it, which is less by nearly half than what passes for money in this country. Yet, when by this thimble-rigging game she has got possession of our mines, our railroads, our mills, our distilleries, our factories of every kind, our lands and our homes, we are expected to stand in reverence and awe of her vested rights, and meekly bow our necks and take on them her heavy collar and draw meekly in her traces for the sole beneﬁt, beyond a slave‘s rations, of her lazy, lustful, lecherous aristocrats, that they may drink out ofstolen “golden and silver vessels," and “worship devils and idols of gold," and, I suppose, we will obediently do so until some almighty conquering hero shall interrupt the mad reveling and feasting upon stolen luxuries, and profanation of God’s real golden and silver vessels, His humanity, and let His suffering, sighing, disconsolate captives, at length, after weary ages of bond- age, go free. ___..,,.,.,__ Down With the Money Changers. (O. F. Z,’/Izizoreaux, P/1. D. )‘ Cotton Plant (O1‘.u1;:eb11r;:, S. C.) says: The $51,000,000 of United States 41/ per cent bonds \vl1iul1a1'odueinSe * b , ' A l ‘e to be re—issued at per emit interest. Any one having $50,000 of ‘ with the ;,:ove1‘nnwnt and get a loan of $471,000 at one per cent interest. der what right the Govoriinient has to borrow this money at 2 er cent. and lend it at 1 per cent to the favored few who are rich enough to possess $50,000 in United States bonds? That is what they will have to do, according to the opponents of t 11- sub-treasury. It must be a thick witted banker that cannot do better for him- ’ self than the above showing under the immense possibilities of our, for the usurer, nest-of-all-possible banking system. By re-investing in U.S. bonds the 90 per cent drawn from government- in national’ bank bills four times, his $50,000 capital would be swelled to $171,- 950 on which he would draw at two per cent, an annual revenue of $3,439 and still have, to loan to the dear public (whose credit is his whole stock in trade at whatever rate of interest he can extort from their necessity for money) the handsome sum of$36,45o. That is, with an actual investment of the difference between his original capital of §‘:§5o,ooo and his present loaning capital of $36,450 which ' 3 is $13,550 he has become the owner of $121,550 worth ofU.S. 2 per cent bonds on which he regularly draws his interest. By carrying the same process of investment further, he can easily double his. v two per cent capital. True, in the end or wind up of his affairs, he would have to redeem the several sums of national bank bills - which he had received, or so much of them as had not been lost or ' destroyed, a considerable sum, which would be clear gain to him. The 2 per cent on $121,950 in bonds gives a revenue of $2,345 . per annum, or deducting the one per cent government tax on 90 per cent of the bonds for the national bank bills issued, we have ; $1,251 annual revenue on air original investment of $13,550, and . From this, one can read- . ily see what the possibilities of profit were for these favored thieves ; At the. that at 2 per cent interest on the bonds. when the rate of interest on bonds was 6 or 7 per cent. latter ﬁgure it would be f$8,7 57. B ut what was the use of the government’s borrowing this mon-,. ey anyway? Of bank loans, only about one dollar in eight is any kind (if money, this wind and put behind it the people’s or the government’s credit it. Substantially, all the security was the people’s credit, yet the: people, by this arrangement, are made to insure their property and give a gang of conscienceless money-changers heavy usury for the » use of their own credit. And this, bad as it is, is far from being th '- worst feature of the shameless business. The arrangement puts into the hands of these men who have a very great interest in ma ing money——plenty at one time and scarce at another—the entir , and the balance is “bank wind,” or bank credit.--. For the government to borrow it was for the government to borrow "‘ The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. control of the money supply for the whole people. At any time, ,. they can make a stringency to rob labor, and they regularly do so, ‘A_ at the time the farmer must have money for his crops that he ’ must sell as soon as they are ready for market in order to pay his debts. . In theory, the government furnishes the 111oney or means of ~ exchange for the people, but in effect, these favored speculators furnish it on their own terms and as much or little of it as they please. To bring about a squeeze, and if it goes far enough even a panic, all that is necessary is that some good banks, national ' and private, begin what is called in bank parlance strengthening their reserves, that is, drawing in money out of circulation and piling it up in bank vaults, a process which the newspapers will commend as wise and safe; and so it is perhaps, for the banks, but , it portends certain ruin and disaster for debtors and men in busi- ness, and loss and failure for others and sometimes for the banks S themselves. Far better would it be for the people, for government to step out of the business of attempting to supply money for the people and let them furnish their own means of exchange on terms that are convenient to themselves. Very often under present conditions of money supply, men with possessions of very great value, find themselves, for want of a comparatively small amount of money, stripped of everything they have and reduced to beggary. Speaking of such a time in England in 1825, Alison in his history of Europe says: “Persons worth £100,000 could not raise a £100 to keep them from bank- ruptcy.” Let us then say to our partial, unwise, paternal govern- ment which fosters and strengthens its strong and powerful sons at the expense of the weak and helpless ones: “Hands off! and let your children all have an equal chance not only to keep their pres- entpossessions, but to add to them still other acquisitions in safety by adopting means of effecting exchanges that shall be mutually satisfactory to themselves and perfectly safe to all concerned.” ——~—————>-<OH—~——— THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY CONTEST. The excitement over the lottery question in Louisiana runs high in that State; and we cannot forecast the turn of things in the election of next spring, that is to decide whether the Louisiana Lottery Company ‘s character shall be renewed for a period of twen- ty-ﬁve years in consideration of the payment of the sum of$1,25o,- 000 a year into the treasury of the State by that company (says the _ N671! York Sun). In the division of public opinion upon the ques- tion, political lines are disregarded, and the opposing parties are ranged under the names of Pro-Lottery and Anti-Lottery, or rather Pros and Antis. The Antis are making by far the greater show of force. They are well organized throughout the State, and have an especially strong association in New Orleans. Some of the ablest of the Democratic leaders of Louisiana, including Governor Nicholls, are on their side. The clergy of all creeds are united against the lottery; Catholic priests and Protestant ministers have stood side by side and made speeches at anti lottery demonstrations. The Farmers’ Alliance of Louisiana have put an anti—lottery plank in their platform for the campaign. In the rural parishes a large pro- portion of the voters are pledged “to light to the bitter end the horde of gamblers and bribers of the lottery company.” The anti- lottery mass-meetings in the State are numerous and earnest. At one of the meetings recently held in New Orleans a Presbyterian clergyman became so impassioned in his denunciation as to say that “if the lottery were not crushed in the election, it would have to be destroyed by revolution.” Meanwhile, the pro-lottery faction are operating quietly, under the direction of astute tacticiaus, who have the assistance of hundreds, if not thousands, of the agents of the lottery company. They hold up the great subsidy that the company offers the State treasury for a renewal of its charter. They point out the facts that lotteries are authorized by several European Governments, have formerly been chartered in various States of the Union, and have long existed in Louisiana. They make use of all the‘ stock arguments in favor of lotteries. They are especially successful in inﬂuencing the colored people, very -many of whom like to “play lottery” and to get the prizes that are sometimes drawn. They are also able to secure the support of a large body of the white people of the State, including the creoles. Thus the Pros and Antis are carrying on the lottery campaign by ‘Which the Pelican State is stirred up in an extraordinary way. _And here we add but a few words. At the election that is to be held, the voters of Louisiana ought to cast their ballots against the renewal of the lottery ‘s charter. -——e>-49>-<—~——— Yet all of us hold this for true, No faith is to the wicked due; For truth is precious and divine, Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Butler’: Iiztdebras. Goo AND MAGOG. We shall endeavor to give our readers, from week to woek, as full re- ports, as possible, of the inovemcnts of capital and labor in their culminating conilict, ho. 1 in this country and in Europe. We shall depend largely upon labor papers for these reports, as the Associated Press and United Press Asso- ciation being under the control of monopolists, suppress a good portion of sucl: news. The money power is assiduously laboring to deceive the people as to the actual condition of our social aﬁairs. The daily press depends largely upon the aforesaid news companies for most of its telegraphic dispatches, and. being itself l:1r,-.;<*-.ly in the hands of monopolists, it is quite in accord with the policy thus pursued by them. But “murder will out”; the daily conflicts and contentions between Gog and Magog (the roof and the ﬂoor, capital and labor), all Over the world, are constantly growing in virulence, and the labor world manages to receive intelligence of the same. ‘i it un erstood, however, that we are no more in sympathy with organized labor in this ma er than we are with capital, because both are laboring from a selﬂs motive and if the conditions were reversed, organized labor would be as intolerant as capi- tal. Our object in recording their controversies is to demonstrate to our readers the growing hopelessness of social adjustment upon a competitive basis ; to substantiate the incontrovertible do aration, undisputed by think- are fast crumbling to pieces with the dawn of the new age; an warning trumpet to humanity-loving men an women in order that they may escape through co-operative, organic, industrial effort, from the most terriﬁc upheaval of society known to history, which is almost upon us.] Bakers will insist upon but 10 hours in 1892. Brussels printers have struck for higher wages. Massachusetts watclimakers are being organized. New York Upholsterer‘s Union is contending for the nine-hour day. There are 15,000 organized workingmen at Copenhagen, Den- mark. The Barbers’ iuter—national Union has started a paper at St. Paul, Minn. The hair-workers and wigmakers of Paris have organized a union which numbers 2,000. The recent labor troubles in the Pittsburg district cost the railroads about $25,000 per day. The General Assembly of Jewish Trades has organized 14 Unions within the last six months. $200 have been appropriated by the municipal government of Lowell, Mass. to make Labor Day a success. Five new organizations have been granted charters by the Operative Plasterers’ International Union. The United'Central Labor Federations of New York, Brooklyn and Hudson County represents 144 trades unions. The waiter girls of Berlin have formed a union for the adjust- ment of their grievances, which has 1000 members. The total number of votes cast for the labor candidates at the recent municipal election in Spain was 250,000. Memphis, Tenn. painters have been out since May 1. They take jobs and do the work on the co-operative plan. 1\lachiner_v lllOl(l€rS organized three new unions last month at Bridgeport, Coun., Little Falls, N. Y., and Jersey City, N. J. Labor Day in Nova Scotia occurred on July 21 and was cele- brated by the greatest demonstration ever held in that country. Some of the small shopkeepers of Paris have appealed to the Pope from the big concerns that are driving them out of trade. New York labor organizations are strongly antagonizing the Ninth Avenue Road which recently discharged all union men. at us, ,1; zmzrnayzz, ruin I«u_47 , ..-,... . an _r,_-.;;',' 21).,‘ 1; .94‘ 12.3 VJ 77l0_7lq",llﬂll' '10 Wna-PIS UOW it * .’, ,) ,, £7 ' ''x' ‘is, : ‘KUVCLIPUICUL \1v1. 3 _ _ i;zfL1_- _ -__'1'_ - nu \.uxx\.u, ’. ’ ‘ Eight new charters were issued last month to new unions by the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. The wages of employes in ﬁve of the tailor shops of New York City were reduced 50 cents recently and all who demurred were discharged. Boston street railway employes are being thoroughly organ- ized by the Federation of Labor. Last week placed on the membership roll. IOOO 11311165 \V€1‘€ There has been a lockout ofjob printers at Omaha, on account of the eight hour law passed by the Nebraska legislature. Only one oﬂice in the city has complied wih the law. The Ehrmann Manufacturing Company of Terre Haute, Ind., has discharged the women in its employ for forming aunion. They received 40 to 45 cents a 1/02:01 for making n1en‘s pants, overalls, jackets, etc. At a mass meeting of 20,000 workingmen held at Drammen, Norway, resolutions were passed demanding that the government -should buy the land of the country, distribute it among the labor- .ers and advance them the money necessary to work it. France has 4,220,000 industrial workers, I,o5o.ooo of whom are females and their average wages are about 28 cents per day. The entire number of wage workers in France is 14.768,ooo among whom 4,415,000 are women. The average daily wages of the French agricultural laborers amount to 25 cents. A general strike of the union steamship stevedores occurred last Saturday in San Francisco: 500 men went out. They de- manded an increase in wages from 30 cents to 40 cents an hour for regular time and a raise for night and Sunday work of from 40 cts. to 60 cents an hour. The demands were ﬂatly refused. If the water-front federation, with its fourteen unions, should actively espouse the cause of the steamship stevedores, the strike would be- .come a serious matter. When the protective tariff was the issue during the campaign of 1888 the employes of the Arcade File Works at Sing Sing, N. 31., one of the largest ﬁle manufactories in this country, were promised an advance in wages if Harrison should be elected. This promise has not been kept. The wages of the men have been reduced from 30 to 50 per cent, and a strike is threatened. The conductors and motor men on the Rapid Transit Electric Street Railway in Newark, N. J., have struck and the line is tied -up. This company, is about a year old and is made up of local business men. The Essex Passenger Railway company which controls all the other street car lines of the city and gave the same poor facilities hasjust gobbled the Rapid Transit and increased working hours from IO to 13 without extra pay which is the cause of the strike. The Inevitable Fate Awaiting The Farmer’s Alli- anee Foretolcl by One of Its Strongest Aclherents. Sleep on your arms to—night. Put none but true men on guard. The destiny of the people and nation are in your immediate keep- ing. A hellish plot against human happiness and prosperity is nearly matured. The hosts of evil are alert and moving. Your enemies have determined to destroy the reform movement at all hazards. N0 stone is to be left unturned. The spy is within the ranks. Men sworn against you have taken the pledge of allegiance to you. l\Iembers of the Republican League and kindred orders are joining the Alliance and other industrial organizations. are to be destroyed by dissentions, cleverly engineered. You Failing that, bloodshed is to be precipitated, and monopoly’s gold is to be used to hire starving wretches to cut the throats of their struggling The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. along the line upon all your trustworthy leaders. Accursed vil- lains have already in their pockets the I/zz'rLg/pietes ofsilz/er, the price character of men and women true to the reform cause. The weak kneed are to be cajoled, bribed and threatened, into submission to monopoly’s will. The dishonest and starving are to be bought like sheep. Quarrels are to be provoked, and toughs, like Brennan, are to murder your leaders as Wood was murdered, and the Associated Press is to be employed to make the crime appear j ustiﬁable. Cor- rupt devils, calling themselves labor leaders, are to be employed to provoke strikes, and every means are to be used to incite riot, and justify the calling out of police, militia and regular army, and slaughter laboring men like mad dogs, thus provoking general strife and precipitating war while the great common people are unpre- pared. Loud mouthed men, who would disgrace any cause, are al- ready hired to shout for reform, and give expressions to sentiments that will disgust every honest person. These same treacherous blatherskites are trying to work into our platform and policy, ideas that are not defensible. Some of the most rabid and loud mouthed shouters for reform to-day are members of the Republican league. Nothing is to be left undone to secure the election to high otﬁcesin your orders, men who would sell you all out for a mess of pottage, and laugh you to scorn in the day of your humiliation. Men of bad character and associations are to be forced upon you as candi- dates. The spy in the camp is to give your every plan to a subtle and treacherous enemy. Bogus dispatches, damnable lies, incend- iary speeches, by so-called labor leaders; insinuations, innuendoes, everything low and vile is already written in the terrible plot which is already hatched and is being pushed to completion. We are not alarmists. We know whereof we aﬁirm. VVe have people on the inside who keep us informed. We dare not yet tell the people all we know of the hellish plots being matured for their destruction. —Ameriam ZVon—Cwzﬂ)rmz'.rl. -———-—>-<Ov<——-———- ANOTHER RALLY! The Third Convention of the Patrons of Equitable Commerce Held Under Favorable Auspiees. Thursday evening, August 13, the third Convention of the Patrons of Equitable Commerce was held in Metropolitan Tem- ple, in this city, there being an audience of 500 people present who Came in response to a summons for the organization of “A Great Industrial Party." Geo. C. Ludington presided and introduced Dr. C. R. Teed who, by this time, hardly needed any introduction to a San Fran- cisco audience since the city press has‘ so assiduously advertized him, and Koreshanity—-the product of his work. This third and last convention for the time being, was called for the purpose of forming a Club of Patrons of Equitable Commerce which it is in- tended to resolve into an elective body that the people may be properly educated in the matter of franchise. Similar clubs will be formed in every city and town in the United States. These clubs. which will rapidly augment in numbers, will advance the interests of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce and extend its inﬂuence and scope until the best blood of the people of the United States is blen- ded in a great industrial system that will destroy money and effect a universal equitable exchange of the products of the brain and soil. The people present at the convention entered enthusias- tically into the project and in response to an invitation quite a number signiﬁed their desire to be enrolled as members of the club. This new secular organization of Koreshanity will probably » meet weekly and devise ways and means for freeing the people of their burdens. It is anticipated that the cluhlist will» rapidly in- crease in numbers and thus will the masses come into a knowledge of their rights of which they have been shamefully robbed by the plutocrats and their hirelings—the politicians. ——-A4->o-4.»: A Minnesota barber has just eloped with two married women who both left three small children behind. This is certainly a fellow creatures. Vicious and brutal attacks are to be made all positive move toward “breaking up families." of perjuring their souls, to swear to hellish lies, to break down the ' ‘THE SOCIETY ARCH-TRIUMPHANT of the Koreshan X‘ System meets every Tuesday at 7.30 BM. in the parlors of the _ Koreshan Unity, 218 and 220 Noe Street. You are cordially '2 invited to attend these meetings where every phase of theolog- ical, scientiﬁc and sociological thought is discussed in an origi- / nal, striking and convincing manner, through the application of law by logical methods. If you are a thinker, unshackled by prejudice and 11ot com- mitted to the well beaten lines of investigation, you will ﬁnd the discussions undertaken in the meetings of this Society “a feast of reason and a ﬂow of soul”. THE CLUB OF PATRON S OF EQUITABLE COM- MERCE meets every THURSDAY FNENING at 8 o’clock in McALL1s- ran HALL, 106 McA1lister Street. This club was formed for the purpose of promulgating the principle of commercial equation, ;._ educating the people as to their rights, and establishing a A _ School of National Economy, the basis of the NEW COMMON- ; WEALTH. You are urged to unite with the same and give it the hearty support which it deserves. The meetings of the club are rendered very entertaining and instructive by reason of their musical, recitative and oratorical features. Apply for FRANK D. JACKSON, Secretary. 212 3; 214 Front Street. membership, to I<:o:ceeh.e.n Literature- 2 Our books and pamphlets contain a brief exposition of Koreshan Science which uncovers the mysteries of the ages. Modern thought has failed to ' discover the laws, forms and relations of Being and Existence. ‘ Koreshanity is a genuine interpretation of phenomena and form as expressed in the universe. It is a true index to the character of God and man, and their relations. All intelligent people should read this literature and move in advance of the tidal wave of progress. The most radical subjects are ably, freely and fearlessly discussed therein. Re-Incarnation,‘ or tl1e Resurrection of the Dead. Br CYRUS, - - - - - PRICE 15 ors. Emanuel Swedenborg. - - - PRICE 15 cars. of the Children of Israel. PRICE 15 crs. Br (Imus, - Identiﬁcation 2 BY DR. ANDREWS, - National Suicide and Its Prevention. BY PROF. L’AMoiuaAUx, - - CLOTH $1.00. PAPER 50 ms. Proclamation and Judgment. _ AN EXPOSITION OF THE SEX QUESTION, Br CYRUS, - - - - Solution of the Financial Problem. By CYRUS, - - - - THE ENTIRE SERIES, PAPER, $0.75. PRICE 5 ms. PRICE. 5 crs. Printing :Depe.:::tIn.ent u "—'*}'OF THE'(*‘— BUREAU or EQUITABLE Gonnnnon. Fine Job Printing. BOOK AND PAMPHLET WORK A SPECIALTY ALL WORK PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO AT LOWEST PRICES. 212 & 214 FRONT STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, - - CAL. The Plowshare and runing Hook. JAMES H. BUBBETT, Manager, Printing Department of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, 212 & 214 Front Street. SAMUEL H. DANir;Ls, Manager, Branch No. 1, Provision De- partment, Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 & 214 Front St. I. R. MARs'roN, Managing Agent, Real Estate Department Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 8: 214 Front Street. C. J. lVIAcLAUGuLiN, Editor THE 1’Lo\vsH.o.nE AND 1’r.UNINs HooK; Official Organ of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 & 214 Front Street. All business relating to either of these departments of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce in San Francisco should be: addressed to the respective heads of said departments. General letters of inquiry concerning the Bureau of Equit—- able Commerce or patrons should be addressed to either Dr. Cyrus R. Teed. President of the Board of Directors; or Mrs. M. C. Mills, Secretary, 218 XL 220 Noe Street, San Francisco, Cal. All communications pertaining to the Golden Gate Branch of the Koreshan Unity (Church Triumphant, College of Life or Society Arch Triumphant) should be addressed to Dr. Cyrus It. Teed, 2512 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, Cal. All business and inquiries relating to the. General Assem- bly of the Koreshan Unity should be addressed to the Guiding Star Assembly, 3617 & 3612) Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, Ills. \Vou1d You Not Like To Act As Our Ekgeiit? VVe will pay you -«>50 per cent. -<--- ON ALL CASH SUBSCRIPTIONS! ‘:1’:- THE EASIEST PAPER lN AMERICA FOR WHICH TO SECURE SUBSCRIPTIONS. RADICAL! ORIGINAL! CONVINCINGI REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT of the This Department is prepared to transact a general Real Estate Business. Those looking for Homes, Business or Investment Proper- ties, either in city or country, are respectfully requested to interview us. Those having properties for SALE or EXCHANGE either in CITY or COUNTRY are asked to place the samcwith us for disposal. Correspondence solicited. I. R. MARSTON, Managing Agent. OFFICE 212 & 214 FRONT STREET. San Francisco, Cal. .4 ....a.-.. A... V (1.... ..-.....;Ls.~.:‘£ £4.-W‘ 3I.e..'.u....1CL,_ ,. , : —£‘Zﬁce.re(Ixo:z5’ 15 Z726'Z}lIQ-Jlci’, am; mm W," .._.l,..,, . v_, r/wm.y- and 1.0 Wnal. lb HOW guvuu-Lucuu \iu1 5... ’ '1:':”‘ ““‘ 4.‘ - ‘r'\Ff1-|r-'-rn£-nn1’e~ . - Aémgs , mu yauxuu, To the nennle 8 The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. ORGANIZATION EFFECTED. In response to an invitation a number of persons assembled in McAllister Hall last Thursday evening for the purpose of formiuga Club of Patrons of Equitable Commerce. Geo. C. Ludington was elected temporary chairman and Frank D. Jackson, secretary. After an address by I)r. Cyrus R Teed re- specting the object ofthe club, permanent organization was immed- iately etfected. Mr. Ludington was nc nzir at ed as president of the club but declined on acccunt oitn: ii ess er gag €]l‘.(11l$ which would preclude a faithful attention to the duties of the oﬁice, whereupon C. J. Maclaughlin was nominated and elected to that office. .\1r. VVeaver, who has been prominently identified with the Nationalists of this city, was elected vice-president, Frank D. Jackson, secretary, Mrs. Cornelia Critcher, treasurer and Joseph Cook, sergeant-at-arms. It was voted to meet in the same place Thursday evening of every week. The roll of membership was then signed by those present and the pioneer Club of Patrons of Equitable Commerce, the first lof a great number of similar organizations that will soon be formu- bated, had its birth. It has a strong ﬁght before it, but is bound to rapidly increase in mcmbei ship and win because it is an expression of culminating truth. -——-+¢+—>«——~— But the Natural Product of Modern Christianity. A man by the name of Buckley is editor of the ./Vezu York C/zrzktizm Advocale. How he was ever given so prominent a posi- tion by a great denomination is the puzzle of those who note with interest the doings of that church. Recently he has distinguished himself by a fanatical opposition to the promotion of women in church affairs. A fifth rate man in scholarship and ability, he would never be heard from on the question except for the powerful organ into whose columns he is privileged to pour his contuma- cious verbocity. No more complete demonstration of the ass in collar and kerchief has been given in modern journalism.—T/ze Progresszrie Age. CORRECT. The great danger for the Peoples’ party is its threatened in- vasion of unscrupulous politicians. Its failure to take some pot sition on the liquor traﬂic demonstrates this. A reform party that winks at, trades with, frolics with, or fears the liquor traffic, is damned. The liquor traﬂic proposes to manipulate all politica- parties, and wherever itsucceeds failure and disgrace marks their way to ruin.—T/ze Progrexsive Age. 3617 (lottstgc Grove Ave., - - YOU HAVE STRUCK IT. \\'hat. in a republic is government? The will of the people in operation. \\'here the people’s will decrees, what possible dan- ger to liberty as deﬁned by the standards of the time ? What we most need is improved definitions of liberty, larger conceptions of operating close to the people's ideals, and graver apprehension of violating the known truths of public and private life—a better 111.1llllU(,'(l and purer womanhood.—-T/ze /'7'(Igre55z'7’c Age. o+9~—j Di's.rers:?.ons. “Tlxougli I speak but one language I am familiar with many tongues, " said 21 physician.—/>’uffn/0 E11;/uirer. Tom—Hurley was a good man. Jack—-Howido you know he was ? Tom——l saw it on his ton1bstone.— Yarikre Blade. PRODUCE-RS. ATTENTION! We would cu-ll the Attention of Farmers. 1“ruitgrowers and Proclucers i11 general to the fact that the Bureau of Equitable Coimnorce is prepared to handle their goods, either on commis- sion or othorxvise, al‘t'ording them better and quicker returns than they can realize througli any other channel. READ THE FL AMING SWORD. 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Geography: Chicago (Ill.), San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-14
Is part of: Koreshan Unity Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Plowshare and pruning hook: indicator of commercial equation, vol. 01, no. 15 (August 29, 1891)
Author: Teed, Cyrus R., 1838-1908, Koresh, 1838-1951, Koreshan Unity
Publisher: Beaureau of Equitable Commerce
Date: 1891-08-29
Place published: San Francisco, California, United States
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It has its inauguration upon the principle that in every domain of activity and life, the commercial impulse is tl1e_ central one of creation and perpetuation, and that a correction ' of commercial abuses will insure a succession of reformations till the entire catalogue of immoralities and deviations from social recti- tude will have been relegated to oblivion. The Bureau has for a universal end, the amelioration of society from the degradation in which, through ignorance of the laws of organic life, it ﬁnds itself overwhelmed. It aims to accomplish this purpose through the inauguration ofa universal industrial system by which employ- ment will be provided upon the most economical basis of use in its equitable performance. Men, women and children will not only be employed through the development and progress of our system, but while they will be rewarded with remunerative present returns for service, they will also share in the surplus earnings, becoming equitable owners in the wealth of the general industrial and eco- nomic unity. An incipient feature of the work is the present operation of a provision department through which the Bureau designs to retail goods to consumers of the same at wholesale prices. We know that, through the application of our economical methods, we can afford to reach the people at these rates and pro- vide them with the bcst of goods at the cheapest prices. PA'rRoNs OF EQUITABLE COMMERCE. The Bureau is organ- izing the Patrons of Equitable Commerce. Its ultimate purpose, is to thoroughly organize the Patrons of the Bureau system, into a national unity creating active clubs in what are now Assembly districts of the various states and territories in the Union. The speciﬁc work of the clubs will be to institute a representation by delegation to more aggregate bodies of the Order of Patrons, to in- stitute the school of active conventional work, to culture the mind of the young and old in parliamentary usage while, at the same time, the members of the body are growing into an organic national unity. One of the central and fundamental principles of the Bu- reau of Equitable Commerce is the deslruclimz of ]z'clz'lz'ou5 mouey. It is maintained that the inaugaration of a system of equitable dis- tribution of the products of nature and industry can more easily be effected without, than with, what is now called, money—a very poor medium of exchange. VVe hold that the various channels for the distribution of the essentials of life belong to the people and shall be owned by them. Railroads, telegraph and telephone sys- tems belong to the people. The postal system also belongs, not ‘to what is now denominated government (for government, so called, V ' t t,o.ago3/l'err_1m,ent 0' the To the people belongs the universal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap- piness and they shall dictate their terms for the. acquisition of that by which happiness is secured. The Bureau will push the ‘work of organizing into every state and county of the United States, and thence into the entire world, locating Bureaus wherever it can awaken an interest in the work. If a vitiated and perverted Christian system cannot relieve the sufferings of degradation, we will see what an equitable com- mercial system can accomplish for the world. THE l’I,UMBi,1NE on COMl\.IERCI;\L EQUA‘1‘1oN. In the con- struction of an ediﬁce we suspend the plumbline and adjust the level. The line indicates the perpendicular. The commercial plumbline is the law of equitable exchange. Applied justice in the processes of exchange must be usefor we equitably related. Such is the only law of balance or justice, If a man gains two dollars for one, another man has lost what the one has gained over and above that for which he has rendered an equivalent. The law of balance demands that a man shall render an equivalent for every thing that he shall possess. This principle is a simple and fundamental one in equitable economy. The commercial plumb- line is commercial uprightness, commercial integrity. Commercial equation will surely follow the application of this commercial plumbline. Integrity, not religious, moral, or social, but busi- ness integrity, means the equitable adjustment of wealth—the creation of nature and art—so as to maintain a balance between production and consumption. VVhen wealth is usurped, seized and held by so called legal right, through a systematic robbery as it is done by men who accumulate riches at the expense of the laborer who creates it, the one hoarding, is by it enabled to pros- titute the wealth producer to his purposes in every department of human activity. Those thus prostituted and degraded become the subsidized tools to be manipulated to any use whatsoever, either as instruments of political intrigue or for their own further subjugation. The rich are heaping up riches against the day of wrath (dies-ira). This is not merely a biblical statement and pre- diction. “The laborer is not only worthy of his hire”, but he will ultimately possess it. If not by the orderly plan of unrestricted justice, then by violence, for justice will ultimately be meted. . The common humanity is being rapidly educated up to a knowl- edge of its rights, both as to the claim upon what it creates as accumulated wealth, and to its political or national prerogatives in the exercise of its authority to distribute and equalize that wealth, according to the dictates of a universal wisdom, and for the universal good of the race. LIBERTY, NOT C()l\IPULSI()N, Is THE WATCHWORD or‘ TRUE PROGRESS. The Patrons of Equitable Commerce do not, nor never shall by any process of boycotting, compell any man to enter into the unity. The only inducements offered are the interests of those associating themselves with the movement. VVe utterly condemn that Prostitution of liberty through which a combination of men constituting an organized rabble, under the sanction of a derelict government, interferes with the single and independent citizen in the prosecution of his individual purpose and right. Men are allowed to form combinations called labor unions, and without molestation permitted to interfere with the rights of indi- vidual citizens under the very eyes and sanction of a government instituted for the protection of its ’i‘subjects." Such things are allowed because each political party hopes to secure or perpetuate its tenure by currying favor with these said unions and combina- tions. The wage system is an abomination. It does not therefore enter as a factor into the economics of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce. The man, woman or child performing uses for the economy shall become an equitable sharer in the accumulations of the Bureau EVERY I’ERS()N AT THE AGE 01* SEVEN SHOULD BE sUs'rA1N1.\:<;. While every child should pass through all grades , of culture essential to its relations to a reﬁned society, it may ac- , complish this in a system of scholastic application wherein the school system or the system of education pertains to the practical utilities of life. \Ve may cite, as an illustration, the practical util- , ity of book keeping. the thing demanded. principles of accountancy should do so in the relationship of a practical utilitarian. gress together. The universal industrial school system is the only correct plan of economical education. Nearly every school department could be made a practical means of common use or service. The Bureau of Equitable Commerce in San Francisco is by no. means all there is of the Bureau System. We shall progress Practical, not theoretical accountancy, is Every person studying book keeping or-the 5 Its study and its practical use should pro- I The Plowshareswé Pruning H.001.‘-- with the organization of Bureaus in every city and town in the country, creating, of the general Bureaﬂ system, a Consociative Bureau of F.quitab‘.e Commerce. All trade or exchange of n1anu- factures and products of every kind will be accomplished through the consociation. l\l0I\'L~2Y, 1~‘.\1.s.-«; on }<‘lC'I‘I_’l‘l()l'S, .\..\'D TRUE. Deﬁnition—The guard or criterion of commercial uses. Fictitious money is that which is perverted in its application as a representation of wealth, to the reality of wealth. Money is any medium of exchange. True money can only represent the stage’ of a commercial transaction - and should be n1»,_1:l-3 to change its denomination according to the status of the transaction. The check system, substituted for the present “n1oney"s\'stem, would soon destroy all fiction in commerce and result in an exchange medium which would correctly repre- sent the wealth behind it. It is only necessary as a means of destroying fictitious money, which dexzkzferalzt/I1 accomplished, the equitable exchange system could be substituted and the check system disposed of. C().\'S()Cl.»\’l‘I\'l-3 Bl'RE.\U or-‘ EQUl‘l‘.\l¥l,E conm«:RcE. The Con- sociative Bureau as distinct from the Bureau of Equitable Com- merce is merely the general consociation of all Bureaus into the grand Bureau system. through which general exchange can be facilitated and enhanced for the beneﬁt of the general mass,—re- duction of labor and increase of the individual share. Multiply the industrial population and increase the economy of use by the invention and use oflabor saving machines, and through these means insure the maximum recreation. The people cry for more labor when they require rest; they clamor for increased legislation when thelaws are so replete with technicalities against the people that they must sustain a horde of lawyers whose only interest in legal rights is to sweat blood money from their dupes into their own coffers. Let us have rest and the full returns for every per- formance of use.—l\'. \Vhere do the funds go accumulated by the exhibitimi of the alleged “holy coat“ at Treves? That is probably a holy secret. There is reported to be a government proposal in Russia “to establish a system of elevators at the principal ports of export and lines of railway. that will enable the small farmer, as well as the extensive land owner to bring wheat, whatever the quantity, to the elevator, to be classiﬁed and graded, receiving for whatever quantity they bring, a warrant for so n1ucl1 grainofa certain grade, these warrants to be payable at all government banks.” This is pretty good for Russia, iftrue, for it means rough times for the middle-men and they are the commercial sinners that we want to get our paws on. Can the Bureau of Equitable Commerce be a success? Can a business man who sells goods cheaper than any one else dispose of his merchandise? Well, if he cannot it is not the fault of the goods, providing they are as good as those sold by his competitors. This is the whole question in a nutshell as regards the success of the Bureau. It was instituted for the people, belongs to them and they will appropriate its benefits. The ﬁnancial issue has been pinned and now we have only to await the unfoldment of this new system. The money power and fictitious money are as much doomed today by the appearance of this Bureau, although only in its infancy, as was Goliath at the coming of David. The principle of commercial equation when deep rooted and applied is invulner- able and irresistible. If the Kaweali colonists are deprived of the land which they have settled upon after having fulﬁled all of the legal require- ments, despite any technicalities——of which the law is purposely full—that rich and powerful lumber companies backed by a sub- sidized press may endeavor to use against them, it will be but another of the many outrages that have been perpetrated upon citizens of the United States who fancy that they enjoy freedom. However, if the confiscation of this land would prove the last straw to break the back of the people's patient endurance of heaped up wrongs then let it go, for the mighty reaction to follow will create such atidal wave of revolution as t0 S\V€€p away eVe1'Y vestige of plutocratic insolence and reinstate the masses into their‘? God-given, though usurped, pr€r0g3JZiV€S,- . _‘ break up this deplorable condition of things. Think of it, under Fruit Thrown Away. TONS OF‘ IT DRIFTING ON THE WATERS OF THE B Everyone Denies the Waste. EIGHTY BOXES OF PEARS “DUMPED” ON SUNDAYWTHE BART- LE].‘1‘S ALL RIPENED SIMULTANEOUSLY—SUPPLY NOT SO HEAVY The waters of the bay lmve been Sp(‘(‘i(l(‘(l rlurixig the past \v<-ck or two with fruit that \vas c:11'ri1-d l1vre b_v the S:1wr:11111~11toriverhoats and thou thrown away for want of .-L nmrket. Commission me1'r:l11n1ts deny that any such \\'l1Ul<'SaLl(* dumping has Til.l((‘ll place, bl1tVViLl’:(}I‘lTl('lf)l1Sil.l1(l oniitaloiipos bob i11urrily over the waves all the same, and hore and tlnrrc the S‘1ll'f&lCe of tho \vat1-rs is «latte-d with pink cliistors of tomatoes, Bartlett poa1‘s:1.rc cast into the sun by the box. and yet the dealers deny the dumping. As a. matter of fact eiglity boxes of pours xwre t|1r~>wn out of the tlrm of McDonough& Johnson.on Sunday night, and .\l«-l')o11o11:l1\‘t Johnson form about the biggest fruit conimission co11eer11 on Davis straw-t. It is cliiiim-«l by the ﬁrm that these pours xxmw -1: . “They were the upper boxes on the pilo,” o.\’pl;1i11c:l Mr. Jol111s1;n_ “and lil1eS(3OI‘O‘l.1lIlgSll110fsilllllftltltyéllltl Sunday foruiiooii rotted thein. If pours were selling at $4 to tit‘: 11. box instead of two to four hits they would ll:L\'l‘ boe11 dumped all the same ; tlmy were rotten and only fit for garlr:L;2;e."-—Sau f‘ram~i.s'- co E.r,am1'ne«'. When such facts can crop out through the mcdiumof the daily press, which, unfortunately, has not acquired a reputation for a love ofjustice, it is a sure indication that something is decidedly rotten in the State of Denmark. There is more fruit and vege- tables dumped into the San Francisco Bay by middle-men than has ever been suspected and why slioul(ln‘t there be under the existing order_ of things? If these men cannot get a suﬂicicnt price for the produce consigned them to make a proﬁt by the hand- ling of it they are not disposed to turn tlieniselves into public benefactors and give it away, for that would seriously compromise them with their customers upon whom they depend for their rev- enue. So what is there left for them to do, as business men? Nothing, but to throw produce away when the market is glutted. The city authorities might take the matter in hand and pay them a nominal price for the overstocked market and‘ then sell such merchandise to the poor for a fartliing, but that also would cause 3 some tall kicking from retailers. See in what a dilemma the con1- ‘ petitive system places mankind. \Ve are not of the opinion that these middle-men are so depraved and indit‘fere'fit to their fellow- men that they would actually prefer to throw away their surplus L to uce rather than give it to the )OI‘, )I‘\’)Vldl11°‘ such action on l 7 _ P c D v l ' ir art did not in'ure them with their customers. Such l1ow- l ‘V e p , . N ' ever, would necessarily be the case, and, so. overboard goes the _‘ fruit. , The Bureau of Equitable Conimerce has been established to -the competitive system there are millions of bushels of grain and . acres of orchards of fruit and thousands of warehouses of clothing f and yet the masses are starving, and. in winter, shivering to death. l ' All these things are the product of God's soil and of the muscle of ,5 mankind, yet who would know it from the disposition made of the ‘ 4 same. Human society was primarily organized for the promotion ‘‘ [of the common weal, and when it has been so vitiated that it i ;-ceases to answer such an end then it must be reorganized by means of radical and unflinching reform nicasures. The producer _ nd consumer must be made ONE by an equitable system of ex- -‘change through the institution of commercial equation, which jneans that money and competism must be destroyed and co-opera- n instituted as the safeguard of civilization and human perpe- Liuity. This panacea to the race will come and although the ‘ ddle-men may kick and make wry faces, like a boy to whom his mother is administering cl1astisen1ent,yet the exigencies of the e demand the remedy. THE M lI)l)l,l-I-.\ll£_\' _\rr's'r GO. W - ,_..Ti¥9, ?},f’1V§.1.1@?‘? _3PL'l_33£‘£I£i_’,{3 H°°k- no PEOPLE’S PARTLY DEMANDS. BOSTON, August 24.—Tl1e People’s Party State Central Committee. met here today, elected officers, voted to place a State ticket. in the field this fall and adopted a platform. The latform indorsos the Cincinnati platform; de- mands the issue of United States Troasiiry notes in sufﬁciont volume to tr;n1s- “ act the business of the country on a cash basis; dom-ands the enactment of ‘ laws whicli will prevent tax—dodging; favors a graduated tax upon inlioritzinco; favors Government ownership of all means of transportation and «=omniui1icz1- tion; recommends that the people shall assume control of :1ny‘l>rau1cl1 of com- merce through national, State or municipal administration, when it becomes evident that such branch is used for tho proﬁt of :1 few mmi at the uxpmisn of the public; espocially:11l\‘ocates mlmicipulco.-11 yards; domzmds that the im- portation, mai111f:1.cture and sale of all spirituous liquors be c.o11d11ctcd by the (lrovernment or State; doolares in favor of the night-liour day; demands indus- trial training ii'pubh'c schools; that omploynmnt of private arnn-<1 bodies be made a penal oltciisc; favors restrictive iininigmtion; declares ugaiiist con- vict labor and fzivors women sliffmgge and iiisur.-nice by Statcs.~.\'a1/ }v‘rm7('i.-(‘0 E.I'll7IIlﬂP1'. “The People's Party State Central Committee" incorporates some very good with some very bad recommendations. Its first mistake is in n‘ot deﬁning the Government and discriminating be- tween the Government proper, and that usurpation of the rights of the people called the Government. The people cannot rest their hopes in Congresses and legislators composed of men made rich by systematically robbing the people of their commercial and political interests and rights. The rich will never under any circumstan- ces, legislate for the poor, but in the direction of their serfdoni. There is but one course for the people. Let them organize a power upon the basis of ultimate political use incorporating in the movement the equal rights of male and female. Let them organ- ize their clubs in every assembly distric_t of the United States. Make it a Government of the people to all intents and purposes, es- tablishing its industrial schools, forming its own Congress and leg- islatures, and, when large enough. to comprise the power and mere- ly act upon it. This is the general plan of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce and The Patrons of Equitable Commerce. It involves no bloody 1 revolution. It is a wheel in the middle of a wheel and the mighty plan by which the people shall be victorious in the effort to regain their rights, In the Socialists Convention being held in Brussels, Sanaial of New York, one of the Presidents of the day, in the course of an address said that in the United States the sum of seventythousand million dollars was annually actually stolen froi11 the hands of those who produced them. “Amid all that wealth", he continued, “misery increases so fast that the ‘land of the free and the home of the brave‘ is in reality a hell." All of which is about right, but the Socialists do not appear to be able to apply a remedy. This 1 international convention of socialists is marked by the greatest discord and disharmony. Nevertheless all such gatherings are fomenting a public sentiment that“inust ﬁnally crystallize into one great organic effort, under the impulse of 21 great principle capable of blending diversiﬁed human characteristics, that will revolution- ize the world and make all men brethren. This is what is be- fore us. “FREE TRADE lll(‘iLllS low \vagos evorytin1o,”says the S4111. I'l'mu'1's<'o l’lou-- share. We aliallenge the editor of that paper to produce one i11st:111co—just one single instiuicu in proof of his assertion. We assert the statmnulit is false, that the best protected countries pay the lowest wages, and that \\'ll1‘,_’,’l‘.‘i are low- er in the protected parts of o11r o\vn country than where the country is not pro‘ected, and t|1:1-t. puupcrs abound more in protected parts of the country than elscwln,-re. We do not claim tliat protection makes lo\v \v:1gos, but indi- ‘ rectly we believe it: does and we know it creates pauperism, and unlike the editor of the l’lou-.s'Iuu'c we can give our ro:1.sons wlmn called o11.---Fm‘! Dmlgrz (la.) [rue I)mm1m'u/. ~ The simple, irrefutable statement that “free trade - means low wages every time" seems to have the same effect on the True De;//— or/‘at that a red flag has on a bull. And why shouldn’t it if the title of the journal in question is a true indicator of its opinions ? The Democratic party has been harping on the tariff question ever since Thomas Jefferson built and pushed it off into political waters. ‘ and we suppose that when the waters of society are raging, as. leged. was bought up by \Vall street and was exerting his influ~ 1 cc todestroy the Alliance while l\Ic:\llister claims that Macune ld out to one Pat Calhoun last year in the Georgia Senatorial con- rr-: for $2000, and that M acune robbed the Texas Alliance of $30,000 they soon will be, and this old hulk is tempest-tossed along with its sister, the Republican hulk, the last signal it will ﬂy before going down will bear the familiar motto “TARIFF FOR REVENUE o.\*LY,” while the shark Shylock, grinning from ear to ear, will await to gobble his unfortunate victims. If our contemporary wish- es to discuss the tariff question it should engage with some of the - paid organs of protection who are well calculated to keep up such a ﬁre of lies and ﬁgures as to consternate it. As for us, life, is too 4 short to engage in a controversy on that question. The world has passed it. \Ve might accuse our coptemporary of resorting to a subter- fuge the name of which is indicated by the name of the town from which it sends its weekly peels ofthunder; or else it has lost the I point of the article which has unruﬁled its Jacksonian placidity. VVe believe in free trade pure and simple without any “tariff for revenue only” appendage, because the most untrammeled inter- The Plowshare and Priming I_Iook. out of an inherent respect for the dead. THE PLowsHARE AND PRUNING HOOK moves along unruﬂied in its way remembering the story told concerning the great English statesman Edmund Burke, course must ultimately be sustained between the peoples of the 5 earth when the great brotherhood of mankind, which is surely com- ing, has been established. But we do not advocate free trade under a competitive system any more than we do protection or anything else under that system. Both free trade a11d protection mean low wages every time with competism, ifnot now, then in the ﬁnal work- ing out ofsuch a policy, for this is really what we must b ar in mind in the establishment of any custom or law. What will e the ul- timatum as the result of adopting such a course of action? Upon this we base our argument and assertions in this matter, which de- fy all contradiction because the principle of competism as an eco- nomic policy is illogical, untenable and always bound to work that destruction which it has brought upon us today. It must either go or else humanity must go. Let the True Democrat turn its at- tention to the money question and sail into the national banks and ' it will thereby not only ﬁnd the real cause of low wages, ofpoverty and of national unrest, but, by championing the people’s cause and aiding to throttle the money power it will discover its reward in a largely increased circulation, for there is nothing as potential as truth honestly, pungently and fearlessly expressed. Chiniquy, the anti—Catholic evangelist who lectured in this place a 3 month or two ago, met with rough usage in attempting to speak at Eseanaba, . Mich., on several evenings last week. A mob disturbed all his meetings, and on one occasion he was knocked down and severely handled. Two persons who tried to protect him were arrested for attempted murder. The police, judges and mayor sided with the mob, and joined together to prevent Chiniquy holding his meetings.—Putnam, 0onn., Putrviot. And yet we boast that this is the freest and best governed country in the world l—NatL'rrk Citizen. This is the man who, some years ago, published a book ex- posing the Jesuitical scheme by which Lincoln was assassinated. He has contributed to literature a valuable work that givbs such irrefutable evidence of the infamy of the Jesuits as cannot fail to be ofinterest to those who can discern the subtle plans of that ecclesiastical body looking to the reestablishment of the Pope’s temporal power. The indications are that the year will include war with the famine that is to befall in Russia and the distress in Germany. There will not be a Von Moltke and a Bismark in the next great ﬂghting army of Germany. The spirit of Victor Emanuel is not in the Italy of‘ to-day. Austria is vacillating in di- plomacy and weak in war. France and Russia devote supreme attention to their armies. Should the war come, the call will be made upon America to feed the contending armies. Uneommonly abundant harvests bless the coun- try and delight the producers with the enriching prospects. Peace and plen- ty will be the happy American contrast to the strife and devastation in the Old World.—San Irlrmzcisco Argonaut. Upon European affairs the Argomzuz‘ is an excellent prophet but strangely looses its pre—science when touching American shores. Comfortable optimism is good to shield the sight but the scales will drop soon, as the result of a concussion, and then, what? As the San Francisco Free»!/mug/it has ended its rocky career we wish, before it has entirely receded into the mystic shades of the past, to extend our thanks for the liberal advertising which it has, inadvertently, given the Koreshan movement while its real object in discussing us was that of villiﬁcation. We have never spent $25 in advertising, for the reason that others advertise us. The Koreshan movement lives on while its enemies fall by the way and it will continue so to do and spread until it forms a new Commonwealth and gives the people the rights and liberties which belong to them but of which they have been deprived. There is another sheet in this town which goes out of its way to mention us. If we were to reply to all the pusillanimous shots aimed at us by our friends, the enemy, we would have to issue a weekly sup- plement for that purpose but this we have never done because we = do not wish to unnecessarily burden the already overworked mail service. The paper we now have reference to is, presumably, an advocate of the single tax doctrine though from a perusal of its pages we should surmise it to be interested in the cause of black- mail. Let it babble and all others who wish to pervert the truth, we will not even give them so much of an advertisement as by mentioning their names, and only do it in the case of Freetﬁouglzt : who was, upon one occasion, delivering avery learned and eloquent ‘ discourse before the House of Commons when being interrupted 5 by a member with some loose and senseless jest, Burke, becoming f disconcerted, rushed out of the chamber in anger, when one of his contemporaries arose and remarked: “That is the ﬁrst time I ever saw a lion put to ﬂight by the braying of an ass. ” Their Time is Short. There is a favored class of mortals to whom this life is a bean- tiful dreamlaud. They know nothing in their own persons of the hard toil and stern denials which everywhere hem in the lot of the lowly poor. To these petted children of fortune, money comes without labor, and to wish, is to have. , VVe heard of a wealthy family, the other day, who were in much trouble and worriment over where they should go to spend the summer months. Europe had been travelled over and over again. All the fashionable resorts in our country are familiar to them. California was long since done, and Mexico repeatedly visited, so they per force went to Alaska. In their journeyings all the comforts and luxuries obtainable are at their disposal. They have no carking dread of the evil days when money shall be scarce, so without aught to bother or mar, they can enjoy all the beauty of God’s beautiful earth, and live in an ideal realm, where poetry, sentiment and song hold perpetual reign. Is it any wonder that all the charming graces of existence bloom out under these favoring conditions? It is the ﬁtting and sublime task of philantropic reformers to strive and so change this world that the humble masses who cre- ate all the wealth may have an adequate share in the spiritual and material blessings which can be its accompaniments.—Tﬂe ﬁézrmers Vazre. ' — CALIFOISIIA ENTERPRISE. A Bureau of Equitable Commeree—Revolution in Trade and Ethics. THE PLowsHARF.'AN1) PRUNING HOOK is the title of a recent- ly established and neatly printed eight page paper, published by‘ the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, at San Francisco, California. It is an outspoken, radical champion ofa newly inaugurated sys- tem of doing business something akin to co-operation; and is de- signed “to revolutionize the world by obliterating existing monop- olies through a monopoly of the people,” and especially to reform the existing abuses in the moral, ﬁnancial and political economies. Here is the platform of this unique journal: « “We mean to revolutionize the world by obliterating existing monopoly through amonopoly of the people. We will do this because we understand and can apply the principle of organic unity which other reformatory systems are ignorant of, and without which no human organization, it old, can be per- petuated; or if new, can be rendered potential. Nationalists and socialists may talk and dream, but it remains for Koreshanity, (Koresh is the name of the publisher) to establish, by ethnic potency, universal order. This it will do, although fought upon every side, and without the aid of other so-called re- formers, who fail—despite their apparent growth~to blend the three elemental principles actuating human nature: the rational, the spiritual and the moral.” Mr. Charles J. Maclaughlin, the editor, is a Philadelphian, son of Rev. Geo. VV. Maclaughlin, Corresponding Secretary of the Seamen’s Friend Society. He is an urbane and accomplished young gentleman of liberal education and training, and is e111inent- ly qualiﬁed for the position he ﬁlls. He is an original thinker and facile writer, and has already earned wide distinction in California. —P/zz‘[aa’el;>/1221 Dazzy E7»'em'rzg Star. »4——————— About Pap Eaters. Ministers have their trials, but they know how to bear them without wearing out prematurely. The necrology of Andover Theological Seminary for 1890 showed that of the forty—six gradu- ates who had died two were over ninety years of age, one of them ninety-seven, nineteen were between eighty and ninety, fourteen were between seventy and eighty, and only one under ﬁfty. The average age was seventy-six years and eight months. No wonder that life insurance agents are friendly to clergymen. fzzdiazzpafﬁo/1'5 Umbn. 9 by the larger shop owners. if door AND MAGOG. We shall endeavor to give our readers, from week to week as full re- ports, as possible, of the movements of capital and labor in their culminating conflict, b0 1 in this country and in We shall depend largely upon 2 ' bor papers for these reports, as the Associated Press and United Press Asso- ' elation being under the control of monopolists, suppress a good portion of such news. The money power is assiduousl laboring to deceive the people as to the actual condition of our social affairs. The daily press depends largely the aforesaid news companies for most of its telegraphic dispatches, and, being itself largely in the hands of monopolists, it is quite in d with the policy thus pursued by them. But “murder will out”; the da ' and contentions iJ(‘t\V'C(‘.ll Gog and Magog (the roof and the ﬂoor, capital and ' labor , all over the world, are constantly growing in virulence, and the labor worlr manages to recc-ivc intelligence of the same. We "wish it understood, however, that \ve are no more in sympathy with organized labor in this matter than we are with ca ital, b9(.‘il.l1S(¥ both are laboring from motive and if the conditions were reversed, organized labor would be as intolerant as capi- tal. Our object in recording th ir controversies is to demonstrate to our readers the'growing hopelessness of social adjustment basis-to ‘ “ ' " ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘upon a competitive , e ‘ , undisputed by think- ing minds, that the existing governmental systems both in America and Europe are fast crumbling to pieces with the dawn of the new age; and to sound a Warning trumpet to humanity—loving men and women in order that they may escape through co-operative, organic, industrial effort, from the most terriﬁc upheaval of society known to history, which is almost upon us.] At Pittsburg, Pa., the bricklayers are still out and the con- tractors have imported men to take their places. Trouble is antici- pated.—The places of the strikers at Steelton, Pa., numbering 2,000, will be ﬁlled by imported lab0r.——-The W'est Hamburg Rol- ling Mill, under cbntrol of the Pottsville Iron and Steel Co., has shutout all union men and is importing lab0r.—All of the labor organizations of Tennessee are joining in an appeal for an extra session of the legislature for the repeal of the convict contract lease system.—The Catasaqua, Pa., Rolling Mills Company has locked out the union workingmen, numbering 800, and employed non- union 1nen.—Tl1e International Carpenters and Joiners Union has spread all over the country and effected in forty-two cities the eight- hour day, in three hundred and thirty-one cities, the nine-hour day and many cities under the inﬂuence of this union have adopted in that line of trade the Saturday half-holiday thereby employing about 9,500 more men who, otherwise. would remain idle.——In the cornice makers strike at St. Louis the shops which acceded to the demands of the strikers, eight-hour labor at the old schedule of wages, are preparing to lock them out, This action was prompted August 1st the ultimatum of either a reduction of wages or ten hours labor was issued. Things look '_, critical.—At Norfolk, Va., the employes of the street railways work nearly 16 hours a day for $1.50. An organization has been ‘formed which will petition the companies to increase the wages to $2 per day, with extra pay for over tin1e——The'lasters employed in the extensive shoe manufactory ofJ. H. Winchell at Haverhill, Mass., having given notice that they would demand more pay on and after September 1st. the factory is to be shut down as its owner will not accede to the demand.—London has 200,000 factory - girls who receive $1,50 a week. How do they live ?—Since 1874 ' the number of children employed in the factories of Saxony has increased from 7,815 to 13,929.—’\Vorkmen have left Denver, Col., in such large numbers as to cause rents to decrease in that city about 25 per cent.-—Jan Callewacrt of Gobyssart is the leader of the striking Knights of Labor mine-workers of Belgium. About twenty thousand men are ready to obey his command, which fact r makes him a power in the land. The Order of the Knights of ‘ Labor was established in Belgium in 1886, when several of the ._ members of the order were sent to Belgium to prevent the impor- C tation of “scab” glass-bl0wers.—A movement is on foot in New- York to organize a labor federation composed entirely of women '-‘iworkers. It is reported that several thousand women workers have 9 already expressed their willingness to enter into the movement in "7 the hope of bettering the condition of working women, for bad as re the men, the working women are much worse situated, espe- ally in cities like New-York, Mrs. Van Etten who has promised lead the movement, is sanguine of success. Among those who -,will join are the shirtmakers, the German VVorking VV0men‘s So- ciety, the book binders, the pants makers, the coat makers, the derwear makers, the waitresses, the necktie makers, the skirt “makers, the stenographers, the type-writers and the book-keepers. _ Statistics show that many of the working women do not average _ $5 a week the year ‘round and yet they are expected to dress well ’ keep respectable.—Tom Smith, President of the Iowa Miners’ wa is settled.-—The cigarmakers of Chicago have spent bout $30,000 to win their strike for higher wages.—The Boston ters by a vote of 3 31 to 91, have ratiﬁed the resolution adopted the convention of the International Typographical Union that ‘ ours a day with eight hours on Saturday, should constitute a ' i'n,the book and job ofﬁces on and after Oct. Ist.——'I‘he .I:1.93vshare._an_d.,Iir3n;ing Hook- 5 annual report of the oﬂicers of the Textile VVorkers‘ National Union, in session at Fall River, Mass., shows that the organiza- tion had a large increase of membership last year.—The. Clothing Salesmen’s Association of Newark, has adopted resolutions de- nouncing the Newark Passenger Railway Company for its treat- ment of its employes in the recent strike.-—The Cigarmakers‘ Un- ions of Indiana have formed 21 Label Protective Association.—A South Boston, Mass., ﬁve-year old infants work at overbasting trousers.—After a six weeks’ strike the New York framers have won, the bosses having signed the scale of wages den1anded.— $3-368,50 was the amount contributed by the labor organizations of St. Louis to the eight-hour strike fund of the architectural iron workers and chippers in that city.—ln consequence of the cigar- makers‘strike in Chicago one large factory, the Phoenix, has re- moved to Detroit, and there is a prospect that the factory of Op- penheimer & Fisher will remove to Milwaukee, while Zimmerman will probably go to Dayton, O.——There are, at present, about three hundred Trades Unions with 60,000 members in Austria, affiliated with the Social Democratic party in that country. The Govern. ment has failed, by special legislation, to crush them out and, as the Anti—S0cialist law has now been repealed the membership is increasing very rapidly, it is stated.—’l‘wenty-one central bodies of California, Oregon, \Vashington and British Columbia have de- clared their intention ofjoining the Pacific Coast Trades Feder- ation about to be formed.—The Pullman Palace Car Company at Pullman, Ill., has threatened to discharge any of its employes de- manding weekly payment of wages, as authorized by the state law which went into force several weeks ago.—Tl1e Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has increased in the last ten years from twelve local Unions, with 2,042 members, to 797 local organiza- tions with a membership of 81,3 14.—Over two hundred lal)or papers established during the last four years, have suspended on account of the non-support of organized labor.—At a meeting of the boss printers held in New York it was decided to hold a National Con- vention at Cincinnati, 0., in September, with the view to resist the printers’ demands for less h0urs.—Fiftccn new local journey- men Bakers and Confectioners’ Unions including 21 gain in member- ship of 1,300 were organized in this country, from January 1st to July 1st, 189I.—Girls employed in California cannerics receive from $1 to $2 per week.—Tl1e organized typesetters of Germany have resolved to demand nine hours in all cities of that country where they have local uni0ns.—The strike of the engineers on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad three years ago, accord- ing to the directors of that road cost the company at lcast $6,000,- 0o0.—The New Haven, Conn., granite cutters have struck in sup- port of the striking East Haven quarry1ncu.—'l‘he bosses have locked out union bakers in Chicago.——Tl1irteen additional counties of Ohio have been organized by the Farmers Alliance within the last ﬁve months, The net increase in membership is about 10,000. —The Omaha, Neb., horseshoers are out for- eight hours.—The Australian Federation of Labor has adopted a political platform demanding “that all sources of wealth ,and all commercial exchanges shall be under the control of the government." —The labor organizations of Lincoln, Neb., will erect a stone building at a cost of $40,000 to be known as Labor l’alace.—l’ost- master General Raikes of Great Britain has been forced by strikes and public opinion to raise the wages of the post office “hands” to the amount of £100,000 :1 year.—-The London clerks union paraded several Sundays ago and held a demonstration in Hyde Park. Many women marched in the procession. long hours and other grievances.—The Italian Government has decided to dismiss 3,000 workmen from the Government dockyards this month, which move has caused general discontent and those to be discharged are said to be ready for mischicf.—Statistics of the sanitary authorities of Brussels show that of 19,284 faniilies of workmen visited by the health inspectors, 6,978 had but one room to live in; and of these 6,978 families, 1,511 had more than three children, while 406 families had but one bed. The average wages in Brussels are about 63 cents, and the monthly rent for one room is $3.-—The miners in the Aberdare district of South \Valcs, where are situated extensive collieries and iron and tin w0rks,‘have gone on strike to the number of 10,ooo.——A strike is reported at Rossers & Sons’ Factory, Fremont Avenue, Baltimore, Md., by the Furni- ture Workers’ Union.—Ab0ut 100 quarrymen of Darling Bros., Milford, Mass., are on strike against the employment of expelled members.—The furniture workers of Chicago will renew their ﬁght for eight hours and a minimum rate of wages on Sept. Ist.—— The employes of the VVest End Street Railway, Boston, are dissatis- ﬁed with the result of their conference with e officers of the road, and have referred their grievances to the Executive Board of the Federation of Labor.-—The waiters at the Norwood Inn, Avon- by-the-Sea have struck for more pay and more help.——T here are over 150 bona ﬁde trade unions in New Jersey. They protest against, . The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. Our Babylon. 0! the bowers of Babylon are rare, And the tinkling fountains play Over gardens hung in the drowsy air Where the careless youth and maiden fair Are dreaming the years away. And the Kings of Babylon are bold; For the realms before them fall, And they rule the world from thrones of gold While the people’s lives are bought and sold Like the herds in the butcl1er’s stall. O! the towers of Babylon are strong, And their dungeons damp and deep; And the rich rejoice in the reign of wrong, And the Princes join in the reveler’s song While the toilers work and weep. But stern and still, like a troop of Fates ’Round the city’s rear and din, The invading host of the conqueror waits In the midnight hush outside the gates As the feast goes on within. 0! the walls of Babylon are high ' And their arches grim and low. And the birds of commerce scream and fly While the proud Euphrates wanders by In its dark relentless ﬂow; But the river that rolls in Mammon’s pride Shall the pcople’s servant be. RV the toiler’s will shall be turned aside, And the channel surge with a grander tide Than the pulse of the Persian sea. JAMES Gr. CLARK. Note-King Cyrus conquered Babylon by turning the waters of the Eu- phrates aside into artiﬁcial channels and then marching his vast army under the walls and into the city over the empty bed of the river, thus using for his own ends and his enemy’s overthrow the very means whi<:-h the latter had relied upon for protection and safety.»—1\"mu Nation. -:—<->94->--1 The Bureau of Equitable Commerce. This Bureau has for its object the co-operative plan of collec- tion and distribution of groceries and other household necessities. The idea of the bureau is to do away with the middle-man in com- merce. The goods are sold to the members of the organization at a nominal per cent. above cost and the customer is given the option of a cash discount or a share in the annual proﬁts of the bureau. The latter is eﬁfected by the “patrons of industry" buying certiﬁcates with which are issued checks upon which are stamped, in amounts of ﬁve cents and upward, the value of the certiﬁcate. As goods are purchased, these amounts are punched out until the certiﬁcate is exhausted. These checks, for the nonce, become sub- stitutes for money and, it is claimed, will ultimately do away with the use of ﬁat money, and by sticking to the purpose of dealing directly between the producer and the consumer, in a great meas- ure will revolutionize commerce. It is now well established in San Francisco, Cal,, and will undoubtedly spread rapidly into ’ other cities. It may succeed if its aﬁiairs are managed with honesty and cconomy.—— I Var/1z)zglmz Magazzne. ____H,H___.__ Meeting of Stockholders. The Stockholders of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce met at the oﬂices of the corporation 218 and 220 Noe street last Wednes- day evening in answer to a call for the payment of the ﬁrst install- ment on stock subscribed for. The meeting was also called to elect a reserve board of ﬁve to ﬁll vacancies that may occur on the Board of Directors of the Bureau, which is composed of seven‘ members. Sarah R. Stevens, N. Cornelia Critcher, Matilda M. Neff, James H. Bubbett and C. J. Maclaughlin were elected on the reserve board, and the latter name was subsequently chosen by the Board of Directors to ﬁll a vacancy occurring on that Board. The Braying of an Ass. The majority of the advocates of modern Spiritualism are women, nine out of ten mediums are women. The same is true con- cerning Christian Science. In all the false religions ofthe world wo- men are in the ascendancy. The biggest political mistake ever made in this world was the endorsement ofa third or Prohibition party by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The Mormons were the ﬁrst to grant woman suffrage, for they knew that women woul stand up for polygamy. There’s a great similarity between woman and music. Both will help a circus, acathedral or an army. Women are always in sympathy with the prevailing spirit. Women mobbed John Wesley in Ireland, while others were willing to die for him.—From C/zatauquq azidrerr of Reta f M. Bmkley, D. D. (and L. L. D., we I/tin/E.) 1 Death of E. E. Bonnell. The family of Mr. Eugene E. Bonnell were on Monday shocked {to receive a telegram from Chicago announcing the death of son land brother. His remains will be brought on for interment at E New Vernon. Mr. Bonnell will be remembered as the organist of the South Street Presbyterian Church previous to his removal west. He was a talented musician and a bright and able man in other directions. V Since his residence in Chicago Mr. Bonnell has been associated with the Koreshan Society—a body or sect that, as we understand fit, aims to live the “higher life," or a life held to be purer and l more austere than that of Christianity. Thus it will be seen that lMr. Bonnell sought to do right in all things, and aimed at the j amelioration and salvation of his fellow man, whatever we, his J friends may think of his good judgment in that connection. He .was conscientious and faithful—a young man taken in the prime of strength and ability. Death resulted from fever. Mr. Bonnell was a son of the late John P. Bonnell, of Green Village, and afterwards a resident of VVashington, I). C., a gentle- man of much force of character and inventive ability.—/1/orrz's— torwz, (N. f), True Democratic Bamzer. + Two Moral Standards. Obedience to God’s moral law isjust as binding upon men as upon women. Yet fathers and mothers train their boys and girls as if they were not so. When a girl does anything immodest, it is counted a dreadful thing; but if a boy does just the same thing, it is put aside with the remark, “That is just like a boy.” Perhaps the mother wants to keep the boys closer to her, but the father says, “Oh, let them go. I used to see life when I was a boy. Let them go to the circus, and take in the coarse jokes of the crowd, and the women with half nude apparel. Such things are suitable enough for boys, but of course it is no place for a girl.” Our boys have been trained in this way for centuries, and we see the effects of this training in the fact that most of the drunkards are men, and most of the criminals are men: yet we say it is because God has infused a little more immorality into the men than into the women, speaking after‘ the imagination of the human heart, and not ac- cording to the plain word of God. VVe think we are far from heathenism, but there is certainly a great deal of heathen teach- ing at the present time.—Kr1z’e C. /)’u.r/zmrll, /W. D. ¢_...D Diversions. It takes a tramp a long, long time to break up 21 cord of wood; but it doesn't take long for a cord of wood to break up a tramp.—- Yon/eers Statesman. Psalmist—Why do the heathen rage? Cynic—-Probably be- lcause so little of the money subscribed for their conversion ever ireaches them.——./V. K /Jerald. Boarder-—Didn’t you state in your announcement that there were no mosquitoes here? F armer—Yes, but I wrote that in the . winter time.—./l[z'a’5w/zmer fudge. i “He‘s a great catch, I assure you,” said one young woman to } another. “He must have inherited his money; he‘s hardly old lenough to have made it." Money! 011, I referred to his attain- i ments in the way of base ball."—Re/za/20!/I Su/1/Izzy flerala’. Burglar—Where do you keep your money ? Bigsby—Er It’s 5 in the pocket of my wife's dress. Burglar (to pal)—Come on Pete; 1 we ain't no Stanley explorin’ expedition.—./Verrl York Iferala’. Here is a proof that the American pun is even more frightful than the horrible German “Kalauer.” Not long since a stray infant was found in a Philadelphia street car, whereupon the Times of that city proposed that the child should be christened—Osscar.— i [V61/21 York Staats—Zeitzmg I The Parenthesis said to the Comma: “Your luck as a short stop ne’er swerves; I'm afraid I’m not in it much longer, For the Dash has got on to my curves.” —1)’al/1'7/lore Ailleriam. The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. THE SOCIETY ARCH-TRIUMPHANT of the Koreshan System meets every Tuesday at 7.30 BM. in the parlors of the Koreshan Unity, 218 and 220 Noe Street. You are cordially invited to attend these meetings where every phase of theolog- ical, scientiﬁc and sociological thought is discussed in an origi- nal, striking and convincing manner, through the application of law by logical methods. If you are a thinker, unshackled by prejudice and not com- mitted to the well beaten lines of investigation, you will ﬁnd the discussions undertaken in the meetings of this Society “a feast of reason and a flow of soul". THE CLUB OF PATRON S OF EQUITABLE COM- MERCE meets every THURSDAY EVENING at 8 o’clock in McALLxs- TE1: HALL, 106 l\IcAllister Street. This club was formed for the purpose of promulgating the principle of commercial equation, educating the people as to their rights, and establishing a School of National Economy, the basis of the NEW COMMON- . WEALTH. You are urged to unite with the same and give it the hearty support which it deserves. The meetings of the club are rendered very entertaining and instructive by reason of their musical, recitative and oratorical features. Apply for membership, to FRANK D. JACKSON, Secretary. 212 & 214 Front Street. Koreshan Literature- Our books and pamphlets contain a brief exposition of Koreshan Science which uncovers a mysteries of the a es. Modern thought has failed to discover the laws, forms and relations of Being and Existence. Koreshanity is a cnuine intcrpre ‘on . enomena and form as expressed in the universe. It is a true index to the character of God and man, and their relations. All intelligent people should read this literature and move in advance of the tidal wave of progress. e most radical subjects are ably, freely and fearlessly discussed therein. Re-Incarnation, or the Resurrection of the Dead. Br CYRUS, - - - - - PRICE 15 CTS. Emanuel Swedenborg. Br Cums, PRICE 15 ms. Identiﬁcation of the Children of Israel. BY Dn. ANnEE\vs, - ~ - PRICE 15 CTS. National Suicide and Its Prevention. Br Pnor. L’AMonEAUx, - - CLOTH $1.00. PAPER 50 ms. Proclamation and Judgment. AN EXPOSITION OF THE SEX QUESTION, Br CY-RUS, - PRICE 5 oTs. THE ENTIRE SERIES, PAPER, $0.75. Printing Departrrient -—'*)-OF THE-4+-— BUREAU or EQUITABLE COMMERCE. Fine Job Printing. V: BOOK AND PAMPI-ILET WORK A SPECIALTY 2 ALL WORK PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO AT LOWEST PRICES. , 212 & 214 FRONT STREET, T-‘SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. EPRODUCERS, ATTENTION! ; We would call the Attention of Farmers, Fruitgrowers and _. Producers in general to the fact that the Bureau of Equitable Commerce is prepared to handle their goods, either on commis- l' n or otherwise, affording them better and quicker returns I they can realize through any other channel. 7 JAMES H. BUBBETT, Manager, Printing Department of the Bureau of Equitable Commerce, 212 &c214 Front Street. SAMUEL H. DANIELS, Manager, Branch No. 1, Provision De- partment, Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 & 214 Front St. I. R. MAItST()N, Managing Agent, Real Estate Department Bureau of Equitable Commerce 212 & 214 Front Street. C. 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Notes: Original digital object name: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-15
Geography: Chicago (Ill.), San Francisco (Calif.)
Subjects: Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Periodicals
Identifier: yhm-spe-kor-plo-01-15
Is part of: Koreshan Unity Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

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