mi; EVENING GAZETTE
Nansen A'r rim Pos'r Drama in NORWALK
as A NEWSPAPER.
81 4.155 UBSORII'TIONS
DAILY, one year. $3; six months. $1.75; three
months. 51.00; one month, 300.
WEEKLY, one year. in ladvance. Sal-.00; , six
months. 600.: three months. 350.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1897.
Sample Labor Leaders. .
The Philadelphia incident in which
two able-bodied and deep-lunged labor
agitators were caught in the act of of-
fering to sell out the street car em-
ployees, whom they had been organiz-
ing for a great strike and “tie up.” will
probably be accepted by the intelligent
workingmen as additional evidence that
the labor “leader” and “walking dele-
gate” are gentlemen whose services
they can dispense with without great
loss to themselves. ‘
It has frequently been demonstrat-
‘ed that the labor agitator is the work-
ingman’s worst foe, but his perfidy has
not often been made so clear as in the
Philadelphia case. In this instance two
“leaders,” named Lulz and Copeland,
after organizing a large number of em-
ployees of the Union Traction system
and “agitating” up to the proper point,
made a proposition to the superintend-
ent of the company to sell out the
threatening strikers and stop the strike.
Their proposition,which was finally put
in writing, and to which they affixed
their names, was to accept a sum of
‘ money for themselves, which included
employment with the company, in re-
turn for which they were to “control”
the-.men' and betray the secrets of their
organizations. Mr. Copeland fixed his
value'at $25 a week for a year, or $1,000
in cash, while “Leader” Lutz was will-
ing to perform his part of the noble
service for $15 a week, from month to
'month. .
Superintendent Shaufler did his em-
ployees a good service when he posted
a delegation of them in a rear room of
his office where they could hear for
_ themselves the exact terms upon which
Copeland and Luiz were willing to sell
”them. out like so many driven cattle;
buthis precaution in providing a few
policemen to protect the rascals from
the wrath of the men whom they were
willing to betray is perhaps to be ques-
tioned. _
The incident ought to serve as avala-
able’lesson for workingmen the world
even.
.0.
“1 Spoilsmen.”
What is a spoilsman ? According to
one of the accepted definitions he is a
man who is trying to enrich himself
with the proceeds of “plunder, pillage,
and robbery.” According to the latest
lexicons he is “a politician who seeks
personal profit at the public cost for the
success of his party.” According to our
Mugwump contemporaries, . says the
Washington Post, and a few journals
that follow their example in this respect
——-all the men who are applicants for ap-
pointments under President McKinley,
except a few who desire places of great
distinction are spoilsmen.. The term is
always employed to express contempt.
Those who use it appear to have no
doubt that it is a disreputable thing to
ask, or to get one’s friend to ask, for
any place except a few of the most desir-
able positions.
Why make these exceptions? Why
put one office-seeker down as a parrot
and another as a fellow who wants
“personal profit at public cost?” It may
he said that the Presidency, the Cabi-
net positions, the best foreign missions,
and judicial offices—all of which always
have been, are now and;,always will be
anxiously and earnestly striven tor—are
south because of the honor that their
acquisition confers. But, if we accept
this txplanaticn and leave the emolu-
ments out of account, it does not dis-
pose of the question why the line is
drawn between the higher and lower
grades. '
There are varying degrees of ambi-
tion as to cffiaes. One man is as proud
of his Corporai’s stripes as another is of
his three stars. One man holds up his
head as proudly and feels his blushing
honors just as sensibly in a consulate as
another in the place of Ambassador.
Who has not seen a drum major of a
Ii‘ederal military band exhibiting as
much of proud satisfaction in his office
‘ as ever thrilled the heart ofasucceseful
candidate for the Presidency? Is it
tau—is it-reasonable———to charge that no
higher motive than the pecuniary . gain
prompts the, efi'irts of the average of-
fice-seeker while conteTing that the few 1
——
who aim high have nobler objects?
’ But if we admit that all the lower
places are sought for more for the
money there is in them than for the
glory of their possessions, it does not
by any means necessarily follow that
the men who seek them are spoilsmen.
They do not “seek personal profit at
public cost,” because their appointment
will not cost the public a cent. ‘A holds
a place, the emoluments of which are
$4,000 year. His term is abéut to ex-
pire,and either he is to be reappointed
or some other man is to go into that of-
fice. B asks the appointment because
he really. wants the $4,000. 'In four
years it will bring him $16,000. It" will
help him to educate his boys and girls
and give his family a better social posi-
tion. It is so much of a prize that B
and C and D, and the rest of the alpha-
bet enter the struggle for it for just the
same reason that inspired A and all who
have ever held it. There is no element
of the spoilsman’s character in such a
contest. The applicants propose no
raid on the Treasury, no addition to
public expenditures. The only ques-
tion is which of a large number of hon-
est, reputable citizens, each impelled
by good motives, each desiring to do
the best he can for his family, or, it
may be, his creditors, shall have the
place.
This illustration covers the whole
business of office seeking, and itseems
to us that a decent regard for common
fairness would curb the propensity to
apply offensive epithets to citizens who
are merely exercising their rightito pro-
mote their own interests in a lawful
way. We believe in ‘ ‘Ihe merit system”
in the sense that we always desire the
success of the most meritorious com-
petitor; but we can see no merit in
classing honorable men with those who
live by plunder.
000
Death at the Age of 104 Years.
Phoenixville, Pea, March 25.—Thomas
M. Bloom, the oldest man in Chester
county, died at his home in Cedar Hol-
low, near this place, aged 104 years.
Good News For Coal Miners.
Louisville, March 25.—The_;opera.tors
in the new cannel coalfields On Greary
creek announced today that they will
out 1.000 miners at work Aoril_1.‘_,<_
The \Veatlier.
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westerly winds.
high north-
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DEALER IN
Staple and Fancy
Groceries
AND
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No.9 Main St.
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Bottling Works,
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FINE AlES AND lAGER
EXPRESSLY FOR FAM-
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Mail orders receive
prompt attention.
Edgar Buttery,
N u rseryman ,
NOBWALK, CONN.
Trees. Shrubs and
Plants. Strawberry
Plants 3. Specialty.
Brandy Wine, Rio and
Marshe. 30 other
Varieties.
Office, 6 Water St.
Nurs’ys, Broad River.
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SAVIING AND PLANINE
7 6 Franklin Ave. ,
NOBWALK. CONN.
TRY
WEED’S
SODA WATER
38 Wall St.-
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AND DEALER IN
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done at short notice.
Harnessmade to or-
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31 MAIN ST.
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BABBEB-:-SHOP,
E. S. LEOBOLD.
47 Main Street.
Painting. Pa er
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Finishing.
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52 Wilton Avenue,
Norwalk. Conn.
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Exncuriai) M Tris: .,
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we
the
policy-holders
in the history of life insurance.
or year I895.
J.C. WEBSTER, Vice-Pres.
C. E. GILBERT, Ass’t. Sec-
Life
lllade the roIIowingicains in'Ihe Year I896:
Annual Increase of Dividends to the ins
J. L. ENG DISH. Sec.
G..W,ZBUSSELL, M. D,, Med Director.
E. E. HALLOCK, Ceneral Agent, 5 Iiubinger Bld’g., New Haven,
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J. I. HUTCHINSON,,cen'eraI Accident A gent, Hartford.
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Increase in Income,
$ I ,057,8 I 6.28.
Increase in Assets,
$ I 997,234.42.
Increase in Surplus,
$I98,sI6,8I.
Increase in New Life Business,
- $l,598,668.00.
Increase in Life Insurance in Force,
$5,608,680.00. '
.Increase in Accident Insurance in Force,
$2 I ,736.500 0’?
Increase in Accident Premiums,
S I 75,086.72—or 62 per cent.
Increase in New Lite Insurance Written in Connectitut,
$3 I 0,642.00.
Increase in total Life Insurance in Connecticut.
$472,569.00.
From the increased Surplus the usual increase of dividends to
will be paid in I891, making the Twenty-Filth Regular
ured, and a record unparalleled
Notwithstanding the material increase of new business. on which
the expense in Life Insurance is chiefly incurred, the ratio of expense to
income on the Life business of this company,
business, is somewhatlower than last year, and is 23 per cent. less
than the average expense of the ten leading “purely mutual” companies
Their figures for l896 have not been published.
W
martin ti. BIILIIELEY, President.
H. W. 81‘. JOHN. Actuary.
W, C. FAXON, Ass’t. Sec. Accident Departmental
J AMES CAMPBELL, M.D.. Med. Ex.
excluding the Accident
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HEO. H. OLSEN’ +
AT # BANKRUPTSALE 0F, SHOES.
350 pairs of Lounsbury, Mathewson &' Co.’s Ladies’ Fine Shoes at half price.
500 pairs sample 3, 3% and 4, C, D and E, from, 75c to $1.25 ;
150 pairs Ladies’ Calf, Lace and Button, worth $2.50, at $1.25.
400 pairs Ladies’ nice fine Kid Button and Lace, $2.50 and $3, at $1.50.
300 pairs Ladies‘ Goodyear Welt, Button, patent leather tip, 3 styles, worth $3 at $2
75 pairs Misses’ Patent Leather Spring Heels, at 7 5c. ’ D
80 pairs Misses? Patent Leather. Spring Heels, at 55c. '
250 pairs Men’s Calf, Square Toe, Double Sole, Lace, regular $3 shoe, at $2.
60 pairs Men’s Calf. Square Toe, Single Sole, Lace, regular $1.50 shoe, at $1.
50 pairs Men’s Police Bals Tap, Lace, regular $2 shoe, at $1.50. '
50 pairs Boys’ Tap Sole, Lace, regular $1.25 shoe, at 7 5c.
100 pairs Boys’ and Youth’s, a good one, Lace, regular 85c.
180 pairs Men‘s High Boots, same as a year ago 2.85. '
100 pairs Men’s Storm King, same as a year ago, $2.75.
Theo. H. cIsen,
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, UNHEARD OF BARGAINS. CHANCE or A LIFETIME.
worth from $1.25 to $3.
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