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back and sleer the ship once more as of old. Why?
Because I could not only earn my $25,000 salary, but
sufficiently more to pay you promptly good wages,
better than you could possibly earn when you were a
company of bosses. I wish to know how our skilled
mechanics would like it, if, according to socialistic
doctrines, at the end of the year the common
laborer gets just as much as the skilled mechanic.
I would like to see that saint who would assume
the care and responsibility involved in managing
factories for you, and spend two nights of every week
in the sleeping car, as I have done every week the
year round, and then be contented with the same
wages as a helper in the carding room gets.
You can find no such philanthropic, idealistic fools
if you travel the world over, and because they are not
to be found, as long as mankind will be ambitious,
egotistic, selfish, as long as this world is inhabited by
men as they are with all their faults, shortcomings,
difference of character and ability, and not by saints
and angels, those socialistic ideas and theories are
air castles, if not nonsense.
We cannot balk against nature, neither must we
think that we deserve special credit if one or
the other of us has been more favored with natural
gifts than the majority, and while enjoying such ad-
vantages, we musA. be mindful of our duties to our
fellow men. Let us always be fair-minded, and while
giving credit where credit is due, let us all stiive to
better our conditions by thrift.economy and work, and
then there will never be a strike in Dolgeville, even
if the number of employees should increase to 5,000.
And I really expect to see the day when we shall
have them.
However, before dropping this subject I wish to
say, particularly to those who were or are members
of labor organizations, that I consider it none of my
business if any of you belong to the knights of
labor, trades unions, or whatever it may be called,
any more than I care whether you are Catholics or
Methodists or Baptists, or whether you were born in
America, Germany, or on the Fiji Islands. I do not
care about it, and have no right to ask you about it,
because we live in a country where everybody has the
right to his opinion or belief.
But what I do care about is whether you are good
workmen who are willing to do an honest day's work
for a day's wages; whether you are industrious, sav-
ing, straightforward,—in short, men of character and
good common senso. I have a right to care about
that, because if you lack these qualities, if you rather
incline to be a " walking delegate " living on the hard
earnings of your fellow workmen, instead of earning
your living by honest work, I do not want to asso-
ciate with you ; I do not care to work with you.
I cannot conclude without paying proper re-
spect to our deceased fellow workers—Paul Grass
and Cornelius Sullivan. Both were called away from
among us, young men, promising much for the future
had they been spared ; both were men of whom I
shall always think as true friends, and in whose
memory I ask you to rise.
The death of our friend Paul Grass and the conse-
quent dependent position of his family, who had
during his lifetime enjoyed comiorts which they
must now deny themselves, vividly illustrated to my
mind the necessity that something should be done to
take care of the families of every one of us if they
should suddenly lose their protectors.
After considering a variety of plans, I have finally
come to the conclusion to set aside a certain portion
of the business profit each and every year, lor the
purpose of paying premiums on life insurance poli-
cies. The rule which I have established is simply
this, viz: that each employee who has for five con-
secutive years been in the employ of the firm is en-
titled to a life insurance policy of $1,000, and at the
expiration of the tenth year of steady employment, to
another $1,000 policy. Premiums and all expenses will
be paid by the firm as long as the Insured is in the
employ of the firm.
I have the pleasure to state that this year policies
have been issued under the above arrangement
amounting in all to over $100,000. For those few who
have been rejected by the life insurance company, I
have deposited an amount equal to the insurance pre.
mium in the German Savings bank of New York,
amounting this year to $169.20. I need not tell you
that I have not done this to pose as the "father of my
workmen," but consider it simply the performance
of a duty.
I wish you all to understand that neither with the
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starting fund of the aid society, nor with the pen-
sion fund, nor this life insurance plan I mean to
offer you a gift or present. I consider you are en-
titled to it as a part of your earnings, as your
share of the profits which the business yields and
which I only invest for you. If I make presents to
you they come in the shape of this club house, or in
the shape of this addition of volumes to your li-
brary, which I hope you will accept and make good
use of. In conclusion, I will, upon request of the
secretary, state that the aid society paid out during
the last year $500.24, and since its existence S2,8G5.-
30, and has now it its treasury $902.71.
I hope that all those of the new comers who are
not yet members of the aid^society will join the same
without further delay, for their own benefit.
Gentlemen, I have detained you long enough, and
I will finish with the heartfelt wish that we may
assemble here for many years to come on as friendly
terms as tonight.
TIHIE
DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP.
THE Partnership heretofore existing under the
name of Blackmer & Schneider is this day dissolved
by mutual consent, Mr. A. Schneider retiring. The
business will be continued by Mr. E. T. Blackmer
who will pay all indebtedness and collect all moneys
due the old
firm.
E. T. BLACKMEU,
A. SCHNEIDER.
ALSO the partnership heretofore existing under the
name of Story, Blackmer & Schneider is this day dis-
solved by mutual consent, Mr. A. Schneider retiring.
The business will be continued by Blackmer & Co.,
who will pay all indebtedness and collect all money
due the old
firm.
H. L. STORY,
E. T. BLACKMER,
A. SCHNEIDER.
CERTIFICATE OF PARTNERSHIP.
WE CERTIFY that we constitute a partnership trans-
acting the business of buying, selling and exchanging
pianos and organs in this State. Its principal place
of business is San Diego, Cal. Its name is Blackmer
& Co. The full names and respective piaces of resi-
dence of all the members are signed hereto.
Dated at San Diego, Cal., Jan. 3, 1887.
E. T. BLACKMER,
H. L. STOBY.
MANUFACTURERS OF
HIGHEST GRADE
PARLOR AND CHAPEL
STATE OP CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO,
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ON THIS third day of January, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, before me,
O. S. Hubbell, a Notary Public in and for the said
county of San Diego, personally appeared E T. Black-
mer and H. L. Story, known to me to be the persons
whose names are subscribed to and who executed the
within instrument, and they acknowledge to me that
they executed the same.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my official seal, at my office in the said
county of San Diego, the day and year in this certi-
ficate first above written.
[SEAL]
O. S. HUB BELL,
Notary Public.
BAYARD ON FOREIGN DUTIES.
HE President on January 5 transmitted to the
House of Representatives a letter from the
Secretary of State, enclosing a mass of state-
ments from the consular officers, of the customs
duties levied by foreign nations upon the produce
and manufactures of the United States. In his letter
of transmittal Secretary Bayard says :
" In forming this inquiry only such articles were
included as are exported from this country to foreign
markets, the design being to show what burdens are
Imposed upon existing commerce and to leave for a
future inquiry the hinderances or prohibitions pre-
venting the sale of American products in competition
with the products of other nations. In a future re-
port these tariffs will be considered in detail and
their restriction and retaliatory features pointed out.
The demand for new markets for American products
has become almost imperative, and these markets
must be sought among those nations which from
fiscal or protective necessity have imposed duties
upon articles of foreign growth or production which
are most onerous and oppressive, not only to the
consumer, but to the American exporter. A com-
parison between the tariffs herewith presented and
that of the United States may point out in what
lines an export trade in American products may be
built up by a judicious remodelling of our own tariff.
" I n conclusion I would call your attention to the
fact that no nation claiming to be civilized imposeB
duties upon works of art at all commensurate with
those levied under the tariff of the United States."
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Best of Workmanship and Quality of
Goods Guaranteed.
Correspondence Solicited.
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ADDRESS,
A.+B.KHASE+COMPANY,
19 Whittlesev Ave.,
NORWALK, OHIO.
FIVE HOURS BETWEEN BOSTON AND
NEW YORK.
HE Boston Advertiser says, editorially, that
"the new management of the New York and
New England railroad is understood to be
willing and anxious to inaugurate a five hour pas-
senger service between Boston and New York im-
mediately, if the New York, New Haven and Hart-
ford will do its part. Such a service would be
thoroughly appreciated by the business community,
and ought to be granted. As we have previously
pointed out, a train running between Boston and
New York in five hours would not need to employ as
high a rate of speed as is now run by express trains
between New York and Philadelphia."
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MAY BANKRUPT THE TOWN.
HE following bill has been received by the town
fathers recently: "City of Laconia Dr. to
Fred L. Beaman, to lighting a portion of Lake
and Summer streets from September 1 to December
1,1886, 5 cents; payable quarterly. Items: One
lamp wick, .1 cent; one pint of oil, \]/ 2 cents;
matches, \% cents; labor lighting lamp, 1 cent; fill-
ing and cleaning, % cent; total, 5 cents." It is not
stated whether the town will settle the matter with
Mr. Beaman or stand a lawsuit.—Laconia Democrat.
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