bers, especially in the blacksmith shop, where they have a boss who is a vindictive would-be tyrant. The ventilation in this shop is very bad. The sulphur fumes from the coal is not carried from the building as they should be. The jacks in the roof do not create sufficient draught to carry off the smoke, and so the men have to struggle through their day's work amid all these discouraging circumstances. No wonder they quit. The attention of Mr. Hickey and the other local officials have been called to these matters. SHORT LINE. EVANSTON, Wyo., May 22, 1888. Editor Magazine : Lots of works in the shops. Engine 815 (Big Jumbo) will be out soon. She looks well. Engine 956 will be out in a few days and Engine 953 will be out soon. Harry Watts came up from the C. P. with Engine 896 to have general repairs, and Cy Livingstone was up from Echo, Utah, with Engine 581 to have repairs done. Sorry to inform the readers of the Magazine of the death of Walter Jarrett, fireman on Engine 340, that exploded on the evening of April 26. A special meeting was called and arrangements made for the funeral. All the boys turned out well. The K. of L. Band followed, and some of the firemen. It was a good turnout. Lee Krauss has returned from a visit to the East. He is looking much improved. Lyman Huggins has returned from a visit to his homestead in the East. He called at Omaha on his back and had a good time there with some of the old time engineers. Mrs. H. A. Todd leaves to-day for her new home in Washington Territory, where her husband has & good position. William Hamilton is still hustling in the yard, and Dell Houghton is still running on the Almy run to the coal mines. A paper called the Denver Arbitrator is all the talk among the engineers and firemen, and Mr. Dan Cameron is the agent. He has a few names already to send. They say she is a dandy paper for the boys. We noticed Joseph Fife the other morning smiling all over his face. We made inquiries and found out that he was the father of a big bouncing daughter. Sorry to inform the readers of the Magazine that Joshua Kirkman lost a bright little girl four months old. Brain fever was the trouble. During a severe thunder storm to-day the lightning struck Mr. Quinn's barn, and in a few minutes it was all ablaze and burned down to the ground. Value, about $1,000. L. A. 3274 is picking up again, and on the im prove. L. A. 3274. Editor Magazine: I missed last month on account of having too much business on hand, owing to our State Firemen's Tournament, which, I am glad to say, was SALINA, Kansas, May 20, 1888. a grand success in every particular. It came off on May 8th and 9th, and was blessed with fine weather. It was the first tournament held in this State, and will ever be remembered. I have since attended the Grand Conclave of the Knights of Pythias at Newton, Kansas, and while there must say that the Knights of Labor of that flourishing young city also treated me with the greatest of courtesy and respect. The Order there is well represented and composed of good timber generally, and in a fair but steady growing condition, of course under the influence of the Union Labor party, which is very strong in that locality, I also took in the State Democratic Convention held at Wichita, Kansas, on May 17th, and while there in that city of the cities of Kansas, found plenty of Knights of Labor brothers. Although a large and properous town there are, apparently, plenty of idle men, but by all accounts lots of employment will be ready before harvest commences. The large car shops which are under construction there by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and other railroad will give employment to hundreds of men. While speaking of harvest I will here say that on my whole journey crops do not look better than in our Smoky Valley. Nothing but storm can destroy our fine wheat crop now this season. Our Local Assembly is still on the improve, and we hold our own, although the meetings are not largely attended, as many members are out on Traveling cards. I hope to be fully able to give the readers a view of the United Labor party in my next. A prominent speaker of this party will address the people of Salina and surrounding country on the 25th inst. With all kind wishes to District Assembly 82, I remain, 3005. DENVER, Colo., May 25, 1888. Editor Magazine: Denver and vicinity has been blessed with sufficient rain since our last letter to make all dry weather grumblers happy, and drive away all alarm of a water famine, and will have the effect of making the State stand on a prosperous basis this year. Good crops will give the farmers money to spend, railroads freight to haul, merchants an op portunity to sell their goods, manufacturers a market for their products, who, in return will give wage workers wages with which to buy, and if that could be kept up every year there would be less cause for complaint, but we calculate the prosperity of the year by the surplus of the year, and which we have to meet a bad year with. Who will hold it at the end of the year? Will it be the wage workers? Work in the shops is brisk as usual. The Division has received four new engines, and more are expected soon. If a sufficient number comes an opportunity may present itself to rebuild some of the old ones, though it would undoubtedly be cheaper, considering the condition of many of them, to jack up the bell and scrap the rest. A new face is seen occasionally, so that is a sure indication that every employment seeker is not disappointed, and quality appears to be at a better advantage lately. Early in the month it looked as if we at the K. P. were to miss the face of Geo. Drake for good, he having been summarily discharged because an engine he had raised did not stay up, but he has returned. Superintendent Choate, after some parelying, concluded to reconsider the matter of his discharge, a happy conclusion all around. They do not pick up men of Drake's capacity every day. The event of the month has been the fourth anniversary entertainment of L. A. 3218, which was given May 23d, and proved a grand success in every particular. The members and friends of 3218 did themselves proud through their activity in this affair, and results should remove all doubts from the minds of those who thought the K. of L. was dead in Denver, or that 3218 could not celebrate their anniversary on account of a lack of support. The Mammoth Rink, the largest hall in the State, was well filled. William F. Hynes, of the B. of L. F., and Joe Murray, the veteran Knight of Fort Collins, occupied two hours in delivering addresses and were attentively listened to and received with applause. One week before the date of the entertainment the Assembly, by resolution, donated the entire net proceedings to the Local Committee of the "Q" strikers. This gave the entertainment a new impetus and cemented more firmly the friendly relations already existing between the organization of railroad men. The net proceeds will amount to about $300. The entertainment was the last ball given in the Rink, as it is to be soon demolished to make room for a business block. Unless something is built to take its place 3218 will be without a place sufficiently large to hold their next anniversary entertainment. The strikes which were reported in last month's letter appear to have been settled, as nothing can be found out about them. One of the brick manufacturers has been advertising for nonunion men, a kind of animal that should be hard to find. LOCAL ASSEMBLIES. L. A. 3064, Brookville, Kansas. Meets every Monday evening, at 7:30 p. m. L. A. 3746, Alderdice, Montana, meets every Monday evening. L. A. 4453, Huntington, Oregon. Meets every Saturday evening. L. A. 3748, Camas, Idaho. Meets every Monday evening at 19:30 o'clock. L. A.3447, Golden, Colo. Meets every Saturday evening, at 19:30 o'clock. L. A. 3741, Pocatello, Idaho. Meets every Saturday evening at 20 o'clock. L. A. 3809, Leavenworth, Kansas. Meets every Saturday evening at 20 o'clock, at Odd Fellows' hall, cor. of 6th and Shawnee Sts. L. A. 3261, Rawlins, Wyo. Meets every Saturday evening in Masonic hall. L. A. 3694, Wyandotte, Kansas, meets every Friday evening at Pythian hall. L. A. 4987, Grand Island, Neb. Meets every Friday at 20 o'clock in K. of L. hall. L. A. 3790, Grand Island, Neb. Meets every Friday at 20 o'clock, in K. of L. hall. L. A. 3274, Evanston, Wyo. Meets every Wednesday at 7:30 o'clock in Odd Fellows' hall. L. A. 3860, Shoshone, Idaho, meets every Saturday at 7:30 o'clock. Visiting brothers welcome. L. A. 4827, The Dallas, Oregon. Meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30. L. A. 2845, Omaha, Neb. Meets every Friday evening at 7.30 in Gate City Hall, S. W. corner 13th and Douglass Streets. All visiting brothers welcome. day evening of each week at 20 o'clock. L. A. 3678, Wamego, Kansas. Meets Thurs L. A. 3343, North Platte, Nebraska. Meets in Odd Fellows' hall every Wednesday evening of each month. Visiting brothers cordially invited. L. A. 3468, Carbon, Wyo. Meets every Saturday, at 7:30 o'clock in Odd Fellow's hall. L. A. 3256, Laramie, Wyo. Meets every Thursday evening, at 7 o'cl'k, in K. of L. hall. L. A. 3302, Eagle Rock, Idaho. Meets every Saturday evening, at 8 o'clock; in B. of L. E. hall. L. A. 2932, Ellis, Kansas. Meets every Mon day evening. L. A. 3005, Salina, Kansas. Meets every Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Visiting brothers cordially invited. L. A. 3481, Green River, Wyo. Meets every Monday evening. . A. 509, Sidney, Nebraska. Meets every first and third Friday night in the month at Masonic hall. I. A. 3914, Omaha, Neb. Meets every Friday evening in K. of P. hall, 1210 Douglass St. L. A 3218 Denver, Colo. Meets every Wednesday at 19:30 o'clock, and every 4th Sunday in the month at 14:39 o'clock at K. of L. hall, 15th St., bet. Larimer and Holladay Sts. L. A. 3430, Sterling, Colo., meets the second and fourth Saturday even'g's of each month. UNION PACIFIC EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE. VOL. III. JULY FOURTH. JULY, 1888. The American people should never allow the interest in the celebration of Independence Day to lax, for when they do then will be seen the indications of the decay of the Nation. The celebration of the day means something, and no person of sound mind can witness the hilarity, hear the noise or take part in it without giving some thought as to what it all stands for, and such thoughts tend to recall to his mind what independence means, what he owes to those who made the celebration of the day possible, and to his duties as a citizen in perpetuating the principles on which the Nation was founded. The child first learns it to be a day of jollification and pleasure. As he grows older he gradually learns why, and he makes a better citizen for having learned it, and the Nation's future is safer in such hands, for the carelessness of parents in neglecting to teach patriotism to the child is in a great measure corrected by this annual involuntary lesson that the children receive from their surroundings. No. 6. to better his condition in life by becoming an American citizen and he will think more of his duties as a citizen, and why, equally with the native born, he should do his part in perpetuating the Nation. When the spirit of 1776 dies out the Nation dies also. The spirit 1776 embodies all that is agitating the people 1888. Then it was restless under the conditions that the rule of a hereditary aristocracy and monarch created; now it is restless under the conditions that a money power forces over it. There is very little difference between the monarchy and money power, the same general conditions result from it, oppression. With the fact that that spirit is restless lays the hope of the Nation's future. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." There is a class of citizens, who cannot rightly be called Americans, who say there is too much liberty in this country. They would undoubtedly have been Tories if they had lived in 1776. They should be classed with the enemies of liberty now. They say this because there is an indication of restlessness among a class that they do Because If for no other reason than its effect on the young mind the in- not want to see move. tensity of the celebration should be perpetuated. The naturalized citizen should enter into earnestness of the cele bration equally with native born, for in so doing he pays homage to those who made it possible for him they have the right to move if they wish is why, to their minds, there is too much liberty. That document that is revered by all true Americans, and by all lovers of justice and right the world over, says: Let no American citizen forget what this means. To-day there are thousands of American citizens to whom life is a miserable struggle, the pursuit of happiness is void of results, they are worse bound than the citizens of the Colonies were; why? because the natural resources to which they should have access are held by others, who can say when they can work and when they cannot, holding the key to the situation, they can say what will be paid for labor and what the laborers shall pay for the necessities of life, such a condition indicates that they are deprived of their inalienable rights that the Declaration of Independence declared were self evident. Liberty is but the exercise of these rights, the pursuit of happiness is the result of their use. The celebration of Independence Day should bring to every man's mind that such rights are his, and when deprived of them he has the right to regain them, for that great American document says further: zens deprived of their sovereignty, of their right to a voice and vote on the affairs of government, all that is required is an intelligent use of this power to restore all that the founders of the republic bequeathed to the liberty-loving children of men. No blood shedding, no displacement of the machinery of the government is necessary to accomplish this. If one generation gives the natural resources into the hands of the few, who by the power thus held deprive others of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the right of eminent domain, inherent with the citizens at all times may be exercised by the next generation. It only requires a popular vote to accomplish it all. Let the celebration of July Fourth be entered into with a will throughout the length and breadth of the land, let the parents teach their children from the cradle up what it means, teaching them a love for country, a love for those principles on which it is founded, and there need be but little alarm for the future. PROFIT SHARING. Profit sharing is receiving considerable attention at the present time as one means of relief from the pressure that the labor question is bringing on the body politic; how extensive it will become or how important a part it will play in the evoluting process that society is continually undergoing can only be surmised; its general adoption would certainly be an improvement over the present prevalent system, under which the common wage-earner feels most often the loss sharing part of the industrial system with none of the profit sharing to equalize matters. ong years under such system has placed the worker so that he is regarded and regards himself as but a tool of the industrial machine, that can be thrown out, laid aside or replaced at the will of those who operate the system. What ever inherent ambition or qualities that would cause a man to be otherwise, that were natural to him, have been stunted by long service as the part of a machine, and there is certainly need of some tonic to revive these qualities, giving them a chance to grow until they will ultimately command the man. The introduction of the profit sharing plan will act as such on the great majority of those coming under its influence. It places man under an influence that will cause him to see their importance, which will raise manly ambition to be something more than mere hewers of wood and drawers of water. To become more self reliant than to wait in the market places for the masters of the vineyards to come and hire them. It will tend to raise them to that plane where they will realize that they were born with all the natural rights that any of the human family have, and it will then be but a step to the possession of them. Anything that tends to raise man out of a rut tends to make him more progressive and, intellectual progress will ultimately overthrow the iniquities of the wage system. If the adoption of the profit sharing system had only a financial return to offer as a merit for its adoption it would be no improvement over the present system, for its universal adoption would necessarily force loss sharing in as a part of the system and thus insure the employer against loss from mismanagemeut on his part or other causes in which his supposed partner had no voice and Would still keep capital enthroned as the ruling monarch. The educational feature that incidentially comes with it is all that gives it merit. It teaches men on the object lesson plan, what many cannot learn by any other means the necessity of taking part in the management of the affairs they are engaged in and how to do it. Profit sharing, as introduced, does not mean that the workingmen shall receive any part of the profits the employers now receive, but is introduced to stimulate them to extra exertion, thus creating the share they receive as well as improving the business of the employer. This is shown in the establishment of Wannamaker, of Philadelphia, the most prominent business run on this plan and which has just divided more than $109,000 among the employes. Mr. Wannamaker says that the increased interest in the prosperity of the establishment manifested by the employes proved of vast advantage to the growth of the business and adds largely to the profits of the proprietor. Every workman in this establishment has learned he has powers inherent with him that can place him above the mere machine. Continuing in this line it will lead them to take a step further and reap the full returns from their labor through co-operation. It is like the slave learning the duties and responsibilities of a freeman. Another feature that arises through profit sharing, and which is educational in its nature, is the bringing together in closer relations capital and labor, preventing both from wasting their strength through strikes or lockouts, placing them on a basis from which reason will be allowed to act. Probably the greatest immediate good lays in that it gives the body politic relief while nature applies her remedies and works out a cure of the diseases of society. Profit sharing is now to have a trial on a railroad. James M. Ash |