of public
censure at present in this city, owing to the recent disclosure made
against Judas Pilate, a union agent, who has been blackmailing different
contractors for several years past, by making them pay him large sums of
money, under threats of ordering union men to strike. It has been proved
that Pilate has secured over fifty thousand dollars by this method. His
followers, however, still remain loyal to him, notwithstanding he sold
them out many times and brought disrepute upon Trades Unionism."

"Harrisburg, Pa.: The various manufacturers of cigarettes in this state
have banded together to defeat the Anti-Cigarette League in its efforts
to have laws passed forbidding the sale of cigarettes to children. While
the manufacturers do not deny that the cigarette is wrecking the
physical, mental, and moral character of the American youth, they
contend that it will prove detrimental to their business interests, and
thereby cause a loss of many thousand dollars if the Anti-Cigarette Law
is put into effect. Reliable statistics for the past three years show
that one hundred thousand children are ruined annually by smoking
cigarettes."

"Pittsburg, Pa.: The Steel Trust has made a general reduction in the
salaries of all its employees throughout the United States, which will
decrease the wages of the worker from ten to twenty per cent, and
affecting in the neighborhood of two hundred thousand men. It is
estimated that this sweeping reduction will save the Steel Trust
approximately twenty millions of dollars per year. Owing to the
manipulations of the Wall Street schemers, this saving becomes necessary
to keep the Trust in existence, as in the great merger of the several
different steel companies, the actual valuation of the plants was
increased one hundred times over in watered stock, so that it not only
becomes necessary for those who do the labor to pay dividends on bona
fide investments of the capitalists, but to pay dividends on watered
stock criminally increased one hundred fold besides. This decrease in
wages will cause great suffering among the laboring classes, for, owing
to the increased cost of living caused by the raising of prices by the
various food trusts, it is almost impossible for the ordinary man to
make both ends meet. It appears to all thoughtful students of political
economy that the object of those in control of the money markets is to
limit the supply of necessities of life, so that the demand for them