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done credit to Delmonico's. After a social chat and an optical survey of the hundreds of broad beautiful acres of roll ing land, the party bade the ladies adieu and returned to the city in time to meet the Brothers marching from the hall of Div. 37 to the Opera House.

Every available spot was taken by citizens in response to the invitation tended to the general public.

Near two o'clock the engineers in a body marched into the hall and after be ing seated, the meeting was called to order by the chairman, John H. Guilfoil,

who said:

who have been summarily discharged without just cause or provocation. There. is one thing that is true, that some of the old engineers, who have spent half a lifetime on the road, have been unfairly and most shamefully dealt with, and the wrongs they have suffered should be righted.

The following are the names of a few of the Brothers who were in attendance. Jas. H. Smith, No. 11; W. W. Laex-throp, No. 245; Geo. Y. Plant, No. 11; Al. Ensey, No. 11; J. T. Sullivan, No. 49; Nick Ring, East St. Louis, No. 49; R. W. Killmer, Terre Haute, No. 25; H. A. Ismond, No. 48; Walter Wilson, No. 11; Deloss Newton, No. 11; P. M. Arthur, G. C. E., No. 167; J. W. Mitten, No. 11; C. W. Keny, No. 245; L. A. Thomas, No. 11; Fred Kline, No. 11; Ed. Huffman, Frank Hamilton, F. M. Guilfoil, Geo. Howell, W. S. White, Geo. King, C. Kirkby, James Sampson, J. W. King, Joe. Arterburn, J. A. Fellows, James Chappel, Louis Shoupe, Jas. Hinkle, J. C. Reynolds, M. Record, M. J. Hefferman, John Turriff, Bob. Clark, William Bird, Louis Johnson, D. M. Wills, J. A. Krafft, Thomas Harrington, John Boyle, Wm. Bosley, O. P. Kimmel, R. B. Nolte, M. B. Conlin, S. H. Strickland, A. J. Reed, J. Fitzgerald, Edward Barrett, John C. Morison, John M. Rossiter, Jacob Boyle, T. H. Cook, A. M. Garner. J. T. Reynolds, Geo. Fuller, J. H. Guilfoil, Jno. Plant, Wm. Huntsbarger, No. 37.

LADIES, GENTLEMEN AND BROTHERS: The object of this meeting is, as was advertised, a union meeting for the purpose of forming a unity of opinion between our friends, the general public and ourselves, relative to the objects,, aims and duties of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, thereby cementing our brotherly feelings more closely, if possible. That we may have the blessings of God upon our work, we will be led in prayer by Rev. J. B. Wolfe.

The prayer by Rev. Wolfe was eloquent and full of thankfulness, for the blessings of life.

Mayor W. B. Dunlap was next introduced, and welcomed the Brotherhood to the city.

He was followed by Grand Chief Arthur, the orator of the day, who held his audience enraptured for over one hour, and left deep and lasting impressions upon the minds of his hearers. Mr. Arthur's head is white with the frosts of advancing years, but his heart is young, his mind is ripe with good judgment, his eye is bright and his step elastic. The amount of work he has accomplished for the Brotherhood, of which he has been the central figure for twenty-five years can never be estimated in dollars and cents, as it is incalculable.

He in turn was followed by Hon. Jas. W. Craig, who discoursed upon ques tions of paramount interest to the fraternity.

In bringing the meeting to a close the chairman made a few apt remarks showing how unjustly engineers are at times treated by corporations.

It is thought by some that Mr. Arthur's visit to Mattoon was to listen to the complaints of engineers of the I. & St. L.,

WELCOME ADDRESS OF MAYOR DUNLAP.

GENTLEMEN OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS: The selection of Mattoon for this assemblage of your Order, is a compliment and honor to the city, and in its name and behalf I cordially greet and welcome you.

It would be difficult to name a city containing a greater number of worthy members of your Organization, in proportion to its population, than this, or one more closely identified with the important interests you represent, and you may be assured, gentlemen, that the good citizens of Mattoon are in sympathy with the objects of your Order, so far as understood by the public, and that you have their best wishes for the prosperity of the Brotherhood and all connected therewith. I wish you a pleasant and profitable session, and hope the day is not far in the future, when we may again have the privilege of meeting you as to-day.

REMARKS BY HON. J. W. CRAIG.

MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF THE BROTHERHOOD: I as a citizen of this city bid you a most hearty welcome, and while you as true men would not respect or thank me for using terms of fulsome praise, yet I cannot let the time escape me to give to the scarred veterans their mead of just praise.

tion is in the legend of the Indian chief as to the power of union. He took a bundle of sticks, put them together in such a form that the strongest man in the tribe could not break them. After this test he parted the sticks and handed them one by one to a child, and the child broke them one by one. Brotherhood means union, and union cannot be had except that each brother is willing to give his unselfish devotion to maintain the purposes of the Order. That Brotherhood of Knights Templar in the crusade in the Holy Land, so long as they stood by each other, were invulnerable, and perhaps were the grandest body of men for the number that ever marched under a banner; but when selfishness crept in and The great northwest would have been every fellow commenced to look out for to-day a howling waste had it not been himself, these brave knights ignominiousfor the use of the steam engine. The re-ly fled before the almost naked Saracen. bellion of the south could not have been The object of meeting together is to crushed except for the fact that engines could mass men and materials of the north, and enable the government to feed her armies, the grandest the world ever saw, in the tented fields of the south.

The inventors of steam engines and their disciples have done more for the good of mankind than all the kings that ever rose, or reigned, or fell. The man whose inventive genius reduced this great invisible power of nature, steam, to the control of man, was a greater man than Solomon arrayed in all his glory.

The whistle of the steam locomotive will no doubt in the next twenty-five years be heard in every quarter of the habitable globe. I believe, Mr. President and gentlemen, that China is now negotiating with German capitalists to gridiron the flowery kingdon with railroads.

Fifty years ago many people were afraid to venture forth at night alone for fear of seeing ghosts. It is a remarkable thing that no railroad engineer, on his lookout at all times of night that he is abroad in, ever reports that he saw a ghost or that the engine or track were bewitched. Engineers are more afraid of a single cow than of ghosts. No craven hearted coward could ever make a good engineer. He would jump off the first time he would see a cow on the track, and leave the engine to strike the cow without the engineer.

foster a mutual interest in each other. Farmers can stop their vehicles on the highway and discuss their matters; they have no time card. You on your run cannot stop to speak to the nearest and dearest friend on earth. The conductor gives the signal, the bell rings, and you are off, at a speed that never was dreamed of by the fastest charioteer in the hippodrome of ancient Rome.

You, gentlemen, have to deal with the stern realities of life. You must necessarily be in the employ of corporations. Corporations are not run for the benefit of the employees. The object of the capitalist is to make money, and they seek materials and muscle for as few dollars as possible. You have no other way of getting just compensation for your trained brain and muscle except by intelligent union. The corporations are heard through the press of the country. They have their representatives to present their views to the legislatures. They fix their tariff on the produce of the country, and refuse to move it without the price is paid; but when you gentlemen refuse to run their engines unless you get your price, you are denounced by their minions. It is intelligent union of brains on your side that can meet and contract with the brains on the side of capital that represents it. It can only be by intelligent union of capital and labor that full justice can be done. Capital ought not It is lawful and laudable for you, gen- to claim to be the master of man. Mamtlemen, to organize a Brotherhhood. One mon was the least erect of all the devils, man alone is not much account in the af- and he should not lord it over man who fairs of this world. A practical illustra-was created in the image of God.

During nearly twenty years that I have attended the courts of this county, I have never known a locomotive engineer to be indicted in the county for a criminal offense, although hundreds of them have lived in the county during that time. This is a good record, and shows that you are law-abiding citizens.

port him. The law should provide for legal boards of arbitration in disputes between the employer and employees. These arbitration boards ought to be part of the railroad law of the land. When a man is seriously injured or killed, the person injured or his family ought not to be driven to a long and tedious lawsuit to get pay from the company in a case where the company is liable, but it ought to be referred to a board and set

The men who do the work have the unalienable right to get a fair return for their faithful labor. This they can do by intelligent, orderly union. By this means the employee will not distrust the employer, nor the employer distrust the employee. By union guarded by wise counsels, strikes that are unnecessary can be avoided by fair compromise. But when reason and justice say that the men are not being fairly dealt with, it is right to strike, as brave men in all agestled at once. The suits for injuries are have struck for liberty, as our forefathers struck against British oppression. But your day is in a day of intelligence and laws, and it would be an insult to you for me to admonish you that you can gain no rights by taking forcible possession of property; but you have control of your selves, and you can refuse at any time to work except for fair reward. You are not the serfs of corporations.

Do you know that corporations are the mere creatures of the law? That their existence depends upon the statute, and that general laws can be made regulating them? I deprecate meddling laws simply, but there should be just laws that will protect the employees and the commerce of the country from their rapacity and greed. The danger to this country lies in the communist on one side and the plunderer of the wealth of the country on the other side. The communist wants to divide up the honest earnings on the one hand, and the overgrown monopolists have combined to deprive the people of their honest earnings on the other side, thereby obtaining money without much skill or brains, but simply by their unblushing audacity.

wholly entered into unequally: on one side is a crippled, penniless man or a widow, on the other is a powerful corporation with the best talent of the bar, with an assurance that they will appeai the most meritorious case to the supreme court and that they will take advantage of every legal technicality, and some of the legal technicalities are barbarous that have drifted along in the law from barbarous ages. It is barbarous for the law to organize great corporations for combination of the million of capital and the employment of hundreds of thousands of men without making any adequate provision for the protection of the employees, but leave them to the rapacity of the souless being, that has no body to be kicked or soul to be damned, and as has been justly said that the "only authority which is adequate to the task of regulating and controlling the marvelous lines of commerce which span the continent, making all men neighbors and multiplying a thousand fold the prosperity, the power and the happiness of the country, is the authority of the whole people, acting through the agencies to be appointed, as one august and irresistible ruler of the land - the nation."

I have not formulated a bill, but I have thought for a long time that a law The nation must protect the employees should be enacted preventing the corpor--the men-by just and beneficent laws; ations from discharging an honest employee after having served a term of years without just cause; for the reason that an engineer will live in a town for years, all the time in the service of one railroad, get him a home, and all at once is discharged, he must sell his home at a sacrifice and leave the hearth stone with the hallowed association and become, to some extent, a tramp.

and you, gentlemen, by your course and by the presentation of your just views, will force the law-making power of the country to give you your rights, unless you get up jealousies among yourselves and each one acts for himself. If you all voice the same measure, if it is just and right, it will sooner or later become crystalized in the laws and institutions of the land.

Then after an old fellow is worn out in The great discoveries and inventions, faithful service of the railroad; when his steam, electricity, telephones, have all hand can no longer manage the engine, been turned over to capital without adethe law ought to be such that the railroad quate reservation to the people; and withshould retire him on half pay; or if after out making any new provision for the a faithful service of a few years he should protection of the employees. This is an get disabled for life, the road should sup-age of great discovery and invention,

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and capital is on the alert to get control of any great force of nature that may be discovered. Thus are the gifts of a beneficent God to his creature, man, passed from the control of the people. The government should not alienate them from the people without the proper safeguards.

The people will not permit a judge to administer justice without the interposition of a jury; will not allow the president of the United States to administer the laws except through its agencies; yet with the greatest inconsistency we have turned over to capital the great forces of nature, steam and electricity, without any reservation. It is time to call a halt.. We are on an unknown sea, and before we go any further there ought to be a reckoning and soundings made to see whether the old ship is not nearing rocks, or in danger of stranding on the sands. These great corporations are drawing upon the flower of the land. They are marshaling the youth and vigorous manhood of the country in their service by the thousands and tens of thousands, and constantly multiplying. Yet this great class have no provisions made in the charters of the companies for them. There are provisions made for the soldiers mustered in the service of the United States, yet the government permits these corporations to muster vast armies in their service, the vigorous manhood of the land, without having made any kind of provision for them in this changed condition of affairs.

When these just provisions are inserted in the laws, it will be a triumph of the people equal to that when King John, of England, was compelled to sign the Magna Charta at Runnymede: and in this contest, and in your objects and purposes as I understand them, you have my sincere wish that you may be successful.

The writer would respectfully call the attention and consideration of the Brothers to the address of Mr. Craig, coming as it does, from one of the best if not the best read lawyer in this part of the State of Illinois, particularly Coles county. His remarks show an honest determina

tion to point out what is wrong in law and a willingness to wright such wrong, Such men must be recognized by us as well as by the general public. We should

remember to cast our ballots in our own interests, B. L. E. first, party afterward. J. U. G.

The Journal.

CLEVELAND, MARCH, 1886.

THOMPSON'S CIGARS.

We are in receipt of samples of both the "Eccentric" and the "Valve” cigars. and find them to be first-class. Now, we do not advise any one either to form the habit of using the weed, or continuing its use, but since it is a fact that a large majority, not only of railroad men but of all men, do and will continue to smoke, then common sense suggests that our patronage be given where we ourselves will derive some benefit from it. The con tract is in our hands, signed and sealed, and will without doubt be honestly carried out, and it does not need a moment's thought to convince an unbiased mind that if those who certainly will smoke use only these cigars, the revenue derived from the sales which will find its way into our treasury will amount to no inconsiderable sum. A word to the wise,

etc.

LINKS.

To our many friends and Brothers: We greet you this month with an enlarged edition of the JOURNAL. Our Brotherhood is growing so fast, and the subscription to the JOURNAL has been so great, that we deem it but just to fill a long-felt want There will be no pains spared by the editors to make our JOURNAL a welcome We hope visitor to every household. that the Brothers will appreciate what we have done, and those who have not renewed their subscription will do so at once.

To the Officers and JOURNAL Agents of Sub Divisions: We hope that you will solicit your territory well, and if there is a possibility of securing a few more subscribers do not let it pass. There are many who would be pleased to subscribe for our JOURNAL if the agents would but

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loved very much to have been present,
but were compelled to tender our regrets.

A vote of thanks was tendered Mrs. M. Gardner, by Div. 124, for a beautiful present in the shape of a wax wreath and

If you do not receive your JOURNAL, drop us a postal at once; delays are dangerous.

The Minnehaha Division of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers held its tenth annual ball at St. Paul, Jan. 20. About 200 couples were present.

To officers of sub-divisions: When ordering supplies from this office, before writing here that you have not received them, you should inquire at the express office, as we ship when convenient that

way.

Tyler, Texas Div. No. 201, met with quite a misfortune January 16th, by fire, destroying their hall. Phoenix-like, the Brothers have gone to work with a will furnishing a new one.

Charters have gone out for Divs. Nos. 309, 310, and 311. The good work goes nobly on.

The Union Pacific railway company are equipping all their engines with the extension front end, as fast as they go into the shop for repairs.

The year starts out with considerable dissatisfaction, and numerous grievances in the railway service in many parts of the country. Arbitration is decidedly preferable in settling matters provided officials will give a hearing, as strikes are expensive and usually not satisfactory,

and riots redress no wrongs.

We tender Bro. C. D. Brown and wife

our grateful thanks, for invitations to be present at their 5th anniversary, or wooden wedding, on the eve. of Feb. 1st, in the beautiful city of Detroit. We would

A vote of thanks was tendered by Div. 255, to Mrs. Jas. A. Nelson, for a beautiful altar cloth, presented to the Division on the eve. of Feb. 14.

The Grand Trunk railway employees entertained their most popular official, Mr. J. E. Dawson, with a complimentary banquet at London, on the eve. of Jan. 29. Some eighty odd sat down to the tempting spread, which was all the heart could wish. An address was presented to Mr. Dawson, after which he made a very able and feeling reply. Toasts, songs and music, filled out the evening until a late hour, when just before parting, the toast to the ladies and the press was acknowledged with much enthusiasm, then the good byes were said, and thus ended one of the most enjoyable of gatherings, long to be remembered by those who were fortunate to be present, a memento of which will last forever.

To JOURNAL Agents: Several packages of the January No. went astray, and we were compelled to duplicate the order. The No. is now exhausted and we have orders to fill. We would appreciate it very much if you would call upon the express agents at your place and see if any packages are there; also at the postoffice; if so ship to us.

Bro. G. W. Cox, of Div. 301, has been premoted as Traveling Engineer on the N. & W. railroad of Va. We congratu

late him.

We have sent to Sub-Divisions twenty thousand Insurance Circulars. The cry We are all out; the supply is for more. is exhausted.

Invitations are out for the twenty

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