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The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-30
Strong Planks.


At the Federation Of Trades and Labor
Unions, recently held at Washington,
District Of Columbia, the following is the
substance of the platform adopted !:
That trade and labor unions have the
same right as other societies to protect
themselves and to secure the passage of
protective laws; that compulsory educa-
ton should be enforced that laws for
bidding the employment Of children
under IA should be enacted that the
passage of uniform apprentice laws
should be secured :; that an eight,hour
law should De enacted; that the convict
contract system should be abolished
that laws should be passed securing
laborers the first lien upon the product
of their labor; that conspiracy laws
should be repealed and a national bureau
of labor statistics established; that an
act should be passed against importation
of foreign laborers under contract; that
labor and trade organizations should
secure proper representation in legisla-
tive bodies by means Of the ballot.
The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-30

Kisses, as was the. secretary of the league.
Judge Noah Davis, upon being intro
duced, said: 81 take no stock in any idea
striking at God or his Sabbath, / believe
in God and his providence, and | believe
the Sabbath of the christian is an insti-
tuition ordained by God, and one of the
holiest and best ever instituted" He
had gone thus far, when 4 large number
of people arose, and, cheering for the
Sunday opening, left the, hall, the re-.
manning portion clapping their hands
and shouting, aGIory to God p Halle
luiah r There goes rum, "etc, Judge.
Davis argued that Sunday law was in
favor of the workers, and stated that he.
was opposed to iniunctions restraining
the police from performing their duty.
Judge E. l. Fancher addressed the meet
ing in a similar strain.
The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-30
Notes.

Fred Williams and Marshall Mason
were looking at an engine at Hartwell-
vile, Massachusetts,, when the boiler ex-
plOded and they were instantly killed
their bodies horribly Dlangled.
Included in the ITO immigrants who
landed at Castle Garden Tuesday were
six families who intend joining the CO.
operative farm association, near Jones'
Vile, Michigan. IL =.
Byron Kimball Of Bangor, Maine, a
stock broker cut his throat in the Milli-
kin house, Boston, Tuesday evening.
There is little hope for his recovery, A
letter from customer was found on his
person, asking for the interest or princi-
pal of money invested in cotton specuIa-
| ton.
In Dublin they search over one hun
dred persons nightly under the Curfew
clause Of the repression act. X
Several mills, machinery works and
other Industrial establishments, at Ches-
ter, Pennsylvania, have been closed for
a time, on account of the depression of
trade Large numbers are thrown out
of employment. r. N>
Atkinson, of the Commercial bank,
has been appointed receiver of the City
bank Of Rochester, and his bond fixed
at$10O.O0O. ~, -
In Petersburg, Virginia, Tuesday, two
men, named Samuel Rives and William
Rives, cousins, became involved in a
quarrel. A colored man, named Parker,
endeavored to restore peace, which SO
enraged Samuel Rives that he shot the
negro. He then shot himself, blowing
his head off. =
There is trouble between the two sets
of rogues, known as the Western Union
Telegraph company and the Atlantic &
Pacific A suit is brought by William s.
Williams on behalf of himself and
others similarly interested against the.
Western Union. The suit is to prevent.
the payment Of dividends on. certain
stock, by means of injunction.
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The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-30

purchase United States bonds at g
premium with the surplus revenue
(which, however, according to his own
statement, could mot happen), 1t would De
a vastly greater saving to the people
than though the interests went / on
accfuing. That falsely invented
s'premium on bondsP looks terrible IN
his ewes, but the usufy consequent upon
suffering the bonds To be extended has
no terrors. The real bdss terror under
meath all is lest his masters, the national
bankers, should be menaeed by the
pressure resulting from surplus in the
treasury, WHICH producers might demand
should be expendedin liquidating bonds.
| How sad it is that the laboring masses
cannot see through this chicanery The
merchant laughs as he reads such nicely
covered rascality, for he knows that
whichever way the robbery goes labor
will have to pay the bill. The primary
source of usury is land monopoly, in the
| workings of which the masses are
enlightening themselves with most graft
flying rapidity. Currency monopoly is a
natural child of land monopoly, but the
science of money is SO intricate that the
people seem to make slower and more
uncertain progress. The audacious feat
ure of this branch of monopoly in this
country is that the very government is
engaged in a systematic conspiracy to
mohopolize privileged bankers at an
enormous cost to every other class. In
this respect we are under the heel of the
most infamous class government on earth.
at is long road that never turns, y
however, and the John Shermans and
Folgers, along with Gladstones and
Forsters, may yet live to curse the day
that they were ever born. They all
belong to one and the same crew.
The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-30
New YorIS,a Penal Code.

The Cooper institute was but partially
flied at a meeting of the Sunday closing
league, in favor OF the penal code, Tues.
day night. A large number present were
even not in sympathy with the orators
of the meeting and frequently interrupted
the proceedings with misses. The police,
large body of whom were present,
elected man amid great confusion. The
meeting was called to order by Rev.
Howard Crosby, who named Charles
Tracy chairman. Tracy spoke but a few
words and was often interrupted with
The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-30
Nine Million Acres More.

From the New York Mercury.
Patents for 9,0OO,0OO acres of public
lands have been ordered to be issued to
the Northern Pacific Railroad company.
One more deal this size will close out that
corporations grab. If thereis any virtue
in the peoples voice, as just expressed
at'the polls, there must be a disgorge-
ment of some of this plunder in the near
future, and we trust that when Hon. S.
s. Cox offers resolution to return the
river and harbor moneys to the treasury
as he had promised-he will include
the broad domain stolen by railway
monopolies.
The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-30
Cisarmen Recommend.

A meeting of cigarmakers Tuesday, in
New YORK, drafted a petition asking con-
gress committee on ways and means not
to approve or recommend to- the favorable
consideration of congress that portion of
the tariff commissions, report which
would change the system Of taxing and
very materially reduce the duty upon
imported cigars. It was suggestedin the
petition that if it be determined to
abolish ad valorum duties upon cigars
and cigaretts and put duties solely upon
weight, it should be not less than four
dollars per pound, and the raw material
should be admitted duty free,
The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-30
Americas Money Lords.

From the Irish World2 .#. AK
A New York journal, which is an
authority On financial matters, says the
possessions of Americas moneyed lords
are as follows: w; H. Vanderbilt, $3.50,
100000; Jay Gould, 100000, 900; LELAND
Stanford, $loO,OO0OOOi c. P. Huntington
$lOo,OOO,OOO Charles Crocker, $6O,OOo,.
600; Mrs. Hopkins, $5O,OOOOOO; Russell
Sage, $40,OOO,OOO; James Flood, $4o,O0O,'
900; U. S.senator James G. Fair, $4o,OOO,'
900; ]. G. Mackey, $3O,OoO,oOO; Cyrus W
Field, $25,0OO,0OO; James Keene, $4,000,
900; estate of Tom Scott, S2OOOO,oOo
John W. Garrett, $20,OOo,O00; Samuel J
Tilden, $15,OOO,O00.
The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-30
Closing In.
Railroad

The Boston & Albany Railroad
company realized net income of So, l99,-
582.67, or nearly one third of the gross
receipts.
Count Joseph Telfener, of Italy, has
just purchased the immense tract of land
in Tomgreen county, Texas, for which he
paid 81 100000. .-"..
Two New England capitalists have
just purchased sixty square miles (3S,-
400 acres) of the finest land in the
Adirondack region in New York state.
Cohn K Cohn, of Little Rock, Arkansas
sold 5O,O 900 acres of prairie and timber
land in Chicot and Arkansas counties to
an English company represented by b.
Newgas Of Liverpool.
The Disston Dredging company is
reclaiming / l 000,0 900 acres Of most fertile
land in southern Florida. 5,250,OOO of
acres of land thus reclaimed will belong
to the Dredging company.
The state land commissioners of New
York have given large piece of land at
Rochester to Messrs. Hoffman & Hahn.
They have also donated tract Of land
under water, near Albany, to the Rens-
selaer family.
The all powerful Standard Oil com
pany.-In 1873, Is per cent; in 1874, Is
per cent; in 1875, Is per cent; in 1876 Is
per cent; in 1877, 1O1 per cent; in 1878,
25 per cent; in 1879, 80 per cent. These
are figures furnished by the company
itself
About fifty representatives of the 400
foreign corporotions doing business in
New York met recently to protest against
the present tax, which requires all
corporations declaring a dividend of 6
per cent to pay quarter of mill on
each d0llar Of capital stock.
Two large blocks Of land, situated at
Eighteenth and Poplar streets, st. Louis,
have been. transferred to Jay Gould.
Other large pieces of land in the same
vicinity have been purchased by Gould.
/ The bridge companies have also bought
good deal of land in the same neigh
| bOrhood.
George William Curtis said recently
81 presume no student Of history will
deny that what the great baronial power
was i'm the medieval civilization, and
whatIthe sIave-holding oligarchy was in
our politics, the vast consolidation of
capital will be in the future of this coun-
try"
There are in San Francisco four pala-
tial residences worth together more than
$3,OO0,OOO. Their owners, ex-Goxernor
Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mrs. Mark
Hopkins and Mr.. Clinton, represent
about S13OOOO,OOO. The magnificent
structures stand unoccupied about ten
months of each year. And there are
thousands of others who have not where
to lay their heads. a
The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-30
The Last.

From the Firemen's Magazine.
We have placed before our readers the
last number of our Magazine for the year
1882 a year that has been full of hard
work, but bringing with it great results
for our brotherhood. We feel that in
every way our organization is prosper
Gus. The future is rich with promise.
and it is not stretching the truth the
least to say that the coming will find US
the greatest body of organized laboring
men in the world. Organized for no po-
Iitical purpose, organized for no hopes
Of gain we stand together upon the
broad platform of benevOlence. A plat
form upon which no selishness can
climb where political contention finds
no footing; where stand only those who
heartily sympathise with their fellows
those who pledge themselves to stand
by the widow and orphan when death
has laid brother fireman low.
One of the great lnstrumentalities in
bringing about What we have done, and
what we will do, is our Magazine. We
have striven to place befosour readers
the principles upon which our. order is
founded. We have continually called
attention to the absolute necessity for
prompt and complete obedience to our
laws. We have said words of encour-
agement to the weak, and have made
the strong more Jealous in the good
cause, To do this as we'll as it has been
done requires much thought and labor:
To issue such a magazine as ours is no
slight task. But we promise our read
ers that the good work will not 60
backward.
The coming year we expect to revise
the entire work. Our editorial matter
will be fuller and broader in it's scope.
We expect to impress the necessity for
such an order as ours upon all engine
men and upon all railway officials. We
will take an advanced position in favor
of laboring men upon all questions of in
terest to them! We willteach that labor
and capital are united in interest, and
that arbitration is the best method of
settling differences between employer
and employed. We will hold up the be-
nevolent, the sober and the industrious
man as the brightest example of man
hood and good citizenship,
In these endeavors we desire to be
seconded by our readers of the past year.
The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-30
An Alarming Debt.
,rrespondence Irish World.

,rrespondence Irish World.
l was sitting in the counting room of a
Ralthy manufacturer. The gentleman
as busily engaged reading the morning
lper containing the presidents message,
hen suddenly he threw down the sheet
Id with a hearty laugh exclaimed:
"Well, there's no use in talking, there
at least one Individual in this world
lat can honestly be said to thrive on
he interest offwhat he owes and no
king" Ia
"Who might that be-" said l.
"The great Untle Sam," he replied.
When he had finished reading [ sat
own and read the annual printed farce
! the distinguished ward politician who
couples the presidential chair. will
ass over the disposition to respect our
ghts" which he hypdcritically accredits
J the government Of Great Britain, as
elias the other 5insipid tormulary of
I'd tape which nobody cares anything
oout, To me the most striking and sig
ificant Recommendations in the
ddress are those pertaining to debt,
evenue, and taxation, and take it that
aese topics are the only real vital ones
Daily Republican., 1882-08-26
National Aid for Delaware.

The Bayard-Swift Match tax organ
objects to asking aid from the Govern
ment for educational purposes in the
States, because it is subversive OF States
rights and it is evident looks upon
Delaware as being singularly free from
National aid in educating her children,
The editor of that organ we believe ls a
graduate OF Delaware College and by
the expression Of such sentiments lays
kimselfopen to adverse criticism. If he
does not know he ought to know that the
present school fund of Delawa except
what accrues from licenses, is the in
terest on money given to Delaware by
the National Government as her share
out of the distribution of surplus pub
lie funds. The funds were invested in
rank and railroad stock which annually
yield the magnificent school fund,
annually distributed to support the
public schools. No we will go little
farther and inform the editor of the
chameleon colored organ at Fifth and
Market streets, that had it not been for
the magnificent gift of some $4,000 to
Delaware by the National Government
out of the proceeds of the sale ofpublic
lands, the halls of Delaware College
itself, would have become the home ol
owls and bats, and he would not have
been a graduate of that institution.
This is enough for a hint.
Daily Republican., 1882-08-26

Ciety, that renders society itself unsafef
What has the State ever done to teach
the colored people better morals and
more lofty ideas of citizenship2 Where
are the school houses created by the
State for the education Of the colored
people? In all the length and breadth
of Delaware, not school house by the
road side or any where else fer the COL
ored people can be found that is on
dowed by the State. The finger boards
of the law point unerringly to the jail,
the whipping post and the gallows, as q
punishment for crimes, but points In
vain to any source provided by the
State, that has for its object the lead
ing of the mind to nobler aspirations Of
life. With these thoughts In our mind
and the execution Of Redden, man as
ignorant as the beasts before US, We
are impelled to ask how far our State
ia responsible for crimes committed by
cotored people, which a superior educa'
ton might have avoided, but which
education the State refuses to provide
because they are black?
Daily Republican., 1882-08-26
rive Iaves Lost .. the Buaalo Fias.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 2b.-The loss
of life in the burning Of the New York.
Lake E-ie and Western Railroad Com
pany's elevator is now Cat II. 40 A. M.
definitely ascertained TO be Ave, con-
sisting Of John @. Banner, the engin'
eer; John Kemp, machinsL; Charles
Autenbaok, bin sweeper; james III.
Lee, Jr., weightmaster. Timothy
Driscoll, sweeper, was not burned. he
vas blown out of the building and 80
seriously injured that he cannot re-
cover. Two bodies were recovered this
morning but they were so frighttuily
charrei as to be unrecognizable. AT
the time of the accident twelve men
were in the building engaged In bloom.
ing and screening cargo Of wheat for
Cyrus Clarke. Nothing positive Is yet
known as to the cause Of the explosion,
though the supposition is that 1t was
due to an explosion Of gas. The entire
loes Is estimated at $4,000. The
elevator is estimated IS worth $3.50, ,OOOi
the wheat, corn and oats stored there
at $3.50, 900; the freight shed nt $1,000;
freight and lumber, $4,000. The insur-
ance is given at $3.50, 900 on the build
ing, with q general insurance policy on
the grain.
Daily Republican., 1882-08-26
She was Very Dute.

There was one woman, young ant
very demure, among the passengers in
an Arizona stage.coacb, and when {
gang of masked robbers appeared, sht
told the five men in the vehicle to hant
their watches and money to her. They
did 80, and she hastily hid the articles
under her clothing. When the high
wayman came to her in their search
she blushingly begged them to b.
content with examihing her pockets
vowing with upturned eyes and solemn
tones that she had nothing con
cealed. They gallantly complied, and
went away with only q few stray
dollars, missing things worth about
$40, 900.
Daily Republican., 1882-08-26
1ATURDAY. AUGUST 20. 1854
LAWS mot Enforced.

Those who have taken the trouble tt
inform themselves upon the subJect
will perhaps have some little idea Oh
the reasons for the enforcement ol
the liquor laws by the liquor oaltin'
Honest liquor dealers and honest citi-
xens ofall classes who respect the laws
whether good or bad, are not blind to
the open and shameless violations OF
tie liquor laws that are practiced with
lmpunity right under the eyes OF the
liquor bailiff, whose sworn duty 1t Is to
? hunt up such cases and have them
yrosecuted before the court. The bail
Iffis paid three dollars a day by the
State for enforcing the law, and he has
nothing else on his hands to consume
his Zine than the enforcement of the
IiGuor laws. What is to be thought Of
the bailiff where there are 30 many vio-
lators and no arrests made? 1t has
bBen a long time siuce an arrest has
been recorded upon the information of
the bailiff. There can only be two
causes why arrests are not made.
Eth er there are no violators of the law,
or the bailiff does not do his duty.
Does any body believe that there are
no violations ? The evidences are 80
pAlpable around us of daily violations,
shat the law is rigidly enforced cannot
for a moment be harbored. Then we
must fall back upon the other hy-
pOthesis.
Why these laws are not enforced
ut the present time suggests thoughts
chat will not lie dormant, however
much it may be desired. 1t will be re.
collected that when the present liquor
laws were passed by Democratic leg
islature, and placed under the espion-
Sage of bailiff, the liquor dealers, both
honest and Illicit, rose up in arms fig
uratively speaking against the law,
and loud threats were made against the
Democratic party, which passed the
law, and no doubt that had something
, TO do,with bringing about defeat of the
Democrats at the late Mayors election,
not that liquor dealers loved the Re.
publican party best, but for kepurpose
Of having revenge. AS the Attorney
General of the State, who has the en-
forcement of these laws as part Of his
especial duty, and has the liquor bailiff,
who is his servant, to carry out his
mandate and enforce his edicts, are
both leading and prominent Democrats,
' can they have weakened in the moral
spinal column, and come to the conclu-
sion that the Democratic party wants
votes more than the public wants the
liquor laws enforced? ? As the liquor
bailiff has had plenty of time to spare
from his duties to make canvass for
his election as delegate to the Demo-
cratic State Convention, beating such
popular young Democrat as John X.
Bradford, Esq, 1t ia not difficult to as
sumo that his work from this time to
tho end of the campaign, is to be purely
political-to make votes for the Demo.
cratic party. We may possibly do the
bailiff All injustice, but we must con-
fess that there are indications that the
liquor laws are to be allowed TO Ego to
tine dogs" as was forcibly expressed
by Democrat the other day, until af.
ter the election, "and then," says he,
Sswe will put the screws to them again. "
Perhaps liquors dealers will be caught
by such chaff, but we doubt it.
Daily Republican., 1882-08-26

THE schemes enacted to defraud SOL
diers to whom the Government has vo.
ted bo1nties and pensions are without
number. The latest is in the shape Of
circular, which is being sent to sol.
diers in different sections of the Coun.
try by western parties, stating that for
the sum of ten dollars one hundred and
sixty acres of good land will be secured
without the formality of occupying ii
for four years less the time of service
in the army as provided by law. The
land commissioner at Washington,
states that the law remains unchanged
and that the circulars are for the pur.
pose of deception. Why does not the
pension bureau or the land commits
sioper see that these knaves are ar.
rested, and in this way stop these
frauds?
Daily Republican., 1882-08-26
Euterpr1S1nE Coach ManIfaotu'
rARA

Euterpr1S1ng Coach MamMLaotu'
reRs.
The Messrs. McLear & Kendall,
leading coach manufacturers in the
city of Wilmington and foremost
amongst those in the United States, are
moving to-day from their temporary
down town quarters to their spacious
and beautifully rebuilt shops and sales
rooms, at Ninth and King streets.
When on the morning of the 9th OF
May we looked upon the blackened
ruins of what was the great coach man
ufactory of McLear & Kendall, we
would have been sanguine indeed had
We prophesied that in exactly three
months from that date they would be
moving back into their new quarters
which have arisen Phoenix like out of
the ashes of the old. The enterprising
proprietors were not the men TO sit
down and cry over split milk, but with
that business like push and vigor that
has carried their name in words OF
praise not only to every section Of the
Union but beyond the ocean, they went
to work to rebuild the structure that
fed the flames and this day the commu.
nifty rejoioes with them as with glow =
ing pride and renewed energy they
march into the imposing structure that
in architecture, beauty and efficiency
keeps pace with the advanced spirit of
the age. The re-opening Of the new
works is not only of personal interest
to the Messrs. McLear & Kendall, but
to their two hundred employees, their
hundreds of customers all over the
country and to the city merchants of
Wilmington. The success of such an
enterprising firm is one of the secrets of
the rapid growth of Wilmington. It is
a manufacturing city and the spirit
evinced by the Messrs. McLear & Ken
dali is the key note that reflects credit
upon the city and gives it character
and standing at home and abroad. The
REPUBLICAN congratulates these gen.
tlemen, and predicts for them pros
perity greater than the past, as their
rebuilt buildings are more beautiful
and greater than the old.