The Labor enquirer., 1883-07-07
DYNAMITE is quoted to-day at 473c.
is 1T POLICY :

is 1T POLICY!
What the greenback or national par
ties are to gain by the miniature war
waged by few of their journals during
the past two or three months on the
present .anti-monopoly movement, con-
fess my inability to figure out. The Chi
cago. Sentinel, American Sentry and
Rocky Mountain. Howitzer have been
devoting several columns in each Of
their issues to idiotic attempts to defeat
full representation at Chicago on July
4, and the means engaged by them
(there has been no argument) have been
of contemptihle character.
When this shall be perused by the
readers of The ENQUIRER the Chicago
conference will be concluded, and the
public be in position to know whether
the movement is to have any good re-
suits or not; but before taking my de-
parture desire to remark few things,
and PROFOUND query or so to the enc
mics of the movement, although it will
not be made public until after any little
influence it might have will be too late
to be of any avail in helping along the
first steps in this movement
That the people of this country are
sorely in need Of some relief from the
burdens placed upon them by the undis-
puted sway of monopolies and corpora
tions, is granted by all who are outside
of the rings which control the old par
ties. For a dozen or more years the
greenback party, with numerous re-
visions of name, has been held up by
its leaders as the party of the people,
but the people have refused to accept it
as such. That the time has arrived for
a new departure in the politics of the
country everyone, save the noodles and
mercenary of the old reform move
ments, recognizes. Such a departure
thousands of good people have believed
the anti-monopoly to be. The only
charges brought by the foes of the
movement have been of dishonesty.
There never was political move or
party in this or any other country, large
or small, but had dishonest characters
connected with it. The best men in the
greenback party to-day lay the failures
OF the party to the treachery and base
ness of some Of its members. The En-
QUIRER supported, the Chicago move
ment from the start, for no other reason
than that 1t presented an opportunity to
do something towards reforming the ad-
ministsation of public affairs. Its advice
has been that honest, trustworthy men
be chosen as delegates to the confer
ence; men who would compel it to be
conducted in the interest of true reform.
AS the representative from Colorado, 7
desire, on the eve of my departure, to
thank my friends for the trust reposed
in me, and to ask that only be Judged ac-
cording to my conduct at Chicago.
l do not desire to make capital. nor to
defehd myself against the insinuations
thrown out by the enemies of the pres
ent movement. Ny thousands of per-
sonal acquaintances will willingly testify
in my behalf if ever the time comes to
refute the charges of the croakers and
soft-heads.
The most prominent thought occur
ring to melwhile thinking of the filings and
insults of the few greenback, etc., jour
mails is, Is it policy? If the Chicago af-
fair is a failure, the reformers (?) who
are opposing it now will indulge in the
customary rejoicing, and then turn
around and endeavor to enlist its adVo-
Gates under their banner. Is it presum-
able that the men who have gone into
this new undertaking with earnestness
and honesty will very readily clasp