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The Labor enquirer., 1883-12-01

pile is rising at the rate of thirty-five
tons of gold a year, SO thatIin ten years
he will be able to give nearly a million
and halfmen every man his pound Of
gold.
But can he answer the letters of all
the hard-up customers? He does not
need to answer more than one letter of
the horse-loads of letters that the post
men would like to drive to his door. Let
him write once to the idle compositor
who sends his question to this Office,
telling him that he is ready to make fair
distribution or restitution, and the news
will spread through the city like wildfire,
SO that every man can march up Fifth
avenue for his share.
Let the hard-up customer who is out
of work as a compositor, take the hint,
and send to this paper the reply he gets
to his letter.-John Swinton's Paper.
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Butler Club.

Editor Labor Enquirer. X
DENVER, Colorado, Nov. 2S.A7You ask
in late issue "How about the Butler
club, which was to be formed after the
county electionP" / for one am still in
faver of forming that club. Butler is
lust as good a man for President in 1884
as if he had not been defeated for gov
ernor of Massachusetts, by money,
bribery and all the trickery known in
politics, and every means which his enc
mics could resort to. ...-. ..:
Ben Butler is still friend of the labor
ing classes and all honest men. Now, 1
have this suggestion to make to you and
your readers, and everybody that is in
favor of Ben Butler for president in 1884,
on an anti-monopoly platform or on an
independent peoples ticket that we form
Butler club in Denver, and that every
man that is of the same opinion leave
his name at THE ENQUIRER Office and as
soon as we have few names, that we
call meeting and start Butler boom.
For BENJAMIN F. Butler is not dead, but
liveth; and may he live to be President,
and for a long time to come to defend
the working classes and the liberties OF
the millions of American citizens.
Let Denver take the lead of placing the
name of Ben Butler before the people OF
the great west. s...
If my suggestions meet with your ap,
proval, you can put my name down for
one to start on, and add as many to it al
you can. Yours truly, ]. d. B.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-12-01
Gou1d,s Latest Robbery.

Railroad station agents and Western
Union telegraph operators, particularly
those in charge OF railroad stations, and
miner fficials in places of trust along
the Gould system, have been notified
that they must sign an indemnity bond
holding them to faithful observance tc
the obligations of the CO mpany. They
are told that tie fact of their want o.
rich friends to 60 upon their bonds need
not stand in the way of their immediate
signing them, 1t is understood COM
pany has been formed, with Gould at its
head, where the bondsmen will be fur
nished. 1t will be seen that the thou
sands of employees will pay into the cof
fers of the new company quite hand
some percentage of their earnings.
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Grand Fair,

Wednesday, December 26, grand fair
will be opened in West Turner hall, by
St. Elizabeth's church, and will continue
until the first of January, when it will
close with agrand ball, on New Years
night. Everything is being done to
make this affair great success, and it is
to be hoped the laudable objects for
which the fair is to be held will be
achieved, and the sum of money neces-
sary to liquidate the indebtedness of the
church will be raised.
Mrs. wilkins has been chosen to pre-
side over the tables. and the selection is
wise one. Stephen Vinot is chairman
of the committee of arrangements. Re-
member the fair opens on the twenty
sixth instant, and make your arrange
ments accordingly. Y
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Wants Pinch.

A hard-up customer who once handled
composing-stick has been struck with
a notion about which he asks few
words Of advice. This hard-up custo
toner has been SO happy as to get hold
of copy of this paper, and to enjoy the
illustrated account Of Mr.. Vanderbilt't
golden fortune, which told that he is
worth two hundred millions of dollars
that this amount of gold, all at his com
mand, weighs $50 tons; that this gold
would load up train of thirty-fiye
freight cars, ten tons to the car that to
carry it would need seventy elephants
five tons to every elephant; that to pull
it would need $50 horses, one ton to each
horse, and that to raise it from the
ground, if cast into bar, would take
1000 strong men. =
The .hard-up customer, overpowered
by the thought of so stupendous pile Of
money, all belonging to one man in
Fifth avenue, is disposed to think that il
its owner knew how hard up he is he
would spare him trife of it, in return
for endless thanks. "What do you think
of it ?" he asks.
Hard-up customer you must put youl
question in another quarter, and wait fol
reply. Write letter TO- the giant Of
gold, mention the facts Of your case, and
see what answer comes to it from Fifth
avenue. 1t is natural to think that a
man with $50 tons of gold on his back
must befanxious to tighten the burden oi
it. He can never spend it, if he should
live forever, or even the interest of it,
which, at ten per cent, is twenty millions
year, and this, according to the census
is more than the average annual income
of forty thousand workingmen. He
could easily spare pinch ofgold to each
hard-up customer in New York every
week and never miss it from his noun.
tain of gold. Moreover, his golden
mountain has been raised for him by
taking pinch of the dust each week
from every man in the city, to say moth
ing of the country $50 that, if he let you
all take a pinch, now and then, you
would only be getting back what prop
erly belongs to you. ..
Why not ask him, ye hard-up eustoml
ers and poor devils? Postage two cents.
Why not ask him for trife of his gold
NOT an elephant load of it, though it
would take seventy elephants to carry it,
five tons to every Jumbo of the seventy
but mere ingot the size of Chicago
woman's foot? / cannot tell how he
may answer your letters now that the
postage is reduced to two cents. ..
But do not be put off with the non
sense Of the papers, that if he should
distribute the gold among all the hard.
up customers in the city, there would
not be enough of tito 60 round. He
could hand out pound of gold to every
man in crowd of seven hundred thou.
sand, which is thrice the number Of the
able-bodied men in New York, many oi
whom are not hard-up. Moreover, his
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Late Telegrams.

New ORLEANS, November N.-The
strike of the freight handlers continues
The Louisville and Nashville and the Il
linois Central informed the mayor Of
possible trouble. The police were in
structed.
P1TTsBURe, November 2S.-The Dis
patch reports the suspension of the
Kitanning rolling mills. The men were
paid off yesterday and the mill will shut
down for an indefinite period.
TRENTON, November pa. reduction
of 10 per cent from the tenth of next
month is announced in wages by the
New Jersey steel and iron works.
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ADJUSTMENTS.
AT THE GRAND.

Rice's aFun on the Bristol company
have done fair business at the Tabor
Grand during the week. The play is
funny and the company do very well with
it, though Sheridan is sadly missed.
NextIweek this house will be closed
and will be thoroughly cleaned up. II
will reopen on the thirteenth with the
Chicago Church Choir, for three nights
the remainder of tie week to be filled
by Jeffreys Lewes. These attractions
are of a superior character. Further and
more detailed mention will be made
next week. A
THE AcADEMY, @
WlthIa matinee this afternoon and Q
performance this evening, the Leonard
Grover Comedy Company will close q
two weeks engagement at the Academy,
The engagement has been the most sue
cessful since the opening of the Acad-
emy, the house being crowded at each
performance. The reduction in prices
made by Manager Berkeley have caught
the popular mind and the prospects are
that the Academy has successfully en-
tered upon a prosperous era. 49,.
The w. ]. Ferguson Comedy Company
wRl hold the boards at the Academy
next week, in "A Friendly Tip" The
company is highly spoken of and is said
to be fully up to its requirements.
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Trades Assembly.

The Trades Assembly met in regular
session last Sunday afternoon, the attend.
ance being only fair. The principal mat.
ter discussed was the building scheme
A board of directors, consisting of thir.
teen delegates. was appointed for the
purpose of incorporating, and proceeding
as once to the work of issuing and dis
posing of it. The interest in this matter
is daily growing, and the prospects are
favorable for successful carrying out o
the laudable enterprise.
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AwnkeI Awake !

dread the coming universal revolu-
ton, but it is coming and no hand OF
man or god can stay its course.
l am no advocate of it. l fear it more
than words can say. And yet realize
that no power in all the earth can turn
its feet aside.
Only two weeks or so ago General
Sherman, on Governors Island, New
York, made little speech in which he
said that 'there would soon come an
armed contest between capital and
labor" 'They will oppose each other"
he said, mot with words and arguments
and ballots, but with shot and SHE'LL gun.
powder and cannon. The better classes
are tired of there insane howlings OF the
lower strata and they mean to stop
them" -.-
Working people of San Francisco
Working people of America l tell you
these words are not mere mouthlngs
they mean blood. Whose? Yours
Why2 .2-.~
Because you dare to ask for what is
your own, the full product OF your own
labor. Upon your labor, such wretches,
such whelps as this bedizened Sherman
live. 3 ..sz E,8
They steal their clothes, their food,
their houses, their books and pictures,
ave, their very guns, from you who made
them all.
And with these very rifles made by
Yourselves they mean to kill you if you
dare to murmur.
My serious, earnest and best advice 70
each one who reads these lines IS to arm
Arm yourself at once. The day OF Dattle
will be upon us long before we are pre-,
pared. This sign, this speech OF sher,
man is deadly in its significance. II
means your blood and mine. we nave 's,
no moment to waste. Arm say, ann
to the teeth for the revolution, even
though the skies be clear, IS upon you
San Francisco Truth.
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The laborers employed at Oliver Crothers
a Philips min wese modified on Monday thal
wages would b reduced to 81 PER day, re
dnction Of twenty i've cents. The men held
meeting this afternoon 70 consider the no
tice, but took no action. Several hundred
men are Affected by It.
Five hundred track laborers, employed be
tweed Crestline and Pittsburg on the Pitts
burg Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad, and
one hundred on the Pennsylvania Central
have been discharged during the past week,
and others will be dismissed in 8 few days
Wholesale discharge is usual ct this season,
as the cold weather stops all track improve
ments.
Jeans q Taylor, carpenters, New York,
informed their men on Tuesday that wages
would be reduced from $s.5 per day to 1925
The men, about one hundred In number, no
titled the Carpenters' Union and strike was
ordered. It is said that many boss carpen-
ters in the city will attempt to reduce wages.
If so, there will be general strike of jour
neymen.
The Denver Musical Protective Union has
recently been organized In the the interest of
all those who earn q livelihood in the profess
sion. The object Of the Union is to keep up
prices, and thereby insure to all good musi-
clans a worthy remuneration for their ser
vices. The Union now numbers about fifty
members and promises to become very
strong and effective organization.
The principle mills which have closed are
as follows: The Homestead mill at Home
stead, Pennsylvania, closed the rail depart
ments. The other departments the greater
p0rtion-are working The Rensselaer, mill,
the Albany Iron works and the Bessemer
mills at Troy, New York, making two thou
sand idle men. The Bay View Plate mill of
the North Chicago Rolling Mill company, lo-
Gated near Milwaukee. The Chicago Rolling
mills at Chicago, employing one thousand
men. The Corning mills at Troy, New York,
have closed for the winter. The mills which
are down on the programme to stop are as
fellows: The Cleveland Rolling mill, at
Cleveland, Ohio, The Lake Erie Iron COM
pany bolt works, and the Forest City mills at
Cleveland. One of Oliver Bros. & Co.'s
mills for repairs. A change has come over the
following establishments owing to reduc-
tions: The Cambria Iron company have no
tilted their men of a reduction. The latter
are unorganized and will have to accept. The
Pottstown Iron company, at Pottstown,
Pennsylvania, have notified their men of a
10 per cent reduction, beginning December l.
The strike of Amalgamated men at Birming
ham, Alabama, against reduction still con-
tinues without change.
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Crossed The Rubicon.

Andy Feddorsen, one of Greeley's en-.
ergehc business men was united in the
holy bonds of matrimony, to Miss Annie
Flynn, beautiful and amiable young
lady, also of Greeley. Frank Mcclure
of Denver, acted as best man and Miss
Flynn, sister of the bride, as bridesmaid,
Rev. Father Leyreache, of Fort Collins
officiating.
THE ENQUIRER wishes the happy pail
pleasant voyage and trusts their only
sorrows will be little ones. iii.
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The largest store, the largest stock, the
latest styles and the lowest prices in
mems and boys hats and caps can be
found at T. s.. Clayton's, 2S5 and 2s5t
18th street. 49,. .....
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causes One to smile,

l Ishould say SO /; to see the fine assort,
ment of gentlemen's slippers in price
from S5 cents to $1.65. Silk embroi-
dered, velvet fronts, all kinds and styles,
at the famous Buffalo Shoe Store, 456
Larimer street, 2S3 Fifteenth street.
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TAILORS.

Tailors' Protective Society meets on the
first Monday Of each month, at Justice
Jefries' court room, at z o'clock p. m. 2
C.PUTTKENAlEB, President.
I. HAMIIN, Secretary.
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THANKSGIVING day has long been q
farce, and last Thursday was no excep-
ton.
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IRON MOLDRRS,

5.s "a IRON, M0LDBRS.
Iron Molders Union meets every alternate
Tuesday, at Knights of Labor hall, at 7:30
p. m. JOHN GILBERT, Secretary,
Colorado Iron Works.
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sToNKcUrrERs.

Stoneeutters Union meets every alternate
Thursday, at Mitchell Guards hall, at 1880
p. ms
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TRADES ASSEMBLY

TRADES ASSEMBLY.
The Trades Assembly of Denver anG
Vicinity meets on the second and fourth Sun
days Of each month.
j. r. BUCHANAN, President.
G. l.. MERRITT, Secretary, News office.
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KNIGHTS OF LABOR.

KNIGHTS OF LABoE.
Montgomery Benevolent Assembly No.
l4M meets every Friday evening, at Knights
of Labor hall, at 1880 o'cl0ck.
Union Assembly No. 1927 meets every
Thursday evening at Knights Of Labor
hall, 1856 Holladay, at 80 O'Clock.
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BARRIERS.

BARRIERS.
BARRIERS Benevolent Protective Associa-
ton meets every Tuesday at 9 D. m at
knights Of Labor hall, 1856 Holladay Street
J.LEoNARD, President.
W. NEWMAN, Secretary.
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TYPOGRAPHICAL.
typographical Union No. 40 meets on the
hrst Sunday Of each month at Knights of
Pythias hall. at 3 o'clock p. m.
o. L. SMITH, Financial Secretary.
f. p. MANIx, Recording Secretary.
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1927
LABOR NOTES.

Printing is dull at Pittsburg. . r..
There are great many idle shoemakers in
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WHAT THE THREE ap's" SAY.

ment created by the founders of the re-
public, and provided for in the constitu,
| ton?
To which we reply most emphatically
Yes; they would be among the first
changes made.
The president is at least but figure
head, more ornamental than useful; he
is king with change of name, and pos
sesses more than kingly powers, patron,
age and prerogatives.
The recent veto of the will Of the peo-
pie, as expressed through their represen-
tatives in congress, demonstrates the
dangers that threaten the destruction oi
a republican form of government, by the
exercise of the one-man power, and re
minds the people of the dangers that
may, in the near future, arise to convert
this republic into the worst form of q
despotic oligarchy, administered in the
interest of minority (the aristocracy o.
wealthy to the enslayement ofthe major
ity (the producers of wealth..
Under the present representative sys
item no man of any party can possibly
be elected president, who will not sub
NIT to be bought, bullied or cajoled by
the railroads, the banks, the land grab
bers, the factory tyrants, Chinese manda
rims, or the politicians.
The veto of the Chinese bill is bu'
one of the many acts whereby the vii
of the people is de6ed.
The president can, and does, annu
the decisions of courts and juries b.
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against invasion from Russia. is being con-
yerted into first-claSs fortress, capable Of
sheltering $4,000 men.
Emperor William has promised to give
I25.000 marks toward founding hospital on
the Island Norderney, if an equal amount is
subscribed from other sources.
1t is reported that NJ. Krazewski, the
Polish author, who with others was recently
arrested. was connected with a conspiracy
shining at a general rising in Russian and
Prussian Poland.
The Americanrife team began practice yes
terday at the Midland range, at Birmingham.
The men have not fully recovered from the
effects of the sea voyage, consequently the
scores are below the average.
The London Post says that the latest news
received at the foreign office in regard to the
Tonquin difficulty is that China is resolved
to prepare for the eventuality of war while
carrying on negotiations with France to gain
time.
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There are fully 1000 acres of sugar cane grow
ing in the vicinity OF Champaign.
Emery A. Storrs, of Chicago, will deliver the
Fourth of July Grafton at Galesburg.
A reunion of old settlers of Champaign county
was graced by the presence of the first lady mar
ried in that region.
The walls inolosing the milrace at Dixon
gave way, on Thursday. and several mills and
factories will bu closed until repairs are made.
Springfield was recently treated to a lively
street episode. 1t consis ted of the whipping Of
an angry husband by his wife and her para
mOur.
John H. Trout, well-known farmer residing
in fremont township, Tazewell county, Thurs
day sold his farm containing 300 acres to Henry
Goetz at $50 per acre, amounting TO $24, 600.
During one night this week dogs broke into
Highland Park, at Quincy, and played sad hav-
oc with the menagerie. They killed the swan,
crippled crane, and routed out several other
animals.
Speaking of the action by which licenses were
advanced to 81 900 in Joliet, the Republic and
Sun says 1.-THE people are very much elated,
and look forward to the time when they can
make il 81, 600"
On Wednesday night. at a point between Otta-
wa aud ID exter, six tramps aboard Vandalia
freight train assaulted a brakeman named Story,
and, after beating and Kicking him shamefuy,
pushed him OF the train while 1t was running at
the rate Of twenty-five miles an hour. When
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A REFORMED SOCIALIST.
Men Must Have Self-Interest and Necessity
as Incentives to Action.

Men Must Have Self-Interest and Necessity
Incentives to Action.
Thomas La. Harris, in San Francisco Gail.
For great many years was greatly inter
ested in the various attempts made to form
a higher order of social life-higher thoughts,
palmer living, fraternal love, and all that. |
am familiar with all the attempts which have
been made in this country within the CEN
tury. There have been between sixty and
seventy such attempts, and every one
has failed. These attempts have not
been failures because the best available
material has not entered into them. The
famous Brook Farm experiment enlisted the
co-operatson of such woman as Margaret
Fuller, such men as Hawthorne, George Rip
ley, Charles A. Dana, and many other men
and women who have since become famous.
Dana was the cook in the kitchen at that farm,
and when such a man as that for the sake of
principles, will do such work, and the expert
ment fails, it is not because of the men who
try it. After the Brook Farm tailed Ripley and
Dana went on the New York Tribune, which
Gre eley was just getting into shape, the
former at $l5 and the latter at $40 week,
and they tried no more at social reformation
through the community plan, at least. Now,
although l knew all these men, heard them
discuss Brook Farm, even worked with some
of them on the New York Tribune forty
years ago, l was not yet satisfied that the ex
pertinent with a community of the right
character of people, with higher social life
as an end, might not be successfully
operated. Well, once having the
wealth to inaugurate the community, did
so, and. as every experiment of the kind in
this country must, it failed, This is why,
although l was for many years identified
with such movement in the Eastern States,
| want no more of it, and am not trying it
here and now. l have had visiting me here
at this place a number of friends from the
East, who were once as strong in the social
stic faith as l was but they are all now of
my belief-that in the present state of soci-
ETY. in the United States no pure eommun-
ism can succeed. Our people are too strong
ly individual. If you remove from the
members of any community the spur OF in
dividual necessity and reward you have
community of partial non-producers. This
has been the experience of tine Shakers and
Quakers and every community in the United
States that has tried it. The Shakers never
estimate tor more than half days labor per
diem from the men they take into the bene-
fits of their community.