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The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-06
Trades-UnionIsm Defended.

| have received from the committee of
the Columbia Typographical Union No.
lOl, full statement (in pamphleO of
the trouble and debate which occurred
in the United States senate, on February
"a, 1888. The pamphlet also contains a
copy of the communication accompany
ing the elegant canes presented Senators
Voorhees, and Conger in appreciation of
their able defense of union principles
and the rights of labor in general Fol
lowing is the article
SENATOR: We have been commits
stoned by Columbia Typographical I'm
ion, and by the Bookbinders' Union,
embracing, with insignificant exceptions,
every member of their respective crafts
in this district, to formally express to
you their deep and grateful sense of the
obligation conferred upon them, and
upon workingmen everywhere, by your
unexpected and unsolicited defense upon
the floor of the senate of the rights,
privileges, and objects of our trades-un-
ions. Made, as it was, upon the spur of
the moment in the face Of an almost
universal chorus of misrepresentation,
misstatements, and denunciations, your
eloquent arguments and your clear state
ments of our purposes and objects prove
to us that you have deeply studied ques
tions which we believe to be of vital
moment to the interests of all working
men, and that you fully comprehend the
fact that the great majority of legislators
on the floors of congress are either ac-
lively hostile or wholly Indifferent to
the interests of the millions of their
constituents, whose sole capital and only
means of livelihood is in the labor of
their hands. You cannot have failed to
note the fact that every form of asseci-
ated capital-powerful. trades unions, in
fact-employing in the aggregate hun
dreds if not thousands of millions of
dollars, is, and always has been, eff
GENTLY represented in both branches of
the national legislature the statute
books of the nation are mainly compila-
tions and aggregations of acts intended
to protect and encourage the interests of
property and of capital in all their nu-
merous ramifcations, while measures
conceived and contrived in their exclu-
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New Mishts.

We buy large number OF the above,
as well as partly worn suits for ladies,
gentlemen and children. While we
greatly prefer to buy garments that need
no repairs, we. nevertheless, do buy old
style silks, suitable to remodel, also
mems garments of good material, style
and make, worth repairing. We aim to
buy what the people want and will buy
of US. Trash we do not want at any
price. 1t is generally conceded that the
largest and best assortment of new mis-
fits and partly worn suits and garments
may be found at Gleason's, 305 Fifteenth
street, as we deal exclusively in that
class of goods, and our stock will bear
inspection. Please call on us if you de-
sire to buy or sell or merely see what we
have
The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-06

"At the present rate of land gobbling
IN this country" says the New York
Graphic, "how long will it, be before
the country is all owned by the land
lord? The English lord is also investing
heavily and buying domains of an enor-
nous extent in the west. Where one
acre was purchased 80 years ago 100
acres are purchased Y to-day. There
is more money in the land Gin the purses
of the few and more money in the
world Gin the purses of the few and it is
the few who are buying. How long at
this rate ere this unbounded continent
is fast in the hold of the landlord? The
man of money to-day makes little of
buying the area of an average old time
county. One clever ex-United States
senator bounds his portion of the Lords
footstooP' with a thirty-mile fence. A
capitalist owns the peninsula of Montauk,
much larger in area than Manhattan
Island. Whenever land is desirable, and
can be obtained, the private slices grow
larger and larger. Where and how is all
this to end ?"' ,,, a. -I-..a
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sive interests have at this very session
crowded out all chances of legislation
upon subjects of the most important and
vital character, affecting the lives and
welfare of the working people of every
condition or degree and more. sir, when
malicious and cruel aspersions, wholly
unprovoked by us, we're uttered in the
United States senate upon the, actions
and motives of the printers union
which is but one of hundreds of associ-
ated unions of single national industry,
interlocking with and representing more
than million of skilled workmen in
all the other branches of industry--out
of seventY-eight. senators, with solitary
exception, yours was the only voice
raised in defense of those whose misfor,
tune it is that their labor is their only
capital not protected. in any schedule
of the tariff bill.
Senator, it is difficult for us to find
words strong enough to fitly express our
sense Of the obligation you haye i'm
posed upon US by the brave and manly
stand you have taken in our behalf, and
for the watchfulness and skill you have
shown in defeating the cunning lv-con-
trived amendment to the sundry civil
bill, engrafted upon it in the final hours
of the session, in palpable violation of
an express rule of the senate, and which
was deliberately concocted, as we are
now convinced, to i4augurate an issue
with our union which should result in
compliance with the threat of an honor
able senator, "in deliberately and ruth
lessly wedding out Of the government
printing office every member of that
union"
We have therefore been instructed by
our respective unions to present you
with this cane, suitably inscribed, as a
slight additional but wholly inadequate
testimonial of our appreciation of the
services you have rendered rs.
One more word, Senator and We have
done. Like all other non-political bod
les, We number among our members
men of both political parties, but upon
all questions affecting our interests as
trades-unionists and as workingmen our
allegiance far transcends that to party.
On such questions we know no party,
but act together as unit for our mutual
protection and defense. We shall there
fore take due measures to provide that
every labor organization in your state
and in all the states shall be fully adj
Vised of the action YOU have taken i'll our
and their behalf; and we further assure
you, Senator, that we shall henceiorth
watch your career as public man with
4he deepest interest, and that if, in the
vicissitudes of party politics, we may be
able to discern time or place when or
where the labors, voices, or votes of
worKingmen can be of service to you,
we shall not wait to be invited to do our
utmost in your behalf
Signed
The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-06

Butler, the Beast" may be a knave,
but he is certainly not fool Lawyer,
politician and statesman combined, he
has the ability, and the disposition as
well, to put his enemies on the defensive
whenever he chooses to do so. The re-
publicans of Massachusetts hate him
with that intensity which is said to char
acterze the DEVILS aversion to holy
water, but. they also fear him, as he has
been one of them and knows all their
weaknesses. A recent act has given NOR
tai offense to the respectable" portion of
the party and has placed them in a posi-
ton in which they can neither resent the
insult nor express their contempt He
has appointed negro lawyer to a judge
ship in Charlestown. In doing this the
governor has secured the colored vote to
himself, and if the appointment should
be rejected by the republican executive
council the entire negro vote will be
driven to the democratic party. Amy
way, the appointment rebounds to the
redoubtable governors profit and the re-
publicans can't help themselves They
will have taste of that negro equality
they so zealously preached for the people
of the south.-Moberly Monitor.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-06
LABOR NOTES.

The coal mines of Alabama are doing
we'll
The building trades are all reported
very busy.
Best set of teeth 5 3: try him DR.. Drury
dentist, Opera House block.
The Packingbox Makers Union is
slowly adding to its membership.
The Cheyenne tailors won their strike
and are back in their old places.
Best set of teeth IS: try him; DR., Drury,
dentist, Opera House block.
The Stove Molders union is reported
to be the strongest of any labor organ
izatiOn.
The sum of 1000, 900 represents the
value of new buildings in New York city
this year.
The Chicago Telegraphers' Assembly
has voted to withdraw from the knights
of Labor.
All the rolling mills at Youngstown,
Ohio are running with their accustomed
regularity.
The Central Labor Union of New
York represents fifty trade and labor
organizations.
The new rolling mill at Wellsburg,
West Virginia, to be operated by gas, is
. now looked upon as fixed fact.
Teeth extraCtedwthout pain go to hm;
Dr. Drury, dentist, Opera House block.
Raineys coal mines, Martins Ferry
Ohio, are making full time, employing
fully 100 men, and are hiring all they
can get.
Work in the mines around Barton,
MARYLAND, is improving in all except
the Borden mine, which is only working
half-tme.
The rolling mill at Greenville, Penn
sylvanla, has been shut down, and the
owners decline to say when it will be
started up again.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron company is mining 10000 tons
of coal daily, and is hardly alb ie to keep
up with the demand.
The keystone Bridge company, OF
O. rag, are running their works day
and night. They have recently taken
several heavy contracts.
The printers journal, which is to be
issued in the place of Our Organette
and published at Washington, will De
called the Craftsmen.
The wages of the employees of the
Saco water power machine shop, at Bid
deford, Maine, numbering 500, have
been reduced 10 per cent.
Seventy eight local assemblies were
organized during the month of August ;
seventeen were reported lapsed, and two
lapsed locals were reorganized.
The bosses are about to make another
cut down in the wages Of painters. Now
of course, the painters will hold meet
ing to organize.-PaterSon Standard.
The Poland coal shaft, at Youngstown
Ohio, has orders for allEthe coal it can
- bring to the surface. At the Garfield
shaft $50 tons of coal is being mined pei
day.
Work in the. mines at streator, Hi,
nois, is moving right along. The pros
poets are somewhat brighter than they
have been, owing to the approach of cold
weather.
Within few days the clothing-cutterf
and machinists of New York have or
ganized local assemblies of the Knights
of Labor. Two new districts have, alseq
been formed.
Labor must not be deceived by the be-
The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-06
The Places to Buy.

We desire to once more call the atten-
ton of our readers to the cards of the
business houses found in these columns.
They keep the very best goods and their
prices are as low as any, and in many
instances lower than others. They are
certainly entitled to your support, and
we sincerely hope you will cheerfully
give it. Support those who help your
paper, and you will gain by it. W -
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In ON Sunday.

Those of our friends having business
with the office, and who have not time
to call during the week, will find some
one in on Sunday all day and until late
at night, the same as other days. Those
desiring to pay subscriptions, look over
the exchanges or have a short chat
are welcome any Sunday. #
The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-06

Another "high official" in the Knights
of abOr at Pittsburg, has been inter
viewed by the reporters, and the result
is highly sensational article regarding
the recent session of the e. A. in this
city has been telegraphed to the daily
press of the country. This high official"
says, among other things There is a
great deal Of disaffection, that will
amount to a split shortly, on the out
come of the meeting of the General
Assembly Of the Knights at Cincinnati"
The only disaffection visible to the
naked eye of those who participated in
the convention appeared to be on the
part of small coterie of Pittsburgers,
one of them candidate for a high office,
and his friends, some of them not dele
gates. These men were very Jealous in
button -holing delegates and importuning
them, in season and out of season, to
vote for this Pittsburg man. He was
defeated, hence the disaftectiOn,
AS for the illusions to T. Y. Powderly,
Fred Turner, Frank Foster and others,
they are entirely gratuitous and uncalled
for. They were the choice Of the ma
iority of the delegates for the offices to
which they were elected, and are capa-
BILE and efficient and honest, and will no
doubt administer the affairs of their
offices as we'll, if not better than ever
did the disgruntled "high official" who
has violated his obligation as trne
knight-Cincinnati Unionist
The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-06

We would be pleased to have the time and
place of meeting of all labor organizations
in the city, together with the names and ad-
dresses Of the secretaries, sent to us for pub
licatiOn.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-06
[ lSigned.

Stone & Co. will move into their new
store, $50 Lawrence street, about the
fifteenth instant. They~ will have an
elegant place for their already large and
growing business.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-06

Bakers Union meets on the first and third
Sundays of each month, at East Turner hall,
at $50 a, m.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-06
IRON MOLD ERS,

Iron Molders Union meets every alternate
Tuesday, at Knights of Labor hall, at 7:3O
p. IN. JOHN GILBERT, Secretary,
Colorado Iron Works.
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CARPENTERS.

The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters
and JOinerS meets on every alternate Tues
day at the Little Emma, corner WynkOop
and Nineteenth streets.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-06
TAILORS.

TailOrS' Protective Society meets on the
first Monday of each month, at Justice
Crotty's court room, at z O'CLOCK, p. m.
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TRADES ASSEMBLY,,

TRADES ASSEMBLY. III aE
The Trades Assembly of Denver and
Vicinity meets on the second and fourth Sun.
days Of each month.
j. R. BUCHANAN, President.
c. l.. MERRITT, Secretary, News office,
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TYPOGRAPHICAL.

Typographical Union No. 40 meets on the
first Sunday of each month at Knights of
Pythias hall. at 2 O'Clock p. m.
o. L. SMITH, Financial Secretary.
F. P. MANIx, Recording Secretary.
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STONECUTTERS.
BAKERS.

StOnecutters Union meets every alternate
Thursday, at Mitchell Guards hall, at 1880
p. m
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KNIGHTS OF LABOE.

Montgomery Benevolent Assembly No.
l424 meets every Friday evening, at Knights
of Labor hall, at 1880 O'Clock. -. AS
Union Assembly No. 1927 meets every
Thursday evening at Knights of Labor
haff, 1856 Holiday, at 7:3O o'clock.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-06
BARRIERS.

BARRIERS Benevolent Protective Associa-
ton meets every Tuesday at 9 p. IN. at
Knights of Labor hall, 1856 Holiday Street.
j. LEONARD, President.
W. NEWMAN, Secretary.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-06
ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM

DR.. DYER, the Celebrated Electrician,
has located among us treats all nervous and
chronic diseases according to the rules of the
Electric Schools. He treats Rheumatism,
Dyspepsia, Heart Disease, Neuralgia, Old
Ulcers, Skin Diseases, Sore Eyes, Sore
Throat Sprains, Paralysis and Stiff Joints.
Office, No. 401 Stout street. .s,......
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PROTECT THE CHILDREN.

The efforts of the good ladies who are en-
deavoring to establish home for fallen women.
in this city, are undoubtedly laudable, yet they
might be directed to an object of which the
attainment would be attended by far greater
benefits than are at present anticipated, and
that object is a refuge for children improperly
cared for.
Statistics show that the reformation of
debased woman is seldom permanent, and
that in a majority of cases the elevating in
fuence of ''homes" similar to the one in ques-
ton lasts only until the inmate regains health
and vigor, when almost invariably she enters
upon dissolute life which brief period Of
peace and quietude has but rendered the more
seductive. On the other hand boys and girls
of tender years, whose feet have not yet
passed the threshold of crime, are instructed
to condemn all that is bad and, while being
fitted for vacations by which they may support
| themselves, are made the recipients of whole
some moral principles that are not often for
gotten. To found refuge would necessitate
a considerable expenditure, but the benefits
which would be derived would be more than
commensurate with the expense. If San
Antonio is unable alone to establish such an
institution let its generous inhabitants unite
with the people of other cities in promoting a
scheme in which all will be interested. In
this city there are hundreds Of children about
whom all the influences thrown have an i'm
moral tendency and who, if not protected by
the society responsible for their future con-
duct, will become members of the classes
now adding to San Antonio's reputation for
vice and crime.
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best authorities unite in the opinion that the
use of beer produces degradation OF the
entire organism, the most profound and deep
seated. 1t is the cause of fatty deposits, a
diminished circulation, conditions of conges-
ton, perversion OF functional activities and
local inflammation of both the liver and the
kidneys, while stuptor amounting almost to
paralysis arrests the reason, precipitating all
the higher faculties into mere anlmalism.
The constant beer-drinker may be the very
picture of health, yet the most incapable of
resisting disease. Compared with inebriates
who use different forms of alcohol he is less
easy to cure. In this country, at least, beer
drinking produces the lowest types ofinebriety'
allied to criminal insanity. OF course the
iudicious use of beer is not followed by such
evil results, yet facts show that recourse to
it as substitute for alcohol merely increases
the danger ensuing to the habitual use of any
intoxicating liquor.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-19
PRISON DISCIPLINE.

One of the most common theories of crime
is that..the greater the degree the more enti-
tied to respect is the criminal. This theory
probably emanated from criminals themselves,
and then communicated itself to their guards,
who have a habit of observing from a crimi-
nal point OF view, and Of exhibiting great
deal Of hero.worship for notorious felons.
Everywhere in America prison discipline is
based on this theory, and we need not look
long for illustrations of its effects. Notorious
offenders may have large well-lghted, we'll
ventilated cells with all the comforts which
can alleviate prison life, while petty law
breakers breathe a noxious atmosphere in
damp. close and dirty cells, and do battle
nightly with hordes Of rats.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-19
CONNECTIONS.

AT GALVESTON with Mallory Line Steamers for
Key West and New York with Morgan Line
for New Orleans, lndanola, Corpus Christi
Brownsville, and Vera Cruz.
AT ARCOLA with |. & G. ". K. r. for Columbia
and towns in BTazoria County.
AT ROSENBERG with g. H. & s. R'y. Sunset
Route) for Columbus, Weimar, Harwood, Luz
ling San Antonio, Laredo, Uvalde and West
ern Texas and Mexico; also for Houston Star
and Crescent Route for Beaumont, Orange,
Lake Charles, the Teche Country, New Or
leans and all points in the Southeast North
and East with New York, Texas Mexican
R'y for Wharton, Victoria and stations on
that line.
AT BRENNAN with H. & T c R,y for Hemp
stead, Ledbetter, Giddings, McDade and Aus
AT MILANo with I. & C. N. R'y for Hearne,
town.. Austin San Marcos, New Braunfels,
San Antonio and Laredo.
All TEMPLE with Mo. Pacific R'y.
AT McGREGOR with Texas & ST. Louis Railway
for Waco, Corsicana, Athens, Mt Pleasant
Gilmer and Texarkana.
AT MORGAN with Texas Central R'y. for Waco,
Ross, Hico, Iredell, Cisco, and all points on
thatline.
AT CLEBURNE, Junction of Dallas Division o
G.,C.& S. +. R'y.
Al FORT WORTH with Mo. Pacific, and Texas
& Pacific RyS. for all points on those lines;
Pacific Coast, and for Kansas City, ST. Louis,
Chicago, New York. and all points North,
East and West.
AT DALLAS with II, & I. c. R'y; 7, &P. R'y.
and Dallas Extention Mo p. R'y.
Ts-See that your tickets read over this line
Cs-For fall information address
Oscar Il. Murray, Gen'L Pass. Agt
s-sS-Iy GALVESTON, TEXAS
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-19
ENGLISH sNOBBERY AND swINDLING

1t is worthy of remark that England is the
birthplace of a majority of the plausible ras-
Gals in this country who succeed, by preten-
sions to aristocratic connection, in swindhng
credulous acquaintances. Any day one may
pick up northern or an eastern journal and
read of the escapades of a borrowing false
duke or an intriguing false Sir Knight whose
throat is full of London fog and whose man
ners are copied from the real lords of Rotten
Row and Pall-Mall. Why other natonalities
do not vie with the English in this particular
Englismen themselves pretend not to know,
but the most probable reason is that while no
other people are so suspicious OF one another
as the English none are so willing to accept
for truth the statements made by persons who
connect their names with hyphen, claim
relationship with first lords of the ad-
miralty and other high personages and
impress their letters with aristocratc
monograms or heraldic emblems. As
a rule Englishmen impose on Englishmen
only, but once in while an unwary Ameri-
can is entrapped.
In some cases the Briton-like American is
fattered by the attention he is receiving from
one he thinks entitled TO the consideration of
the queen herself and thus becomes victim
to his own vanity. But occasionally we hear
of persons who, though doubling, are impelled
by mere generosity, sometimes pity, to empty
their pockets. In consequence of the many
frauds practiced by these alleged lordlings
Americans are growing suspicious of all who
pretend to rank and real lords need not be
surprised if they meet here reception less
cordial than they anticipated.
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FRIDAY. JANUARY 10, 1888.
EDITORIAL SMALL SHOT.

An AUBURN lawyer has accumulated $500
in dimes. His practice is evidently limited
to the police courts.
KATE CLAYTON let pass an opportunity TO
add to her reputation. She was not present
at the Milwaukee conhagration.
ONE "masher" was horsewhipped in St.
Louis one day and another in Chicago the
next. In each case the cowhide had salu-
lary effect on the calf.
Ey-LIRUTENANT-G GOVERNOR STORY, who
retired from Office last Wednesday, was in
public Offices ten years-from 1873 to 1881 as
member of the legislature, and the last two
years as second executive of the state.
A COLORADO SPRINGS correspondent of the
Springfield Republican thought it somewhat
singular that the man who described the place
as paradise for invalids" should be max
ing fortune by burying the invalids who died
there.
IT SEEMS strange that in city the size of
San Antonio there is no professional florist.
In the suburbs the soil is suitable to their cul-
tiyation and there is no question of the regard
for them, yet unless one raises them himself
OF begs them from a neigbor he must do with
out them.
A DAMAGING reflection may be considered
cast on the intelligence of the voters of this
district when the members of the Merchants
Exchange protest against reduction OF the
tariff on wool after an exercise Of popular
suffrage which resulted in the election of a
candidate for congress who did not know
whether he was in favor of free trade or not
SOME time ago the LIGHT sounded the key
note at alarm by calling attention to the need
of sanitary precautions. 1t was unheeded
To-day we are told we have two cases o.
smallpox in our midst. The disease is The
direct result of failure Of the city to care fo
It's inhabitants and the officials who hav,
power to act in such matters cannot be con
demned in terms too strong.