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The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-05
DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1883

Holy Ghost has baptized you for every
emergency. Strike, at once, my brother
for life, love, liberty and God
The dogma of free moral agency" is
another chain, fresh from the forge OF
hell. The worlds freedom is that of an
unborn babe, and on every free thought,
word or deed hell hurIs from the hand
of state and church all her dogs of war.
My brother, treason iSpolitiCal DEATH
In no country under heaven do you find
this bold, blatant, hrassy faced devil, pa
rading his rotten fantarOnade in the
presence of decenCy, as in this country.
Bury this old vermin-cOVered carcass
quick and deep let his stencil be par
son; corruption his pall-bearers and in
fanny his tomb. Prostitution is social
death. We search the record of earth
in vain for a duplicate Of this death to-
day. The most respectable" ranks Of
society are running the business Of char
lot rows" The elite are hauled in de-
bauch from one high toned den to
another, peddling their charity wares as
free gifts, thereby taking the bread from
the mouth Of prostitution. Society life
is invaded by virtIe Of its peril. Seal
skin and satin is passport for vice, to
highest church favor and SacramentaI
fellowship. "(iaud and greed" are it's
passwords.
The practice Of high-toned medical
experts is in uterine commissions"
abortiOnD and the virus Of prostitution.
Society expects every tirst-claSs lady to
furnish from one to ten Of these cases
before her wedding day. Marriage has
given place to divorce, and the SCALA
wag judicial gang are bought for trife
TO grant them, ignoring all process Of
law. A man who becomes the popular
representative in congress of the pro-
gressive state Of Colorado, is driven to
Las Vegas Hot Springs-for what-and
when he returns, buys his office and
goes forth a fit object Of worship for the
president and his political pimps. Colo
RADIO has worked hard for popular rep
resentatiOn and recognition, and she
got it.
Socially, the ruling world is dead
Ieper In the name of God and man
bury it deep in the earth it has cor
rupted. Cover it quick from mortal
gaze that 50 long has lOathed it. The
world is drowned in corruption let fire
cleanse and dynamite renovate her
Ieprous denS Mrs P. {. MUNGER.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-05
NOn-PrOduCers,
Editor Of rhe Labor ENQUIRER.

TO the Editor Of Ihn Labor EnQuircr
Denver, May Sir: In my last
tried to show who We're and who were
not Workingmeu, considering it from the
standpoint VI production. To-day we
will, with your permission, continue the
same subject We have one doctor to
about every six hundred Of the pOpula-
non, and there are about twenty in
every one thousand of these who are
sick. This will give about eight or
twelve patients to every doctor. sup
pose this will account for their eXorbi-
tant charges, there being an over pro-
durtion Of doctors. God pity the Door
for the doctors will not. What a poor
IahOrer and hiS.Wife will produce in d
few seconds generally requires doctor
and his fOrceps; mark, nearly ALWAYS
his tOrcepS. 1t may be that God did
not understand his business as well as
the doctor when he made woman a
child producer. This generally requires
bis service from d few minutes to a few
hours; and his modest fee will be all
the way from $25 to $5O Such is the
kind Of producer a doctor Of 1888 has be-
come; and, owing to their great uum-
OerS, they are looking abroad and push
ing their business in every direction 50
as to quarter themselves upon the poor
people, from great railroad and its en-
pIoyes to city ScavengerS garbage cart.
These are not wOrkingmen in the sense
of being producers, but are thriving and
growing rich upon the poverty and
wretchednesS of the real producers Of
all wealth. Then again, we often hear
of the oppression and tyranny of trades
unions, and should single case Of law
Iessness or intimidation ever occur in
connection with poor ignorant and Op-
pressed human nature, it is copied
from paper to paper until it spreads all
over the land, and is commented upon,
as only editors can comment upon it, be-
cause they are protected in their Offices
and are a kind of privileged cIaBs-irre-
sponsibIe cen8ors of the doing3 Of the
outside public. But how seldom do we
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-05

hear of lawyers or doctors, trades unions
which are more arbitrary and ,Oppress-
i've than any union known among Door
to practice at the bar until he has been
formally proposed and admitted by the
fraternity, no matter what the mans
ability may be. The doctors trades un-
lions are more numerous and much more
oppressive than any union known
among Workingmen. They are not sat
lStied to OStraciSe a man who does, not
compound his pills in the same way as
themselves by keeping him out of their
union, but 90 further still and invoke
the strong arm of the law, with pains
and penalties unknown to other unions,
If he should Je daring enough to make
out bill of charges and sue before
those same courts where he often takes
his poor patrons. And what are the
charges they bring against him? O, he
has not served his apprenticeship in the
same shop, and he has got no indent-
ures duly signed and sealed that he is
skilled in COmpOunding pills and pO-
tlOnS that he has never learned how
many ingredients are in black draught
that he has never studied all the numer-
GUS arts and tricks of our trade that he
cannot tell to a Scruple how much poi
son doctor can give or a patient take
without proving fatal l; and all this un-
der cover of protecting the public from
ignorant quacks And where shall we
find 50 much quackery as in DediCaI
trades unions. Then, again, why are
these practitioners , entitled to
higher wages than the producing class,
or workingmen? Brethren, this IS a
question for your solution. DO they
spend more time in their apprentice
ship? Do they gain better knowledge
Of their profession. before hey begin to
practice? No. Witness their btunders
from malpractice. But this is no det-
riment to their union for they are au-
thorized by law to give the undertakers
a certificate to bury, as their victim is
dead according to law, and let him be
put out of sight, and rest to his ashes for
dead men tell no tales. Why is not a
good stOne-maSOn, or carpenter, or
blacksmith worth as much per hour as
the ,OctOr or lawyer? Is it because his
need is not SO great or his family so
large? Or is it not from a principle of
fear, as some people worship the devil
lest he should hurt them.
A UNIONIST.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-05

A man Of good address, with no hobjec-
tion to canvassing, can be furnished
with a money king article by calling
at this office
The Labor enquirer., 1883-05-05
RoYhItK,s Victim.

The crazy man, known as the" King
OfSWeden," has been again sentenced
to three months in jail and fined 5000.
for being idle upon the streets. The
man is said by all the POLICEMAN who
have noticed him upon tie streets to be
insane; and yet for the past three years
he has been locked up several times on
a charge of vagrancy-being out only
few days. between sentences. Jetfries.
Of the enlarged proboscis and dwarfed
soul and intellect, pronounced the latest
sentence, and charged up the COSTS
In his annual address to the Knights
of Labor, Grand Master Workman Pow
derly quotes the following from @BlaCk-
stones Commentaries on the English
Law" in relation to land owner ship:
''.Pleased as they are with the posses
sion of land we seem afraid to look
back to the means by which it was &C
CURED, as if fearful of some defect in GUT
title \ \ We thinkIt enough that sur
title is derived b% the grant of the
former prOprietorby descent from our
ancestors, or blythe last will and testa-
ment Of the dying oWnerJ Not caring to
reflect that accurately and 8trictyspeak-
ing there i9lno foundation in nature, or
in natural law, why a set Of words
upon parchment should convey the do
miniop/ Of land; why the son should
have1a right to exclude his fellow crea-
tures from determinate spot of ground
because his father had done so before
him ;oOr why the occupier Of a particu-
lar field, when lying upon his death-bed
and no longer able to maintain posses
sion, should be entitled to tell the rest
Of the world which Of them should en-
joy it after him"
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bright little Jersey girl, pointing to the line, ''Still so gently OCT me stealing." Looking at it with the intense earnestness character istic of man who has been lowering around the polls all day, he mumbled, "Musht mean (hic) applejack (hic) m dear."-New York Journal.
 4 smart man has discovered that up to the age of g woman looks for man under the bed in fear and trembling; from that age to 30 it is more matter of habit than any, thing else; but after 30 8 relentless, cruel expression haunts the eyes that bodes him no good should the man be found.-Phila- delphia Gall.
 Girl barbers are employed in New York shops, but it is said that they do not take well with the public. No wonder. When man sees woman with razor in her hand the thought immediately flashes across his mlnd that she is about to cut her corns. ot course this takes away all the romance ot being shaved by woman.
 'tNo I am not honest" says Scribbins; t'but I am dishonest from the best of motives Suppose man pays me forty dollars instead of thirty, and it's mistake he might never discover. If I give him back the ten dollars he will say to himself, There is an honest person. The world is confidence in mankind, and the next man he deals with may cheat him out of his eyes. No, sir, I don't want to give any man con fdence; it might wreck his whole fortune. I don't want my fellow beings cheated and must continue to do nothing that will put them of their guard. Courier Journal.
 Sweet Mary Anne had 3 musical tongue; By day and by night forever she songue, And oft on her notes her many friends hongue, But one day. alas she ruptured tongue, Her music away to the winds were soon hongue, And in joy her near neIghbors had all the bells
 rongue. Boston Transcript.
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Price Three Cents

quesses and esrls. Dame Mary has no place in such exalted company, and the other two classes of ladies may teach us lesson in the difference between mere precedence and sub- stantial privilege. Lady Mary A., the duke or earrs daughter, goes before Lady B., the baron's wife. But let them be charged with treason or felony, and the baron's wife can claim to be tried by the House of Lords, while the earl's daughter must be tried by B jury like any other woman. Lady then, even as a title, has come down, in common use at least, step lower than lord. And, when not used strictly as a title, it has sunk lower again. It has, perhaps, not sunk quite so low as some words which in strictnsss trans- late it, certainly not so low as Italian donna, perhaps not quite so low as French dame. Still, to most minds lady is the feminine not of lord, but of gentleman. The gentleman's rightful companion, the gentlewoman, seems to have vanished altogether. And some peo- pie seem, even on very formal occasions, to forget that the lady is the rightful companion only of the lord. When men were debating as to the proposal to confer the title of em- press on our present sovereign public meet ing was held in great English city for the discussion of the question. Some proposed Sovereign lady of India" as 8 more becom- ing title. To this one speaker objected. He was barrister by calling, and in eeclesiasti- cal matters zealous churchman. He might therefore be expected to know both his law books and his prayer book. Yet he opposed the style of Sovereign lady" on the ground that when there was king he would have to be called Sovereign" His hearers, wiser than himself, shouted Sovereign lord" But the man of law remained unconvinced
 Sovereign gentleman was the one mascu- line of "Sovereign lady," and Sovereign gentleman of India" was title that would never do.
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''L4Rdys''
sbARdys' rE. A. Freeman, in LongmaEis Magazine.l

lE. A. Freeman, In 1on8m3E s MaEazfnel
 Our old English Hlaford, as expressing a rank or relation rather than strictly an office, has, unlike the king and the earl, feminine.
 Without raising any minute pathological questions, Hlefdidge is practically the femi- nine of Hlaford. And it abides so still the softened form of lady is still, in grammar at least if not in usage. the feminine of lord and and of lord only. But the practical use of the name has been very shifting. In early times the lady had rather 8 tendency to soar higher than the lozd; in later times she has rather had tendency to sink beneath him. Whon queen ship, so to speak, was abolished among the West Saxons, the kings wife be- came the lady. The title was therefore lower than that of queen; but 1t was so high that, with the single exception of H1thelHiad Lady of the Mereians, it was never given to any but the wives of kings The wife of the reigning king is ''tha Lady ," she whom we should now call queen dowager was then known by She homelier style of ''the Old 41sdy.n So, as has been already noticed, Ial2y WAS, down into the eighteenth century, the true English style for the younger daughters and the nieces of king. h the peerage lord and lady exactly answer to one another, If in one casa theY do not seem to do so, If the daughters of an earl are called lady while tReir younger brothers are not called lord, it is because all daughters rank with their elder brother and not with their younger. Lady, like lord, is used vaguely for en ranks of ska peerage under duke. a:id in special way for it's lowest ranb 1t is when we ees below the peesage that the laxer uae of the word begins. as dominus parted of into English lord and French sir, so domina parted off into Ianglfsh lady and French dame. Lord and lady, sir and dame, should in strictneas % together. And so in formal RtYta they do the wife of Sir John is properly Dame Mary. It is doubtless by 9 bit of man'6 homage to woman that she is in common speech raised to the style of lady, while her husband is never raised to the style of lord. And those who report court ceremonies, who surely ought to "know thelr own foolish businesa, > tumble together under the common head of Ladies" the wives of knights, tho wives of bsrous, and the daughters of dukes. aar-
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CONTRIBUTIONS.


 Mary Churchill left hoIae because she was forced to practice on the plane. It is sup posed the neighbors have all this time been contributing to her Philadelphia Telegram.
 Winter, with it's snow and ice, will soon be here, and from many thousands of homes will go up the nightly cry: ''Say, take your cold feet away from my back."-Chicsgo Telegram.
 ''You should never chew 8 raw oyster Just place him lengthWise across the edge of your tongue, elevate your chin triae, and after that yog will have nothing to do but pay f9r him. ."-Rochest Post-Express.
 Hello, Jones, I'm glad to see you'' Jones, pretending not to recognize Smith, for fear he'd tap him for 8 loan: My dear sir, you have the advantage of me-" s'Yes, most anyone has who possesses ordinary in- telligence. "-The Hoosier.
 A Cleveland millionaire recently offered g prize for the best suggestions for an ideal allegorical statue to represent s'The Peace maker 'a The man who took the prize sent in a design that simply, but chasteiy, repre- scented 8 fry in boz z--Pnck.
 "Rapa. what does this neans" asked S
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that anyone found worthy to join the Sher- borne Theatre will never be dismissed), and nainglinR freely with the guests who have come from all the ends of the world to assist at our opening performance of "Parslfal "
 As rest is as needful to the body and mind as air, there will only be three operatic per- formances week in the theatre, the inter vals being dedicated to enjoyment or to need full rehearsals. No work will be presented before it has been rehearsed, with full acces- soTies, at least twelve times, but, of course, nothing will be produced till there is abso- luteIy no flaw whatever in the performance. And what a repertoire we shall have! The operas of Chuck, Mozart, Beethoven, one or two of Meyerbeer's, one or two of Verdi's, one or two of Gounod's, and, of course, all Wagner's, will form the foundation; but shall rely upon great school of dramatic composition springing up elmost lmmedlately in England for every work sent Tn will be carefully and fairly examined, and If found answering the first requirements, will be as carefully rehearsed as if for 8 long run, and will then be produced in the presence Of the composer only. And if he likes it it will find place in the general repertoire.
 I have not quite settled yet on what sys- tenn the public is to be admitted to my thea Ire. There is doubt in my mind whether l will admit them at all in 8 general sense. Of course, all admission will be free, if there is
 
 indeed receive subsidies to enable them to as- sist at our performances. But one class the critics-wil be required to pay, and pay rather heavily, for their places in the first place, because, as I shall only employ the greatest performers, and produce the greatest masterpieces, critics will t'e quite unnecessa- ry; and in the second, because this is the only safe means of ensuring perfectly an- biased report.
 My brain is in whirI when I think of the blessings my theatre will bring upon Eng land. She will spring at once into the fore most place among musical nations; compo- sers dramatic singers, orchestral players, will occupy new position, and an era will dawn for my beloved art such as it has never yet passed through.
 Have I forgotten anything? Oh, yes, the conductor At this point, I grieve to say, my waking dream gradually slips into walk ing nightmare, and finish by picturing my self conducting this vast and glorious combi- nation; and during the performance of one of my own operas-I fall gently asleep.
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SpuruzI arn Goarier.
EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY
Saturday November 10, 1883.
ABOUT A GREAT REFoRn.

Mir. Eaton, of the Civil Service commis- sion, has been talking interestingly about the present condition of the great reform. His remarks were principally devoted to the changes just made by the President in the Civil Service rules. With one important ex- ception, he says, these changes introdued no new principle. The amendment of rule 8, says Mir. Eaton, is by far the most important change. It afirmg new principle and is a new safeguard in the spirit of the Civil Ser vice act, and upon the theory according to which all the rules were framed. The act says nothing as to the ground of selection by the appointing power of one to fill a vacancy. The basis of selection has been left to mere inference. The unamended eighth rule mere ly prohibited ''sny inquiry on the part of the commissioners or examiners concerning political or religious opinions or affiliations and all discrimination by them, by reason thereof, if known" But it did not in terms touch the discretion of the appointing power in thatregard. While, therefore, it was plain enough that system which aims to raiss character and capacity above favor, partisan ship and influence in making such selections is in spirit repugnant to all such discrimina- ton, it was not less plain that such discrimina- tion might be made without violating the letter of either rules or law. So long as such 8 practice should remain uncondemned, it would be vain to hope that the enemies of re- form would not believe it to exist. ''I be- heve,' said MT. Eaton, ''the facts to be that no such discrimination has been made under the present rules, and that none has been connived at by those in high authority. But, quite the contrary, President Ar thur seems to me to have thought that responsible declarations on such a sub- iect should be as comprehensive as public duty and professed principles. But have no right to speak for him. He has, at any rate, SO amended and enlarged the eighth rule that it now distinctly prohibits the ap- pointing power, alike in every department and in every postofice and customs office to which the rules extend, from making any discriminations in selections for appoint ment by reason of any political or religious opinion or ahliation. public and respon- sible pledge of impartiality and justice can, I think, go no further Political tests and party influence are, for the first time, abso- lutely and universally condemned and ex- cluded. The full significance of this change cannot be understood except in the light of the fact that the 22d rule makes any violation of either by an executive officer good cause for removal and of the further fact that the Civil Service act authorizes the commis- sion to make Investigations and report con- cerning the enforcement of the act in such particulars.
 For such reasons Mir. Eaton regards the amendment as the most emphatic assertion yet made of the spirit of true reform and as having significance beyond what can be at tached to any similar provision in any Civil Service rule ever yet adopted
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A Breath or Heaven,

I once again fn this charm a realm inquire; Not listening to the oceans sad refrain, Nor watching the mountain heights, to gain message for the meditat' ve Tyre. The sir contents Such do they respire, Our Iov'd ones, gather'd on the heavenly plain, With quiet breathing bleet, and freed from pain, And toil, and care, ana unfiltd desire EInbosom'd in like calm, eh let me rest, And breathe in sweet, unseen compaDionsh1p Time cannot sever nor delay, nor death! These shining shores and unlit sea attest The encircling love that doth hie children keep In perfect peace and unlabortous breath.
 The Spectator.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-10

''The Battle of Dorking'' made great sen sRtion when it appeared and there have been numerous limitations of the clever little work The latest is entitled F'The Battle of Port Said" and is q satire upon the English naval system. In this book the anonymous author supposes that by some peculiar combination of circumstances the French, Russians and the Turks have combined their forces against the English, Germans and Egyptians Tho bone of contention seems to be the Suez canal, and consequently the warfare is largely of a naval character. In this contest it is found that in spite of their professed strength the ironclads of Great Britain are wholly inferior to those sailing under the French flag. It is pointed out that the Eng lish admiralty received numerous warnings that their rivals across the channel were pre- pairing an extensive fleet of heavily armed and heavily srmored ships, and that the time would come when English strength upon the seas would be brought in question. But, in spite of these warnings, the government per sisted in it's self-confdant courae until the war broke out, and then used every endeavor to make up for it's delay by extraordinary &C., tivity. But, as it required four or five years to build irst-cIass ironclad, and as the war was to be fought out in two or three months time, it was obvious that these delayed efforts were practically useless. When the contest therefore csme op the English and their Ger m ID allies were completely overpowered, and the supremacy of the seas, so far as naval st- premacy was concerned, passed into the hands of the French.
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All signs failed last Tuesday. It has al ways bean believed in Massachusetts that the vote of the little, town of Hull could be re- lied on to show how the State voted, but this time Hull went for Butler.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Everyhod ? seems te waHt the Hen- Henry B. Harrison made speaker of the House. A more unimous call is not often made.
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of is that person under conviction of . crime punishable with imprisonment and awaiting sentence Is member of the jury in the Superior court, now sitting in Worcester, Mass, for the transaction of criminal sbusi-
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There are many queer things about iuries- One of the queessst that we have lately beard