The Labor enquirer., 1883-06-02
OUR EXCHANGES

| Has not the Wholesome fear and& 4 :,
derediby the late explokon not bronoht
England "a herssenses, and cannnt fha
world see this proud nation descana;ns
| to the Lase subterfnee Of living ana ol,;
l.canery to enlist the sympathy of Ronaa "
| to help her in her present trouble d ,he irho
voice Of Rome itself cannot maize Ir;ab nc
men forget the thousands of legal mnr-
ders committed by England UPON a
helpless people. From the scaffold.
from the Jail, from the ditch-side, from
tthe workhouse5 from the enigrant shin
goes up a cry for vengeance upon her
prosecutors which the Irish people can
never forget. Warnings seem of little
avail, as the measures of ] redress held
out by parliamentary caprice are wholly
inadequate to meet the peculiar exigen-
cies Of the situation 4 Other sacrifices
we fear, must follow those lately enacted
ere England will be brought to proper
sense Of her duty toward starving and
an oppressed people United Irishman.
The government owns the largest, best
equipped and one of the best managed
printing offices in the world, in which it's
printing is executed iii the best possible
manner, as cheaply as living wages to
those employed permit, and with a
promptness never attained under any
other system. The postmaster general
should give the matter very careful con-
sideration before he consents to give
any of the printing of his department
out by contract. The money-order print
ing scheme is bare faced Job. He may
find that some "of his subordinates are
interested in having it given out by con-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Independent.
There is much indignation among
workingmen employed under the war
department at Washington at the fact
that they are paid no more for ten hours
work than the mechanics employed
under other departments receive for
eight hours work All attempts to se-
cure an adjustment of this matter with
the secretary Of war have proved un-
availing. Mr.. Lincoln. may get the nom
ination of the Republican party, be-
cause he is the son of his father, bat his
defeat will occur because he is so unlike
his father.-American Statesman.
A number of English lords once called
upon General Washington while he was
president and asked MN why he did not
have body guard with him when he
went out. To their inquiry Washington
replied: while 1 do right l am in no
danger of the people, and if 1 do wrong
no body guard could save me-" This is
about the situation in reference to dyna-
mite. If man does right he is in no
danger, but if he oppresses the people
he is liable to 60 flying through the air
at any time.-Indianapolis Globe.
Since the passage of the law restrict
ing Chinese etnigrants to the United
States, the Celestial swarm, has taken a
header for Canada. Thousands of
them have been brought over as slaves
to work on the Canadian Pacific and
other railroads in the dominion. The
white workingmen there have naturally
become alarmed at the prospect of being
compelled to compete with the Mon
golian lepers, who contrive to live ON
rats, rice and opium. Petitions are now
being circulated IN all the large towns of
Canada and are receiving thousands of
signatures, praying the government, at
the head of which stands SIR John A.
Mcdonald, to take some action looking
to the suppression of the Mongolian
curse. The war on the rat-eaters will
soon assume the proportions of that
waged against them in California, which
led to the passage of the anti-Chinese
law.-St. Louis Union.
The sad news of labor papers sus-
pending comes from every quarter. Why9
Because those who take up the standard
and are the vanguard in the battle for
labdr's rights, are ANONYMOUSLY deserted
by those for whom they are fighting.
With a cool, criminal indifference and
unconcern workingmen look on and see
their would-be deliverers succumb to
relentless foe, while they are cowed into
submission, and, like shivering sheep in
the fold, are kept in the slave pen by the
crack of the tyrannical whip lash of
their masters which fattens on their
blood, and spews out to feed and recon-
cile them with their condition, anas-
thetics that are inhaled with avidity,.
such as vested rights, communist, an
archist, socialist, etc. What wonder that
brave men and women often become dis
gusted and discouraged and sell out ?.
Journeyman Builder.
All along and before the great exodus
and murder of AZ the pay assigned to
the able-bodied laborer in the fields of
Ireland was eight pence sterling a day
being just 81 for the whole week-not
for little girl, but for man with
family. Reader, you have no adequate
idea of the Thugs nature. If you keep
on arguing for a little more pay and a
little less hours, whilst the Thug goes on
| covering your land-your inheritance
with congressional forgeries called
patents" or "titles,' or whatever called,
your children will be driven into ex-
actly where the Irish people now are,
and where they have been in the long,
torturing, hopeless centuries.-Irish