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The Labor enquirer., 1883-01-06
SELECTED MISCELLANY,
Usury.

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Usury.
We wait beneath the furnace-blast
The pangs Of transformation!
Not painlessly doth God recast
And mold anew a nation.
Hot burns the fire
Where wrongs expire,
Nor spares the haEd
That from land
Uproots an ancient evil.
The hand-broad cloud the prophets feared
It's deadly rain is Dropping
The poison-paint ourfathers spared
All else is overtoDping. A..
East, West, North, South,
1t curses earth;
All justice dies -
And fraud and lies -@
Live only in its shadow. ~ A.
81 What filed our highways full Of trampS9
What stopped our fact'ries, humming?
What all our furnace fires outstampS u.
And sends our workmen bumming?
What stole our cashP
What at one smash
Fills earth with graves, ,s
Makes judges knaves?
Hark to the answer-Usury!
Then waste no blows on lesser foes
= I In strife unworthy freemen;
God lifts on high the veil and shows
The features of the demon!
North and South,
Its victims both,
'~ Can we not cry,
. "Let Usury dieN
And union keep by FreedOm?
What though the cast-out spirit tear
The nation in his going?
All who have shared its guilt must share
The pang of his o'erthrowing.
Whate'er the blame;
Whate'er the shame;
The fiends who sold
Their souls for gold
Must suffer as their penance.
Who that has leaned on God'sright arm
Was ever yet forsaken?
What righteous cause can suffer wrong
If he its part has taken?
And He has said,
AS you have read,
That Uslry's greed
Is the same breed
AS swearing, theft and murder.
Above all maniac yells for pelf
And heralded conventions;
Above its gas-infated self,
And "heIl-paved good Intentions"
A voice we hear
Fills it with fear "
But thrills with joy
Without alloy
The souls of wealth creators.
And that voice says in trumpet tones,
AS warning to all strikers:
Earth can't sustain such idle drOnes;
- All eaters must be workers.
And elsewhere, too,
In terms as true
AS pen e'er wrote,
1t makes this note
''The usurer must perish.
Then: let all selfish lips be dumb,
And hushed all breaths of signing;
Before ourioy of peace can come
Its pains must come of dying.
Then as God meant
All free from rent
Each man shall stand
On his own land,
No one but God his landlord.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-01-06
A Witness Who Wasn't Browbeaten.

From the Detroit Free Press. ~
In justices court ''down-east" a trial
was under way for tresspass in cutting
wood from a neighbor's premises without
authority. One of the plaintiffs witnesses
was plain old farmer, whose testimony
went clearly and directly to prove the
charge. The defendants counsel, bus
tering man of brass, after the most ap-,
proved fashion of country petifoggers
thought to weaken the force of his evil
dence by proving idiocy to be trait of
his family. He therefore inteTrogated
him thus:
"Mr. ---, you have son who is an
idiot, have you not? -.
eyes SIR
docs he know anything?
very little"
"How much does he know" =
a"Well, almost nothing; not much more
than you do"
The witness was allowed to retire
without further question.
The Labor enquirer., 1883-01-06

From the bOundleSS green below,
TO the fathomleSS blue above,
The creatures of God are happy
In the warmth of their summer love-"
And the affection that had been devel-
oping so shyly, so slowly as though it
had the life of century plant for its
perfecting, burst into sudden bloom,
like the flowers of an arctic summer.
But Mabel, too much bewildered to
know what to say, looked from one to
the other in curious wonder. ~
"What is it Nell?" she cried presently,
for she was not a girl to long lose her
voice "Were you the Katy who did,,
and W ho didn't"
Nelly did not answer. She did not
hear. For the timey she and DIR. Farms
worth were alone in the universe And
the swinging branches, the fading
daylight, the insect harmony, the jog
of the plodding horse, the touch Of the
summer air ON her forehead, and the
merry babble of Mabels voice, only
made rosy background behind these
two souls. Then orange flowers budded,
and burst in blossoms on every wayside
weed; each farm house turned into a
palace ofjasper, and the back bone fence
around the pasture that bore two rocks
to every blade of grass, we're built ot
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SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

GARFIELD, out of respect and courtesy toward
his Predecessor, and knowing the distinguished
ability of Matthew's sent IN his name again. He
never thought of not doing SO, and until the last
days of Hayes President no one had any idea.
or could have had, that the failure of the Senate
to act would throw the responsibility of filling
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
Judge Swayne IN any degree upon Garfield.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE other minor strikes are upon a question
Which over and over again has been decided
against the STRIKERS. It IS union against nom
union men. In that issue public sympathy has
always been, anu viii always be, with the nom
union men, who prefer to depend for employ
ment and fair wages on their individual skill
and industry, rather than on combinations
which aim at forcing employers TO pay good and
bad workmsn altke.-New YORK Tribune
STRIKES by proprietors are not likely to
frghten workingmen out of demanding more
pay when they think they have good reasons
for doing so; but they will probably discourage
those strikes that are organized on insufficient
grounds by meddesome men who Gall them
scrupulous fellows, VINO are happy only when
drawing pay from union treasures Ior doing
nothing for the benefit of any Que besides them
selves.-New York Herald.
WE believe the United States should at all
times be reasonably well-arihed nation, with
irst-clsss navy OF sIeel or sheet-plated vessels
carrying the best aud heaviest guns that can be
made. We have tried once the policy of being "A
disarmed nation, and found that such q nation,
could only arm itself at about the same rate
that the rebellion against it could do, and con
sequently it was not until three or -four years
had passed that anybody could tell which was
the rebellion and which the government A dis
armed nation invites an armed rebellion cou-
tinualiy. An armed nation acts as the standing
disarmament of any rebellion that may be in
vIted.-CMeagO Inter Ocean.
WHEN women and men receive equal pay for
equal work women will be pushed to the wall
Allthat there is Of harshness In this statement
is the hardness OF truth, which IL is better to
look squurely in the face. There are certain
physical and mental limitations to the availa-
billy OF women for mans work which should
never he lost sight of. She has peculiar neuro-
tic condition called the hysterieal, which is a
part OF her @ ganiZation and may oe latent unti
some unexpected emergency calls 1t into play
and units her for mental action physical
service The differences between man and
woman which make the latter the most charm
ing work of creation unfit her for a struggle
upon equal terms with man where capital seeks
to get the most labor for the least wages.-Chi-
cage Herald.
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IT does not sound pleasant to hear that the
indianapolis telegraph Office is regarded as
the Chinese office of the country. 1t has
been felt for years by the people of the city
that the Western Union has not been prodi-
gal, to say the least in fitting up their bust
ness quarters in a manner Commensurate
either with the character of the city or with
the amount of business transacted. The
Western Union officials are generally very
genial and courteous gentlemen, particularly
those in charge of its affairs here; but the
company has not treated indianapolis with
any marked genialty.
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ABOUT PEOPLE.

JANE GREY SwissHEIM lies dangerously i'll at
Ewissvale, Pa, near PittsGurg. She is nursed by
her daughter Zoe.
MRS. CARLISLE. wife of the Kentucky Con-
gresham, is rather taller than her husband,
with reddish and Scotch-Irish type of features
o GENERAL g. P. STONE, for many years in the
service of the Khedive of Egypt, has arrived at
Jacksonville, Fla, to examine the three routes
for ship canal.
THE picturesque old stone house where Mrs.
Stowe wrote "Uncle Toms Cabin" is becoming
quite q classical pile and attracts numerous Wis
itors from the country round.
NINE. JENNY LIND-GOLDsCHMTr has written a
letter to the London Times, in which she declares
that the report of an interview with her, printed
in some American papers and copied into Eng
lish papers was fabricated. No such interview
ever took place.
IT is great error to suppose that Sir Lance
lot left the Round Table in rage because the pie
was ont. 1t was very hot day, and when he
said "Witt some one pass the pe9" nobody pres
sent saw the pun. 1t was the fai!are of his pun,
and not the exhaustion of the pie, that enraged
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Tie Ball About to Open.

Legal notice he's been served by the Board of
State-house Commissioners the sureties of
Howard & Denig, state-house contractors, that
they will be held liable for damages on account
Of neglect or failure of the present contractors
to prosecute the work under the contract. The
matter has been kept quiet for several days, but
has at length leaked our, aid trouble is about to
begin. Col. Norton, one of the statehonso COM
missioners of Texas. who is on a tour OF inspec-
tton OF the capitol buildings in ehe Eastern aud
Western States, was in the city yesterday. Dur
ing the afternoon he inspected the new State
house. The plan of construction and the mate
rial used are better than he has found, he states,
in all the other buildings he has visited He
smoke Of the corridor as the grandest IN tho
world, and said that he had never even read OF
ANYTHING In architecture which would surpass it
in grandeur. When told that the cost OF tho
building to the State thus far had heen $500, 900,
he wanted to know who had furnished the other
million,
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Death of a Gallant Soldier.

Mike Welsh, of the "color guard" of the fa-
mons old Eleventh Indiana. died OF coneump.
ton in this city yesterday morning at. half past
one. His Old companions of the camp and bat
tie field as well as his innumerabe friends Of
civil life, will as sincerely regret mis- death as
they admired and respected his life. Quiet,
modest and always gentleman, he was also one
of the bravest ana most daring fighters of that
splendid organization. and whether as guard or
bearer of the flag in those thrilling Elements
when all seemed about to perish in the blaze OF
battle, he fought the good fight like hero and
was not afraid His gallant soldier life fulfilled
the promise of his boybood days; his maturer
years here among his ellOw-citizens but added
TO the glory of his war record, and ais peaceful,
Christian death is but the perfect ending of the
pure aud blameless total of his life Surrounded
by friends In fun possession of his faculties, he
passed quietly and happily away to meet with
clear, -untrOuDed conscience, that great un-
known so terrible to multitudes of his fellow-be-
ings Of larger pretensons. His honest, useful
life is worthy Of all imitation, his quiet, fearless
death an example and encouragement for the
best of us. With nearly his latest breath lie
spoke lovingly of his old comrades OF soldier
days. and until their latest breath they will re-
member him with honor and affection. The fu-
neral will take place on Saturday morning at
$50 o'clock from the residence OF Patrick Dean,
225 West South street. Services at st. Johns
Cathedral; interment at the Catholic cemetery.
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THE Scott law taxing the saloons in Ohio
has not only been a source of great revenue
but it has reduced the number OF saloons in
several localities In Hamilton county only
Q, 200 had paid taxes up to July 70, whereas
there were 2,219 doing business before the
tax law went into effect, showing that there
are nineteen saloons that have quit the
business or are selling on the sly The
amount OF tax received TO that date was
$402 900. But others were coming in daily
and paying taxes on fractions of years, show
that those that had suspended are resuming
business or new men are engaging in it. But
up to date there has been diminution of
the number.
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rhe Miohirnn CIV Prison sewer.

Estimates to the amount of $4,000 for work
on tho construction OF the prison sewer at
Michigan City were presented to tho Auditor OF
State, yesterday, 10y Warden Murdoch. Mayor
Harris, H. H. Walker and others, OF Michigan
City, but payment has been refused until after
the work has been examined by the State
architect and he has reported that the speciiica-
lions have been complied with. part OF tho
sewer was built of stone instead OF brick, "a the
contract provides, and question is raised as TO
whether or not the material Is as good for sewer
construction as brick.
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MIR. j. W. RILEY's newly published vol
ume, 1.-THE Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven
More Poems has been given to the public
1t is presented in very neat form, and will
doubtless meet with a generous reception
such as it so evidently deserves Readers of
the Journal, in which these poems originally
appeared as the production of "Benj. F.
Johnson, of Boone" are too familiar with
them to need new Introduction. In their
present form they will long preserve the
Hoosier dialect in its purity and sweetness.
When first published they were widely copied
and were very warmly received The beau
tful shape they are now put in will warrant
a still wider circulation. The book is on sale
at all the bookstores and at the Journal
,counting-room. .
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THE telegraph strike will force a consid-
Grafton of number of questions. One of
them the government control of tele-
graph lines, and another the question of
making strikes criminal and providing arbi-
bration in all cases OF dispute between en-
ployes and their employers when there is
claim of injustice or oppression on the part
of any number of men.
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SucH a condition of affairs as exists to-day
is likely to lead to a contemplation of the
official paid $4,000 year for doing little or
nothing, and the humble employee, with
family, working twelve or fourteen hours a
day for $50 month. These contrasts are
not pleasant. and it is not always spirit of
communism that suggests them. There is
comfort and luxury TO the high-priced Off
cial for himself and his family and yet his
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STRIKES are an expression OF force. They
are OF the war power. The principle of arbi-
tration is making Roadway fast, being pushed
to the front because of the imperative neces-
sites of the very life Of the country JUS
tice between man and man is becoming a
commercial necessity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-20

MRS. MCDOWELL, alias Dow, the 'lady broker
of Philadelphia, who sank $4,000 belonging to
her confiding creditors, has come into notice
again. She has entered suit against her brokers
to recover the amount of $4,000 lost through
them, on the ingenious and ingenious plea that
being a married woman, her contracts were not
valid. She promises, if she gets the money, to
divide it all among the gentle eve lambs from
whom she received it. Those once trustfu crea-
lures, however, have cut their eye-teetb, and
and have instituted legal proceedings to compel
Il disagreement of the funds, in case she should
recover them
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No complaint could be made with the
manner in which the press report regular
and special, was handled in the Western
Union Office here last night 1t came
through in the very best shape and with the
greatest promptitude.
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If the Western Union company receives
any public sympathy it will not be because
it deserves it, but because the demands of
the complex business of the country are so
imperative as to outweigh all other consid-
erations, and put the strikers in the attitude
OF interfering with every mans dearest in
terests
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IT is not improbable that the $4,000 re-
ward offered by South Carolina rebel dur
ing the war for the capture of Ben. Butler,
dead or alive, will be used in an effort to
make Mr.. Butler President of the United
States. The whirligig of time whirls, and
Butler whirls with it.
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services and influence may be worth the sum
paid him by the company or interest he
serves. On the other hand, faithful and in
telligent service by even the humblest en-
ploye ought in a normal condition of affairs,
to command reasonable comfort for himself
and family, on the plane on which he lives
and mOves
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-20

MR.. WILLIAM MoYER, formerly book-keeper in
a Lockport, N. Y, bank, having neglected TO
save enough OF the embezzled funds to pay law
yers' fees, finds that the way of the transgressor
is hard. Five years ago he was found to be a
defaulter to The amount of $25, 900. His father,
though wealthy, refused to make up the deficit,
and also declined to defend his son. Meyer, then
twenty-three years of age, was sentenced to five
years's imprisonment for grand larceny, and has
just been discharged, but does not regain his
freedom. The original indictment contained
thirteen counts for larceny, forgery and embez
Element, and the unhappy young man is now in
Jail awaiting trial on twelve of these counts
Neither the bank officers nor the father show
signs of relenting, and the prospects of the pr1s-
oner for good time in this world are far from
bright.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-20

THE reign of terror at Jefferson, Tex,
ought to have the immediate attention of
the proper authorities. AS matters now
stand according to reports, neither life nor
property is safe in that place, if person is
in the least suspected OF friendship with
the late Judge Haughn. Let the Depart
ment of Justice wake up.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-20

In the trial of Treasurer Polk, enough has
already been proven and confessed to send
tiary, and unless the defense can draw the
prosecution into the fashionable wearing
out" contest, the chances are all against
him
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him.

IT is not calculated to make friends for the
strikers that their movement started with
death of General Grant. The trick was un-
worthy and infamous, and under the cir
cumstances the strikers will have the dis
credit Of it
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COME to think of it, the telegraph strike
must be the result OF the tariff We have
been informed by the able free-trade jour
mails, particularly the News, of this city, that
all the other strikes, threatened or actual,
were traceable directly to the internal princi-
Pile OF tariff which was not for revenue only.
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road strikers six years ago, While the out
look appears serious, and is serious now, it
cannot and will not last long Public opin-
ion will not be diatory in making up YER
dict, and its terms will have to be complied
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THE Enoch Arden fable pales into an Insignia
cant romance beside such dramas in real life as
are produced in this advanced age. Twenty
seven years ago Mr.. Charles Bridge married Miss
Brown, beautiful young lady OF Iowa. When
the war broke out Bridge enlisted, served faith
fuliy until its close and was hOnorably dis
charged. He went home, stayed a week with his
wife and children, after which he disappeared
and was seen no more. year later his wife re-
celved letter from distant town stating that
her husband, Charles Bridge, had died and was
buried there. She mourned for a reasonable
time and then married Mr.. Kimball, and lived
happy with him. In the meantime Mr. Bridge
who, as the sagacious reader has surmised, was
not dead, had married again and lived com
tortably on a farm near Westfall, Ohio. A few
days ago he came to town on business aud was
surprised to meet his first wife, who, with her
family, had lately come there to live.
He wrote a note asking for an interview. AT
the meeting the old love revived on both sides,
and arrangements were made then and there for
new deal. day or two later Mr.. Bridge dis
appeared from home and at the same time Mrs
ktmoal became lost to the sight of her husband
and eight little Kimballs. To round out the ro-
nance the deserted partners should console each
other, and alPs well that ends well.
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THE telegraph officials say they have met
with less trouble than they anticipated, and
thus far there has been little or no Interrupt
ton to business. The offices in the larger
cities seem to be reasonably well equipped.
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REV. Mr. MOBILES, of New York, who wrote his
obituary and sent it the newspapers with the
information that he was about to kill himself
has turnedup alive after several days seclusion.
He "weaKened" when he got TO the wharf where
he meant to jump off, and now he is trying to
get out of the scrape on the emotonal-insanity
dodge.
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ARE women to have no rights in church or
starei Catholic bishop having pronounced
against bangs, along comes the government. by
its seeret-service agents, and suppresses the
manufacture OF bangles, when made in imta.
zion of gold and silver coins. Where are the
champions of "the cause"2
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An Exhibition Drill.

Raper Commandery will give an exhibition
drill, prior to their departure for San Francisco
to tho citizens of Indianapolis. 1t will probably
take place at the base ball park. Invitations
will be sent out rs soon the necessary arrange
uents can he made, and it promises to be Yer.
enjoyable affair.
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THAT Mexican outrage at Monterey will
have to be speedily and thoroughly cleared
up, and the perpetrators adequately pun
boI
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AND the 'Iongshoremen have struck also.
Possibly the tariff is to blame for that There
has been an over-production of lopgshore-
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"'OUIDH has had town in Dakota named
after her. 1t must be novel I'm ter
Ocean.
"OuiGa" thought they would have chosen
some Indian naine2
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The Keokuk Ua) people talk of bringing the
bones of the Sac and Fox chief Keokuk to that
city for reintermenr, and of erecting a monu-
ment over them. 1t is hoped in this way to keep
the dead chief from coming back after the still
deader town.