The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-14
DENVER, COLORADO SATURDAY. JUNE a, 1884

rich do daily with impunity on grant
lscale. should he, in fact. steal, in order Il
Hive the bourgeoisie win heap burning
GOALS of amoral indignation" upon hi
head, and, with austere yisage, hand hin
over relentlessly in charge of the state
that in its prisons he may be aeeced
the more effectively, i. g, cheaper.
When the workers combine in order te
obtain better wages, shorten hours o.
labor, or similar advantages, the money,
bags Immediately decrY it as aconspir.
acy." which must be prevented. H
When the workers organize polite.
Tally, it is denounced as resistance to the
"dIvine" order of things, which must be
nullifed by laws of exception or dis
termination. Il.
Should the people finally contemplate
rebellion, an unceasing howl of rage
raised by the gold tigers" will be heard
throughout the world-they pant for
massacres and their thirst for blood is
Unsuitable. ~
The life of the poor is valued as moth
ing by the rich. AS the owner of vessels
he places the lives of entire crews in
jeopardy, when his object is to fraudd-
lently obtain high insurance for half
decayed hulks. Bad ventilation, deep
excavation, defective supports, etc., etc.,
annually bring death to thousands of
miners, but this system of operation
saves expenses, therefore augments the
gains, and gives the mine owner no occa-
sion to be sorry. Neither does the fac
tory-pasha care how many of "his"
laborers are torn and rent apart by
ma.hinery, poisoned by chemicals, or
slowly suhfocated by dirt and dust. Profit
is the main thing.
Women are cheaper than men: for this
reason the capitalistic vampires with in
satiate rapacity seek their blood. Be-
sides, female labor procures them cheap
mistresses.
Child flesh is the cheapest what won
der then that the cannibals of modern
society ContiI ually feast upon juvenile
victims? What care they that the poor
little ones are thereby bodily crippled
and mentally ruined for life-that thou
sands of them, miserable and worn out
at tender age, sink into their graves :?
Stocks rise that suffices.
AS the bourgeoisie, by means of its
capital, completely monopolizes all new
inventions, every new machine, inst lad
of shortening the hours of labor and ent
hanclng the prosperity and happsness of
ALL, causes, on the contrary, dismissal
from employment for some, reduction of
wages for others, and an increased and
intensified state of misery for the entire
proletariat.
When increase of production is ac-
companied by an augmented pauperlza-
ton Of the masses, consumption must
simultaneously decrease stagnation and
crises must ensue. A superabundance of
actual wealth in the hands of the few
must create hunger, typhus, and other
epidemics among the many. The injus-
tice-yea, the idiocy-of this state of
affairs is evident. The money-bags of
course merely shrug their shoulders.
This they will continue to do until rope
we'll tied OVER their shoulders will end
all further Struggling.
The worker is not only feeced in man
fold ways as producer, but also>as con-
sumer. Numberless parasites seek to
despoil him of his paltry income.
After products have passed through
various exchanges and storeage, and
their prices been raised by jobbers and
brokers' profits, by taxes and custom
house duties, they finally reach the re-
taiIers, whose customers are almost ex-
clusively the proletarians. The whole
salers make" (that is, fraudulently OBJ
tain) perhaps 10 to 20 per cent profit by
their transactions the retailer is dissat-
isfed with less than 100 per cent, He
makes use of all sorts of tricks for Sc
curing this result, especially the most
shameless adulteration of food. In close
relationship to these swindlers are the
numberless poisoners and adulterators of
beer, liquors, wine. ETC., who render the
streets in all our great cities and indus
trial centers unsafe with their nefarious
traffic. Then there are the tenement
lords, who ceaselessly seek means to
embitter the existence of the poor. The
condition of the rooms become steadily
worse, the rents higher and the contracts
more CALLING. The workers are crowded
together more and more into rear houses :,
attics and cellar-holes, full of vermin,
damp and musty. Prison cells are fire.
quently far healthier these pest-holes.
When the worker is out of employ
ment, he is again at the mercy of horde
of speculators in hunger, who are ready
TO pounce on him in order to complete
his ruin. Pawnbrokers and others of
similar ilk advance small sums at high
interest on the last possessions of the
poor. Their contracts are usually so
arranged that they can hardly be kept
the pawned objects forfeited and the
poor wretch takes another downward
step. The cut-throats, however, amass
fortunes in short time, The beggar is
looked upon as quite well-paying figure