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The Labor enquirer., 1884-10-25
ADVICE TO MoHERs,

Are you disturbed at night and broken of
your rest by sick child suffering and crying
with pain Of cutting teeth ? If so send at
once and get bottle of MRS. WNsLow's
SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEETH
ING. Its value is incalculable. 1t will re-
lieve the poor little sufferer Immediately.
Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake
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SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEErHING is pleasant
to the taste, and is the prescription of one Of
the oldest and best female. nurses and physi-
clans in the United States, and is for sale by
all druggists throughout the world. Prlce Is
cents bottle.
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Haverhill, Mass.
[By Associated Labor Press.

[By Associated Labor Press.l
HAvERHGLL, Oct. 22.-The Lowell Ma.
chine shop started Monday on eight
hours day, and the Appleton mills of
Lowell on three-quarters time.
Local Assembly 3O67, Knights of Labor
of this city will hold its annual ball on
Thanksgiving eve.
Trade generally in this State is dull,
pending the election.
Robert Howard's re, election as treas
urer of the Federated Trades gives gen.
eral satisfaction.
Holyoke is to have cooperative COM
pany among the Knights of Labor.
The beneficial feature is being largely
introduced in trade societies.
The congressional conventions of the
Peoples Party are to be held on Wed
nesdaY.
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Nochestsr RusnblanRs.
lBy "A ssociated Labor Press, /

L by A88OCl8teQ 1s&O0E TIe8Ds
ROCHESTER, Oct. 20.-Typographical
union No. Is. held special meeting at
their hall on Exchange street, Saturday,
for the purpose of electing sub-organ-
izer, The election resulted in the se-
lection of Mr.. A. s: Root, financial secre-
ltary of the union, and he will at once
go about this district organizing printers.
This is 4 work that Mr.. Root is fitted for,
as he is one of the best private takers
in the union, and man IN whom all the
boys have the greatest faith. The object
is to get all the typos into the Rochester
union as provisional members. In case
of trouble the men in the country towns
will then be organized, and will thereby
be enabled to render aid instead of being
detrimental, Us has been the experience
of the past.
The new scale of prices is not diyulged
yet to the public, but has already been
submitted to the employers, and ready
to go into effect on November 1. There
seems to be good reason for supposlng
that the bosses will meet the demands
of the men in friendly spirit. The city
is well organized and prepared for a
strong standout in case of trouble. The
prices obtaining here in the printing
trade at the present time are: For day
work, 80 cents per thousand ems; night
work, 33 cents the one exception to
this rule is Truth, which pays cents
over the scale demanded. Week work
is $14 per week.
George Blair was in town over Sun
day. having come in on a flying visit
to Buffalo. He reports Butler booming
in the Queen City, where the working
men are doing good work.
] There is,a new Butler and West ban
ner here, just in front of the Butler
headquarters, ovefNo. 6 State street
The Hon. W. W. Perry of Maine has JUS
arrived in this section from West Vir
ginia, where he has been making
speeches in the interest of the Peoples
party. Hewill, in all probability re
main here until election time, and will
find plenty to keep him busy.
Trade in general is very dull. Cleve
land stock is below par.and Blaine share.
are weak. Butler is growing in stengtt
here daily. JOSEPH DEBARTHE.
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found that concerns the rights Of the
poor man 50 sacredly Is does that old
book 80 often spoken against
1t sets out with the fact that Man is q
Son Of God. He may be poor through
no fault of his oWn-but made so by the
unfair and one-sided legislation Of the
past but Christ instructed him to say
.Our Father" II also asserts the equality
of man before God that all men have .
right to life. liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, and thatlife is edged about by
such laws as shall preserve 1t from
danger. proclaiming the highest penalty
upon the destroyer OF human life-be it
man or beast.
Mans liberty is also provided for with
laws 30 humane that slavery did not pay,
and before the time of Christ, slavery
was unknown among the Jews.
The land laws of the bible, too, were
of such nature that their land could
not be sold or mortgaged 30 as to ALLEVIATE
it from the family for more than fifty
years, when it was returned back to the
family free from debt. So if man from
any cause should have met with reverses
and pledged his own services or those OF
his family to his neighbor, they were set
free at the jubilee, or fiftieth year, and all
{ (
debts cancelled.
A standing army was forbidden, and
cavalry was not allowed. Wages must
be paid every evening, and usurY was de-
clared unlawful. If any would not work,
neither should he eat. "Thou shalt not
oppress the widow and the fatherless, nor
the stranger that sojourns among YOU"
"He that oppresseth the poor despiseth
his maker" Love thy neighbor as thy,
self" And at the Day of Judgment it Is
to be the humane element that is to
enter and be accounte d for at that day
Il Was hungry and ye fed me.
II was thirsty and ye gave me drink,
NAKED and ye clothed mes
"sick and We visited me.
SIN prison and ye came unto me-"
| These are the reasons assigned for ac-
quittal.
"Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the
least of these, my brethren, ye did it
unto me-" And the reverse ofthis is the
cause for condemnation.
When men preach these bible truths
and give them as prominent a place in
their sermons as they occupy in the bible
we may expect to see a change In the
pews.
When the rich men are publicly re
buked for expressing the poor laborer
and the rich lady for underpaying tue
washerwoman and seamstress. then, anC
not till then, will the poor receive the
gospel as good news from Heaven tt
them.
Is it not about time that ministers ant
church take sides with the poor and tn,
oppressed, letting their voices be hearo
with no uncertain sounds on these sub
jects?
Away with all sentlmentalism anc
cheap talk by way of comforting the sicl
poor and demand justice and fair PLAY
for all men in the struggle for life!
| JTNroSrsT
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NOTICE OF SALE.

Notice is hereby given that to satisfy a
livery stable keepers lien of $500, and the
reasonable costs and expenses of appraise-
ment and sale,' together with the reasonable
costs and expenses of keeping said property
to the time of sale, the undersigned win
on the twenty-ninth day of September at the
hour of 2 p. IN. at Nos. 544 and 546 Holladay
street, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auc-
ton one dun colored mare, about 10 or~11
years old; weight about 900 pounds, with
one crooked hind leg; appraised at $40.
C. r. EAGER.
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The Idea OF Authority.
For The Enquirer.
from P, ], Proudhon,

From P. ]. Proudhon.]
The principle of authority and of gov
ernment originated in our experience of
the parental. 1t has been generally ap-
piled as condition of social order. In
the gradual evolution of societies, this
principle has been challenged, and an
other substituted. The latter is mutual
contract. Hitherto regarded as subordl-
nate to government, its logical develop
ment i'm plies quite different order of
affairs.
Thesis of absolute authority: Every
idea either establishes or refutes itself by
q succession OF terms, comparable to an
organism, the last of which, demonstrates
its truth or error. This evolution may
be effected either abstractiyely in the
mind, or, at the same time, in acts and
institutions which constitute history.
The first term, in which authority ap-
pears, is absolute power. Of the different
forms of government this is the purest,
the most rational, the most energetic, the
most candid, and on the whole, the least
troublesome.
Yet absolutism rouses against it the
conscience of people, who protest by re-
volt. Then this principle retreats step
by step, in concessions less and less sat
isfactory, the last Of which, pure democ-
racy, direct government, effects the
reductlo ad absurdum, by anarchy.
Humanity asks ofits masters, "Why do
you undertake to govern me ?"
They answer Because society cannot
dispense with order. There must be
some who labor and obey, while others
direct and command. Because individ,
ual faculties being unequal, interests con-
trary, passions ansagonised, individual
and collective welfare incompatible,
there must be an authority to assign the
boundaries of rights and duties, an ar
bitter tosettle conflicts, public force to
execute Judgment. Now, power of the
state is precisely this doctrinary author
1ty, this arbiter, rendering to each what
belongs to him, this force which assures
peace and maintains respect for order.
Such is the pretension of all powers in
all times, identical for the Malthusian
economists, for the organs of the reaction,
and the republican professions of faith.
They differ only by the measure of con-
cessions which they pretend to make to
Liberty, illusory concessions, adding to
the different forms of government sea-
soning of hypocrisy.
AS government assumes to be the con-
dition essential to order, SO its tendency,
under every mask whatever, is 10 abso-
lutism, and the stronger 1t is, the nearer
perfect in kind is the order. These two
conceptions assume to esch other the re-
lations of cause and effect. Thus primi-
tiYe societies have reasoned and still
reason. (The funeral hCnors o. an Afri-
can king, on whose grave hecatombs Of
his subjects were recently sacrificed, ac-
cording to custom, affords an impressive
Commentary This reasoning, however,
is fallacy in logic, as in fact; the rela-
ton of government to order being that
of species t6a gems, or of a particular
to general term.
There is more than one kind of order,
there are many distinct conceptions OF
order. Does the government obtain what
y pretends to, and is the order that it
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.4petiksn9 - Aserese.A

For The Enquirer.
Periodically, it seems the prees takes 2
at Of gathering and publishing statistics
Of labor. wages, rat, Of living. etc. A few
employers are interviewed, the books OF
the Best haads examined an average ls
struck, affairs proved to be not 50 very
bad, and duty to .he Alf'borlng classes
ia satisfactorily concluded,
The "stat1stics" furnished by the daily
papers are we'll caltulatad to soothe any
computations of conscierce, or uneasi-
ness of mind, which respectable ana
well-to-do people may hare experienced
in view Of the pal pable Injustice of pres
ent industrial systems; at the same time
the "poor laboring classes are supp oseo
to feel highly gratiiied and thankful that
they have been noticed 80 much. II q
paper mentions the labor cause, IN any
way not actually de,risive. it will claim,
to labor reformer. to bel friend to
labor" and expect the lower orders to
look up. thankfully and humbly like a
parish child that his been patted on the
head. / have no faith in the reformer
that is always speaking Of the "laborink
classes" and talking about average
wages 2 "fair wages" etc. What business
has there to be laborinG class, at all
AS every human must live only on the
results of labor, why are notall laborers
Strange Inconsistency this, that we have
in free and equas" democratic country
"laboring class p And yet the words
glide off thetongue ofthe ordinary public
speaker or writer, as smoothly as though
they did not contain within themselves
the sting that would be the death OF
freedom.
To say that the average wages of sew
ing women OF Chicago is 81 day, is Civ
ing no idea whatever of the actual condi-
ton of the great number of women who
sew. Some girls earn from $40 to SIS
per week, so they say. Just think how
many women must work for few cents
day, to make an average of the whole,
of 81 day. Such statistics tell nothing
of the weary days reaching far into the
night, that barely slffices to buy the food
consumed IN the meantime of the long,
toilsome walks, hunting for work. and
the dreary times when no work is found.
1t is only when one goes into details, and
this can only be done by being worker
and mingling with workers, that real;
izing sense of the drudgery Of women
and children can be reached. And what
eyer we find in our search, we will find
injustice, for no wsge-work ker gets all he
produces, and why in thename ofreason
should he be satisfied, or ask for any
thing less
All the panaceas, compromises, make
shifts of would-be labor reformers, will
allay the discomfort or check the agita.
ton TIL the whole form and substance Of
the industrial structure is overturned and
civilization built on new, just and firm
foundation. LIZZIE NJ. SwANK.
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Still Another.

Editor Labor Enquirer.
DENVER, September S.-Carpenters
union No. IS of the Brotherhood of Car.
penters and Juiners of America, at a
regular meeting August 27, 1884, passed
the following resolution:
Resolved, That we patronize business
men of Denver who advertise in THE
LABOR ENQUIRER in preference to others
l~, I'D. BAILEY,
( Seal : Corresponding Secretary.
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Supporting Their Friends.

Coal CREEK, Colo, Sept. 19.-At a
regular meeting of local assembly 2404
held on September 10, the following reso-
luton was adopted:
Resolved, That all members of local
assembly 2404 patronize any and all
business men who advertise in the En-
terprise, of Fremont county, and The
LABOR ENQUIRER, of Denver, in prefer
ence to all others.
,~, COMMITTEE,
Seal Local Assembly 2404.
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The Bible.

tut IHt enquirer. ~
l have been constant reader of the
book called the bible for many years,
and 1 have arrived at the conclusion that
it is the charter of the poor mans rights
and liberty. In no book or document
that has been handed down to the pres
ent-not in the often lauded Declaration
of Independence, nor yet in Voltaire's
The Labor enquirer., 1884-10-25
Another.
Editor Labor Enquirer.

Editor Labor Enquirer. .-t E
DENVER May Is, lss4.-Dear Sir, AT
a regular meeting of the Iron Molders'
Union No. 1873, of Denver, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That we, members of Iron
Molders' Union No. 1873, of Denver,
patronize any and all business firms who
advertize in the LABOR ENQUIRER in
preference to any other.
,~, LOOMS W. SMITH, Pres.
Seal J-H.. GILBERT, sec'
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YOUNG MEN!-READ THIS

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I'D .mploys are willing so ns.t On equitable

and smploys are willing 70 nsstpn equitable
grounds.
ii. The prohibitions Of the employment Of
childrsa in workshops. mines and tastories.
before attaining their fourteenth year. i
II. To abolish the system Of letting out b.
contract the labor Of convicts in our prlsonl
and reformAtory institutions.
l3. To secure for both sexes equal pay
for equal work.
IA. The reduction of the hours Of labor to
eighs per day. 20 that the laborer may have
mora time for social enjoyment and intel
lsotual improvement, and be enabled to reap
the advantages conferred by the labor.savine
machinery which their brains have created.
15. To prevail upon governments to es.ab'
lish ! purely national circulating medium,
issued directly TO the people, without the
Intervention Of any system of banking cor.
porations, which money shall Be 3 legal
tender in payment Of oil debts, public And
private.
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or In,errst 10 Adverti.er..

4
or Interest 10 Advertiscrs.
The following resolution, which needs
no explanation, is respectfully submitted
for the perusal of the merchants of this
city.
Similar resolutions have been adopted
by. the Trades Assembly and nearly
every other labor organization in the
city, and certified copies are in possession
of this Office. This one is printed by
special instructions; the others being
omitted for lack of room:
Editor Labor Enquirer.
SANCTUARY MONTGOMERY ASSEMBLY
KNIGHTS OF LABOR 1924.
DENVER, Colo, May 16, 1884. J
At regular meeting of the Mont
gomery Assembly knights of Labor l424,
held on the above date, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That all members of Local
Assembly 1921 Knights of Labor, patron
ize any and all business firms who ad-
yertlze in the LABOR ENQUIRER in prefer
ence to all others. " 3r
,~, PHI. BALFE, M. W.
I Seal LOOMS W. SMITH, R. s.
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EVERY LADY

Interested in Art Needlework, Fancy Work,
and every branch of amateur Art Floricul-
ture, Fashion, Cookery or Music should send
Is cents for the current number Srd,obridye d
CHothter's Quarterly, l20 pages, pages new
music and over 900 engrayings each number
Address ./'F" - -TTT-+s7--f-ee-rc3, ~rF~=
STRAwBRIDGE & CLOTHIER,
Eighth and Market Sts.. Philada
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-06
Almost n 3laZo.

Shortly after 8 o'clock this morn
ing, a fire was discovered in the roof
of the building recently occupied by
Dicks Chop House, near j. l.. Ceder-
holm's, on Main street. 1t is sup
posed TO have originated by sparks
from the stove pipe, which fell on the
pile of rubbish that had accumulated
between the roofs of that and the ad-
joining building, and ignited. The
blaze had but just started, and had
gained no Roadway, when it was dis
covered and extinguished with a
couple Of pals of water.
II the tire had got a few minutes
start, there would have been no pos
sihle hope Of saving any of the prop
crtv on the east side of the block, as
.he old wooden structures are dry as
finder, and would burn like pile of
shavings. Some members of the fire
company displayed good metal in get
ting the hose on the ground in less
than two minutes from the time the
alarm was given. No damage was
done by the fire that cannot be easily
repaired.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-06
WOOD RIVERS RECORD.
THEY MIGHT RULE, If THEY
WOULD,

The farmers complain Of hard times,
burdensome taxation, misru|e and ex-
travagant expenditure Of the public
moneys. Yet, Notwithstanding they
are power within themselves, they
do next to nothing to help themselves.
They are the most numerous Of the
productive classes. They cast votes
enough to elect the President, and
majority in Congress and the State
Legislatures. They own and repre-
sent one fourth Of the Nations
wealth. They furnish three fourths
of the soldiers, and pay three fourths
OF the Nations taxes. They produce
nine-t enths of the wealth which an
nually flows into the Golfers of the rich
corporations. If united, they might
be the controlling power IN the land.
They might repel every unjust law
that af1licts them, and enact such
statutes as would insure to them
equity and protection. They might
pass laws to obtain from the Govern
ment all the currency they need on
land security, on the same principle
and at the same cost that National
banks now obtain bank currency on
bond security, at ! per cent for 20
years. They might establish trans
portation system that would protect
them from the g'asping greed OF the
monopolists and insure to them fair
profits for their labor and prices for
their products They might abolish
the debt and usury system, that is I'll
ing the land with few rich
and many poor, and save their
farms from mortgage. They could
swap places with those in power, en-
act laws that would protect and save
their farms from the usurer, drive the
growing evil and curse Of the country,
polygamy, from the land, and instead
of the serfs that they are now made,
become power, as they should be.
They are buIldozed into believing
the utterances of the satellites, are
overpowcred in their own homes by
the scourge that is greater stigma
than slavery, or bow in humble sub
mission to the edicts of the Mormon
bishops, when one unanimous ballot
from their hands would crush the evil
at a blow.
Let the farmers remember this, and
also remember that from little drops
OF water the mi hty oceans are made
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-06
THE CAR ROBEER.
lie Was Seen on the KpitOn Road, Night
Before Last.

Red Cloud, the car robber who
broke jail Monday night last has been
heard from. Jas. Dunn, who lives in
the lower end Of the valley, Yesterday
informed Sheriff F'urey that the fugi-
tive had stopped at bis house Tuesday
night. Had Mr. Dunn been ut home,
he would again have checked the ca
reer Of the wavward Red Cloud, and
returned him to Jail. But he was not.
Red Cloud inadvertently stated that
he should hike to visit Salt Lake, and
it is supposed he has gone that way,
taking the kelton road. The Sheriff's
deputies are in hot pursuit. and if
they once get sight Of him, he will
be brought back, If 1t takes tight
box to hold him.
Red Cloud has evidently had much
experience in breaking jails. When
he made his escape he was shacked
and locked in an iron cell. He is
supposed to be an honored member Of
a gang of outlaws and sale-crackers
who are up here for the purpose of
"doing" this country. At any rate,
some one has furnished him consider
able money to get out of the country
on, since he made his escape.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-06
Under the New Regime.

Collector-l've got Il bill against
you, sir.
Democratic Debtor--lt is no good,
any more. Everything is free trade
now.
Collector-What has that got to do
with paying your bill?
Dem. D.-Everything, my boy, is
going to be free now. So, you'll trade
with me and l with you. and wc'll
never have to put up cent.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-06
Sole Agency Of Santa Claus.

The undersigned has ordered the
largest stock of fancy goods, toys,
dolls, etc, ever brought to Idaho.
The stock includes every novelty in
the toy line that could be found. 1t
will get here in week or SO. There
is no necessity for any one sending
away. LEON fULD,
Sole agent for Santa Claus.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-06
NEW TODAY.
500 Reward,

imam known as Rcd Cloud escaped from the
county Jail in this city, the night of Nevember 3rd
He is about five feet eleven inches in height
slim built, has red or sandy hair. small sandy
moustache, small keen eyes; is shaved close
weighs about l55 pounds; has a scar right side
of.face. and front teeth well supplied with gold
filings.
A reward of 500 will be paid for the capture and
return of the abovs-descrhed individual.
CHAS. ii. FUkEY, Sheriff
HALEY, Idaho November s, 1894. nett
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-06
-Peonle shnu

People should take warning
from the occurrence of this morning,
and clean out and repair their tlues
and clear their roofs of moss and rub
bish Too much care cannot be taken
for protection, as one fire in the CEN
trail portion of the city might prove its
total destruction.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-06
At the Haley SawmillS-f. II. Rowe,
Proprietor.

A full assortment of Chicago lum-
Der, Michigan and Native lumber,
California redwood, sash, doors, blinds,
holdings, finishing lumber, etc, al
ways on hand. Also the Aston and
Dearborn Paint Companies Paints.
Order by telephone No. 80.
F. H. Row.. HALEY Sawmills.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-06
Eresi. Lime.

Fresh Lime-none superior in the
T-rritorv-from Hod gman's Excelsior
Lime K,l"-qualtv guaran'eed-for
sale. Inquire of J. S. Waters, Re-
ceiver L. S. Land Office, or J. H..
Crichton. s95mld&w
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-06
The Baxter Hotel, Ketcnuin'

PAUL P. BAXTER. proprietor. is 11r ainiae
and best kept hotel on Woo NV and the tables
.usp the ~;s tn n' he
The ROBINS are l"rgr airy and wen ua.rhI, sul
Charges very moderate. TIT. ~ a.. or he iocs
when in ketchum don't forget the ,,r.i Bspt. ~
tion-Main street. below tirs' Ss'A''