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The Labor enquirer., 1884-03-29

Let us suppose that you, my reader,
have been giving little attention to the
sayings and doings of the labor men
that you have read and thought sutfi-
ciently ON the subject to have a pretty
good general idea of their principles and
aims, and that you find yourself more or
less in accord with them; that still you
entertain some objections and difficulties
and your mind is in a condition of doubt
and uncertainty. Now, let us suppose
you have among your acquaintances two
or three persons similarly disposed, and
that you invite them to meet you e1-
pressly to talk over the subject. Suppose
that, as result of your first meeting,
you are all sufficiently interested to wish
to meet for the same purpose again and
again, sometimes IN the apartments of
one and sometimes in those of the others.
Finally YOU meet regularly-say once a
week-and from two or three your num-
bers have increased to half dozen or
more. In the meantime you have OBJ
tanned for yourselves and have read and
discussed together, or passed from; one to
another, some labor literature. Perhaps,
also, you have thrown yourselves into
intercourse with some well-informed
labor advocate. ri. t,a,l
Now, my reader,I will venture to say
that the desire which you first had to
study the subject for your own sake, will
have expanded by this time into desire
to spread your views everywhere within
the circle of your influence, and the same
desire will animate your companions.
Suppose, then. that each of you while re-
tanning your organization as little club
"a "groupu-should make himself the
starting point or nucleus Of just such an
other club or group composed of per-
sons perhaps living in his immediate
neighborhood, or associated in business,
ore in some other way. The formation
of these secondary clubs or groups, and
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THE DUDE.
In His 1diotic Visage God Has Brand
ed the Penalty Of Misappro-
T. priated Wealth.

Ny last letter treated of the tramp and
the part he had played in history and
civilization. 1t has since struck me that
by way of contrast it might not be un-
profitable in this letter to treat of the
dude and what he is doing for history
and civilization.
Reader, in passing through the streets
of our American cities you will recall a
certain goodly figure that occasionally
stills by. He is kind of animated peb-
lican-a woodpecker en- stills, With a
sort of Fitznoodlian smile he gently
glances at what happens to pass between
the wind and his nobility. He is half
calf and half cloth, though neither
hoopoo nor goosander. Encased in the
daintiest, fabrics this .fastidious pulling
puke moves about in this stirring world
of hard facts, thing most sweet and
gracious to the outward eye and vet a
drooling social toy that must needs be
paid for in the bitter sorrow and absti-
'nence of unpaid toilers. ,... r.
Yet the dude is not without his uses.
He is Natures penalty for the despised
tramp" In his idiotic visage God has
branded the Ianalty and the warning OF
misappropriated wealth. What man
can be without religion when he sees
how surely and benefieently Nature has
set bounds to unrighteous theft? While
Reason sits pleading and Poverty lies
wailing over the greed and cruelty of
despotic wealth, God is silently branding
into the faces of these pampered chill
dren of the rich the unmistakable marks
of idiocy and pulling weakness. In a few
generations the offspring of these pam
pered, thieves are trampled off the busy
world by natural limitation, or. as the
scientists put it, they die out under the
law of the survival of the fittest.
Scarcely fifty years ago the Americans
were accustomed to look with manly
pity upon these idiotic faces of the Eng
lish nobility to be seen in the great cities
and pleasure resorts of Britain. Volumes
have been written by American writers
over the unjust laws of Great Britain, by
which through entail, primogeniture,
and other governmental props the estates
of these ldiotic lordlings are forcibly
held together by the whole people long
after they would, in the natural course
of things, have fallen to pieces and been
distributed. Why should British law
step in and defend unearned wealth and
eneryating luxury from Gods natural
penalty of idiocy; has always been the
cry of American writer's.
But, as if in very shame, the protest
of our American publicists over English
governmental props to aristocracy has
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God Hates |. Coward.

Pauperhm is again on the increase.
Labor is again recruiting its army of
-tramps. The homeless and needy are
swelling the number every hour. Audi
BILE groans of woe, want and misery
come from every mining and manufac-
turing center. Millions of mortgages
are crowding farmers from their homes.
Interest, the gnawing monster, is eating
up the substance of the people, and
where and when, in the name of suffer
ing humanity, is this to end What
does it mean that one man commands
500, 900 900 of the wealth of the nation?
1t means that he has power to dictate
how 266, 900 souls shall live; whether
they shall live as tramps, paupers, or
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Their Usual Way.

Amusing to relate now that the great
proportion of the greenback party have
gone higherup and become good Social
lists, now that the currency craze" has
been married 10 the ''land craze and
has begotten the very vigorous child the
labor craze" the supreme court of the
United States in vague alarm has de.
cided thai the greenbackers were right.
They have perceived at last that their
only safety as conseryators of Bourgeoise
rule consisted in parcelling outNa little
medicine and food to the starving popu-
lace. . t,.&i45%~,s-' : at
But they are too late. What would
have been ten years ago enough to save
their necks will not now avail even to
postpone the day of their death. v-'
Measures of the supreme court, the be-
stirring Of yourselves in your silken
gowns, comes at time when we need
your activity no longer.
We have learned three lessons and we
know them well.
First: That even if you do declare in
favor of greenbacks you cannot force
your class to act upon your declaration
Second: If you should offer US green.
backs now we would not take them.
Third: We demand the whole loaf
free money, free land, free labor.
Before ,ong we shall ask another thing
your heads.-San Francisco Truth.
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half-waged slaves. in hovels>i in rags, Or
on. the verge Of starvation.
Great God! what q power to trust to
one mani It means that for every mil
lion dollars owned by one man, ,SSS
souls are deprived of their just and
equitable share. It means that If 5O,-
coo men in America owned 81, ,OOO, 900
each, that 50, ,OOO, 900 Of the people would
be absolutely destitute, and still there
are thousands who monopolize from one
to three hundred million each. Why do
not men wake up to the Importance Of
this growing evil2 A stop must be put
to the accumulating Of millions in single
hands, or the Goths and Vandals of want
and misery will again overrun and de-
stroy civilization. SIS
Men have no right. moral or other
wise, to bottle up the wealth of the
world and force millions to starye or
steal for the want of subsistence.
God never designed it. Fl
Humanity revolts at the spectacle, and
men are towards and sycophants who
will bearit. The despotism Of money is
as bad as the despotism Of any other
tyrant, and he who will submit to be en-
slaved by one, deserves to be by the
other. God hates coward, and hu-
manity has no use for sycophants or
parasites in the guise of men.-The Peo-
pies Crisis. .Fs@
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tI-I-~
the pleasure and amusement OF . heart
less, licentious. arrogant and bastard
aristocracy? Are we forever to fall upon
our knees, craving our natural and IN
perscriptable rights as boon? to be
answered-as we deserve The public
be damned!" Are we forever to babble:
"a fair days work for fair days pay
''The identity of the capitalists and
laborers' interests
saThe reduction of the national debt; !"
"Philanthropical tenement houses,
with only 8 per cent on heinvestmentiio
Arbitration with robbers and
knaves; s
"Strikesn-with an empty purse and
an empty belly, against the plethora OF
money and food at the command OF the
feudalist corporations, and to finally.
ucringe and cover beneath the lash"
Are we to follow the advice of lin,
and Eight the fires of still closer
economy !" or become imbued with the
spirit of Charles Thompson, and light
the flame of Industrial Liberty! without
which all other liberties are vain, and as
men with brains and muscle Strike! as
all those who strike for freedom must
strike, before the spirit and the means
have been taken from us by the gradual,
insidious and enervating suction of the
capitalist "Devil Fish, competition-
monopoly?
Is there any intelligent person who
does not perceive that under the present
system competition must become more
and more intensified? -. III
Have we yet to learn that monopoly is
the legitimate offspring of competition,
and that it is not the sentiment of the
more humane capitalists that fixes the
rate of labor; but the avarice of the
worst, which knows no bonds, no creed,
no country and no restraint? Have we
yet to learn that there can be no better
times under the wage system; that we
must rapidly grow poorer and less able
to resist; while our masters grow richer,
more powerful and more exacting; that
the strike las it is at present understood
and conducted) is as Intellectual against
the centralized and systematized capital
list forces as the old Queen Anne flint
lock would be in, a contest against the
modern Winchester rifle or Calling gun;
that it matters not how just our cause
may be, the right must come through
might? Providence is on the side of
the heaviest artillery" The heaviest
artillery may not always mean the most
men, the largest: guns, or the greatest
brutality; but it does mean the most
force, and is the necessary means through
which the workers may obtain justice.
Dothe workers wish bloodshed No!
They want peace! But there can be no
peace, except under two conditions
firstly, that they elect to remain helots;
aye, worse than helots, and to gradually
sink to, the lowest depths Of civilized
barbarism- worst of all because of
its intensified sufferings; or, second, that
when they demand justice they demand
it, as the barons at Runnymede demand
ed the Great Charter; as our government
in 1855 demanded the evacuation of
Mexico, with the logic of irresistible
force!
Thus may the conflict between capital
lists and workers be settled without
bloodshed, but in no other way.
]. EDWARD HALL.
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HOW TO ORGANIZE.
The Most Honest System Of organiza-
ton Ever Presented to the
People.

ENQUIRER: The Rocky Mountain d.
vision Executive of the 1. W. A. desire
the publication of the following article
on organization. 1t fully explains the
International system of connected
groups. Salut Oil,
The Labor enquirer., 1884-03-29

In every Just government the law
ought above all to defend public and in
dividual liberty against the authority of
those that govern. Every institution
that does not suppose the people good
and the magistrate corruptible, is vicious.
No part of the people can exercise the
power Of the whole people; but the wish
it expresses ought to be respected as
wish of q part of the people which is to
concur in forming the general will.
Every act against the imprescriptible
rights of man by whomsoever exercised
even in the name of the law itself and
within the forms it prescribes every
such act is arbitrary and void. The very
respect due tolaw forbids submission to
it, and if the attempt be made to execute
such act by violence or by artifice, It il
not only permitted but enjoined upon
every individual to repel such assaults
even by force. Resistance to Oppression,
is q necessary consequence Of the other
rights of man. There is Oppression
against the social body whenever one
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very instruments of their further en-
.lavement through this cursed system of
competition? How long will the work
iagmen of the republic allow King
Capital to treat them a. hundred-fold
worse than it treats its horses, dogs,
lackeys and scribbiers? f--g-'-.as.
Once, and for all, let US settle whether
this government ls to be what Washing
ton, jefferson, Paine and the other patrI-
cts of the revolution intended "goY-
eminent of the people, by the people,
and for the people"-or is to be the
Moneyed Oligarchy so fittingly portrayed
by Pope:
In soldier, ,churchman, patriot, man in power,
IT'S avarice all, ambition is no more; = -
See all our statesmen begging to be slaves!
See all our fools aspiring to be knavesl
All, all look up with reverential awe
At crimes that 'scape or triumph Ger the law,
While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry;
Nothing is sacred now but sfllainy! y
Once, and for all, let us know for what
we have been taxed, both in wealth and
in life's blood. Let US settle whether
the only property of workingman, his
labor force, has not as much claim upon
the protection of society, i. e, govern
ment, as the loot of soulless Shylocks? {?
Let us know whether the government
that can call upon each and all Of us
when it is in danger has not also recip-
rocial duty-to protect the people by
employing them when they are in danger
Of becoming homeless and starving.
Have We not been gladiators long
enough, cutting each others throats for
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-10-04
The Contest

It's grand battle, and every voter
will be enlisted on one or the other
side. On the one hand it is Blaine
heading the mercanary element, the
office holders and the officc-seckers,
on the other Cleveland leading the
people On the one side there is
money without stint, and nerve for
the rankest political rascality and
debauchery--a fearlessness in party
iniquity and carelessness as to ac-
countability, which follows long
hold of place and power On the 9th
er side are the men who believe they
are fighting for great principle, for
better Government, for cleaner
Administration, with every Federal
officer menace to them and to the
prosperity of the country. 1t is a
fight between the politicians trained
in their trade and welding the pow
er of Office, and the people in sturdy
battle against the men who have
gained experience at the popular
cost. 1t is a conflict between party
Of ample resources and men skilled
and INSCRIPTIONS in the use Of the
means at their command, and party
poor in purse but mighty in the JUS
tice Of their cause.
The question is: will the people
continue Republ;canism in all its Of
fensiveness, or will they s.turn the
rascals out," and give the true Re-
publicans-the Democrats chance
to restore the Government to honest
administration? The election in West
Virginia and Ohio in October will be
taken as an indication of the senti-
ment that will largely direct the votes
of the people of the whole country in
November. The Democracy Of Ohio
appreciate the Importance of the re-
suit in that State, and there is every
reason to believe that it will prcsage
the defeat of Blaine. Let the Democ-
racy of West Virginia rally in their
might. Its October vote is of no less
Importance than Ohio's. An old
time victory in this State will have a
tremendous force, and will mean ex-
IRENE paralysis of the office holders
party. Let it speak in thunder tones
fol the triumphant election of Cleve-
land and Honest Govcrnment.-Inde
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n gea n fustonists arc do
'i1g fheE al|15s< i4acertain sections
to make the State SUPPLEMENTARY
"a diatter~of patty and politics and
care not bicayune for the questio
lof efficiena Il have heard few
men declare Nj intention of sup
porting. ~ 7nsion candidate who
would at the same time admit that
his qualifications IRE not to be spoken
of the same.day with Morgan's. If
they desire aApslitjcian instead of
scholar, verilythey have him in Ken
day Let us. see. Has he always
been such an ardent admirer of re-
publican principless Dou you know
his politicaF record?. Do you? He
was brsughv uQ,.s true enough, re-
publ sths republicans, becom-
ing disgusted with the g. o. p. and
thinking that for the time being there
would be better grazing on the other
side of the bars. he Topped over, and
rode as a Democratic Deputy Sheriff
for tvs yearseaSder Benjamin Mitch
ell, Sheriff Of Richie county
For several years he profcssed to
be Democrat and as such ran for
office in that county. Becoming
tired of this, his second love, he be-
gan to court the Grcenback party
and was candidate for a county of
flee on that ticket. Having nowhere
else to flee he remained in the Green
back brotherhood until the Buckhan-
non convention at which time and
place he did what he could to bring
abNit fusion of the Greenback and
Republican parties in order that he
once more might have an opportunity
/ of changing his political coat Yer.
lily, he wears coat OF many colors.
According to our last adyces he was
still fusionist few days ago. We
are not prepared to tell what he is
to day or may be to- morrow.
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Laurel Point.

LAUREL POINT, Sept. 2S.~-The far
mers are about done cutting up their
corn; some think we will have about
half crop.
Some are sowing their wheat while
others are waiting for rain.
Our new clerk is on hand, Miss
Matte Coleman, of your city.
We have wedding to report,
Douglas Furman and Annie Brand
joined in the holy bonds of wedlock
by Rev. Conn on the Oath uIt.
George Riggs and wife of Clarks-
burg are down circulating among
friends.
Dave Thorn and wife will visit
Waynesburg next week!and take In
the fair
+. M. Potter has moved into his
new house.
We were glad to see Mrs. Joseph
Mercer out buggy riding last Sunday,
she has been sick for sometime.
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great and growing State. 1t is not
believed that the people will delib-
eratcly turn backward from the
grand career upon which the State
was started in 1870 by the retire
ment OF the Republicans from power
in West Virginia.
THE SCHOOL LEviEs AND THEIR DIS.
BuRsgNENTs.
The public records, notably the
reports of the Auditor of the State
from 1865 to 1876, both years in
elusive, will show the following
startling facts:
See also Report Of Superintcnd-
ent Of Free Schools, Hon. B. w.
Byrne. of January |, 1877. pages
II and IS.
UNDER REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATIONS.
Estimated available funds
for the first six years-......$l .098, 16l 81
Totahdisbursements for the
first six years..........-...... $50, 250.24
Difference between estimat-
Stl ltStiDtS anu 0ctuAl us
bursements for the first
six years the disburse-
ments being less than the
estimated receipts........- 38e,9ll,o3
UNDER DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATIONS.
Estimated available funds
for the first six years. 49,. 81 1886, 045.6l
Total disbursements for the
last six years...-...-.......... 1,3e6, CISCO
Difference between estimat-
ed receipts and actual dis
bursements being in ex- ------
cess of estimated receipts. $50 632.O8
Average estimated annual
receipts for the lst 9 years. $lS3, 1884
Average annual disburse-
ments for the first six yrs. $l2I,70S.37
Expenditures being lesseach --------------
year than estimated rc'pts SCI, 485.17
Average estimated annual
receipts for the last six yrs. $222,674.8l
Average annual disbllse-
ments the last ycars........ $227.770.S6
Expenditures i'm excess of es- ----
timated receipts each year $1,l05.35
The expenditures for the last six
years under Democratic rule being
in excess of the estimated annual
receipts may be accounted for by
collections made from sheriffs on
old debts due for years prior to the
time included in the estimate, and
since 1876 the records will show
that the Democratic administra-
tons have collected and discussed
the school moneys with the same
promptness as is shown above for
the six years prior to 1876.
Printed by order of Democratic
State Executive Committee.
ID. II. LEONARD,
ID. {. GALLAGHER, Chairman.
Secretary.
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FARM FOR SALE.

l offer at private sale the farm upon
which now reside. situated In Clinton
District, Monongalia County. 9 miles
from Morgantown
The tract contains 1870 acres, well
watered and timbered. The greater
part of 1t Is sown to grass and IL In ex-
cellent condition.
A comfortable dwelling. plenty Of
stabling and other out houses are upon
the premises.
The land lies near the Evansville turn
pike, and is convenient to churches and
schools.
offer bargain upon favorable terms
to any man wanting good home.
SAMUEL o. robson,
Ellington, w. Va.
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If you want the interests of the
county attended to, ifyou want the
laws enforced, if you want criminals
punished, if you want man who is
not a policy politician, if you want
man who is not afraid of shadows
shadow, vote for John j. Brown for
prosecuting attorney.
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The Democrats are charged with
making a "still-hunt" campaign in
this county. IT'S true they are not
drumming up votes with brass bands,
bunting, and loud Dragging as extern
sively as the Republicans are doing,
but we are quietly and modestly
working our way, and will be ready
to do some Growing when we are out
of the woods. If it turns out that
Jno. L. Fleming is our next Sheriff,
Jno. j. Brown our Prosecuting At
torney, NJ. M. Dent our Circuit Clerk,
and so forth, we may make little
noise over the result if we did not do
so in advance.
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The New DOMINION is the largest
paper published in this county, and
one of the largest weekly papers pub
lished in the State. Hold it up and
look at it.
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West VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY.

Tuition FREEto the young men of
West Virginia to the extent Of one to
every five hundred population.
a Full University 0swrss;
a 8elono1me Course;
a Literary Course;
4 Lac o. 1Dodiool coueoo
can be chosen by students. i'm which the
instruction is equal to that Of any insti-
tuition In the country.
Splendid Buildings and magnificent
Grounds with an exceptionally healthy
location.
Fall term begins September 3d.
Winter term begins November Goth.
Spring term begins March 18th.
For catalogues and other information
address the Chairman or Secretary Of
the Faculty.
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The finest and largest stock of
Dress Goods, Muslins, &C.. in
the county, can be found at
Chadwick
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Our Arnettsville and Blacksville
friends extend cordial invitation
to the people here to attend their
meetings on Friday and Saturday.