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The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28
From "Organizer."

Editor Labor Enquirer
SALT LAKE City, June 22.-Since my
last writing l have visited some of the
coal mines of Utah, and the great rail-
way center, Ogden.
Grass Creek is a coal mining camp
forty miles east from Ogden. At present
there are about Us men employed in
and about the mine, large number OF
whom are Chinese. The coal is from
eight to ten feet thick, rooms are twenty
four feet wide and miners receive $3.50
per yard for driving the rooms. The
mine is poorly ventilated and carries
fire. A number of men have been
burned but not seriously. Miners at
present make from 81 to $3.50 per day.
Itrequired but little argument or exer
ton on my part to convince the miners
of Grass Creek of the necessity of or.
ganization, as found them to be sober,
intelligent, thinking people. 1t was my
pleasure to meet few old veterans in
the movement whose wise counseIs as
sisted very much in the work of organ
izing.
Ogden is, think. one of the prettiest
towns in the west. One very remarka-
able feature l noticed was a scarcity of
the "for rent sign. 1t appears as if
everybody owned his own home. I could
not see a block of tenement houses in
the whole town, and assure you l did
not wish to see them, because they
always indicate homeless people. There
are no manufactures in the town. 1t is
surrounded by an agricultural country,
and supported largely by railroad men.
After several days of persistent labor and
exertion was successful in forming an
assembly composed of the genuine ma
terial.
AS am late with this weeks report,
l will have to make it brief and try and
send more lengthy report early next
week. ORGANIZER.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28
The Financial Questinn.

Editor Labor Enquirer
DENVER, June 26.-Will you give me
space in your very valuable paper to s1g-
gest to your numerous readers the direc-
ton in which we may look for the cause
of most, if not all, our grievances. Some
attribute them to our land laws, others
to the rent system, or, to monopolies.
But all more or less think our govern
ment is to blame. Our politicical plat
forms have planks inserted for this or for
that some to shorten the hours of labor,
to change the, tariff laws, or encourage
this thing or that. But they seem to me
to leave thereal cause untouched. Would
it not be /better-infnitely better-to
look in the direction of our monetary
system for the cause of the trouble =? Is it
not the excessive interest paid for money
that is eating out the very vitals of pro-
duetion2
Even our great railroads cannot meet
their engagements, and pay their half
interest, without discharging hands, cut
ting the wages of the laborers, and pass
ing into the hands of receivers, while
wages are unpaid, and the poor are op-
pressed in every way. Is it not true that
z per cent will double itself every eleven
years or less? Does this not mean that
the Denver and Rio Grande, or any
other railroad, must construct another
road Of equal length and equip it with
rails, bridges and rolling stock, every.
eleven years, TO pay the interest on its
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SUBSCRIBERS BY CONFUSION.

From a Coal Creek friend I have OBJ
tanned the particulars in the latest piece
of tyrannical intimidation practiced by
the Colorado Coal and Iron company
upon its employees.
There is weekly paper published at
Coal Creek which is called the Enter
prise. 1t is edited by D. D. Lewis, a
gentleman who has always shown a
friendly spirit towards the miners and
other workingmen of that community
despite the efforts of the Colorado Coal
and Iron company to induce him to do
otherwise.
Failing to control the Enterprise in
their interests, the company has decided
to ruin the papers business and run the
editor out of the community. The plan
adopted for the carrying out of this con-
temptible programme is very simple, but
includes some supremely dictatorial and
and tyrannical details. The company
has engaged one John Cheeley, formerly
of Evans, Colorado, to conduct paper
in Coal Creek, in opposition to the En-
'terprise, and have undertaken to get up
a list of subscribers for their new paper
by threatening each employe with dis
charge unless they subscribe. The men
are in tight fix, and l have learned
that they could do nothing but quietly
submit to this species of robbing.
Further particulars concerning this
outrage will probably be at hand in a
short time, when they will be given to
the public.
A day of reckoning will come for the
Colorado Coal and Iron company, and
when it does there will be considerable
to give an account Of
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Beecher'S VenAlity.
Editor Labor Enquirer.

Editor Labor Enquirer.
CHEYENNE, June 24.-My attention has
been callod to the following associated
press report Of of an extract from Henry
Ward Beecher's sermon of last Sunday
"Beecher said in his sermon Yesterday
that all settlers of this land were carpet
baggers, and that one class of foreigners
objected to another. When Mongols
come to our occidental coast the Irish
cry out, Chinese must 60 All printers
leagues and labor leagues of all kinds
among men of mechanical pursuits, are
conservative of their own selfish selves,
and they apply the law of force to all
outside of themselves, and they combine
so that no other man can have chance.
Carpenters and bricklayers combine so
that only certain number of appren-
tees are allowed to learn They COM
bine for defense and also for assault. Rad
ical vice of all sociology is organized
selfshness, and laws of love are not
known in it at all. Social thieves hatch
out in France and all that come to us
from England, the land of grumblers,
and all little sets and circles of Socialists
here teach people to take care of them
selves, while protesting to stand for lib
erty and right-its handful of right to
bushels of injustice"
Quite recently THE ENQUIRER pub
lished an extract from one of Beechers
speeches in which he declared that '.the
workingman who could not live on bread
and water was not fit to live at ALL" 1
Beecher has been called the most
profound thinker of the country and the
times" but it is consolation to know
that the sentiment is more cordially in
dorsed by those females who gushed over
him at the time of the Tilton "nest-
hiding" exposure who delight
in petting murders, wife -beaters, and
criminals generally. The somewhat re-
cent floral tributes to repulsive negro
wife-murderer, made by members of
Beecher's church, surely does not In
spire a confidence in their judgment
among the rude inhabitants of the far
west" 1t is well to remember that
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y & Z
the poisoned victims are marked. If he
will dig up the bodies and hold a post
mortem, he will discover that the cause
of death was, THE COMPETITIVE SYSTEM OF
WAGES. Z
Let no mistakes be made by the
readers Of this; am not at war with the
ereenbackers Their enemies are mine !;
we aim to benefit the same class of peo-
ple-without hurting, materially, any.
body-and we are friends. But too
much is claimed by the greenbackers,
and, like some other treformers," they
are superficial and do not grasp the whole
question. Let us hope that they soon
will. .
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28

THE dynamite business will not secure
the freedom of Ireland. But it will
compel the civilized world to stamp out
the manufacture of the fearful explosive
Tribune.
The Tribune is a prophet. Well, il
the oppressed people of the world decide
that they can gain their freedom and
rights only through the use of dynamite
the "civilized world" will find it rather
difficult to STAMP out" the manufacture
of an article which a large percentage
of those oppressed know how to make
with little trouble and out of easily
obtained ingredients, 1t would be much
safer for the "civilized world" to stamp
out the systems which make desperate
men out of otherwise peaceable and
amiable citizens.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28

THE editor of the Republican refers to
General Butler as the cross-eyed gen.
tleman." Well nobody ever accused the
Republicans editor of being a gentle
man of any description; and it is safe to
say that General Butler can see farther
with that "cross-eye," on a pitch-dark
night, than the Republican bat can in
broad daylight with field glass. Butler
saw in Tewksbury, In very short time,
what papers of the Republican ilk
haven't been able to see in considerably
over a year. There's (gold) dust in their
ewes,
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28
The Fires of Revolution In Europe

| The Fires OF Revolution in Europe
The Revolutionary forces throughout
Europe are very uneasy at this time.
Wholesale arrests of Socialists in Aus
tria; movements of the Black Hand in
Spain, not to be stopped by the garrote;
arrests of Anarchists in Poland; whole
sale arrests of Nihilists in Russia, where
even the army is honeycombed with
Nihilism; the dynamite scare in Ger
many; the dynamite scare in England ;
the renewed restiveness of Ireland
activity of the Socialists in France, and
signs of disturbance in many of the
cities of Italy.
The harshest means of suppression
are everywhere taken against revolu-
tionism, which, however, will not be
suppressed.
The old monstrosities of European
kingcraft and capitalism are in the tolls.
There is no hope for them. They have
no defense against the foes who are pre-
pairing to throttle them. The masses of
the working people are awaking to a
knowledge of their rights and wrongs.
They demand something more than mere
political change, something else than
sham republicanism. The times are
rlpenlng for them to assert their strength
and seize the world.-John Swinton's
Paper.
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- + Z IA 4
Beecher breaches to congregation of
capitalists. These capitalists are surely
not in danger of committing the unpar-
donable sin of forming printers unions,
nor carpenters unions, nor trades unions
of any kind. y ~, ,..s
Whythen does Beecher, as a" Christian
minister" (so-called) devote sermon after
sermon to the eloquent abuse of whathe
processes to call wrong, when none of
his hearers are at all liable to, commit
that wrong Does he grow enthusiastic
and morbidly magnetic when abusing
labor unions that he may, by inference,
fatter his congregation "that they are
not as other men 2" Hardly. .
Despite all of his mature Judgment,
despite all Of his eloquence, proud with
all of the, vanity that must be latent
after years of plaudits, close observer
of the times, and as his recent conduct
shows "toadyG to capital, Beecher still
knows that he is preaching falsehoods.
To deny this lis to deny his intelligence.
The capitalists OF Wall street and of the
country generally are uneasy; Beecher
seeks to reassure them. Already many
middle-men acknowledge the Justice of
the workingman's cause Beecher en-
deavors to injure that cause. A presi-
Dental campaign is near at hand and if
they are wise the laboring masses can be
power at the polls Beecher is their
antagonist. Millions of the toilers of the
land are suffering under wrong inflicted
by men land others like them) who each
Sunday listen complacently to Beecher's
TRADES against the wronged O tempora!
o mores In this Christian land, in
this, the nineteenth century, leading
Christian minister becomes the champion
of wrong when, were he anything than
hypocritical coward, he would defend
the wronged
Workingmen. even the capltaistic
pulpit is an ignoble toolin the hands of
your oppressors. Men who claim to fol-
low in the footsteps of the meek and
lowly Saviour and who pretend to pro-
claim His teachings are to-day so fallen
that it becomes no wonder that few are
so low to do them reverence. Lesser
Beechers wit h as impure hearts, may,
less eloquently perhaps, take up arms
against you; think for yourselves. Other
so-called ministers may be willing to sell
themselves and you for pitiable mess
of pottage think for yourselves. The
pulpit cannot be trusted watch the pub
lie school. Let the aggregated wealth
and power Of the world assail you but
First be sure you are right then 60
ahead" and fight your battles bravely,
honestly, unfinchingly, until the world
is compelled to recognize your claims
and until the Beechers shall be in dis
pair as they realize the utter insignif-
canoe of their mess of pottage.'" The
Benedict Arnolds cannot long control
the destinies of any nation. CARLOS.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28
Warning to WorKingmen.

We make special appeal to the press
of the country to help us little in the
cause of labor. Lumbermen have ad-
vertised in the leading papers of the east
and in Canada for a large number of
men to come here. Also the labor
sharks known as employment agents,
running labor bureau, are constantly
advertising for thousands of men to work
in the woods and mills. The object on
the part of the lumbermen and mill men
has been to get an over-stock of labor so
they can reduce wages and they have
done that but are not satisfied. They are
talking about another reduction. Amer
lean laborers are not hired here when
they can get foreign labor to do the
work. The Saginaw valley is being
filled up with Polanders very fast, and
from some source which all intelligent
men understand we find that Italians are
coming here fast, and they are all en-
ploYed at wages that an American can
not support MS family on. These people
live in huts, and there are cases here
where they sleep in outhouses, and in
some small houses there are four or FIVE
families living together like cattle. Our
lumber kings are trying to reduce the
American laborer to the leyel of Russian
serfs. If men flock here during the bal
ance of the season as fast as thay have
up to the present time we may look for
bread riots. The workingmen make an
appeal to the press of the country to
warn their readers. and all men, to stay
away from northern Michigan, and
specially the Saginaw valley. Newspa-
pers please copy.-Labor Vindicator, Bay
CITY.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28

THE union printers of the country
have declared that they would not sup
port the republican candidate for presi-
dent unless the party repudiated the
&rat" sheetof Whitelaw Reid, the New
York Tribune. This will not be done,
as Reid was one of the hardest workers
for Blaine at Chicago. To make the sit
uation of the printers more positive
against the ticket the second name in
national committee is that of John G
New, proprietor of the Indianapolis
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28
One of the first laws that Ger

One of the first laws that Gen. Grant
ever signed, was one making eight hours
legal days work under the employ of
the government and that was fifteen
years ago. The republican party has
been in power nearly all that time, and
that law has been dead letter ON the
statute books of the United States ever
since it was passed. Not only that, but
when Gen. Weaver, of Iowa, brought
before the house of representatives.,
bill for the enforcement of that law, re-
publicans joined with the democrats and
defeated it, and now they ask for its en-
forcement.-Labor Journal.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28

If Butler requires a column of news
paper space to accept the greenback
nomination, how many columns would
he require to accept the democratic
nomination? This should give us
pause Cincinnati Enquirer.
Yes, and 1t should give you tail and
ears of an appropriate size. You have
all tie rest.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28

IT is Butler or defeat for the democracy
and the sensible ones see it. Blaine may
be hard man to beat, but if the demo,
Gratis are wise on the eighth of next
month he will certainly haye to "duck'
his plume. This is pointer for the
Colorado delegation to the Chicago con.
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Journal, paper which is the declared
enemy of unionism, and Is being boy
cotted by the labor organizations, the
same as the New York Tribune. The
union printers will evidently haye an
opportunity to show that they mean
what they say. s4 II
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28
Dishonest Papers.
SANCTUARY OF ASSEMBLY,

No. 2672, KNIGHTS OF LABOR,
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 10, 1884.
At the stated meeting of Excelsior
Assembly, No. 2672, Knights of Labor,
the following resolution was passed and
ordered to be printed in the various
labor papers of the country:
= Whereas, The New York Tribune,
Indianapolis Journal, Philadelphia Press,
Buffalo Courier and Utica press, while
protesting great interest in the welfare
of American laborers persistently depress
the wages of their employees and oppose
the organized efforts of workingmen to
improve their condition,
T Resolved, That Local Assembly 2672
denounces the inconsistency and dis
honesty of these papers, and will do
every legitimate act to limit their circu-
lation and influence.
w. S. WAUDBY,
Recording Secretary.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28

THE Tribune, which loves to repeat
the nonsense about the republican party
making this republic 'far more splendid
than our fathers originally designed" !"
gives proof of the "splendidness of this
republic" by editorially saying "the
Union Pacific railroad runs the govern
ment." That is splendid" with a
l.Yengeance. ~. -. ~ -
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28

THE WASP, printed at Rosedale. Kan
sas, came buzzing into the sanctum this
week. 1t is clear, pointed and fearless
exponent of the peoples cause, and as
such finds hearty welcome in this
offina
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28
Cleveland VIII Not Do.

During the past ten days the star has
received nearly 400 letters from antl-mo-
nopolists, trades unionists, and other,
declaring that even the advocacy of their
faVorite newspaper would never induce
them to vote for Governor Cleveland
New York Star (democratic).
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28

ALL the vituperatiou and slander the
capitalistic press heaps upon General
Butler will not convince one voter who
is posted that Butler is not man of in
tegrity, ability and fearlessness in the
performance of duty. He cannot be
worked" by the political rings, and that
is the very objection they have to him
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28

BoYoorr appel 4 Co. They employ
cheap labor, and refuse to acknowledge
the right of tailors and other working
men to organize for protection.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28

BoYcoTT Appel & Co. They employ
cheap labor, and refuse to acknowledge
the right of tailors and other working
men to organize tor protection.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28

THE LABOR ENQUIRER Is published ever
Saturday. twill b, devoted to the dlscus-
sion of all subjects which tend 70 educate,
elevate and advance the lat orlng classes.
Politically it will support, only the lrlends
Of labor.
Subscription rates, $500 in advance.
All communications mus. be addressed 70
THE LABOR ENQUE ER, 8S Larimer Strees
Denver Colorado.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28

The publisher of this paper Is not resgon-
sIble for the opinions OF contributors. The
columns will always be opsn for the discus
sion Of all sides OF tile labor Questions OF tne
The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28

Entered at the Denver postofice as second
class matter.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-10-30
SherHG,s sale.

L. P. GRIM VS.. Louis WErDENMAS.
In the First Judicial District Court, Parish
of Caddo, Louisiana. No. I422
by virtue of d writ OF feri faciss issued in
- the above named suit, aud to me directed,
have seized and will proceed to sell at public
auction, to the last and highest bidder, at the
Court house, in the town of Bellevue, La,
within the legal hours of sale. on the first
Saturday, the 9th day of December, 1881, the
following described real estate, to-wit:
The northeast quarter of section 81, IN
township %, of range 70 Also, he un6i idett
half of all the following real estate to-wit:
The southwest quarter and southeast quarter
OF section z, township l6, range II; and sor:h-
east quarter of section ), tnWnship q, range
l6 lli) and northwest quarter Of section 8
and northeast quarter of section g. aud soath-
west quarter of section &c; aad southeast
quarter OF section 81 and northwest quarter
dissection IS, township %, range Il; ard SOU h
east quarter and northwest quarter of south
east quarter of section 26, township p, range
IL; situated in Bessier Parish, La.
Seized as the property of the defendant,
Louis Weidenman, aud will be sold to pay
and satisfy said writ.
Terms of Sale-Cash, with the benefit Of
appraisement.
Il. f. WYCHE, Sheriff.
Bellevue, La, October 2jth, 1884.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-10-30
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Cookies: Two tea-cups of sugar,
hree-quarters of a cup of butter, one
cup of sour milk, sweetened with soda,
autmegs; roll thin; bake brown. -ES-
sbGmge.
Cleanliness in all the surrounding
Of 3 family mansion pays richly in
many ways, in good health, moral ele-
gation, personal comfort, and dollars
and cents besides.
What is called burnt custard in the
South is simply boiled custard, made
with the yelks of the eggs, and with
the whites beaten up with sugar laid on
top. This meringue was burnt or
rather Drowned by holding a hot shovel
over it.
To destroy moths in carpets take
a wet sheet or cloth, lay it upon the
carpet and then rub hot fat-iron over
it, SO as to convert the water into steam,
which permeates the carpet beneath,
and destroys the life of the grub.-N.
Z. Herald.
Feed the little chick often-fi7e
times a day will not be too often-with
hard-boiled egg, bread crumbs, boiled
potatoes, little craps of meat. Supply
them with fresh water twice day. All
this, if you want fine, healthy birds
Chicago Journal.
"A new kind of embroidery, destined
to become immensely fashionable, con-
sists of raised flowers, the pedals formed
of lustrous satin or satin ribbon in all
the eolors and shades demanded by the
artist, and the leaves and calyxes of
Kensington-stitch in silk hoss.-Albany
Journal.
Cream sponge cake should be made
this way: Break two eggs in coffee
cup, beat them well; then pour in
enough sweet cream to fill the cup, and
beat again; then to this add one cup of
sugar and one cup and q half of flour,
in which two teaspoons of baking pow
der have been thoroughly stirred. The
| Household.
For wooden stockings, soap the feet,
but do not put them into the oven or
the wool will shrink; leave them rolled
up soaped for few hours, and then
rub them through in warm rain water.
Laundresses invariably spoil the elastic
tops of stockings by stretching them in
rubbing through; this can easily be
avoided by doubling the top over and
rubbing the leg double, Socks and
stockings should never be ironed, but
merely smoothed with the hand. -Turf,
Field and Farm.
"A bushel of apples will make from
four to five and a half pounds of evap-
GRATED fruit, which will keep any length
of time, and when fruit is scarce will
bring sixteen cents and upwards a
pound. The poor apples, with the
cores and skins of others, are worked
into jellies, which find ready market.
The area of orchards does not keep
pace with the demand for their products.
There is a bright future for the careful
orchardist. Orchards left to take care
of themselves soon die out. Keep the
soil rich, dig about the roots, allow nc
weeds to grow about the trees, serape
off the rougher bark, apply thin soap tc
keep off the borer, and, in short, pei
them, and the reward will be abundant
apples. Defend the woodpecker; he il
the friend of the orchard. = Chicago
Times.