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The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-23

proven that single, solitary Chinaman
complains of class oppression, / will in
clude him in my cosmopolitan humanity.
Let those who know best tell the story.
/ take the following paragraph from the
circular sent out with the petitions:
aHow can we compete with people
who live like this, who support no
churches, schools, academies, hospitals.
deaf, dumb, blind or orphan asylums,
charitable institutions of any kind who
encourage the study neither Of science,
art or literature who take no magazines
or newspapers; who never learn but one
language, and whose whole soul is the
mighty dollar. White people have wives
to bless and cheer us; Chinese have only
prostitutes to spread foul diseases, not
only among themselves, but by enticing.
our boys and young men into their dens,
perhaps ruin them for life, they believ-
ing that women have no souls-are cre-
ated only for mems pleasures or profits.
We have our beautiful children to love
and care for they practice the vices for
which Sedan and Gomorrah were de-
stroyed. We honor charity and help the
poor and suffering they throw the old,
infrm, blind and helpless into the gut
ters or cellars to die and be taken by
white men into hospitals. We honor
chastity above all things they have the
reeking corruption of pagan darkness
intensified through thousands of years
of wicked licentiousness, and know not
the meaning of the word chastity. We
have our courts of justice that all may
have equal protection they have secret
tribunals in our midst, and also execu
TONERS, who secretly strike to death any
of their number who dare disobey the
orders of the Chinese companies here
and they despise our people, our courts
and our laws. Can any civilized people
compete with such as these and remain
freemen? Can we live like them? Car
we give up church and school, education
religion and morality? Can we give W
our homes, our wives and children ? Car
we give up all that makes people great
grand and noble? Can we sink to the
paganism, immortality, brutality and ma
tional prostitution of these people?"
Everybody knows the restriction act
now on our law books is complete
farce, and congress ought to be forced tc
do something which will remove the
curse from the flower state of the union,
and which is spreading its fangs slowly
but surely all over the country.
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who have the success Of the paper and
the cause at heart have advised me ito
take the outside myself IN the future,
and l have concluded to follow the adj
vice. beginning with next week.
I make this announcement, not be-
cause it is subject of importanceto the
public, but rather as warning to the
reading and advertising people. I used
to be considered the supreme nuisance
among newspaper solicitors, and people
frequently patronized my undertakingIto
get rid of me. Whether l have fallen
behind the improvements of the past
few years remains to be,seen.
But seriously, I hope this move will
prove beneficial, in many respects, and
/ here ask the cooperation of. the work
ingmen of the CITY. Local labor news
should be feature of the paper, and if
you will help me to gather the items it
can easily be done.
If you know yourself to be in arrears
for subscription, try and be prepared to
liquidate when we meet; I will try to
bring about the meeting. Please to also
remember thatI want to gather every
item of news relative to trade and labor
matters, and the knights of toll, and you
will confer favor by calling attention
to anything of that character you may
learn. s.
hope to also be able to shortly visit
the manufacturing and mining towns Of
the state, in a number. of which the
paper already has excellent subscription
lists, and l will cheerfully respond to all
calls to assist in the work of organiza'
ton.
Mr.. J. H. Bunce, who has been collect
ing for the paper during the past two
or three months, will still devote por.
ton of his time to aiding the good
work, and all business transacted by him
in the name of THE ENQUIRER will be
fully sanctioned.
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CHINESE RESTRICTION

Petitions are being circulated all over
the country asking congress to take
some decided and effective steps during
this session to restrict the emigration of
Chinese. The movement originated,
where it should, in California, and the
facts and figures presented by the suffer
ers on the coast are overwhelming.
For instance, in the city of San Fran
cisco there are 5000 Chinese cigarmakers
and ia whites tailors, 6,O1O Chinese, $50
whites; laundries, 5,107 Chinese, 6l5
whites; shoe factories, 500 Chinese,
$50 whites. In 1870 teilors received from
$25 to $50 per week, now $13 to S15, and
so on through all the industries the
Mongolian has pushed the American
out, and the employers, through the
iendish opportunities of the competitive
system, have taken advantage of the
cheap living habits of the Chinese and
placed them in the shops and factories.
In eight blocks in the very center Of
San Francisco, about 10000 of these live
so full of filth and rottenness that epi.
denies, such as small pox and fevers,
have spread from them several times.
! am the bitter foe of race lines, but
| confne my war to the lines setsup to
divide human beings mot such vermin
as the Chinese ara. am the friend OF
Ithe Oppressed Of sYssy land and Il It Il
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AN ADMISSION.

The truth is, that the strongest opposi-
ton to the abolition movement there
was in the north came from the mercan-
tile classes who had heavy trade with
the south. They regarded slaves as
property, and the abolition movement as
an attack on property. They were afraid
of a revolution and anarchy, ard looked
at the anti-slavery agita tors much as the
present generation looks at Herr Most.
Tribune.
The above is the closing paragraph
from an editorial on the statement made
by B. F. Underwood, in one of his lec-
lures, to the effect that the anti-slayery
agitators received more support from in
fdels than from church people.
do not intend to argue the question
as to whether Mr.. Underwood's state
ment is true or not. But want to call
the attention of readers to the admission
made in the paragraph quoted, that agi-
tators in the cause of wageslaves to-day
are looked upon as were such men as
Phillips and Garrison forty years ago ;
and it naturally follows that another
generation will reverence the memory of
the men who are now called "cranks," as
the present generation do Wendell Phil
lips, John G. Whittier and others.
The name of Herr Most is not one l
should have selected for the parallel, but
the idea is conveyed by its use, and it
was probably to partly destroy the force
of the paragraph that the Tribune Sc
lected Most's name, knowing that large
majority of the reformers of to-day do
not fully agree with his radical policy
or that which is charged to him. Those
who know the truth about him, know
that he is grossly misrepresented by the
hirelings of the peoples oppressors.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-23

ALREADY some of the labor papers
which few months ago were favorable
to Governor Butler as a candidate for
the presidency have turned their backs
upon him. John SwintOn's Paper
wants him to answer certain questions
and answer them its way-before it will
support him. The questions are all right
and the answers Swinton wants would
please every intelligent workingman in
the country. But they would not assure
Butler the votes of the laboring men,
and he knows it. If they would he
could afford to give them. The fact is,
as l have said before, the piece of
humanity that would suit a comfortable
majority of the workingmen politicians
has not yet been heard of. They are all
for Wendell Philips, now that the good
man is gone; but if he had lived, and
been candidate for presidency, fault
would have been found with him. John
Swinton nominates Henry George.
Better keep him out of politics. He has
his hands full; though if he was candi-
date he'd get my vote to help out his
minority.
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older than ITSELF and will thus be kept
informed of the general movement of
thought and the progress of the party
elsewhere.
But the chief beauty of the plan is
that course of education has been
mapped out and excellent text books
provided, and that these are placed in
the hands of the various groups, who
forming themselves thus into classes are
enabled, in an extremely short time, to
perfectly familiarize themselves with the
fundamental principles of true social sci
ence.
Following this course comes a scientific
and comprehensive course of chemistry.
In brief, the producers are scientifically
elevated from the condition of ignorant
slaves to the position of intelligent free
men, prepared to act as leaders in the
great social revolution, whose birth
throes are, already agitating the world.
Secret, mysterious, worldwide, quietly
honey-combing society, the l. W. A.
offers to daring and devoted men and
women of earth, the sole practical means
of releasing the wealth-producers from
the shackles of tyranny. 1t does not
fear betrayal since its system of organi-
zation prevents the possibility of Treason.
1t does not fear suppression, because it
has millions of members, as well quail
fed as the leaders to assume direction
should those now at the head be re-
moved.
1t does not fear failure because it
knows its own power and strength, and
the Justice and truth of its cause.
Suppose that you call together eight of
your friends some evening this coming
week at your own home. Read them
this article, then form Yourselves into a
group according to the above plan. Then
forward an account of your meeting to
the Division Secretary. You will then
receive proper documents and each man
of the group can go out and organize
group of his own and 80 on. Let US take,
say limit of three months, to perfect
each group. If you alone should follow
out the plan, what would be the result
Let US see: In the first series of group
there would be yourself and eight other,
8; in the second series. 72; in the third
series, 64s ; in the fourth series, 5,s3l,,
That is to say the ball thus set in motion
by you alone would within one year orr,
ganize effectively nearly 5000 men.
1t is WORK OF this kind that has under
mined all the thrones of Europe, and
which in but few years more will nase
American workmen ready to clasp hanos
with their brothers in other lands, "
topple to its fall, tie whole mighty ineu.
bus of wrong that now threstens the
whole world with death and dssolatlon'
Address Division Secretary and en-
close in an envelope directed TO tne
editor OF this paper.
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ACV 10 CNPPO9S OAloO JSu3 ny ASe'1S1
have been giving little attention to the
sayings and doings of the labor men ;
that you have read and thought sufi-
GENTLY on the subject to have 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 ex-
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 a 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.
Now, my reader, / 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 "groupD-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
nelghborhood, or associated in business,
ore in some other way. The formation
of these secondary clubs or groups, and
their development, will be easier than
that of the first, as each will have the
advantage of an intelligent teacher.
You see that in very short time instead
of one you will have eight little clubs or
groups, each having thread of commu-
nication with the first one, which will
continue to hold its regular meetings.
Within another short period these eight
clubs-meeting, perhaps, in different
wards or suburbs of city, or in little
centers of rural population-will each in
like manner make of its members the
nuclei of other groups or clubs, and each
of these again of still others and so on
ad infinitum.
This is the system of organization
adopted by the International. Bear in
mind that it is for educational purposes
only.
Up to this point, it will be seen, that
this method Of organization is very sim
pie and quite natural !; it Is also free from
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any expense for halls and advertising,
and no constitution or bylaws or other
ormality is at all necessary. The time
usually spent in society meetings in what
is called regular business" is entirely
saved. AS the meetings are quite in
formal, and probably held near the home
of each member, there will be no lncon-
venience in attending them. Another
advantage is-and this is an advantage
the tbelongs only to very small associa-
tions-namely, that as each club will
probably be composed of persons of
about the same class and habits and
quite familiar with each other, there will
be no timidity about the expression, of
individual opinion; instead of half a
dozen takers and fifty listeners, every
one will be a talker and every one a
listener, and of course all will be thereby
more interested and become more intel
ligent, and a real friendship will be
likely to spring up between them. The
reciprocity of thought will produce that
effect. Another important advantage is,
that there will be little likelihood of any
one member assuming such authority as
to become boss" self-constituted in
carnation of the society, making in its
name all sorts Of arrangements, bargains
and compromises. Nearly all the pres
ent political associations are pestered
and damaged by such ambitious or un-
principled individuals, and it is an evil.of
the first magnitude.
Each man is member of one group
which is under the Craftsmanship of it's
organizer. He is simple member here
but if he desires himself to become an
organizer he can do so by going out and
organizing group of his own.
Among the chief objects of the Inter-
national is the ascertaining of the indi-
vidual opinions of each of the members
upon all questions of interest, Each
member is expected to forward his views
and thoughts and all information he OBJ
tains to headquarters.
In this way, if every sympathizing
reader of this article will set to work, it
will be readily seen how quickly and
essfully-supposing the ideas to be
correct and the time ripe for them-the
party may spread. like the ganglions of
the nervous system, throughout the whole
of this broad land, preparing public
opinion, in advance of the crisis. for the
new social order, and thus serving not
only to mitigate the violence of the
transition, butalso to make the outcome
of the new system of society more sure
and satisfactory. 8. -. "
And, be it observed. that with this
system there will be no necessity for any
centralized authority or arbitrary regula-
ton. Every little group will be inde-
pendent and self-regulating, and will
have the benefit of connection through
j its fut member OF founder With group
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.sT,he Relicf Fund y

AS I promised in the appeal made for
funds to continue the publication of the
paper, I herewith present the receipts up
to date. The responses which the call
has received in the short time since it
was made shows that / was not mistaken
when I thought there was enough per
sons interested in the cause to help me
over the small obstacle which / had un-
avoidably encountered. ] shall continue
to publish what is received, from week
to week, continuing the totals.
In addition. to the donations / have re-
ceived neat little total for subscriptions:
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ORGANIZE.

know there are many readers OF The
ENQUIRER who are not identified with
any labor organization to those ! want
to say few words of earnestness.
You could not have read this paper to
any purpose if you have not learned that
there is struggle imminent-aye, going
on-between the producers of the wealth
of the world and the robbers and
hoarders of it. That much is patent to
the most casual observer. Now, there is
another fact just as clear, and that is
that those who are reaping the rewards
of the energy and life expended by the
toilers, are doing so through an organ
lied system of despoiling, which the
mildest language sets down as legal
robbery. You certainly know these
things therefore it is unnecessary at
this time to enlarge upon them. This
cannot possibly appear to you just and
right. 1t certainly does not meet your
approval.
Now, what do you propose to do about
it2 You must moet this organization of
your despoilers on it's own ground you
must follow its example and combine to
drive it from your territory and resist Its
further attempts at invasion That
ought to be clear to everybody. And
now, workingmen and women Of Colo
RADIO will you lend helping hand in
this work? Will you meet your friends
half way? Let us see what can be
done.
If You are mechanis can you not get
into union of your trade, or organize
one, if none already exists in your
locality? 1t it is impossible (Which l
doubt for a society of your trade to be
organized, then will you not enroll your
self in some organization Of working
people that is not devoted to one trade
or calling? The Knights of Labor and
the International Workingmen's associa-
ton come under that head.
If you realize your position as a wage
slave, or are anxious to study the ques-
ton, tits your duty to yourself and pos
terity to get within the fold of organiza-
ton.
If you want to form a union, an assem-
bly, of the Knights of Labor or a group
of the l. W. A., there are hundreds of
well-informed members of organizations
in this city who Will cheerfully devote
their time to your assistance and do all
in their power to help you to draw your
friends into the fold. There are organiz-
ers here whose duty it is to do all they
are asked or that may occur to them in
this line, but they are at disadvantage
so long as you remain uninterested.
Think over this matter. Do not read
it and forget it as soon as you put the
paper down. Get few of your friends
together and proceed to organize your
selves into some kind of society. Ifyol
want to form an assembly, or any kind
of workingmen's organi zation, and
desire information on the subject, come
to this Office. can either tell you what
you want to know or can easily find
someone for you who can, and we are all
ready and willing to do all we can for
the work
Do not hesitate longer; get into motion
at once, and stir up all your acquaintan
ces. There is no time to waste. Every
day delayed is so much precious time
gone beyond recall
The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-23

SEwELL's bill, appropriating 100000
per sannum for militia purposes, passed
the United States senate Wednesday. 1t
appears that the house of lords, the mil
lionaires' legislative body, are becoming
very much interested in the militia ques-
ton. Wonder if they are expecting a
few strikes next season? They know
how to bring them about, and probably
have some in contemplation, Or they
may be looking for trouble from the
other side.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-23

THE Boycotter gets better with each
issue. The way it piles into its special
charge, the New York Tribune, wins for
it the admiration of everybody who
likes to see job well done. By the way,
reader, remember it is your duty to refuse
to deal with the establishment that sells
the New York Tribune-daily or weekly.
Throw your eyes around when you 60
into bookstore or newsstand.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-23

PHILADELPHIA elected a republican
mayor by 5000 majority, on Tuesday,
and the report says, "the common, coun-
Gil is overwhelmingly republican, with
fewer members classed as reformers than
in the old body" If l remember cor
rectly the greatest of all baIlot-box labor
journals is published in Philadelphia.
But the probabilities, are it supported
the republicans against the reformers.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-23

L HAVE been asked twenty times
a~day during the past month if the work
ingmen are going to do anything in the
saring election. Unjust respectfully refer
the inquisitive to the workingmen them
selves. One thing I am sure of don't
want any Office.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-23

CANDIDATES for delegates to the Inter
national Typographical Union meeting
are getting rather numerous in No. 49, If
one can believe the rumors. Why don't
you do like they do in almost every
other city, boys, nominate yourselves in
the local labor papef?l
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GOING OUT,

Owing to the uncertainty of the in
come of the paper. and the desire to
keep down the expenses, 1 have hereto
fore put in all of my time on the inside,
doing as much of the mechanical work
as 1 could. After fifteen months of e1-
perience 1 begin to doubt the wisdom Of
that course, and I now find myself WON
dering if / have not been Saving the
atraws and loaing the bundle.n Friends
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The Letter-Carriers, Hop.

The fifth annual ball of the Denver
will be given at East
Turner hall, Thursday evening, March 13.
The committees are busy making prepa-
rations for grand affair. Further par
ticulars will be given next week.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-23

THE last issue of Vidette, Halsey
Rhoads' latest snap, contained an insult
ing paragraph concerning DIR. De La
Matyr. 1t is shame that, with all his
money, Mr.. Chaffee can't get better jour-
nalistic support.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-23

AT the Pittsburg city election, which
occurred on Tuesday last, the working
men fought hard against Liddle, candi-
date for mayor. He was beaten 1000
votes. The glassblowers took the lead
in the fight.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-23
Lecture of No. /

P. j. Sheridan, Irish orator, will deliver
a lecture in this city on next Friday
evening upon the subject of 1reland's
wrongs. The place of lecture had not
been decided on before this paper went
to press.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-23

In his lecture DR.. De La Matyr told of
a millionaire who said, when asked why
he did not erect fine mansion for res
idence, when the hungry. desperate
working men rise up, don't want them
to know where I i've
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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 l. w. A. desire
the publication of the following article
on organization. 1t. fully explains the
International system of connected
groups, Salut Oil,
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