The Labor enquirer., 1884-09-13
Notes and conundrums.

Notes and Conundrums.
For The Enquirer.
A vote for Butler is a vote for Progress,
but vote for the other fellows is a vote
for Poverty.
How is it that hard money and hard
times always 60 together2 Will some
body please explain? ?
There is more hard money in the
country now than ever before, and there
is also more hard poverty in the country
than ever before When we had plenty
of soft money everybody was prosperous.
Will some financial wiseaere please get
up on his hind legs and explain why this
is thus?
Since Buffers letter of acceptance has
appeared the organs of the old twin
relics of barbarism have ceased explain
ing and defending the private characters
of theirrespectiye candidates and are
deyoting their attention to him. One
would imagine from their tone that there
was nobody else in the race.
Strange as it may seem, the.impression
is growing that Butler will be elected.
The acknowledgement of the state OF
New York has ISSUED an order that all
the state militia perfect themselves in
street drill, Perhaps be wants to shoot
down some of the men who made the
paper on which he wrote the order; or
the chair in which he sat when he wrote
it; or the house in which he lives or
some of the men who mined the coal
with which his meals are cooked or, in
short, anybody who hasn't as much
money and as good time as he has
and that, too, without doing any sort of
useful labor. Great country, this.
There is growing opinion that man
who eats food which Others produce,
without rendering in return some useful
kind of labor, is as low-fung as a COM
mon pauper. 80
There are in this country 100000
men. About 100000 are engaged in
productive industry. The other 100000
live upon what the 100000 produce.
With this burden to carry the poor "can
get no richer fast" A system ofpolitical
economy which makes paupers of two
thirds of the people and slaves of the
other third, ought to take an emetic.
Conundrum-Does either one of the
poor old relics of barDarism old
parties which go by the names of repub-
llcan and democrat contain any such
thing as statesman? If so, now is
good time to step forward and explain
why there Is SO much drseohtent and dis
gust among the people. /
Some ofthe high-toned, elegant, polite,
'tonloftical newspapers of the capitalistic
order are applying to General Butler the
eplthet of beast. They must think he
is white elephant. !.
Anewspaper pretending to favor the
cause of labor and yet advocating the
election of either Blame or Cleveland, is
guilty of nothing short of hypocrisy. Of
what earthly use to the producers will
be the election of either Of these men?
They are committed body and soul to the
perpetuation of the'wrongs which press
so heavily upon the mass of of pro,
ductive toilers, and their success only
means a continuation of injustice and
robbery, A paper pursuing This course
must have a very small idea of what the
labor question is. In fact, this sort of a
sheet reminds one of snake in the
grass. a.-. '.... ~. ~.
The presidential race will soon be mar.
rowed down to Butler and Blaine, with
Butler in the lead. 49,. X
Just now the Wageslave writers en-
ployed on the capitalistic press are doing
all in their power ts rivet tighter the
chains which bind them TO slavery. If
they could be induced to perceive the
condition of serritude under which they
labor. it is probable their manhood
would force them. to revolt against it.
They could do great deal toward i'm
proving the welfare of the country by
telling few things they know. Free
the writers p ZERKUs.