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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-22
The Code in New York.

New YORK, March 2l.-Considerable excite
ment was occasioned on the Produce Exchange
to-day in consequence of D. G. Androde freight
broker challenging E. Burlinger. The challenge
will be handed to the police
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Killed by an Exnlosinn.

NEWPORT, Ark. March 2l.-The boiler in
Ratman's saw mill, six miles from Augusta ex-
ploded yesterday, killing the frem an and three
children. The saver was blown forty feet,
but only slightly hurt.
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Mnnlesnn Found Guilty.

SAN FRANCISCO March 2I.-Colonel Mapleson
was found guilty, today, of violating the city
fire ordinance in blocking the aisles of the
Grand Operahouse. He will be sentenced to-
morrow.
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lsed or promised to influence the passage of the
bonded extension bill, and that the only money paid is
20 &. b. Raum, a representative and for legitimate
expenses. JAMES LEVY.
"CHAS. T. MILLS
"CHAS H. KELLOGG JR "
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MADRID, Mar,h pa sergeant Las oonfcsso
that he brought a false accusation against VI
sergeant clerks Of the war Office who We're di
charged yesterday on suspicion of having Iii
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-22

creating the tariff commission, had it go out anC
get from our friends their side of the
question, and had them report to at Tho
next session, and then proceeded to revise the
tariff. 1t may be that that plan will be adopted
yet 1t is question now. however, that VT
have gone so far, whether it is better 10 retreat
or advan CO. l desire to repeat that there needs
to be such all adjustment of the present tariff as
will promote the industries Of the country and
the interest of labor without creating mono
poles"
This may be considered the conservative or
tariff reform idea of what should at this time be
done with this issue.
Congressman Davis another Missouri tariff
reformer, said:
I'VE are not in condition to read men out of
the party just now"
Said Mr. Groves, another Missouri member
Il have not read Mr.. Wattelson's pronunci
amento. don't want to read it. He has no
right to set himself up as a dictator to the Dem
ocratie party. 1 shall vote for the Morrison bill,
butt do not intend to try and read men out of
the party who see proper to do otherwise"
AL of these members voted for Carlisle for
Speaker. 1t is safe to say that Mr.. Watterson
hetS opOu1 bhIONu away III lllS rlOO dC6 al lu6
influence he may have had with the free-trade
element of his party.
Another Order from Political Director Wat
terson.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON March 2l.-Henry Watterson,
late tonight, sent off another pronunciamento
on the Democratic tariff differences He says
this is a Democratic House, and it must stand
by the methods of the party No man. he ad-
mits, read another out of the party, but
man may read himself out Any one who bolts
the caucus action reads himself out of the party.
Mr.. Watterson also says that Mr.. Morrison has
been very patient with the Protectoui5ts. When
Mr.. Carlisle was selected Speaker, on the tariff
reform issue, he made Mr.. Morrison chairman of
the ways and means committee; then the Pro
tectionists howled that free-trade measure
would be reported from that committee. When
a conservative and moderate bill was brought in,
the Protectionsts took it for weakness and be-
gan their blow and buster. Mr.. Watterson also
says, in to-night's dispatch to his paper, that the
passage of the Morrison bill may cost the De
mocracy the presidency; but that as it is the
policy of the party, it must be persisted in.
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CINcNNATI, March 21.-The following tele
gram was sent from here day:
ITO S. J. mebbin. Washington, D. e.:
'"rhe trade here authorize you to announce, pub
ielyi that they defy proof of dollar having been
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26
DELAY HoLoNGER

Every man on the face of the globe to-
day who contemplates for ten minutes
the situation of the working classes on
the one hand and the luxurious profit
gacy of the moneyed class on the other
sees that there is trouble ahead. Those
who study the question shudder at the
horrible prospect of the future In the
pulpit and the press the subject is clam
oring for public attention. The friends
of the people are attempting to arouse
and warn them to flee from the wrath to
come. The bought-up mouthpieces of
the capitalistic class are forced to take
notice, and they are cautiously spreading
their nets to catch the simple worker or
to mislead him and embitter him against
those who are his friends and tell him to
stand for his rights.
1t is only when the bourgeoise see the
looks of discomfort on the faces of the
poor and hear the dreaded mutterings of
the robbed, that they deign to give pub
lie notice that they are aware such an
inferior class exists. 1t is then they
attempt to show to the world their deep
feeling for the worthy poor, and begin to
devise the best means to hush their
cries.
The means employed are varied, but
they I'll reaect credit on the brute class
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

- "a, and II This IL ! land which
boests Of u Over prodectio ~ hisnds
Is Il not under eonsumption and moi over
production where the fault liesi And
any one can verify this foF themselves If
they win only stop to think for one mo-
ment, and ask themselves fhis pertinent
question, Did the Creator send me into
this world with two arms and ten fingers.
able and willing to work, to starve3
This question must be answered in the
negative, for no amount Of sophistry can
lanswer it in the affirmative;. and this
being SO, then we have to hunt up and
find the cause of this unnatural phe-
nomenon, viz In land Of plenty,
people in state Of semi-starvation, and
exposed to the biting blasts OF the ele-
ments through the want Of proper cloths
ing to protect them from the same.
Now ask your readers to study this
phenomenon, and let US have their cogi-
tations through your columns. Yours
for the right, HERMIT o. THE HILLS.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26
CORRESPONDENTS.
The Fa1Iacy of cover Production, ,,

The FalIacy of cover Production"
Editor Labor Enquirer. "
LEADvIILE, Colo, Jan. LII closed my
last by asking the question, why work
ingmen do not have steady employment?
l should like to see some of your many
readers give their opinion on the subject
through your columns, For truth is
like torch, the more it's shaken it
shines. And any discussion of the labor
question must be conducted on the strict
principle of truth; otherwise, we will
make a complete failure. Now the
reason why SO many men are out of en-
ployment-at the present time is attribu-
ted to over production, and to. work off
this oyer production the manufacturers
are compelled to shut down heir works
and allow their stock to run down before
they can open again. This argument is
very plausible and misleads many Of the
workingmen Of this country. Bnt the
question is, is this argument true? And
if not true, wherein lies its fallacy?
Ny friends in endeavoring to show
where the fallacy lies, l may but be re-
iterating the arguments of those who
have thought and written on the subject
before; but in this case, ifso, we are only
something like the tAborigines of any
country. When they wish to kindle fire
they keep rubbing two pieces Of wood
together till they produce fame, that
could either warm and keep their bodies
from the inclemency Of the season by its
genial warmth, or it could set fire to the
primitive forests, and leave nothing but
the scorched and burnt trunks to tell the
beholder that there was once forest
there. Now the discussion of the labor
question must by the reiterated truth
which, unlike the superficial surface Of
the present social fabric produce one of
two phases, one with its gentle balmy
influence pervading all members of the
body polite, where each is for all, and all
for each, or culminate in one of those
social cyclones, which destroys every
thing in its onward course and leaves
nothing but the debris ofa system which
did not and could not from its own avari-.
ciousness, fill the wants of social fabric
based on the everlasting truth, to "do
unto others as you would have others do
unto you"
But for this DEPRESSION from answering
the question as to where the fallacy Of
over production lies, l hope / will not
weary the reader, and / shall endeavor
to answer the question by asking any
one Of your readers, if they are cognisant
of the fact that at the present moment
there are thousands and tens of thous-
ands, through no fault of their own, in a
state of semi-starvation and little better
off than the so-called savage of Central
Africa, as regards clothing, (not that the
Central African needs the clothing whic
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26
what the Great 1nf,del says.

Every man ought to be willing to pay
for what he gets. He ought to desire to
give full value received. The man who
wants So worth of work done for 81 isrno
honest man. The man who wants others
to work to such an extent that their lives
are burdens, is utterly heartless. The
toll of the world should continually de-
crease. Of what use are your inven-
tions if no additional comforts find their
way to the homes of labor7
Why should labor fill the world with
wealth and live in want?
Every labor-saving machine should
help the whole world. Every one should
tend to shorten the hours of labor.
Reasonable labor is the source of Joy.
To work for wife or child, to toll for
those you love, is happiness, provided
you can make them happy. But to work
like slave to see your wife and chill
dren in rags to- sit at table where the
food is coarse and scarce to rise at four
in the morning to work all day, and
throw your bones on miserable bed at
night; to live without leisure, without
rest, without making those who love- you
comfortable and happy ; this is not liv-
ing; it is dying, slow, lingering cruel
fixion. -. *
The hours of labor should be short
>ened. With the vast, wonderful i'm
proyements of the nineteenth century,
there should not only be the neeessaries
of life for those who toll, but comforts
and luxuries as well. .. -.
What is reasonable price for labor I?
l answer: Such price as will enable
man to lay by something for his declin-
ting years, so that he may have the feel
ings of a man. y r
Isympathize with every honest effort
of children of labor to improve their
condition. That is very poorly gov
erned country in which those who do
the most have the least. There is some
thing wrong where men have to beg for
leave to toll. We are not civilized
people. When we are, pauperism and
crime will vanish from our land.
sympathize with the wanderer, with
the vagrant out of employment; with
sad weary men who are seeking for
work. When / see one of these men,
poor and friendless, no matter how bad
he is, think that somebody loved him
once ; that he was once held in the arms
of mother; that he slept beneath her
loving eyes and awakened in the light of
her smile. Isee him in the cradle, lis
tening to lnllabies, sung soft and low,
and his little face is dimpled as though
by fingers of joy. And then I think of
the winding paths, the weary roads, that
he has travelled from that mothers arms
to vagrancy and want.
There should be labor and food for All.
ROBERT G. INGERsoLL.
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Iowa Says a Word.
Editor LABOR ENou1RER:

Editor LABOR ENoUIRER:
NASHUA, Iowa, Jan. 21-The copy of
The LABOR ENQUIRER you sent me,
wherein you strike blow al the dam
nable, barbarous social relation of man
to man, and make clear the possibility of
practical change, comprehensive to those
who may read and think; wherein you
bring before the American reader, that
noble German reyolutionist, Thomas
Munzer, and show Luther in his true
light-the defender of the divine right
of kings to rule and rob the people, =
Then Simeon Stetson's able defense of
proportional representation; and the
article on revolution, and large amount
of labor news, and last but not least, your
editorial, wherein you give the Rochester
Sunday Truth the lie, makes your paper
the best labor defender have ever seen.
Go ON, friend Buchanan, go on, those
who want to be free, will soon strike the
blow. G. A. R.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

-
dax5 not uttsr I 5yllabls They can
pnxke slss u tl.smselv W talking about
the Nick ckeiness Of Bob Ipsesaoll. but the
railroad contractor who robs train load
of workingmen Of their last dollar Is too
prominent ! Christian for them to say :
word about And III bet 81 there isn't
: minister in the city has time to spare
from attempting to reply to the gallant
Bob to say aword about the Alamoea
outrage. That's right, my beauties, shoot
high. We're taking . few pointers from
you, and when our time comes for gun
ming, we'llsaim shade above the aver
age, ourselves.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26


The Evening Telegram makes its daily
visits to this oficenow. The Telegram
is daily afternoon paper published at
New Haven, Connecticut, and is "a work
ingman's paper" It was started about
month ago by practical printers in OPP
position to the established paper of that
city, which had been rated. The Tele-
gram is the same size as The ENQUIRER,
and4is nicely, gotten up. 1t has from six
to eight columns of telegraph in each
issue, good local page, and editorials
that have the proper ring and are ably
written. Maytthe Telegram be a perfect
success, and it seems to strongly tend
that Way.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

which devices them, and the principal
insredlenh sre 1Urcs and decsption;
sometimes one, sometimes tho other;
according to circumstances
Let the plan propoeed by the ruling
class for quieting the outcries Of the
proletariat be what it may, it is never
honest. The man who talks nf COM
psnionship and unity Of feeling between
the two is q fool or ! knave. The lion
and the lamb cannot lie down together
with safety to the latter; it is not accord
ing to nature. And it is not the nature
Of the robber class to yield one iota to
the rights or necessities of the robbed.
They must be forced and you know
who must force them.
The day for action will soon be upon
US. Are-we Fastening our preparations
as we should
This has been q severe season, more
severe than many of US know. It is the
presidential year, and things are
smoothed over as nicely as possible. But
there is an earthquake under US. There
are millions of idle men in the land and
the number is daily increasing. There
is want and wretche edness in many poor
mans "home." The FIRE burns low on
the hearth. the bottom OF the flour
barreli is hardly covered and the little
ones shiver in the cold, while the
provider stands face to face with that
terrible myth "Over-production."
What are the rulers thinking of, that
they thus blindly invite the monster
Hunger to unsheath his dagger? Do
they think to starve him out, or bribe
him to assassinate his kind at their beck?
But let that pass Let them think
what suits their sweet-stented wills.
What do we think of the situation? 1t
is for us to do the most thinking. We
have the greater interest. But our time
for thinking grows short. The hour for
action is not far off.
Will we be ready? Are you ready,
reader? Do you know just where you
stand? If you do not, it were time you
bestirred yourself,
This is no idle fancy of a 'crank's'
brain. 1t is hard reality, which you
can satisfy yourself upon if you will but
do little investigating and thinking.
1t is your duty to take hold of this ques-
ton of the hour and study it. First find
Just who and what you are; what you
should be, and whittier you are tending
Then what is possible for you to become.
The means for this are at hand and
easily accessible. Read an article in
this issue, headed @How to Organize"
and then act. 1t rests with you to avert
calamity. Fail to do your duty, and
nature will do the work as only she can
do job,
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

/, PRINCE KRAPoTKINE, so say advises
from abroad, has been transferred from
prison to Paris infrmary. This great
man, because he sympathized with the
struggles of the people of Russia in their
efforts for liberty, has been prosecuted
by the powers of autocratic government
in Europe, and now, completely broken
down in health, he has been taken to a
public hospital, where he will be heavily
guarded, to die. The scientific men of
England and France, recognizing the
great knowledge of Prince Krapotkine,
had petioned for his release, but their
prayers were not needed. He was dan
gerous man to be left the free use of his
limbs. He was dangerous because he
hated aristocraey and loved the people.
So he must be bound But Krapotkine
imprisoned has also been dangerous"
man. His fate has awakened interest !;
then sympathy then thought, and, later
on, action. The brilliant thoughts and
noble deeds of the great scientist will
live forever, and his fearless, logical
writings will bear fruit in the years to
come. But / hope he himself will be
spared to earth long enough to see the
first steps taken in realization of his
dreams Gf such they can be called).
Long live Prince Krapotkine, the Inter
nationalist. A series of articles from his
pen are now being printed in THE En-
oUIRER. Read the words of the student
and teacher, who is dying because he
loves freedom and equality.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26
The Communist

Is monthly paper. partly in phonetic
spelling, and devoted to unity homes,
mutual support, united labor, common
property and equal rights to all, It re-
ports the progress Of existing commune
ties and aids in forming others every
where; so cents year; specimen copies
Free Address the Mutual Aid Commu-
niIy, publishers, Glen Allen, BolIinger
county, Missouri. More members wanted
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

SENATOR CHAFFEE has returned to the
city. He hasn't been much on the
streets since his return, owing to his
eagerness to carefully read The En-
ouIRERs which have accumulated during
his absence. Mr.. Chaffee is studying the
question of aggressive monopolies, and
he knows where to get the truest state
ments on that subject.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

BOB INaERsoIL may be very wicked
man, but he was never known to stand
up and shout about Heaven and the
angels for an hour or 80 and then go
home and beat his wife, as some good
Christians have been known to do. And
/ don't think he knows as much .bout
sthe row" Of his city as some Of the very
religious editors of Denver, who have
been calling him an awful sinner. do
about the one in this angel borough.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

HEWITT is fresh example of how
much the politicians care for their con-
stituency when they get into Office. He
worked the O'Donnell resolution very
nicely in congress and out. He is to be-
investigated-and renominated when the
proper time arrives,
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

THE fellow who writes the one edito-
rial a week for the Rocky Mountain
Herald got overwhelmingly plaintive
and pathetic in his last. He tears open
the old sores of ''Mr. Henry T. Collins !"
unionism and parades them before the
eyes of THE ENQUIRER, to make it sorry
for what it said week before last. But it
doesn't work. ! didn't say anything
about Mr.. Collins past record as a union
man I didn't take the trouble to look it
up. l only spoke of things patent to all
printers in this city. am no more "a
public representative of the printing fra
ternity" than | am of any other class of
workingmen. believe in unions, do
all in my power to build them up, and
will fight for them first, last and always.
As for the apology offered by Mr..
Collins editor, it is what was expected
and what intimated he would advance.
But it is no excuse. fMr. Collins hasn't
time to spare from his exhaustless edito-
rial duties to glance over the headlines
on his plate proof.sheets, he had better
do as I do, stand up to the rack and set
his leaders and dump" them into the
forms. No mistakes would then occur
This thing of buying newspaper brains
cast in blocks and locked up in box is
little haphazard, anyhow. The idea
that Jealousy of the Herald would ever
enter my head is purely original with
the writer of that article. The fellow
hasn't been here very long. He doesn't
know I have been in the printing bust
ness in Denver little the rise of FIVE
years and have frequently run across the
Herald in laundries and other small
buildings. Oh, no, my friend; no
jealousy in the case. They don't print
THE ENQU1RER's rivals in this altitude.
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.It shall NOT Die. . I.

i
Editor Labor Enquirer.
WILLIAMSBURG, Colo, Jan. l9.-I fully
appreciate your position as journalistic
labor reformer; have some knowledge
Of the suffering and privations you have
to endure. l have helped to cradle in
its infancy the Pittsburg Labor Tribune;
seen it buried three times, and helped to
resurrect it after each funeral.
The LABOR ENouIRER. compared with
the Tribune in its first year of existence
is much superior in every respect, and
bids fair, with liberal supportto distance
any labor paper in the United States.
] speak good and encouraging words for
The ENQUIRER whenever opportunity
and occasion presents. By the eternal
it shall not die. Never allow the thought
of shutting down TO. enter your mind.
After the twentieth instant, with your
permission, I will canvass Williamsburg.
/ think I can raise you some subscrip-
ton money. A. M. d.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

TIE daily press of the city is very 81
lent on the subject of the treatment Of
the Italians who were sent to Alamosa
to starve or beg. Not word has either
of them said editorially on the subject.
They can spread themselves every day
for week over . lynching in one of the
backwoods counties, but 300 workingmen
may be robbed and starved and they
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

SOME of my exchanges are going wild
over the fact that Payne, the Standard
oil man, was elected senator from Ohio.
This is all bosh, and waste of good
white paper. The senatorial carbuncle
Is no more painful with him there than
away. The whole thing needs the lance.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

OR Agents.
The following named gentlemen are agents
for The EHQUIHxR In their respective 10
calities, and are authorized to receive sub
scripHons and give receipts.
Edward Kyle, williamsburg.
( Daniel Ball, ROckyale.
David John, Coal Creek.
W.S Jones, Orc, Lake county.
George Wallascer, 1l0H West Chestnut,
Leadville.
T. r. Mcbride, Laporte, Larimer county.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

BoBBIE BURNS was the true blue. He
snapped his fingers in the face of royalty.
Read what a fellow-countryman has to
say of the hornv-handed poet in this
issue @
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

Buy the new pamphlet, Evolution or
Revolution, price Is cents; for sale at this
efice: This Is the clearest treatment Of the
Soctallstic platform which has e4er been
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

A COMMUNICATION was received from
Joseph A. Labadie too late for publiea-
ton in this issue, but twill appear next
week. -.s,.- y. 4. e. ssslEN ..
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

SOMEBODY at Washington has my
thanks for copy of N. P. Hill's speech
on the postal telegraph bill before the
senate. s' b 1@.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

The publisher Of this paper Is not respon-
siblo for the opinions Of contributors. The
columns will always be open for the discus
day. Contributions always welcome.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26
DECLARkT'IONE / /
Of the Rights of Nan Worthy y
Every Pedestrians Careful
Perusal.
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l01EICIAIe
HEADoUARTRRs DIVISION ExECuT1vE
Rocky MOUNTAIN Division. INTER-
NATIONAL WoRKnEN's Assoc1ATIoN. Il
Denver, Colorado.
The following Declaration Of. the
Rights of Man"is ordered published TO
the people
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-26

Tn LABOR Eaou1RER Is published every
9ofurdaY It WIN Be devoted TO the Discus
sion of III aib1ech which tend to educate,
ejevste md advance the laboring classes
Politically 1t will support only the friends
Subscription rates, $200 in advance.
AN communications must be addressed TO
The LABOR EHQUIRzR, S6s Larimer Street,
Denver Colombo.