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The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-25

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past ofstheinlites thich. .eme{ of lille
pay fof Big es ATte Southwestern
railroad stu B deliberately refused to
admit the 2Olden 40 TO be commenced
by reduction Of wages. Q, yes, hard
work for nothing makes golden age.
8. Two conclusions thus force them
selves upon our minds-the one, that the
pursuit of property is honorable because
1t is made necessary by the growth OF
the mind; the other conclusion lies IN
the thought that there must never De 2
condition of property so comfortable and
30 universal as to Danish from our world
the struggle of mind, the notorious battle
of life. b..e I. M ita stlt B "a sgss &
Prof. Swing Is careful not to say the
production of property is honorable, =
because he knows that those who "pur,
sue property seldom produce any. How
do nabobs endure the condition oi
property so comfortable thai trouble is
banished. They ought to envy the
laborer because the uncertain wage oi
the latter causes the necessary struggle
Of the mind ...-.a...
8. Those called the poor enjoy the
grandeur Of a nation which has by money
been carried through the terrific storm
of war. The laboring man deserves more
from us all; And more will come as f tht
years pass and man appreciates more
deeply the brotherhood of his kind, bul
1t is high time for the hard.workine
laborers to note and measure what the
money OF others has done for them, theil
homes and their children. tsF3l.
q Professor, you have been misinformed
Here is the way it was: The "poor" ere
ated the wealth. and ,turnad It over te
thieves. The "poor" then enlisted gave
up their lives and got nothing in return
The wealth they produced was also usee
in the war, but three times the amount
was returned to those who did not pro
duce it. We are not yet done paving il
hack ~,
The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-25
Dynamite.

Fer the Enquirer.
Z" The subject of dynamite ought not to
make Socialists disagree for both its
advocates and its opponents are sincere
and earnest in the work of changing the
system and / do not believe differ very
much in their idea of methods if they
understood each other. '.''' '''.s ~ - .'''
No Anarchist wants TO- jump up and
throw dynamite without sense or reason,
at everybody and everything that is
hurting us. And in every special case
where It seems justifable and wise to
use dynamite, I believes State Socialist
is as ready and willing as an Anarchist
would be. The great objection za zeno p and ID
others have against Anarchists seems to
be that theyspresch force, in a general
way, ais one of the elements necessary
in the coming Revolution. :"q 81 D5'
70 Now, If everybody we're sensible, and y d
open to conviction when the truth is
placed before them, all we would have to
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plainly proves that he is dsher lament
ably ignorant eupoh tho subject cf isis
w1lfull liar. The burden Of argument
in this article Is that the Knights Of
Labor are not as numerically strong as
they should be; not one word against
the principles of the order. In fact, as
appears BY the published tPreambas !;
Aims end Objsctsn of the 70. B. off. l. z
the declaration of the Knights Is fully
endorsed. OF the ~. B. Of Q. ~ has
not brains enough to write its own pre-.
amble for the whole article is q pure
theft from the Knights of Labor, the
greater portion being verbatim copy Of
the 'sDeclaration of Principles of the
knights Of Labor" So, the ~. B. of q.
)" and its organ are thieves AS well as
liars.
Socialists, of course, are roundly be.
rated every dishonest or Subsidized
press in the world is engaged inthat
great work; but. like the rest, Justice
only calls hard names, tells the usual
string of falsehoods, and remarks that
Decent workingmen will do we'll to
I give these fire bugs cold shoulder r.n,aa
IfSocialists were the urderersand fire
bugs that their enemies call them, they
would most likely give the craven, cow
ardly whelp who edits Justice a aplece Of
acold" steel-and all honest men would
applaud the act.
To give an idea Of the great heart and
humanitarian impulses of the editor q
Justice / will quote the closing para
graph of an editorial upon the Anglo.
Russian difficulty: 5r....g,... ri .Ljs-
eve may therefore reckon upon 9
frightful war with its millions fighting
and thousands killed. In this country
however, we shall feel not an evil effect
but good one. We have wheat, beef
timber and other things to sell which
will make money come this way,
Ifthis is a Universal Brotherhood"
sentiment, it was made to order for the
Hamilton brute in the darkest corner Of
hell" =. ...,.... ....
There can be no question now that the
greatest obstacles in the march to free
dom are the hvpocritical scoundrels who
claim to be friends of the labor cause,
and it is about time to commence th'
wedding out business in earnest, ant
there should be no chances taken tina
the foul things could be resuscitated ant
get into the good soil again.
1 know a few good men in Canads
who, it seems to me, ought to be able tt
tear the mask off the face of Justice
but whether they win do 80 remains tc
be seen. Oh for one hour of that COW
ardly sheet and its lying, treacherou'
editor in Colorado.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-25

THE premier of. England, in discussing
the subject Of war in the house of COM
mons, on Tuesday, said: "The govern
ment relies upon the patriotism of. the
house." If this we're true England's
chances for victory would be very slight.
The fact is the government relies upon
the ignorance of the masses of the peo-
pie, who will be expected to become
targets for Russian bullets, that British
commercial supremacy may be estab-
lished in the disputed territory. And
the fools will 60 and shoot and be shot
BY the Russian idiots. <r'' -,
The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-25

THE Oklahoma boomers have aban-
doned their contest with the cattle kings.
As usual the government backed the
moneyed side against the, producer, and
the actual settler" is driven off the land.
It is pretty near the hour for a national
indignation meeting, but when 1t is held,
there must be deter nination on the
part of the people to back up their pro-
tests in way that will count for some
fhinp .I..
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A SAMPLE.
Editor Labor ENQUIRER.

Editor Labor Enquirer. j
l venture to send you comparison
"in verse;" or the purport of converse
ton that took place between two wage
workers to-day in my hearing. It will
show that where one is willed to go
ahead. not to stop short of liberty, the
other is inclined to faint heart.
|, / am not subfcriber to your valuable
paper, but get to read it pretty regu-
fariy-throughstthhee the kindness Of friend
and fellowworker. ...%.Iy- g5it y y. |.
+ ,our-town is Ivory qaiet. i am s~sra3
work to-day and must while away time
somehow. .I@sr ...rEss.,.- /.
"Well, you can't while away time" in
these columns, my friend. People who
writefor THE ENQUIRER must have some
other object than to kill time. Your
"verse"-shades of Byron defend us-is
respectfully declined.
Here friends, is sample of how some
"heroes in Labor's cause" help to spread
the light-they get to read labor
paper pretty regularly through the kind
ness of friend )" and still the writer of
the above wonders that there are faint
hearts,"
There are many poor fellows who are
not able to pay even the small sum nee
essary to procure one of the low-pricsd
labor papers; it is for them l am con-
tributing my mite in the war Of emanci-
patton, and they can have this paper free
so long as can stand the pressure. But
our poetical eazelle is not in such sad
predicament-such fellows seldom are
and he ought to be ashamed to make the
admission contained in the foregoing.
| hope he will get to see this issue,
through the kindness of friend"
The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-25

READERs will be glad to note that John
L. Mahon, of Great Britain, has resumed
his writings for their, after an absence
of several months. He has a news letter
in this issue, and also, a criticism upon a
statement made by Henry George in a
lecture recently delivered in London.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-25
Want Union and Peace.

For The Enquirer.
Judging from his paper, published in
your issue of April 4, the Rev. Duncan
McGregor either does not understand
what Socialism is, or he has not read his
bible to much purpose, else he would
not say that Socialism is contrary to
what he believes to be divine revelation.
The old prophets told of condition of
society where justice and righteousness
should rule where poverty and crime
should not be known. Every man shall
sit under his own vine and fig tree and
none shall make him afraid" This is
exactly the very desirable state of affairs
for which Socialists are working.
The Rev. McGregor first names Social
ism among the "perilous facts. Of the
age and then admits in the same para
graph that Socialists are seeking this
new condition OF society. can see no
peril from a Just government. It seems
to me the peril lies IN allowing govern
ments to remain as they are. He does
not appear to have clearly defined idea
as to the method to be used in working
this change He says, "the Socialist
puts his faith in the state" and one
would judge he believed they advocated
peaceful measures, but he upsets this
idea bv declaring that recent events
have shown that the agitators are pre-
pared for the most ruthless barbarity.
They hope to secure their ends by law
less violence, but the destruction of
public buildings only arouses the indig-
nation of right thinking men against
them" think he will find that it has
never been Socialists, as a body, but .
few desperate Nihilists or dYnamiters
who have been the cause of these ex-
plosions. Socialists, as class, do not
advocate wholesale destruction of
buildings or lives. After they have de-
stroyed them what real good could come
of it? The cons of the men who had
been killed would put up buildings even
more costly than those blown up, and
the chances for establishing justice would
be-! if anything, smaller than before. We
have seen so much of the results of force
that we would fain try some other
method, and we propose to teach people
TO think for themselves. All must be
aroused to real sense of how much de-
wolves on each Individual.
We must form clear ideas of what
should be gained, and then endeayor TO
arouse the thought of those with whom
we come in contact. until our united
thought will be used to some practical
purpose, and accomplish great results
If we exploded a bomb under every
buildin, in Christendom and caused the
death Of everv capitalist, and then had
no definite plan of government to put
Ia the! place Of the one destroyed, we
should be worse off than at present. All
would be anarchy and chaos when what
we want is union and peace. PoRT1A.
'.' CHICAGO, April 80 .
The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-25

AFTER strike of five months the Nor
walk hatters are victors, and the en-
ployers have conceded every point asked
by the workmen.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-25

y The Chicago, Express is bitter paper,
under the editorship of BIS. Heath, than
ever before. It has quit tinkering at re-
forms, and is getting at the roots, r ..'
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action will not win our rights, even
though the masses comprehend them,
and it will take force of some kind to
make the majority see anything in them!
Our enemies are in full possession they
have got tn e verv means of our exist
ence. They have with a parchment
scroll fenced around miles of land :"
they have locked up our productions in
warehouses, elevators, banks and vaults /;
they have shut our machinery from US ),
they have placed lock and key on the
very gates Of nature, and we are starv-
ing. We have argued and agitated for
years-we haven't time to talk any
longer. We must act, for sentiment can
not keep US alive; the actual, .material
sources of life are being taken from us;
actual, material force must be used TO
get them back again. There never was,
q time when the wealth of the world was
so thoroughly under the control of a few.
There is no time for mere argument.
Would you blame besieged city, in
danger of being starved out, from resort
ing to any means in her power to obtain
provisions No. Then do not blame
the far seeing lover Of humanity for
pCopiO oA 0AAo SoAAAhS 0ASSS
and bidding them prepare for it, u III
,,; If this was question of mare ineon-
.venience to some of us we might reason
ably take time and argue 1t out on a
mere intellectual basis. But it is mat
ter of life and deaeh. We. are being
crowded to the wall. Our children; are
not even allowed to await their growth
before they are forced into their struggle,
but are made into machines, wretched
receptacles of disease, wick edness and
degradation, before our very eyes. We
are, no matter how strong and willing,
forced to tramp and starve in .idleness,
while. the world is full Of food and cloth lott :,
ing. We, cannot wait till every human
being can be argued with and convinced
that this is his fight The time has come
for action+-force if itmust be. Egi53i m
g -i5ia's fHhTsHy g. LIZZIE M. SwANK. q,
CHICAGO, April IS.
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rnt.rad at the Denver postofice as second
class matter.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-12-17

There is a man in Nevada, named
Angela Cardelia, who claims to be the
strongest in the world. He is an Italian.
aged 3S, and stands feet 10 inches,
weighing l38 pounds. He differs from
other men chiefly in the osseous struct-
ure. Although not of unusual size, his
spinal column is double the ordinary
width, and his bones and Joints are
made on q similarly large and generous
scale. He has lifted man of 200
pounds with the middle finger Of his
right hand. The man stood with one
foot on the floor, his arms outstretched,
his hands grasped by two persons to
balance bis body. Cardelia then stopped
down aud placed the third finger of his
right hand under the mans foot and
with scarcely any perceptible effort
raised him to the height Of four feet and
deposited him on table near ut hand.
Once two powerful men waylaid Car
della with intent to thrash him, but he
seized one In each hand and hammered
them together until life was nearly
knocked out of them.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-12-17
Who was to Blame?

SAYS an exchange: While travelling
on railroad train few days ago we
engaged in conversation an ex-union
soldier, who was still very bitter of the
treatment the boys in blue received at
Andersonville and other Confederate
prisons. His conversation recalled to
mind the expressions upon the same
subject off Gov. Curtain, the Republican
War Governor of Pennsylvania. He
says:
That OH the files of the War Depart
ment are two rather spicy dispatches,
one addressed to him by Secretary
Stanton and the other his reply. IT was
late In the war, probably in the spring
OF 1854, that Governor Curtin came to
Washington to see the Secretary of
War, and after giving him narrowing
description of the condition of Federal
prisoners in AndersonvilIe he appealed
to him to save them. Mr.. Stanton said
he did not see how he could do any
thing. "Why,n said the Governor Of
Pennsylvania, tive have thousands of
Confederate prisoners; letus exchange. y
With some heat the Secretary asked if
he meant to propose that we should
take back lot of diseased and en-
feebled men who could not return to
the ranks, and give the Confederates an
equal number of healthy and well-fed
men who could at once recruit their
armies. "Weli, sir,n said Stanton, "a
man who processes to be loyal to the
Government ought to he ashamed to
make such reasonable suggestion
Curtin is an irascible gentleman, and
he left in ch,leric condition. Immedi-
ately after he got home he received from
the Secretary dispatch as follows: SIN
the interests of loyalty to the Govern
ment and the speedy suppression of the
you should resign at once
aud retire to private life, which you
should never have left.u Curtin re-
piled to the Secretary: "In the inter
ests Of humanity you should die and 90
u hell, where you should have gone
ong ago." Neither gentleman acted
On the friendly yand disinterested advice
)f the other.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-12-17

~ 1t has come to light that in 1857 John
Sherman had scheme for refunding the
national debt which, had it passed. would
have enabled favored brokers to have pocket
over $3O,Oo0,0OO in commissions, and his
bill was SO innocently worded that it would
doubtless have passed had not Philadelphia
banker exposed the scheme-when Sherman
had it referred to his committee, and stran-
gledit twill be remembered that Sherman's
measure which demonetized the silver dollar,
had such an innocent appearance that no one
suspected its purpose until long after it be-
came q law. These events explain why the
Ohio Senator is properly termed Slippery
Sherman.-Post.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-12-17
THE ELECTION CASES.
Complete Reversal by the Supreme
Court,
Which Gives the Democratic Senator
Their Right TO Certificates.
A Dissenting Opinion Comes from tn,
Republican Judge,
But IL Docs Not Inva'idate the Lowest
Candidates. Title.
fspedial Dispaoh to the Enquirer.l


COLUMBUS, OHIO, December 1l.-Th,
Republicans who have been bowling
through print and making threat
against the Supreme Court in anticipa-
tion of the decision of the Cincinnati
election cases were no doubt pacified
this evening. The Judges seem to have
accepted the threats which have been
made in good form. and 1t now remains
for the intimidators to rear up on their
heels and make good the promises
which have been so profuse. The Court
will tomorrow morning formally an
nounce their decision, which is that the
decision of the Circuit Court of Hamil-
ton County is reversed In all the election
cases and on all points which were held
to be good law by the lower Court.
This Is wonderful vindication of judg-
ment, justice and knowledge of law on
the part of a partisan Court. The re-
suit will be that all the Democratic
candidates for the Senate and House of
Representatives from Hamilton County
will receive their certificatesOf election.
The judgment of this Court is final, and,
with the exception of Judge johnson,
is unanimous. He will furnish u dis
senting opinion, though, it is under
stood, that, even in his judgement of
the case, Mr.. Brashears should receive
his certificate of election as Senator.
Judge Spear is in the city tonight at
the instance, IL Is understood, of those
who had hoped that the mandamus
case would be passed upon first and the
Clerk compelled to make the returns In
advance ofthe decision of the other
case, SO that Judge Spear might be
rushed on to the Bench. This pro-
gramme, however, has been badly in
terfered with. There is also another
fOrmality to be gone through with be-
fore Judge Spear can take his place on
the Supreme Bench. He is now Judge
of the Trumbull County Common
Pleas, and has not as yet presented his
resignation to the Governor. This is
the Judge about whom there has been
such great howl that he has been de-
prived of accepting the position to
which he was elected over two months
ago. Judge Spear can lay the blame to
delay and Intervention an the part of
Republicans, otherwise he might have
seen month or more ofstrvice by this
time.
Judge Owen will prepare the opinion
in the election cases.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-12-17
A Little Chef.d, ocuyre.

Breton Riviere's charming picture
sympathy" has been engraved as o
premium for Godey's Lady's Book for
1885, and Is one Of the most desirable
inducements ever offered by that or
any other magazine. The plate il an
unusually fine one, very faithfully pro-
dnced, and Of size that, makes it ac-
ceptable either for the portfolio or for
framing. sympathy" represents q
fair-haired little girl sitting on a stair
way, in deep distress, her little chin
resting dejectedly on her hands, while
q comical old dog presses close to her
side, poking his nose over her shoulder,
and saying as distinctly as any dog
could say, "Pm awfully sorry for you.D
The picture is wonderfully expressive
and has had an immense sale in
Europe. n.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-12-17

" two the spray would dash over us.
md freeze rs IL struck. When we rot
within four miles Of Caseville. we found
he Ice frozen sOldidiy, and not strong
'nough to walk upon. We boisted
bur storm signal and began cutting our
way with axes. Two boats started ont
10 help us, but could not reach us. To
I'D 10 our dismay, we found that the
'olid ice, detached from the main shore,
vas increasing in thickness every min
ute, and that IL was drifting down the
iay, taking us with II. We cut. pushed.
rowed, al ds.ruggled like mad, rea. h
ng shore at last, ut Q O'Clock Monday
evening. eight miles below Caseville.
having drifted that far in the ice. Eight
men OF the shiprecked crew and pass
engers landed ut Tawas Friday
afternoon. The party consists of
Thomas Reari on, first mate; David
McLeary, steward, and six passengers.
They left the Oconto Mt O'Clock Thurs-
day afternoon in a yawl. Three of the
passengers are: Mr.. Mccullough, of
of Forestville, and Moses Haurve and
rhos. Dickinson, OF Alpena. At the
time OF leaving they had heard nothing
OF the fate OF seven membe Oft 0crew
who had left for shore on tuesday in a
small boat. The "a persons remaining
on the island have enough to eat for q
few days, but all are very d0wn-hearted.
The steward, mate, and six passengers
walked from Point Lookout to.Tawas,
and are completely prostrated. Just
before the OcontO struck, Charles,
Brown, q colored cook, died offright.
He was buried on Charity island.
EAST TAwAs, Mich, Dec. l2.--Eight
more OF the propeller Oconto's passen-
gers have got ashore and arrived here.
They say the remainder are living IN a
nut on an island. Relief will be sent
out.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-12-17
THE ocoNTo.
Story ofa Missing Steamer.
Aground Amidst the Roaring of a
Hurricane.

hSFOuuu hInlusC Cne Roaring OF a
Hurricane.
DETROIT, Dec. 12.-The steamer
OcontO left Oscoda on Friday, Dec. A,
at Up. M, and soon encountered ter
rible gale. When the storm set in, it
became impossible to see, and the lights
went out. There were % passengers
and % members of the crew on board.
At II o'clock Friday night Charity is
land was sighted. Within Is minutes
the Oconto struck bottom at the south
east point of the island. Frank Terper.
first assistant engineer, who arrived
here Friday, describes the wreck as fol-
lows: "Our starboard bulwarks were
stove in all the upper ratings, two of
the life boats, and all the light freight
on the hurricane deck were washed
away. We were In a gale of wind and
q binding snow storm. The sea was
not SO heavy that we could not keep the
boat going. Finally light was sighted.
Everybody took it for the Towas light.
The captain set the boat around to feel
for the entrance, and the next thing we
knew. was a terrific shock. We bad
grounded in about 9 feet of water, but
whether on rocks or sand we could not
tell. We could see that we were about
a mile from land. AS soon as the boat
struck the crew began dealing out life
preservers. After we got ready for the
sea bath; In which none of us would
have lived Is minutes, we discovered
that there was no leak. When dav
broke we set out colors at half mast
and began blowing the whistles. About
10 o'clock we sighted the light house
keeper and his assistant on shore. We
got our small metallic life boat over the
side and in it five of us went ashore.
There we found two fish hnts. We then
brought the passengers ashore. There.
were23 in all. Two ladies and a child
were taken direct to the lighthouse
keepers house and the men began keep
ing house in the fish huts. They have
food enough to last two or three weeks
and plenty of blankets. Monday
morning our party came away IN
large yawl. The party consisted Of
John VanSlycke, son Of one oil
the owners of the Oconto, Tom
Crocker, John Cavanaugh, Walter
Bostwick, James Ross, all Of th" crew, |
Potts, and myself. We took
aboard a compass, two bushels of salt |
and some provisions. We started In !
the midst of cake ice. Every minute