The Labor enquirer., 1885-01-31

To say nothing Of future conventions from
Only dark horses may emerge, when I could
their quietus make
With my little prerogative?
Who would Beecher bear,
Or try to hold power by scant plurality
But that brisk grabbing while in, will fix us
Solid, in case we are fired four years hence
Puzzles the will, and makes us rather be back
In Buffalo, than fly to other ills-a Guiteau
frinstanCe.
us all
And thus the expected security for democrats
Is sickIed Ger with the red tinge of Rum,
ROmanism and Rebellion. And jObbing
frauds
OF great pith and moment as far as we are
concerned
Are of the track, and are sure to cause
reaction.
The Labor Problem from the Standpoint
OF Two Under Dogs.
Editor Labor Enquirer.
WEST LAS ANIMAs. Jan. Psi overheard
the following dialogue between two poor
devils the other day. 1t illustrates what
petrifaCtiOn human intelligence can
assume under proper circumstances.
When we consider that the Tom of this
argument is the representative Of the
vast II ajorty Of the proetariat, it is an
unaccountable mystery shat we are not
ali in .hattel slavery yet
Well, Tom, what do you think of Sem
atOr Carpenters bill for the protection Of
workingmen?
Why, Dick, | think it is the best bill
in the world. don't believe in working
men using force. | am down on mob
law. l believe in moral law, do. That
bill ought to pass.
, Yes, but will not such law kill all labor
organ cations, and etfectually prevent
workingmen from assocatng, guarding
and advancing their interests?
SO much the better workingmen have
no right to combine to use force to com
pei you and | or anybody else to do
things We don't want to- If work for
you and | am satisfied, nobody but
scOuEdrels will come in here with club
to make me stop work. Men that will do
that are not good citizens. They oIght
to be put in Jail, or TRANSPORTED out of
the country.
Suppose you was not satisfied, what
then?
Well, then, am free to go to some
other place. This is a free country. \
man that has to depend on one man for a
living is not fit to live Do YOU think it
would be right, if clique of rufEans
care into your shop and dictated to you
what wages YOU shal! pay and what prices
you must sell at, or shoot you down if
you refuse to comply?
In this particular case, where my int1u-
ence does not extend beyond my shop,
| | think it would be all wrong to do such
! things But if bv hook and crook, cheat
and fraud, corruption and bribery, | had
managed to beat my fellow workman
out )f the control of two-third5 Of the
shops in Colorado and if | could bv a
single word of mine lower the wages Of
thousands of hands, and at the same
raise the prices Of my goods all over the
state, to clear for myseIfa big interest on
capital never had, think it would be
all right for the worKingmen to combine
and club me into doing justice, or shoot
me down if | refuse to comply.
That would be murder,
know it would be pretty rough on
me, but still | think they would be right.
No, sir, that would not be civilization
vlo.ence has never accomplished any
thing. am down on violence and war
anC murder. You can't make men do
things they don't want to do, it isn't
human nature, tins is a free country.
We don't need organizations to breed
riots. If you don't like to work for one
man YOU can 60 and work for anyther,
but YOU have no right to use violence
| would spend fortune if had it and
my whole life to fight and destroy such
combinations. You must do things by
moral suasion.
Tom, kind O like your theory, it is
bread, comprehensive and humane.
think it would be great Improvement tC
abolish our penitrntiary and just simply
moral suaue our shop-lifters and pick
pockets instead of using violen.e to keeI
them under lock and key. The fact is
am almost converted Darn my stock
ings if don't believe the Washington
monument would be twice as high if the
old General had moral suaded King
George III. instead of fighting him SC
ong, Tom. y.
Have our domestic reforms, really gone
to the root of our social evils, or have
they for the most part merely potterec
around them Pail Mall Gazette.
A thousand babes 90 supperLess to bee
hat one monster brat may puke on silk