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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-04-18

On Thursday night of last week two me-
groes called at the farmhouse of VIM. A. Pal,
mer, on the Rappahannock river, in Middle
sex county, Virginia, and told him that his
aunt, living five miles distant, was i'll and de-
sired to see him. Mr.. Palmer started toward
the stable to get his horse when the negroes
knocked him senseless with club. After
taking $l65 from his pocket they carried him
into the house and set fire to the building.
A younger brother, who was sleeping up
stairs, was awakened by smoke and ran down
stairs. Near the door he fell over his brother
and dragged him from the house, The build
ing was destroyed. The assaiants are I'M
known.
A horrible discovery was made on Tuesday
in the Southern Hotel, at st. Louis. The
murdered and decomposed body of middle
aged man was found in a trunk in one of tn e
rooms. The room had been occupied by two
men registered as Walter H. Lenox Maxwell,
NJ. d. and c. Arthur Preller, both of London,
England. Maxwell left the hotel last Sunday
week, but as he had paid his board regularly
no notice was taken of his departure, and it
was thought he would return. The odor from
the trunk led to its being opened when the
CHASTITY discovery was made. On one side of
the trunk, over the head of the corpse, was
printed in large letters the words: $50 perish
all traitors to the great cause"
On Thursday night of last week Pleasant
Christian Worthy, a colored citizen of Liber-
ty, Bedford county, Va, awoke and found
his wife, who had been sick some time, APP
parently dead Friends were called in and
decided that she was no more. The funeral
preparations were made, and the funeral SER
mon had been preached in the church before
large congregation, when the attending
physician, who had just heard of the circum-
stances, hurredly appeared. He stopped the
funeral, dismissed the mourners, opened the
coffin and had the body taken back home.
His suspicious of premature action were fully
verified when an examination was made.
Restoratives were applied, and the woman is
now in a fair way to recovery.
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The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
4. caAnar or BASE.

Tho Tribune Republican has editori-
ally repndiated the United States senate.
In it's issue of the tenth instant it makes
asquare attack on what it denominates
the American house Of lords.
While4 am rejoiced to see such evi-
dence Of popular hostility to this unrep-
1resentative body yet the contrast with
its previous utterances is so striking as to
create suspicion that the conversion
cannot be genuine, but I sincerely hope
that the future course Of that journal
will bear out the promise given by this
change of base. *
When THE ENoUIRER, nearly three
years ago, adyocted the abolition of the
presidency and the senate, it was re-
garded by the unthinkIng public as rank
treason, and if the editor Of the T.-R.
had commented on it three months ago,
'itlwould have been to assail the propo-
sition as the utterance of labor crank ;
but have no hesitation in saving that,
if left to vote of the people, the house
of millionaires would be knocked out in
one round.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
Pittsb,rg.
TBy Associated Labor Press. |

y
PITTsBURG, March 12.-The railroad and
river miners here have gone out on a great
strike, in which 1900 men are idle. The
railroad men in convention have resolved to
stand for cents bushel, one-half cent more
than the tribunal umpire's unjust award.
The river men in convention assembled re-
solved to strike for cents. They had been
getting 21S cents, so that the whole strike is
for an advance Of one half cent bushel all
around. The railroad men were forced to
leave the tribunal and desert arbitration, as
the price awarded was unjust, being lower
than for eight or ten years. Railroad coal is
selling wholesale at 511 cents bushel, and
the nut and slack, for which the miners get
nothing, brings In fair returns. All opera
tors hereabouts can affordto pay cents, and
compete with other markets. Two winters
ago the railroad operators paid cents for
digging and coal was selling atvery little more
than at present. The price of river coal
Cincinnati and Louisville has gone up from
81 to and 1-2 cents, and the river opera
TOTS can afford to pay cents for digging
with such prices ruling. Therefore the
Pittsburg coal trade is at a standstill, and it
is at the beginning of a good season for. the
operators. The men seem determined, and
it is to be hoped they will get their price, for
1t would mark the era of the return of fair
prices to labor which the employers begun to
pull down last November. l.. 81.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
UNBORN so1EnoE-LABoRoLoeY.
What Lawrence Gronlund Says About
the New Social science Which Is to
supersede Political Economy.

For The Enquirer.
One of the latest, and as far as am
informed, one of the ablest books on
Socialism is " The Cooperative Common
wealth, by Laurence Gronlund, issued
last year. / viii quote few paragraphs
from the beginning of his sixth chapter
entitled Social Economy" page 1872:
Political economy pretends to be q
science. Proudhon, on the other hand,
remarks that the merit of Malthus
not dreamt Of by his admirers-is that
he has reduced political economy to an
.absurdity. When we think of the
/" wages fund.- which divided by the
number of laborers, is said to indicate
the current rate of wages, Proudhon's
observation must strike US as pat. A
philosophy which turns the labor ques-
ton into q question in long division is
certainly counterfeit science. But If
legitimate political economy be science.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
Akron.
TBy Associated Labor Press. ]


AKRON, March 12.-The troubles of the
Ohio miners seem to thicken, and very
wise head would fail to predict what the end
will be. The past week has witnessed re-
duction in the price of mining in the Jackson
district, of from 10 to so cents per ton. The
men are out in number of places, and the
convention held in Columbus last week was
looked to, and will, in measure be held
responsible for the future action of the
miners At the convention of the Tuscara-
was miners, held at Clinton last Saturday,
the miners of the lower valley were censured
for going to work at the reduction, and their
delegates were instructed to request the men
to suspend work until after the StaJe conven-
tion. Its hoped that the bitter feeling ex-
isting between the general officers and few
hot heads of the association will be healed by
the result of the convention, and all hands
work in harmony for the good of the asso-
citation.
Shops and factories are all running fairly /;
mills overtime, and outdoor work is picking
up considerably.
Printing is good, but plenty of hands to do
the work.
Organization is steadily picking up, and
thenew Carpenters Union progressing finely.
The Trades Assembly has been further REIN
forced by delegates from Tallmadge, Wads-
worth and other towns near at hand.
T. &L.J.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
GOOD WORK.

The editor has been away from home
a greater part of this week, and when in
the city he has been busy day and night
In the interest of organization. Willing
hands have assisted in getting out the
paper, and readers will have nothing
to complain of, especially when they are
told that the editor has organized four
assemblies in the past week and has
/. gotten four or five more under way.
Colorado Springs How has an assembly
with splendid prospects for the future,
and the finest young assembly in the
west was established at Alma on Mon
day night. The latter is established at
the greatest altitude of any. local in the
United States, being 1900 feet above
the level of the sea, and was appro-
priately named Lookout"
Two new assemblies have been organ
lied in this city since the last issue Of
the paper and before this has. been
perused by all readers of the paper IN
Denver, another will be added, which
will give US in this city twelve fine
assemblies.
Calls are coming from the towns in all
directions, and they will be answered as
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14

The great railroad strike is likely to
cut prominent figure in the pending
contest between the people and the legal
lied robbers of the country. Our shaky
system rests onsa volcano which is likely
to blow it to smithereens at any moment,
and the present trouble in which thirty
or forty thousand workers are directly
interested, is sure to ado volume and
velocity to the on-coming Revolution.
Whether the right wins or loses, the
alarm which is already sounded, will
awaken thought which will never again
slumber. .- =
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14

ACCORDING to notice given last week q
numter of subscribers haye been cut
from the list. There's no use in talking
if you want to receive the paper, you
must take a little trouble yourself You
all know cannot afford a collector, and
besides there is no money in one, and
you can't excuse yourself by saying you
have never been asked to pay. To pro.
tect the subscribers who pay promptly
and show their interest in the cause, l
must not waste any of my limited means
in printing lapers for which ! receive
no return. Sensible persons will not
get shot" over this, but will step up and
do their duty.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
HANDWRITING ON THE WALL.
Straws Which Show. the Drift OF the
Wind-Thinking Men GraspinR
the Situation. be.

To those who are not blinded with
prejudice, or are too ignorant to compre-
hend a self-evident fact the interpreta-
ton Of the handwriting on the wall
begins to reveal itself One by one the
leaders in labor movements see the fall
lacy of attempting to improve our con-
dition by means of the ballot. the man
who understands this truth the better
and the sooner we will be prepared to
strike off the shackles that bind and de-
grade us. 1 see non-partisan article in
late number of the Christian Union
calling attention to the dangers that
menaces society through maladministra-
ton of the affairs of government, quot
ing freely from Truth and warning its
readers of the approach of the revolu-
ton, showing that our claims are based
upon something more than idle vapor-
ings or utopian dreams, and that jeers
and ridicule are not the kind of weapons
with which to combat the arguments OF
Socialists.
The Boston Globe of February "a gives
column to an explanation of Socialism,
Communism and Anarchism, without
entering into the merits or dement's OF
these questions, but as it says merely to
satisfy the curiosity of its readers, and /
- -. a \ "a. 4 --ssl -
that he gave fair exposition of the
leading features or principles of the Or
ganizations mentioned. His lame at
tempts, however, lin an editorial in the
same paper to solve the question Of
high and low wages would be tangible
were it not that am rather inclined to
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
Baltimore.
-TBy Associated Labor Press.

[By Associated Labor Press.]
BALTIMORE, March 10.-Oriole Assem-
bly,, carpenters, numbering some 1900,
have passed resolution that its mem
bers patronize hardware dealers who
advertise in the Labor Free Press, of this
city, in preference to those who do not.
If labor organizations in every part Of
the country would but adopt the above
in reference to their respective labor ad-
vocates, and show that they mean busi-
ness in the matter, labor papers every
where would very soon be able to WELD
a powerful influence in behalf of organ
lied labor. - G. s. 8.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14

THE Denver News is too sweet on the
workingman of late. Since last fall,
when it could not say too much in oppo-
sition to the interests of the toilers, there
has been great turnover. It is thought
that the demonstratlon on the twenty
second of last month influenced this
change of heart. At any rate, it is not
the cause of the workingmen that the
News endorses, but the numerical
strength of labor organizations that it
fears. Level-headed workingmen will
not be In hurry to take the hand of
the Judas! IL -. -..
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14

Mr.. FRANCIS G. SHAW, of fStaten Island,
New York, who had an undying faith
in the brotherhood of the race, pur-
chased 1000 copies of Georges " Progress
and Poverty" (not the six penny edition
either and distributed them among
mechanics and laborers. We wish he
could have lived to be a hundred. So
few rich men, like him live so close to
the heart of humanity.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14

quickly Is possible, and Colorado VIII
enhance her already pfoud title -sthe
banner state.
After learning the foregoing my friends
can understand that 1 am very busy, and
those who have not received replies 70
their letters will please accept that Is
my apology. ! am giving every moment
of time to the good work, and If don't
attend fully to everything, il is because
the days and nights are not long enough.
/ hope all will do what they can to help
along the WORK.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
OFF TO THE 'FRONT.'.

The editor, in company with another
gentlemen, left Thursday night for the
battle ground Of the big railroad strike,
in Kansas, Missouri and Texas. The two
expect to make themselves generally
useful In that section.
The boss may be gone several weeks,
but readers of the paper will hear of him
through its columns, and. the force in
the Office will try and make things inter
esting.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
THE LABOR ENQUIRER
- LAnnnri srnxxr.
IN. sUUMAMAN. Eaissr.
onlsaal Osgans q The TrAaes Asssnhly.
(The Assembly IS Non Politically
~Hsw win reneW the times of truth and JUS
de-,
Cendenslnt IN : fair, freo commonwealth
Not rash equality, but equal rights. "
Entned at the Denver postof'ce as second.
class matter,

The LABOR ENQunsKR il published every
Saturday. ii viii Sc (IovOted to the discus
don Of AL subjects which tend to educate,
elevate and advance tie labofing classes.
Politically It Mill support only the friends
ef labor.
Subscription rates, 3200 In advance.
An communica ations must be addressed to
TmLABoR EHQUIRI.R, S6S Larimer Street.
DeavH Colombo.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
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Dr.. A. G. OLLK, ox242, CHICAGO, H.
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Died.

I On Tuesday morning, March 10th 1885,
Gilbert De La Matyr, third son of A. D. and
Rosa v. Marshall, aged 2 years and months,
of scarlet fever. Funeral took place from
residence No. 767 Larfmer street W ednesday
March 11th, at II o'clock a. m.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
nnder The melliAuous influence Of tho

Il
alteration Of thdse who, like Mr.. Gron-.
lund. sre yet in doubt and darkness -
to when, Or how, OF by whom, the pre-
dicted science is to be brought forths
aAll OF u.s." he declares, are too much
the children of our own age" to attempt
to elaborate or to outline the coming
science. Ifthis is true. it is extremely
unfortunate for the future Of Socialism.
If Mr.. Gronlund means that we are all
too much in love with and blinded by
the false economic system to permit OF
the discovery of the true science. His
declaration ls too sweeping. All of the
conditions, factors, elements. phenomena
and materials for the elaboration Of the
new science are present as fully and as
tangibly to-day as they ever can be. The
urgency could not be greater than it now
lis; and if it cannot be done under pres
ent conditions it is difficult to under
stand how it ever can be achieved. But
with me, the case is beyond the sphere
Of argument. AS announced in my COM
Imunication of q few weeks ago claim
to be IN possession of the new science
which Mr.. Gronlund prophetically sees.
(See LABOR ENQUIRER of January 17.)
aHe has the panacea, but does not tell
what it is.'' The editors caption 'im-
plies that / might just as we'll have
divulged my scienceif | had been dis
posed 50 to do. Not SO. A little refec-
ton would enable the editor to see that
science cannot be communicated within
the narrow limits Of a newspaper article,
my appeal to philanthropists was for the
very purpose of enabling me to tell what
lit is in the most effective and complete
1 way, by producing book upon the new
science. Poverty is holding my nose to
the grindstone. lneed to be lifted out
of the rut Of an everyday struggle fol
existence, and so circumstanced that
may devote my powers to the execution
of that much-needed work.
But why call it laborologS ? Well
Mr.. Gronlund, like every other logica
j writer on this subject maintains that in
the new social order t'rent"-the hire o.
i land and "interest" the hire of capita
must be abolished. #, then, two out o
the three factors in, the production O.
wealth are abolished, what will there be
left but "labor?" And what is a treatise
on the phenomena resulting from labol
but "laborology?" 1t would be ambigu
GUS and misleading to use the tern
political economy" to designate ascienct
| in which all the teachings OF that pre-
tended science are swept away. But i
i more learned worlds desired there il
"ponology," from the Greek wore
"ponos" work, labor, with the termin
ology.
i As the new science depends for it
i validity not so much upon the statemen
of basic propositions as upon the sound
| ness of the reasoning IN support OF then
lit is not advisable to attempt to convey
| any acquaintance with the science inde
pendently Of that reasoning. lean only
say thsstF am ready to put the world i
possession Of that science if there ar
those in the world who are willing Il
/ bdar the cost of its production. VIII,
can do it at any price? E. F. BOYD.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14

All the latest spring styles in silk, soft
and stiff hats at T. 8. Claytonls, 285 and.
2S54 fifteenth street.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
CARPENTERS.

Carpenters Union, No. IS, of the Brother
hood of America, meets every Saturday
evening at Euclid Hall. ALI good Carpenters
are invited to join.
A. 81. HIGGINS, President
(. j. c. JONES, Secretary.
4 M. T. BLACK, Deputy State Organizer.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
PLAsTERERs' UNION.

The Plasterers' Union, of Denver, meets
every Monday evening at 7:3O O'Clock, in ST.
Joseph's Temperance Hall, corner Fifteenth
and Stout streets.
HARRY COLE, President.
CHARLES NJ. McCABE, Secretary
Address, 160 East 18th street
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
IRON MoLDRRs.

hon Molders Union, meets every fourt
Tuesday of each month at Knights of Labo
Hall, at 7:30p m. 'El-ss>s,s5Il l..
GEORGE SWEET, Secretary
1854 Wewatta street.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
BRIcKLAYERs.

Bricklayers' International Union. mo. !, Of
Colorado, meets first and third Tuesday
evenings in each month, at Elks' Hall, corner
Fourteenth and Larimer streets, Denver,
Colorado. WILLIAM ATKINS, Pres
JAMES COOK, Sec'y.
1923 Blake Street
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
TAILORS,

/ The Tailofs' Protective Society. Of Denver.
meets in Judge Jeffries' court room at
O'Clock D.. M, on the first Monday of each
month. FRED WEIDER, President.
T. HAMLIN, Sec., 29l 18th street,
Room IS Skinner Block
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
LOCAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
lsoe.. under TIL. head are s. per year in advance
TRADES AssEMBLY.

The Trades Assembly of Denver and vicin.
ity meets on the second and fourth Sundays
OF each month. o. L. SMITH, President.
C. L. MERRITT, Secretary, News office.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
TYPoGRAPRIcAL,

TYPOGRAPR1CAL,
Typographical Union, No. 40, meets on the
first SUNDAY of each month at Knights Of
Pythias Hall, al o. clock p. m.
A. R. PELTON, Rec. and Cor. Secy.
Ftp. MANN1X, Financial Secretary.
L $500 Republican Office.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14

The publisher of this paper Is not FespOn-
sIblo for the opinions OF contributors. The
columns will always b.. open for the discus
day. Contributions always welcome.
The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14

Socialism. If he does not teach that
what can his language mean? For my
part cannot see how Socialism can pos
sibly be realized unless it is through the
discovery and the general acceptance of
the new and true science which he fore
sees must some time or another supplant
the present false science" or political
economy. In this view of the subject
the coming science would subserve a
grand and glorious purpose the bring
ing about Of the new social dispensation.
But what would the new philosophy
amount to-; what great good could it ac-
complish, if only found out after the
/" Cooperative Commonwealth" b" shall
have been established2 Here Mr.. Gron-
lund gets the cart before the horse, the
effect before the cause. Were it true
that the .'true science" is to be. discov-
cred only after the Sociallstic dispense
ton shall have been set up. then the
case seems to me 9 hopeless one. be-
lieve that the unfolding of the true econ
omic scisnce and the abandonment of
false (though now popular) theories is
just the progress that must bring to pass
the true social order if it ever comes.
Surely there is no scientific reason why
the coming science may not be discoy-
cred and elaborated as well at the pres
ent day ss = thousand years hence. And
if necessity be motive and incitant to
to discovery the necessity is certainly
infinitely sreater now than it.could be
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-09-04
3sine GInthimu.
Birds are singing,
Flowers are blooming,
Spring has come.

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ter clothing, which was very
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was at zero, will be a burden,
and the increasing heat of the
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thing, therefore, for you to pro-
vide yourself with a nice SPRING
SUIT, and while my stock is large
and varied, those who come first
have the choice of the best
styles.
Clothing is very cheap now.
Indeed, when one looks at the
varied, beautiful and stylish
Garments on my shelves and
counters, they can not help Won
dering how so much, in material
and labor, can be supplied for 50
little money; and yet | sell at a
proft-a small profit, it is true,
but enough to make a living if
[ can induce you to buy my
goods.
~ My Custom Department
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can make you Il handsome and
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| have also on hand an excel
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