The Labor enquirer., 1885-05-16
DENVER, COLORADO

say they have no appeal to the courts
The legislatures are bought and sold by
consolidated capital. Hnot reformation,
there will be revolution, and, said Mr.
Beecher, eff it does come, ! do not hesi-
tate to say I will stand by the common
people against consolidated capital"
/ "That," said Mr.. Davis, when he had
finished reading the extract, sis from the
man who said thata workingman could
live on dollar day. but Mr.. .Beecher
seems to have been born again" Cheers
and cries of agood for Beecher., He has
reformed at last.l
| WISDOM OF THE TEXT.
Continuing, Judge Belford said he
thought they would commend his wis
dom in the selection of the text. Zap
plause.l He did notsknow whether he.
would be arrested for contempt Of not
tomorrow. [Cheers.l If it should so
happen. there would be large company
of them, and his successor in congress
would be compelled to ask that body
for an appropriation to build United
States penltentlary at Denver.
| When Thomas Jefferson wrote the
Declaration of Independence, he de-
clared to the whole world that 1t was
the chief and supreme right of the peo-
pie to petition for the redress of their
grievances. Judge Belford said that
when coming down town in the morning,
his little boy asked him ifhe believed in
strikes, and further inquired if he was
going to make speech for the strikers.
To his boy he replied that he belreved
in a strike as in revolution [Cheersl.
when grievances exist which no other
power can avert. [Cheers and a voice,
that's the word."] In 1898 Mirabeau
told TallYrand, the great secretary of
state under Napoleon, that there was no
great public clamor unless there was a
grievance. [Cheers and applause ]
Those words were significant of what
was coming to that nation which had
submitted to despotism. [Applause.]
This organization is called the Knights
of Labor. Applause and cries of "that's
what 1t ISL That organization was Gre
ated by God when He drove Adam ut
of the Garden of Eden because he was
too lazy to work [Applause.] This
word "labor has come down through the
corridors of time like an anthem sent by
the Almighty. The world was not made
for one man, or there would not be half
a dozen children in some of our families,
nor enough loaves to 60 around. You
have as much right to have this organi-
zatien as those of the middle ages, the
knights of Chivalry. Their object was
to advance and lift men up and teach
tenderness to women; yours is to teach
tenderness to men, women and children,
and see that an honest days labor re-
ceives an honest days pay. [Long and
continued applause.] All capital on the
face of the earth is the product of human
labor. Cheers
THE WORK OF LABOR.
1t Is labor tn at plows the ground and
harrows the field it is labor that sows
the seed and reaps the harvest. 1t is
labor that constructs the church, school
house and railroad. 1t is labor that has
developed YOUR mines, and pushing
across these plains, has made this the
highway for an empire, where you can
present your claims in any court.
1Cheers. Judge Belford said he did not
wish to show any disrespect, or express
or display any, toward the United States
courts. He had known Judge Hallet
for years, and for six years had served
with him on the supreme bench of the
state of Colorado. He believed Judge
Hallet to be an honest man, but an hon
est man could be mistaken. Long, con-
tinued applause The idea of an en-
ploye, on meeting the official of rail-
road in hotel and pounding him over
the head, being a contempt of court.
[Laughter.]
Have you not the right to meet on
Sunday, and protest against the United
States government, the receiver of the
road, and the, First National bank of
Denver2 [Cheers.] If this be treason,
| L. TTbaorS
In 1860 we followed New England to
free the slaves. They were freed and
the country made prosperous, Thank
God, it is free and homogeneous. We
then commenced allowing New England
to run our financial affairs, and uniting
with New York and Pennsylvania, they
control the price of your labor to-day.
What is the condition of affairs in Colo
rado2
The attorney of one political faction
in the republican party controls the
Union Pacific and another the Denver
& Rio Grande, and between the two, In
Biblical language, the laboring men ARE
the Issacharian asses carrying the hay
for them both to live on" Don't you
know that it is notorious fact two or
four wears ago, that they herded the en-
ployes of the Denver & Rio Grande'
through their foreman, with threats OF
discharge if they did not vote as re-
ouested, and thus controlled the prl'
maries. [Cries of that's so."] The
Union Pacific, not to be outdone, mar
sballed up their men to the polls. Other
;os af Mthat,s snnl How long will