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The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
A Strange Preacher.


New York Graphic
There was once minister of the gos-
pei who never built church.
Who never preached in one.
Who never proposed church fair to
buy the church a new carpet.
Who never founded new sect.
Who never belonged to any sect.
Who frequented public houses.
Who never received a salary.
Who never asked for one.
Who never wore a black suit or a
white necktie.
Who never used a prayer book.
Or hymn book.
Or wrote sermon.
Who never hired cornet soloist to
draw souls to hear the Word"
Who never advertised his sermons.
Who never took a text for his ser.
mons.
Who never went through a course of
theological study.
Who preached rank Communism.
Who never was ordained.
Who never was even Converted"
Who never went to conference.
Who was he?
Christ
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04

THE people of this free(?) republic are
sitting in judgment upon the acts of the
Judge, the police, detectives, prosecuting
attorneys and twelve men who decided
to judiciailv murder the Chicago An
archists. Anarchists forsooth why not
hand them for being free-traders? The
capitalist class boast that the jury were
only two hours in reaching verdict. In
two hours they summed up the evidence,
arguments and law which occupied over
fifty days in the court. In two hours
they decided to hang seven men whose
defense was based upon seven distinct
grounds; yet this phenomenal jury
Jumped the whole thing, and gave all
the seven the same penalty-and that
penalty their lives; their wives and
chiidren's protectors-in two hours
What travesty on the seriousness Of
jury service. The people will not render
a verdict in so short time but when
it is gwen, there will be no appeal.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
SOCIALISM DEAD,-

"The Chicago verdict is the death of
Socialism" shouts the capitalistic press,
but it forgets that Bismarck with his
"blood and iron" policy has failed to
crush Socialism in his empire. Despite
his despotic DEGREES against it sixty -four
of its preachers have gotten into the
German parliament and are sapping the
foundation of autocrscy under the very
nose of the autocIat.
Thirty years of blood and iron,"
chains and Siberia, has not killed the
same idea for the cruel tyrant of the
Russian empire.
The Belgian king is unable to stamp
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
THE RICH MAN,

The Rev. William Fawcett of Chicago
said: 1T is no SIN to be rich but the
love of riches is sin" The people from
whom rich men take their wealth by
profit, rent and interest, suffer from
want of it, lust the same whether the
rich man loves riches or not. But where
Is rich man who despises riches? The
rich man invariably loves ricnes there
fore 1t is sin to be>rlch. Rev. Fawcett
draws his inspiration from the bible.
That book has great many passages on
the subject. They are rather contradic-
tory, and no doubt the eminent divine
takes his choice. Here are few;
Blessed is the man that feareth the
Lord. Wealth and riches shall be in
his b ouse."
Blessed be ye poor"
I'm the house of the righteous is
much treasure"
Lay not up for yourselves ire asures
upNA COL GOI VI 10 LuCI e
will your heart be also"
Take, therefore, no thought saying
what shall We eat2 or what shall we
drink or wherewithal shall we be
clothed2"
But if any provide not for his own,
he hath denied the faith and is worse
than an infdel."
Sell that ye have and give aims"
"a good man leaveth an inheritance
to his children's children"
Lend, hoping for nothing again and
your reward will be great"
"Wo unto you that are rich! for ye
have received your consolation"
And the Lord was with Joseph and
he was prosperous"
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
The New Revolution,
For the ENQUIRER.

For the Enquirer.
1t is in the thoughts of thousands that
we shall have another Revolution before
the differences between capital and
labor can be adjusted. Yes, and the
Revolution is not only coming, but it is
here, and has been doing its work for
years.
Our first Revolution was bloody, and
required a long war to accomplish it.
This was not the fault of the Revolution,
but of the pig-headed obstinacy~ of the
vested interests" of kingcraft. The
French Revolution was also bloody,
from the like opposition Of the vested
interests Of aristocracy; and the New
Revolution here may also be bloody and
destructive, from the stupid obstinacy
and greed of the vested interests" of
capital.
But Revolutions are not necessarily
bloody of themselves. They do not de-
mand blood, but reforms. The resist
ance and the first blood is due to "vested
interests" And these same interests
stand in the way of the present Revolu-
ton, and have already shed the first
blood.
In all ages of the world labor has been
more orless discontented with its seryile
position, according to its enlightenment
Look back fortv years. We had only
few feeble trades unions, seeking simply
for more wages, with no thought of great
industrial reforms. But the unions have
spread, and intelligence has progressed,
until now the country Is covered by
organized associations of labor, demand
ing great reforms. Strikes and lockouts
take place, and police and military are
called upon to put down these turbulent
manifestations of the hereditary serfs.
TEese are all steps in the Revolution.
1t grows every day, because dlscon-
tent with existing industrial conditions
precedes every movement. No discon-
tent, no Revolution. The discomfort
arises from the robberies and tyrann les
of capital. The Revolution does not ask
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
JOE GRUENHUT's IDEAS.
He Is Confident That the Condemned
Anarchists VIII Never be
Hanged.

Chicago News.
Mr.. Joseph Gruenhut, the well-known
labor organizer and statistician for the
city, said:
Those seven men will never hang.
There Is nothing in the world against
Neebe except that he is born organ
izer of labor and saw fit to exercise his
power. The labor people will not allow
their leaders toShang. Politics will save
them. There Is no majority in the state
or in the CITY without the labor party.
l have C lied consultation cf the labor
leaders for tomorrow afternoon at
Greenebaum's hall. I have always been
in favor of seeking reform for the labor
wrongs by pol tic methods. Spies and
those fellows never liked me on that ac-
count, and to show the public that l diff
fered from them 1 did what could to
secure that interview for the Daily News,
published January IA. Spies in that
talk manufactured the evidence which
convicted him.
There is nothing against Parsons. He
is member of the same Knights of
Labor assembly with me, and know he
is the idol of his assembly. The
Knights will not see him hanged. 1t
will require $4,000 to take the case to
the supreme court but 1t will be raised
in day. Grlnnell did not expect con-
viction for murder and neither did the
people. The common people cannot un-
derstand the Justice in hanging men for
conspiracy. The murder theory is not a
fact; it was simply formality.
If they do hang the seven men - but |
have said think they will not-it will
precipitate a war between labor and
capital all over the United States
There is nothing to deter the people.
We have no standing army as they have
IN Europe-no trained band of spies as
they have there. The clergy cannot ex-
tort the secrets of the people through
the old men and the women as they do
in Europe. do not tell you what ad
wise, but simply what | know. The Ia
boring men reason differently from their
employers. The capitalist says to him
self that this will be the end of Anarchy
and possibly of labor troubles and the
eight-hour question. The laborer ar
CUES that the result of the trial has dem
onstrated the inability of the police to
discover the thrower of bombs. They
say here are seven men who had moth
ing to do with the bomb, yet they are
convicted. Hence they think it safer to
throw bomb than to deliver speech
Mr.. Grinnell is bound to procure indict,
ments now against all other members o1
the armed section of the Lehr and Wehr
verein. Of course it is false reasoning
but it is the way the common people
look at the question.
NV work has always been towards
legislative redress and moral force. !
organized the eght-hour movement, and
a lot of fools precipitated the throwing
of the bomb. At the labor council to-
morrow l will advocate a return to the
political field as our only remedy. l
think the men who have been led
astray by Spies and others can be
brought back to a solid footing.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
A MONSTER MEETING.
The Socialists OF London 10 900 Strong
Meet and Protest Against
the Police.

Special to The Enquirer.
LONDON, August 29.-Early last week
Mr.. Henry Hyndman, the leader of the
London Socialists, informed your cores
pondent that the Socialists intended to
engage i'll an immense demonstration
to-day to protest against the continua-
ton of the Imprisonment of Williams.
The police were also warned about the
same time OF the intentions of the So
cialists, and were generally inclined to
ridicule the affair. but Gen. Sir Charles
Warren, commissioner of police, took
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04

out Socialism which is honey -combing
his kingdom splendidly.
Victoria, with her dungeons, police
and soldiers innumerable. fails to check
the Socialistic tide which rushes on her
loved England, the land of noblemen
and paupers.
"Blood and iron" have been used with
out stint in the foolish endeavor to kill
Socialism in Europe and still it remains.
as a recent correspondent to the San
Francisco Chronicle said, "The red
spectre of Europe whose advance is caus-
ing more uneasiness than is willingly ad-
mitted by the crown-bearers" .-s
Notwithstanding these fact, which
should teach them the absurdity of
their claim, the capitalistic watch dogs
howl "the death of Socialism" because
of the Chicago verdict.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04

WHEN the great and good Lincoln was
assassinated the people weut mad, and
Mrs. Surratt was adjudged conspirator
and hanged, simply because it was
shown that her son had conspired. The
country was afterward 80 convinced Of
her innocence that her son was allowed
to 60 unwhipped ofjustice, as a partial
expiatlon of the wrong done the mother.
Something of the same frenzy has
seized the prosecutors of the Chicago
Anarchists. Those men have not been
proved guilty of violating any law while,
on the other hand, the verdict in their
case is fragrant breach of the constitu-
ton of the United States, which guar
antees the right of public assemblage to
protest against all wrongs, even those
committed in the name of the govern
ment. John Brown died because of his
defense of humane principle; he was
hanged. Now his name Is written next
to Washington's, Oh, the irony of
history.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
Comparisons.
New York Sun.

new 1OIk sun. ..|L ....-I
After the rebellion of 1898 the people
of Ireland ere ruled by the vilest of
mankind partisan judges, packed jurles,
spies and informers. No mans life or
liberty was safs. The oath of the lowest
wretch in creation was evidence sutfi-
cient to criminate any man. These
facts are we'll known to Americans, and
the memory of Castlereagh & Co. has
been cursed from the Atlantic to the Pa
citic. Yet: now, in this Democratic
republic, the same system is in full
swing, and the great daily papers that
claim to represent public opinion utter
no protest against the perversion of JUS
tice. but approve, and even urge on those
officials to violate the sacred principles
of the constitution in the cases of the So
called boycotters, Socialists, Anarchi is,
etc.
ask~you, sir, do you think they would
convict Doodle alderman on the evil
dence against the so-called rioters in
Chicago? The witnesses, like their
Irish prototypes, are spies and informers,
and members~of that band whose exist
eGce IN democratic republic is q dis.
grace to American manhood mean
Pinkerton's detectives. Was such evil
dence received against jay Gould's men,
who meant business, and showed they
did bv killing woman and several men
Do you say those murders were lawful,
and if they were not, why was not Jay
Gould brought to trial? And why was
the voice of the daily press not raised to
demand that Justice be done =?
believe all reforms ought to be won
by the ballot, not by bomb Or bullet ;
but I believe IN the right of the people
to meet and discuss or protest against
wrong, and therefore the meeting in the
haymarket was legal, and there was nc
riot until the police came to drive the
people off the ground. I may be wrong,
butI believe the police have no right to
interfere until there is a riot. If the
constitution gives all people the right to
assemble, and the police attempt to dis
perse the people, the police are the law
breakers, and the people ought to repel
force by force. If at the meeting Spies,
Fielden or Parsons spoke sedition. they
ought to have been arrested on war
rant charging them with the ofense.
Thus the riot might have been avoided
1t appears that in practice they have
added these clauses to the constitution :
First, citizens to have the right of public
meeting, unless the police object ;
second, freedom of speech, if the police
captains permit; third, right to bear
arms, if hired by, and arms provided by
a millionaire. EDWARD SToKoE.
PORT DRAM. New jersey.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
The Stout Picnic.

Editor Labor Enquirer.
Stout, August 22.-The Knights of
Labor of Stout will hold a monster pic
mic on Wednesday, September 6, at Gills
grove in Laporte, Colorado, and it is ex-
pected that fully 1000 knights will be
present. Revs. Myron Reed and De La
Matyr, and Joe Murray, will speak on
the burning questions of our day, which
questions are the labor and social. This
picnic is gotten up to assist the Stout
assembly to secure funds with which to
build hall. All Knights of Labor of
Denver are cordially invited to take
part, and also to bring their families
with them. The Stout boys will enter
tain them in royal manner, and the
people who come here will have the I'M
preston that fun and pleasure can be
had outside of the Capital City.
RICHARD c. CoRDEs,
Recording Secretary L. A. 1867.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
sEAMEN, TAKE NoT1cEE

The Coast Seamen's Union is the
Backbone of the Pacific Coast Labor
Movement. Capital has subscribed
large sums to break it up and threatens
to import men from the east and abroad.
there are on the Pacific Coast now three
men for every place. Winter is coming
on and soon thousands will be out of work.
Therefore keep away from San Fran
cisco. The COAST SEAMEN's UNION,
July l, 1885. $500 strong.
BURNETT 6. HASKELL, Chairman AdYis-
ory Committee, 5l34 East Street, San
Francisco, California,
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live but to battle with evil,
To fight for humanity's good;
But the conflict is very unequal,
Because am not understood.
stand face to face with the tyrant,
His hosts must vanquish alone;
Or fall in the deadly encounter,
Uuloved and unwept and unknown.
The loved ones whom fondly I've cherished,
For whom now peril my life,
Have forsaken me, scorned and derided,
And joined with my foes in the strife.
Yet will not, l cannot condemn them,
Their cause espouse as my own;
1 will die in the battle for freedom,
Or tyranny shall be o'erthrown. 4.
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.OmCe OF SeCretarY-1reaSurer. }
CHICAGO, September, 1886.
DEAR SIR-Wage-workers, acting in
unison, need but to make reasonable
and just demands to have them acceded
to. The enemy of organized labor relies
for success entirely upon the dissensions 8
and lealousies of the laborer; upon his
ignorance in not lawfully and peacefully
securing his share of the fruits of his in
dustry. The enemy of labor cannot sue
ceed in business corporate or private)
without the patronage and encourage
ment of the ge-earner. Why this as
sistance is given to those inlmical to his
interests is unaccountable.
The John Morris Company, stationers
printers, etc., l18 and 120 Monroe street,
Chicago formerly Culver, Page, Hoyne
& Co.., has, for many years, been the
avowed and unrelenting enemy of Or
ganized labor (haying had three strik es
in the last few years. and persistently
prescribing workmen because of society
membership. The support of this firm
is drawn chiefly from your section of
country, where orders for blanks, blank
books, engraving, etc., for county and
other officials are obtained and after
ward printed and bound in their estab,
lishment in Chicago-work that should
be done in the communities from which
these officials receive their sustenance.
But for such support this firm coul not
exist.
A vigorous and determined kick occa-
sionally administered through the
proper channel will convince such peo-
pie that they are understood and held in
merited contempt, and have a whole
some effect upon others who are indiffer-
ent or ignore the best interest of the
wage-worker.
Printers especially are personally In
terested in'suppressing this natural en-
emy, and should cooperate with all
wage-workers who desire the success of
organized labor. Your influence as public
spirited men is invoked on behalf of
your own home industries.
We confidently hope for your assist
ance, and promise to reciprocate shou Id
the opportunity offer.
By order of committee.
Yours in the cause of labor,
SAMUEL RAsTALL,
Secretary Treasurer.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
Credit Eoncier

The scheme of the Credit Foncier of
sinaloa is 80 captivating that it is no
wonder that nearly 300of "our kind of
people" in Denver have applied for
STOCK. All interested in integral COOP
Grafton should attend the meetings at
Meets hall, 241 Fifteenth street. every
Saturday night. Come tonight, anyhow.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04

IF the reports are to be trusted it does
not seem that Prosecuting Attorney
Grinnell's proph hecy is being verified.
He said that if the jury would convict
the men in the Chicago trial, it would
end the agitation of Anarchy IN this
country. 1t seems that the verdict of
guilty has only just opened the agitation.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04

THE Chicago Express has begun to
speak out plainly on the murderous and
illegal proceedings of Grnnell Bon
field, Pinkerton & Co., and what The
ENQUIRER said last week don't 60" now.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
IRON M0IRERa

lion Molders' Union. meets every second
ana fourth Tuesday of each month at Reno
hal, TWenty-seventh and Holiday, at 7:30 p.
m. J. j. SMITH, Cor Sec.,
10l5 Holiday street.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
3RICKIAYERS.

,63rickiayers' lnternat1ona Union, No. l, OF
Colorado, meets The second and fourth Mon
aay evenings In each month, at No. 379 Lari-
mer street, Denver, Colorado
JAMES COOK, Sec'y. M. SULLIVAN,
lO8 Blake Street. President.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
NAPpFNTEDc

Carpenters Union, No. IS, OF the Brother.
mood of America. meets every Saturday
evening at Euclid Hall. All good Carpenters
are invited to join.
E. c. WALLACE, President,
T. R. LARIMER, Rec Sec,
A. E. GILMAN, Cor. Sec.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
: PLAsTERERs' UNION,

The Plasterers' Union, of Denver, meets
every Monday evening at 1880 O'Clock, In ST..
oseph's Temperance Hall, corner Fifteenth
and Stout streets.
HARRY COLE, President.
CHARLES M. McCABE, Secretary.
Address, 16O East 18th street.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04

This fall the politicians will endeavor
to put cape on nv back and torch in
my hand and stamp the word Demo
crat" on my forehead. My neighbor
will be clothed with cape and armed
with torch and branded Republican"
The band will play and eloquent polite
ians will appeal to our political preiu-
dices in favor of the grand old party"
We will 60 to the polls and vote against
one another just as we have often done
before, the politicians will scoop in the
spoils and like Shakespeare exclaim:
What fools these mortals be Do you
recognize the picture or do you want a
brick building to tumble ON vou.?-
Union Banner.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
TRADES ASSEMBLY.

The Trades Assembly of Denver and Vcin-
1ty meets on the second and fourth Sunday
Of each month, in Police court room, City
hail., at o'clock. GEO. E. GREY, Prest.
T. HAMLIN, Secretary.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
TAII0R9

The Ta1lors Protective Society. Of Denver,
meets in Judge Jeffries' court room, a
O'Clock p. m., on the first Monday of each
month: OTTO KRAUZ, President.
T. HAMLIN, Secretary.
Room 5S Skinner Block,
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04
FEEDER ATEn TRAnEs

Headquarters of the Representative Couu-
Gil of the Federated Trades and Labor Organ
lzatlons Of the Pacific coast is at Huddy's
nall, so9H Market, San Francisco, California.
FRANK RONEY, President.
Z. ID. MCKINLEY, Cor. Sec
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04

BRICK MoULDERs' & Settlers UNION.
Meets every Thursday evening at 557 Down
Ing avenue, at o'clock. p.ll-l-S6
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04

Use Wilhelm's Nasaline for Catarrh,
Hay Fever and Colds. Drug stores; 6Oc,
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An Enemy Of Lab or.

The following circular, which explains
itself, has been issued bv Chicago Tppo-
graphical union
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-04

CHICAGO TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, No. Is |
Office of Secretary Treasurer. !
CHICAGO, September, 1886.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-05-27

An Art which Preserves Forgotten Treas
ures.

~ l-IGstItts
There are few chapters in the history
of art of greater interest than those
which unfold to us the discovery of for
gotten treasures, and reveal the exist
ence of wo As which had long ago
passed out of remembrance. The init
mate connection between the invention
of engraving AID the art of the silver
smith, or rather that branch of the
silversmith's work which consists of the
changing of an outline into q plate of
precious metal to be subsequently fiji ed
up with dark-colored enamel, and So
called niello work. was never appre j.
ated until, at the close of the last cen
fury, the Able Zani found among some
old Italian engravings in the National
Library at laris IA print which he
recognized as similar in sub, ect to the
famous pax, decorated with niello work,
made by Maso Finiguerra for the bap-
tistry of st. John, and paid for, as Is
proved by the records, in 1892. This
pax or Assumption was subsequently
transferred to the cabinet of bronZes in
the gallery in Florence, where it is now
preserved, and it was proved on COM
paring it with the engraving that the
matter had actually b. en- printed from
the silver plate before the enamel was
fused into the outline, prior, therefore,
to 1852. On the strength of this dis
covery Finiguerra has, ever since the
year 1876, been credited with the inven-
tion of producing engravings on paper
from metal plates. There seems little
reason TO doubt, as has often been
pointed out, that many silversmiths of
the fifteenth century may have been in
the habit of obtaining trials of their
work in progress, as did Finiguerra,
perchance, when he produced this his
torical print, representing Christ crown
ing the Virgin, from his work on the
florentine pax. 1t may, indeed, have
been, together with the well-known
sulphur casts, recognized mode of
obtaining q record of the niello work,
which had been practiced for many
years previous to the time in question,
though no such paper impressions of an
earlier date than this have been handed
down to us. 1t was common practice
to take proofs of the work by means OF
sulphur casts long previous to 1852. as
numerous specimens of such casts two
sulphur casts of Finiguerra's pax are
still in existence) have been preserved
to us, but it is difficult to say who was
the first bold innovator who substituted
piece of paper for the sulphur and
thus originated the precious art of en-
craving. The story Of the wet linen,
which accidentally gave the id a to Fini-
guerra, is generally treated as fiction
by those who have studied this subject.
Art journal.