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The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-18
DO YOU WONDER AT CRIME.

Henry Mccarthy, a printer, his wife,
and two children, one babe of eighteen
mouths, were dispossessed from 124
Orchard street Yesterday morning, and
wandered through the streets without
food or money. The babe died in its
mothers arms, The father went to the
Eldridge street police station, where the
policemen made 10 small purse for the
family and sent for a coroner. Six hours
later no coroner had appeared.-New
York Sun, Sept IL.
Read this, and then say do you won
der at crime? Here is case of starva-
ton for those who poohpoah the truths
uttered by the rranks. You will admit
that II Mas death from a lack of nour-
lshment; what have you to say when l
tell you it was murder? Well such it
was; murder most foul; murder by the
side of which the executions in the hay
market were as nothing.
Who is the murderer? Society and
every man who helps to uphold the
present system was accessory Lefore the
fact This same murderer has the blood
of millions Of slaughtered babes, men
and women upon its hands.
Millions annually starve to death in
the civilized" world, say the best au-
thorities. They are everyone muir
dered by Society Through such awful
miseries as were suffered by that printer
and his wife, thieves, murderers and
prostitutes-humant tends are made of
men and women; and of every crime
committed BY them Society is guilty.
Women and helpless little children
are turned, famished and half naked,
by the ruthless hand of the landlord,
out into the streets to die, and Society,
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Free Press n Tradition.

MRS. WAIsBRooKER You are the
most fearless woman l know. l have
Just been reading your Wait? No, SIR
| am coward, Lois. Ever since the re-
suit of the Anarchists trial here | have
been boiling over with rage. Think of
hanging men who have no more been
proved guilty of murder than have,
and all because an idiotic people-the
wretched tool of a monopolistic press,
are crying for innocent blood. l have
been boiling with rage but dare not say
so in my paper Yonder in the next
room my forms are made up ready to 60
to press and there is not one word of
which my heart is so full.
Gam I afraid to speak my tn ughts
Yes am! Ny paper would be con-
demned in the mails if l did, apd l
should run the risk of having nv ribs
stamped IN by a ruffianIy police that
have treated hundreds Of people in this
manner since the fourth of last May
when every soul in the city Of Chicago
was put under gag law under penalty of
death. HELEN WILMANs."
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with sanctimonious face, only shrugs its
shoulders and wonders at the increase In
crime. And the brutal landlord is one
of the choicest, and certainly the most
substantial pillar of Society. X
Society builds iails and makes crfmi-
mails to fill them 1t erects insane asvl-
ums and is the wrecker that fills them
with shattered intellects 1t peoples
the houses of prostitution with its VIC
Tins It drives millions to beggary, and
then fiaunts the lie of its charity" IN
the face of Christi! 1t makes laws"
for the punishment of the criminals 1t
has created, and then provides judges
and counsellors who protect the rich
from their enforcement Society shares
its bed with the prostitute at night, and
sits as her Judge on the morrow 1t ls
responsible for all the poverty, ninety
per cent of the prostitution, ninety nine
per cent of the murders, all of the steal
ing, and vet its supporters wonder at
crime
Henry Mccarthy, gather your fellow
victims around you in the public square
and tell them of the murder OF your
babe and, if you have the courage to
face the clubs and bullets of Capitalism'f
thugs, tell them who is the murderer
T. NAV he that yuur story will serve tc
warn your hearers of their approaching
fate and it may be you will be hanged
for "preaching Anarchy" but you will
deserve a worse death if you hold your
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Notes From the sun.

AUGUSTA, Georgia, Sept. 10.-Notice
has been served upon the operatives oc-
cupylng houses owned by the Augusta
factory that thev must vacate at once, as
the houses are wanted for operatives who
are going To work. Everything con-
tinues quiet and unchanged about the
mills. Only few hands are working in
the picker room of the Augusta factory.
Efforts are still being made to compro:
mise the differences between the facto-
ries and the employees. Very few of the
5000 hands out of employment have
left the city. Thev are waiting for an
adjustment of the differences, preferring
to remain here idle than to seek for
work else where.
+ The clothing cutters in thirty shops
of the manufacturing clothiers were at
work Yesterday. No work was done in
the ether fifty shops, the bosses in which
demanded on Thursday that their men
should abandon their trade unio n.
There were strikes IN the shops of
Nathan Brothers in Canal street and D.
L. Newberg & Son, Broadway. The
firms insisted that their clothing cutters
should work ten hours instead of nine.
In the afternoon they sent for their men
and told them to 90 to work at nine
hours. 1t was resolved subsequently,
that the present arrangement of stop
ping work on SATURDAY. at noon should
continue until October l. After that
work will stop at o'clock on Saturday
The JourneYmen Plumbers union re.
ported yesterday that the master plum b.
ers had taken down their apprenticeship
rules in two more shops, and that only
430 plumbers are on strike now. Last
evening the master plumbers met at 50
Union square, distributed tWenty-eight
helpers among the different members of
their association, and resolved to make
a black list of the apprentices who de.
sert them in the fight, A committee Of
five was appointed to confer with the
master builders on concerted action in
case the iourneymen plumbers continue
the war.
The knit goods manufacturers in Am
sterdam, New York, met Yesterday and
resolved to close their mills on Monday
if the striking spinners in Schuyler &
Blood's mill do not return to work.
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THE ANTI-CHINESE MEETING.
A Large Attendance With Considerab bl e
Interest Manifested-The
Resolutions.

There was an attendance at the anti
Chinese meeting last Sunday which
completely filled the police court room.
DR.. S. 7. Peet presided, and w. A Graves
was secretary. Addresses were made by
Joseph R. Buchanan, Judge A J. Qng-
ley and James B. B4lford, in the order
named. Resolutions were introduced
and considerable discussi on ensued. The
resolutions as adopted are as follows:
Whereas, The history Of all countries
where the Chinese have been permitted
to reside among other races has resulted
in the most physical and industrial de-
cadence of the people; and
Whereas, The evils arising from the
presence of the Chinese are:
First-Their coming is invasion, not
immigration.
Second-They have no homes nor
families among US.
Third-Their domestic relations and
modes of living are such as fore pre-
clude their assimilation with our people.
Fourth-By education and custom
they are sntagonistic to a republican
form of government.
Fifth-rhey maintain in our midst
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Labor in Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE, Sept. IA full delega-
ton was elected to the state labor con-
vention, to be held at Newark this
week. The ward caucusses were large.
Alexander Mitchell. the railroad
prince and bank president, as we'll as the
richest man in Wisconsin, democrat,
has come ont for the reelection Of Gov
ernor Rush for third term, making the
issue a straight one-Capital versus
Labor.
A committee of the Labor party are to
make report of the facts about being
connected with the "Bay View maSsa-
cre." Maps and illustrations will show
the ground and illustrate the fact that
the eight hour committee did not see
the military until after the fatal shots
we're fired.
Milwaukee Is almost certain to elect
K. Of L. legislators this wear.
SKYLIGHT. JR
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AN APOLOGY.

Those comrades who read The En-
oU1RER closely will be more than likely
to notice that it is not up to its usual
standard this week. The reasons Tor
this are several, and the circumstances
unavoidable: In addition to the con-
slant worry that has been mine for sew
eral weeks (the cause of which is well
known to the comrades), several small
but aggravating things, have tended to
rather upset me and disarrange the con,
Germ this week. have been physically
under the weather for several days on
Tuesday one of the most necessary at
taches of the Office was taken seriously
i'll and, being unable to secure someone
to fill his place, had to throw my coat
and undertake to perform his duties,
upset as l was on. Thursday morning
| received instructions to proceed at
once to Blossburg, New Mexico, there
to investigate the strike of coal miners,
which has been going on for a month
So, reader, you can see how | have been
and am still pushed, and l hope you
will overlook all shortcomings with this
issue and trust me to do the best | can
under all circumstances.
may not be in New Mexico longer
than a week-I hope everything can be
satisfactorily arranged IN that time-but
will have 10 start for Richmond almost
as soon as l get home. Therefore let
me ask you to extend your charity over
the next five or six weeks, at the same
time I urge you to be prompt, and as
liberal as possible, in forwarding sub
stantial aid to the office.
If The ENQUIRER was supporte1 as it
should BE- by the comrades these little
affairs, which are quite natural, would
not amount to anything, and the editor
would be spared all apologies"
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THE RED FLAG IN LONDON
A Meeting in Which Sixty Thousand
Social Democrats Participate.
The Resolutions.
For The Enquirer.

For The Enquirer.
On Sunday, August 90, Trafalgar
square was the scene of one of the largest
demonstrations which have ever been
held in the British metropolis, The
meeting was called tog ther, as stated
in my last letter to THE ENAUIRER, to
demand the immediate release of our
comrade, John Williams, who is now
suffering two months imprisonment for
speaking at the corner of street IN the
Edgware road, and to maintain the right
of free speech for all opinions. The
square, as no doubt your readers will re-
member, was the scene of the famous
unemployed" meeting of the eighth of
February. The police authontie made
the most elaborate preparations for keep
ing 'order" and am bould TO say that
they were less demonstrative in their at
tentons than they have been on previ-
ous occasions, although 2,400 constables
were present on the sute and in the
square, ana several nskglstrates were held
in readiness to read The riot act
lmyselt was on one of the South Lon
don detachments the whole of which
met at the foot of Westminster bridge
and marched past the houses Of parlia-
ment and the government offices in
Parliament street up to the square, our
band playing the ever-inspiring Mar
seillaise," and our banners and flags dis
playing a significant warning of coming
events to the gazers at the windows of
the arlstocratic residences. On the road
We were accompanied by many foot and
mounted police, and our men decorated
with tho red ribbon, preserved an or
derly and really impressive demeanor.
The appearance of the Nelson column
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-18
JOURNALISTIC COWARDS.

The sensational "story-papers" of the
country are not to be out-done by daily
newspapers in sensationalism if they
know themselves. What with mighty,
unearthed ConspiraCies, horrible pic
lures, huge dried beef cutters and dang
ling nooses, one would think the height
Of diabolical frenzy creations had been
reached by Chicago journals.
But an eastern paper which sends out
weakly slush for peoples men al food,
thereby crowding out every sensible or
practical thought, is going beyond them,
They have concocted a blood-curdling
story of the Anarchists out of newspaper
details and their own hot-house imagin-
ations, Pictures of black Con5piraCies
hatched IN fearful dens are shown up
where the hero detective is one of the
party, and drinks blood aud beer with
the other dark spirits in order 10 get
their secrets. The "eight" are repre-
sented as hIdeous as black ink and IN.
scrupulous literary Quacks can make
them. And such stories will 90 through
the land to poison the minds of thou.
sands of readers, while here and there
are an unusually well-baanced head
will be led to inquire. What is Anarchy
anywav?" and 60 on asking until he
learns something to his own and the
worlds ad vantage.
What ought to be done to towards
who print such lies q? Cowards they are
for they would not stand before Fieder
or Parsons of Spies free, and call then
such names as they do in the so-called
STORY"
Sue them for libel? They can only
be touched through their pockets-but
alas, law is only grand machine run
by parties in power, and only means o.
much vexation Of spirit to all others.
Or, wait the slow grinding of the mills
of the gods2
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FOR THIS THEY AGITATE.

IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo, Sept. 15-Re-
turned excursionists from Salt Lake City
avow that the Edmunds law as executed
bv the territorial officers is working
great hardship to the women and Gil
dren who are effected by it, and they
declare emphaticaIly that the law should
be repealed or 80 modified as to prevent
polygamous marriages In the future and
the evasion of the law, but they con-
denim the present method as cruel and
barbarous in the extreme, without effect
ing the purpose that was intended by
the government.
Edmunds and the other prime agita-
tors against the Mormons care absolutely
nothing for polygamy; as a rule they are
men who practice it themselves, with the
difference that they do not support and
acknowledge but one wife. The whole
object of this "anti-polygamy" agitation
is scheme of the monopolists and land
sharks to drive the Mormons out of
their homes, so that their beautiful val
ley can be gobbled up by themselves,
The tenacitv with ,ich the Mormons
cling to the polygamous phase of their
religion (while only a small per cent
really practice it) is well known, to none
better than these same agitators; and
their past record shows that they will
give up their homes before they will re-
oh yrit
ligious beliefs. The object of Edmunds
and his scOuDdrellv assO iates is to
make it so hot for the Mormons" that
they will do as they have in the past,
desert their homes and leave them to
the monopolst and political thief.
The Mormons have made the Salt
Lake valley, which was once an arid
plain, blossom as the rose have made
it the garden spot of this continent, and
the eyes Of the greedy, vicious land thief
beholds it, while his avaricious nature
covets His bloody paws itch to clutch
this lovely and valuable spot. For this
do they agltate the question of poly gamy
in Utah, while they practice and con-
done lust and prostitution a hundred
fold more disgusting in their own terri
tory.
THE ENQUIRER does mt uphold polvg-
amy; like Myron Reed, 81 am opposed
to it, in Utah, Denver or the District of
Columbia" but when the libertines,
thieves and murderers of the United
States try to cloak their crimes beneath
the garb of virtue and morality" | will
cry out and denounce the hel-hounds.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-18
Home Rule For England.

Fellow Countrymen and Fellow workers.
The present grave crisis in the polit-
ical and social world proves the necessity
for the readjustment of the whole legis-
tive machinery in the British States. 1t
is of vital interest to English working
men and women that the right of home
rule should at once be given to the peo-
pie of Ireland, who have struggled for
justice and liberty amidst the greatest
tyranny and oppression that ever con-
fronted nations progress. Scotland
and. Wales are complaining of not receiv-
ing that attention under the present sys-
tenn of government which Is urgently
necessary for the welfare of the peoples
Of their respective countries. and de-
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-18
AMERICAN sEAmEN, TAKE NOTICE

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 fwork.
Therefore keep away from San Fran
cisco. THE COAST SEAMRN's UNION,
July l, 1886. $500 strong.
BURNETT G. HASKELL, Chairman Adyis-
ory Committee, 5lS3 East Street, San
Francisco, California,
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dread of It than of anv other inevitable
event. His cheek did not blanch when
the verdict of guilty and the doom were
pronounced. He was as calm as at any
other stage of the proceedings, and
amused himself by waving red hand
kerchief at the window Of the COURT
room. which the police foolishl7 pretend
was signal for revolt to the mob out
side, but which was plainly intended
as nothing more or less than jest at the
expense of the officers.
Retired to his cell, he devoted himself
to writing, not in his own defense, but
in defense of the principles of what he
calls Anarchism. His reply to Pow-
derly was as calm presentation OF those
principles as could have been written by
philosopher in the peace and security
of his library. There is not word In II
that would suggest the shadow OF the
pallows in which it was writted. Ar
chimedes Interrupted oy the honlan
soldier in the midst of his equations,
and quietly reques ing the intruder to
postpone his murder for few minutes
until he solved the problem he was
working on, was not calmer or more ab'
stracted than this man Parsons.
Another phase of his character is
shown in the little episode revealed bV
the Mail newspaper on Friday. When
he was informed about the lady who in
ouired about him at Baltimore when the
police were hunting for him. His writ
ten reply to the reporters could no'
have been more delicately conceived OF
worded had Chevalier BaVard himself
been its author. Parsons has the in
stincts Of a gentlemen, as we'll as the
brain of philosopher, and the heart OF
hero. 1t is pity that these high quail
tiles we're not directed to better. ends
Such as he is, however, let US be just to
him, even though we hang him. Give
the devil his due.-Detroit Daily News
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-18

mand, as the only solution of the dlth
Gully, home rule parliament for g acn
country, in which they may attend TO
their neglected internal affairs.
Fellow countrymenl Are not we in
England suffering most severely from
the neglect Of home affairs? The history
of our parliamentary system plainly
shows its incapacity to deal eftectuallV
with the social evils that are slowly but
surely destroying the life of our people.
To. .day we are governed and dominated
by. a parliament comprised almost
wholly of the classes who live upon the
fruits of other peoples labor. This par
lament spends its time in passing eoer-
c,on acts and futile reform bills for Ire
land and other parts of the empire, and
in wasting the wealth we earn to main
tain an army, not for the benefit OF the
English workers, but to enslave and
massacre peoples of weak countries IT. 9
the Egyptions and Burmese, in order to
extract large interests and profits to sat.
isfy the greedy demands of English and
other bondholders and traders who live
on the degradation and poverty of the
toiling masses. They make laws to
evict tenAnts who cannot ray rack rents
to the greedy landlords in Ireland, Scot
tland and Wales, and also turn our
miners and their families from their
homes into the street in England, where
the men refuse to work for starvation
wages. The land is getting into fewer
hands, and is fast going out of cultiva-
ton, and the tlllers of the soil are crowd
ing into our large cities, there to COM
pete with our townsmen in the struggle
for life, or swell the army of unemployed.
English fathers, have a thought for
the future of your children Let us
unite as the Irish have united, and de-
mand home rule for England, a leglsIa'
tive assembly to deal solely with our
affairs, and thus remedy the social evils
under which we suffer, or our condition
will become deplorably worse. English
workers, then, unite and prepare the
way for brighter future for yourselv es
and your children. Let us unite to make
laws for the abolition oflandlordism and
the established church to give free ed
ucation to our children, and make the
land, mines, railways and other means
of transit the property of the pc ople, tt
be used for the benefit of all; to abolish
the robbery of the funding system, and
establish national banks which shall alb
sorb all private institutions that derive
a profit from operations in money OF
credit; to say how we shall be taxed and
how the money shall be spent and reg
ulate the cost and administration Of
Justice, and so make England happy
home for the English.
And then, when we have obtained oul
own freedom, shall we be able to brlne
about the union of the English speaking
peoples, and prepare the way for the
Brotherhood of Man.
Issued by the Nottingham Section of
the Socialist Union.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-18

secret societies in defiance of our laws
Sixth-The presence ofso many adults
owing allegiance to foreign govern
ment is dangerous.
They are driving white labor
from Colorado U
Eighth-The contract system under
which thev come to this country is vir-
tually system of peonage hostile to
American institutions. g.:
Ninth-Their presence deters the
growth of a reliable labor element among
our boys and girls.
Tenth-After subsisting on the lowest
possible portion of their earnings, they
send the residue. amounting to many
millions annually. to China, while the
institution of American labor would re,
tain this vast sum of money in our own
country. For these reasons they are a
constant and growing menace, and it ls
necessary that their immigration must
| % 5UOpp6u duu Cu0CUlNOi ihOaoutSS ~
taken to remove those among us.
Resolved, That demand that the
government of the United States take
immediate steps to prohibit abs Dlnt9lV
this Chinese invasion.
Resolved, That we will not patronize,
vote for or associate with any man who
EMPLOYS Chinaman, and to this end We
hereby sign these resolutions ant
pledge ourselves to use all practica
means to enforce our demands.
After the passage of the resolutions,
roll of membership was opened, and
number of signatures were obtained.
The meeting then adjourned unit
next Sunday Ito morrow afternoon at
o'clock, when the organization ofan anti
Chinese league will be perfected Every
one interested in the subject of regulat
ing the Chinese are invited to b
present.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-18

DETROIT celebrated Labor Day" in
grand style. The capitalist press, IN its
reports, said nothing of the red and the
black flags being carried sids by side in
the procession, but thev we're there all
the same
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-18
PLASTERERS' LINTON

The Plasterers' Union, of Denver, meets
every Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock, in ST
oseph's Temperance Hall, corner Fifteenth
and Stout streets.
HARRY COLE President.
CHARLES NJ. McCABE, Secretary.
Address, l60 East 18th street.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-18
CARPENTERS.

! 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. f. GILMAN, Cor. Sec.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-18
BRICKLAYERS.

Br1cklayers' lnternatlona Union No /, 0
Colorado, meets the second and fourth Mon
DAY evenings in each month, at No. 37y Larl
mer erstreet, Denver, Colorado
JAMES COOK, Sec'y. NJ. SULLIVAN,
LUIS Blake Street. President.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-18
IRON MOLDERS,

lion Molders Union. meets every second
and fourth Tuesday OF each month at Reno
Hall Twspty-seventh and Holiday, at 7:3O p.
IN. j.. J. SMITH, Cor Sec,
l0l5 Holladay street
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-18
FEDERATED TRAnES

Headquarters of the Representative Coun-
Gil of the Federated Trades and Labor Organ
izauons Of the Pacific coast, is at Huddy 5
nail, so912 Market, San Francisco, California.
FRANK RONEY, President.
+. D. MCKINLEY, Cor. Sec.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-09-18

IT Is now about settled that Henry
George will accept the nomination of
the workingmen of New York City, and
make the race for mayor