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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-28

Lucia ]. Martin, Of No IA, and ]. May Miller,
Of No. l, for valuable services rendered the
Secret League.
Indianapolis Lodge No. /, at their meeting on
Thursday night, received one applicant for MEM
bership. After q short session the doors were
thrown open for their regular quarterly enter
lalnment A large audience was present, and a
well-seected programme was rendered. Those
taking part were j. May NJ iller. In a piano solo;
Rebecca MCLEAN, vocal solo; Alma White, VIC.
lin solo; Charles Stahlhut and Fred Mckinney,
harp and guitar duet Ten-minute speeches by
Strouse, Miller, Bartholomew and Sullivan, on
"Nonentities,' was a deviation from the general
this lodge Is announced for Christmas night In
Secret League Hail.
KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF HONOR
Compton Lodge will have degree work on next
Tuesday evening.
Hope Lodge are expecting quite a large num-
Der of applications the coming month.
Prospect Lodge will give another of their pop
ular entertainments on Tuesday evening next
Compton Lodge, No. 1887, decided by vote
at their last meeting to give ball for the benefit
of their lodge in the near future
The X. and l.. of H., as an order have in
creased their numbers more rapidly this year
than ever before since its organization.
The committee to arrange for the dance to be
given by Compton Lodge have secured Pfaff1in's
Hall for the night of Dec. IT, at which time their
ball will be given.
Hope Lodge, No. g., had quite an interesting
time at their last meeting Those of the men,
bers who do not attend their lodge meetings are
missing much enjoyment
Prospect Lodge. No. 785, will have six candi
dates to initiate at their next meeting and ex
tend an invitation to all members of the order to
meet with them at that time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-28
Fashion Item.

Texas SiftnRs.
structor is happy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-28

HoGs-Receipts 1000; shipments, $500. Quail
ity fair. Market active and steady on heavy
grades. while light and mixed are dull and lower;
closing quiet.
Heavy packing and shipping. .$3 950407lo
Light and mixed Observation-Disclosures. 36O03.9O
Common to good light. 34003.S5
SHEEP-Recepts. 600; shipments. 1000. Re.
ceipts light quality fair; prices about the same
as yesterday. Market steady; closing quiet; all
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-28

j me banks now hold S., 867, 100 in excess of the
20 per cent. rule
NEW YORK, Nov. 27-Bar silver, $780,.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-28

Merchants, No. IA, held their regular monthly
social on Wednesday night which was we'll at
tended
Eureka. No. s, of louisville held an etertajn-
ment on Thanksgiving night, which was a COM
plete success.
TiDton, No 20, reports the good work con-
tinuing in their midst, and are adding at each
meeting new members.
Washington, No. 81. of Warsaw, during the
past week sent in thirteen applications, and re-
ports many more knocking for admission.
Banner, No %, was organized during the past
week by L. N. Harden, S. Y. Cardinal at
Louisville, under the most favorable circum-
stances.
Crescent. No Is, at their meeting on Friday
night, initiated one candidate and received three
new petitions for membership A commltte
was appointed to arrange for social at an early
day.
Greeneaf, No. H. of North Indianapolis con-
ferred the degree several applicants at their
last meeting. This lodge is having unbounded
success since the completion of their new hall
Theirs is the first Secret League hall erected.
Anchor No. l6, at their last meeting enter
tanned their friends, presided over by Judge
Irwin. Mr. Hibbens gave one of his favorite Be-
lections Messrs. Miller and Strouse made short
talks in the interest of the order. Members of
this lodge are agitating change of location-to
Secret League Hall.
Mercantile, No. II, held an enthusiastic
meeting, on Wednesday night, and asked for
dispensation to take ladies into membership
free until Jan. !. By this means they expect TO
run their members to 125 by that time. AT the
same meeting this lodge took initiatory steps
toward giving complimentary benefit to Mrs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-28

plymouth Church now supports two associa-
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22
THE CHURCH..

There is a settled conviction in the
minds of many of the best clergymen
and church members Of this country
that the attitude of the church and the
practices of its members have not been
and are not now in full accord with the
teachings of Christ. There are great
many who feel that the church has been
direlct in the performance of its duty
on many questions, but especially upon
the subject of the downtrodden poor.
Rev, Thomas Van Ness, of Unity church,
said last Sunday morning
In many cases the church has fallen
from grace. 1t has failed to remember
the precepts Of Its great Master, Go
forth to all the world and preach the
gospel, for the Son Of man came to seek
and save that which was lost The
protestant church, as a whole, fails to
reach the masses. 1t does not try hard
enough. This is shown by the fact that
the church has come to be more and
more place for the few-the few who
can pay. l have it from the best au-
thority tn t a certain minister Of Dem
yer said that he did not care to have
that person in his congregation who
would not drop a dollar in the collection
basket. There is too much of this spirit
real or implied in our churches, hence
they meet the needs of only one class"
The church should be the unfinching
supporter Of the people in their strug
giles against oppression; and it disobeys
its Master when it ceases one instant to
labor in this direction. have no wish
to war on the church, but l deeply de-
plore the fact that it has SO far forgotten
its mission. and allowed itself to be
prostitated to the base ends of greed
and snobbishness to such degree as to
remember Christ only in name. 1t
could be power, if it were true to its
traditions, in bringing justice and the
Brotherhood of Man on earth and if it
fails to give its assistance to this work
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22
RESPONSIBILITY.

Judge Rogers, in his charge to the
grand jury, in the Chicago riot cases.
said: "Theprinciples of law lnculcate
the doctrine that men who teach riot
and who incite unlawful gatherings to
incendiary acts, are responsible for the
effects of those raptings." The Judge
stretched things little in his estimate
Of tie character of the meeting held
and the speeches made IN the haYmar-
ket: but never mind that. let as look
into this question of responsibility as
regulated by the "principles of law"
The laws of this country are supposed
to be and should be based upon the car
dinal principles Of our government as
expressed in the Declaration of lnde-
pendence and the constitution of the
United States. These documents de.
clare the right of free speech upon all
subjects, and it is especially provided
that the people shall have the right to,
not only denounce, but overthrow the
government, when it becomes destruct-
i've of certain ends. Those ends are the
securing of the people in the rights to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happl'
ness. The people are also supposed to
be guaranteed the right of assenblage,
and to bear arms.
Now, 80 far as have been enabled to
search into the facts concerning the Chi
cago trouble, have failed to discover
that there were any incendiary remarks,
which could be applied personally,
made; but l have learned that the "a u
thorities" brought on the riot by an in
fringement of the right Of assem- blage-
as "inculcated" by the principles and
positive declarations of our laws axloms.
1t seems to me, then, that the respons
ibilitv for the "incendiarv acts" COM
mltted lies at the door Of those who by
force invaded the legal rights of the
people, and not with those who simply
6A6TClS6u LuS IlSuLS VI Op0H do0Ou4 OAos y
and free speech. The Judge says, 'un-
lawful gatherings" which is not true, and
be knows it, if be knows the law and its
principles"
The charge Of Judge Rogers is fab
rication nearly all the way through. In
one place he says: The red flag is a
public menace. 1t is an emblem that
no quarter be given" This Is not true.
The red flag is emblauc of the Brother
hood of Man. Rogers is evidently color
blind" and thought he was sLeaking Of
the black flag of piratical fame or prob
ably he has become so accustomed to
painting the town red" on the quar-
ters" of Chicagos tax, ayers, that he
sees that color in every little breeze in
the city.
The responsibility for the Chicago riot
rests with a government which has per-
mitted bond holders and monopolists to
drive the people to desperation with
hunger and with the "authorities' who
invaded the sapctitY of open assemblage
and free speech.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22
THE MUD HENS.

The editors f about three-fourths Of
the 80 called labor press" of this coun-
try ought to be shut up in a lnnatic
asylum; they are doing the cause of the
producers more harm than as many Jay
Goulds could doif they strained every
nerve. The working people look to
these labor" papers for fulinforma
ton upon matters of interest, and the
narrow headed, smdl-callbred editors Of
those sheets misead their readerr on
about half of the important subjects
which come up.
Whatever may have been the errors
of the Chicago Anarchists however
much we NAV disagree with their
methods, men of sense know why dyna.
mite finds advo, ates in this country, and
they know it is because labor is Op.
pressed. The same causes which have
cursed society with a lot of nincom.
poopish labor editors" have given us
the men who cry war, and for one,
have more respect for the latter than
the former.
| have never endors ID the pro-
gramme Of the Chicago Anarchists but
am convinced now that they were in
nocent of the trouble of week before
last, and, in either event, | have an
utter contempt for those sQuawking
mud hens of the labor press" who lave
joined IN the hue and cry of capitals NJ.
1t all brings vividly to mind the story
of old John Brown. His programme
was wrong; but the crusade in which he
sounded the first war note (harsh,
though the blast was then considered)
achieved victory, and the croakers
changed their tunes to praise and glori-
fcation to the dead crusader.
These editors" would do the same
thinu
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22
A FREE PRESS.
thing.

If any Anarchistic printers or writers
are to be tried in connection with the
Chicago bomb explosion, they might
call attention to portion of letter
written by Secretary Bayard to Baron
Schaffer, the Austrian minister, dated
May 26, 1885. The baron had requested
the secretary to search excursionists
bound for Prague, to find Revolution
ary pamphlets" The reply contains the
following:
AS touching the supposed 'Revolu-
tlonary pamphlets the executive is
without power to act. There is 70 stat
ute known to 1t which interdicts or re-
strains the individual possession of such
matter within the jurisdiction of the
United States, nor, indeed any law defn-
ing what printed matter may or may not
be Revolutionary As the executive
cannot take cognizlnce of such Revolu-
tionary or seditious matter, even If d.
rected against our own constitutional form
of government, it stands to reason that it
is no less incompetent to pass upon such
subversiye character when it may be al
legged that it is in contravention OF the
municipal statute of another land. To
intervene in that case would be in ef
feet to attempt to administer, within the
sovereignity of the United States, the
domestic law of another sovereign"
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22

If the Pinkerton blood hounds who
are menacing law and order at the Mar
shall mines are sworn in as deputy
sheriffs, there is breach of the prlnci-
pie of law, if not of the real law; for
they are aliens, and residence of a GER
tain period is required to make man
eligible to the Office of sheriff-then GER
tainly the same must be necessary to ex-
ercise the funct ons of the Office. If this
armed banditti is employed and kept
under arms by the coal company as a
private affair, then they should be dis
armed and imprisoned; for the law of
this sta = is positive upon that subject,
and the sentiment of the people is solid
against ntimidation-armed or other
wise. If the coal company has right
to arm and mass thugs to protect its in
terests," then the workiDgmen have the
same right, and state or county gov
ernnent which does not recognize this
truth Is either ignorant or is bought by
capitalism. Pinkerton's bloody tiends
must go.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22
GIN SMALL DOSES"
tan.

Tie Socialists Of San Francisco have
organized q Social League, upon a plan
similar to The Rocky Mountain Social
League. An official organ is, issued by a
ouartette of the women : its title is
"Truth-In Small Doses" which, judg-
ing from the first number, doesn't mean
LIGHT doses; for every paragraph in that
issue Is enough to make diseased So
ciety twi t and squlrm as if il had s"ai-
lowed whole drug store.
Comrades Matte Anderson, Marie
Louise Martin, Helen M. Jones and
Anna II. F. Haskell are the physicians
and prescription clerks in charge OF
Truths dispensarY; but, though they
belong to the "gentler SEX" thev do not
seem to have any faith IN old women's
remedies. Truths salutatory reads life
this:
"Once upon time there was a paper
in this city called Truth it died,-for
the reason that an overdose kills, pre-
sumably. Now we. few of the women
of the Labor movement propose to try
our hand. We will give you truth In
small doses, but we warn YOU the doses
will sometim be very bitter TO swal-
low. We shall do our best to present
things as we see them, and being as 1t
were, fenced out Of active participation
in the movements that shape the we'll
being of men, we shall stay on our side
for the present an call to you over the
pickets, when we see things going wrong
Until we get too hoarse."
THE ENQUIRER, of course, wishes the
San Francisco League the largest sue
cess, and it hopes Truth will never find
It's vials empty, even if it becomes nee
essary to give it to 'em in BIG doses
And while the women are looking after
the drugs, powders and pills, it might
not be bad idea for the men to brace up
the surgical department.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22

THERE is a fool named Mallory in one
of the Judges chairs in Milwaukee. In
his charge 10 the grand jury in the cases
which grew out OF the recent disturb
ances in that CITY, he said "If two or
more persons agree to boycott the busi-
ness of third party it is conspiracy,
and they are indictabe" In another
place he says, every citizen must be
protected IN his rights" (he right of
free speech doesn't seem to be recog-
nized by Mallory
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22
An Obsolete Law.

For the Enquirer.
The famous law of supply and de-
mand" has ceased to govern wages. This
is proved by strikes. By strike Iaborers
demand more recompense than this
wonderful, natural, immutable, iron"
law of wages will allow. What will po
ltical economists do now? The "iron
law" Was their foundation. 1t is gone,
for laborers have decided that it will not
let them live. Surely they are not foolish
enough to accept it in theory and repu-
dlate it bv striking.
A new doctrine is needed. Here is
one easily understood To the producer
belongs, not the small portion that will
sustain life, but the WHOLE PRODUCT. We
are no longer content with even the in
crease which may be gained by combi-
naCon, much less the pittance which
competition leaves US. When can we
secure the whole? When individuals
cease to own land and capital when the
people conclude to employ their own
capital, in national or local affairs,
through their social organizations. The
capitalist need not be dispossessed; he
will only be frozen out. h.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22

Hooking Valley" to superintend their
works, and then, it is supposed upon his
suggestion. employed the Pinkertons.
The press of Colorado may think this
sort of thing is all right; but if the state
officials and the people submit to any
Hooking VaIlev-Pinkerton tyranny and
brutality, then the Centennial state is
disgraced. ~
We have plenty of officers of the law
in this state to keep the peace, and Gov
ernor Eaton is fool if he allows the
Pinkerton butchers to remain here, as
menace to decencY, good order and lib
erty.
Drive them out. governor, aud WIN the
respect and confidence of the honest peo-
pie of your state.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22

The Republican should either change
the tenor of its editorials, or exercise a
closer scrutiny over its subordinate
writers. Here is what appeared in is
commercial columns on Wednesday:
The Anarchist Is ore who proposes
to overturn existing laws by violent
means. His attacks are at least open
and pronounced He is not half 80 dan
gerous to the country as the slick cor
poration manipulation who causes the
enactment of unjust laws and constantly
violates the Just ones.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22

law, or court or custom, however old
and venerated, or any government, with
all its power and authority, make 9
wrong right7 These are question that
are forced upon US, and our future veal
or woe depends upon their answer.
Labor should be supreme, and
would be if the laborer knew his
strength Capital produces nothing and
of right belongs to labor, and is as much
inferior to it as the tool ID in the hands
ofthe laborsr; capital is the creature Of
labor; shall the creature rule and de-
spoil the creator? Your labor and skill
have made these farms which the land
sharks have stolen and are stealing.
Fifty-fve cents dav of fifteen hours is
paid to labor, and $5a day is paid to
hireling thugs in the name Of law and
order to shoot the labor down. You
toiled in the blistering heat and chilling
storms to produce wealth, and yet you
are poor. You mined. all this gold and
silver that guts the vaults of the ma
tionol treasury, and yet you are money
less. You built the railroads. and yet
you must tramp. You prepare club,
and monopoly breaks your head with it.
Is it not shame that the useful ones
should TINS minister to the useless ones?
The workers outnumber the drones ten
to one, and vet they think they are
powerless. What is the spirit that
makes you submit to such outragesp
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to
God.
"In St. Louis there are thousands of
men with muscles like iron, and vet
they crouch and whimper and shiver
and starve, because of one man. They
allow their wives and children to 60
half clad and endure all the evils of
hunger and cold, because of one greedy
and unscrupnlous man. Their children
grow up in ignorance; their lives are
spent in constant drudgery, and their
homes are scenes of misery and wretch
edness, because one man has willed it TO
be so."
The speaker closed by urging the toll
ers and producers to organize in defense
of the rights so solemnly enunciated in
the Declaration of Independence.
After the addresses "The Marseillaise"
was PLAYED, while Frank Welch, one of
the settlers, residing near Lemoore,
seized the red flag and waved it enthu-
siastically over the heads of the assemb
lage amid great applause.
The celebration was the largest ever
held in Hanford. A mass meeting of
the International was he'd Immediately
after the speaking, and it was de-
cided that the farmers and laborers
should celebrate the Fourth of July un-
der the auspices of the International
and upon the basis of the principles of
l776. No politicians will be invited to
speak on that occasion. A committee
from Hanford Lemoore, Visalia and Tu.
lare was appointed to select ce ntral To-
cation and make other arrangements for
the celebration.
The ENQUIRER is indebted to the
Stockton Daily Mail for the foregoing
particulars. Comrade Cosgrave, of the
Mail, was one of the centr Il figures in
the celebration, but he modesty disposed
of himself in FIVE lines.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22

SOCIALISTS and colleges don't work
well together-at least Socialists of the
Swinton type.-Republican,
If the Republican knows just which
type of Socialism John Swinton repre-
sents, why don't it tell its readers. If
the above is meant as slur at Swim
toms intellectual abilities and eduCa1
tion. | want simply 10 say, that as a
scholar and a journalist John Swinton
has very few superiors in the editorial
chairs of the country and when the slur
comes from a creature who suffers as
CARLYLE said Cardinal Manning did, for
the want of brains equal to those Of a
moderate sized rabbit" it is odd, to say
the least
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22

The Chicago Current, which took such
an interest in the labor question a short
time ago as to offer premiums for arti-
cles written by members of the Typo
graphical union-and sweetened bait
TO catch the craft as subsCriEers-has
weakened since the recent excitement.
II has refused to publish one of the arti-
cles, written bv A. H. Simpson, until
some future time;" the article will ap-
pear in next weeks ENQUIRER. The
Current is very muddy under the sur
face, though 1t glistens on top, under the
rays of a dilettante sun, and the toads
set on the Ianks and bask, until there
is some real noise in the labor world,
when they dive for the bOttem. The
Current IS a semi capitalist sheet. and it
will do well to flow gently on in the pre-
scribed banks; the workingmen are
better off out of its treacherous waters.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22
"sTICK A PIN HERE"
A Few Words From an Old Denver
COmrade Who VIII Not Dodge the
Toll Gates.
For the Enquirer.

For the Enquirer.
New YORK, May 1S-It is hardly to
be expected that a man in my situation,
fighting for life as it were, can feel very
Indifferent about public opinion" Still
1 don't know that my road will be any
smoother for lodging the till gates of
duty and conscience. So here goes with
you 30 far as can see nv way, and at
present I don't find stumbling block in
it.
Reading over the declaration of prin-
ciples on the first page of the paper for
May s, say "Credo." This is the cause
for which my fathers fought from Bunk er
Hill down to their Free Soil graves and
in which myself enlisted on the eigh-
teenth day of May, 1861, in upholdlng
which have had my flesh perforated
and my blood drawn, and have carried
the slave drivers lead in my body ever
since. 1 will yield to no man in my
affection for the old flag and what it
really meant to the thinking men who
died under it in the slave-holders' re.
beIlion. My care is that it shall con
tinue to mean the same things, and to
that end consecrate all the energies
that father and husband has over him
who has not given hostages to fortune"
have no fear but we shall be able in
due time to accomplish all our declara-
ton demands by sheer force of organized
numbers, and by methods within the
scope of the present poyer of q people
at peace so far as y Ear of
time to
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22
OFF AGAIN,

The editor left home Yesterday (Frl-
day) morning, to be absent about fifteen
days. He has gone to attend the special
session,of the General Assembly of the
Knights of Labor, which convenes in
Cleveland, Ohio, next Tuesday. He
commends the paper to the tender care
of its friends during his absence.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22

THE Republican SAYS that the asso-
ciated press in its dispatches upon the
Speer case sent from Denver miSrepre-
sented the facts. So the associated press
is not always reliable; but 1t always tells
the truth about labor troubles. The Re-
publicans kick is rather inconsistent
after its ridicule of the document circu-
lated by THE ENQUIRER warning the
public not to believe the associated
press lies concerning the Chicago riot.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-22
COLoRADO's DISGRACE.

The honest people of this state have
always raised crv of just indignation
at the reports of the criminal and brutal
uses made of the Pinkerton thugs by
monopollsts Of the east; now we have
the same thing under our very noses.
The Marshall Coal company has eh-
gagged sixty of these brutal towards to
guard" its property against the miners,
who refuse to submit to unjust exac
tions.
The company first engaged the ser
vices OF fellow named Berry, from