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The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
NEW YORK CITY.
The Opposition of the Evening Post TO
Labor OrRaniza-
tions
For the Enquirer.

| For the Enquirer.
New YORK, MAY 18.
Among all the papers of the secular
press of the country probably there is
not one to yield the palm for zeal in the
opposition which the labor organizations
have met with from this source to the
Evening Post, of this city. A hopeful
view of the present business" prospect
then cannot be charged to wish to con
done the offenses of the men who have
been for the past two months, according
to the same uthority, busily cutting
their own throats. Yet a summary of
the situation in this mornings issue, un-
der the head of Trade and Money"
after the usual condemnation Of the
labor unions and Knights of Labor says e.:
"The after effect of this arrangement
of industry is much dreaded by many
observers others prefer to take less
respondent view, because the country is
full of work that cries aloud for men to
do 1t, and the temper of our country is not
one that allows men to indulge much in
idle complaining. The great extensions
which number of western railroads
have arranged to make during the next
two years will be carf ID out as in {.
tended. Eastern railroads will also do
what they judge needful in this line, of
which we have an earnest in the action
of the Pennsylvania railroad raising $4,-
900, 900 Of capital by issue of stock and
manufacturers. whether corporate or in
dividual, will undoubtedly follow this
lead, the importance of which to many
branches of trade need not be insisted
upon. 1t is doubtless true that some un-
dertaklngs have been countermanded in
consequence of LABOR disturbances, but it
is not safe to assume that this will last
very long, and the volume of current
business may. we think, fairly be quoted
in support of this view.
"rhe resumption of railroad traffic at
Chicago had little immediate effect upon
the total of east bound shipments of
breadstuffs and provisions, if they are
correctly reported as little over Is, 900
tons for the pool lines and the usual
proportion for the others In New York
the receipts by canal led to a consider
able increase in the export of grain, re-
aectlng in to.day's total exports for the
week, which are valued at $6 ,6OS, ,OO9, or
1000 more than last week. General
trade and manufactures show very little
change, though probably only improved
where Gent strikes are ended"
The rest of the article is devoted to
cheerful rfports of the iron and coal in
terests, aq 4 in the money market the
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
A CONNECTING LINK.

The action of Police Judge Barnum il
fning John s. Anderson $35, or the
alternative of eighteen DAYS in Jail, is
but another example ofthe prostitutio n
of the courts in the interest of the
moneyed class The fact that Ander-
son was fined for br aklng CITY ordi-
nance is IN itself proper, and although
he is the first person who has been pun
ished under tie ordinance against de-
posting paper on the streets, it is prob
able that, were there nothing else against
him, he was served properly. But $35
fine was not assessed against him for
that reason, but because the District
Assembly SO, Knights of Labor, had ap
pointed him to distribute boycott circu
lars when the boycott was declared
against Larimer street scab Clothier
who refused to close his store on Sunday
as his neighbors did.
While acting in this capacity Auder.
SUI was arrested Nv JlI6 SCdO ClOLDl6r,
and the former had the latter arrested.
Bound to vent his spite, the scab
clothier-Barnett by name-hires a
police court shyster to swear out a war
rant against Anderson for depositing
paper on the streets, and between them
they Elk Things so that Judge Barnum
int1icts heavy fine for the breaking of
an ordinance which, through lack of
enforcement for years, had in all honesty
and fairness been declared invalid as it
was about as senseless and har to en-
force as an ordinance prohibiting the
election of tobacco juice on the streets
That there is connecting link be-
tween Barnum's fine and the dlstribu-
ton of the boycott circulars is evident.
1t might be well to remind Batnum that
doing the dirty work of scab clothiers
will possibly be the connecting link
that binds him to the respect Of the
Denver workingmen-possibIy not.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29

export of gold has lessened to the en-
tent of present entire cessation, there is
a gain in surplus band reserves, there is
a decrease in loans, which are easy at
and about per cent, railroad bonds are
in demand, the half-y Early movement
of investment beginning at this season
usually, promises to be lively, and among
the favorite schemes that of reorganiz-
ing the Philadelphia & Reading, and
Texas Pacific, seem active.
Really. does it seem in view of all this
that the American workingman has lost
his head, or the confidence of the coun-
try altogether? Or is the chance OF
prizes in this war of trade still so great
that reckoning all the averages the com,
binations Will see chances far greatly in
excess of those against the success OF
the trading privateersman of the high
seas of commercial competition? -
The true result is found just where
their brass figure of justice points with
grim and unwayering finger.
At the 1000 corpses of unclaimed, un-
known dead, in the New York morgue,
and the almost daily lists of deaths from
exposure and want"
Towards the thousands of families de-
prived of support, unaccustomed to
beggary, who will die, and yet make no
sign.
To the thousands of their desperate
husbands and fathers, prescribed, home
less, heartless tramps in the near future
And to the new girls on the streets
| swelling the overcrowded competition
for the support of the reckless or de
PRAYED who can have no innocent home
life. J. HARRISON MILLS.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
PARASITE PRESS PRINCIPLES.

The more one watches the squirming
and twisting that the capitalistIc press
can do on the question Of Socialism, the
more one is amused and convinced, that
it has nothing in its stock of principles
that is not dear at two for nickel.
Ten days ago the Tribune Republican
the property and posterior mouthpiece
of a millionaire named Hill, said, in re-
gard to the Socialistic utterances of
Denver preacher, that it was "outside
the province and beyond the realms of a
preachers duty to talk on subjects in
which the science of political economy
cut any figure"
Those were the "principles" of the
T.-R. when it heard a Christian minister
endorse Socialism. Now, after long
watching, waiting and hoping for some
preacher who would demolish Socialism,
the T..R. is over-ioyed and shouts, En
reka, as it hangs lovingly on the words
of A. F. H. Beherends, D. D., who has
written a book for the express purpose
of killing off Socialism. Hear how It,
the T.-R., has changed its Opinions" in
regard to the preacher talking on eco
nomic Subjects: "If all preachers had
as sound ideas on economical questions
as DR.. Beherends has we do not believe
that church -goers would object to a po-
litical discussion from the pulpit now
and then" If preacher would only de-
nounce, as they heretofore have, all ten
denotes of the people to seek for the
cause Of poverty if they will condemn
all discussion upon the right of one man
to get rich off the labor Of another man !;
If, in short, the preachers will condemn
Socialism, then the prostituted pencil
showers on Hills echo are dead certain
that it is within the province of the
preacher to talk on economic subjects" !"
AS to the arguments in Beherend's
book we can, even from the brief re-
sumo given by the T.-R., see that it is a
rehash of the old exploded objection"
lnterspersed with a few new lies.
The brief enumeration Of few of his
Objections" will show the stereotyped
character of them all: Beherend says :;
Socialism is bad because it Is opposed
to the Christian religion" He knows,
if he knows anything besides living, that
Socialists are only too glad to be able to
prove that Jesus was the greatest and
best Socialist.
The author says Socialism is wrong
because 1t makes of marriage civil con-
tract. The laws of the United States
and Of every protestant country in Eu-
rope do the same thing. The marriage
ceremony performed by the justice of
the peace, even though his knowledge
of law is limited to the ability to read
print, is considered in this country as
binding as that performed by an arch
bishop.
Then the author talks about the bad
influence Socialism has on mans moral
nature, and how it kills the influence of
home, and that it is weak and Illogical.
The T.-R.. to close with, pats the rev.
erend liar on the back and assures its
readers that "he is right and possessed
of an abundance of common sense"
If 1t is 30 easy to prove Socialism to be
so unutterably bad, why does not the
T.-R. show it up and expose it2
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
FROM LONDON,
Assemblies OF Knights OF Labor Being
Formed In Brttain-Indus-
trial News.
Editor Labor EnqdIrer,

Editor Labor Enquirer.
LONDON, May 4.-The question of the
employment of women about the col.
lieries is growing in importance. The
average wages paid to women are
from 2s to Is Sd $50 cents to 81 cents) per
day, and the work they perform is sd-
mitted to be as rough and laborlous as
that of the men. The Government
Mines Regulation bill which will be in
troduced into the house of commons on
the eleventh, contains clause prohibit
ing the employment of women and child
labor at the pit mouth. In the pits this
prohibition, passed In 1S45, is. of course,
still In force. This clause the unionists
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
What the "OId Man" Saw and Heard
Along the Route Between Denver
and Chicago.

On TUE ROAD, MAY 81, %, 23.-Talk
about hot weather; well, if the sun
which shines on Nebraska don't strike
right out from the shoulder. then my
education concerning the t0rrid coun,
tries has been misleading.
Towns are springing up along the line
of the Burlington road in Nebr aska, and
the little places all look busy, while
there seems to be constant stream oi
mowers" heading west, on the we'll
used wagon roads.
met poor fellow at Akron, Ne.
braska, who was broke and pretty we'll
used up; he had walked all the way
from Denver, carrying his small kit OF
lithographer's tools. AS I said, he was
broke he was also hungry. He struck"
me for a grub stake" l gave him
enough to fill up on omitted the
usual accompaniment of good advice"
l have charged the amount to unorgan-
lied charity, and shall celebrate the act
at the Tabor opera house when I get
home.
A few poor, noodle-headed gentle
men" were seated in the smoking-room
of our car, discussing the Chicago affair
and Strikes ETC., in general. They agreed
that the strong arm must be used to
put them down." | said nothing, l
didn't feel like talking then, but the
whole crowd knew was looking at
them. Afterward one of them read the
Inscription on my cane, and then they
understood the expression they had
seen on my face. Qleer lot of folks
ride in sleeping car, as rule-they
don't know ALL about the labor question
There is lots of room for the hundreds
of thousands who are crowded in city
tenements to make nice little homes, in
the country through which have been
riding; if only UucLe Sam would give
each poor devil forty acres and mule
But without the mule, ETC., of what use
is the land, be 1t ever 80 good, to the
povertY-strlcken workman, who couldn't
buy hoe?
The Nebraska State Journal is an
other of those capitalistic papers which
know all about the Knights of Labor,
and tells Just what is going to be done
at the Cleveland session. l am under
obligations to it for several pointers. All
the papers down this way are exercising
themselves more or less over what they
are pleased to call the "Powderly Martin
Irons row." and seem to be positive
that the ROW" is to be settled by con-
test between the two gentlemen for the
position of general master workman.
The whole thing is bunrombe.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29

horrors of the Chicago campaign was
the result of the teachings of Socialism,
and nothing else.
There is no article in the creed of So
cialism that advocates resort to blood
shed to attain the ends and aims sought
to be attained. The Anarchist occupies
the same relation to Socialism that the
parliament house dynamiter does to
Psrnell and constitutional measures" !"
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29

mand it on public grounds that the tasks
in question are of such character as
must inevitably coarsen the women em-
ployed. and also that the competition of
women and child labor is reducing their
wages.
That this is undoubtedly true no one
can for moment DENY. As matter of
fact, the wages of the men have oeen
reduced and reduced until their wives
and daughters have had to 60 out to
help augment the scanty wages of their
husbands and fathers. which again In
it's turn tends to still further reduce the
mems wages by the competition of their
own family for the benefit of the explicit
ing classes. The women employed at
the PITS mouth resent this threatened
prohibition of their labor as they do not
see how otherwise they are to obtain a
livlihood. In this view they are upheld
by their sisters of the upper classes
who never did, nor do they intend to as
long as they can live without it, stroke
of honest, useful work-some of whom
also may be interested in the increase Of
the ROYALTIES wrung from the over
worked and unpaid miners which
would follow the substitution of female
for male labor. WHAT beautiful 80
ciety If it which brings in mans wife
and family to lower bis earnings!
In Scotland the movement for shorter
hours of labor gains ground. In Lanor-
shire large mass meetings have been
held at which the most enthusiastic res
olutions were passed in favor of sys-
tenn of eight hours daY. The masons
of Edinburg have collected statistics of
their trade, which show that more than
81 per cent of those working in the trade
are in favor of adopting an eight hour
working day.
The Federation of Trades in the Stat.
fordshire district to which I referred
some few weeks ago, is progressing. AT
meeting at Darlston the plan which
found most favor with the men was the
formation of branches of the Knights o1
Labor IN the different districts. Some
of these are already in working order, as
for instance, at West Bromwich.
The compositors strike at Worcester
has ended. The men were compelled to
submit and asked the masters to take
them on ag lin. During the strike. how,
ever, their places had been filled by
others, and consequently the strikers
are out on the streets.
Nothing definite is as yet known as tc
the result of the compositCr's strike al
Messrs. Waterton & Co.'s, London
which has been going on for some
months past. The firm had for more
than two wears been gradually evadlng
the union prices. The Composltors' So
ciety has Withdrawn its pickets, which
leads one to suppose that the men have
been obliged to give in.
On Saturday, MAY l, the Social Demo
cratic Federation held social gather.
ing to celebrate the acquittal of Burns
Champion, Ryndman and Williams.
Speeches were delivered by them which
were vigorously applauded. Music
singing and recitations were also given
On the suggestion of Hyndman it wal
unanimously resolved to send the fol
lowing telegram, which was accord
inglv dispatched:
"PowDERLY, Scranton, Pa:
Democratic Federation sncerest wishe
success eight hour movement"
H. w LEE.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29

sisted at the execution as at festival
Villemongis Briemant lying among the
slaughtered. filled his hands with the
bloc of his com anions which he cast
in his dying agony towards the
heavens, CRYING, 20, God! Behold the
innocent blood ef thy poor; thou wilt
avenge itp AS this was the prophecy
of 1889 SO also are the unpunished assas.
sinations of 1885 the fore-runners of a
new Day of Judgment not distant many
years.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
CLEVELAND, May "a.

CLEVELAND, May "a.
In passing through Iowa l was for
chilly struck with the splended condi-
ton of agricultural affairs. Everything
looks promising for big crops, What
blow 1t was to my imagination of the
good things suggested for the farmers in
these crops, when an Iowan remarked to
me, "Yes, they will have big crops, and
will have plenty of corn to burn next
winter, when they fnd it impossible to
exchange their surplus for the coal they
will need. But the mortgages on these
farms will eat away, just the same all the
while-and four out of FIVE of these same
beautiful farms are wearing that kind of
a plaster" Comment is unnecessary.
Billy Fornhof met me at the depot in
Chicago, and as l had FIVE hours to wait
between trains, he took me around to
see few comrades and also to tho hay.
market, to view the scene of the bomb
affair of the sixth. The meeting was
not held nor the bomb exploded in what
is known as the haYmarket square, but
in a street which runs out from the
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
THE RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH.
The Right TO Better Ones Condition
Carries with 1t the Right to
Discuss Plans.

For the Enquirer.
The events of the last two weeks haye
shown to rejecting people that freedom
of speech does not exist in this city.
There is reign of arbitrary power. The
police are the masters. They visit and
make search of houses without anv but
the most brutal cermony; they terrlfy
women they make seizure of suspected
property, and arrest anyone who dares
protest. Justices in the courts have i'm
posed fines on free citizens who ex-
pressed their minds upon passing events
The police have imprisoned many per-
sons who spoke for liberty, and others
are being hunted like wild beasts. The
daily newspapers will not publish letters
which prese Mt arguments against these
acts of tyranny. Public meetings are
forbidden, 30 that free opinion is stifed
In Russia or Germany there is the
same liberty as here-namely, anyone
is free to speak, provided he does not de-
bounce the acts of oppression done by
the legal authority. When we read of
| these things we are novel to indigna
ton, and promptly extend our sympa-
thies to struggling peoples elsewhere +;
but We are strangely blind to them when
they take place under our noses and
effect our own homes. Histo-Y shows
that the loss of liberty has always been
because the people did not watch. The
institu ions of so-called law and order
have the same meaning in all countries
they are always and everywhere used
against true freedom. They are for the
guardianship of private capitalism,
which by the light of reason is clearly
seen to be nothing but deprivation of
the PEOPLE. 1t compels them to stand
idle and waste their energies. Destitu-
ton, crime and the wrecking of all noble
aspirations are directly traceable to the
system of private property.
The right to better ones condition
carries with it the right to discuss all
plans for such improvement, and this
cannot be done without free thought
and free EXPRESSION.
Next SUNDAY afternoon at 3 o'clock,
Oh the lake front-a place of public gath
erlng. and owned by all the people,
will assert my free right to discuss the
following propositions
Flrst-When any interest is esteemed
to be endangered by free speech, it is a
proof that such interest is contrary to
human liberty.
Second-Under free conditions, and
impelled by natures all-suficient law
no man can have a wish to injure an
other in person or interest.
The argument of humanity is based
upon higher law than the one by which
Anarchists are tried. The higher law
was pleaded when Revolution made
America free land; it was pleaded
when the shackles of black slavery were
struck off; and it must be pleaded to-
day when industrial millions are striv-
ing to free. In that better statute,
and in the spirit of fair play which rules
American minds, we have cur strongest
hope.
No stigma of foreign birth, no monop-
oily of the means of life, and no accusa-
tion of violence against that monopoly,
can make free speech less than right at
any time and all times.
Anarchy is not violence-it is the only
promise of peace JOHN A. HENRY.
CHICAGO, MAY 18.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29

THE arlstocratic Germans and Bohe-
mians deny the charge made by the
"better class Americans" that Anarchy
i8 imported from their countries. Let
them fight it out while sensible people
are trying to eradicate the root of the
disease which oppresses the producers
of all lands.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29

IT is comical to see capitalistic papers
give, as cause for the violence of labor
ing people, the importation of foreign
paupers, high tariff, over production,
bad civil service, monopolists, whisky
atheism, and, what not, then proceed to
lay all crimes and outbreaks to "agita-
tors" "incendiarv speech" and the like
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29

THE Deputy Sheriff." at st. Louis
who waLtonly killed five men and one
woman have been ch lrged not with
murder, but "manslaughter," have been
admitted to bail in 5000 each. and have
since release fed from the state of Mis-.
souri,. When the Guises shot down the
protestants of France and the court as.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
CARPENTERS

Carpenters Union, No. IS. of the Brother.
mood Of America. meets every Saturday
evening at Euclid Hail. All good Carpenters
JAMES D. MACDONALD, President
| THOMAS MUIRHEAD, Rec. Sec
FRANK BAYER, State Organizer.
Z. F. RICE, Cor. and Fin. Secetary,
| % COlfax avenue
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

Typographical Union, No. 40, meets on the
first Sunday Of each month in Police Court
Rooin, City Hail. al 20 o'clock p. m.
y. l.. .SMALLWOOD, Rec. and Cor. Sec'y.
w. H. MONTGOMERY, Fin. Sec.
Collier Cleveland's office
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
TAILORS,

The Tailors' Protective Society. Of Denver
meets in Judge Jeffries court room, a
O'Clock p. M, on the first Monday Of each
month: FRED WEIDER, President,
1. HAMLlN, Sec, 29l 10th street
Room IS Skinner Block,
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
TRADES ASSEMBLY

The Trades Assembly of Denver and Vicln-
lty meets on the second and fourth Sunday
of each month, In Police ourt room, City
T. HAMLIN, Secretary
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
PLAsTERERs' UNION.

The Plasterers' Union, of Denver. meets
every Monday evening at 1880 O'Clock, In St.
JosePh's temperance Hall, corner Fifteenth
and Stout streets.
HARRY COLE, President.
CHARLES M. McCABE, Secretary,
Address, l60 East 18th street.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29

THE meeting Of The Rocky Mountain
Social League next Sunday evening will
be held at the Academy of Music, at
O'Clock.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
IRON MOIDERg.

lion Molders' Union. meets every second
ana fourth Tuesday of each month at Reno
aalI IWenty-seventh and Holiday, at 7:3O p
M ]. ]. SMITH, Cor Sec,
10l5 Holiday street
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29
BRICRLAYERa

bTlcRiayers' lnternatlona Union, No. l. OF
Colorado, meets the second and fourth Non
day evenings in each month, ct No. So LarI-
mer street, Denver. Colorado
JAMES COOK, Sec'y. M. SULLIVAN,
luzo Blake Street. President
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-29

THE Rev. Thomas Van Ness will ad-
dress the Social League on next Sunday
evening.
The Dillon tribune., 1886-06-19

10" can not 1--we your best lite wi, huut
|pFh1y OF associates and an cvcr.wi,leui,4-
."ci. OF associates. iui draw IL new life
a. rum every real frirn,! ynu make. - e!,ms
-m lrien' from You. Ii you isolate and
y" Yourself down to an er,!tcrra>iny
''e of friends you are l!,erall, starving
,"f>c'. I" death. Nou will never find Il
te'Nh IN good physical health or balni,rru
~. "i'h't who went oil fruln he wurl, and
".el ''lone. Take all the active minds of
p p"' Tine. the people who are live working
' ',," IN the world. and YOU, find Them
WHY'S people "f wide alr! Overwhelming
'"nSe OF association,
.ne crank" blooms in soiitu,!e-an un-
ss,s growth through feeding ON him
nn' ."'ef mitch seli-cummunin- aud
s, En-, "t his pet idea until in his ewes it
sa tue universe -~pr"ntice MuI!r!1l in
"n francsco Chronicle.
-, Indicated His Popularity.
w.. i''.'''e>ctk"r-Wrll, What WIS u" meet
"'"' folitirian--l.ntirely llurn!ni.:urS.
n.,,: saw "-lytiliny like it. Nn;, were
''''''l'''. by exclamation.
~ t"h'ii'itoH> uulhErst, ch:"
a,..:l .oht'I 81. sir .till:!icates your pop
sx, " ''E' There wasn't anyt..in.s else t. j,c
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st.I,I'.'' 4. ,',ici!~ Ike night y.orr. Phil