Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-30
OFFICER COOK MN TROUBLE.
Mrs. Carrie MIX Prefers Serious Charges Against Officer COOk-Hel Hatred of Police Officers.

The notorious Carrie Mix who has several times figured in police court circles and who has also several times tried to have police officers discharged from the force by bring ing charges against them is at it again. This 1 time the officer is Frank Cook, and the Mix woman has attached his pay through Sheriff Catlin for $190, which she claims to have lent him and says she can prove it. She also claims that the. officer took as gift from her gold ring, and that he has several times been asleep on the lounge in her house in an intoxicated condition. The comn,is- sioners will probably investigate the case, but as Mrs. Mix is the woman who ran away with Officer Mautte, and tried to get Ofie CT Gerard into trouble by preferring charges against him which she could not prove, these charges will probably not amount to much.
 YOUNG MEN'S REPUBLICAN CLUB. Address by William Wallace Lee of
 Meriden-The Present Phase of the
 Labor Problem-A WOrkingman,s
 View of Strikes and Roycotts.
 The Young Mems Republican club were addressed last evening in their new club room in the Insurance building by William Wallace Lee of Meriden, who represented that city in the last legislature. His subject was the present phase of the labor problem and his method was that of an informal talk upon the subject. The rooms of the club were well filled by the members and ladies and the speaker not only entertained, but in structed his hearers, who gave him their rapt attention.
 MT. Lee began by saying that he spoke not as a polished orator, nor as professional or college bred man, but as 8 mechanic who had worked at bench and bent over lathe for upwards of forty years and as man who had had only common school education and the experience of working man to help him fight his battle of life. And first he be- lieved the proverb of the great Solomon, "In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips tendeth to penury." All labor agitators who professed to be the great friends of labor never worked. Not they. They only drank and talked. These were boycotters and strikers The speaker had no patience with those who an tagonized labor and capital. Such was not the object of the order of the Knights of La bor There was no rule of that order that justified the condition of things in the w est ana 6lSoWneIo. Tn MeflOen, where the Knights had been organized for number of years, there was better feeling than ever before. But yet the country was disturbed throughout by hostility between the wage giver and taker. It is the right of the wage earner to- sell his days work at the highest price without interference from any source. This was personal right of every citizen, and the boycott and compul sorry strike that interfered with this right was the eruellest instrument of oppression. And here comes the much talked of arbitra- tion. Could you arbitrate what a price should be for 8 days labor any more than you could what the price should be for a bushel of potatoes?
 Speaking of the western strikes, the speak CT said: The attitude of these men seems to have resulted from "cussedness." I blame Gov. Oglesby, of Illinois, for tinidity that has resulted in the loss of innocent life and valu- able property and in the present stagnation of business and lack of confidence. A strong hand should have subdued the rioters as they were once subdued during the Astor Place riots and the draft riots in New York city.
 Mr. Lee proceeded to state the causes of the present situation he saw them and the remedy. He did not believe it lay in legislation only far to show the senti- ments of the people, but that it lay in the force of character of the American people who would not submit to this new slavery. There would be no array of hostile forces, no civil war, but an moderation of the interfer- ence by one man with the personal rights of