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THEN AND NOW.

The captalistic press of Denver has
been very anxious during the past two
weeks to show what wide difference
there is between Powderly and Buch-
anan, and has advised the Knights of
Labor to stand bv the former and "kick
out" the latter.
This is the same press which few
months sine classed Mr.. Powderly with
the editor of this paper said they were
both bad men and enemies to the hon
est workingmen,' end advised the "hon-
eat workingmen' to draw out of the
Knights of Labor" These papers said
the Knights of Labor was not a work
ingman's but was tool in
the hands of schemers who bad ob-
tanned control of it; that Mr.. Powderly
was the chief schemer, and buchanan
Is one of his lieutenants."
Now this capitalistic press is praising
Mr.. Powderly, (which is not compliment
tarv to him, though he cannot help it)
and advising the workingmen to bounce"
the lieutenant" What does it mean
Why this change? 1t means that, the
daily papers of Denver first tried to
break up the Knights of Labor by an at
tempt to get the membership dissatisfied
with the general officers; failing in that
scheme, they now try to accomplish the
same end by an effort to breed dishar-
mony between some of the prominent
men and the personal friends of each.
But failure attends this last effort, as
it did the first. The working people are
not all the fools that the Denver press
seems to believe them. There are laws
in the Knights Of Labor, and those laws
are binding upon all, from the highest
to the most unassuming member, and
when one goes wrong they know how to
deal with him, without the advice of any
outsider-most certainly without the as
sistance of set of venal newspaper
make shifts who belong, soul and body
to the foe of honest labor.
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recating the action. Sorry we may be
that this was done. We would like to
see the Social Revolution iDaugurated
without any preliminary blood-spilling ;
but we are short-sighted mortals at best,
and when we look back over the his
tory of anv really great movement we
see how vain is such wish. There
must be skirmishes, and riots, and ar
rests, and perhaps hanging before the
people are sufficiently awakened.
Depend upon it. the hand of fate is in
it. No man knows what dav may
bring forth; but it is all in the line Of
progress. and we ought to be thankful
that thus far the parturition of the New
Idea has been as easy as it has. All
birth is attended with pain and blood, =
it is natural law-and we must look for
it in the mighty throes of our great
mother, nature, when she gives birth to
her Child-Freedom
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KNOW invite bitter personal attacks
from the canltalistic press, by nv out
sroken condemnation of the foul outfit ;
but do not care. I intend to tell the
people the truth upon this subject in the
future, and carry the war into Africa, if
necessary. If am vicimized by the
sluggers and butchers of the capitalistic
gang for this, all right. Ifnot single
individual is brought to see the daily
papers of Denver in their true light, rc
matter; I shall have done my duty. and
that makes me feel frst-rate, and fear.
less of consequences.
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who had sworn to kill the eight-hour
movement, raided the meeting for the
purpose of breaking 1t up, and to estao-
lislI precedent against assemblage and
free speech in Chicago. Ali reports
agree that the first act of violence was
committed by the police force; one OF
the rufians dlscharging his pistol at the
crowd. This shot was answered oy a
bomb, thrown into the ranks Of the po'
lice by someone in the crowd, not yet
identified. Naturally general racket
ensued. ~ H. .-.,
It is true that the speakers at the
meeting were the Revolutionary Anar:h-
lists but what does this proven Improves
that the conservative elements have de-
serted the workingmen in this country,
and they are now left to the influence oi
the radicals. Itdoes not follow that TIT
crowd in the haY-market endorsed the
men who spoke to them, for they had
listened to these same men before on
numberless occasions. and then gone
about their business. But If Spies
Fielden and Parsons had attained n in
fIuence over the worAingmen in Chicago
which could be used against "law ane
order" who was to lame for it /? But
do not want to discuss this phase of the
question now.
What l want now to impress upon the
readers mind is that the riot was unpre
cedented that it was not inclted bv the
Anarchists, but that they were the ohly
men whom the workingmen of Chicago
could depend upon when they required
ad dvocates, and that the bomb.throwing
was the work of a single individual
acting upon his own responsibility. l
the Anarchists had intended to precipl
tate a fight with the authorities, thew
would have gone better prepared to fight
and, instead of one little bomb, they
would have had with them p number o.
these deadly weapons, as it has been
established that they had plenty of then
ready for use in the city.
The police were responsible for the
riot, and the loss of life, and although
the Anarchists NAV be punished, the
city authorities of Chicago are the muir
derers, and a sensible people will sooner
or later find them guilty.
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Please Answer.

Can anyone tell us why the United
States posLofice department might not
as easily. safely and cheaply, carry one
package ten pounds'welght as it now
does ten packages of four pounds each.
Oh, how the corporations do hate
those fout-pound packages! They are
not fools. They see how the thing
works. and how it might be made to
work. They say: "If four pounds, why
not forty pounds "a hundred "a ton
"a carload "a trainload? Why not
the whole transportation business2 II
the postofice agents can take 10000 four
pound packages, from one end of the
country to the other, and distribute
them safely, who couldn't they take
charge of the whole train, passengers,
goods and all?' And the idea gives
them cold shivers.-Hayes Xaiies,Ad-
V0rtiaar
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WHERE THE BLAME LIES.

OF course, in the heat of passion, rrej
udiced by false reports, the public has
been easily led to believe that the An
archists of Chicago precipitated the re-
cent riot in that city; but now that the
excitement has cooled off, and the people
can listen to reason, they will probably
be willing to place the blame where it
belongs, if the case is clearly stated to
them.
The facts are these: Several thousand
men, inspired by the eight-hour agita.
ton, went out to the Mccormick works
to induce the superintendent to ad NIT
the eightnour principle. They failed
in this, and were rather rudelv treated.
They returned to the city, but nothing
was done until the next evening, when
large mass meeting, in which the
striking freight sndlers took part, was
held in the hay-market. This meeting
was of character similar to hundreds
Vi otAeis WHICH uaNe Ueen nelQ IN Cnl-
cago during the past few months, and
would have ended as harmlessly had moi
the police, under the direction of officers
who had been hired to operate with the
Pinkertons in breaking down the move
ment for areducti?n of hours, interfered.
The honest, law-abiding citizens o.
Chicago now say that, if the meeting
had been left alone; if the right Of free
speech had not been invaded by the
police. the meeting would have ad,
journed at the usual hour, 10 o'clock
after passing appropriate resolutions.
But the police, urgedon by the men
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IT should be remembered nv the work
ingmen of Danver that the Republican
which poses as their frienl, charged the
committee of workmen which had the
capitol building question under consid
Grafton, $75 for publishing an address
from the mechanics of this city. This
S75 was made up of the nickels and
dimes of thu workers of Denver and
tie Republican management swooped
down on it with the greed of vulture
It gives columns and p ges to slop about
Capitol hill orgies, but the workingmen
will have to pay for every lIno they get
or-not get them. This Republican
claims to he vour friend, work ingman
Are you the fool it takes Won for?
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MALTHUSIANISM.
A Three-Cornered Comparison Between
an Anarchist, Jonn Stuart Mill
and Henry George.

For the ENQUIRER.
An esteemed contemporary from Kan
sas has fallen into the meshes of Rev.
Mathus, cheerfully admitting the creed
as follows:
Facts havo to be met it is useless for
anti Mathusians to talk ofthe principles
of Neo Malthusianism being an impeach-
ment of the benefcence of the Creator"
l know nothing of a creator. and they
are no wiser. Equally futile is the talk
about Natures harmony" From the
standpoint nf mans educated common
sense, there is no harmony in nature.
Nature is chaotic, immoral, cruel. CY-
clones, earthquakes, poison in the faugs
of reptiles, malaria, extreme heat and
extreme cold, ETC., ETC., are alf very disa-
greeable facts, repugnant to our moral
sense, and destructive of our happiness,
butthey are facts nevertheless.-Lucifer,
April 8.
Now, the facts, when they are all
called in, disprove the theory conclu-
sively. There never was case Of star
vation caused by pressure of population
upon subsistence, because there has
always been abundance, although mo
nopolized by the few. Hence we must
blame monopoly, not nature, until the
world is full, and every inch of groun l.
titled. Then aud not until then will
population press subsistence.
do not suppose our neighbor mea ms
to say that cyclones, poison. etc., were
put here to put down population, for
that would prove supreme being and
a very malignant one.
But Rev. Nautilus did believeit. What
spectacle! Man, a Christian, invents
foolish theory and ascribes it to God
and another man believes it because
there is no God, nor order in Dature.
In Progress and Poverty" by Henry
George. we find the following statement
of the Malthusian doctrine by John s.
Mill:
"a greater number of people cannot,
in any given state of civilization, be col
lectively 80 we'll provided for. as
smaller. The niggardliness of nature,
not the injustice of society. is the cause
of the penalty attached to overpopula-
tion. An unjust distribution of wealth
does not aggravate the evil, but, at most,
causes it to be some what earlier felt.
It is in vain to ssznthnt l11n111
which tl,
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1T DIDN'T WORK.

The Republican, in its malicious at
tacks upon the editor of this paper, has
stepped itself in a contemplate cow
ardice, and has resorted to every posi-
BILE subterfuge for the purpose of hurting
The ENQUIRER, and the true labor cause.
One of its little tricks has been to speak
of this paper as "the official organ of the
knights of Labor" The editor of the
Republican knows THE ENQUIRER is MP.
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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.
JAMES D. MACDONALD, President.
THOMAS MUIRHEAD, Rec. Sec.
FRANK BAYER, State Organizer.
E. f.. RICE, Cor. and Fin. Secetary,
% COlfaX avenue.
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TAILORS,

The Tailors' Protective Society. OF Denver
meets in Judge Jetfries court room,
O'Clock p. M, on the first Monday of each
month FRED WEIDER, President
T. HAML1N, Sec, 29l 10Th street
Room IS Skinner Block.
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TYPOGRAPHICAL

Typographical Union, No. 40, meets on the
first SUNDAY of each month In Police Court
Rooin, City Hall, al 2 o clock p. m.
o. l.. SMALLWOOD, Rec. and Cor. See'y.
w. H. MONTGOMERY, Fin. Sec.
Collier Cfeveland's office.
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TRADES ASSEMBLY,

The Trades Assembly Of Denver and Vicin-
tty meets on the second and fourth Sunday
hall, at 2 o'clock. A. MENCHE, President.
T. HAMLIN, Secretary
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IRON MOLDRRS.

lion Molders' Uniesn. meets every second
and fourth Tuesday of each month at Reno
Hall Twenty-seventh and Holiday, at 7:3O D.
m. ]. J. SMITH, Cor. Sec.,
l0l5 Holiday street,
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PLASTERERs' UNION,

The Plasterers' Union, of Denver, meets
every Monday evening at 7:30 O'Clock, in St
Joseph's Temperance Hall, corner Fifteenth
and Stout streets.
HARRY COLE. President
CHARLES NJ. McNABE, Secretary.
Address, 100 East 18th street.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-15
1T HAD TO BE,

Whatever may be said now in regard
to the recent bomb throwing In Chicago,
With its tremendous results, there is no
use in our wasting valuable time in dep
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-15
BRICKLAYERS.

Brlcklayers' lnternatlona Union, No. /, OF
colorado, meets The second and fourth Mon
day evenings in each month, at No. 379 Lari-
mer street, Denver. Colorado
JAMES COOK, Sec'y. NJ. SULLIVAN,
l0S Blake Street. President.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-05-15

THERE will be a new work out soon,
upon the tariff question. 1t is bv Henry
George, and is entitled, Protection or
Free Trade"
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For the Enquirer.
An esteemed contemporary from Kan
sas has fallen into the meshes of Rev.
Malthus, cheerfully admitting the creed
as follows:
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THE CITY IN BRIEF.

Larkin e. Stone, guardian of the minor heirs
Of Theodore M. Cox, qualified yesterday.
Judge Norton yesterday sentenced Charles
Morris. a clock thief, to two years in the ~peniten-
tiary.
Hon. Wm. Fl. English yesterday subscribed
81, 900 towards the erection Of a soldiers monu-
ment for Indiana.
The committee on permanent rooms for the
Hendricks Club. which has been looking at sew
eral localities, and particularly at rooms in the
English Hotel Block, will report at a meeting Of
the club to night.
The Home Savings and Loan Association. of
Indianapolis, was Incorporated yesterday. Will
lam Geizandanner is president, Joseph Cabalzer,
secretary, and John L. F. Steeg treasurer. The
capital stock is 800, 900.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to
Lucullus People and Josephine Roberts, George
w. Kennedy and Belle Grant, A. E. Buchanan
and Nellie Roll, Charles Kiefer and Emma
Bernhamer, George 7. Crapdall and Eliza Jane
McLain.
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A Personal explanation.

70 the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
In the Journals account of the proceedings of
the School Board, last Friday night, relating to
the vote as to whether the chair should be sus-
tanned in relation to the meeting of the com
mittee of the whole, you make the following
comment:
The action is interpreted as an emphatic disapproval
been holding against the protests Of newspapers and
those who are opposed to public business being trans
acted privately.
Having voted in the affirmative upon that
question. the public might infer that I am In
favor of the so called star chamber sessions.
Permit me to say that my vote was cast alto
gether for different reasons. Since / have been
a member Of the board-now six months-there
have been about four OF such meetings, at which
all the members who were in attendance
upon the regular meetings were present.
1t the meeting of last Monday night all the
members of the board except Messrs. Kuhn and
Stratford were present and participated in the
business of the evening, and it was then and
there unanimously resolved to present the whole
matter to the regular meeting of the board last
Friday night. When the president attempted to
present the subject he was opposed upon parlia-
mentary grounds, and finally deciding that he
was justified in his attempt, an appeal was taken
from his decision. which resulted as stated by
you. While l have no right to question the ac-
ton OF my colleagues in not voting to sustain
the chair, ], for my part, felt it my duty to do
so, thereby not voting in favor of secret sessions.
but simply to share with the president the onus
of that meeting, if we had no right to hold it.
JAN. ID II. ~BAMBERGER.
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New York Mail and Express.

N6W lOTh duu
Dropping in at a bookstore the other day, I met
Gertrude Garrison, the literary editor of the
New York American Press Association. Like
Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Annie Wolf Emily.
Mrs. Garrison is a blonde and very handsome.
She is above the medium height. with strong
symmetrical features. large. beautiful blue eyes
and golden hair. 1t is not red, but really golden
hair. While she is a successful journalist, some
thing very few women succeed in being, she has
recently made an especial hit in stores. John
Boyle OReilly pronounces her Christmas story,
which has been going the rounds of the press re-
Gently. equal to any American classic. Her
Prince of Poverty is strikinely new and original
in style. and the poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
said tina: 1t would draw tears from a Spartan. It
is certainly very strong. full of pathos and long
weeps. Mrs. Garrison is, too, a brilliant con-
versationalist. as entertaining as she is original.
It is said that she handles a blue pencil with
scientific dexterity, and has no mercy on bad
COPY. In fact, she is called a martinez, and will
accept no copy unless it can. pass muster in
grammar, composition and rhetoric. 1 asked
her how she managed to wade through so many
folios of copy. She said that practice had taught
her rapiditY. ~ can tell in a few folios how
bad. good or indifferent the matter will be.
The Writer generally shows either strength or
weakness in q few pages, and gives a forecast Of
what is TO be expected"
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Hotel Arrivals.

Occidental Hotel: James Colville, Rockford;
j. II. ONeil, Washington; II. nj. Sprague. Day
ton, o.: d. N. Cushman, Cleveland; FL. II.
French, Cincinnati; G. Walker. Stinesville.
Bates House: T. w. Okey, H. M. Innes. Co.
lumbus; E. T. Brickley. Anderson; James Med.
Hays, Greencastls; John A. Sage, Madison;
J. 81. johnson. Montana; r. Fl. Mcdowell,
Brazil; 0. G. Dunn and wife. Franklin; 2. Nor.
ris, Danville. J. Anderson, Logansport; j. A. s.
Mitchell, Goshen.
Grand Hotel: F. D. Jones, Michigan City; E.
F. McCabe. Williamsport; M. G. Powell, Hart
ford City; A. FL. Brown, Michigan City; j. W.
Craig, Greensburg; r. r. Spencer, Nashville; J,
+. Applewhite, Brownstowp; j. McCabe and
wife. Williamsport; DIR. J. B. kirkpatrick, II.
L. Bone, Franklin; J. A. Loring. Salem; E. D.
Moore, Lawrenceburg.
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JERSEY Cattle breeders.

The fourth annua convention of the Indiana
Jersey Cattle breeders Association will be held
at the rooms of the State Board of Agriculture
this morning. Several papers will be read
upon interesting topics. I. Henry Gest. of Gin
cinnati, will address the meeting during the
afternoon session. Ladies and the public are
cordially invited to attend these meetings.
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The Phoenix Rife Club.

This club will have a pool and sweepstakes
shoot on Monday next, beginning at / p. NJ.
First class pool-ticket 81, good for eight shots at
plates. each plate broken wins so cents cash.
Second-class pool ticket so cents, each plate
broken wins 25 cents. Sweepstakes on Massa-
chusetts target. entry 25 cents. Ave shots. three
moneys; third money goes to club benefit. Or
binary practice free. Strictly off hand shooting.
Everybody invited.
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PERSONAL AND SOCIETY.


Miss Nettie Deitrichs is visiting in Columbus, o.
Mrs. Allen Summons will give a large ''tea" on
Friday, followed by a card party in the evening.
The crisis of Mrs. John Hamilton's illness has
been passed, and she is now slowly GONZALES
cling.
Hiram Brownlee. of Marion, representative
from Grant county in the last Legislature, is al
the Denison.
Mrs. John Pattison, of Noblesvilie, is visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Geiger. on
North Meridian street
Mr.. c. Ell. Marsh celebrated his birthday, on
Sunday, and was the recipient of many ex-
tremely beautiful presents.
Mrs. c. L. Whitsett will give a progressive
euchre party this afternoon at her residence,
No. 1856 North Alabama street.
Mrs. May Wright-Sewall lectured last evening
in gainesville, O., before the Equal Suffrage
Society. She lectures in Cleveland tonight.
Mr.. I. L. Sewall. of the ClassicalISchool, gave
the Sunday lecture before the students of Pur.
due University. Subject, Poetry and Politics.
The whist party given by Miss Mollie Clark
last evening was a success. Miss Clark is a
charming hostess, and a great favorite among
her friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Pinkham, of Burling-
ton, Ia, have become residents of this city.
They have gone to housekeeping on North Del
aware street.
Mr.. NJ. d. Watson, of Chicago. spent last even
ing with Major Gordon and wife, en- route from
Cincinnati to Brazil, where he will 60 on bust
ness before returning home.
Mrs. 81. B. Hibben. assisted by Ter daughter,
Miss Lulu Hibben, will give a reception, on Fri
day afternoon, from 5 till s. In the evening
Miss Hibben will entertain her friends with q
dancing party. A number of the young society
people OF Lafayette will be present.
The euchre party entertained by Mrs. Frank
l.. Howe. on North Pennsylvania street, on Sat
urday evening, was marked for the elegance of
the favors. A half-dozen solid silver fruit knives
were won by Mrs. Wilson, a hammered brass
dust-pan by Mr.. G. l.. Hanford. and q ~cut-glass
ink-stand and bisque vase by Mr.. Revra Be Put
and Miss Swift.
Mrs. Harry Drew entertained a progressive
euchre party at her elegant home, on North
Pennsylvania street, last evening, in celebration
OF her birthday. There were four tables. and
the game was extremity spirited. Among those
present were Major and Mrs. Richards, Mr.. and
Mrs. Brecount, Mr.. and Mrs. De Way, Dir. and
Mrs. Henry Schurmann, Mr.. and Mrs. Enrique
Miller, Mr. and Mrs. John Williams. and others.
The Bishop and Mrs. Knickerbacker enter
tanned the Episcopal clergy of the city very de-
lghtfully last evening at a tea and social at the
Episcopal residence, No. IS Circle street. The
guests present were Rev. George B. Engle and
Mrs. Engle. Rev. DR.. f. A. Bradley and Mrs.
Bradley, Rev. DR.. j. S. Jenckes and Mrs
mond, Rev. ". D. Engle and Mrs. Engle. Rev.
A. Prentiss, Miss Annie K. Prentiss. and Miss
Emily Uphold. Besides the genuine hospitality
of the host and hostess, not a small part of the
entertainment, was some excellent music by
Mrs. Jenckes.
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The National Credit Is No More

Solidly founded than the reputation Of Benson's Cap
cine Plasters. They are known, appreciated and used
everywhere in America-its hospitals and is homes.
promptness of action. certainty and range of curative
qualities they are beyond comparison. Once used
their u~nequaled excellence recommends them. Tbs
less and shameless limitations offered by mendacious
parties under the guise of similar sounding names.
such as ''Capsicin. .Capsicum, 'tCapucin," .Capsi-
cine" etc. Ask for Benson's, buy of respectable
druggists only, and make q personal examination
The genuine has the Three Seals trade mark and
the word "Capcine'' cut in the center.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-19
Officer Downey Resigns.

The Police Commissioners met yesterday, but
used their time in paying attention to routine
matters. Officer Downey. whose spree caused
unenviable publicity, feeling very sore over
his bad luck, sent in his resignation. It was
accepted. 1t Is said that Downey had done good
service, and this was his first offense of the kind.
His popularity at a brewery on the South Side
caused his downfall.
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Y. M. C. A. Business Meeting.

There should be a large attendance at the Y.
NJ. G. A. rooms tonight. of such persons as are
in any measure interested in the success of the
present attempt to secure a new and suitable
headquarters for young men. The public in
general is invited. and the association member
ship is urged to be present. 1t may be the last
gathering of the kind in the old castle.