The Labor enquirer. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1882-1888, 1888-02-04

Fruits and Flowers For the
farmers Family" in which she
treated not only of the necessity
of these gifts of nature. but intel
ligently expounded their chemical
constituents and economic value
as basis for sound brains and
good morals.
Mrs. Kelso did not fail to make
a strong point for working men,
women and children who. through
no fault of their own. but owing to
false distribution and capitalistic
manipulation of the products Of
the soil, were deprived of these
cheap and plentiful means of pro-
noting health and happiness.
Mrs. Kelso-much to the dis
quietude of a small part of the
large audience, those who have
failed to become familiar with the
true aims of socialism and still
look through the greengoggles Of
the capitalistic press at the labor
issues of the day-bravely spoke
a few words for the cause of "our
murdered brothers" who died for
trying to teach the masses their
just claims on the resources of the
earth. All honor to the woman
who, in the face of perverted,
prejudiced public opinion, dare
speak for the socialistic theories
handed down from the humble
Nazarene."
A lady of Garfield read a paper
on Poultry Raising" declared to
be one of the very best offered.
She related her experience, from
humble. ignorant beginnings to a
successful management of an ex-
tensive. paying business.
During the discussion which
followed. lady IN the audience
called attention to moral point
for women evolved in the fact that
when the wife was stumbling along
in her earlier experiments and
failures her husband cried, you've
played smash" but when success
crowned her persevering efforts
and the dollars began to roll in he
was not ashamed to say "Ony poul-
try housed" Amid the general
laughter evoked the husband
gracefully acknowledged the
corn"
The institute just closed in
Loveland was a most gratifying
success; not only in the crowds in
daily attendance for four days, but
in the value of the papers and the
excellent music furnished largely
by women, nearly all of whom
actually live on farms and work as
women must who feed the world"
Don't Mortgage the Farm"
was sung in costume, to an opera
house literally packed and the
furious encore demanded showed
that farm music as well as farm
sentiments were appreciated.
Not the least of the results of
these institutes and a marked fea-
ture of every one of them is the
discussion of the currency, tariff,
market corners, price of labor, etc.,
which brings to the surface the
wrongs of the laboring classes and
the aggressions fthe monopolists.
The complaint of farmers that
they cannot s9n at living prices
the food they raise, meets the
complaint of the city workers that
they cannot buy at living prices
the food they need. The avari-
cious thumb-screw of the army of
middlemen, putting on between
producer and consumer, "all the
traffic will BEAR" is coming to be
understood by those most nearly
concerned, and the little leaven
is working which will raise the
whole lump of the working classes
both in the towns and the mines
and on the farms to an intelligent
and vigorous defense of their own
rights in the courts and at the
ballot box.
"was II q Fair Triali"
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