The Labor enquirer. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1882-1888, 1888-01-21
THE LEAaUE.
Its Regular Sssalsa nell ~ Sunday
Night 1t Sehradsky's Hall.

inS pitter COto Oh SUNDAY nlSuS
did not prevent good audience
from meeting at Schradky's hall
to listen to the programme pre-
pared for the evening by the So
cialists.
Miss l.. f. Mccarthy called the
meeting to order. After a song
by the choir Comradc Lcahy en-
tered into a discussion on some OF
the aims of socialism. He pointed
to the fact that the enthusiastic
meeting he had the pleasure Of
addressing was proof that the
truths underlying socialism were
proof against the tongue of the
,slanderer, or the boycott Of the
intolerants who we're attempting
to crush out the spirit of honest
investigation into the causes and
remedies of poverty here in Den
sver. Addressing himself to the
strangers in the hall Comrade
Leahy said he desired them to pay
attention to his statement that
socialism does not appeal to the
bomb, the sword. the gibbet or any
Of the capitalistic methods of
argument" These were the ar
guments of tyranny, of the rob-
bers Of the people.
There are really but two classes
in the world. Those who do moth
ing and have everything. and those
who do everything and have moth
ing. Whoever works for wages
for another is n slave, and slavery
is unjust therefore system
which, like this of to-day, compels
the vast majority of the race to
slavery must be abolished before
the race could develope and rise
up into the grander realms where
natures god intended we should
become but little infetior to the
infinite. Our laws to-day compel
men to be nothing but base, ma
terialistic money-making machines
from whose hearts all the finer
feelings and nobler impulses are
banished and laid as a sacrifice on
the alter of the god of money.
The comrade cited the case Of
the girls who work in a certain
factory where clothes are manu-
featured. BY overworking them
selves for twelve hours per day
the girls made SI.2s. The owner
of the establishment cleared from
the work of the girls $3.50 per day.
This was robbery. asst is clearly
seen that il was the work of the
girls that added value to the ma
terial made up into clothing. The
employer was able to say to the
girls Work for me and give me
all you produce, but enough to
procure yourselves food sufficient
to continue working, or starve !;
either this or 90 on the street and
sell your bodies as common pros
titutes."
II did not require any proiun-
dity of thought to realize that
those who benefit the world not at
all have everything. This wrong
is patent to the most stupid. This
wrong must be righted, and it is
the business of the socialist to so
change things in the world that
those who benefit the world most
shall have most 4; that he who tolls
shall enjoy that he who is a
drone shall starvc.
Anarchy, according to comrade
l.eahy is the science of doing
right. Mahmadc laws prevent
men from doing right. Manmade
laws make it profitable to do
wrong. Concluding the comrade
expressed fullest confidence in the
success of the socialistic idea
when once people begin to pull
from their eyes the scales of pref
udibc and intolerance, and seek
the truths in the propositions pun
forward by socialists.
Comrade Kcifer discussed inter
estingly the competitive system
and described how the race is
falling into the clutches of a small
number of men who have beer
allowed to corner up the natural
resources of the world.