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THE IDEA GAINS GROUND.

Whether the engineers win or
lose the strike on the Burlington
is a matter of little concern when
compared to the great importance
attached to the strike as a factor
in changing the public mind to
accept as truth the proposition to
place the railroads under the con-
troll of the people.
The people are beginning to
see that the placing within the
power of one man to paralyze the
commerce of half a continent, by
his pig-headedness in refusing to
settle a dispute about picayunish
cent on the mile matter of wages.
is wrong. The mere sayso of Mr..
Stone of the Burlington has
caused innumerable hardships and
inconvenience to the general
public; has thrown into idleness
thousands besides the actual
strikers and in general has
wrought great damage.
People are beginning, in these
latter days, to seek the causes of
effects, and when they seek the
cause of all this strike trouble and
its natural, attendant evils and
public inconvenience they, the
public, are going to conclude
that the effect is too big for the
cause and will set about to remove
the little, insignificant cause.
That this Burlington strike has
done wonders in the way of draw
ing the attention of the public to
the evils underlying our system of
private control of great national
highways is made manifest in
many ways. When it is pointed
out to an antagonist of the govern
mental control idea that under the
latter there would be no strikes to
paralyze the business of the coun-
try and that besides freight and
passenger rates would be much
less-when these things are ex-
planned to him, at this particular
time when the evils of private
ownership are manifesting them
selves as they are on the Burling-
ton system, he begins to realize
that there is some reason In the
Arguments in favor of govern
mental control Of our railroad sys-
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RESERVOIR CONVENTION.
The Monopslists Failed to Have II All
Their Own Way.

As was stated in last issue of
the ENQUIRER the reservoir con-
vention convened at 2:3o p m. on
Thursday of last week. The not
inconsiderable amount of agitation
which has been going on regard
ing the state ownership of bitches
and reservoirs has had its influence
on the monopolists of the waters
and land and bitches of the state.
Consequently the monop's made
it a point to capture the chairman
ship of the convention and John
L. Routt, who, by the way, was
one of. old Joe Chsffee's partners
when the latter was engaged in cor
rupting the politics of this state,
was placed in the chair to do the
work of the. ditch monopolists, he
being possessed of the proper quail
ifcations-a large owner of corpo-
rate ditch stock and also sole
owner of an. extensive ditch. 1t
will readily be seen that state
ownership" would not fare well at
the hands of a man of Routt's pos
sessions.
The monop's had further fixed"
things by placing as chairman of
the committee on rules a lawyer
who is prosecuting attorney of
Garfield county. He was solid
for the monop's, as we'll as was
lawyer Croxton, chairman of the
resolutions committee, who, al
though comparatively harmless
wherever he is, was clay in the
hands of "old man Routt".
Governor Adams in a fowery
speech urged the asking of con-
gress for grant of all the arid
lands of the state. Routt backed
him up. The evident intention
was to prevent action on the
proposition. to ask congress for
cash with which to 90 to
work at once or as soon as practic-
able and construct bitches and
reservoirs. This would begin to
take the starch out of Routt's
ditch stock, so the scheme was to
switch the farmers off from con-
sideration of any plan having a
possibility of working injury to
Il. ditch monopolies.
The land grant idea was plausi-
BILE on''.,: face and if it went
through and congress turned the
arid L.. Is over for the purpose
of the states selling them and use
ing the proceeds to build reser-
voirs and bitches then the monop's
could rest easy as, in the first
place. they were doubtless conf
dent that congress would do moth |
ing so radical" as that and if it |
did Routt, Adams ct al. who
60 to make upthe ditch monop's,
could fix things 50 that the lands
world fall into the control. of a
.--..;-rts orPs---'- tt-.-.-.. -.
secondly, the possibilities Of any- (
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men. He called his scabs Of the
Reading engines as a war meas
ure-n to make amends" !"
There vas no ''extended hand" in
this.
And again. when Powderly IS
sued bis tragic "hands upr' oi
off order and Mr.. Arthur was
asked his opinion about Mr.. Pow
Derby and his order to the knights
to keep their hands off the Bur
lington strike, did Mr.. Arthur moi
say that he wouldn't talk about
that man (Powderly)a" He "did
not know him." he said, and init
mated his contempt for Powderly,
Of course it will not be construed
that Arthur's contempt was fol
the man butfor the official head
of the X. of L.
This certainly does not look a:
though the engineers were Tex
tending the hand" which the Chi
cago ENQNirTy sees thrust out sc
anxiously.
The Enquirer says the engineer.
''have made mistakes which they
now own and promise to avoid ir
thefuture," but there are no msa
exipas from the engineers in the
columns of the Chicago Enquirer
or any othe paper, as far as seen
"If / hated a man sufficiently te
strike him when he was struggling
with one who was his and my en-
emy ! would never consent to as
sociate with him thereafter" say.
the Enquirer, but that is imputinf
a base motive as the actuatinf
force behind the opposition to th'
engineers. That motive, mere
hatred. is denied. However,
will say thatIdid ! love a man whit
was possessed of a grievous faul
and that that fault could not b.
cured or removed without goot
sound thrashing, l should conside
it a solemn duty to not delay thu
thrashing in order that we nigh
be mutually possessed of a btroh
erly love. Who has not made, a
some time in his life, a friend BY
thrashing a fellow who. while
really good atheart, was possessed
of a desire to lord it" over hi.
equals, and who needed simply
little "lesson1"
Common sense, it seems, will
tell anyone that it is only natura
that If the engineers win this strike
they will consider themselve.
stronger than ever, and that they
having entered into mo entanglinf
alliances" in order to win are con
sequently under no obligation t.
any other organizations. Th'
Chicago Tribune understands thi.
and is in favor of preserving" the
engineers brotherhood.
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THE r. Il. s. L. MEETING.

The R. MS. League will meetto-
morrow Sunday night, at War
ren's dancing academy, corner
Sixteenth and Champa streets.
Entrance on Sixteenth nd on
Champa.
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Il nd the ysal estate shark del

lion nd a Jeal estate shark del
| |eetion.
The state ownership resolutions
were put to'avote and were car
|ried BY ! two-thirds majority.
The delegates from the labor or
ganizations went home satisfied.
The Routts and sharks and board
of trade men also went home sat
is6ed that they didn't have things
all their own way.
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DENVER SOCIAL LEAGUE.

The Denver Social League will
meet at Neff's hall Fifteenth
street, between Larimer and Hol-
laday, tomorrow Sunday even
ing at ? go p. m. All are cordi-
dially invited to attend.
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sPEcIAL NOTICE.

Those Of our subscribers who receiye their
paper vim tksir cddrsas RrintS$ 90 ~ ne ~
e Il denotes the date 70 which they have
mssns that Mr. smith has paid 70 September
/. m. md on that date his subscription b.
cone a9ain due. II not renewed promptly
me papsr Will be stopped without further
noeiee. n the date does not correspond with
your receipt please notify us , ~ OF cnos = ana M
ooive yOur paper mall complaints at once 70
shis olics and 70 your local postmaster.
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~Hungry Jee"

Can be filled. and every other
workingman and citizen can get a
square meal, cheap and good. al
Gunther's Hotel, corner Thirty.
orst and Blake streets. Schaefel
& Schaede. proprietors. 2S2tf
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cARPHNTRRs.
= -

Carpsnters' Union, No. s., OF the Brother
mood Of America. meets every Saturday
evening at Red Aen's Hall. AL good Cafpes.
ters are invited to Join.
W. n. PARK, President
LII. JERSEY, F. Secretary.
T. ]. FERRIS, Rec. and Cor. Sec.
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The reducing Of the working
day frsm ten to eight hours SIM
ply means two hours more to be
spent in drinking saloons.-P. M
dykhxy.
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nRrcnAYrRs.

Bricklayers' lnternaasonal Onion. No. l, o
Colorado, meets eyerv Monday evening In
the month, ~ No. ~ Fiftee.- th street, NeeCs 8
Hall, Denver, Colorado.
! A. r. PERRY, JOS. VINCENT,
| Cor. Secretary, President,
| p. o. Box 1880.
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rArnLona.

The Tailorl' Protective Soelety, Of Denver
meets in California Hall, et7:Se O'Clock p. m.
j. B. WiLLEIs. Cor. Secretary, '
28l8 Holiday street.
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soaa 81 I'll sHlRf.


VIII 1neeEs Weasy - IWom,
with syeailo heayy a11 NJ.
4 woman - = n11Nsantnly ,saes.
Plying ~ nee1Ie ~ thzoa1-
ssiteh stileA ol1tGnf
Inpovsrty, hunGss nnd dit,
And still WITH : votse - hslereas Pitch
She sang ths - i u ~ Shirtl'
.work work vsrki
While The coek u growing aloofI
And wsrt-work-work
TIL the starr shine through The roofl
IT'S o, 70 b slAvs
Aloag with ~ barbarots Turk,
Where wemAn has nevsf / soul e save,
II this b Christian work.!
"Work-work-wofki
TIL the brain begins - swim!
Wofk-wosk-wosk
TIL the s>ss an heavy end diml
6eam. and gusset and band,
Band, and yusset. and ssam-
TIL over tAs buttons iall sslssp.
And sew them on IN my drsani
" m04 Win u1Dt9B3 001LI
o men with nSshen ana wives!
It Il not linen yoa are wearing ont,
But human creatnres' Hvssi
Stitch -stitch- stitch,
In poverty, hunger and dir
Sewing at once with . double thread,
A shroud ~ well ~ shirtl
"But Why do talk Of death
That phantom Of grisly homer
I hardly fear his terrible shape,
II seems 70 like my own
It seems 70 like my owl
Because Of the fAats keep:
o God! that bread should b 20 dsar,
And nesh and blood 20 cheap!
"Wofk-work-work!
Ny labor never fags;
And what are IT, wagssf A bed q straw,
A crust Of bre<d-and rags,
That shattered roof. and this naked door,
A table-a broken chair
And wall 20 blank my shadow thank
! For sometimes falling there!
"Work-work-wofki
From weary chime 70 chime!
Work-work-work
Al Ryisoners work for crime!
Band, and gusset, snd seam,
seam and susset, and band,
Till the heart ID sick and the brain benumh
AZ we'll ~ the weary hand.
'.Work-work-worki
In the dull December light!
And work-work-work
When the weather ID warm and bright
While underneath the caves
The brooding swallows cling,
As II to show me their sunny backs,
And twit me with the spring,
40 but to breathe the breath
or the cowslip and primrose sweet
With the sky above my head.
And the grass beneath my feet!
For only one short hour
To feel - used to feel,
Esfore knew the woes Of want
And the walk tha cost . meal!
no but for ono short hour
A respite, however brief!
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief!
A little weeping would ease my heart;
But In their briny bed
Ny tears must stop. for every drop
flinders needle and thread.
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyeaids heavy and red,
A woman sat In unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread
Stitch stitch stitchi
In poverty, hunger and dirt;
And still with voice OF dolor0us pitch-
Would that it, tone could reach the rich
She sang this 'Ssng Of the Shirt RI
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Cross has large stock Of new
shoes and boots. also strong boots
at weak prices. and they will give
away another piano July !
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-24

BREWERS ARBEITER UNION NO. A.
Meets every second and fourth Wed nesday
evening In the month at 0reedle Hall. Fif.
teenth street between Holiday and Blake.
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LOCAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
Istsss md, iAIs hssdass Is =, yss, Ia ad,.ne.
nor xolDHls.

lion Modern Union. meets every second
and fourth Tuesday Of each month ct Pacific
Hall Twsnty-eexenth and Holiday. Ct 7:SO p.
m. CHICK JACOBS, Cor. &c.,,
$50 LAflmer street.
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c. F. r. HAYWARD, late manag-
ing editor Of the Denver Rfpa6A-
can, died on the nineteenth in
slant, aged 30 years.
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PAstsaravAs Il An IT, AuarsAasts, J.
Cabinet size: per SCI. s2oc; single
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Entered ss the Denver possofncs - second
ciasa matter.
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r.s i--si,i,es street. Depy ~. Lo.o.
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secondly The pcsslbiliues q aay
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n ara lolu g lici.s ene eisl
n psv ~ Fit stfaet NaW fors
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ehSiS Woo a. ASoSS OiS low ~
there who dared to advocate the
socialistic resolutions. That law
yer was county attorney Late
Pence who warmly supported the
state ownership idea. He said
there was time-two or three
years ago, perhaps-when he was
as bitterly opposed to the state
ownership idea as any man who
stood in opposition on that floor,
but he had studied the question.
had watched the march of monop-
oily. had seen the trail of the ser
pent of corporate rapacity as it
wended its sinuous way Throughout
our republic; had seen in its wake
poverty and its attendant evils
and had, after close application
and thorough investigation. come
to the conclusion that state own
ership was the only solution. at
least of the water question, and
that it was a fixed conclusion in
his mind that the day when every
common carrier would be con-
trolled by the state was not far
distant
Mr.. Pence received hearty ap-
plause from ever.A portion ofAthe
with tad exeeptiop pf
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
DICKINSON'S LIBEL.
Cleveland's Postmaster-General as .
litical Munchausen.

Cleveland's POstmaster-General rs PO-
litical Munchausen.
Mr.. Don NJ. Dickinson, Postmaster
General in the Cabinet of President
Cleveland, is becoming most offensive
partisan. In recent speech before a
Democratic audience down in Missouri
he gave utterance to the following:
The State OF Missouri sent more troops to
the Union armies than all Of New England out
side OF Massachusetts. And yet they talk about
patriotism and try to induce our Western
farmers, from whom they never buy q pound
Of any thing to keep on voting riches into their
pockets.
This is not only an offensive partisan
utterance, but an absolute untruth. The
number of men furnished by Missouri
to the Union armies aggregated. when
reduced to three years standard, 68.-
$50, while the contribution of New En-
gland. reduced to the same standard,
was 800, 290; a quota more than three
times as large as that of Missouri.
The New Englanders all went to the
front; they had no home rebellion to
hold in check. while great number
of the Missourians never saw the front
because they did service as home
guards.
But there was one feature that Mr..
Dickinson failed to notice at any rate,
and that is the historical fact that
Missouri sent more men into the rebel
army than she did into the ranks of
the defenders Of the Union, and hence
that her preponderance was against
the salvation of the Government in
any event. In the next speech deliv-
cred by Mr.. Dickinson in Missouri he
should have the facts all collated and
arranged, and if he should happen to
be delivering an Grafton in a particu-
larly strong Democratic section it
would be good politics to tell the pre-
else number of recruits which Mis-
souri, sent into the Confederate army.
That is the kind OF campaign talk TO
win down in Missouri. inneapolis
Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
INVOICE RECEIVED JUNE S.
CLEVELAND NOMINATED JUNE6""
WHAT ENGLAND THINKS OF IT.

The main question at issue Is English free
trade against the continental system of pro
tection.-London Sunday Times. july Is.
The American election is infinitely more i'm
portant to Englishmen than their own internal
politics just at this juncture. The result Of the
American election will help TO decide many i'm
portant issues in Great Britain.-Lond0H Sun
day Times. yu'y Is.
President Cleveland shows that he is the
free-trade candidate In every thing but name.
The reservation is an important one for Amer
lean party purposes. The President feels com.
PEELED to characterize the attempt to brand
him as free trader as deception, out for all
that the electoral conflict R0,0 ia progress is a
conflict 6et,reen free trade and protection ana
nothing more.-LOndon Daily Ners.
We may look to an impetus being given to
our home trade that will go far to make up for
the depression Of late years.-Raddingst oashirs
Courier.
Mr.. Cleveland has taken his stand on free
trade. And on that broad question
Mr.. Clevelands candidature naturally and
necessarily carries English sympathy.-LOs-
don Globe
The electoral conflict now in progress is a
conf ct between free trade and protect on and
nothing less. The stone now set rolling will
not stop until it has broken the idol of protec-
ton to pieces.-Lokd0n Neus.
1t may be admitted that large reductions in
TIC uut'cS ou AhpOTt0u mouulbctuEcu SOOOS
would produce great distress in many parts o.
the United States. The free importation Of
iron, coal and wool would be q great boon to
British producers. II once the United
States finds herself on the road to free trade
she will hardly know where to stop.-The
Scotsman, December 10.
II President Cleveland should be able to
carry out his plan for admission into America
free OF duty, one Of the first effects which
would be produced on the English iron trade
would be the transferenoe of much of the
enormous stocks OF pig iron in the Scotch and
Cleveland markets to United States ports
Shipments OF hematites from Scotland and
from the west coast Of England would also in
crease. The iron-ore mines of Lancashire and
West Cumberland would be certain to do a
greatly enlarged trade with the United States.
The future course OF events Will be watched
with considerable interest by the British iron
trade.-LOndOn CoHiery Guardian, December
16, 1857.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
TEN GOOD REASONS.
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster Tells Why She II .
Republican.

Mrs. j. Ellen Foster Tells Why She Il .
Republican.
am Republican by hereditary in
fiuence. past environments. and pres
emit convictions. Because
1. The Republican party in the past
has stood for all that is liberal and
progressive in legislation.
2. The Republican party freed tho
slave.
8. The pronounced and emphatic
legislation on moral questions has
come most largely from Republican
legislators.
A. The Republican party has always
been the champion of protection-pro-
lection to the citizen, protection to the
negro, protection to the ballot box,
protection to the wage-earner, pro-
lection to the wage-payer, and now,
in line with past professions and per-
formances, it declares projection to
the home.
8. The friends of the liquor interest
in the ranks of the Republican party
are few and far between.
6. The Republican party has stood
for the most advanced temperance leg
islation which the people demanded,
and in very many States has made
open declarations of enmity against
the saloon.
Z. The Republican party deals with
conditions of the temperance work,
not theories. The ideal is not always
instantly attainAha; it is better that
the majority of Ne Great, struggling,
grooming mass sAs,Ad gain one inch Of
altitude than that few should, by sep
arating themselves into "holier-than-
thou" party, attain supernal heights.
8. The Republican party by reason
of its powerful position in this country,
is able to consistently promise the re-
demption of its pledges. while the so
called Prohibition party, even if the
sincerity of its pledges be admitted,
can not, for many years at least, fulfill
any one of them.
9. The best types of American man.
hood are represented in the persons of
Benjamin Harrison and Levi p. Nor
ton.
10. The record of the Republican
party proves it to be made up of men
out of whose brain and heart reform
have come in the past, and are likely
to come in the future.-J. Ellen Foster,
in Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
THE HANDKERCHIEF.
Difficulties in the Way of It's Introduction
Into French Society.

Difficulties in the Way of Its Introduction
Into French Society.
Until the reign of the Empress
Josephine handkerchief was thought
in France so shocking an object that a
lady would never have dared to use it
before any enc. The word even was
carefully avoided in refined CONVERSE
ton. An actor who would have used
a handkerchief ON the stage, even in
the most teorful moments of the play,
would have been numerically Missed;
and it was only in the beginning of the
present century that q celebrated act
ress, Mile. Duchesnois, dared to ap-
pear with a handkerchief in her hand.
Having to speak of this handkerchief
in the course of the piece, she never
could summon enough courage to call
it by its true name, but referred to it
as light tissue. A few years later a
translation of one of Shakespeare's
plays by Alfred de Vigny having been
acted, the word handkerchief was
used for the first time on the stage,
amid cries of great Indignation from
every part of the house. 1 doubt
(says writer) if even to-day French
elegantes would carry handkerchiefs If
the wife of Napoleon /. had not given
the signal for adopting them. The
Empress Josephine. although really
lovely, had bad teeth. To conceal
them. she was in the habit CT carrying
small handkerchiefs, adorned with
costly laces, which she constantly
raised gracefully to her lips. OF
course, all the ladies of the court fol-
lowed her example, and handkerchiefs
rapidly became an important part
of the feminine toilette.-Longman's
Magazine.
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THIRD PARTY POLICY.
New Light Thrown on the Methods p
sued by the Psrty's Leaders.

New Light Thrown on the Methods Pur-
sued by the Psrty's Leaders.
1t is well-recognized fact that in
the Northern States the Prohibition
party draws most of its votes from the
Republicans, while in the Southern
States whatever strength it has is
mainly drawn from Democratic sour
ces. If the Third party, therefore,
made an aggressive campaign in both
Northern and Southern States which
are more or less doubtful, as, for in
stance, in New Jersey and New York
on the one hand and in Virginia and
North Carolina on the other hand, it
would seem to be clear that it's leaders
are actuated, as they claim to be, by
zeal for the cause of temperance, and
not by any special hatred of either one
party or the other.
The fact is, however, that the whole
strength of the Third party canvass is
being put this year into the Northern
doubtful States, or those which De-
mocrats think are doubtful while in
the Southern States that Republicans
class as doubtful no canvass at all is
made by the Prohibition managers.
In other words. the Third party is act
ing. in this campaign, simply and
solely for Democratic success. When
we say this we do not mean that the
rank and file of the party are actuated
by any such motive. The majority of
the men who vote the Prohibition
ticket do so from pure, if erroneous,
motives. But the managers find it
easy to direct the canvass as they
please, and they do please to direct it
as We have said.
A confirmation of this view is af-
forded by an interview recently had
with Third party leader in Virginia.
andsprinted in the Harrisonburg Re
publican. When asked why the Prohi-
bitionists were not active in Virginia
this year, this leader said: "The Ma
tional Committee are making special
effort and spending their main strength
in certain States, New York, New Jer-
sey, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan,
Illinois and Minnesota. Our party
wants these States to go Democratic.
You see, if the Republican party loses
those States it loses the election and
goes to pieces. If it succeeds in this
election it regains firm power. Our
hope for 1892, to have any prestige in
that election, is to burst up the Repub-
lican party"
you will probably not poll your