United labor bulletin., 1913-11-22
THE OPTIMISTIC
PHILOSOPHER

And put it in crate,
And shipped it by express, which
charged
A most excessive rate.
Twas a commission merchant who
Received it at his store;
The retail butcher got it next
Along with many more.
Then came the poor consumer man
And took the fowl away,
But he put up an awful kick
At what he had to pay.
For he was soaked the farmers price
And the collectors due,
Express charge and commission fee
And butchers profit, too.
He could have written to the farm:
Send me a bird to roast
And saved three-quarters of the price
By way of parcel post.
O o O
Governor Ammons postponed issuing
Colorado's Thanksgiving proclamation
to the last possible hour in the hope
of being thankful for settlement of
the coal strike. In this he was disap-
pointed and therefore cut his message
to the people unusually short. Never
theless there are many things for ia
vored residents of a section SO richly
endowed by nature to be thankful for.
There will be others after us to mine
and use the coal If we leave it in
mother earth's bosom. Besides, the
price of turkey and cranberries is low
er this year than last. Our people
have escaped destructive storms, cy-
clones and political commissions that
devasted other sections of the coun-
try. And then again the striking
miners will not go hungry SO long as
their 100000 fellow-unionists and g.
100000 organized brothers and sisters
in other branches of industry have the
proud privilege of giving assistance.
Therefore the governor should get
within the cheer-up zone.
O O O
This week Denver celebrated her
fifty-fifth birthday, and, thank you.
has grown to be quite pompous lady
in the sisterhood of great cities. On
November IL, 1858, Charles A. Law
renee. E. p Stout and General Lari-
mer. in whose honor three of the prin-
cipal streets are named, with thirty
associates, formed The Denver City
Company, so-called after General
James w. Denver, governor OF Kan
sas Territory, of which Colorado was
then part. A settlement called Au-
raria had previously been established
on the east side of Cherry creek by
party of explorers from Georgia. The
new company staked out 800 acres for
townsite and began the building of
what is now the Queen City of the
Plains"
The Union Labor party OF San
Francisco is still mighty big politi-
cal factor. as demonstrated by the
elections there last week. Out of a
total of sixteen offices to be filled the
Union Labor party elected six of the
nine supervisors. both police judges.
the city attorney, treasurer, tax col
lector and public administrator. losing
only the recorder and three supervis-
ors. In other words, the combined
enemies of labor succeeded in defeat
ing only four of the sixteen candidates
Of the Union Labor party. Under the
title of the Municipal Conference"
the Republican and Democratic par
ties, supported by the Hearst and De
Young papers, suffered a crushing
defeat. Two years ago these publish
ers boasted that the Union Labor par
ty had been wiped off the political
map. but they were poor prophets.
Union Labor men now have a major
ity on the Board of Supervisors.
O O O
There has been some unexplained
delay in the arrival of the two bills"
from Colorado Springs to institute a
lodge of the Ancient and Honorable
Order of Turkeys in Denver. 1t was
understood that these two worthless,
otherwise known as William ]. Snider
and William ]. Reilly, were sometime
ago directed by the grand gobbler to
travel hence and perform this import
ant function. Local aspirants surmise
the two Springs emissaries have been
accumulating lucre to make a splurge
in a real city and will journey through
the Welcome Arch sometime during
the holidays. In order that the peo-
pie may know" 1t can be related that
the Turkeys is a social organization
composed of members of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union who are
hail fellows well met, and their
friends. The order was started sew
eral years ago, by Norman McPhail of
Cleveland. Ohio, who is the Grand
Gobbler of the order There are no
dues to be paid. but every now and
then the members decide that they
want to have good time and lead
few lambs to the block, and immedi-
ately arrangements are made for a