United labor bulletin., 1914-04-11
THE OPTIMISTIC
PHILOSOPHER

o! what taithful friend is Hope!
1t leads us through the dark
When we might often be downcast
And fail to find the spark
Whose bright illumination might
Light all our future way,
And lead us on with steadfast tread
To much brighter day.
Then never lose our good friend, Hope,
But ever seek its light
Until happy day shall dawn
So glorious and bright,
When hours of sorrow pass away
Behind the veil of hope
And We no more, as in the past,
Shall with such trials cope
A guiding light sweet Hope will be
To upward lead our souls
So that, by perseverance, we
May reach life's highest goals
And in this faithful, helping friend,
Our faith e'er let us place.
With Faith and Hope wen surely win
Our Heavenly Fathers grace.
While Easter commentaries the cen.
trail fact of our Christian religion and
revivifies faith in a life beyond the
grave, it has been modernized to take
IN fashion parade that adds interest
to the most important day on the church
calendar. Weather permitting, and
Forecaster Brandenburg says it will, to-
morrow heralds an event in which all
the proud, plutocratic working men and
women of Denver may becomingly par
ticipate. This can be fairly stated in
such optimistic terms because fashion
IL 1.A H.. II
this joyous Easter the nearer one hits
that pinnacle erected by sartorial art.
lists. Therefore, the fewer clothes we
have on the more fashionable will be
our appearance in the parade along the
avenues and boulevards. Then, again,
the price of eggs has declined so that
the income tax collector no longer looks
with suspicion upon the man who bears
evidence of having partaken of hen
fruit for breakfast. Hence Denver
wage-earners may come forth tomorrow
and even attend church without the risk
Of being classed as undesira bles All
the churches are reported as being pre-
pared TO accommodate the fashionable
proletarians.
State Statistician Richard T. Croskey
is to address the Denver Ministerial AL
lance Monday morning in the Y. NJ. c.
\. assembly room, taking as his general
theme Facts About the Labor Ques-
ton" This discourse will be by special
invitation of committee which waited
upon the redoutable "Dick" at the State
Labor Department this week. He was
forewarned to be primed to answer
multitude of questions about organized
labor. and this cheerful man of data
will be able to hand out information ad
lib. as they say in Latin schools
Last week George Richard Howe, fac
tory inspector in the tSate Labor De-
partment, addressed the Ministerial As
sociation of Colorado Springs. giving
some of his experiences in endeavoring
to enforce the state labor laws. 1t is
encouraging to note that the preach.
ers of Colorado are thus waking up to
the Importance of gaining first-h in
formation about the great subject OF
labor and those who do the work worth
while.
Last Sundays Post contained lead
ing front page story to the effect that
DIR. r. +. Coyle. for nearly n score OF
years pastor Of the Central Presbyterian
church, had been forced to tender his
resignation to the board of deacons be.
portant public questionable coal
strike and the water fight. According
to the story the doctor displeased his
rich Pensioners in the first instance by
criticising the coal barons for their
labor-crushing tactics. 1t will be re-
called that soon after the strike was
inaugurated last fall Rockefeller's Colo
RADIO agent, L. NJ. Bowers, withdrew from
this church, giving as his reason that
DIR. Coyle hit him too near the solor
plcxus. Then in the water fight the
preacher, perhaps thinking to square
things, supported the water company
and thereby aroused the antagonsm of
those who had supported him in his
stand on the coal strike. However, the
o. p. is inclined to accept the Doctors
ing health and wants to locate in Los
Angeles.
The Rev. Irving p. johnson, instructor
of theology in the Divinity school at
Fairibault, Mimi, had a good word for
the much abused. barkeeper ini "a Lenten
sermon delivered at the noon-day serv-
ices in the Tabor Grand opera house this
week He said, ,. "The reason a great
many men enjoy the associations of a
saloon more than those of church is
because the average bartender is more
human than the ordinary deacon"
There's a whole sermon in these few
words, because IL is the nature OF God
put in man that Graves. congenial com
panionship and word Of kindness. or
course ali church deacons do not have
mean dispositions and a frown to greet
the stranger ut the door, but some of
them could learn wholesome lessons by
| studying human nature as exemplified
by many of the gentlemanly union bar
keeps who preside in Denvcr's thirst
cmporiums.