United labor bulletin., 1914-10-10
TheOptinistic
Philosopher
NJ. GRANT HAMILTON
landed in Denver this week
direct from Washington.
Long years ago Grant was a


many moons, quarters and fulls, has
been connected with american Fedora
tion of Labor headquarters as pinch hit
ter for Sam Gompers, so that he now
takes on all the savoir vivre of Down
East stateman. His clothes are hand
tailored and he wears his hair cut in
the latest cube fashion. Not having ad-
vised friends of his coming, the recp-
tion rendered at the Trades Union Club
was entirely impromptu, but altogether
wholesome, as the o. =. can truthfully
assert. When questioned as to his visit
the answer was simple in the extreme.
This is his old home town, the season
in Washington has been a trying one
on the nerves as well as brain and body,
and the physicians had suggested a
change of climate. He positively denied
being on the trail of that truaht Denver
statesman, George Jenkins Kindel, whose
absence from Washington has been pro-
nounced blessing to hoth his constitu.
ents and faithful working statesmen yet
on the job in Washington. After re.
manning in Denver for only sufficient
time to be classed as a punctuation
period. Grant moved on quietly to
Pueblo and expects to spend most of
his vacation. so he admitted. in the
southern part of the state. Perhaps he
strike as well as the political situation
in that section of Colorado. Grant still
maintains that the less a man says the
greater chance for being credited with
astute wisdom. Hence. no lengthy in
terview appears in these columns.
Go: ..
The oracle of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company hath spoken. He has pro.
nouneed Judgment on President Wilson,
the labor unions and Tom Patterson.
As further evidence that he will clean
up things generally he frankly stated
that statewide prohibition had his
complete approval and support. Now
the political campaign may wage fast
and ferociously. George +. Carlson can
didnte for governor by grace OF L. NJ.
Bowers, John ID. Rockefeller's personal
representative IN Colorado. and the Re
publican party, aided ON the side lines
by the Lawandorders, opened his first
broadside at the Auditorium Monday
night. Billy Sunday called off his tab
ernacle meeting to help out with
crowd. and about $500 adherents and
curious people attended. the latter in
elpding the q. =. \ brass band and a
group OF Colorado University boys fur
nished the noise. Carlson said the day
after he was inaugurated governor he
would order President Wilson to take
the federal troops out of the state; that
he would forthwith re-establish state
soveignty. He failed to allude to the
fact that as attorney for the district
comprising Boulder. jackson. Larimer
and Weld counties in the northern coal
fields. where he has caused over 100 in
dictmcnts against strikers at a cost of
more than $4,000 to the taxpayers, no,
a single conviction stands TO his credit.
The c. +. & l. Co. candidate naturally
declared that he was against any brand
of trades unionism that had men like
John r. Lawson. William T. Hickey ana
Edward L. Doyle for their representa-.
tives. Course this is an awful blow
at the labor movement, but really was
previously discounted to some extent as
these men are among the number he
had indicted for murder" in Boulder
county. The fact that they were in
Denver attending to their business when
the alleged murder was committed 80
miles away didn't disturb George carry
ing out orders of Jesse Welborn and l.
NJ. Bowers. II may be confidently eS-
pected that George will add to the
gaiety of the campaign as he warns up.
80:
just when people in Denver are get
wide prohibition movement here comes
story from the suburb of Montclair
about the birds out there going on reg
ular souses from eating ripe woodbine
berries. Harry c. Rubican tells the tale
thusly: Its this way declares the su-
burbanite, his features reflecting his out
ragged feelings. THE woodbine berries
are ripe and they are invitingly red.
The robins found them as enticingly re-
frcshing as a cherry in a cocktail. Not
being stingy, they invited the sparrows
and the finehcs and all the other
branches of the bird family to Join in
their festival. IL makes me blush to
recall what followed and what is daily
happening as result of this bird party.
The berries seem to contain percent
age of alcohol, Judging from the conduct
of the feathered tribe. Robins tango
with sparrows, the finches weave around
and do all sorts of acrobatic stunts, and
the air is made hideous night and day
with the riotous chirping OF the whole
bunch. It's something awful. and il il
takes every sparrow cop in Denver 10
stop it, l propose to see that it is
done"
Speaking of birds reminds us that
Commissioner of Property Otto f.
Thum has declared in favor of giving
them chance for their white alley,
Out at the City Park roo big long
cared" owl in the great wire cage has
been permitted TO feast on sparrows
imprisoned with him. Recently Com
missioner Thum, in visit of inspection
at the park, learned that some 40 or so
English sparrows Gagged in with the owl
were in reality put there for the night
birds food The attendants claimed that
the owl had been trained to live on
that sort of provender in its native wild
haunts and would pine away and die
unless so nrnNidcd and allowed To for.