Denver labor bulletin., 1916-01-15
The Optimistic
Philosopher

than SIX hundred who attended
the jackson day dollar "a plate
dinner given last Saturday night
in the big cathedral dining room OF the
Albany hotel under auspices of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee of Colo
rado. And it was worth the money. The
speeches scintillated with wit, prophesy
of victory and preparedness. Judge
Tully Scott, toastmaster and Keynote
speaker, rang the death h-knell of any
hope maintained by the liquor interests
up the fight to repeal statewide prohi-
bition. He declared the saloon had made
itself intolerable and indefensible, and
made itself unbearable to decent citizens.
1T knows no God but its own," declared
the Judge. 1T observes no law but its
own sweet will. 1t has not failed to
join with greed and privilege and corrup-
tion in the effort to prevent the enact
ment of wholesome laws for all our peo-
pie The saloon has become a moral, po-
litical and economic menace to the public
welfare. 1t has been convicted in Colo
RADIO before the high court OF public
opinion. The judgment has been exc
cuted. | cannot conceive of n Demo
cratic governor who will not stand for
the equal, faithful, honest and effective
enforcement OF this law. In my opinion
constitutional prohibition will never be
repealed in Colorado. | believe it to be
as firmly established as the provision for
equal suffrage" And this keynote"
declaration was vigorously applauded in
a gathering OF Colorado Democratic poll
ticians. How time, a short time, too,
doth bring about remarkable changes.
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United States Senator Henry +. Hollis
OF New Hampshire was the honored
guest and principal speaker OF the occa-
sion. He declared himself TO he "a
Bryan Democrat supporting President
Wilson and his policy OF preparedness"
This made a hit with the Democrats
present. many of whom, We're from other
parts of the state. Senator Hollis is
one of the most pleasing, interesting
and instructive speakers who has come
out of the Down East in many n
day. lie expressed himself as favoring
the government manufacturing its own
war munitions and building its own bat.
tleships in the proposed plan of pre-
parednezs. The expense. he said ought
TO be borne by a national inheritance
tax, tax on men payable from what
others had earned. and what descends to
them by grace of our federal statutes.
II would come from the large fortunes.
said he which are usually the result OF
exploiting the whole people thru the
monopolzing of some necessity OF life.
senator Hollis is the first Democrat to
gain a seat in the upper branch of Con
gres- from New Hampshire in siNty-two
years. in way, he is Colorado prod
uct, having come here thirty years ago
to work as cub" civil engineer in
building the Chicago, Burlington x
Quincy railroad. In this work he saved
$500, which he used in getting thru Har-
ward College. The senator made "a splcn-
did impression upon his hearers and those
whom he met personally while in Denver.
President Wilson's appointment of Joe
johnson, u near printer and newspaper
man, to be postmaster of New York City
rcvives memories Of the days when Joe
and the o. p. We're doing duty" on
the then Senator lIoke; Smiths Atlanta
journal. Joe was one of the most low
able men about the office, but soon be
came too famous as writer, principally
on sociological subjects, for the narrow
limits OF a Southern city and was ac-
quired by the New York World. FIRE.
quently while in Atlanta he accompanied
the o. u. to labor meetings and some
times made talks to the unions there.
In New York he fell in with Bishop
Henry Potter and quit his newspaper job
to become manager OF the Bishops
Tavern" Temperance saloon on the
East Side. that was for time the most
widely advertised booze emporium in
America. Some years ago when the o.
N.Yl-
from Atlanta to the y T. u. convention
in Toronto, he visited Joe at the Tavern
and was taken by him on a personally
conducted tour thru thc place. Every
thing was neat and clean, the walls be-
ing decorated with Biblical notices and
the best brand OF liquors to be had We're
dispensed over the bar. But it didn't
make hit with the East Siders and
finally closed from lack of patronage and
failure to reform the residents of that
section. Now some OF New York's best
people are protesting against Joc's APP
poiDtments postmaster because he
"once conducted saloon" OF course, the
appointment will stick, and Joe johnson,
be he an lex eX-saloonkeeper," and sociolo-
gist will make New York one of the
best postmasters the city ever had.
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A deed worthy OF space in this column
was that OF the bonding yirm of Sweet,
Causcy & Foster, with offices on the
ground floor of the Equitable building,
which has just come to light. ,At the
outbreak of the European war, bonds
were drug on the market and firms all
over the country in this business dis
charged half their employees. The Denver
firm decided to retain its entire force
of clerks, bookkeepers, etc, but made a
cut of 20 per cent in their salaries. Later
it was discovered that the war, instead
Of wrecking the bond business, had really