Denver labor bulletin., 1916-05-13

| " pretty good over the result OF
last Tuesdays election, which
| 4 came out according to predic-
tions made in this column. Some of our
friends want us to take a permanent
! job as political prophet, but we desire
to be free, thru The Bulletin, to aid Bob
Speer in making Denver a greater and a
better city. Already his election has
had good effect and two additional
printers were put to work this week in
The Bulletin office, and labor headquar-
ters of various unions report renewed
activity. Confidence in the future has
taken the place of doubt. General Pros
perity has met old General Pessimism
and given him the beating of his life in
Denver. Fear of bread line of idle
men is dispelled and assurance of a
work line with regular pay envelopes by
reason OF augmented industrial activity
is certain. The o. p. congratulates the
organized wage-earners for the way
they lined up at the ballot boxes Tuesday
and voted for Speer and prosperity. One
thing is certain, the working people will
| get square deal with Bob Speer in
control at the city hall. The o. P.
. stakes his reputation on this assertion.
Nine years ago when the o. p. first
strolling about the lower part of the
city one Sunday evening, and, being at
tracted by band music in church edi.
flee, dropped into the Peoples Taber-
nacle at Twentieth and Lawrence streets
where Parson Uzzell was doing his great
work among the unregenerated. 1t was
n novel Sunday evening church service.
A band of twenty-five pieces occupied
the pulpit platform and made loud tho
not melodious music. Between numbers,
while the musicians We're gathering wind
for another number. Parson Uzzell deliv-
cred sermonettes of two or three min
utes each, and announced the annual ex.
cursion of the congregation which was
to be run the next day to Colorado
Springs, with three special trains OF ten
coaches each. There was an immense
audience and applause broke forth at in
tervals like as if the crowd was in
theater. But Parson Uzzell has passed
on to his heavenly reward and for sew
eral years there was no one to take up
his work. The great congregations thar
once gathered at the Tabernacle have
dispersed to the four winds. and for
long time the big building was closed.
But a new day has dawned for the Poo.
pies Tabernacle and new man OF en-
ergy, power and magnetism, who moves
close to the common people, has once
more taken up the work
4 =
I Last Sunday night the o. F. again Wis
tied the Tabernacle. The crowd was not
so large as nine years ago. because the
new worker in the vineyard has not be.
come well known in that section of the
city. The brass band was absent. but
in its place the great organ pealed forth
melody and very creditable choir of
perhaps twenty voices rendered good
program. The new parson had an.
nounced that he would speak from hi.
experiences as lahoring man and took
for his subject, "fhe Man in Overalls. -
DIR. Allan A Tanner, pastor of the First
Congregational church on Capitol Hill,
where he has n rich and aristocratic
flock, was the speaker He has elected
to devote his splendid energies to re-.
storing the Tabernacle to its former
place as Il haven for the poor and unre-
deemed OF the lower strata. The sermon.
or rather lecture. was genuine intel.
lectual feast for those present Dr. Tan.
ner told of his early experiences in the
ministry at Rico, Colo, where he came
direct from an Eastern theological col
lege. Later of his pastorates in Pueblo
and Denver and OF his yearning to have
elbow touch with the men who do the
real work. How he later gave up a good
job as preacher in Iowa and went to To.