Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
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Philosopher

ing passed measure which bears his
name, limiting liquor importations to
one quart of whiskey and twelve
quarts of beer month. This bill has
the active support of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union. Senator
Schermerhorn, chairman of the senate
temperance committee, has a "bone-
dry" bill which absolutely prohibits
shipment of liquor into the state. Un-
der its provisions, any resident of
Colorado must go into wet territory
and make purchase of liquor for his
own use. This bill is supported by
the Anti-Saloon League. 1t was ex-
pected that this week, when the house
bill reached the senate, that the Scher-
merhorn measure would be substituted
for it and passed. Then will come
conferences of committees represent
ing the two branches of the legisla-
ture, and bets are being made as to
whether the women or the men will
win out when the law is finally
enacted.
MRS. EDWIN A. BROWN, wife of
W Denver's noted sociological work
er, died at her home in this city
last Sunday of pneumonia while her
from Florida. Edwin A Brown is
known thruout the nation as the mil
lionaire tramp" having devoted much
of his time and money to the estab-
lishment of municipal lodging houses.
From members of organized labor and
others who know Edwin Brown inti-
mately and of his work, there will go
out heartfelt sympathy now that he
has lost his ''pard"-his wife for twen-
ty years. On many of his trips she
was his companion and much of his
success is attributed to her sympa-
thetic cooperation. Mr.. Brown him
self is in feeble health and went to
Florida three months ago to spend the
winter. He has travelled all over the
United States, living the life of n
hobo, riding box cars and on the rods,
associating with tramps and down
and outs" in order that he might study
their condition at first hand. Scores
of municipal lodging houses estab-
lished thruout the country in the last
ten years are due to his efforts. He
once told the o. p. of having ridden
the rods over the New York Central
lines, of which company his cousin
was president. After the burial of his
wife in this city, Mr.. Brown will re
turn to Florida, where he expects to
remain indefinitely.
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THE "Old Guard" triumvirate in the
senate, Billy Adams of Conejos,
George West of Durango and Bar
ney Napier of Glenwood Springs, have
at last found man they cannot con-
troll by threats, cajolery or political
bribe. This senator who thus stands
out like a beacon light in the present
legislature is George Hetherington of
Gunnison. He has spiked the attempt
of Adams and his associates to put a
industrial relations COM
mission over. Hetherington has stood
like a stone wall against all the as
saults of the "old guard" and saved
the state from discredit in this di-
rection. The "old guard" started out
to punish Hetherington by introducing
bills to kill the Gunnison Normal
school and to split his county in two.
Then they had his constituents write
letters demanding that he support the
old guard program, but all this had
no effect. Hetherington went right
ahead introducing bills for the state
mining of coal and writing of an eff
fective prohibition law and refused to
eat out of Billy Adams hand. Today
he is the biggest man in the state SEN
ate and the voters of Gunnison county
are to be congratulated upon their
selection. No doubt they knew what
they were doing.