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STROAG ARMS.
BY T. F. BOWLAJTD.
Strbng arms are the wealth of the nation;
They build up its cities of stone;
They are freedom’s unbroken foundation,
* In all lands where freedom is known.
They level the deep, trackless woodland,
Bring bloom to the desolate waste;
They gamer the sheaves In the valley,
Yet naught of their richness taste.
They stem the fierce torrent of ocean
And pierce the high crag of each hill;
They toil In the storm’s wild commotion,
When sluggards are listless and still.
They open the paths into fullness,
Cast the weeds that would hinder aside;
They liftap the helpless and weary,
To journey and sing by their side.
Strong arms are symbols of manhood,
Of all that is noble on earth.
They shed with a glory their heart’s blood,
So evil may flee from the hearth.
A nation whose peeple are workers
Advances to wealth every day;
A nation whose people are dreamers
Drifts down the broad stream of decay.
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IT WAS HOT LOST.
How can they win that great victory
which I have promised ? “The spirit of
the times’’ is doing battle for them. In
addition to this potent factor, however,
they should organize thoroughly in city
and country; they should get every rail
road operator in North America into
their society; the army of ‘‘chiefs”
should be induced to become members;
the general treasury should be well filled,
and the operators should be individually
provisioned for a siege of at least two
months. Then if a strike comes, blow
the whistle for all the lightning flashers
in North America. What a commotion
would result! what a triumph would
thus be achieved. Monopolistic “cap
tains of industry" would quickly treat
with that awful thing—an organization
of workingmen. Jay Gould’s pride
would'soon vanish. Arbitration would
be the shiboleth of all. There are stir
ring times ahead ; unprecedented trade,
union victories are in the air. I hope
the telegraphers will win the first signal
victory in our industrial ba T tlefield.
They deserve success. They stuck to
gether like heroes. They deserve words
of approbation and encouragement from
every well-wisher of human progress.
The telegraphers did not fail.
’Twas not even a drawn battle.
They planted seed from which will
sprout a crop of long-deferred justice.
Junius.
Three Types of informers.
Disaster will sometimes attend the
most heroic resolves.
Six more victims have been tabooed by
the British in Glasgow.
The national ranks w ant very badly a
new general weeding out of informers
and suspicious blackguards. Before any
more good work can be accomplished we
fear there must be a general clearance
made, and braggarts and scurrilous pol
troons must get a fright which will drive
them from the ranks, or close their lips
forever to the workings of all secret or
ganizations.
Where men openly profess allegiance
to any cause, and where that cause needs
a large number of adherents, it is only in.
the nature of things that recreants, spies,
informers and talkative chatterboxes,
who often mean no harm, but still do an
endless amount of injury, will creep into
the ranks. No human ingenuity can
guard aganst such accidents, and, there
fore, we say emphatically, true men
should not be disheartened if sometimes
a villain will be unmasked tyho has posed
as a brother and a patriot.
Experience must be had in revolu
tionary matters as well as in all other
organizations, and a burst-up or a breeze
is often the best medicine —the best cor
rective, the best purifier—that a secret
society can have. The wolves’ heads
will, when a crisis occurs, peep from the
woolly clothing of the pretended lambs,
and in the honeyed mock argument of
defense or explanation the hidden vil
lain will oftentimes convict himself.
For the present, in the face of facts
which have lately occurred, we do not
deem it wise to proceed further. Silence,
which is said to be golden, cannot pos
sesss this auriferous characteristic in too
rare a degree in political or revolution
ary matters.
The burden of our discourse on many
an occasion has been the overwhelming i
evil done Irish societies by informers.
"Informer” is now a divisable term.
There is the “out and outer,” who boldly
Vorms himself into the secrets of a so
ciety with no other purpose than to be
tray it, and reap the benefit of his vil
lainy by the gold of the enemy ; and
then there is the mock Nationalist, who
boasts that he is not bound by any rules
or any laws of any secret association,
and who, under the cover of the honest
profession of journalism, would murder
the fair fame of honest men who have
always acted consistently, according to
their lights; then there is the blatant
Nationalist, all talk, without acts or
money, who gravitates on the fringe of
secret association, who worms out a lit
tle, and by dexterious management and
consummate art, pretends he is privy to
all the secret workings of Irish republi
can societies.
Agairffet all these classes of “informers”
—for they are all informers—the strug
gle for Irish freedom has had to contend.
A brilliant blow has been struck in the
Carey case, but there are other men alive
who pose as patriots, and who, in their
heart of hearts, and in their greed for
money, would descend to Carey’s level if
the chance were only afforded them —
men who plead “guilt*” in the dock,
and confirm the verdict of packed juries
on their brothers who stood manfully in
the face of the enemy—are another class
that raise their heads among us.
Carey made his first fatal step when
he shivered for his life. Other vile rep
tiles with the faces and demeanor of
men, who strut before the world as pub
lic instructors —spit filth and dirt at hon
est workers and, trying to defile them,
■eex to throw ignominy on the National
cause. A clearance from the revolu
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tionary ranks ought to be made of such
men.
The six latest victims of English law
would not now be buried in British dun
geons if the secret revolutionary organ
izations of this country had not so many
informers among them of the types to
which we have adverted. Adorning
one’s face with a Home-Rule flag, pulling
with the hare and running with the
hounds won’t do in future. Recent reve
lations have done good in revolutionary
circles; and although, from our heart we
deplore the melancholly outcome of the
treachery which has cost so many* brave
men their liberties, we must confess, re
cent developments have done a great
deal to clear, in future, the true revolu
tionary atmosphere. Out of eyil good
oft cometh.
All who now profess true, upright,
stanch nationality must stand together,
in a solid, united phalanx, against the
common enemy. The system of allow
ing circles within circles, wheels within
wheels, wirepullers as patriots, will not
do any longer, as it leads to trouble, and
the manufacture of the three classes of
informers we allude to.
Men may have their own private opin
ions on all other matters—their likings
and dislikings; but in the present prom
ising state of Irish insurrection, contest
ing organizations, nominal national asso
ciations —ever seeking the same end —
are intensely prejudicial to the cause, as
they give the enemy the old vantage
ground, which has long kept Ireland, and
even India, in her possession, and that
is, disunion.
The recent events, then, calamitous
though they may be, will turn out for
the national good.—United Irishman,
John Swinton on Education and Labor.
Mr. John Swinton, of the New York
Sun, was a witness before the senate
committee on education and labor, He
said he had been connected with the
press since he was 12 years of age. As
••a newspaper man he had become ac
quainted with all sorts of questions re
lating to all sorts of men. He had
given the subject of labor much atten
tion and thought, and he had in mind
certain measures which, if enacted into
laws, by cotigress, would, he believed,
result to the great benefit of the common
people, The measures were as follows :
1, A revival of the income tax.
2. The establishment by congress of a
national board of industry, empowered
to collect statistics of all kinds, embrac
ing the data of co-operation, the eight
hour question, the toil of factory women
and children, and other things under
lying the welfare of the country’s
workers.
3, The establishment in the govern
ment, by congress, of efficient boards of
health, of education, and of public works
under a comprehensive system " and
policy.
4. The establishment of industrial
schools and colleges, similar to the
French system.
6. Public ownership of the telegraphs
and railroads, as in the Belgian system.
6. Freedom of patents, as in Holland
or Switzerland, with a proper provision
in the matter of royalties.
7. Postal banks, with all that the term
implies. A similar system to that in
Great Britain.
8. The enactment of great land laws
to prevent the holding of large tracts of
land in this country by individuals or
corporations, including foreign landlords.
ih Public ownership of coal, iron, gold
and other mines, and also of the petrol
eum wells.
Mr. Swinton said he thought that con
gress had the power to enact such meas
ures as he recommended. In speaking
of the accumulation of private fortunes
Mr. Swinton said that at the present le
gitimate rate of accumulation we will
have in a few years the first apparition
of a billionaire. “I think it will take the
entire army and navy to keep him in
check,” he said, “but I think they could
do it.” Mr. Swinton figured that if a
mam now worth 1200,000,000 was per
i mitted to go on accumulating at the same
rate as in the past few years, it would
not take more than twelve years to make
the man worth $1,000,000,000.
A Master-Workman Discharged.
l Master-W T orkman Laverty has been
| 4iscbarged from his position as one of
j the operating staff of the associated press
in Philadelphia. This is one of the
sequels of the late strike, and one of the
most significant ones. By the terms of
their contract the associated press is
compelled to discharge any operator wh-b
is objectionable to the company. A de
mand appears to have been made from
New York by the Western Union that
Mr. Laverty should be dismissed, and he
forthwith notified that his services were
no longer required. “I anticipated this
action,” Mr. Laverty says. “It was forced |
upon the associated press people. lam
not sure that the Western Union com
pany go so far in their assertion of dicta
torial powers as to claim that any man
connected with the association who
is objectionable must he discharged if
they demand it, but they might, in case
of necessity, even go so far. The West
ern Union practically does as it pleases
in associated press matters. In New
York, on the first day of the strike, a
prominent executive officer of the
Western Union company actually took
to the associated press manufactured
news dispatches favorable to the com
pany, and dated at various important
points, and compelled the press associa
tion officers to send them to the papers.
I have no doubt that the telegraphers
will form another association organiza
tion, but I don’t believe there will be
any more strikes, at least for several
years. The operators’ association can do
more with the companies without threat
ening to go out than by making the
strike an ultimatum. This opinion I
have held all along, and it was only be
cause the great body of the Brotherhood
decided to go out at the last strike that I
went with them, although I was opposed
to such a course from the first.”
FAIR AND UNFAIR.
A Full List of Shops in the City Un
der the Trades Assembly, and
Their Status.
The following is intended to be a eompltte
list of the fair and unfair establishments in
Denver in the different trades connected with
the Trades Assembly. It will be altered from
time to timo as the ahopa change their com
plexion. Anyone noticing errors in the lists
will confer a favor by calling at this office
and giving in the correction.
PRINTERS.
UNION.
Rocky Mountain News, Larimer.
Denyer Tribune, Sixteenth.
Denver Republican, Sixteenth.
Inter-Ocean, Larimer.
Labor Enquirer, Larimer.
Pomeroj ’a Democrat, l.arimer.
Colorado Farmer, Cnrtis.
Rocky Monntain Herald, Fifteenth.
Celt, Larimer, f
Colorado Jonroa), (German), Bolladay.
Colorado Law Journal, Tabor blook.
Colorado Law Reporter, Coitis and 15th,
King B others, Larimer.
Montagne, Cbampa.
Whipple A Pierson, Fifteenth.
Collier A Cleaveland, Holladay.
George O. Soott, Larimer.
C. J Kelley, Holladay.
Fisher A Collins, Arapahoe.
B. F. Zalioger, Larimer.
Carter A App, Larimer.
Frederick A Son, 240 1-2 Fifteenth.
Frank J. Hard Sixteenth
RATS.
Times, Lawrence.
Dove A Temple, Curtis. •
Colorado Courier, (German), Fifteenth,
Wood A Doyle, West Larimer.
John Frederic, Fifteenth.
Journal of Commerce, Arapahoe.
Hotel Reporter, Arapahoe.
Qaeen Bee, bet, Larimer and Lawrence.
Colorado Posten, (Scandinavian), Arapahoe.
TAILORS.
UNION.
Skinner Bros & Wright, 16th and Lawrence.
J. Sinolair, Larimer.
Charles Howard, Lawrence.
H. Ornaner, Sixteenth.
J. O’Connor, 1 rapahoe.
A M. Williams & Co., 248 Fifteenth.
Appel & C >., Larimer and 16th.
H Bell, Curtis.
L, Harrison, Seventeenth.
SCABS
Frank A Pu'nam, Curtis.
W. Burgmano, Fifteenth.
Johß Bray, Lawrence.
STONECUTTERS.
UNION. *
Robert Greenlee.
William Harvey.
Brnnton & Co.
Ed. Barker
Smith A Brindle.
SCABB.
J. D. McGilvray & Co ,
Thos. Hayes & Co
E. Ackroyd.
J. SiDger.
MOLDERS.
All pay the scale and union men are
employed. There are no “scab” 6bops in the
1 city. By order
Denver Trades Assembly.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
The Preamble and Declaration of
Principles of this Great
Order.
The alarming development and aggresaion
of aggregated wealth, which, unless checked,
will inevitably lead to the pauperization and
hopeless degradation of the toiling masses,
renders it imperative, it we desire to en joy
l the blessings of life, that a check should be
f plaoed upon its power and upon nDjust accu
• mulktion, and a system adopted which will
secure to the laborer the fruits of his toil ;
j and as this much desired object can only be
accomplished by the thorough unification of
those who labor, and the united efforts ot
those who earn their bread by the sweat ot
their brow, we have formed the order of the
Knights of Labor, with a view of securing
' the organization and direction, by co-opera
-1 tive effort, of the power of the industrial
’ classes; and we Bubmit to the world the
l objects sought to be accomplished by onr
. organization, oalliDg upon all who believe in
i securing “the gieatestgood to the greatest
number,” to aid and assist uh.
1. To bring within the fold of organization
, every department of productive industry,
making knowledge a stand point for action,
and industrial, moral worth, not wealth, the
true standard of individual and national
greatness.
2. To secure to the toilers a proper share
of the wealth ,hat they create; more of the
leisure that rightfully belongs to them ; more
ociety advantages; more of the benefits,
privileges and emoluments of the world ; in
a word, all those rights apd privileges neces
ary to make them capable of enjoying, ap
preciating, defending and perpetuating the
blessings of good government.
3. To arrive at the true condition of the
producing masses in their educational, moral
and financial condiiion, by demanding from
the various gaveroments the establishment
of bureaus of labor statistics.
4. The establishment of co-opeiative in
stitutions. productive and distributive.
5. The reserving of the public lands—thr
heritage of the people—for the actual settler.
Not another acre for railroads or corporations.
6. The abrogation of all laws that do not bear
equally upon capital and labor; the removal
of nDjnst technicalities, delays and disorimi
nations in the administration of juatioe ; aDd
the adopting of measures providing for the
health and safety of those engaged in mining,
manufacturing and bnilding pur-nits.
7. The enactment of laws to compel
chartered corpor tions to pay their employee
weekly, in full, for labor performed tbe
preceding week, in the lawful money ot the
country.
8. The enactment oflaws giving mechanics
and laborers the first lien on their work for
their full wages.
9. The abolishment of the contract system
on national, stale and municipal work
10. The substitution of arbitration for
strikes, whenever and wherever employers
and employe are willing to meet on equitable
grounds. f
11. The prohibition of the employment of
children in workshops, mines and factories,
before attaining their fourteenth year.
12. To abolish the system ot letting ont by
contract the labor of conviote in our prisons
and reformatory inititntions,
13. To secure for both Bexes equal pay
for equal work.
14. The reduotion of the hours of labor to
eight per day, so that the laborers may have
more time for social enjoyment and intel
lectual improvement, and be enabled to reap
the advantages conferred by the labor-saving
machinery which their brains have created.
15. To prevail upon governments to estab
lish a purely national circulating medium,
issued directly to the people, without the
intervention ol any system of banking cor
porations, whioh money shall be a legal
tender in payment of all debts, pnblio and
private.
THE LABOR ENQUIRER.
GRAND PICNIC
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—AT—
Palmer Lake
(Summit of the Divide.)
Given by
DENYER
Typographical Union,
No. 49,
Sunday, September 23.
FARE, $1.50.
Palmer Lake is situated on the summit of
the Divide, fifty-two miles south of Denver
on the line of the Denver & Rio Grande rail
way, and is one of the most beautiful spots
in Colorado.
A. SWARTOUT & CO,
Office in Basement of
No. 360 Lawrence St., Bet. 14 & 15,
DENYER, COLOTADO.
0
KALSOMINIG, PLASTERING, WHITEWASIIG,
REPAIRING AND PATCHING
Done Promptly and in the Best Manner.
0
KALSOMININ& A SPECIALTY.
Canvas when required used to spread
over carpets and Furniture
when Patching or
Kalsomining.
No Necessity for Removing Your Carpets.
CAPITOL HOTEL,
, First House West of Bridee,
316 LARIMER,DENYER
S. STOWE, Proprietor,
ROOMS LARGE,
TABLE FIRST-CLASS,
REGULAR BOARDERS SOLICITED.
Meals 25 Cents;
Day Board, $1.50 pep Week.
Transient With Room $1 to $1.50
J m ZEIS, JR,
Manufacturer ot
Fine Cigars,
I manntacture my cigars from fir-t class
stock, and can guarantee satisfaction, as I
employ none but the best workmen.
Remember my place,
m HOLLADAY STREET,
j DENYER, - COLORADO.
GLEASON’S,
3(15 FIFTEENTH STREET,
Is the place to buy or sell
GOOD CLOTHING
—OF—
EVERY DESCRIPTION.
iPEUI
■nuis
—AND —
FINE CLOTHIERS,
Men’s, Youths’ Boys*
And Children’s Furnishers,
Comer Sixteenth and Larimer Sts.
i .
DR DAMFIRON,
DENTIST,
Teeth extracted without pain. Teeth
filled with gold and warranted. Only $lO
for a fine set of teeth.
I F II - 1 11
Weekly and Monthly Payments
Taken for all kinds of
-NEW & SECOND-HAND FURNITURE,
BTOVES,
TINWARE.
GLASSWARE,
QUEENSWARE, Ac,
At the
WEST SIDE
Secondhand Stor*
290 and 292 Larimer street, Defiver.
THOMAS G. ASHTON, Prop.
DENVER
—AND—
RIO GRANDE
Railway
IN COHO NEW MEXICO AND UTAH
THB NBW SCENIC ROUTE TO
utah, lovrm,
I —AND—
THE PACIFIC COAST,
„4»
The best route, because
i
, THE MOST CONVENIENT,
THE MOST PICTURESQUE,
THE MOST DIRECT.
i
Opening to the Ranchman over a million
acres of fertile land ; to the Stock Grower
i
vast ranges yet unclaimed ; and to
the Miner regions rich in the
precious metals.
THE
Denvei&KioliraHde
—lB THE—
Favorite Route
FOR PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT
Between all the most imported Cities and
Mining Camps iu Colorado and Utah
Over 1 500 miles of Standard
Narrow Gu&ge, splendidly
equipped and carefully
managed.
THL
OmerMiotak
EXPRESS
Isoyeratediu connection with the railway,
and guarantees prompt and efficient ser
vice at reasonable rates.
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D. C. DODGE, F.C. NIMB,
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Gen. Manager. Gen. P. A T. Agt.
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DENVER, COLORADO.
NEW FALL STOCK. |
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Of the Double Sewedl
Clothing fori Men, Youthc.l
t - „Vi lij. . , | i j.;; -* . 88
Boys and Children, Jusl
Received at q6B Fifteenthl
Street. Call and See the!
Styles. Rollins & Bondi
UNCLOSED ON I
LEWIS & SCOTT; I
405 LARIMER STREET, DENYER, COLORADO!
AGENTS FOR P. & F..CORBINS. I
Wholesale and Retail Dealers In n
BUILDERS! HARDWARE I
P.D.MIISBHGOODW
Knobs and Hinges,
Disston’s Saws, Crossman’s & Weatlierby’s Edge Tools, Woolwoitk’s
Edge Tools, Woolwortli’s Handles, Rodger’s & Wostenholm’s
Cutlery, Ames’ & Moore’s Shovels, Wheelebarrows, Mining
Tools, Agricultural Implements, Barbed Fence Wire,
Pennsylvania Lawn Mowers, Stoves, Ranges, Tin,
Sheet Iron & Copper Ware,
"STANDARD” HOT KIR FURNACES,
GUARANTEED.
HOUSE FIBNISHING GOODS,
MANTELS, Handsome Design and Finish. Prices Low.
<T. S. DREYFTJSS,
Tlf Workinpwi’s Clothier,
Wholesale and retail dealer in
CLOTHING & GENTS' FURNISHING GIGGS,
Boots and Shoes, Hats, Caps, Etc.
379 LARIMER STREET. |
STOCK NOW FULL AND COMPLETE, CONSISTING OF —- I
SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING,
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS,
HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES, ETC.
OWING TO THE BAD WEATHER AND SHORT SEASON, WE SHALL
OFFER OUR GOODS AT GREAT REDUCTION IN FORMER
PRICES, AS WE ARE DETERMINED TO SELL.
PURCHASERS NEED ONLY CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STOCK AND PRKEB
TO BE CONVINCED THAT ALL WE SAY ARE FACTS.
JS. DREYFUSS, j
379 LARIMER STREET, DENI 1
G. WINTER. JACOB i I
THE DENVER IRON FENCE m v j
Manufacturers of and Deale. a
MALLEABLE & WROUGHT IRON FEME I
Crestings, Etc. Jj
V vj,
ALSO ALL KINDS OF ■
Wire Goods, Bank and Counter Wire, Railing, Flower Stands, Flon ■!
Goods and Wire£igns, etc., Made to Order. I
Sole Agents for Celebrated Champion Iron Fence and Champion Double-A< ■£
Force Pumps, of Kenton, Ohio. V
286 and 287 Seyenteentii Street, - - DENVER, COLO RAl>o§.