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THE LABOR ENQUIRER. SU*”*** STREET. J. K. BCCBAHA3, Editor. parin' "-| '"■» Tndca Ancmbly. ————■— l i^ renew the times of truth and jus- Condensingm a fail, free commonwealth Not rash equality, but equil rights.” Entered at the Denver portofflce as second class matter. The Labob Enquibkb Is published every Saturday. It will Dodevotsa to the discus sion of all subjects which told to. educate, elevate and advance the lai oring classy. Politically it will support only the friends of labor. Subscription rates, *2.00 in advance. All communications mus' be addressed to Thk Labob Enquiier, 3(8 Larimer Street. Denver Colorado. The publisher of lhispa)>er is not respon sible for the opinions of contributors. The columns will always be opsnfor the discus sion of all sides of the labor questions of the day. Contributions Uways welcome. A SUPERFICIAL VIEW. A communication on the first pafee of this issue, (tom my frieut and co-worker, D. McK. me to task, and finds fault"with doctrines of Socialism which I believe in and advocate. Hemis < understands the latuation, and through this misunderstanding, makes some statements which, did I not know the thorough honesty of the gentlemen, would make me think h a was trying to take an advantage At :iny rate, I feel called upon to set him right, and I hope the refelera of thif paper will carefully read his letter, as well as what follows in this. t ’ . Mr. Whyte findi fault ynd would make . capital against Socialism because Social : ists use the word ‘ Revolution” so much ; but Be does not seam to fully understand what we mean by ip. Ho appears unable to realise that we mean anything but blood and destruction. In this he, like many others, is greatly in error. The Revolution meant and ir tended by the Socialists is to be £ complete change ov systems. X call attentior to the fact that Socialists, in speaking of the coming “Revolution,” say 1 “peacoably, if possi ble,” which is proof that they are not advocates of bloodshed. Another point hi which I desire to call attention is, that Socialists claim, and prove by the “logic of events,” that this “Revolution” is inevitab.e, that-it will come whether we Anticipate it or not; and that our agita ion will not create it, nor opposition prevent it. We can but prepare for it, and tte earlier and better our prepara ions, die more proba ble a peaceable settlement. In the future I tope no reader of The Enquirer will con found War and Revo lution in discussin; Socialism, for they are pot synonymous terms, either in the Socialistic vocabulary Or in our dic tionary authorise 3. Now for the relations between ths greenback theory and the Socialistic: Our friend says we “seem to ignore the tremendous power the financial policy of a nation has upon the condition of the working masses.” He is certainly mis taken there; we dp not ignore the power to oppress the workers the idlers have had through tie control of our money. ■ We admit that, but go away be yond it. Money being the representa tive of values, and labor being the crea tor of values, we say the representative ' has been controlled by the idlers because they have controlled the creator; and so long as they maintain that control (through the competitive system) so long will it make little difference to the work ing masses what kind of material is used for money or what the rate of interest may be. Nothing short of governmental co-operation—a Socialistic common wealth—will ever liberate the producers of the world. The greenback theory of finance is certainly a reform measure ; but remem ber the Socialist is not a mere reformer but a “Revolutionist,” and he maintains that the producer is fleeced by the idler and speculator through rent and profit, as well as through interest, and that the robbers never leave him more than enough for subsistence ; so that if the Tate of interest was reduced to 1 per cent, profit and rent would simply re ceive a larger share. So it is as foolish to claim that Henry George’s land doc trine is adequate to the case as that the greenback theory encompasses it: Profit is the king evil of the Individualist sys tem, and justice will never be obtained so long as one man is allowed to live off the labor of another, no matter what may be the material used for construct ing a mediam of exchange. The greenback idea of a medium of exchange is Socialistic, inasmuch as it Opposes individual control, but only a superficial thinker can believe that in the greenback doctrine lies a panacea for the ills which curse the Ounjan race. It has been said that a jreenbacker was half a Socialist. If he is, he is the last half; for without first establishing the other half, no permanent remedies can be effected,and, as has been stated tboye. the greenback theory is not absolutely necessary to the enfranchisement of the race; and Socialism is all-sufficient, be cause it provides for the protection of all, apd requires equitable service from all. Mr. Whyte claims to be with the Socialists—“short of Revolution”—and further asserts that he is in advance of them. If greenbackism is ahead of Socialism then I have had all my read ing for nothing; and if friend Whyte is a Socialist, then what are the thousands of men who go beyond his doctrines and say that if the government has nothing —that everything belongs to individuals .—what does its order to pay “one dol lar’s worth” amount to ? Under the present system the government sanctions private ownership of its rightful prop erty, and the Socialists propose to abro gate the private ownership and vest the title in the Socialistic commonwealth. Our friend, instead of finding the “poison of the present industrial system,” has simply discovered one of the kinds of tombstones with which the graves of the poisoned victims are marked. If he will dig np the bodies and hold a post mortem, he will discover that the cause of death was, the competitive system op WAGES. .Let no mistakes be made by the readers of this; lam not at war with the greenbackers Their enemies are mine; we aim to benefit the same class of peo ple—without hurting, materially, any body—and we are friends. But too much is claimed by the greenbackers, and, like some other “reformers,” they are superficial and do not grasp the whole question. Let us hope that they soon will., . ! POLITICAL PALAVER. A few days ago a committee, headed by that prince of sleek scoundrels, John B. Henderson, waited upon Blaine to formally notify him. of his nomination by the republican national convention. The speeches made by Henderson and Blaine on the occasion were reported in Ml by the daily press, and those papers which aid and abet the republican wing of the public robbers and governmental scoundrels and receive their support from that source, editorially, commented upon the brilliancy of the language em ployed by the gentlemen and the sound ness of the doctrines enunciated. The same old tinseled, garments and elaborately painted masks are being brought out to dazzle the poor, noodle headed voters, which have dazzled them before ; and while I have little sympathy for those who allow themselves to be bamboozled from year to year, yet I de sire to call attention to a few of the state ments and claims made by the eloquent gentlemen who are so eager to perpetu ate the republican party in the (mis)con trol of the affairs of this nation. Said John IJenderson : “Mr. Blaine, during the last twenty-three years the republican party has built a new repub lic, a republic far more splendid than that originally designed by our fathers.” And what is the present condition of the “new republic” built daring the past twenty-three years by the republican party ? We find on the one hand a few hun dred millionaires controlling the very destinies of the fifty millions on the other hand. We find our legislative halls filled with thieves; onr benches occupied by the accomplices of thieves and murderers. We see starvation in a land where there is “over-production.” We sej the railroad and banking monop olists absolutely owning and controlling our productive, distributive and legisla tive affairs. We see that these “builders of new republics” have given to the railroad and land sharks 260,000,000 acres of the public domain—the people’s in heritance. We see a million able-bodied, honest citizens begging for the opportu nity to earn their living; the poor-houses, the beastly things, are inadequate to alle viate the sufferings of the people. There are 1,870,000 legalized voters in this “new republic” who can neither read nor write. There is hunger, wretchedness and misery broadcast in the land which a fat and pampered despoiler of the peo ple calls “a republic more splendid than that originally designed by our fathers.” -The expression is a blasphemy, and the spirits of “our fathers” should rise up and curse hipi who makes use of it. If “our fathers” designed anything worse than the present wretched affair we call our government, they were actuated by the devil; but this is not true—John B. Henderson simply lied. In speaking of the past services of Blaine, as one of the makers of this “new republic,” his giddy flatterer said : “It has been your good fortune to aid in protecting the nation against the assaults of armed treason. You were present and helped to unloose the shackles of the slaves.” So anxious was Blaine to aid in protecting the nation against the as saults of treason that he remained safely at home during the war, and hired a sub stitute to do his protecting business. Just what is .meant by “unloosing the shackles” is not perfectly clear, One thing is clear : Blaine has been a prom inent iigure in the gang which has fastened the shackles of wage-slavery onto the millions of producers in this country. Henderson said Blaine and the repub lican party were for “an honest currency on coin of intrinsic value.” Yes, and So vefrv intrinsically valuable does he desire lit, that nothing short of gold will satisfy him. It will be remembered that Blaine was a leading exponent of the measure demonetizing silver, (and he would like to be again), and he is to-day for gold. This is respectfully submitted for the consideration of the voters of Colorado, who have so much to say about “the only industry of our state.” Further comment on this head should be unnec essary. The knight of the peacobk feather, in closing a brief but sweet "reply, (which the telegraph informs us was handed to him in manuscript by a masculine off spring), said : “Invoking the blessings of God upon the great cause which we jointly represent, let us turn to the future without fear and with manly hearts.” “And with stolen money and fraudulent returning boards,” he might have added. Now, workingmen, you who read the The Enquires and belong to the labor organizations, I ask you what do you think of this palaver and political taffy ? Are youjready to walk up to the ballot box and cast your votes for the scoun drels who have robbed you and year children, and then insult you by lying about their Work and slandering the memories of your fathers who died for the preservation of your rights? If you are, go ahead. Or go with the other old corrupt gang of politicians, who will soon dish you up something on the same order, with the same ebject in view—your degradation and their aggrandizement. Boycott A Co. They employ cheap labor, and refuse to acknowledge the right ,of tailors and other working men to organize for protection. “THE DEARTH OP MOSEY.” Under the above caption the Tribune has an editorial in Tuesday’s issue, in which it says money is not scarce any more now than during a business boom when everything is “flush.” It very sensibly remarks that the cause of the dull times is that the money is not in circulation, but is in the hands of the capitalists, who have lost confidence in the prosperity of the country and will not invest. The Tribune certainly sees the present situation in a true light, but it does not investigate the cause or propose a remedy. Where is the benefit in telling the people that times are hard because the men who control the money will not invest it? Everybody knows this; and the clear-sighted know it will ever be so while the*systems permit a few men to accumulate the products and rule the destinies of the entire producing popula tion. Monev is but a representative of the values which labor creates, and under an equitable system those who create and enhance the values would hold the representative; so that as long as there were producers and natural conditions favorable to production there would be no want Under present systems a dullness of business, conse quent upon the tenacity of the greedy money lords, will always produce want and misery, and cursed is the land where poverty and suffering abide amidst plenty. The Tribune says “land is the basis of all wealth.” The ignorance displayed in that expression is supreme. Land is one of the natural elements given by nature to man, out ol which he may create wealth, by labor; labor applied to natural elements produces wealth. But land without labor is as unproduc tive (so far as the needs of mankind are concerned) as a blasted tree. There is no use trying to understand or advise a remedy for the frequent busi ness crises which blight the prosperity of this or any other land, upon any but a thoroughly Socialistic ground. The Tribune, like its fellows of the entire capitalistic press may whine, moralize and speculate over dull times, but it is powerless to submit a remedy without indorsing the ideas of a Socialistic commonwealth. SUBSCRIBERS BY COMPULSION. From a Coal Creek friend I have ob tained the particulars in the latest piece of tyrannical intimidation practiced by the Colorado Coal and Iron company upon its employes. There is a weekly paper published at Coal Creek which is called the Enter prise. It is edited by D. D. Lewis, a gentleman who has always shown a friendly spirit towards the miners and other workingmen of that community, despite the efforts of the Colorado Coal and Iron company to induce him to do otherwise. *• Failing to control the Enterprise in their interests, the company has decided to ruin the paper’s business and run the editor out of the community. The plan adopted for the carrying out of this con temptible programme is very simple, but includes some supremely dictatorial and and tyrannical details. The company has engaged one John Cheelev, formerly of Evans, Colorado, to conduct a paper in Coal Creek, in opposition to the En terprise, and have undertaken to get up a list of subscribers for their new paper by threatening each employe with dis charge unless they subscribe. The men are in a tight fix, and I haye learned that they could do nothing but quietly submit to this species of robbing. Further particulars concerning this outrage will probably be at hand in a short time, when they will be given to the public. A day of reckoning will come for the Colorado Coal and Iron company, and when,it does there will be considerable to give an account of. The dynamite business will not secure the freedom of Ireland. But it will compel the civilized world to stamp out the manufacture of the fearful explosive. —Tribune. The Tribune is a prophet. Well, if the oppressed people of the world decide that thev can gain their freedom and rights only through the use of dynamite, the “civilized world” will find it rather difficult to “stamp out” the manuiacture of an article which a large percentage of those oppressed know how to make with little trouble and out of easily obtained ingredients. It would be much safer for the “civilized world” to stamp out the systems which make desperate men out of otherwise peaceable and amiable citizens. The editor of the Republican refers to General Butler as “the' cross-eyed gen tleman.” Well nobody ever accused the Republican’s editor of being a gentle man of any description; and it is safe to say that General Butler can see farther with that “cross-eye,” on a pitch-dark night, than the Republican bat can in broad daylight with a field glass. Butler saw in Tewksbury, in a very short time, what papers of the Republican ilk haven’t been able to see in considerably over a year. There’s (gold) dust in their eyes. - ■ All the vituperation and slander the capitalistic press heaps upon General Butler will not convince one voter who is posted that Butler is not a man of in tegrity, ability and fearlessness in the performance of duty. He cannot be “worked” by the political rings, and that is the very objection they have to him The union printers of the country have declared that they would not sup port the republican candidate for presi dent unless the party repudiated the “rat” sheet of Whitelaw Reid, the New York Tribune. This will not be doDe, as Reid was one of the hardest workers for Blaine at Chicago. To make the sit uation of the printers more positive against the ticket, the second name in national committee is that of John C New, proprietor of the Indianapolis : * ; j , " 1 ■' ' . THE LABOR ENQUIRER. Journal, a paper which is the declared enemy of unionism, and is being boy cotted by the labor organisations, the same as the New York Tribune. The union printers will evidently have an opportunity to show that they mean what they say. The Tribune, which loves to repeat the nonsense about the republican party making this republic “far more splendid than our fathers originally designed,” gives proof of the “splendidness of this republic” by editorially saying “the Union Pacific railroad runs the govern ment” That is “splendid” with a vengeance. If Butler requires a column of news paper space to accept the greenback nomination, how many columns would he require to accept the democratic nomination ? This should give us pause.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Yes, and it should give you a tail and ears of an appropriate size. You have all tlie rest. It is Butler or defeat for the democracy, and the sensible ones see it Blaine may be a bard man to beat, but if the demo crats are wise on the eighth of next month he will certainly haye to “duck” his plume. This is a pointer for the Colorado delegation to thd Chicago con vention. ' The Wasp, printed at Rosedale, Kan sas, came buzzing into the sanctum this week. It is a clear, pointed and fearless exponent of the people’s cause, and as such finds a hearty welcome in this office. CORRESPONDENCE. Old Party Deception. Editor Labor Enquirer. Williamsburg, Colorado, Jund 24. — Being one among the multitude who fully indorse the nomination of the Ih dianapoHs convention, I think it be hooves every workingman to awake, knowing the strife is at hand, as we' are on the eve of another important epoch in the history of this country—that of a presidential election. The great and momentous question is, who shall be our next president ? Shall it be the same old partv president, to run the ship of state to irretrievable ruin and destruc tion? We Say no; the masses of the people say no, and the workingmen of all grades—the miners and mechanics— from Maine to California say no. Work ingmen are determined to be no longer deceived by the falsity of the republican platform, for they have proved the re publicans to be nothing but liars and de ceivers in deluding the toiling and suf fering masses of the people, in advanc ing certain planks in their platform which they never intend carrying out, for the benefit of the workingman. Mr. Republican, the people of this country are most determined not to take the bait any longer, for past experience has taught us that you are not the party for the working people; that you are not the party for higher wages and more prosperous times ; that you are not the party for the hornv-handed sons of toil who are hid away down in the bowels of the earth from twelve to fourteen hours a day, deprived of all the blessings of nature, of the pure air, of the glorious sunshine which God has placed in the heavens te give light and life to all nftture, and deprived of all the beauties that at this season of the year carpet and cover the earth with splendor. As I have said, away down in the chambers of death as it were, he has to contend with all the dangerous and poisonous gases in their most ugly and malignant forms, and then there is the danger of the falling of ponderous rocks and massive blocks of coal, and in cases of ascending and descending deep shafts every morn ing and evening where thousands of men’s precious lives are entirely depend ing upon the brittle existence of a wire rope, and yet amid all this your party says that *1 to $1.50 per day is enough pay for a workingman ; if you haven’t said it in words you have said it in deed and action. Republicans, consider well fora short time, look on your past, and experience will stare you in the face and dare you to say that you are the party of the peo ple, but on the other hand experience has taught the down-trodden masses of the people, and that with a high hand of oppression, that you are not the party for the people of this country to look to for their elevation to a higher and nobler standard in life and society. You are not the partv for the weal and welfare of the country at large, although you have had the lever and the fulcrum for over twenty years. You have had the time and you have had the power to raise the position of the country and the condi tion of the people to and lofty standard. But your policy is bringing the most damning results to bear upon the people and the country in various shapes and forms. We will notice one feature as time and space will not allow of more at present, namely, that of bringing hordes of pauper laborers into the country and turning them loose upon society in a half naked and semi barbarous state, to be made tools and serfs of, and bring the yoke of thralldom and tyranny upon mine and my fellow workmen’s shoulders, taking the bread from mine and my fellow-workmen’s mouths, in sending me and my fellow men broadcast through the land, house less and penniless, seeking a place of refuge from the iron hand of oppres sion. Republicans and moneyed rings and kings, look out in November next, for we are going to place the lever of this country in the hands of him whom the people look to as the father of the late decision of the supreme court, B. F. Butler, and the fulcrum in the hands of West, of Mississippi, when the country will be turned upside down and right side up I imagine there will be a great earth quake, a great resurrection of the dead, when old Ben begins to walk among the dry bones of the two old parties. Fellow-men, let the proclamation go *—r — ; forth from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Manitoba to the gulf, let it be re echoed that Butler shall be the people’s choice in November, v But then, again, Mr. Editor, let us look to whom this republican party is a party for. I think we can sum it up in very brief space. First, let us look at this party on Wall street, placing the money of the people in the hands of a few money-mongers and banking thieves and speculators. Yes, Mr. Editor, est Mr. Grant at the head of them. It was quite a little surprise the other morning when the old fellow found him self down on bed-rock. What did this republican party say to that? They simply said, let us vote another $50,000 of the people’s money to fill up the crack and he will be able to go on all right again. A fine state of things—to place the interests of the country at the mercy of a few banking fiends on Wall street! You republicans are the party for the money kings, the Grants and Wards, the Vanderbilts and Goulds, the Astors and Fields, the vultures and bloodsuckers of the public. You are the party for the railroad and telegraph sovereigns and coal and iron kings, in promoting their interests, in giving to them what right fully belongs to the people. You are the party that is running the country, by your present policy, into a state of revo lutionary crisis. You are not the party that the people will trust with their in terests at the next election. We shall just notice a few planks of the platform adopted, which contains the customary baits. As usual there is a plank on the tariff question, which de clares that our labor must be protected. Ah, deceivers, the old cry over again ; a plank they have used on every occa sion to entrap the toiling masses. An other plank favors the establishment of a bureau of labor statistics, which, for my part, I cannot see what great advan tage it is going to be to the laboring classes, but to take $25,000 per year of the people’s money for collecting said statistics. Another plank is opposed to the importation of foreign pauper labor under contract. Ah, sham republican fellow-men, the last plank with many others have been most urgently peti tioned during the present term by all the leading labor societies and advocates ,in the country, but they have been de fied, they have been ignored, they have set at naught our counsel. If the party is so anxious for the welfare of the workingman, I think you will agree with me that congress is the proper place to show it and not in conventions and plat forms year after year. Republicans the people are sick of this platform taffy, and the workingman that is caught by it deserves the title, thou fool. Workingmen, will you still raise your voice and cry, “Hurrah for the re publican party ?” No 1 but cry away with them, the vile hypocrites and de luders of the people. Again I say will you still use your powers, your energies, and cast your vote in favor of the party that has brought and is bringing hordes of European and Chinese labor to com pete—yea, to take our places —making of them tools for our destruction. Arouse ! ye sons of America, and use your every effort in forming good work ing committees to advance the interests of the Butler cause, and let us center our hopes upon him in the coming campaign, and may the money-changers be driven from the white house as'it is no longer the^seat of justice and equal repre sentation, but they have made it a den of thieves, and “sufficient unto the day is the eyil thereof.” Fellow-men, we have an emancipator in the person of him whom the money power fears and hates, B. F. Butler. Greenbackers, Anti- Monopolists and Knights of Labor use your might and influence individually and collectively in impressing and diffus ing the principles of reform, and may all agree in the willingness to follow Butler’s lead in the people’s grand reform move ment. I remain yours in the cause of reform, A Workingman. Beecher’* Venality. Editor Labor Enquirer. Cheyenne, June 24.— My attention has been callod to the following associated press report of of an extract from Henry Ward Beecher’s sermon of last Sunday : “Beecher said in his sermon yesterday that all settlers of this land were carpet baggers, and that one class of foreigners objected to another. When Mongols come to our occidental coast the Irish cry out, ‘Chinese must go.’ All printers’ leagues and labor leagues of all kinds among men of mechanical pursuits, are conservative of their own selfish selves, and they apply the law 'of force to all outside of themselves, and they combine i so that no other man can have a chance. Carpenters and bricklayers combine so that only a certain number of appren tices are allowed to> learn. They com bine for defense and also for assault. Rad ical vice of all sociology is organized selfishness, and laws of love are not known in it at all. Social thieves hatch out in France ; and all that come to us from England, the land of grumblers, and all little sets and circles of Socialists here teach people to take care of them selves, while professing to stand for lib erty and right—its handful of right to bushels of injustice.” Quite recently The Enquirer pub lished an extract from one of Beecher’s speeches in which he declared that “the workingman who could not live on bread and water was not fit to live at all.” Beecher has been called the ‘‘most profound thinker of the country and the times,” but it is a consolation to know that the sentiment is more cordially in dorsed by those females who gushed over him at the time of the Tilton “nest hiding” exposure—females w ho delight in petting murders, wife-beaters, and criminals generally. The somewhat re cent floral tributes to a repulsive negro wife-murderer, made by members of Beecher’s church, surely does not in spire a confidence in their judgment among the “rude inhabitants of the far west” It is well to remember that ■ Beecher preaches to a congregation of capitalists. These capitalists are surely not in danger of committing the unpar donable sin of forming printers’ unions, nor carpenters’ unions, nor trades unions of any kind. Why then does Beecher, as a “Christian minister” (so-called) devote sermon after sermon to the eloquent abuse of what he professes to call a wrong, when none of his hearers are at all liable to commit that wrong ? Does he grow enthusiastic and morbidly magnetic when abusing labor unions that he may, by inference, flatter his congregation “that they are not as other men ?” Hardly. Despite all of his mature judgment, despite all of his eloquence, proud with all of the vanity that must be latent after years of plaudits, a close observer of the times, and as his recent conduct shows a “toady” to capital, Beecher still knows that he is preaching falsehoods. To deny this is to deny his intelligence. The capitalists of Wall street and of the country generally are uneasy ; Beecher seeks to reassure .them. Already many middle-men acknowledge the justice of the workingman’s cause ; Beecher en deavors to injure that cause. A presi dential campaign is near at hand and if they are wise the laboring masses can be a power at the polls ; Beecher is their antagonist. Millions of the toilers of the land are suffering under wrong inflicted by men (and others like them) who each Sunday listen complacently to Beecher’s tirades against the wronged ! O temporal O mores ! In this Christian land, in this, the nineteenth century, a leading Christian minister becomes the champion of wrong when, were he anything than a hypocritical coward, he would defend the wronged ! Workingmen, even the capitalistic pulpit is an ignoble tool in the hands of your oppressors. Men who claim to fol low in the footsteps of the meek and lowly Saviour and who pretend to pro claim His teachings are to-day so fallen that it becomes no wonder that few are so low to do them reverence. Lesser Beechers wit h as impure hearts, may, less eloquently perhaps, take up arms against you ; think for yourselves. Other so-called ministers may be willing to sell themselves and you for a pitiable mess of pottage ; think for yourselves. The pulpit cannot be trusted; watch the pub lic school. Let the aggregated wealth and power of the world assail you but “First be sure you are right then go ahead,” and fight your battles bravely, honestly, unflinchingly, until the world is compelled to recognize your claims and until the Beechers shall be in dis pair as they realize the utter insignifi cance of their “mess of pottage,” The Benedict Arnolds cannot long control the destinies of any nation. Carlos. From. ‘‘Ormanixer.’’ Editor Labor Enquirer. Salt Lake City, June 22. —Since my last writing I have visited some of the coal mines of Utah, and the great rail way center, Ogden. Grass Creek is a coal mining camp forty miles east from Ogden. At present there are about 175 men employed in and about the mine, a large number of whom are Chinese. The coal is from eight to ten feet thick, rooms are twenty four feet wide and miners receive $9.50 per yard for driving the rooms. The mine is poorly ventilated and carries fire. A number of men have been burned but not seriously. Miners at present make from $2 to $2.50 per day. It required but little argument or exer tion on my part to convince the miners of Grass Creek of the necessity of or ganization, as I found them to be a sober, intelligent, thinking people. It was my pleasure to meet a few old veterans in the movement whose wise counsels as sisted very much in the work of organ izing. Ogden is, I think, one of the prettiest towns in the west. One very remarka able feature I noticed was a scarcity of the “for rent” sign. It appears as if everybody owned his own home. I could not see a block of tenement houses in the whole town, and I assure you I did not wish to see them, because they always indicate a homeless people. There are no manufactories in the town. It is surrounded by an agricultural country, and supported largely by railroad men. After several days of persistent labor and exertion I was successful in forming an assembly composed of the genuine ma terial. As I am late with this week’s report, I will have to make it brief and try and send a more lengthy report early next week. Organizer. The Financial Questlnn. Editor Labor Enquirer. Denver, June 26. —Will you give me space in your very valuable paper to sug gest to your numerous readers the direc tion in which we may look for the cause of most, if not all, our grievances. Some attribute them to our land laws, others to the rent system, or to monopolies. But all more or less think our govern ment is to blame. Our politicieal plat forms haye planks inserted for this or for that; some to shorten the hours of labor, to change the tariff laws, or encourage this thing or that. But they seem to me to leave the real cause untouched. Would it not be better—infinitely better—to look in the direction of our monetary system for the cause of the trouble ? Is it not the excessive interest paid for money that is eating out the very vitals of pro duction ? Even our great railroads cannot meet their engagements, and pay their half interest, without discharging hands, cut ting the wages of the laborers, and pass ing into the hands of receivers, while wages are unpaid, and the poor are op pressed in every way. Is it not true that 7 per cent will double jtself every eleven years or less ? Does this not mean that the Denver and Rio Grande, or any other railroad, must construct another road of equal length and equip it with rails, bridges and rolling stock, every eleven years, to pay the interest on its bonds to the bondholders—saying noth ing of stock ? • Shall we not then look in the direction of the greenback theory, and make o ur government the national bankers; and let congress fix the value of money, as -they have already fixed the weight of jthe pound, the size of the bushel and the length of the yard ? Let the government make and issue the money, at one and one-tenth per cent for any length of time, to any person, on real estate secu rity, to one-half its value. Also, to re ceive on deposit and.allow 1 per cent to whoever wants a safe bank of deposit for their savings—and this is all that labor can afford to pay as interest on capital, without eating up all the fruit of labor. This plan would give the laborer the fruit of his own toil, and to the capi talist a fair value forthe use of his cap ital. I should like to hear a free and unbiased expression of opinion from your numerous readers on this remedy for the ills of the producer. I conceive it to be the best, the easiest to put in force and the most effective to remove the wrongs of the producing class. A Unionist, N Dishonest Papers. Sanctuary of Assembly, ) No. 2672, Knights of Labor, \ Washington, D. C., June 19, 1884. J At the stated meeting of Excelsior Assembly, No. 2672, Knights of Labor, the following resolution was passed and ordered to be printed in the various labor papers of the country: Whereas, The New York Tribune, Indianapolis Journal, Philadelphia Press, Buffalo Courier and Utica press, while professing great interest in the welfare of American laborers persistently depress the wages of their employes and oppose the organized efforts of workingmen to improve their condition. Resolved, That Local Assembly 2672 denounces the inconsistency and dis honesty of these papers, and will do every legitimate act to limit their circu lation and influence. • W. S. Waudby, Recording Secretary. Warning to Workingmen. We make a special appeal to the press of the country to help us a little in the cause of labor. Lumbermen have ad vertised in the leading papers of the east and in Canada for a large number of men to come here. Also the labor sharks known as employment agents, running a labor bureau, are constantly advertising for thousands of men to work in the woods and mills. The object on the part of the lumbermen and mill men has been to get an over-stock of labor so they can reduce wages; and they have done that, but are not satisfied. They are talking about another reduction. Amer ican laborers are not hired here when they can get foreign labor to do the work. The Saginaw valley is being filled up with Polanders very fast, and from some source which all intelligent men understand we find that Italians are coming here fast, and they are all em ployed at wages that an American can not support his family on. These people live in huts, and there are cases here where they sleep in outhouses, and in some small houses there are four or five families living together like cattle. Our lumber kings are trying to reduce the American laborer to the level of Russian serfs. If men flock here during the bal ance of the season as fast as thav have up to the present time we may look for bread riots. The workingmen make an appeal to the press of the country to warn their readers, and all men, to stay awmy from northern Michigan, and specially the Saginaw valley. Newspa pers please copy.—Labor Vindicator, Bay City. Th« Fire* of Revolution in Europe. The Revolutionary forces throughout Europe are very uneasy at this time. Wholesale arrests of Socialists in Aus tria; movements of the Black Hand in Spain, not to be stopped by the garrote ; arrests of Anarchists in Poland; whole sale arrests of Nihilists in Russia, where even the army is honeycombed with Nihilism; the dynamite scare in Ger many ; the dynamite scare in England ; the renewed restiveness of Ireland; activity of the Socialists in France, and signs of disturbance in many of the cities of Italy. The harshest means of suppression are everywhere taken against revolu tionism, which, however, will not be suppressed. The old monstrosities of European kingcraft and capitalism are in the toils. There is no hope for them. They have no defense against the foes who are pre paring to throttle them. The masses of the working people are awaking to a knowledge of their rights and wrongs. They demand something more than mere political change, something else than sham republicanism. The times are ripening for them to assert theif strength and seize the world.—John Swinton’s Paper. Cleveland Will Not Do. During the past ten days the star has received nearly 400 letters from anti-mo nopolists, trades unionists, and others, declaring that even theadvocacy of their favorite newspaper would never induce them to vote for Governor Cleveland.— New York Star (democratic). One of the first laws that Gen. Grant ever signed, was one making eight hours a legal (Jay’s work under the employ of the government,- and that was fifteen years ago. The republican party has been in power nearly all that time, and that law has been a dead letter “on the statute books of the United States ever since it was passed. Not only that, but when Gen. Weaver, of lowa, brought before the house of representatives, a bill for the enforcement of that law, re publicans joined with the democrats and defeated it, and now they ask for its en forcement. —Labor Journal. Boycott Appel & Co. They employ cheap labor, and refuse to acknowledge the right of tailors and other working men to organize tor protection.