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Denver Colorado. *
The publisher ol this t w not reepoo
albie for the opinions of eonWbutMS. The
columns will luwa’s be open for the dlaew
tloo of all sides of the lalwr questions of the
day. Contributions alwars welcome.
THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG.
An evil system must show evil results;
the wonder is tt at people continue
uphold a system after itr results have
proved evil.
Slavery was inhuman, yet few people
held anti-slavery viewt until the institu
tion was abolished; liquor selling causes
pestilence, yet it is looked upon with
indifference; lac d monopoly is the chief
cause of poverty, yet its victims would
fight to preserve It; the wage system has
produced all sort! of evils but most peo
ple see no substitute for it.
Clearly the wage system must be left
behind for it is no longer adequate. If
it must be continued, then machinery
' or laborers must get off the earth. If
supply and demand be a natural law why
is the laborer no'; in de uandT If natural
law has no place for h.m why was he
created ? He represents both supply and
demand; he would consume as well as
produce wealth. What prevents him ?
There seems to be no demand for
anything but the capitalist and - his
machine. A few producers can take the
machines and soo n produce several year’s
supply, then turi the vhole over to the
capitalist. The latter stops his machines
and waits until lie can sell his goods to
those who have nothing to buy with,
while the laborers organize strikes and
form processions of hungry men with
black flags.
It is becoming plain, to those who ever
notice anything, that where a country is
full of food and clothing, the hungry and
naked people in that country must, in
the end, eat the :'ood and wear the cloth
ing; but their wages are eaten up, they
can buy nothing. How shall they come
into posession of the food and clothing?
The law of supply and demand is out
of date. Laborers can no longer depend
upon it, but they will eat. Shall thev
eat without buying 7 That is Commun
ism.
While both Communism and the
present capitalistic system are wrong,
still if we are compelled to choose
between them, it is well to compare them
with each other. .
* In Communism many will eat but not
work. That is unjust, but is it not so
now ?” The two systems are the extremes
of injustice, but which is the more un
just? In the one, all men own nothing;
in the other, one man owns everything.
Undar Communism some who labor
not would share like the rest, but none
would ‘'Starve. At present some have
luxuries without work and many starve.
A system ef absolute juetice is needed.
It can be'testablished only by men who
are intelligent, honest and scientific. If
* isJfcsuch men fail to come forward with a
f plan shall we drift into Communism or
continue the present order? Both capital
and labor had better furnish a timely
answer to these questions.
Buchanan and the Miners.
/The cowardly and base attack of the
/\ews upon my nobl) and esteemed
(friend Mr. J. R. Buchunan is a rediclu
/ loua libel, and one that should call forth
/ the deepest cent ure from the laboring
/ and industrial chases of this community,
/ A truer and-moro zealous worker in the
/ cause of labor njver breathed in God’s
/ world ! and his honestv of purpose is
/ unquestionable! .No one knows better
/ . than myself the part he has tanen in the
/ coal miners strike, and when I state that
/ his policy has been the most conserva
tive of all men that hat- had anything to
do with the case, that is not one-half of
what can be told to his, credit.
To say that he is a “ blatherskite” and
a “meddler” is a blasphemous lie! and
the man that writes these libelous arti
cles is not worthy of bolding a light to
Mr. Buchanan r
The editor of the Enquirer is a man
that need nqt tike off his hat to any
man for ability, and his record as an
honest, industrious and bard working
citizen, is as bright as the noon-day sun!
He is a man of principle and all his
labors in behalf of the coal miners has
been of a tendency to bring about peace
and an honorable understanding. His
services have been gratuitous and. he has
sacrificed time and m ians to aid in de
vising compromising neasurea, and I
have no hesitancy in stating that eighty
per cent of the coal operators themselves
are willing to give Mr. Buchanan credit
for the part he has taken, and as for the
miners they are universal in their prstses.
Noble friend Buchanan, go ahead, heed
not the barks of a cur, the hard-working
toilers are with you, and among them
John Lewis,
Coal Miners’ Amalgamation.
Pitisbdwj, Dec-15— Notice was posted
in the Edgar Thompson steel works at
Braddock to-day ordering a suspension
of work to-morrow in all departments
for an indefinite period. The order,
which was a complete surprise to the
5 workmen, was aanaed by a lack of orders
fe and the great depression in the nail
I Between four and five thou
gh, sand people will safer.
! • Attfrtoo-is celled to Wrigbrt card.
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several tboOMod
•awing wodkta wit' of employment
through th« hardest and coldest of the
winter month*. ~
If "oat of work” meant what it shook! .
mean—«time for tost, Tarnation and re
cuperation*-we would welcome the “dull
season” and Hand the anowy dava flying,
with our mirth and good cheer, while
we gathered strength for the working
days again. But strange and sad as it
is, well we realise "out of work” means
nothing like this. Our backsare aching,
oar. eyes are doll and our minds feel
cramped and narrowed, but we dare, not
rest We can gat no more bundles of
calico wrappers at 11.26 a dozen ; no
more coats to finish off at 10 cents a
piece; no flannel shirts at 75 cents a
dozen, or cheap cloaks st next to noth
ing a piece. We have carried the abom
inable brown bundles back and forth
till we are sick at the sight of brown
paper; we have run machines till the
constant whirr makee us doubt our own
sanity. We have worried over “altera
tions,” chafed under the tyranny of a
little brief authority and despaired un
der the hopelessness of.it all till life is a
burden. Now, what we to do? Is it
duj to our own “improvidence,” as a
sleek and pompous preacher puts it, that
we have nothing to show for our long
months of toil ? I wish I could make
every one of these would-be-advisers
live on what the poor have to, for one
year.
Let any who thinks he could have a
nice little sum laid by for an idle time,
after eight or nine months’ labor, try
what it is to work from 7 till 10 or 11 at
night, and earn perhaps sl—if he is a
“good fast hand." Let him pay room
rent, buy bread, a little meat and tea
and sugar, car fare now and then, for
tired limbs will not bear too much, pay
for the making of a few poor garments
(for mind you, when we can “get work”
we dare not stop to sew for ourselves, and
even to keep clean we must steal from
our hours of sleep or pay for it out of
our hard money) and see what there is
left to “lay up.” Books, music, pictures,
ornaments, lectures, amusements, I have
not mentioned, for we have precious
little to spend on these, though our
minds and hearts were starving. We
have worked too hard for the last eight
months, to know wbat'rest ment or to
enjoy recreation if offered to us free, and
now that we have time, we have no
money and no opportunities for enjoy
ment We may feel a sort of satisfaction
for awhile in sitting idle in our poor lit
tle rooms, but not long, for the cupboard
is bare. We can get a little sewing from
friends occasionally; we can get some
sorts of work from the shops, at so low a
rate that it seems a mockery to call it
wages at all; some of ns can find places
in the kitchens of the rich, if our weari
sone toil has left us strength enough.
We will drag through the winterdrearily
enough somehow I suppose, if we have
only ourselves to iook after; if there are
children God knows what is to become
of us and them.
And what are our employers going to
do through the winter ? Are they wor
ried about the chid weather and the
price of bread per loaf? They could not
afford to run the shop through the dull
season. Are we to pity their condition,
too?
No; we shall read in our penny papers
—if we can get them —that Miss So-and-
So, daughter of our enterprising and
prominent fellow-citizen, gave a splendid
party on such an evening. We shall
read eloquent descriptions of the decor
ations, the' toilets, the gems and the
flowers. We shall hear of SSO seats at
the Italian opera, where the wife of Mr.
Blank displayed diamonds to the value
of $16,000. We shall hear of magnificent
toilets, balls, receptions and theater
parties, and we will know that our em
ployer is very well satisfied with the
profits of last year’s business. How long
are we to be made the victims of this
terrible unjust system ?
We ask the question of ourselves, of
one another, of you ministers of a gospel
first preached to the poor, of you editors
and leaders of public’sentiment, of you
teachers of the people, wherever you are !
We ask your aid. We plead with you—
not .for charity, but for justice. Only
recognize the fact that We are wronged,
that laborers cannot under the present
Structure of society receive the benefits
■of their labor, and out of the inherent
spirit of progress dwelling in humanity
will evolve a better and truereivllization
than we have yet known.
Lizzie M. Swank.
Be Not Slaves.
For The Enquirer
The conservative press of the country
have at last come to the conclusion that
there is something wrong about the situ
ation of affairs in the Hocking Valley.
They now believe that the miners have
been misrepresented ; that the tales of
outrage and destruction, of destruction of
property were invented, aud they were
very, very glad and thankful that-, the
strikers have been so moderate and so
respectful in their demands, so mild in
their demeanor, and have shown such a
gentle and law-abiding disposition
throughout, that, to quote from one hyp
ocritical sheet, “It is quite encouraging
ft> those Who seek to bring about harmo
nious relations between capital abd
labor.”
They now admit that the attitude of
the combination, in trying to bulldoze
another operator and mine-owner who is
not in the ring, is very reprehensible,
and that it is very wrong to keep several
hundred families in a state of chronic
starvation for several months; and they,
the combination, are dubbed “greedy
monopolists,’' and told that they ought
to be ashamed of themselves. This is all
very refreshing and very gratifying no
doubt to the victims of oppression; and
really, you know, they ought to be very
thankful, and doubtless are fnll of grati
tude toward their would-be champions.
V
montha^pM^whoto’fitmitias Tove bean
literally starring, sad are saw freezing,
while thousands of tods of foe! -Ua all
around them andundei* their feet, and
while provisions have bean thrown away
and burned and otherwise destroyed in
every city, town and hamlet In the land-
In every rich man’s bonne in this city
then is enough food thrown 1 away and
destroyed, daily, to sumptuously feed
a whole family, to aay nothing of the
leavings of the hotels, dabs and restau
rants. And all the comfort the starve
lings get is to be assured thst they are
doing perfectly right by being so patient,
and accepting the pitiful dole of charity
with sueh sweet grace, and they are as
sured of the continual sympathy of the
law and order olass, as long as they will
peaceably submit to starve and rot.
How long think you, mqn of Mbor,
would your masters submit to this sort
of thing ? How long would they consent
to an arrangement that would deprive
them of their rights, sneer at tbeir suf
ferings, disregard their petitions, and
substitute cold charity for plain justice?
Under certain conditions patience be
comes a bond of servility and servitude,
and submission a crime. Awake, men,
from your contented slumber! • Let your
voice be heard ! Let your influence be
felt! Raise to action! Shake off your
chains 1 Be slaves no longer! Take, at
all costs and all hazards, your God-given
rights, the fruits of your toil; and woe
be to him or them who shall stand in the
wav ! Do not consent, tamely, to see
your wives and little ones starve before
your eyes! Do not consent to go ragged,
and hungry and homeless, when there
is an abundance all around you ! Cease
passing resolutions! Cease making peti
tions ! You can resolute and petition
until doomsday, but you will not get jus
tice ! Only sneers, and scoffs, and curses !
Why do you hesitate to claim and to
take that which is yours? You have no
right to shffer when suffering is needless.
You have no right to see your families
slowly starve while there is plenty to
eat, and you are able to help them and
Down with the barriers!
Let not law, nor government, nor the
rights of capital and property ; let not
man nor devil, nor heaven nor hell,
stand betweeu you and your natural and
God-given rights, Cato.
From J. D. Bailey.
Editor Labor Enquirer.
Salt Lake City, Dec. B.—l arrived
here yesterday about 5 p. m., and will
leave here about 6 this evening for Ogden
and southern California. This is a very
nice place, situated at the foot of the
mountains, and has very broad streets
132 feet wide, straight and clean. It is
a quiet, orderly place. The city is laid
out in blocks of ten acres each. There
are many good buildings here and very
few empty houses, large stores well filled
and plenty of the finest meat, produce,
vegetables, etc., in the market.
There is not much building here now,
and I would not advise anybody to come
to Salt LakeUity this winter expecting
to get work. I have not had much
chance to look around here. I visited
the Mormon tabernacle, capable of hold
ing 12,000 people. It looks like a moun
tain on the outside. The new temple is
immense, on which is has been already
expended $3,000,000; was commenced
thirty years ago, and will take them
sometime to complete it, perhaps six or
seven years more. I also visited the
large co-operative store three stories
high above the basement and chock full
of all kinds of merchandise worth
$1,000,000 or more and employs a large
number of clerks and othe r s.
Some of the Mormons may have a plu
rality of wives, but they are sound on
co-operation.' They stick together and
help one another to a great extent Yet
I suspect some of the high priests mon
opolize many things to the detriment of
the poorer ones.
I enclose you a card of the house I
stopped at, with some items on the back
of it It is 4 good house. Yours, etc.
J. D. B.
No Work, No Food.
Editor Labor Enquirer:
Denver, December 15.— There was
much said during the late campaign by
the republican party leaders who took
the unction to their souls that they were
the natural born protectors of American
labor, whose condition at that time and
since may be described thus:
Plunged in a gulf of dark despair,
The wretched labqrers lay,
Without one -cheerful gleam of hope,
Or spark of glimmering day ;
With pitying eyes, the man from Maine
Beheld our helpless grief;
He saw, and oh 1 amazing grrce,
He flew to our relief.
But the song of the siren was not
heeded, for the iron heel of republican
oppression was already upon our necks.
At the bidding of the bondholders we
were sold into perpetual bondage to thq
money power by our rulers. The laborer
was by them trampled in the dußt:
They sold the rights of the people in the
public lands to the corporations com
posed largely offoreigneis to be fenced
in at their pleasure; while under the prer
tense of protecting American labor they
imported men of all nations to undersell
us ill the lat-or market. And if we as
serted our right as free men to have a
voice in the contract, they turned the
keys in the doors of their manufactories
and shut down their mines, and left us
in the streets to starve us into submis
sion. Like false friends they gave our
finances into the hands of soulless cor
porations with the power to contract the
currency at plersure. Who have left us
with ft uer capita and recommend still
further contraction by retiring the silver
certificate! and thus crippling the trade
of tbe nation in their greed to get rich
at the expanse of the poor. And now to
cap the free American laborer
is recetfmg notice all over the country
of a cut of wages of from 10 to 50 per
cent below starvation wages; our laborers
"Mb
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tiwdeneeratkparty, whsßitteoaaeslato
power, can do no batter than this, than '
tbe Lord help the raters of both parties ;
and hit statesmen, ao-called, stand aside
and give the laboring class a chance to
gqrbra tbo nation upon a new and im
proved principle whereby ah men shall
•bare alike —not one Work and another
play, apt one produce and another oon
sume ; But where we will follow God’s
plan as expounded by Paul, any man
will not work neither shall he eat”
Then there will be no necessity for ten
hoars work per day, aa there will be (as
oar raters say there is now) over produc
tion while hundreds are starving.
Ye rulers, see to it that this govern
ment is run for the benefit of the people,
not for the railroads, nor for the cattle
kings, nor the gold kings or &nv other
parasites that live upon the people, bat
run the government for the benefit of
the whole people; make such laws as
shall protect the weak against the strong,
the poor against the rich the oppressed
against the oppressor; put laws upon our
statute books that shall compel large em
ployers of labor to submit grievances
between them and their employes to
arbitration, under penalty of fine and
imprisonment or both—as no reasonable
man wilh a good cause can refuse this
mode of adjusting their difficulties. Or
shall we oppose force by force, rather
than submit to oppression and see the
innocent opes suffer? A Unionist.
Carpenters' Rouser.
Last Saturday evening tbe Carpenters
and Joiners Local union No. 55, held
their monthly social at Euclid Hall,
President Thomas Muirhead in the
chair. Opening address was delivered
by A. H. Higgins, music by Miss Mattie
Miner and Mr. Pollard, select reading
by E. E. Rice (Darius Green and his fly
ing machine) history of Local Union No.
55, its rise and progress by its first presi
dent, M. T. Black. Select reading by
George Grey (the Parson and his Travels)
Essay on organization by E. C, Wallace
A German song (Hungarian Leider
Kranz) Miss Mattie Miner then ren
dered some beautiful strains on the
piano, which was greatly applauded.
Next was a beautiful and ornamental
wooden flower stand made out of all the
different kinds of wood that could be
collected in Denver. Wood that had
grown from the highest point of timber
line, to the burning sands of the equa
tor, or as it may be said the frigid tem
perate and torrid zone, blended to
gether in harmony. All surmounted
by a flower in full bloom. The stand
was made by Frank Bayer assisted by
A. Daniels and by them presented to
the anion, was then raffled at twenty
five cents a chance when all present
seemed to vie with each other in trying
to have more chances than his or her
neighbor, the expression was heard all
over the hall, “I’ll have that flower
stand.” Mrs. Meyer was the lucky
lady who on receipt of the stand imme
diately donated it back to the union and
received a unanimous vote of thanks,
where it now remains and can be seen
at Euclid by any one who wishes to see
a rare collection of beautiful woods and
a piece of fine workmanship. A wooden
fruit stand was next won by W. F.
Blinn who was not on hand to carry
away the prize. A box of confectionery
was won by Mrs. Meyers the lucky lady
who won the flower stand and who do
nated it to Miss Mattie Miner with the
request that she remmember the giver
when relishing the contents of that
box. Refreshments were next served
bv the ladies, then dancing was announ
ced and all seemed to enjoy themselves
till 12 o’clock put an end to all festivities
Thomas. Muirhead.
Resolution.
Editor Labor Erquirer.
The following resolution was unani
mously adopted at a regular meeting of
■ Anti-Monopoly Assembly No. 1758, on
December 11,1884:
Whereas, The Huerfano Cactus has at
all times and under all circumstances
been the true and consistent friend of
labor, and has labored unceasingly and
and effectually for tbe vindication of our
rights ; therefere be it
Refolved, That we give the said Huer
fano Cactus our utmost support and
patronize those who advertise in it; that
we work against those who work against
it, because of its manly course both in
business and politics; that a copy of
these resolutions be furnished the Huer
fano Cactus and The Labor Enquirer,
and that the seal of this nnion be at
tached. John Driscoll,
/,— > —,) Secretary.
-j Seal. [• David Morris,
( > —, J Master Workman.
At Raton.
Editor Labor Enquirer.
Raton, N. M., Dec. 14.—Following is a
list of the collections made to aid the
striking miners of Colorado :
Phillips & Davis - - $5 00
John Hess - - - 300
•E.J. Wells - .- - 100
JohnLysitt - - - 300
l E. ’J. Segerstorm - - 100
J. B. Shioeder - - -100
O. C. Huffman - *>* 1 00
Sol Meyer - - - - 100
Cash - • - - -100
J. P. Williams - . 2 00’
fiLP. Shever - - - 2 00
A. H. Carey - - - 100
D. W. Gamia - - K 1 00
Ci.as. ’Wheeler - - - 250
Cash - - - - 50
H. Robinson - - - 100
A. Bruggeman - - 50
G. Baranutch - * - - 50
Ben F. Hewells - - 60
ilcKoun & Co. - - - 500 1
Expences of Cornt. - - 100
Postage, etc. - - - 25 j
W. W. Jones - - -1 00 <
Total, $35 75
* I
Gentlemen’s underwear, at ruinous i
prices, on account of an over Btock, at 1
Hirsh’s. ' * ]
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TBt . * hi'-'. .•
BowlAMf EnqtUTwr.
Suk, December 13.-A committee ;
composed of member* of the Knighted! l
InlSor canvassed oar town on Thursday
night, the eleventh instant, in the inter*
eat of the suffering miherc who are oat
of employment in the state. The com
mittee constated of W. 0. Van Etten,
Hugh Jones and Robert Roberts, and
below we give the result of our labor:
Edward Probert - - $5 00
Peter Schilling - • - * 500 I
Freeman & Briggs - - 500
Morgan Brothers - 5 00
Konahts Brothers - - 5 00
W. J. Hughes - t - ' - 300
Thomas Richards - - 3 00
Richard Hillard - - 300
George Green - - 2 60
George W. Lawley - - 200
Griffiths & Williams - 2 00
L. Waldenburg - -200
Edward Knowles - - . 2 00
William Apgove - - - 100
Stephen Saase - -1 00
Andrew Culgren - - * 100
Ben Herschy - - - 100
William Probert - - • 100
John T. William & Co. - 5 00
Andrew Hamren - - 100
Jones Brothers - - 50
M. S. Haines - * 1 00
Mrs. Haltsman - . - 60
Edward Anderson - - 50
Georgeßowers - - - 50
David Erwin - - 50
Cash - . I - - 50
LambeH mine - - 3 50
Marfell mine - , - - 23 50
Star mine - - 21 00
107 50
The only one who refused to to con
tribute anything for the benefit of this
worthy cause was Thomas Griffiths, a
grocery dealer, be it said to his shame.
Just received. A sample lot of gen
uine hand knit hoods and jackets for in
fants, children and ladies at 50 cents on
the dollar, and yet some profit left for
Hirsh.
Denver Collections.
The following collections have been
made in this city since last Sunday:
Charles v Machette, committeeman, $4 00
G. F. Munger, “ 4 00
J. Harrison Mills, “ 6 10
Local Assembly 3217 - 100 00
Sumner Assembly, - - 12 55
Union Assembly, - - , 655
From Marshall.
The miners at the Fox mine, at Mar
shall, sent SSO to swell the relief fund on
Tuesday.
fling Out the Bells for Christmas.
Ring out the bells for Christmas,
The happy, happy day;
In winter wild the holy child
Within the cradle lay.
Oh, wonderful! the Savior
Is in the manger lone;
His palace is a stable,
And Mary’s arms his throne.
On Bethlehem’s qniet hillside,
In ages long gone by,
In angel notes the glory floats,
“Glory to God on high.”
Yet wakes the sun as joyous
As when the Lord was bom,
And still he comes to greet you
On every Christmas mom.
Where’er His sweet lambs gather
Within this gentle fold,
The Savior dear is waiting near,
As in the days of old.
In each young heart you see Him,
In every guileless face,
You see the holy Jesus,
Who grew in troth and grace
JOT You can only find first-class goods
at M. A. Hirsh’s. Silk handkerchiefs
from 15 cents to $2.50 —they are daisies.
278 Larimer street.
The Three Curses.
The only methods by which the
laborer is robbed of the fruits of hip toil
are interest, profit, and rent, and until
these are abolished entirely the oppor
tunity remains for some one td get
something for nothing, and a system
that allows the getting of something for
nothing is a robber system. All wealth
is produced by labor, and if anybody
gets wealth otherwise than by labor he
gets it dishonestly, no matter how many
statute laws there are that favor it. Be
cause a statute law allows the doing of
anything it does not necessarily follow
that the doing df it is right. If the
working people could only be made to
realize the fact that it is by statute law
that they are robbed, they would take
measures to abolish about ninety-nine
out of every hundred that we now have,
and look with suspicion on what re
mained. Interest, profit, and rent, all
find their greatest support in legislative
enactments. —Lansing Sentinel.
Cloaks and warps, 20 per cent discount,
no moth eaten old stock, from $1.50 to
$5(00, but the reduction will telf, at
Hirsh’s. (
Pittsbcbg, Dec. 16. —A general suspen
sion of operations at all the coal mines
along the Moncngahela and Youghio
gheny rivers is probable, next Monday,
and the operators are positive in the
declaration that they will not pay the
extra half cent. They threaten to shut
down their mines indefinitely, if the
miners insist npon having an advance.
About 4,000 men are employed in these
mines.
Trsjtton, Dec. 16.—Notice of a 10 per
cent reduction in -wages after the 27th
Instant has been given to the employes
of the New Jersey Steel and Iron Works
in this city.
Attention Workingmen.
Do you know that you can get the best
photographs in the city of Denver at ]
Wright’s gallery, on the corner of Fif
teenth and Larimer streets, for the least
money? A laboring man gets just as i
good a picture and just the same atten- |
tion that is given to anybody. Splendid
cabinets are made for $5 per dozen.
F. D. Storm, photographer,eorner Law
aence and Fifteenth streets, makes cabi
net photographs at $5.00 'per dozen.
Having a large stock of picture frames
he will sell below cost to close out !
MMyMUT simmi i
THE SEVENTH WARD!!
This is not caused by the Peaceable Citizens out
here, but in the price of
LADIES’ AND GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, ETC.,
SOLD BY
<T- JA. STIHSON,
468 SANTA FE AVENUE, Cor. BEAESt (Cor. Goody Bloek.)
V; v -
Only goods of standard value sold, and at the Lowest
CASH PRICES. Warranted to give satisfaction. I
offer no baits, but do a straight business. Workiiig
men will save money by buying of me. ,
SCORING A VICTORY.
’ The strike at Davis’ foundry has been
amicably adjusted. The meu got every
point they demanded. Mr. Davis’mis
sion to Chicago did not result in a suc
cess. He found this out very soon, and
telegraphed for the men to go to work at
the old rate of wages.
The men belt} a meeting and decided
to resume work on condition that the
three men who refused to come out at the
time of reduction should be discharged.
Davis at first refused to “fire”-those men,
but afterwards reconsidered the matter,
and carried out the wishes of the men.
The men have now resumed work and
everything is moving along shoothly.
Here is another instance of the power
of organization. The men should now
try and foster a good feeling and’ work
in harmony. Trade is dull, and there is
no demand for workingmen in any
branch. Matters will no doubt soon
brighten up.
i—
The Landon Explosion,
London, Dec. 18.—The researches into
the explosion at London bridge cause a
sensation. The disclosures show that
the outrage was planned with an amount
of coolness, determination and. foresight
hitherto uncrediied to these terrorists.
Everything proves that the participants
in the plot must have remained beneath
the bridge for quarter of an hour, de
spite the swiftness of the current. Their
work was prosecuted with immense
difficulty, but the deep shadows were
sufficient to prevent detection. It is
believed that a chemical fuse was used,
to ignite the explosive, giving the con
spirators time to escape to land afid
catch the tidal train for Paris. The plot
was carefully elaborated. It isproposed
to use a submarine electric light to
enable a diver to examine tbe extent
of the damage to the bridge. \
Earl Granville and My. Gladstone
have been provided guards
since the explosion.
The most elegant line of silk-worked
table covers, damask spreads and nap
kins to match, suitable for Holiday Pres
ents, at giving away prices at M. A.
Hirsh’s 278 West Larimer street.
A police clubber made a haul of fifty
ragged wretches in the streets the other
night, rap them into the Tombs, and
stood them up before a Justice, who was
told tpat they had all been arrested as
“tramps.” Justice Duffy jawed them
to his heart’s content, gave some of
them a month in the almshouse, and
let the rest loose with the warning that
next time he would give them half a
year at hard labor in the penitentiary.
And this is tbe best that society can do
for the herds of men who are tramping
the streets of New York these wintry
days, out of work !—John Swinton’s
Paper.
A Cored ion.
In a previous issue we stated that if
you had an aching tooth to go to Dr.
Peet, Byers block, and he would pull it
Doctor Peet’s specialty is not in pulling
teeth but in saving.them, and therefore
we take pleasure in making this correc
tion.
F. THORPE,
Dealer In
Groceries d Provisions,
451 Blake Street
New and Second-hand Watches for Sale. 1
Clocks, Watches and Jewelry repaired. Gold
and Silver Plating Work for the Trade.
McENERY & EAGAN
have opened a
BBA IsTOH
HIBtRNI STORE
ON. THE WEST SIDE,
—at—
-263 Larimer St.
And will be glad to see all their West Side
Friends there.
Wanted,
My friends to call at my new dental office
370 Araphoe street. S. T. Pkzt.
mmore money than at anything else
by taking an agency for the best
selling book out. Beginners suc
ceed grandly. None mil. Terms
tixxrr Book Co., Portland, Maine.
HRS. ANNA KNODT
MIDWIFE, §. A
270 10th St., bfet. Larimer A Lawreneff?
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
AND THEY ALLTAKE SUGAR!
Owing to ,lie unfortunate termination
of tlt£late contest, every tiling pas taken
a “tumble,” and having had, with a tew
fhvored friends, private advices from the
seat of war, I am compelled thereby to
make an assignment for the benefit of
my unhappy creditors. Come down
while the fnueral lasts, get your gro
ceries and fine liquors at your own price,
and yon may save enough money yet to
bny the old girl and the blessed babies a
Christmas gift.
13poundsNewYorkGranulatedSugar..|l 00 •
14 pounds Extra C Sugar .. .| 1 00
100 pounds ExtraCSugar. J. 7 00
14 pounds New Carolina Rice 100
100 pounds New Carolina Rice 8 50
IK pounds' of New Turkish Prunes.... 100
1 pounds New Zante Currants..,. 100
8 pounds New Alden Dried Apples 1 00
10 pounds New Cooking RatsUis. 1 00
8 pounds New Table Raisins A. 100
8 cans Star three-pound Tomatoes 1 00
Impound pall Falrbank’stard 1 00
6 pounds Roasted Rio Coffee ..... IDO
1-pound Perfection Can New Uncolored
Japan Tea .J. 4...... ‘6O
8 cans Best String Aeansl 1 00
lO.oans Buckeye Qorn 4 1 ()0
8 cans Excelsior Sugar Corn 1 00
6 cans Eagle Milk !.U..... 100
Best California Canned Fruits, Jellies
and JmuS, 4 cans 1. 100
6-pound®>x Oswego Starch 60
1 galloTOest Vermont Maple Syrup 1 00
1 gallon best Silver DrlpSyrup.Bo
1 gallxin 5-year old Hand-made Willow
Run Whisky .....j.i 50
1 gallon 3-year old Hand-made Sour
Mash Whisky j 150
Best California Wine, pure, per gallon 1 50
I ,
Goods carefnlly packed and shipped
to all points in Colorado and adjoining
Territories.
. WUN LUNG, Assignee.
WOLF LONDONER, Chief Mourner.
Corner Fifteenth and Blake
WILLIAM KNAPP. \ D, S. BENTON.
ENAPP & BENTON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Evans Block, 280 15th St., Denver, Colo.
Practice in all the Courts, Federal and State.
JOHN HIPP,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
COLLECTIONS MALE.
Boom 25 Symes Block, Denver,' Colo.
MORRIS HARRISON,
(Late 1019 K Walnut St, Philadelphia, Pa.)
PRACTICAL TAILOR,
Ladies’ Coats a Specialty.
401 Arapahoe Street, Denver, Colo
Dress Making,
718 Larimer Street
—waFhe Latest System out for
CuWING and fitting.
KafPrices to suit the times.
BROUGHAM HOUSE,
PETE BROUGHAM, Proprietor.
corneb sixth and b streets,
Opp. Union Depot,
SOUTH PUEBLO, COLORADO.
Board and Lodging, per week. $5 to 88. (-
Meal Tickets, 54.50. Single Meals, 25 cents. /
House, new. Table fi— * -'«oc
J. T. HENDI
DEAL
ill; r
—mill
House
EALSOMIE
405A
DENY
“ ADVII
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