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THE LABOR ENQUIRER.
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J. R. BVCHANAH, Editor.
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OFF TO THE COAST.
Only a few months have elapsed since
the editor returned from the las* of sev
eral extended trips which kept him
awav from home and his duties on the
paper a great deal —too much and he
then resolved to stay at his work as
much as possible for the next year, and
to not leave nis post again unless the oc
casion was urgent. I believe the excep
tional circumstances at present exist,
and I am off for the coast.
I go to San Francisco to attend a con
ference which I believe will be of great
importance to the labor cause, not only
in the west, but throughout the whole
country.
I do not think it necessary at this
time to go into particulars upon the sub
ject, but I hope to be able to soon send
* a letter from San Francisco that will
more fully- explain matters and be a
source of gratification to all comrades ip
the caise. I shall be gone (I think) be
tween fifteen and twenty days. During
mv abssence I hope all friends will try
to do vhat they can to help the paper
in all ways. The amounts of your sub
scriptij .'8 will be needed now more than
ordinarily and I desire to request and
urge that you do what you can.
Short letters of news will be very ac
ceptable at this time, and I hope the
friends will furnish all the matter they
can for the coluo: ns during my absence.
INCREASE OF THE ARMY.
The Tribune-Republican, in its' usual
puerile manner, when discussing tt e
great questions of the day, condemns
the course taken by Senators Bowen and
Teller in voting against the Logan army
bill. It is hardly credible, and yet it is
a fact that this vehicle of capitalistic
thought makes the mistake, always made
by the few who possess money, when
sneaking of the people. The people of
Colorado are misrepresented, save this
organ. Who are the people? My dear,
purblind, infatuated hirelings of a venal
press, will you ever learn that the people
of a republic are its rank and file, and
not a few moneyed men and pretentious
aristocrats, until it is beaten into your
heads with a club ?
The people of Colorado are thankful
to the senators named that they helped
to kill the army bill, and that for many
reasons. Nothing is more disgusting to
a true republican or a true democrat
than the sight of an aristocratic clique
of laced and starched officers of an army
who are fed and clothed at the public
expense and who are a menace to the
liberties of the people. A standing army
is a reflection on the patriotism of the
people, that should at all times be ready
to respond to the call of duty, if justly
governed. This country never need fear
the danger of foreign invasion if the lov,e
of country is not crushed out of its peo
ple by the moneyed fe*n —but, if the few
are determined to own all the country
they must also expect to defend it in case
of attack, and not expect to receive the
aid of the people’s vote to raise an army.
“Black Jack” will be remembered by
the people for his attempt to increase
the power of capital by purchasing the
aid of further mercenary bodies, and
they are very thankful that he showed
his hand before the slate for the next
presidential election is made up; he will
now expire to the tune of “Good by
John.”
The r lea that Colorado, New Mexico
and Arizona need regular, soldiers to
protect their citizens from Indian at
tacks may mislead some simple people
in the east,but all western men know
that fi*tv volunteers, who know the
countr v can do more than a thousand
mercenary troops who care fir nothing
more than drawing their pav and rations.
For the sake' of everything that is vener
able dc not talk about increasing the
army for the purpose of fighting Indians
after the lamentable failure of fighting
the few Apaches (twenty or thirty of
them) in New Mexico. It is time
for the people to arise and protest against
the enormous expense connected with
sending regular troops to fight Indians,
when bodies of volunteers could be
raised just when they are wanted, dis
charged as soon as the work is accom
plished and all expense at once stopped.
Nine-tenths of the people of the coun
try want no regular army and feel that
the West Point institution for breeding
and raising aristocratic officers should
be abolished, and the army dudes there
sent home to learn some honest calling.
They also feel that the eagerness with
which the money lords call on the army
when their privileges are in danger is a
menace to their liberties and a threat to
the freedom of speech. The masses are
awakiDg and it is safe to say that every
politician and capitalistic paper that ad
vocates an increase of the army will be
marked aud condemned. It is all bosh
about the relative sizes of the army at
an earlier day and now. Now, men can
be concentrated at a given point in a few
hours where before it took days and
weeks. Soldiers can be sent from the
east to the west before a so-called mob
can do ranch damage, as-witness Seattle
and numerous other places. The idea
that the sovereign states of this glorions
Union are not able to take care of their |
own domestic affairs,, but must hire for
eign mercenaries to come over and help
them, is both dangerous and vicious, and
history—plenty of it—teaches that it re
sults in the ruin of those who resort to
such measures, If Pinkerton thugs and
regular soldiers are to be massed at
places wnere quarrels are in progress
between capital and labor, what is to
prevent labor from sending armed men
also? If the present coarse is pursued,
this will be the final result, and then,
“lay on McDnff,” etc.
THE STRIKE.
The Southwestern strike it now ap
pears is far from a settlement qn the way
that Jay Gould would like it to termi
nate. The animus of that autocrat and
his satellites seems to be understood
now by the most conservative of the
leading Knights and friends of organ
ized labor. The man must be blind in
deed who has not seen from the first
that Gould is Ditterly opposed to every
kind of organization of the workers of
the w' rid, and that the reason be lies
tolerated them as long as he has- is be
cause he could not help himself.
Now that Powderly and Turner of the
KDights, apparently are awake to the
importance of the occasion, a more de
termined stand will be taken by the
Knights of Lrbor all through the coun
try, and it is very probable that the
strikers will receive aid and sympathy
from every class of organized labor all
over the land.
The arrogant boast of Jay Gould, that
he would down the Knights; the stub
bornness of his lieutenant Hoxie, to
gether with the snubs given to labor’s
representatives, has aroused the coun
try, and the most determined war that
laDor has ever waged against capital
during all history can be now confi
dently expected, unless the robbers of
the people cry, enmgh.
The appeal of the Knights, directly
interested, to the workers of the world
has touched a responsive chord in the
hearts of their fellows, and the war cry
is now sounded down the line: “The
Order to the Rescue.”
It is quite probable, from the tone of
late dispatches, that the engineers of
the Gould system will be called out as
the pressure brought to bear upon them
is great, and the studious and more
thoughtful of the Brotherhood see tne
danger to their own organization that
will ensue from a cowardly and unfeel
ing neutrality. The lesson of the strike,
let the end be what it may, will be—the
pipes of the enemy will always be met
by the sloean of the opposing braves.
The Chicago Bovcotter says: “Boy
cott the boxes of Maxwell Brothers,
who by the introduction of machinery,
drive honest labor to the wall.” The
boycott is too valuable a weapon to
waste in such actions as this. Ma
chinery has come to stay. The business
of the labor reformer is to njake'it useful
to labor, not to prevent its introduction.
Imagine a system where machinery
lightens the labor of every one, then
reflect how we should regard .a man who
would abolish machinery.
'The thanks of ye editor are extended
to Our Country, of New York, for a fine
large steel engraving of Wendell
Phillips.
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS.
Two Surpri»e* Upon Wedding Anniyer
•ariea of Well-Known Labor
Cranks.
THE STEELES.
Last Saturday ma> ked the twenty- fifth
anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and
Mrs. John Steele, and a few of the many
friends of these good people arranged a
little surprise, after the manner of a
“silver wedding.” A number of friends
gathered, without previous notice to the
host and hostess, at their residence, on
Twelfth street, about 8 o’clock Saturday
evening. The conspirators had previ
ously arranged for a spread of refresh
ments, the plans being periected while
‘SMother Steele” was kept away .Lorn the
house by a deception. The surprising
party brought with them an elegant set
of silverspoons, engraved with an S. as
their gift, and "Father Steeie” presented
his good wife with a solid silver ring, in
which was set a beautiful diamond.
There was eating and drinking (coffee)
and chatting until after 11 o’clock, when
the party adjourned and the surprisere
went home, wishing Mr. and Mrs. John
Steele twice twenty-five years more of
harmonious and affectionate companion
ship, and as much of the good th ngs of
life as they can obtain under present
hard conditions.
TUB I.ENNONS.
Another very enjoyable surprise party
was that given last Monday evening to
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Lennon, by their
-brothers and sisters of 2327 and 3314 ;
the occasion being the fift- enth (glass)
anniversary of their marriage. The la
dies of Hope assembly had arranged to
surprise Sister Lennon and had pre
pared not only a handsome present, in
the form of an elegant stand lamp, but
also carried with them a substantial re
past, and early in the evening they
wended their wav to the Lennon resi
dence. Mrs. Lennon was at home but
John was away, but he was soon found
and brought h r me to face the music of
merry tones voicing good wishes.
About 9 o’clock JohD’s brothers of
2327 adjourned and proceeded en masse
to join in the merry making; carrying
with them alsoa token of their regard in
the shape of six handsome volumes of
the “Cyclopedia of Science.” Then fol
lowed another surprise' and more hand
shaking and pleasant wishes. Shortly
after the arrival of the second delegation
Brother J. R Buchanan made the pre
sentation to Brother Lennon “for his
arduous and faithful services in the
labor cause.” John received the token
of esteem with a few feeling words, in
which he pledged anew his unceasing
efforts in the Cause of Humanity.
There were about fifty friends present |
and after matters had quieted down a
little, all partook of the good things that
had been provided. Talking, singing
and general enjoyment reigned until
about half past eleven, when all took
their leave with hearty wishes for
“many happy returns,” and feeling that,
besides passing a pleasant evening, a de
served tribute had been paid to a couple
who have ever been assidnous workers
in the labor movement, and whose
hands and hearts are always open to a
fellow human.
ADDRESS TO WORKINGMEN.
The Knights of Three Large District
Assemblies Address the Tollers
of tlie World.
The joint executive board of district
assemblies 101, 93 and 17, met in St.
Louis on the sixth and issued the foi low
ing address, which, from its tone and
spirit, leads The Enquirer to remark
that the tenor of the (Jay Gould) asso
ciated i ress dispatches during the last
few days has been misleading :
To the Workingmen of the World :
Friends and Broth rs—Hear us, for we
plead for our rights; men of equity, look
upon us, for we struggle against the
giants of wrong, mad with the frenzv of
pride and self-adulation ; begotten as it
is of success, of outrage and infamy.
There stands before us the giant of aggre
gated and incorporated wealth, every
dollar of which is built upon blood, in
justice and outrag?. That giant of cor
rorate wealth has centralized its power
and is impersonated bv an eager fiend
who gloats as he grinds the life out of
his fellow men and grimaces and dances
as they writhe upon upon his instru
ments of torture.
0, ye workingmen of America! who
love your liberty and your native land ;
ye great creators of wealth who stand as
the foundation of all national good, look
upon your brothers to-day. Gould, the
giant fiend ; Gould, the money monarch,
is dancing, as he claims, over the grave
of our order ; over the ruin of our homes
and the blight of our lives. Before him
the world has smiled in beauty, but his
wake is the graveyard of hopes, a cy
clone’s path of devastation and death.
Our stmng arms have grown weary in
building a to ver of strength, and yet he
bids us build on or die.
Our young lives have grown grav too
soon beneath the strain of our unre
quited and constant toil; our loved ones
at home are hollow-eyed and pale with
this long and weary waiting for the bet
ter days to come ; nay, more tha n • this,
the graveyards are hiding his victims
from our longing eyes.
Brother workmen, this monster fiend
has eompell-ed some of us to toil in the
cold and rain for five and fifty cents a
day. Others have been compelled to
yield theif time time to him for seven
teen and thirty-six weary hours for the
pittance of nine hours’ pav. Others, who
have dared to assert their manhood and
rebel against his tyranny, are blacklisted
and boycotted all over the land.
He has made solemn compacts with
the highest authority in our order and
then basely refused to fulfill his pledge.
He lives under and enjoys all the bene
fits of a republican form of government,
and yet he advocates and perpetuates
the most debasing form of whiteslavery.
He robs the rich and poor and high and
low with a ruthless hand and then ap
peals to the corrupt and purchased courts
to help him take oar little homes away.
He breaks our limbs and maims our
bodies and then demands that we shall
release him from every claim for dam
ages or be blacklisted forever. He goes
to our grocers and persuades them not to
give us credit, because we refuse to be
ground in his human mill. He turns
upon us a horde of lawless thugs who
shoot among our wives and children
with deadly intent, and then he howls
for government help, when he gets his
pay in coin alike.
Fellow-workmen, Jay Gould must be
overthrown; bis giant power must be
broken, or you and I must be slaves fo~-
ever. The Knights of Labor alone have
dared to be a David to his Gobath.
The battle is not for to-day ; the battle
is not for to-morrow ; but for the troop
ing generations in the coming ages of the
world ; for our children and our chil
dren’s children. It is the great question
of the age. Shall we in the coming ages
be a nation of free men or & nation of
slaves? The question must be decided
how. The chains are already forged that
are to bind us. Shall we await until
they are riveted upon our limbs ? Nay ;
God forbid.
Workmen of the world, marshall
yourselves upon the battlefield 1 Work
men of every trade and and clime, on to
the fray ! Gould and his monopolies
must go down or your children must be
slaves 1 Think of the little olive plants
around your hearthstones that will be
blighted by his curse! Think of the’
little home he is seeking to rob you of!
Think of the wife from whose eyes he
has wrung floods of tears, and from whose
hearts he has tortured drops of blood !
Who can look calmly on his perfidy,
his outrage, and his crime? for he has
sought to incite felony among oar rank
and file ;he has bought perfidy of vile
men to entrap the unwary that he might
stain our fair names and gloat over our
misfortunes. Once for all fellow-work
men, arouse ! let every hand that toils
be lifted to Heaven and swear bv Him
that liveth forever that these outrages
must cease! Let every heart and brow
be tamed toward our common foe, and
let no man grow weary until, like
G Hath, our giant is dead at our feet.
Executive Boards D- A. 101,93, 17.
The Law Porlonged.
Berlin, April 5. —The reichstag has
adopted the treaty between Germany
and Zanzibar, ihe Bundesrath has ap
proved the bill prolonging the anti-So
ci&iist law for two years, as passed by
the reichßtag.
The Buffalo Shoe Company handle no
convict labor make of shoes, knowingly.
THE LABOR ENQUIRiiL
THE ARRAIGNMENT OF POVERTY.
BY C. H. MURRAY.
In all the broad universe is there aught
worse.
Than the blighting effects of Poverty's
curse?
To feel that our fate is in full control
Of the monster that withers the hopes of the
soul.
Oh, demon of discord, destroyer of peace,
When will thy hate for humanity cease ?
Thy reign has extended through thousands
of years,
While the graves of thy subjects were
watered with tears.
Thy record is sin since the dawning of
time:
E’en beauty itself you turn into crime ;
Your shadow is sorrow, your presence is
gloom,
Your hope for the morrow, the mold of the
tomb.-
If there is a haunt where contagion mav
breed,
Thy form, cruel and gaunt, is sowing the
seed,
And famine stalks forth to follow thy trail,
With death close behind, chill, clammy and
pale.
Your lips arrrbesmeared with the blood of
the slain,
You laughed when they feared and scoffed
at their pain,
You fastened your fangs on the neck of the
fair,
Unmoved by their pangs or the*fccries of
despair.
The tears of thy victims flow strong as a
flood,
As hunger consumes the strength of their
blood,
And the mother sits haggered with death in
the night,
Bemoaning her lost one struck down by your
blight.
Those who loved well you converted to
doubt;—
Like an agent of hell you follow a route
O’er things that are sacred, and mark them
with stain,
And shrines that are holy you are swift to
profane.
Friendship succumbs to thy poisonous
breath,
And Love,—Oh God help us,—soon sickens
to death;
In bondage to thee what heart is secure,
For what can be worthy In him who is poor ?
His path is obscure; without sympathy blest
The journey is toilsome;—no haven of rest
Surrounded by .tenderness brings him re
lease.
Or quiets his heart with the solace of peace.
Cursed ghost of foul hell, why follow our
path!
We have prayed long and well to escape
from thy wrath;
Thy touch it is cold, and we shiver with fear
When defiant and bold thy specter draws
near.
Avaunt! thou grim gorgon with eyes glar-.
ing red,
Humanity shuns thee and clothes thee with
dread;—
For in all the broad universe naught can be
worse
Than the blighting effect of Poverty’s curse.
St. Louis, April 6.—The general < xec
utive board of the Knights of Labor
have sent a telegram to Hon. A. G.
tin saving that his resolution for the ap
pointment of a committee to consider
the present difficulties on the Gould
Southwest system met with its hearty
approval. They asked for its passage
and the immediate presence of the com
mittee.
After the departure last night of Sec
retary Turner, of the general executive
board, for the principal strike centers on
the Gould Southwest system, the re
maining members of the committee an
nounced the unanimous determination
of the board of continuing the present
strike until an arrangement can be en
tered into with Mr. Hoxie restoring'all
of the strikers to their former positions,
with the exception only of those who
have participated in acts of violence and
the destruction of property since the
strike began.
The railway officials claim that the
continuance of their regular business,
which they say has now been fully re
sumed, depends not in the least upon
the actions of any labor organization,
and the freight blockade has been per
manently raised. They also claim that
they have employed a sufficient number
of new men to render (hem entirely in
dependent of the Knights, and that the
strike will come to naught.
The members of the general executive
board, however, state they were
confident of the success of the strike,
“for,” says Secretary Turner, “the roads
cannot be operated without the Knights.
The skilled and unskilled labor in the
United State is controlled by our organ
ization. The statement that the com
pany is now carrying on its business is
not true, and he reports that they are
sending out so many trains are mislead
ing. These are not trains, some of them
are half trains, some are even composed
of less than that number of cars, and
some are empty cars, sent out to make a
show.”
St. Louis, April 7. —To-night forty
Winchester rifles and thirty revolvers
were sent over to the Burlington yards
for use in an emergency. Sheriff Ropi
quet returned to Belleville at night, and
will have 400 deputies on hand to-mor
row.
The railroad managers have made up
their minds to receive and forward
freight at all hazards to-morrow. Sec
retary Turner of the general executive
board is in Philadelphia. Powderly says
the strike is justified by reason of the
cool way in which Mr. Hoxie received
Messrs Turner and Bailer on Saturday
last.
Everything is quiet at Fort Worth. At
Castleman Creek, near Waco, Texas, the
conductor of a train bound for Waco saw
masked men assembled on the track.
They waited for the passenger train to
pass the creek and then began tearing
up and destroying the bridge. A posse
from Waco are in pursuit and the Waco
light infantry are held under arms for
immediate service when called on.
The engineers employed upon the
railroads centering in East St. Louis de
The Great Strike.
cline to state the cause of Chief Arthur’s
presence in this city, or its probable
effect upon the extension of the strike
to the other departments of the roads
than those already involved. A promi
nent member of the Knight • of Labor,
however, when questioned as to whether
the engineers would support the strikers,
3aid : “That is just what they are going
to do, and you can depend upon it.
Arthur, to be sure, is opposed to strikes,
but such a pressure will be brought to
bear that he cannot resist.”
It is declared that the engineers on all
the roads centering in East St Louis,
except those on the coal and passenger
trains, will go out to aid the Knights in
their fight.
The quiet state if affairs which has
existed in East St Louis for the j ast
week was suddenly broken to-dav by a
riot A large crowd of strikers, number
ing over 1,000 men, formed about noon
at the relay depot and, headed by the
leader? of the sinkers in that city,
marched the Ohio and Mississippi
depot, where a number of platform men
were at work. No guard of police or
deputy sheriffs have been stationed
there, and the employes were easily
forced from their positions. Thence the
mob advanced upon the Vandalia yards.
Here a few deputies were on dutv, who
ordered the men back, but they refus >d
and made a rush, bearing down the
officers. Then they swarmed through
the gates into the yards. From this
place they marched to the Burlington
yards, where a similar scene was en
acted and all the em; loye< were forced
out.
The men then rushed on to the Chi
cago and Alton yards, and upon arriving
there, they were met bv a strong firce of
deputy marshalls, armed with Winches
ter repeating rifles. They ordered the
mib back, and called jp- n them to dis
perse. This the crowd refused to do,
and upon attempting to rush through
the gates, the marshalls brought their
rifles to their shoulders and threatened
to fire if the crowd advanced. This cooled
their ardor somewhat and thev turned
back none the less determined, however,
that there should be no work done in
that citv, while the Knights of Labor
are on their strike.
The deputies remained on guard at
the Alton yards, fearing a second attack
upon that point, while the strikers pro
ceeded to the Cairo Short Line yards.
Upon arriving there the mob found their
way unobstructed, and by the same
means that were employed at the other
yards they forced the men who were at
work ihere to leave their positions. The
mob then dispersed, having accom
plished their object, but not before call
ing a meeting of all the strikers to take
place at Flannegan’s hall, where resolu
tions were adopted declaring that no
one will be allowed to fill the strikers’
places.
Adjutant-General Yance was a specta
tor of the action of the mob in forcing
the men who were employed in the
East St. Louis railroad yards to quit
work, and he has telegraphed the situa
tion to the governor.
Twenty of the firemen who were em
ployed upon the engines of the Bridge
and Tunnel company struck to-day in
support of the Knights of Labor. This,
unless others can be found to fill their
positions, will stop the transfer of all
freight and passenger trains over the
bridge.
Scranton, April 7.— Master Workman
Powderly is able to attend to his cor
respondence, and expects to be suffi
ciently recovered to leave his home in a
few days.
Thanks to 3817.
Mrs. M. Youngberg desires in this
way to return thanks to the members of
L. A. 3217, and other fiiends, for the
kindness extended to her during the
trying time of her husband’s illness and
after his death, and also for the kind
resolutions of respect to the memory of
their late brother, John Youngberg, and
sympathy for his widow recently passed
by L. A. 3217. Mbs. M. Youngberg.
Boycott Raised.
The boycott which was issued against
H. Schradsky, of this city, has been
raised by the executive committee of
district assembly 89, and Mr. Schradsky
is now on an equal footing with other
clothing dealers in the city. The terms
of settlement are wisely kept secret by
the parties interested, but The Enquirer
can assure its readers that the conditions
are entirely satisfactory to both sides,
and Mr. S-hradsky will now keep his
store closed on Sundays.
Boycott all sto.es that keep open on
Sunday. Those desiring special atten
tion on the part of organized labor will
be “advertised” shortly
ENGLISH RULE IN INDIA.
ll* Stronccat Supporter* the Intereated
Industrie* of IHercantllt, NlllUrjr,
and Missionary.
Editor Labor Enquirer.
T r . at all preachers of the gospel are
not in sympathy with moneyed monop
oly, Denver furnishes more than one
noble example ; but that too many of
them—as is natural to poor human
nature —deport themselves in such a
way as to please those w.io fill the pews
and pay their salaries*, is to obvious to
need proving. So inconsistent are these
latter with the manger born, tramp
living and thief-accompanied, dying
Christ, that it excites no surprise or
comment when the news dispatches of
the daily press announce that one of New
York’s most talented divines announces
as his text, “Was Christ a Christian ?”
No less startling than the question of
the Rev. Heber Newton is the declara
tion of Amarita Lai Roy, in the April
number of the North American Review,
that the strongest supporters of the En
glish rale in India are the “three inter
ested indnstri s, the mercantile, mili
tary and missionary.” That the latter
■ hould be included in the list of snp
_ ~
porters of the (judged bv its results)
most oppressive system of government
on which the sun has ever shone, is
what might have been expected.
The potato blight, with it- consequent
fever and famine, largely helped reduce
the population of Ireland from 8,000,000
to 5,000.000; but our accomplished Hin
doo tells us that that the meiciless bur
dens laid on the people of India have in
the lasi twentv-five years, caused the
deaths bv starvation, of more than 10,-
000 000 of people; and these figures are
taken from official returns.
A dollar’s worth of salt is made to
produce a revenue to the government of
from sls to S2O. So desperate became
the straits of some that they “got out of
bed at night tol ick in the dark” the
salt found on the earth’s surface ; but
this salt was ordered collected and de
stroyed that, as the author o' serves,
“the sacred rights of monopoly should
not be infringed.” After enumerating
the evils of this tax, to agriculture and
many different branches of manufacture,
no less than to the physical well being
of the people, Amarita justly observes,
“Satan in chains, broodini* vengeance
in hell, could not have oncocted a
scheme more effective to spread disas
ter and confusion among G >d’s inno
cents.”
That the boasted “mission” of the En
glish in India —at which Clive and Hast
ings would have laughed—is proved to
be a hypocritical, cruel and insulting
pretense, is shown by the comparison
which our pagan Hindoo draws between
the treatment of the natives bv the ex
isting native states and the Christian
government of England; and here a
lengthv extract becomes necessary in
order to give your readers a sample of
the evidence on which the statements of
the writer are based. *
In the native states "the peasantry are
not in debt, nor are famines frequent,
the reason being (let the readers of The
Enquirer note tne fact well) that in
India the landlord has always been the
best possible one, namely, the state; but
the English government has stepped in
as a private corporation and absentee
rack-renter. * * * Fallow and culti
vated fields are charged the same in En
glish territories, * * * while the
native rule is, to assess fallow land on y
‘one-eighth as much as the cultivated.
Unlike the native, the English govern
ment taxes wells, sunk at the personal
cost of the cultivator.”
Native rulers “take payment in kind
of from a fourth to a third of the pro
duce for the year, whether good or bad ;
the English collect in cash 40 per cent
of the value of the crop, based on >he
produce of a good year. If in arrears
for rent, the native rulers charged no
interest on the debt.” In native India
“pastur° land is free but in English
India, “a forest department has made
grass and wood” only to be had bv pav
ing iribute to the missionaries of civili
zation !
As one of the most talented of Ameri
can journalistic writers has described
the dangerous cla ses of this country to
be the product of our common high
schools, so our Hindoo friend save that
young India, the product of English
schools, is a particularly unfortunate
race. Thev represent a social anarchy,
and conceal under their incoherent ut
terances a deep discontent of mind that
will shape the future of India more pow
erfully than all the mock policies * *
of ti e dull ruffians who, under tne name
of‘statesmen,’ misrule the affairs of that
country.”
As Christ sat bpon the Mount of
Olives and wept at the calamities which
he saw approaching the city, and consid
ering the temple as representing the
hypocritical ecclesiasticism of His day,
foretold that “not one stone should be
left upon another,” is it not easy for one
who will read the signs of the times to
say that ano less a destructive agent
than Titus, the Roman conqueror, is on
the trail of the ecclesiastical mockery of
the day, claiming Christ as its pattern.
From India to Puget Sound Humanity
appeals to a God of Justice against its pie
tensions and practices. Zaccheus.
The Painters.
A committee from the Journeymen
Painters’ Union of Denver, have been
circulating a paper for signatures of the
employing and contracting painters of
the city. The object is to get all
to agree to a uniform rate of wages, and
a reduction in the hours of labor. The
paper pledges the signers to pav $2.75
per day, the men to work nine hou s
each day, excepting Saturdays, when
they shall work eight hours. The men
are to be paid price and a half for over
time, and double price for Sundays. The
union desires these rules to go into effect
May 3, thus giving the bosses a month’s
notice.
London, April 6. —The home office will
cease to offer rewards for the detection
of criminals or pardons to accomplices
who may make confessions, on the
ground that the principle involved is
wrong, and that experience shows that
such a course almost invariably fails of
its object.
The celebrated stiff Hats from the
Co-operatime Hat company just received
at Clayton’s.
Benefit Bail
Local assembly 3218 ball of the eighth,
held in the Mammoth rink, was a very
enjoyable party. Rev. Myron W. Reed
made a forty-five minute speech which
was listened to with close attention
during the whole time. He told his au
dience that Socialism was occupying the
minds of some of the most noted
preachers of the day. He gave Webster’s
definition of the word Socialism and re
marked that if that was the true mean
ing of the word then he wanted that
kind of ism, and concluded by telling
his hearers that the only thing that
woald benefit the workers was Universal
Co-Operation. About 300 couples took
part in the grand march, ont of an as
semblage of about 800.
LOCAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
Notice! under this head are $5 per year In advance
inn r—Cosmopolitan Assembly, No. 1005,
I UUDof Leadvllle, meets every Wednes
day evening at 7:30 o’clock, in Knights of
Labor Hall, 125 East Sixth street.
■ a n A -Montgomery Benevolent Assembly
| 4z4no 1421, meets every Friday evening
at J. 8. Dreyfuss’ Hall, No. 379 Larimer
street, Denver, at 7:30 o'clock. A cordial wel
come extended to visitinE members,
is/* «—Louisville Assembly, No. 1463,
| *4-DO meets every Thursday evening at
7:30 o’clock, at School Hall.
(% nn “T -Union (benevolent) Assembly, No.
I 2327, meets every Monday evening
at 7:30 o’clock, in McLelland hall, Lawrence
street, near Fifteenth. Strangers in the city
and other brothers and sisters are cordially
Invited to attend.
09 911—Pi° neer Assembly. No. 2380, of
Z 0 0 U butte City, Montana, meets every
Monday evening at 8 o’clock, In Miners' Union
New Hall, Travelling brothers always wel
come
nm n -r—Rocky Mountain Assembly, No,
/4o I 2487, meets every Monday evening at
7:30, in Saint Johns' Hall, corner Nineteenth
and Fergußipi streets, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Members oiother Locals always welcome,
nn I *r—lnternational Assembly, No. 3217,
OZ I I meets every Thursday evening at
7:30 o’clock, in Independent hall, corner of
Santa Fe avenue and Bear street Denver,
Colorado.
n | q—Fidelity Assembly, No. 3218, meets
37 I o every Wednesday evening at 7;30
and fourth Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, in
McClelland hall, on Lawrence street, near Fif
teenth, Denver. Members of other Locals
always welcome.
n n r c— Progressive Assembly, No. 3255, of
■jZ D oPueblo,meets every Saturday even
ing, In Odd Fellows’ Hall. Corner Sixth and
D.streets.
nit p n—Dawn of Light Assembly, N 0.3256,
OZ 0 oLaramie, Wyoming, meets every
Thursday evening, at 7 o’clock, in Knights of
Labor hall. Traveling members are always
welcomed.
nflii I —Advance Assembly, No. 3261,meets
uZ D I every Saturday evening in Masonic
Hall, corner Fourth and Cedar streets, Raw
lins, Wyoming. Visiting members always
welcome.
nn I A —Hope Assembly, No. 3314, (female,)
OO I 4meets every Thursday evening at
7-30, In Dreyfuss’ Hall, 379 Larimer street,
Denver. Visiting brothers and sisters always
welcome.
09 0 0 Assembly, No. 3338
0 O O O meets every Saturday evening at 7:30
o’clock, in K. of L. hall. Rock Springs,
Wyoming Territory Members of the order
are cordiall v invited to visit.
9919- North Platte Assembly, No. 3343
O J4O meets the tirst and third Wednesday
evenings of each month at 7:30 o’clock, in
Odd Fellows’ Hall, corner Spruce and Third
streets, North Platte, Nebraska. Members of
other Locals always welcome.
n A f\ A—Eureka Assembly, No. 3402, Den
£4Uzver, meets every Saturday night at
7;30 o’clock, in McLelland hall, corner Law
rence and Fifteenth streets. Members of the
order are invited to visit.
n A l\ 9— Platte Valley Assembly, No. 3403,
UT’U Oot Sterling, Colorado, meets the sec
ond and fourth Mondays of each month at
the School House In Knights of Pythias Hall,
at 7 o’clock n. m. Visitors welome.
n A A 7— Golden Assembly, No. 3447, meets
o*l ‘I I every Monday evening at 7:30, In
K. of P. Hall, on Washington avenue, Golden,
Colorado. Members of other Locals always
welcome.
nA C 9—J. R. Buchanan Assembly, No. 3458
040 omects every Sunday evening at 7:30
in McFarlane’s Hall, Como, Colorado. Mem
bers of other assemblies always welcome.
9 A C Q —Progress Assembly, No. 3468, meets
04UOevery Saturday evening, at 7:30
o’clock, In Odd Fellows’ hall. Carbon, Wyom
ing.
9 A f| O— Stea< l fast Assemb 'y’No.3492, meets
9 ZFirst and Third Wednesday at 7:30
o’clock, in Reno hall, corner Holladay and
Twenty-seventh streets, Denver. Members
of the order invited to visit,
nrn n— Sumner Assembly, No. 3508, meets
OD UOevery Thursday evening at 7:30
o’clock, in McLelland Hall, All brother and
sister Kuights welcomed,
nrn n—Ogden Assembly, No. 3533, meets
O 0 u Oevery Thursday eveningatSo’clock,
in Knights of Pythias hall, Main street, be
tween Fourth and Fifth, Ogden, Utah. Visit
ing brothers always welcome,
npnn —Justice Assembly No. 3639, meets
uOOv/every Sunday evening, in Dreyfuss
hall, 379 Larimer street, Denver. Clerks and
salesmen desirous of joining this assembly
can obtain Information at this office.
OCylO _Lewlß Assembly. No. 3642, meets
O D4Zevery Tuesday evening, at 7:30
o’clock, at 557 Downing avenue.
•3CAQ— Foody Assembly No. 3648 meets
O u4oevery Tuesday evening at Dreyfuss’
hall, 379 Larimer street, Denver, Colo.
9 7 I A —Local Assembly No. 3714, meets at
Oil 48 o’clock every Tuesday evening, in
McClellan’s hall, corner Lawrence and Fif
teenth streets, Denver. Members of the
order are Invited to attend.
TRADES ASSEMBLY.
The Trades Assembly of Denver aDd Vicin
ity meets on the second and fourth Sunday
of each month, in Police 1 ourt room, City
hall,, at 2 o’clock. A. MENCHE,President.
T. HAMLIN, Secretary.
TYPOGRAPHICAL.
Typographical Union, No. 49, meets on tbe
first Sunaay of each month in Police Court
Room, City Hall, ai 2 o’clock p. m.
O. L. SMALLWOOD, Rec. and Cor. Sec’y.
W. H. MONTGOMERY, Fin. Sec.
Collier & Cleveland’s office.
TAILORS.
The Tailors’ Protective Society, of Denver
meets in Judge Jeffries’ court room, a \
o’clock p. m., on the first Monday of each
month. FRED WEIDER, President.
T. HAMLIN, Sec.. 291 16th street
Room 58 Skinner Block.
CARPENTERS.
Carpenteft’Union, No. 55, of the Brother
hood of America, meets every Saturday
evening at Euclid Hall. All good Carpenters
are Invited to Join.
JAMES D. MACDONALD, President.
THOMAS MUIRHEAD, Rec. Sec.
FRANK BAYER, State Organizer.
E. E. RICE, Cor. and Fin. Secetary,
23 Colfax avenue.
IRON MOI.DKRB.
liqn Molders’ Union, meets every second
and fourth Tuesday of each month at Iteno
Hall. Twenty-Beventh and Holladay, at 7:30 p.
m. J. J. SMITH Cor. Sec.,
1015 Holladay street.
PLASTERERS’ UNION.
The Plasterers’ Union, of Denver, meets
every Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock, in St.
Joseph’s Temperance Hall, corner Fifteenth
and Stout streets.
HARRY COLE, President.
CHARLES M. McOABE, Secretary.
Address, 160 East 18th street.
BRICKLAYERS.
Bricklayers’ Internationa Union, No. 1, ol
Colorado, meets the second and fourth Mon
day evenings in each month, at No. 379 Larl
merstreet, Denver, Colorado.
JAMES COOK, Sec’y. M. SULLIVAN,
1028 Blake Street. President.
Mill SHE.
COR. 12th ARD LARIMER.
NEW SPRING STOCK
JUST RECEITED.
McENERY & EGAN.
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS.
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Shoes and Hats.