My letter did not show up last month, reason, neglect; but I do not see but what everything in these diggins has managed some way to pass through the time even if some were dis appointed, happily, perhaps.

There has been quite a number of changes in the force the past month, but not altogether for the better, I think, judging from the results of some of the newly employed at least. But, perhaps, they are the best that could be had for the money, yet it does seem like a waste at times, but I suppose the company can afford it and most anything, and in many cases it can be charged up to charity, for it is charity to give some men a chance. I am afraid if it keeps up, however, as in the past, the congressional relief hoped for will only be temporary. Continued charity often improvishes the home, and I never could understand why a corporation that has got anything but a charitably reputation on the outside should be so liberal, when they can find plenty of men who will work for them and not ask that charity be considered, but will give value returned for value received; but there are far stranger things than that in the world.

A much needed relief has been received, since my last letter, in the shape of four new switch engines, and they did not come any too soon. There is plenty of work in the shops and the hours worked are rather irregular, and it does not seem to grow less, but there appears to be no demand for mechanics as such are refused work every day.

Quite a number of the old reliables are leaving with prospects of bettering themselves before them.

Dan P. Hadfield, who has been foreman over the machine tools at the K. P. shops for a number of years, has left and in partnership with Ed, Butler, another old timer, have started a shop-whisky shop-at Trinidad, Colo. I certainly wish them every success in the world, they deserve it, but I believe they could have chosen a better business to succeed in. Their going will give room and need for four or five more cheap men.

"Hun" Davis has been promoted to the place vacated by Hadfield and, I trust, permanently.

W. H. Lynch, one of our D. A. officers and who has always been found ready to lend a hand, has left us and gone to old Pennsylvania where he will take charge of a hotel, I am told, but one without a bar. I certainly wish him every success. We shall miss him here. I have my doubts of his being contented in the East after so many years in Colorado. I hope he will favor the readers of the Magazine with a letter occasionally. Jack Greenhill, of the Park shop, is again seen

around at the Assembly, after an absence on a visit to Chicago, his old home. "Glad to get back," he says.

Frank Lee, after an absence of over a year in other shops and political offices, is again back at the Park, his "Alma Mater."

It is a good thing to see changes at times, it shows that we are not solidifying and men learn a great deal, too, by changing around.

On account of Foreman Dan Brophy running for office and laying off to look after his interests there has been a general promotion, all hands round taking a step up, at the Park, and I suppose, if he gets there the changes will probably be considered permanent, for it would be out of the line of history to drop from the Colorado Legislature back to a mere foremanship again.

Morris L. Wheat, the General Lecturer of the Knights of Labor for Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado, delivered an interesting lecture on the evening of the 17th. He had an immense audience, which is good proof that there are plenty of people who are interested in learning about the K. of L.

In my last I stated that political conventions were the order of the day, well, they were held, the Democrats and Union Labor parties consolidating on the county ticket. Wolcott's convention met and also put up a ticket. Wolcott is the man that wants to go to the United States Senate, well, there is lots of us that would not object to going, but it is question whether the people wants us or not. But election day will decide whether they want Wolcott or not. Majorities rule and we will have to be satisfied whatever way it goes. It will be terrible galling to think that such a man as M. B. Carpenter, the author of the notorious conspirary bill, would get a majority of the workingmen of the city to vote for him. If he does get them I trust he will re-introduce his bill, and if it should pass it would be just what the workingmen deserve. This is a good "yellow dog" year.

Car No. 02756 is being fitted up for use, and it is understood that a party of engineers with the Div. M. M. will go out on a hunt with it. It will be quite a comfortable way of going hunting for a fact.

Flour has gone up 75 per cent in the past two weeks; bread and all classes of bake stuffs fol. lowing. Coal, 7 per cent on price and no one can tell how much on weight. House rent has gone up fully 30 per cent the past year. In fact all the necessities of life there has been an advance, but how much has wages gone up? gone the other way, to new men on the railroads and, in many cases, to old hands. The building trades through effective organization have increased their wages, but no one else. Every workingman should have at least 15 per cents advance in his wages of last year at this time to make him even. The building trades are still very busy and wages fair. TIM.

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY L. A. NO. 3218, OCTOBER 17, 1888.

WHEREAS, The citizens of this state and the country at large will soon be called upon to exercise the inestimable right of choosing from among their fellow citizens men who will be required under oath to execute the laws impartially, justly and wisely, as also men who will frame such laws as will rebound to the happiness and prosperity of the people belonging to and of this nation and state; and

WHEREAS, Among the men placed before us for our our suffrages is one whom we are asked to elect to the senate of this state, a man, if so we may call him, by the name of M. B. Carpenter, a lawyer by profession and a former member of the legislature; and

WHEREAS, This same M. B. Carpenter, in the year 1885, introduced a bill of the most infamous character into the legislature, a bill whose kind has never been introduced into any legislature, either state or national; and

WHEREAS, This same M. B. Carpenter has the brazen effroutery to insult not only the working men, but also the liberty-loving and patriotic citizens of this country by coming before the people to ask them to send him to the state senate, after having attempted to undermine the liberties guaranteed to them by the constitution of the United States; therefore be it

Resolved, That we are deeply conscious of and watch with a jealous eye any infringement of our rights; and be it further

Resolved, That we use all means in our power to not only defeat him at the polls on election day, but also bury him so low under them that he will be remembered as the most vile of men; and be it further

Resolved, That we, the workingmen of Colorado consider it a direct insult by the party that placed him in nomination.

The subjoined is the bill as it was introduced: A bill for an act to prevent combinations for obstruction of workmen,

Be it enacted, etc.

SECTION 1. If any person, by force, violence threats or obstructiou, compel any person, hired or employed in any trade or business, for any other person, to depart from his employment, or hiring or obstructing him from returning to or continuing his work before finished, or before his term of service ceases, or prevent, attempt or endeavor to prevent, any person from hiring himself, or from excepting employment, or by force, threats, violence or obstruction, molest another in his person or property, to induce him to become a member of any club, association, union or trades assembly, or contribute to any common fund, or to pay any fine or penalty, or on account of his not belonging to any particular club, association, union or trades assembly, or having contributed, or having refused to contribute, to any common fund, or of refusing to comply with any rules, regulations or by-laws of any club, association, unions or trades assembly,

made to obtain an advance or reduce the rates of wages, or lesson or alter the hours of working, or decrease or alter the quantity of work, or to regulate or jnterfere with the mode of any manufacture, trade or business in the management thereof, or by violence or threats or actions having a tendency to produce fear or obestruction, force or attempt to force, any person carrying on any business to make any alterations in his mode of carrying on such business, or to limit his number of workmen, or to to prescribe whom he shall employ, such offendSr and his accessories shall, each and all, upon conviction. be fined in a.sum not exceeding $1,000 and imprisonment not exceeding one year.

RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.

At a regular meeting of Wasatch Assembly, No. 3274, K. of L., the following resolutions of respect were adopted:

WHEREAS, It has pleased him who doeth all things wisely to remove from our midst our late Brother Wm. Payne, whe died after a few weeks illness at the Holy Cross Hospital, Salt Lake City, Sept. 25th, 1888.

WHESEAS, Brother Wm. Payne was taken away from us and all earthly cares in the very prime of his life, be it:

Resolved, That by the sad death of our late Brother, the K. of L., looses an earnest supporter of its principles, and this Assembly one of its best and truest members. He was an affectionate husband and a loving father. He was a sober, industrious, and faithful servant.

Resolved, That we sincerely mourn his death, and deeply deplore his suffering which has deprived us of the companionship of a noble hearted brother. Consolation is offered us by the thought that our earthly loss is his eternal gain, and that he now is enjoying the reward of the just and good. Be it further.

Resolved, That we tender to the bereaved mem bers of his family our most sincere and heartfelt sympathies, knowing full well how inadequate are words to lessen the desolation of an aching heart, though earnestly wishing it might be in our power to soften the grief and anguish of the bereaved ones.

Resolved, That we assure the family of Brother Wm. Payne, that he was dearly beloved by all

who knew him.

Resolved, That as a just tribute to the memory of our departed brother we drape our charter in mourning for the space of 30 days.

Resolved, That we tender our thanks to the K. of L. Band, and to all the business men of Evanston who helped with their carriages and assisted in the funeral.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented to the widow of our late brother, also be published in the U. P.EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE. and in the Chieftain and Evanston News. T. E. MOORE, LOUIS ALLARD, DANIEL CAMERON,

Committee.

VOL. III.

PROSPECTIVE.

If there is any one of life's duties greater than another it is that of doing something to leave the world better than we found it. How well this duty is performed by individuals and nations history records as the progress of civilization. Humanity is either progressing or retrogressing; a generation leaves the world better or worse; duties are performed or neglected. If each generation only had to suffer for its own crimes or mistakes and only bequeath its good acts with what rapidity would humanity improve.

"Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Makes the mighty ocean and the pleas

ant land."

Every human being, no matter how humble his or her position in life may be, does something toward making up the character and conditions of the world, and man's works, good or bad, lives on after him. The influence of the eccentricities, quaint or wise sayings of an individual, unknown outside a humble village or comparative small circle of friends, may extend to the farthest corner of the world through the young minds around him even though it comes through several consecutive generations.

There certainly rests a responibility on each individual. It is his duty to consider the welfare of future generations as if he were only considering his own, as past gen

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erations did his, unknowingly perhaps, and with the additional power that increased human knowledge has added to the force of reason, by which all improvements in human conditions come.

The past cannot be gone over but we can avoid the mistakes of the past; we can give close attention to the natural law that like begets like, that like conditions produce like results; that the same conditions that build up or destroys a nation will another.

We can carry it closer to every day life, to less periods than a generation, for it is the every day act that make up the history of a generation or a nation; this is applicable most seriously in the every day struggle for existance that confronts every wage earner, those who are dependent on being hired by another, who at present form a large and rapidly increasing proportion of our nation.

Some, who now depend entirely on the wage they receive for labor performed on the material and under the management of another, may not like to be called dependent persons. Some, perhaps, who have been fortunate or provident, if there is any difference in the terms, may be able to declare some degree of dependence, but let the great mass attempt to provide work for themselves and they will discover their independence, they will be found seeking some one to hire them; as objectionable as this

condition is it exists, as much as it may chafe our pride in declaring ourselves "independent workingmen" to admit it it is a fact and the sooner we fully understand it and commence to do something more than we apparently have in the past to remove it the sooner will we increase our true independence the sooner will we be performing the duty involved on us; for the great cause for our present causes of complaint lay in the above demonstrated fact. There is without doubt a complication of causes, but the fact should only increase our activity.

We can certainly see it going the other way now. Large manufacturing concerns, transportation companies and other corporative powers are increasing and each become the employers of thousands of our citizens who are regarded only as a machine to be used when and as they choose, and who regard the price paid for their labor as they do the raw material that enters into what is produced, to be regulated by supply and demand and which it is perfectly just to manipulate the market of as any other commodity. Their concentrated wealth gives them a power that small competitors cannot contend against, hence the number of small manufacturers that was the pride and developed and indicated the independent citizens of our nation in early days is growing less while our population increases. Does such indicate a happy future for our children? Is there any way to correct it? Will the present generation leave the world better than they found it? Perhaps it will be richer but who will use the riches, perhaps discoveries in science and inventions will have made labor more productive, but will those who perform labor reap the benefits of it? Will the struggle to provide for home and family be made any easier? Does not the du

ty of leaving the world better than we found it mean something more than increased wealth in the hands of a few? Should it not be measured by some other standard than gold and silver? Is it not strong, healthy, intelligent men and women that makes a nation powerful and progressive?

There are giants among men, giants in brain power, and are regarded by their fellows as superior men, but as a rule the conditions have been favorable for them to become such many of which conditions were inherited, but would there not be more giants if the favorable conditions were more extended? Will not more men with but one talent increase it if the conditions that compels them to carry a greater burden and under great disadvantages than the one with ten were improved? Yes. Then will we not leave the world worse than we found it if these disadvantageous conditions are increased? The answer is plain.

Every condition we see now is in perfect keeping with the law of cause and effect. Go into a community noted for its high moral character and progressive appearance and it will be found to result from people whose thoughts are that way. Go where labor is the greatest oppressed and there will be found men so constituted that such is possible. The black slaves were numerous enough to have turned the tables had they known enough.

There are many who honestly believe they are doing much for the world. Some are trying to make contentment and happiness here by inspiring hope that if they have faith in what is taught them they are sure of something better in the hereafter. But does such do anything to relieve the anxiety of a parent unable to provide the necessities of life for his dependent loved ones or aid or learn him

how? Does it tend to raise the next generation to a higher plain? Does it not, without the introduction of more practical every day affairs with it, cause men to consider things as they are well enough for this life and thus excuse themselves from performing their worldly duty?

Others say we will abolish alcohol from our midsts and there will be no further cause of complaint, but do they properly consider that there is a cause for mankind desiring intoxicants and that it does not lay alone in the total depravity of man? Does not the unnecessary, rough road many find in life increase the evil? Does not that greater self-respect necessary to make a change come with improved conditions?

Still others exclaim we will make different laws, but will different laws change human dispositions? Under a popular form of government can laws be enforced that were not in accord with the popular mind?

Again, others advocate a complete change in our form of government or no government; but has not the material of our present form arranged itself according to the ruling idea, and will not another form have to be made from the same material, actuated by the same thoughts, will not the form change with the material? Will a change tend to strengthen the weaker minds? Can the material be forced to remain where it does not want to and at the same time have liberty of action for all? Will no government insure the weaker who now complain, any better advantage?

wish to demand, what is justly their rights; they would then have to do it for themselves, and to do that they must know how. Knowledge will remove the "if." Knowledge is a right, and they who gain that right must use it as a key to unlock all other rights.

There is some good in all these plans; morality, temperance, better laws, changes in government must go with progress.

Inequalities now exist, both as to physical and mental strength as well as in financial standing and they range through all classes of society, to bring the lower parts up to the level of the higher is certainly improving the world; it is the only course that will improve, but is it possible by the adoption of any law, form of government or system to accomplish this suddenly? Can the advancing speed of an army be estimated by the speed of a few of its picked fleet footed men? No, but by the steady tramp of the whole body, the stronger giving aid and encouragement to the weaker.

The duty of life involves on each individual, it rests on his every day actions, he does it when he does all, legitimately in his power, to make himself and family surrounded with all that goes to make life most pleasant, and in doing all that is possible to make such gains secure, that they are not taken from him when his personal power may become weakened or from those he leaves after him. This is secured when equal rights are secured by the force of the popular will. Some may believe that there is very little to hope for, it may come slow, but progress depends on how well each does his part. What one believes to be right he should practice whenever it is possible; example speaks louder than precept.

"Play well your part for therein the honor lays.