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Newspaper
The Laborette
Location
Rawlins, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1885
Page
4
A collage of verse and dialogue excerpted from a Victorian era miscellany. It blends lyric refrain about longing and return with comic vignettes on social scenes, portraits of hosts and guests, a mock epitaph, war caricatures, dental quips, divorce musings, river lore, and seaside banter. It presents sharp, era-tinged humor and sentiment in brief lines.
The text outlines a 19th century labor platform advocating industrial and moral wealth as the standard, securing workers leisure and education, public lands for settlers, legal reforms, arbitration, child labor bans, universal suffrage, and a national monetary system. It calls for weekly payrolls, fair contracts, and protections for laborers amidst a push for constitutional reforms and social ownership.
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