Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-03-23
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Ssss,, al ~ V0s sWneE9 tncy
are not obligsdsstu hksrS whether you pay
them or not! IChcrrs ] like the system
which lets man quit when he wants to, .ant
wish'it might prevail everywhere. Trench
One q Enc reasons Why 4 am opposed L
slavery is Just here. What Is the true con
dition Of the hborcrt take it that it isbes
for all to leave each man, free to acquire prop
ertyas fast as he car. Some win get wealthy
don't believe in a law to prevent man from
getting rich |: Il would do more harm thar
good So while we do not propose any wal
upon the capital, wesdo wish the htrmbles'
man an equal chance to get rich with every
body else. IApplanse1 When one starts
poor, Is most do N the race Of life, free soci-
ETY. is such that he knows he can better his
cohdition he knows that there is no fixed
condition oflabor for his whole life. I am
not ashamed to confess that twenty Ave years
ago was hired laborer, mailing rails, at
work on. a fat boat. just what might happen
to any poor mans son! Applausel want
every man to have the chance and Ibelieve
the black man is entitled to tin which ne
can better his condition -when he may . .cc,.
forward and hope to be hired laborer this
year, aYid Next, work for himself afterward.
and finally hire men to work for him! That
is the true systAm. Up here in New England,
you have. soil that scarcely sprouts black
eyed beans,s and vet. where viii you find
wealthy men sewealthy, and poverty SO rare
" in extremity? There is not another such
place on Garth. [Cheers] | desire that if
you get too thick here and find 1t hard to
better your condition on this. soil, you may
have a. chance to strike and 60 somewhere
else, where you may not be degraded, nor
have your family corrupted by forced rivalry
with negro slaves. / want you to have a
clean bed, with no snakes in it! [Cheers. I
Then you can better y6ur condition, and SO it
may go on and on in one. ceascless round so
long as man exists on the face Of the earth!
Prolonged Applause. - s.sss+.
Now, to come back to. this shoe strike -
HAS the Senator fIom Miuois asserts, this is
caned by withdrawal OF Southern trade, con-
slider briefly how you will meet the difficulty.
You hive done nothing, and protested that
YOU hayk done nothing, to :njurc the South.
( And yet IA get back the shoe trade, you must
leave Oh d0&g something that you are now
doing. Whds is ifp1 You must stop think
ing 4hxtsSiasers ID wrong llr let your institu-
Tons beswholly banged let your State con-
ss6tutfcns be suhvevted ;aglorify slavery !; and
iyoa have bought Gwned laber with it to
compete with your own labor, to underworld
you, and 10 degrade yos Are You ready to
get back the trade ON tlese terms 2?
~ But the statement isnlot carrect. You
have not lost that trade; orders were never
better than .nowi Senator Mason. a Demo
cra&, comes into the, Senate inShomcspun. a
proof that the disolntion of the Upior, has,ac-
tualy begun bnt orders are the sane. Your