Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-05-19

labor are not honest and sound. No theory Of
tariff or free trade, no question Of finance will
do that. They know that there is something
wrong, aud they are right when they know IT,
The speaker described the begrimed appear
ance OF the children employed to-day In the
penusylvania mines, and said that the miners
who were on strike now had once been boys
like these boys, and that these boys would bs
the strikers of the future to light the torch Of
revolution.
What is capital doing9 Why, capital Is buy
ing up every acre Of coal land in Pennsylvania.
Three or four corporations will own every ton
of hard coal in Pennsylvania IN seven years.
Think of it-si00 900 900 Of capital welded in
the hands Of one ambitious man-the President
of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad. There Is
not Legislature from Harrisburg u San Fran
cisco tina in ten years will stand mp against that
thrifty power. Congress Is but 6rst rate Sec
retary to record its decrees. Scratch Russian,
and You will find a Tartar uudernath scratch
New York, and you will find Paris just below
the surface. The result Of nptessing the labor
ing classes with the belief that there Is no such
thing as JUSTICE and that law is not sacred, will
yet develop into revolution in the country.
Right behind the coward cunning Of Tweed and
Sweeuy stands the revolt of tho kind that has
been witnessed in European cities. When June.
1868, comes again IN 1873, perhaps they won't
hang negroes tn a lamp post-they will indulge
in millionaire.
Now, YOU say this is terrible picture for me
to give, but IL YOU want law and order, If you
want progress, take England for your model !;
make your law to be respected because 1t is re-
spectacle New York will be Paris soon. You
stand at the dividing Of the ways. II is almost
by the skin Of our teeth that we have avoided
open war in the coal regions OF Pennsylvania.
Let 1t come again dozen years hence, and the
muskets will he actually loaded, That we can
not afford to have come. This is u question
that is to be settled in '72
1t was far ton sad Jest when one Of the
members Of the Pennsyl lvania Legislature sug-
gested that if John Scott had no furihur busi-
ness with that body 1t could adjnnrn. What is
a corPorationY Why, corporation is method
by which wealth doubles its power and dccrea-
ses its responsibility. [Applausel A corpora
ton is a power OF method by which a dozen
men put a tenth part of their fortune together
aud WELD the aggregate amount, and ut the
same time save all the risk OF their other mil
lions.
Now. l am for putting the rich man back.
Give them all the power Of their wealth, and
load them down with all their responsibility.
believe that the discomfort Of the laborng classes
is the present peril of the nation, !. connects,
on the other hanl, with the oppression resulting
from the combinations made practical by the
manner in which capital can now be used. 1t
was only by the strenuous of rts Of a few cool
headed men iu the convention Of the labOring
class, last July, that therepudiatiLn doctrine, or
the non-payment Of the public debt, was not
formally enucinated there.
That resolution would have startled every ex-
| change in Europe, aud affected the price Of every
United States Bond. We have no time to lose
not an hour. II you want Grant to sit in the
White House, if you want secession to stay in
its grave if you want law and order to reign in
the great commonwealth, we wait TO crush the
Kn-Klux on the one hand and corpOi ati'n
tyranny on the other.