Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-10-10
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felt Il incumbent onto me to 90 to Fac
tryville, village hard by, and establish a
lodge Nv Nsshensls nv the kerney Kind
Fsctryville was established by a cumpny
Nv Massychoosits disturbers. wich invalid
the sacred soil tor the purrus of manufac-
trim iron. wich IL found there In great ausn-
titles; and they hev mill. into wich about
a hundred men hev bin employed. The
price of iron hevin gone down. these grasp
in monopolists he'd the ashoorenc- to AK
Their sufierin laberers to redoose ther WA
gis. eiviu the frivolous preteXt that. ~ the
price Ut living had gone down. they also
could afford TO work for a trne less Ez
most OF the men owned their own houses.
wich they bed saved. and was comfortably
fixed, they coodent git away. aud he'd to
endoor the ojus exscshuns NV the .rindin
capitalists. And ez colleck shuus WAS din
cult. aud they didn't git Their wagis with
the regularity OF former yesrs. they mur-
INJURED some. wich felt 1t my dooty 10 i'm
prove. They needed leeder. for none Nv
EN- knew how much they ~uz sufferin till
I went snd told EN-.
he'd q tolcrable easy time NV It. made
en- two speeches 10 witch showed em they
wuz groanin under tyranny compared
with wich the sufferins Nv the Rooshun
serf was nothin. aud that they wsod never
hev Their own till they organized aud crush
ed their oppressors. l showed EN- that
vat they wautid nuz To crush out capital.
and he themselves their own roolef- IL
wuz ut hard Ia do. and the second mite |
organized . seckshun.
| Insulated the entire force NV the fac
try, and the next mornln they marched In
body To the mill aud demanded their
heasen-giveu rites. The bloated employ
crs tried To reason with em. aud tried TO
show EN- that they wuz payin all that they
Good afford TO, In the present depres, CON
dishn NV things. and that they wuz git,in
now Ell much ex they wuz before, when the
cost Nv Twin wuz taken into account
They he'd the impudence 10 tell EN- that II
they he'd to aoceed to their demands that
they wood hev to shet mp the mills. and
one Nv them told the men that eff they
wood assoom the mortgages. e1 well CT the
bixnis. he wood De perfectly willin to re-
linquish IL then and there.
The worAmen wood hev yielded. but
have made EN- speech wich whooped II
up sgin. They became infoorisied and
moved on the works. In less than = mint
they had gutiid Il. In five minits It wuz In
flames. and In half hour i wuz In ashes,
and the men firmly bu, determinedly moved
| on. The frst battle for the rite. NV man
he'd bin fought In FactryvilIc. and the first
victory NV labor over capital In Kentucky
| bed ben achieved
| The ruen wux jubliant aud congratula-
ted EN-. Wesdjourned to the grosery. and
| poured out iibashens ov soj-corn whisky
over our triumph.
Things WAS boomln' for day or two.
| Finally the men begun to glt sober, and
went home To their families | notist by
/ the close NV the third day an o,nlnu,
| change In Their drmeanor towards me.
| lis the bosses goin' To bid agIn7" they
asked one NV another.
/ Il ruther think not" wuz the anser
The fact Is. all they he'd wuz iovesiid In
/ them mills, and that IL gone. They hiin't
got nothu 20 build with"
/ Then where ar. We xoin 20 git work ,
/ That staggered eur They loafed about
/ In listless sort NV way. for n DAY or TWO,
/ but they didn't cnthu.c very much. Inyi-
tssh-ns 10 take suthn began to be uucom-
/ fortably infrckent. and there seemed TO be
disposishun towards the that | did al
/ like.
.Ioo s,e.' sed one NV EN-. tina, We hes
succeeded In getting our Rites. We have
/ crushed capital. II il very crushed. We
never saw a more complete crushin out US
/ capital than this Is. But We can't see where
sc hev made anythin. By Il, TO any alarm
/ 10 extent. We hev bustid cApitii efectoo-
ally. and we hev busiid ourselves jst "a
ef'.ctooally. The meat bari Is low. the
-four IL gone. aud We han't got no work
! \ 90 showed Us how TO bust capital; now
/ spos- 700 kindly show us how TO GIT IN ore
and hsv 1t better organized"
Hey VOC no aspirnshens for a higher
and better llfey' replied. "Do yoo want
uppsrssorsr 'ney9vSj ht ihfd-:' ~ voor
we hci pride" wuz the anser NV ,hl.
Save, but that vanishes. We have STUN
lcks wich Is allu- with US. Wat VOC wan,
10 do Ii To git out Nv this seckshun In just
three ninits, or we'll ornament n tree with
700"
| len afoot I he'd the iuIshiashuu mou-
ey In my pocki, and . SCOT Nv close that
rescood from the burnIn mill aud absent
mlndedly forgo, TO ask who owned EN-.
didn't do As we'll as kerney, but il served
| NV purpus.
| shell 90 back, tho, and see ef can,
reor.Anize en- on the Unlimited currency
noshun, and make good Sashuels NV en-.
| There are lot OF mowin masheens In that
vicinity that need buruin. aud Their are a
dozen or NOR. places that strikes snd slch
can be organized In. The rites OF man
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