Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-11-01

Nasty As A NATIONAL.
He Works for the Rights of Man. and
Establishes u National Ludge--7ghe
Down-Troddcn Rise "Again''--Their
Oppressors and the Result.

felt it incumbent onto me to go TO
Factryville, village hard by, aud es-
tablish a lodge W Sashenals NV the
Kerney kind. Fsctsyville wus cstab-
lished BY q compuy nv MASSACHUSETTS
disturbers. wleh inyadld the sacred soil
tor the purnus ~ manatactrin iron,
which is found there in great quaint.
ties; and they hev q mill. into wich
about u hundred men hev bin employed.
The price Nv iron heyia gone down,
these gra~pin monopoiists he'd The as
hoorence 10 ask the sufferln labeFers to
redoose their wagis, aiyin the frivolous
pretex that, ez the price NV liyin had
gone dovn, also they Good afford TO
work for tribe less, Ez most Of the
men owned their own houses, which
they had saved, and was comfortably
fixed, they coodeHt nit away aud he'd to
endoor tho oius exacshnus Nv the grind
in capitalists. And ez eolleokshuns
WIZ difficult, and they didn't git Their
wagis with the regularity Of Former
yeers, they murmured some, which |
felt it my dooty to Improve. They
needed a leeder, for none Nv EN- knew
how much they wuz sutferin till [ went
aud told EN-,
he'd tolerably easy time nv it. |
made em two speeches ia witch [ showed
EN- they wuz groauin under a tyranny
compared with wich the suiferius NV the
Rooshun sert was nothin, and that they
wood never Rev their own till they or
gauized and crushed their oppressors. [
showed EN- that wat they wantid wuz to
crash ont capital, and be themselves
their own roolers. 1t wuzn't hard to do
and the second nitc organized seek
shun Insulated the entire force NV
the factry, and the next movnin they
marched in q body to the mill and de
manded their heagen-giyan rites. The
bloated employers tried to reason witt
em, and tried to show EN- that they WI;
payin all they Good afford to, in thu
present denrest eondishun NV things anC
that they wuz gittin now ez much e.
they wuz before, when the cost NV livlr
wuz taken into account. They he'd th'
impudenc1 to tell EN- that If they wooc
hev to shct up the mills, ard Que nv en-
told the men that Of they wood assoon
the mortgages, ~ wen o. the bizns, h.
wood be perfectly willing to reliuquisl
it then and there
The workmeu would hey yielded, bu
! have made en a speech wich whoopel
it up ayin. They became iufooriate,
aud moved on the works. Ia less thai
mint, they had guttid it, in Ave mint
it wuz in flames and in halt hour
WIZ in ashes, aud the men firmly bu
determinediy moved of. he first bat
tie for thefftrs uvanan he'd bin tough
in Factrysiile, aud the first victory u
labor over capital ia Kentucky he'd bi
achieved
The men wuz iahilant aud | caugra,
ulated EN-. We adjourned to the grs
Gerry and poured out libashcns ov sol
corn whisky oyer opr triumph
Things wnz hosnia tor day or two
Finally the mcn bagun Il git sIher an
went home to their families, / mott,
By the close ny the third day IN ominr
in the aemaauar tQgard me.
is the hosses : spiu to bid agin.
they asked enc on anothes,
Il ruther think not wuz the anse
.sThe fact is, all they he'd wuz invess d
in them mills, and that IS gone. The
hahn, got nothin 70 build With.
"Then where srewe goia to git work!
That staggered em They loafed abo'
N a listlis sort " way, fora day gr tw
hnt hey dtla't entianse very much II
visasheus to take snthiu began tobe u
comfortably inirekeat. and there seed
to be . disposishan towards me thai
don't like.
'Yoo see, sod one az EN-, "that '
hev succeeded in gettin cur rites. Il
have crushed capital II IS very crus