Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-18

the worst, most almless and most vicious pas
sions of the body polite, and too headstrong
and frenzied to be the expression Of any delib-
| crate purpose, like a conspiracy. But that the
| universal resistance of the workingmen to d
further reduction of their already meagre pit
lance is the result of ga conspiI acy," We THU k
| is amply shown. But the conspiracy was not
| of their fashioning. Mark the simultaneous
| reduction of the wages of the railway hands
all over the country. This reduction took
place on the LIST of July. 1t was made by
every company Chat dared toy, all over the
Republic. Not only the railway system of
| the Atlantic States, but that which reaches
| into Texas and the Canadas, and not only
there, but on the Great Plains and as far as
to the principal office of the Central Pacific as
| we'll. 1t was movement all along the line
| and any who doubt that it was the result of
an understanding, "a conspiracy" between
the great corporations are not alive to the
facts. Moreover; shops, factories, foundries,
mllls-ln all places where corporate capital is
required to do business, has this cold blooded
conspiracy against the toilers of free America
reached its cruel hand. The revolt is the
natural, necessary result of this cursed COM
pact of capital to enslave, degrade and humil
late the workers of the country and draw the
wretched, lying line between the masses of
the people and the parvenues who have man
aged to possess themselves of the wealth of
the country. This is the issue of the hour III
these States of the Union, and
They smite the air with idle tongue
The gathering storm who brave.
Under the line, "The Revolt of the
Toilers, the MORNING APPEAL of Tuesday,
July "a. 1877, said
The hard listed laborers of the States east
of the Mississippi are in revolt. The natural
uprising of a people who have been drained
dry by the spectators and heartless money
handlers of those States has come. The
MORNING APPEAL sympathises with these VIC
lent struggles against serfdom. Better that
every railway depot in the United States
should be burned to the ground than that the
masses of this Republic should be forced into
beggary land driven, as tramps, into the high
ways. Human hearts and the comforts of life
are more precious than mocking palaces Of
depOts ''seven stories high, and fat Directo-
ries gambling the game of life with the lives
of toiling men and starving women and fam
inc stricken children for pawns. We are glad
to note that this revolt seems like to become
general We are encouraged by the attitude
of all classes of workingmen, all over the coun-
try, East and West We hope they will be
steadfast to the end and reap the victory of
their desperate courage. The mistake they
made was in suffering SO long. No man is
right who sees his wife grow hollow checked
with want and his children pale and gaunt
with hunger, and does not smite where smit
ing will strike down the cause of this cruel
and unnatural oppression. 1t is said that
there are too many railroads. We do not be-
leve it. But whether there are or not, there |
is too much cold blooded willingness and en-
deavour upon the part of capitalists to specu
late in human misery. And it is this ham an |
misery which is in arms. Railroad companies |
whose lines daily transport thousands of bust-
els of grain, and hundreds of heads of cattle, |
and tons upon tons of fruit, and bales upon |
bales of clothing, passing scores OF villages of |
starving workingmen and poverty stricken,
haggard women and children are served only |
too mercifully if-as they all have sought to
grind the face of the poor-they find their |
food laden cars arrested until such time as the
danger daring men who run them are guaran-
tied a sufficient salary to enable them to pur
chase enough to keep themselves and their
lutte ones safe from the wolves of hunger and
cold and disease and avertable death. The
MORNING APPEAL has stood by and will stand
by the rightful prerogatives of capital. But
capital IS monster when it speculates IN the
and supplications and fell neces-
sites of starving people. Then goodbye
all bubbles and nice theO
ries of law. Starvation knows no hair-split
ting constitutions, and the Gelirium of hun
ger waits not for the slow processes of statu-
.ory Interpretation. Is Superintendent Gar
,ett s salary diminished? Is Tom Scott olsen
lbled by the close pressing times to give his
usual dinners to the naoobs who visit Phila-
lelphial Is any railway station any the less
umptuous because of the unusual distress?
We do not care for the law-laws are made
or the people and not the people for the laws.
Ill We know is that the yeomanry of the
,ountry are on the dreful edge of the CHASTITY
,it of starvation; and we hope that this final,
desperate outburst of maddened people will
orce the disbursement of share, at least, of :
he long accommodating blood money which is
eld by the merciless corporations of the
ountry No country, much less a corpora J
ion, has any business to exist, when its ex-
stence depends upon the impoverishment of
he people. T
In the APPEAL of September 20. 1877, ap- :
cared the following, under the head of "No +
landing Army to Repress Strikes" I
1t is not often that practical business men +
Ike Tom Scott of Pennsylvania, seek express p
on for their views through any writings of h
heir own. It is therefore all the more nota-
lie that the Colonel should come before the
ublic, as he lately has done, in an article in "
he North American Review, as the advocate Il
standing army as the means of depressing II
Ich tumults as have recently been witnessed
a the lines and at the termini of the railways
several of the Eastern States That a rep