Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-11-06

no WIZ The greater dooty wv tho Gov
ernment to see that he didn't want
Tor anything VI after hs rice aud
these demands want granlid, then
the matches shood come H.
I Insulated the entire force oy the
faeiry, and the next morning they
marched IN y body 10 tho mill and
demanded their heayln given rites
The bloaled employers tried TO reason
with EN-, aud tried 10 show EN- that
they wuz payia oil 'hNt they Good
afford to, Ia the present depreSt con
dishn w things, and that they wuz
eeilln now % much "a they wuz be
fore, when the cost Nv Twin wuz taken
In feeoanl, They he'd the impudenoe to
TO tell EN- That Of they he'd 10 accede
10 their demand that they wood hey
10 shet up the mill, and Que Nv en-
told The mea that 81 they wood asSooni
the mortgages, "a we'll ~ tho b'zois,
he wood be periecaly sillin 10 rellnr
quish then and there,
The workmen wood have yielded,
but | made EN- speech winch whoop'
Cd IL up aeln, They become inioorIat
cd aud moved on the works, IN less
than q mint they he'd ga'ted IT, aud
In less than five miniis u wuz IN
flames, aud IL q half M hour !. wnz
In ashes, aud the men iirm'y hut de
,erminedly moved on The iir't bat
tle for the rites Nv man he'd ben fought
in Faotryyille, aud the first victory
Nv labor over capital In Kentucky
he'd bin achieved
The men wuz jubilant and ] con-
graduated EN-. We adorned to the
grosery and poured out libashcns Nv
sod corn whiskey over our triumph
Things wuz boomin for day or two
Finally tho men begun to GIT sober
and went home TO their families. ]
notist by the close nv tho third DAY
an ominus change IN their demeanor
toward me,
us the bosses goin to bid ag'n T
they asked Nv one another
III rather think not" wuz the anser'
"The fact is, all that they he'd wnz in
yested in them mills, and that Is gone.
They hain't got nothin to build with
"The merry hell you say Then
where are We goin to git work J
That staggered EN-. They loaied
about in listlis sort Nv way, for a
day or tow, but they didn't enttuse
very much. Invitashens to take
sun,hin began to be uncomfortable in
trekent, and there seemed TO be a dis
potassium toward me that l didn't like
"Yoo see, sed one NV EN-, shat
We hev succeeded in Citing our rites.
We hev crushed capital. 1t
is very crushed. We never saw a
more complete crusbin out NV capital
than this is. But we cant sec where
we hev made anything by it 10 any
alrm,n extent. We hev bustid
capital effectooally, and we hev bustld
ourselves jist as effectooally. The
meat bari is low, the flour is gone and
we haint got no work. Yoo showd
US how to burst capital--now sopose
700 kindly show us how to git more,
aud hev it better organized.
"Hev 700 no aspirashens for higher
aud..better life 2" I replied. Do you
want to continyoo to grovel at the
feet Nv yoor oppressors ! Hev you
no pride ?"
ave he'd PRIDE" wuz the answer Nv
this slave, "but this vanished. We
hev stomicks witch is alluz with us.
Wat 700 want to do is to git out NV
this seckshun in jist three mini's, or
we'll ornament tree with yoo."
l left afoot. l he'd the inishiashum
money in my pocket and a SCOT
Nv cloze that ! rescood from the
burnin mill and absent. mindedly for
got to ask who owned EN-. ! didn't
do ez we'll es Kerney, but it served
my purpus.
shell go back tho, and see if / cant
reoreanixe EN- on the Unlimited curren.
cy noshum, and make good Nashnels
NV EN-. There are lot Nv mowin
masheens in that vicinity that need
burnin, and there are dozen or more
places that strikes and such kan be
organized in. The rites Nv man must
be established IN Kentucky.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, Organizer.