The Portland daily press., 1878-09-13
Nasby.
Hsw He Bu.ted Capital-and the Work
iDgmen.

Nasby has appeared as an advocate of the
rights Of labor. he went to Factoryvile, viii
lage hard by the Confedrit x Roads, because he
knew the mill hands "needed leeder, for non
nv EN- new how much they wuz sufferin until
went and told em.' He repeated the substance
of Kearney's speeches to them, that ''they were
gronin under tyrany compared with witch the
sufferins Nv the Rooshun serf wuz nothin, and
thet they wood never hev their own till they or
ganized and crushed their oppressors l showd
em thet wat they wantid wuz to crush our cspi-
tai, and be themselves their own roolers. Tt
wuzn't hard to do.'
Accordingly one day they marched in body
to their employers: "The blotd employers
tried to reeson with EN- and tried to show EN-
thet they wuz payin all thet they Good aft ord to
in the present deprest condishun Nv things, and
thet they wuz gittin now ez much ez they wut
before when the cost Nv livin wuz taken into
account They he'd the impudence to tell em
thet eff they he'd to accede to ther demands thev
they wood hev to shet up the mills, and one uz
EN- told the men thet Of they wood assoom the
mortgages ez well ez the biznis he wood be per-
feckly willin to relinbuish it then and thar.
The workmen wood hev yielded, but L hev
made EN- speech wich whooped is up agin.
They becam infurated and moved on the works.
minits it wuz in flames and in harf hour it
wuz in ashes and the men firmly but deter
minedly moved on. The first battle fur the
rites Nv man he'd biu fort in Factryvil and the
first victry nv labor over capital in Kentucky
he'd bin acheevd."
For three days, while the whisky lasted, the
men we're jabiant, but at the close of that day
Nasby noticed an ominous change in their de-
meanor toward him.
SIS the bosses g0in to bid agin? they asked
one another.
81 ruther think not" wuz the anser. "The
fact is all thet they he'd wuz investid in them
mills and thet is gone. They haint got nothin
to bid with"
The merry he'll, you say. Then whar are we
That staggered EN-. They loafed about in
listlis sort NV way, for day or two, but they
didn't enthuse very much. lnvitashens to
take suthin began to be unkomfortably infre-
kent, and there seemed to be q disposishun
toward me that didn't like.
"Yoo see," sed one Nv em, chat we hev sue.
ceeded in gittin our rites. We hev crushed
capital. 1t is very crushed. We never saw
more complete crushin out NV capital than this
is. But We can't see where we hev made any
thing by it, to any alarmin extent. We hev
bustid ourselves iist ez effectooally, The meat
barl is low, the flour is gone, and we haint got
no work. Yoo showed us how to bust capital
now spose yoo kindly show us how to git more,
and hev it better organized
This disgusted Nasty, and he asked them:
'Hev 700 no aspirations for higher and
better life?" replied. "Do 700 want too con-
tiDyo1 to grovel at the feet NV yoor oppressors?
Hev yoo no pride?'
"We he'd PRIDE" wuz the anser Nv this slave
"but that vanishes. We hev stummicks wich
IL a'luz with u.s. Wat 700 want to do is to get
out Nv this seckshnn in jist three minits or
We'll ornament a tree with yoo.
left afoot. he'd the inisiashen money in
nv pocket, end SCOT Nv cloze that l rescood
frum the burnin mill and absent-mindedly
forgot to ask who owned them. didn't do ez
well ez Kearney, but it served my purpose"