Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-15


we'll. 1t was a movement all along the line;
and any who doubt that it was the result of
an understanding, ga 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 in
these States of the Union, and
They smite the air with idle tongue
| The gathering storm who brave
Under the title-line, "The Revolt of the
Toilers," the MORNING APPEAL OF Tuesday,
July "a, 1877, said:
The hard-fsted laborers of the States east
of the Mississippi are in revolt. The natural
uprising of people who have been drained
dry by the spectators and heartless money
handlers of those States has come. The
MORNING APPEAL sympathises with these vio-
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, and driven, as tramps, into the high
ways. Human hearts and the comforts of
life are more precious than hooking palaces
of depots seven stories high" and fat
Directories gambling the game of life with the
lives of toiling men and starving women and
famine stricken children for pawus We are
glad to note that this revolt seems like to be-
come general. We are encouraged by the
attitude of all classes of workingmen, all over
the country, East and West. We hope they
will be steadfast to the end and reap the vic
tory of their desperate courage. The mistake
they made was in suffering so long. No man
is right who sees his wife grew hoIlow-ch
ed with want and his children pale and gaHnt
with hunger, and does not smite where snit-
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-
lieve it. But whether there are or not there
is too much cold blooded willingness and en-
deavour upon the part of capitalists to spec
ulate in human misery. And it is this human
misery which is in arms. Railroad companies
whose lines daily transport thousands of
bushels of grain, and hundreds of heads of
cattle, and tons upon tons of fruit, and bales
upon bales of clothing, passing scores CT vii
lagos 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 guaranteed sufficient salary to enable |
them to purchase enough to keep themselves |
and their little ones safe from the wolves of |
hunger and cold and disease and avertabe |
death. The MORNING APPEAL has stood by
and will stand by the rightful prerogatives of
capital. But capital is monster when ii
speculates in the emergencies and suppica
lions and fell necessities of a starving people
Then good bye technics-g0od bye all quibbes
and nice theories of law. Starvation knows
no hair splitting constitutions, and the de-
lirium of hunger waits not for the slow pro-
cesses of statutory Interpretation. Is Super
intendent CARROTS salary diminished Is
Tom Scott disenabled by the close pressing
times to give his usual dinners to the nabobs
who visit Philadelphia! Is any railway station
any the less sumptuous because of the I'M
usual distressl We do not care for the laws
laws are made for the people and not the (
people for the laws. All we know is that the
yeomanry of the country on the direful
edge of the CHASTITY pit of starvation; and we
nope that this final, desperate outburst cf
raddened people will force the disbursement l
IL SHareJ at ledSG, OF Cne long aCCumulatlng |
blood money which is held by the merciless =
corporations of the country. No country, L
much less corporation, has any business to
xist, when its existence depends upon the
of the people.
In the APPEAL of September 20, 1877, ap-
feared the following, nnder the head of ''No I
standing Army to Repress Strikes"
1t is not often that practical business men
Ike Tom. Scott of Pennsylvania, seek express
ion for their views through any writings of
heir own. 1t is therefore all the more
lotable that the Colonel should come before
he public, as he lately has done, in an article 7
n the North American Review, as the advo-
ate of standing army as the means of re-
ressng such tumults as have recen tly been h
ritnessed on the lines and at the termini of
he railways of several of the Eastern States
hat representative capitalist, like Scott,
ho takes no other view of the masses than -
of so many toilers who are rightfully at the
lercy of the wealthy and powerful should en-
,rtain such views as he expresses in that
aper is not to be wondered at. The means
seeking hearing is what is unusual and [
uprising. 1t is not often that the MORNING 81
PPEAL finds itself agreeing with jeremiah o.
lack. He is too notorious copperhead and st
bel synpathiser to command any of our lik-
g; but when he is right he is quite as right
if he never had been wrong. Moreover,
, has very terse and vigorous manner of
pressing himself. We are very glad to find
IN venting opinions so entirely in conso-
,Dca Nth our oun tho follOxipr Tn