The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-09-12
CONFEDRIT y ROADS,
WICH Is II THE STATE OF KY,
Ear.r 1919


nOthin, and that they would never
hev ther own till they organized and
crushed ther OppressOrs. 1 showed
en- that wat they wantid wUz to crush
out capital. and he themselves their
own rOOlers. 1t wuZn'U hard TO do,
and the second mite l organized 3
| secRshun.
The ritoOal writ myself basin it
on Kearney's idee. II wuZ very
breef, and run suthin like this -
Hath the brother wrongs >"
"He hath"
"D0th the brother brood ,"
"He dOth.n
SIS he y successful brooder ,"
tfHe is"
"Both the brother look forward to
the time when he will hev his iron
heel on the necks OF his Oppressors,
and will hev the lecherOus employer
by the throat ?"
HE doth"
"Dotn the brother understand the
yOose Nv a box NV matches ?"
"He DOTH"
SIS the brother willin, in this holy
crOOsade Nv labor agin capital, to buy
bis own matches, or is he so craven
speritid ez to ask the Order to furnish
Them ?"
He will buy his own"
"Hath the wrOnged brother two
dOllsrs aud half in his trOWsers To
help the coz, by supporting the a2ita-
tor ?'i
The wrOnged brother at this stage
prOdOosed the money, wich 1 took to
strengthen the coz, aud then perCeed-
ed with the lecter. / remarkt that he
wuz grOvlin slave, and that by layin
still he wuz addiu to his bonds. Wat
ne WanIid to do wuz to rise. He
wanted to demand an ekal divishuu
Nv property, and ef this reasonable
demand wUZn't acceded to, he wantid
to destroy wat property ther wuz.
He Wantid to demand an Unlimited
ishoo Nv money to be dividId in some
way so that he wood git all that he
wantid, and that the hours Nv labor
shOOd be fixed by law, and the wages
also. He shOOd demand sich legis-
l8shen ez wood let him live in abslOOt
luxury, no matter wat ne wuZ. The
more Incompetent or EveTse to labor
be wuZ the greater the dOOty NV the
Government to see that he didn't
want for anything. Ei after he he'd
riz and these demands WuZn't grant
id then the matches shOOd come III.
Insulated the entire force NV the
factry, and the next mOrnin they
marched in a body to the mail and
demandin their heaVen-given rites
The DlOated employers tried to reason
with EN-, and tried to show EN- that
they WuZ payin all that they Good af-
ford to, in the present deprest con-
dishn NV things, and that they wuZ
gittin now eZ much eZ they wuZ be-
fore, when the cost Nv livin WuZ taxi
en- into account. Tney he'd the i'm
pudence to tell EN- that ef they he'd to
accede to their demands tHat they
wood heV To shet up the mills, and
one Nv EN- told the men that ef they
wood assoOm the mortgages, eZ we'll
ez the biZnis, he wood be perfeekly
willin to relinquish it then and there.
The wOrkmen would heV yeelded,
| but have made EN- a speech wich
| WhoOped it up agiE. They became
infoOriated and moved on the works.
In less than q mint, they had guttid
| it, in five minits it wuz in flames, and
IN half hour it wuz IN ashes, and
| LLl6 hSu III lily blG
moved off. Tue first battle for the
rites Nv man he'd bin fought in Fac
tryviIle, and the first victry Nv labor
over capital in Kentucky he'd bin
achieved.
The men wuZ jubilant and l con-
graduated EN-. We adjourned to the
grosery and poured out libasheus Nv
! sod-corn whisky over our triumph.
Things wuZ bOOmin' for q day or
two. Finally the men begun to git
sober, and went home to their fami-
lies. l motifs by the close Nv the third
day an Ominus change in ther de-
meanOr toward me.
as the bosses gOin' to bid sgin ?p
they asked one Nv another.
"I Tuther think not" wuz the an
ser. "The fact is, all that they he'd
wuZ investid in them mills, and that
is gone. They hain't got nothin to
build with"
"The merry hell you say. Then
where are we going to git work ?'
That staggered em. They lOafed
about in a lIstlis sort Nv way, for a
day or two, but they didn't enthuse
very much. InvltasheDs to take
suthin began to be uncOmfOrtahiy in
| frekent, and there seemed to be 3
disposishun toward me that I didn't
| like.
"YOo see," sed one NV em, "that
we hev succeeded in getting our rites,
We hev crushed capital. 1t is very
crushed. We never saw q more COM
plete crushin out Nv capital than this
Is. Bat we can't see where We hev
made anything by it, to any alarming
extent. We hev bustid capital etfec.
locally, and hev bustid ourselves jist
ez effectoOalIy. the meat barrel is
low, the flour is gone, aud we hain't
got no work. YOO shOwd Us how to
bust cspitle,-now spOse yOO kindly
show US to git more, and hev it better
organized"
"Hev 700 no aspirashens for q
higher and better life ?" I replied.
"Do 700 want to contInyOO to grovel
st the feet Nv yOor Oppressors ? Hev
yoo no pride >"
I'VE he'd PRIDE" wuz the anser NV
this slave, 'but that vanIshes. We
hev stumicks wich is alluZ with US.
Wat 700 want to do is to git out NV
this seckshun in jist three minutes, or
We'll ornament tree with yOO."
l left afoot. he'd the inishiashun
money in my pGekit and SCOT Nv
cloze that l rescOOd from the burnin
mill aud sbseDt-mindediy forgot to
ask who owned em. 1 didn't do eZ
well ez Kerney, but it servd 10Y pur-
pus.
shell go back tho, and see efI can't
Te.OrgsniZe EN- on the onlimitid cur
4 reDcy noshuD. and make good NASH
nels NV EN-. There are lot OF mOwin
masbeens in that vicinity that need
burnin, and ther are dozen or more
places that strikes and sIch kin be
organized in. The rites Nv man must
be established in Kentucky.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
Organizer.