The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-09-09

omcus for the future unless laborirg
men will awake from their stupcr. stop
their bloyia.ipg, and strike, not for
wages, but for liberty. This Il free
country says he. Us. 50 Poland
was once said 20 te free, bat sac was
ruled with the lion hand Of despotis-n By
a miserable aristocracy. Thirteen mil
lion .erf. were rul=d by five hundred
Thousand mobiles Whoa, Oh the great
plains Of the Eclga, they elected king,
any who did not vote as dill the major
i,y shortly aitl.waTf were msrcilessly
killed for using the L.Serum Veto.
Our mobiles who meet IN caucus inyar1a-
bly, take eff the political heads Ct those
who dare oppose the corrupt schemes n
rings History ever repeats itself; but
We can see IL the present enough TO
show US plainly what the future mus,
De unless a change can be inaugurated.
Our lsborers can see IN the peasants OF
Europe their own condition Q century
hence The sudden absorbing Of Eng
lands small farms by the large ones Is
being now followed in New England
and the East by monied men getting
possession os the bulk OF the LAID.
Tie rock on which our liberties are
founded is cur free lands. When mo-
nopolists, great and sma. have gobbled
up the last acre Of these lands, the PEG
pies birthri 1t, then indeed will our
Declaration Of independence become
empty bombast, and our flag what Wen
dell Phillips called It once. "A Haunting
lie."
Eternal vigilance is the price OF
liberty" a price which the great mass
Of Americans are willing to pay. \
few designing men, with only now and
then q patriot, do the thinking for an
apathetic people. The papers often
advert to the danger ahead. but our
moral sluggards laugh at tue idea, for
getting that laughter IS not argument.
Nero tiddled while Rome burned; so
those who pervert Scripture to read,
Thou shalt earn thy bread by the
sweat Of other mems brows. console
themselves with the thought that the
workingman's adversely will be their
opportunity. Some one has said Cali
fornia is capable Of sustaining a popu-
lation Of 200.000,00 What, human
beings with souls as well as bodies !:
Never There is such thing as royal
blood, aud it Is royal food which makes
it. Imagine the number named. reared
on scant ra,iOns OF potatoes or rice, be-
ing at the same time American sover-
eigns. Preposterous. lam an old soldier,
have fought and blei for my country
on the battlefield, and nov it makes my
blood boil when ! sea the enemies OF
suffering humanity sapping the founda-
tons of the Temple of Liberty.
My fellow workingmen, free labor is
honorable. enrolling; but your common
servitude, cal! it what you choose, IS
degrading. and in time. with its alm0s.
inseparaOle debauchery. will bring your
descendants (if you should unfortunately
have any to wrc:chedness and panper-
ism. WHO would be free must them
selves strike the blow" 1t is idle for
you to ask your newspaper to champion
your cause; the editor is too shyewd
and sensible. Resolve to bo boo.jacks
no more. Strike. not in the air with
vain complaints. but out in the heart OF
the forest. Strike with an axe, as have
done, and make a free homo for your
wife and little ones. if you are so iortu-
nate as to have them The longer that
strike lasts. the richer You will become.
for there is gold under every stump,
and you will realize that nothing In
this world equals the satisfaction Of
resting under your own vine and is
| tree. A. J. S.