The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-09-18

to sell, from getting into the market.
Now, what ought to be done to them
fellows who make their millions out
of the life blood of the poor? We regu-
late railroads with a commission, and
We get after the distillers with the
whole power of the government, but
these cornerers who suck the blood of
labor and toll are allowed to 90 free.
They patrOnize the hanks literally
and therefore, the banks are their
friends, and the banks control congress
and so We have no relief.
There is an epitaph on the tomb of
Sir Robert Peel, and it says. He
gave the poor cheap bread, and no
man has a nobler one than this. But
here sits the American congress and
state legislatures looking on all this
iniquity and do nothing. How do
they expect labor to be reconciled to
capital and 60 smoothly when the
common laborer can barely live at
his wages, and suddenly find that
bread and meat have gone up SO per
cent and that rich, heartless specula-
tors have combined against him !!
How can he be reconciled How
can he be kept from thinking and
talking and drifting into communist
and organizing strikes for higher
wages. There is life and death in
this business. The average age fthe
rich is 55-of the poor it is 30. Only
eighty children out of 900 die among
the wealthy classes, but 800 die
among the poor. As food grows dear
sickness and death grow plenty.
Scarcer bread means more abundant
crime; larcen, increases as flour ad.
vances. The common laborer who
works in the factories for daily wages
gets barely enough for bread and meat
and clothing when these things are
cheap. He gets nothing for luxuries.
nothing for comforts, nothing for sick
ness for doctors bill or old age. Moth
ing for the accidents of life, a broken
leg or a broken arm. Nothing for
fire or food, of pestilence, or any other
calamity. He has to live by faith and
hope-a shrinking faith and a des-
pairing hope, and continual apprehen-
sion for the welfare of bis children.
The great question with us is what
will become of our children Will
they be able to weather the storms of
life when we are gone Will they
find employment and be able to live
comfortably, and marry respectfully
and have a good home and be happy ?
We hope so-we pray for it and work
for it, but there is less hope for the
next generation than the last. for the
rich are getting richer and more heart
less, and the poor are getting more de-
pendent. When q man makes q for.
tune at legitimate trading it is all
right and honorable, but when he
builds up by pulling somebody else
down it is all wrong, and not only dis
honorable but criminal. The laws of
England forbid it. The laws of the
United States do, too, but they don't
enforce them. Forestalling the mar
ket is crime in all civilized countries
but ours. When Armour bought up
500. 600 barrels of pork and a million
more in futures, at 50 a barrel and
sold out at s18, he made $1,000, 900,
but he never produced anything or
added one dollar to that already pro-
duced. What he made, somebody
else lost. He made it out of the con-
sumer-that is, the masses-chiefy
the poor. What kind of an epitaph
ought to be put on his tombstone !?
This mans greed was great-his
pity was small. If there be a hell he
is enjoying it." In 1881 the Chicago
syndicate cornered 10000, 900 bushels
Of wheat. Why, what protection
have the people got? Gen. Toombs
once made a very notable speech, and
said he would lead his children to an
alter, and like Hamilcar of old, swear
them to eternal hostility against this
foul domination. and just so 1 feel
whenever l read about Armour and
Keene and Jay Gould and company,
and ponder upon their Vaccinations.
I want to lead my children to an alter
and swear them-yes. swear them to
fight monopolies, to fight these fore
stallers and cornerers and plunderers