Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-22

many cases, weeks Of excess and indul-
gcncc. Money goes faster when man is
idle than when at work.
But still more, the bro therhood are
bound to support those thrown out or not
reinstated because of the strike, and in
this connection we are sorry to see, that
of the women who were induced to join
in the strike, very, very few are taken
back, perhaps not one in twenty. Many
homes have been deprived of the daily
necessities of life, and debts have been
contracted which it will require months
of economy and hard work to meet. The
kers, after their loud boasts and threats,
have been compelled to accept the terms
of the telegraph companies, and with
humiliation have come back, not as an
for the old place, to find they are not
wanted or needed; or if reinstatsd, they
are required to sign all agreement that
they will not join any labor organization
while in the employ Of the company.
The failure of the strike has only in
undated the brotherhood, making it
more dependent than eveI it has embold-
cned the great telegraph IN onopoly-maH-
than ever.
The poor, helpless. dcfcnccless, lamb
like brotherhood have only laid Darcr
their neck to the blood-craving beast.
The great strike has ended. The public
have been heavy" losers. The Telegraph
Companies have been heavy losers. The
strikers and dependent families have been
heavy losers.
Labor and Capital have pitticd them
selves against each other more deadly
than cve:. The brccch between them
has grown wider, the antayonism tiercer.
The battle, when it comes again, must be
sharper, bittercr, bloodier
Labor and Capital! One of the great
est questions confronting the American
people. We can not answer it. Let us not
Sleep let us not think we can push it
aside, or evadc it it must be answered
it is laundering louder and louder at our
doors. Do not think the strike is an ac-
cident, that it is the result of some whim,
some cunning plan, some devised scheme,
simply to get more wages for less work
The strike is not an accident. This
trembling Of the surface, points to some
thing deeper, and he who will put his ear
down can hear subterrancan rumbling.
The strike is an effect, and the greed
and grasp of ayar;cious monopoly is one
of the prime causes. The labor orsanl-
cation is the result of money combination.
Money is combining its strength, mar
shalling its forces, and the labor organi-
cation is al attempt Of the weaker to re-
sist the stronger.
to victory, but remember this-thc strike
is not aggressive. 1t is makingno attack.
1t is only resisting. The strike is defen-
sice. And so long as Corners" are bread
and meat and clothing and fuel can lift
up their mighty defiant heads, opposing
and disregarding the great fundamental
law Of supply and demand, and are dclibcr-
ately plotting and planning to resist and
oyerturn this fundamental commercial
principle ; so long us monopolies-gigan-
tic in their single strength-comhine their
giant powers and ''pool' their profits,
thus seeking to escape the fundamental
principle of c0mpctltion-but another ex-
preston of the law Of supply and demand;
so long as Corners and Monopolles are
disturbing commercial centers, so long
we must expect surface agitation so long
as Corners and Monopolies are scheming
to undermine and to overturn commercial
foundations, so long expect the super
structure to tremble. God grant she may
not totter and fall.
The strike? While capital is lawless
and defiant, labor will resist. When
money tyrannizcs, labor will rebel.