The Labor enquirer., 1884-08-09
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For The Enquirek
The laboring men who are selling their
rights to take mp government land for q
peltry pittance 70 large corporations in
| violation Of the Law, will be the first tc
exclaim against 1loaded monopolies.
Cheyenne Sun.
The above was clipped from the edito.
rial columns Of the Cheyenne Sun o.
July 25.
If the poor laboring man by dint Of
his necessities sells his land right to the
lcattle-ocracy Of Wyoming, how much
worse Is he than the aristocrat who buys
the right Is it not q question Of money
bags versus rags st. Giles and st James.
The writer Of the editorial knows that
the sale of that right was not I'm viola
ton of law"
He knows that, if the poor man sold
his right, (supposing for arguments sake)
| it was in violation of law: Why should
the poor man be made the victim of the
diatribes of q venal press? Why did not
the editor denounce the purchaser as
well as the purchased? Was it not be-
cause the money-baes out-weighed the
rags? Was it not because the taunts Of
an unscrupulous press upon the rights of
the workingman--the rights of the
people--is music to the large corpora
tions who do, Sin violation of law" con-
troll, for speculative purposes, the public
lands which by rights are the God-given
heritage Of the man alone who reclaims
it by the sweat of his brow?
What can we expect from bloated mo-
nopolistic ipress which denounces the
representative of the Union Pacific rail-
road in unmeasured terms as the 'cring-
ing, quivering Unien Pacific attorney
who was unable to resist temptation and
deserted his Constituents in the hour. Of
their need?" and likened this same
quivering, recreant, cowardly, cringing
Union Pacific attorney, who bartered off
his honor, his manhood and his oath
of Office for the paltry salary of Union
Pacific attorney, to Shigbwayman," !"
and against whom this same editor de-
clared indignation meetings were held
on nearly every street corner Of Chey.
enne."
Subsequently, this very sheet, this
very editor, advocated this same cring-
ing, quivering, recreant Union Pacific
attorney, and tried to bulldoze the, peo-
Pile and the president of the United
States into his apL ointment as chief jus
tice of Wyoming, and tried to foist and
palm him off as a man without guile,
without reproach. Oh, consistency, thou
art a,jewel! Es:.'. ~ @.@
How many court judgments would
such sheet require Of a, chief justice
under such auspices?
Or, in plain, old fashioned English,
how much money did he get for such
COOL unadulterated venality? or, how
much was he to get for the prostitution
of hls pen, stepped to the feather in the
gall of natural turpitude, and hatred of
the workingman, who forms the bed
rock foundation of the body polite, the
people, by the appointment of man so
lost to all sense Ito use his own words) of
moral decency. .. ~. i. y
If this sheet is to be antagonistic to
the laboring man let us know it. Attacks
from such source are compliments.
Pretty censor of the people! Pretty con-
servator of the public morals1
There is q time coming there is a
warning note on the western breeze
history repeats herself. Rouse but the
people, and you will know not where
the cyclone will strike. The rights of
man--the rights of the people must be
respected. From the Atlantic to the
Pacific ere long will be heard, the mail
clad heel of an outraged people, whose
anger, when once aroused, will be as a
tigers bloody thirst for more. ANON.
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