The Labor enquirer., 1884-04-26
The System Which Robs the
People Carefully Inves-
.. .tigated.
A Long List Of sLaborers" Who
.: Are Not worthy Their
saa b d Hire.n
Slowly Comes a Hungry People,
as a Lion, Creeping
Peg &. Nigher." @
Editor Labor Enquirer.

Editor Labor Enquirer. L
DENVER, April 2S.-'Every man is
worth his hire" If such is true, this
world represents spectacle'w which in its
utter falsity bears blasphemous lie
upon its face. Everv man is not, worth
his hire to-day There are thousands OF
men who receive thousand times more
than they are worth, hire, salary, man
and all. And there are millions of men
who receive not one-millionth part Of
their actual value as their hire and
wages.
kissing goes by favors, is an old saying
which is most formidably illustrated
daily, hourly and minutely throughout
this globe of corruption and illogical
reasoning.
Let me give you piece of statistical
fact, long list of evidence in the case.
Let me examine my witnesses thor.
oughly before you gentlemen of the jury,
who are destined to sit upon this great
est of criminal cases on record. The
plaintiffs are the people; the defendants
are the princes and "ci devant" rulers Of
mankind, the noblemen without nobility,
the rich men of many millions of money
and many millions of curses and billions
of tears, the monopolists, the bosses, the
hYenas of capital, the land sharks and
vampires, the bloodsuckers and tyrants
of employers of labor. Of course they
all have the means to engage the very
best counsel They have eloquence,
oratory, corrupt laws, sophistry, egotism,
corrupt religion, fashionable society,
cowardly falsehoood, whining philan-
tthropy, pretended responsibility, the
,purchasable press and legislative bodies,
5hordes of paid funkeys and officials,
standing armies, snobby militia, corrupt
judges, purchased juries, leather-faced
officers, and poverty of the masses, for
their pleaders and lawyers, whereas the
plaintiffs have no counsel or assistants,
but poverty, want, low wages, over-bur-
.dened life, poor victuals, little rest and
recreation, unpopularity and want of ed
ucation.
Thus the case comes into court. The
defendants appear in silk and velvet,
gold and Jewels pomp and consequence,
while the plaintiffs sit in the corner,
huddled together under the supervision
of the hang-dog eye of the cob, the lep-
rous hound of plenty and might. Little
show for plaintiffs, less law and 40 JUS
tice for them. Yet, let us bring in our
evidence. Let us give the prosecuting
testimony and let the case go to the jury
of mankind without further argument.
Black is white and white is black is an
argument, but it will never convince the
great judge, Truth, and the great jury
Humanity. Here is the evidence:
Look at England. There are in En-
gland 525 mobiles. Twenty-eight dukes,
twenty-three marquises, 1914 earls, fifty
two yiscounts, 2l8 barons. These robbers
(for robbers they are, having inherited
their land from their robber ancestors,
who killed the ancient owners of the
soil and robbed their progeny of their
oyn) claim on an average 29,l l4S acres OF
land each, and they plunder the people
on an average of 29,l4S pounds sterling
each per year. What right have they
to Ii We in luxury, beyond compass al
most, when the land should be divided
among the people, so the people eoulo
live and exist Now, further, what are
they doing to earn such competency
such excess of riches, millions of thou
sands of pounds sterling, where millions
are starving?
Further, there are the archbishops o
York and Canterbury, the bishops o
London and Durham; these prelate'
have A, ,444 pounds sterling year salary
For what? For Haunting around wha
they call their diocese in purples ano
velvets. Laboring men, you can hv'
without them, without their blessings o
hypocrisy, without their false represen
tations. No earthly need of them. NJ
heavenly need, either. All they ar
there for is to fill their big paunches an'
swill their gizzards. The bishops OF El'
and of Winchester have $1,000. Elgh
more bishops have $4,000 per annum
Eight smaller ones have $4,000. On
hundred and twenty-eight canons hav
s1,OOO q year, and so on. And all haV'
their Wears and helpers and assistant
who, for g40 to e2OO year, have to d.
their work, their thinking, who are thel
brain and muscle, and who are lean an
poor enough to go smoothly through tn
eve of needle. There is capital in
filed belly as against brains in hungr
stoms sch. Is that not good evidenceY
Further, there are the judges of tn
courts of appeal, who get from, s5,OOO
$1,000 per year salaries. The masters
the rolls get $4,000 per annum. Tn
lord chancellor, sl1,OOo. The lord chic
justice, $4,000. The privy counsellor
$4,000 each. Every circuit Judge receive
also g5,OOo per year. Do you need
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