The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-04
The Workers Treated as If they
Had no Other Right than
Permission to Work.
Just as People We're Devoid Of
Z Mental Culture 50 Were They
Tyrannised Over.
The Working Glasses Always Used bat
as Stepping.Stones to Power BY
the Capitalists.

Ject mems souls, but as applied to our
bodily and social welfare. And 4 can
assure you all that start to answer this
query with no feeling of ability to an
swer it in an able or comprehensive
manner. But can say this much, that
if the effort which / here make was as
able as my desire is good and great to
try and make clear the path which We
must tread to be saved, then this effort
would be as grand and great as anything
that ever fell from the now silent tongue
of Phillips, Lincoln or Garrison The
history of two thousand years fails to
show the time when he who creates all
wealth was not treated as though he
had no rights but those which, gave him
permission to toll, that some one who
never did aught to add to the wealth of
the world might enjoy life of luxury
andnnearned ease. The philosophy of
six thousand years has failed to find and
give to the toiler that position III the
universe which is his by right indisput-
able. s'5,t# M& 7 n 8s2as
The chronicles which record history
from Solomon's times till now shows no
record that there was time kawhen
the horny-handed son of toll" was
recognized but as a stepping.stone
upon which social and political adven-
turers trod their ways into power place
and emolument. i@a7tIt jsdi g
81 came, I saw, 1 conquered" said
Caesar. He conquered. That is the
theory upon which every social system
from Cesar's time down to the birth of
our only true and great peoples govern
ment rests. The divine right Of kings
is another foolish idea which the de-
luded serfs Of the old world haye been,
by force orlotberwise, recognizing since
their so.called civilization began.
4 If we look into the histories of the
tinoas.ss Aasl !.
we find that according as the common
people were ignorant and devoid of
mental culture just accordingly were
they tyrannized over and treated as cat
tie which their owners looked upon as
made for their especial benefit and
profit. .a.t .'g..,.lz.
The first strike made in a practical
way to gain freedom of conscience and
of action was made when those grand,
stout-hearted old Pilgrim Fathers left
the land of their birth and sailed over
an almost unknown sea in a rude bark,
exposed to all the hardships incident to
voyage across 1000 miles Of ocean that
they might exercise their rights as free
men. IN r. -
With cold embrace old Plymouth
Rock received them and at its base they
found shelter and freedom on that bleak,
December day two centuries and half
ago. But the tyrant which they left fol-
lowed them and sought to and did estab-
lish over them the same old system of
robbery which they suffered under in
old England. They suffered on till it
got to be beyond endurance and then
they nobly bid the tyrant defiance and
routed him from this land and declared
this should be refuge for all who were
dissatisfied with the grinding systems of
the old world. They established on this
western continent the freest government
existing. r.
They prospered as was natural they
should, until the vast aggreeations of
wealth became one of the fatal facts Of
the times. To. day we see those fabulous
sums reaching up into the many mil
lions controlled by an individual to the
great danger of. the perpetuity of this
system of government which we all love
SO dearly. The demoralizing tendency
of those vast wealth piles is seen and
felt in various ways. Itpermeates every
nook and corner of our social system
demoralizing everything it comes in con.
tact with. /. -.
1t has captured church and state. Is
it not a notorious fact that our politics
are controlled by the moneybags Of the
country? A Gould and a Vanderbilt
pull the wires that shape the legislation
of the country and tighten the shackles
on twelve millions of men who toll and
make this country what che is, as far as
she Is great, rich and prosperous.
There are great many of US who
think, and I am willing to admit have
been one of the number, that we can
save ourselves by the ballot, but the
question at once presents itself, "how
can we save ourselves" when the rail-
road kings. Standard Oil kings, telegraph
kings and cattle kings and all the other
kings Of lesser degree and controllers OF
aggregated wealth step in and control
all legislation, and that they do we all
| know. w. ~, FL. El-cyTg
! Have we not seen clear instance Of
the corruption and rascality in politics
here in our own state, in our own city,
during the last senatorial contest7 The
political jobbers, wire-pullers and rascali
under the leadership of Hill, Routt
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