The Labor enquirer., 1885-01-31
Politicians not even senators do not

clamOr-not when themselves or party
seek position. How earnestly they ex-
cite, and how gracefully they glide into
place and power by popular clamor.
Senators from the northwest, while
the dwellers on the plains of Iowa,
Kansas and Nebraska are suffering with
granaries full to <oVerfowing and COM
PEELED to burn corn as fuel, while the
tollers in Wisconsin and Minnesota are
selling wheat below the cost of produc-
ton and secure but fraction above
what the pauper labor of India receives ;
the senators from Pennsylvania, where
the dependent and unemployed are de-
MED the privilege of increasing produc-
tion of coal, and are suffering for the
corn consumed on the prairies the SEN
ators from New York, where, with
bended head, sofrowing heart, and
weary fingers, women stitch, stitch their
famishing lives into shirts at cents
each while perishing for wheat, which
the western farmer produces at an actual
loss the senators from New England
where thousands of men and women
with haggard faces and children of ten.
der years, prematurely grown old, stand
begging to toll, at the closed doors Of
her factories, whele tariff protection had
promised immunity from suffering and
the privilege to labor at fair recompense
they can all unite in the proud boast
of the senator from Alabama that they
have, have the c0uFsss,to oppose popular
clamor. NJ
But through suffering and gloom, but
not through blood and prison-pen, the
final victory will again come when, as in
'76 and 80, the day of final rejoicing will
demonstrate that the voice of the people
is the voice of God.
In Kansas and Nebraska fifty bushels
of corn will not purchase one ton of soft
COAL $50 bushels will not buy one ton
of hard coal. Your sympathy expands
for the p&uper labor of Europe and
India while your hearts seem steeled
against the cry for bread from the Amer,
leans who are forced to work for starva
ton wages or have their places supplied
in the mines by the specially protected
mine owners, by pauper and convict
labor imported under contract from
Europe.
You see an embargo placed upon the
transportation of corn to the. east and
coal to the west, and you relegate to the
tender mercies of Gould and Vanderbilt
the problem of the natural laws of trade
to the uncontrolled avarice and extortior
of stock gamblers who are as merciIess
in demanding interest and dividends or
$4,OOO,O 100000 watered stocks and bonds
as English landlords would take breaC
from the mouths of the Irish tenants.
Look at Kansas and Nebraska, grea
and rich in the wealth of their soil, the
energy and intelligence of their people
yet Jay Gould, who neither tolls nol
spins. has greater wealth than the
assessed property, real and personal, o
both states. And Vanderbilt could buy
both states and have snug fortune o
$40, 1000, 900 left for the necessaries Of life
and to keep the wolf from the door. D.
YOU believe these millions were acquired
honestly and bv legitimate means? Ye
the senator from Iowa, Mr.. Wilson
trembles lest We shall do too much, anC
before these worse thafi fer. .dal robbar.
we must seem to apologize and indicate
the awe with which these coIossa
wrongs are approached and the great
risk we are assuming, and disClaim oul
hearty dsinclination to rend the
despoiler of his prey.
The two men who each can purchase
the states of Kansas and Nebraska GER
tainly need no proffer of assistance. Nc
possible danger of injustice can come tC
them. Itis the dweler IN the dug out
who with raised hands Is appealing tc
the protection of the law. Corporations
behind 81 900, 100000 of stolen property
for years controlling state legislatures
the national congress, the judiciary as
rem morselessly as did slavery, need not
the sympathy and. active support of sen,
ators. 1t is the toiler seeking labor ir
the furnace heat, in the underground
labyrinth, the settler in the dug out on
the frontier of Kansas and Nebraska
wives and children are drawing warmth
from corn because great corporations re-
fuse to reduce the rates of freight so the
coal of PENNSYLVANIA may be exchanged
for the corn of the west. H. Y. B.