The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-04
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Chad ! sn9a1er et Il. have #ood lin our
tresS = the urinary election tie past
summer and openly, barefa sedly bought
mems votes Is you would sheep in the
pubic market place The light amongst
The lascally thieves is 70 bitterly carried
on that portion Of the vote buyers are
arrssted fer the crime Of bribery aad cor
lFupting the ballot box. Honest fotls out
ide the spoils ring think chat the old
sdAee about the thieves falling oat and
honest men getting their dues Willie yeri-
lied and they viii have the satisfaction Of
seeing several Of the big thieves sgents
10 for term Of years to the rsniten-
,HAry. Vain thought stupendou, delu-
sionl A Aerand jury " loolts into " the
Charges and one Of our learned and hon
lorable (?) judges instructs (" them, etc.
What is the result 7 a long string Of
criminals vending their way to Canon
City7 Not mnchls The hocus pocus
between judge and jury results in moth
ing IS far as giving any oi the rascals
their dues. Mr.. Hill and Mr.. Routt
have "seen 1.-THE proper parties, fixed"
It up and the whole question is dropped
by press and pulpit The vote buyer is
turned loose and in company with the
election striker ward worker and
ether necessary adjuncts to the modern
election, waits around in his dsrepu-
table hannts till their eraployers the
Hills, Rontts, Chafees and Tellers have
another scramble and general fight to
see who will get possession of the spoils,
when the bummers and pilg ugles will
be in great demand again md their ser
vices will be well paid.
These are plain facts with which we
are all familiar as they happened in our
own city right under our own o5serya-
ton. And ghat deploratle fact it is
that the money power Throughout our
broad land from the Atlantic to Ehe Pa
cifc and from the st. Lawrence to the
Rio Grande have their agents who are
ever watchful to down the people and
defeat their wishes.
r To-
Press and pulpit are controlled by this
demoralizlng power the magnitude Of
which is SO great that it casts 6 doubt
and ugly shadow over every court in our
land. The blind goddess holds the
scales in one hand, winkH her eye and
stretches her other hand behind her to
receive the bribe which is never want
ing. venture the assertion that there
is not member occupying a seat in the
United States senate to-day who is not
the paid private watchdog of one or
more of the great monopolies that are
pulling this. country to the verge of
physical revolution, the first ruablings
Of which are audible even now. From
one side of the Union to the other those
ominous sounds are being heard, but
when one of the disconterted attempts
to point out those signs of coming dis
aster to this our beloved country, he is
howled down by the paid press of the
monopolists and pointed out as they
would rabid dog, anathematlzed, de-
rided as a Communist, Anarchist, per-
son whom the proper authorities should
look after as they would the murderer
or any other criminal They turn the
whole power of the subsidized press to
denounce each and every attempt to
draw public attention to those awful
facts. The well.known powers of sar-
casm and vulgar caricature are Invoked
to deceive and mislead the people. But
they are dancing on social volcano
whose fuel they are continually replen-
ishing.
Some of the capitalistic class see and
are beginning to drop hints are of
acknowledgment of the handwriting on
the wall, and in some of the leading
vehicles of so-called advanced thought
we find notes of warning to their fellow
idolators who have consecrated their
lives and entire energies to the glorifi-
cation and alteration of the golden calf,
the brutalizlng worship of gold. We all
admit the existence of this state of
things, but what efforts are we making
to change things into abetter condition?
Very little as yet. We, the mudsills of
society, who make all thia wealth over
which those thieves are fighting never
raise our heads out of the dirt in which
We delve and labor and sweat to take
notice ef what is happening III broad
day around US.
The political, social and commercial
parasites of this country band together
for the express purpose of roboing US,
the toilers, and to our eternal disgrace
be 1t said they meyer fail in accomplish
ing their object. We stand heedlessly
by and see them barter away the honor
of our country and with it our liberties
and We never as much as raise our
voices in condemnation thereof. We,
the makers of all that makes our
land great, have the right 10 control and
direct the destinies of our country but,
like blind Samson, we seem to be un-
conscious of our own strength or know
ing it, too heavy-brained to use it with
intellioenca and effectiveness And as