The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-03-24
LABOR CONQUERS.

ended, anu endeu DIS IL shouiu "e "
the complete triumph of right and
Justice. Ended as it must ever end
in this country and under this govern
ment the just and honest demands of
any class of its people who shall made
that demand within the pale of the
law and iu q lawful Ind peaceable
manner.
Monopolies may rear their hydra
heads, and grown proud and pulled
I'D by their success may for awhile
be endured, so long as they keep their
insuferable arrogance and anti-repub-
lican sentiments and heresies, within
their own breasts, but money cannot
purchase them love nor respect, nor
can money induce the people to fore
20 their privilege snd right to gov
eminent for the people made by the
people. Nor can money, by its cor
rupting influence, succeed in pur-
chasing sufficient power to permit
them &c satiate their greed for gain by
robbing the honest producers and toll
ing millions cf the pittance, that at
the best is allowed them to support
themselves and their families. 1t mag
be possible that the present strike has
caused Inconvenience to many innc-
cent people as well as the guilty mo-
nopolies whose grinding exactions rem
dered it imperative. but to the right
minded sufferer there is a sense Of
good to cDme out eft which has SO far
overreached bis temporary incnnveni-
nience THAT ne Will cheerfuily submit
to it, knowing it will prove so beneh-
cial to others. To the laboring classes,
it has given an experience whose value
can not be calculated in dollars. 1t
has taught them that they can demand
their rights, and receive the Gnenl-
nous snpportof the people aad the
protection of the law and obtain vic
tory without violence aud disorder.
1t has taught them that the susterfuge
and only eaasion whereby capital
can treveut them from obtaining JUS
tice is to have them array themselves
against the lew and b. hyp9crlticsl
plea of asking protection frcm the
laws which, they themselves sre daily
ignoring and violating secure protec-
ton from their responsibilities and
liabilities, by throwing them upon the
government and having learned and 50
\ successfully thwarted this nefarious
scheme in the present strike, it is not
likely that the labor classes, will ever
in the future fall iuto such taps, no
matter how deity and cunningly they
may be. set by any combustion OF
monopolies and if the rabobs have
half as much sense as they desire
the world te believe, they will
learn from it that though the law has
been careful to protect them in all
that is right and proper, though the
law has even given to them advant-
ages and powers which have been al
most unlimited; they were given
under the promise and pledse that 1t
was for the advancement and progress
of labor, and not for its degradation,
abasement and slavery. Aud when
ever this great power given to the
monopolies, shall re employed by its
possesso,s and manipuIators tothat end
the government will sustain its labor
ing classes, and take from the mOnOp-
Olies, by its process, such power
Knowing this TO be SO, it is simply a
question from this time Oh, whether
stock gam blers and managers of mon
opolies will by their unjust and merci-
less greed, be made to increase their
profits by making large and exorbi-
tant dividends on their stocks, run
the risk of forfe!ting their charters by
grinding their employees TO desperation
and starvation, or content with fair
profits which they do not honestly
earn, after all, pay their employees
living wages, and grant them the hon.
orable and just profits and privileges.