The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-27

| ulonS you frequently near tne aQnorontS
of different candidates state before the
primaries are called, that they will
"knife" so and SO. Do they mean that
they are going to kill him. stab him,
take his life away from him2 They are
forcible expressions--very emphatic ex-
pressions. They are adjectives which
are used in different ways to carry con-
viction and perhaps make the language
more startling to the audience in order
that they will pay attention.
remember now when the dispute
was going on in England as to the .sx.
tension of the franchise in 1853 and
1857, when such large meetings were
called all through England to dispute
the assertion of Disraeli, afterward Lord
Beaccns6eld, that the working classes
did not need the franchise, that John
Bright replied to the letter of Beaeons-
field, saying that there might be some
excuse for Beaconsfeld if he had said
this in the heat of speech, but having
sat down and coolly written it ou; there
was no excuse for it, showing that such
parliamentarian as John Bright is,
with perhaps no superior in his tune,
thought there was an excuse for men to
drop into language in the heat of speech
which afterward they might have
thought it would have been populsr not
to state, and their speech might have
looked better without it. I say tnis Ian
guage does not necessarily mean an in.
element to violence.
have used the word rebellion"
Now you know the word rebellion" is
not necessarily an Indictment to vio-
lence. And If it were, let me call your
attention to an incident which occurred
in the house of commons 100 years ago.
When the ill-starred attempt was made
under Montgomery to capture Quebec
and he lost his life, a member of. the
house of commons, generous as he was,
brought up the question of the death of
Montgomery, whom many there had
known. He spoke of him as gallant,
brave, generous, able and amiable gen.
tlemen. Another member said he was
a gallant, generous and amiable rebel.
Lord North rose in his majesty on the
floor of the house of commons and said:
II am far from conceding that it is dis
reputable term to be called rebel. the
very principle and the privileges which
we in constitutional England enjoy on
this floor to-day were acquired by re-
bellion," That language could be used
on the floor of the house of commons
100 years ago. and it was not thought to-
be an incitement to violence.
return once more to call your atten-
ton to thG coal monopoly. l believe l
called your attention to it before, but
did not finish. 1t has raised the price
of coal bv restricting the output. 1t has
deprived men of their labor. The coal
monopoly wants money for its coal. The
miners want coal TO burn. They must
pay money for the coal. 1t turns its
miners away from the mines and re-
stricts the output, and then it raises the
price of coal. Of course it does not need
very great logician to know that when
a man is turned out of employment he
g. h. onu11
before. This is the logic of the coal
monopoly looked at in this wav, and in
the injustice it has done to the public.
A Chlcago-I will not mention the
paper, for perhaps it might think itself
fattered-a. prominent Chicago paper
advises the "throttling of the coal mo-
nopoly." Henry George in his work on
protection advises the throttling of pro-
lection. He does not mean to say that
he wants to throttle Judge Gary or
James G. Blaine. No one would claim
anything of the kind. The law turns
large numbers out on the wayside.
Does anybody deny it If it is true that
the law does not make laws in the in
terest of the working classes, but makes
lsws-and it must necessarily make
them in the interest of the other class If
it d ,es not for them-then it does turn
men out upon the wavslde. l have reI-
erence to the introduction of machinery
twenty out of twenty-five turned out
of employment. Are they not turned
out upon the wsyside ? ANY question
about it2 Ifthev were laws that did not
turn men out on, the wavside and
knew that they did not, should not
tell ANYBODY that they did.
Thomas Cooper, chartist in England,
was once visited IN his old age by a
friend of his. A little girl came up to
him with book in her hand with pic
lures in 1t, opened the front of it and
showed him the fy leaf, and she said:
"Mr. Cooper, write something for me-"
And Mr. Cooper wrote:
Love truth, my child, love truth.
1t will gladden. thy mind ofyouth,
| And in the noon of life,
| Though II cost thee pain and strife
To keep the truth in Its brightness,
Still cleave to thy uprigtness."
III am to be conveted-hanged for
telling the truth, the little child that
kneels by its mothers side on the West
Side to-day, and tells its mother that he
wants his papa to come home, and to
whom I had intended as soon as its