The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-30

man to drink beer as it is for man to
make his fortune off Of other peoples
labor; and 1 tell you that man is Of no
| use to this world, of no use to society or
neigh borhood in which-she lives who
has no otharobject in view than making
a fortune for himself and his family, lit
tie caring what becomes Of those around
him. And it is because we have recog-
nized this fact, and it is a philosophical
fact, it is logical fact that no man can
get away from, and Mr.. Ingham haa not
got the intelligence to perceive that the
greatest security to human happiness
depends upon the widespread happiness
of those around YOU. You can hav no
security for your fortunes, you can have
no security for your comforts as long as
there is around you a dissatisfied, a
despoiled and suffering community. l
assert here as fact that Vanderbilt and
jay Gould would be happier men to-
day if they had but $4,000 TO their
names and everv employe who is now in
their employment were above want and
above the danger of want. There would
be less of irritation, less of that trouble
and bother of clashing and conflicting of
interests that there is, which must rec
essarilY bother these men onsiderably
snd keep them awake nights possibly.
l have never hesitated when l have
seen my way clearly according to my
lighs to follow it. have always en-
deavored to hew to the line let the ch ips
fall where they would. Some people do
not do that. That is what is the trouble
with the world. A great many people
ask when they find what their duty is,
does it pay ? Ifit pays they will follow
it, and they care not where the payment
comes froA.
About the second speech perhaps that
l ever made in my life was after had
become member of the Methodist
church, and to show that l was per-
ambulating talking machine then. will
say here that | visited different towns
in Lancashire and spoke in the open air
to audiences because my thoroughness
of character compelled me IT, do it. l
felt that that religion which thought |
possessed, and which | thought was cal
culated to better the world, was some
thing that was worth while for me to use
my energies in DropagAting, and [ did it
l could not help it. There are some
sloths that are sometimes called men
who are never Influenced by anything
of that kind, but was not of that char
acter and that is the reason tilat | am
here to-day. 50 intense and earnest
was at that me that was at one and
the same time the Sunday school super
intenient of little Sunday school,
elias leader, a local preacher, and what
was called an exhorter Held four diff
felent positions.
l came to the United States IN 1888
| have preached in Ohio, and came to
Chicago IN 1859. There are monuments
of beauty, of stability and evidences of
progress in the city of Chicago, land you
can hardly 90 through street in this
city that have not dropped my sweat
upon that had been produced by the
labor of my hands. And just here let
me tell you that when the indictment
had been procured against me and my
comrades here it was accompanied by
the statement that these men had been
deluding their dupes in order to make
money out Of them. When the trial
was in rrOgres8 the only man who could
have answered the question WAS Zeller,
the secretary of the Central Labor un-
ion, and when he was asked tue question
whether we ever rec ived any money tor
speaking and organizing unions in that
organization, the gentleman who had
been instrumental in attaching this to
the indictment Ill order to prejudice the
people before the trial should come on
alainst us-fOr there is nothing in the
world that can prejudice man 80 much
as to be charged with having imposed
upon someone for merCenary motives
when the trial came on and this man
who could have testified to that, who
could have subs antiated it if it had
been true was asked the question, each
one of the gentlemen who were inter-
ested in its being proven true for their
side of the case sprang to their feet at
once and objected to the question being
asked. We have been tried by jury
that has found us guilty. You will be
tried by Jury now that will find you
guilty
Being of an inquiring disposition or
turn of mind and having observed th at
there was something wrong in our So
cial system, l attended some meetings
of workingmen and compared what
they said with my own observation.
knew there was something wrong. My
ideas did not become settled as to what
was the remedy, but when they did l
carried the same energy and the same
determination to bring about that rem
edy that l had applied to ideas which l
had possessed wears before.
There is always period in every in
dividuals life when some sympathetic
chord is touched by some other person.