The Labor enquirer., 1886-08-21

circumstances, and thatthlS condition oil
things was the fanlt, not of the working.
men, but of those who claimed the right
to control and regulate the rights of the
workingmen. F. S#..r
II pointed out the fact that monopoly
in its course in grinding down labor in
this country and in refusing to concede
anything to them, refusing any conces,
sions whatever; that in doing this thing
it was creating reyolutionists, and if
there was single revolutionist in Amer
lea monopoly and corporations we're re-
sponsibIe for his existence in this coun-
try. l specifically crlled attention to
this fact in or Ter to defend myself from
the charg 8 being made constantly
through the mouthpiece ofthe capitalist
press. l called attention in this con
nectlon to the Chicago Times and to
other newspapers. | called the attention
of the working people that night to the
strike of 1877 when the Chicago Times
declared that hand grenades should be
thrown among the striking sailors who
were upon strike then upon the river
wharves in this city, in order to teach
them lesson, and other strikers might
be warned by their fate. l said then
that the Chicago Times was the first
dvnamiter in America, and as the
mouthpiece of monopoly and corpora
tions it was the first to advocate the
killing of peo pie when they protested
against wrong and oppression. l spoke
of another Chicago paper which at that
dav advocated that wbn charity was
given to the poor to put strYchnine
upon it. | also called attention to Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Paper, which de-
Clared in an editorial that the American
toiler must be driven to his task either
by the slave drivers lash or the imme-
diate prospect of want. | spoke of the
New York Herald and what it said
about it, where it said thai lead should
be given to tramp who should come
around. Whenever a working man is
thrown out of employment and forced
to wander from place to place in search
of work, away from his family and
home. The New York Herald said that
when you asked for crust of bread it
advised those to whom you applied for
relief to fill you with lead instead of
bread.
81 called attention to what Tom Scott
said in the strike of 1877. Give them
the rife diet, said Mr.. Scott, the railway
monopolist, and see how they will like
that kind of diet. l referred to jay
Gould, when he said we would shortly
have monarchy in this government, t,
and to the indianapolis Journal. l had
these papers to nv tongues end. Then
l referred to how monopoly was putting
these threats into practice they not
only used these threats but put them
into practice, and l cited East st. Louis,
where Jay Gould called for men and
paid them S. day for them to fire upon
harmless, innocent, unarmed working
men, killing line of them and one
woman in cold blooded murder. | re-
ferred to the Saginaw va ley, where the
militia was used to put down strikes. l
referred to Lemont, Illinois, where de-
ienseless and innocent citizens and theil
town were invaded by the militia of the
state of Illinois. and without any pre-
text men, women and children were
fred upon and slaughtered in cold blood
| referred to the Mccormick strike of
the previous day, and l denounced it as
an outrage-the action of the Police at
that place-and l asked the working
men if tn ,se were not facts, and if mo-
nopolv aud corporations were not re-
sponsible for this condition of things
if they were not driving the people into
this condition of things. And then
used some words or some phrase in con
nectIon with the use of the military and
the police and the Pinkerton thugs, tc
shoot down worklngmeh, to drive them
back into submission and to starvation
wages.
Il then referred to Chicago paper ot
the day before. Ny attention had been
called to it on Tuesday afternoon. In
an editorial it stated the fact that Par
sons and Spies melted this trouble at
McCormick's, ought to be lynChed and
driven out Of the city, and | was away
from Chicago in CINCINNATI at the time
| called attention to this fact. | callet
attention further to the fact that these
papers were unnecessarily exciting the
people against the workingmen thai
there was nothing in this movement cal
culsted to arouse any such feelings.
denied the charge of these papers tina
we were sneaks aud towards, aud l de
fed them to run US out of the city.
pointed to the fact that the cap talistiC
newspapers of Chic tgo-lt was notorious
that everyone of them was subsidized
agent and organ of Monopoly; that they
all held stocks aud bonds in corporations
and RAILWAYS ofthis city, and that nc
man could be nominated for an alder
man of this city unless he had the sane
ton of some one of these corporation:
and monupolies, and such things in tina
connection.
''Then | said: 4 am not here, fellow