The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-17
The Ultimatum

fault has been that they preached uni
versal Justice, and opposed tyranny and
oppression both in the spirit and deed.
Yes, they have educated the people, and
now they are doubly interested in sniff
fing out the savorv odors of their own
carrion. They have used their corrupt
sheets to prove Truth lie and Justice
crime.
They throw sprats to fat labor organi-
cations in the shape of donations; buy
out their leaders hold out the left hand
of fellowship to workingmen, and smlte
them on the head with the right.
The editor of 7 HE ENQUIRER, }. X.
Buchanan, styles some of these so-called
labor iournals-for instance the Baltl-
more Free Press-who sit on the fence
and crow on both sides, "squawking
mud-hens" So well did the shoe fit that
it gave him kink in the jaw, which has
twisted his brain-pan out of joint. An
other batherskite editor has caught the
presidential fever and his bald pate is
aching for wheat-cake hat So
they play the role of the unjust Judge
and the defenders.
Bv what contortion of logic the over
wise perceptive faculties of the very
learned and just judicial fraternity have
arrived at the conclusion that SOCIALISM
has no place in America, has not yet
been defined, but the assertion does pre-
sent semblance of truth. For there is
no social equality, no SOCIAL Justice or
fraternity in this land of the boss and
home of t. slave. Slave? Yes, that's
the name Ever since my happy ad-
vent into this paradise of freedom, there
have been slaves, colored and white, of
all grades, but always wealth producers.
We used to console ourselves by saying
we were the slaves ofurcumstances But
who made the crcum 4tances? Why our
masters.
True it is promised a cold reception,
A few more deputy sheriff5 with VIM
chester rifles. A few more hired aSsassins
called PinkertonS, backed up bV patriotic
military heroes, who an shoot down de-
fenseess, starving people unchallvnged.
With such medicine and such warning,
Socialism will be able TO stand on hercu
lean legs and shake its fist defiantly at
the Sloan5 and Barretts. Perhaps it
might have the courage even to face a
Gresham.
See, Mr.. Police Courts, how handsome
the thing looks when the boot is on the
other leg. Majorites change con
stitutions or trAmpe them under foot
when they conflict with the will of the
people. They laugh best who laugh last
In 1878, Egarts, the honorable seCre
tary of state, issued his proclamation to
the wage class, of which this is bart
Under no circumstances must our fac
tories be idle. If our manufacturers
, cannot run their establishments profta
bly, and pay prevailing wages, our people
must help them to make profit by con-
senting to reduction of wages. The
American laborer must make up his
mind henceforth not to be 50 much bet
ter off than the European laborer. Men
must be content to work for less wages
In this way the workingman will be
nearer to that station in life to which it
pleased God to place him."
Thus we see that the college cultured
statesmen whose heads are swelled with
aristocratic buncombe are not fit tC
manage the affairs of a free people
Well, the American workIngmen did no
please to accept pauper wages that they
might make profit for their masters, ant
were convinced that they were quite a
near that station in which it pleased Goo
to place them as they wanted to be
Forthwith the required machinery was
put into operation. The country wa
flooded with cheap contract labor, bu,
they did not prove such ignorant, plant
tools as the save-drivers supposed.
They soon learned that their condition
was no better here than in their native
land. They were not like our American
people, beguiled with that article caIleC
freedom which allows them to be slaves
all the year and freemen on election
day. Then these emigrants have beer
taught that in America all men are free
and equal, or every man is the equal OF
his brother whether rich or poor. Thus
when their best interests are opposed
they think it is in perfect accordance
with freedom to remove the obiectiona-
BILE structure, which is in conformity
with the Declaration of Independence
The German and irish emigrants
have been succeeded by the Poles and
Hungarians the Poles and Hungarians,
by the Italians and a mixture of all
other nationalities, with the same re-
suits. This state of affairs finds the
"bum" bailiffs and capltal-mongers at
their wits end for 10! the poor emi-
grant, like Banquo's ghost, looms up to
plague them. All these millions of i'm
ported workers, with the vast army of
native born, who have been forced into
idleness by the monopoly of machinery
and other sources of greed, will organize
In solld phalanx and set the mill to
grinding the grist mill enactments con-