The Indianapolis journal., 1886-04-16


for knights of Labor.
report of Speech at Louisville
"We, the people, come to take charge of this
government; peaceably If we can, but we are
going to have it. don't want to be the one to
baptize our Congress into their new life. for
am afraid would anchor them out for an hour
Suppose your child only costs you 20 cents
o day for education and rearing it; by time it is
IA years old, or able to make living for itself,
it has cost either you or the government 800.
When Europe sends over man or boy she
gives America $700, gives you one who does
not cost for rearing. The man or newspaper
that says that pauperism comes from Europe
hasn't sense enough to be a common fool. A
man OR woman that works from sunrise to sun
set with their hands coupled to the machines of
this day, earns So whether they get it or not.
Two million men and women in America are un-
employed. Every time the sun rises and
sets $6000000 are lost to America
forever. What does 1t mean2 It means that
10000 boys and girls are going to bed hungry,
and driven to theft and other crime to keep
from starving while few thieving ours hoard
the millions. What the world calls statesmen
say it is overproduction. They know nothing
and think OF nothing except that they and their
party stay in power There are but two parties
the skinned and the skinner. You people are
the skinned. You say you are Democrat You
miserable galoots, If you had gone to sleep be-
fore the last election and had just awaked, do
you think you could tell which was in power?
You workingmen earn all there is earned. You
don't get it, but You earn It. No. money don't
make money. When you loan 1000 you don't
make 10 per cent; you get that much OF the
other fellows money. A government among
the children of men that issues money that will
draw three times what it produces is a liar,
cheat and a robber. Take the best lands of
Kentucky, and the men who work them do
not make more than d per cent. on the
money invested in them. What does the
money borrowed to run them cost? Three times
that amount. and again say that the govern
ment that allow it is cheat, a liar and a robber
and the people who support it are fools. Oh, yes,
you for your fellow in the election, and what
does your fellow or anybody else's do when they
ret in but to bark when they are asked by the
Operations by whom they are hired? You call
lis government / call it band of men doing
ae bidding of the grandest set of robbers that
vver went unhanged. There are just two forms
fgovernment-the autocrat and the democrat
The democrat can do anything the autocrat can.
! Suppose Mr.. Cleveland should say tomorrow, 4
declare war He couldn't declare war against
green-legged frog unless he said, as President
of these people, No form of government is so
dangerous as democratic republic of ignorant
people. You galoots could be asked q few
simple questioue about your government, and
would not be able to answer of them. and
yet do not wish your mother or your sister to
vote. because a woman doesn't know anything
about government You don't like it
either because the Knights of Labor are
taking women into their society. If there
is anything in it that you want to hide
from them you had better stay out of it. When
the windows OF mans place OF business are
blinded up (the saloons1, don't you 60 in them;
there is something dead in there Stay out,
and spend the time in filing your empty head
with some sense Some of you object to strikes.
IL the morning papers were to announce that
the coal dealers had meeting and decided to
raise the price of coal 80 cents on the ton would
it he called strikef No But should the
miners meet and decide that they should have
SO cents more ton for tEeir work. they would
be filled with the strike, the strike. have no
sympathy with these simpletons who say that
labor has no right to put the price on their own
labor. Who hast You fool. composed of shoes,
pants and collar, did you ever work? The mo-
ment we get in power you will work, or die. If
you can't do something. for Gods sake git If it
wasn't for the law of Moses we would wiring your
necks now; but a body might be hung for killing
nothing You don't believe in boycotting, and
you came near passing bill to prevent it By
heaven. il you do you will find that America is
big enough to put you ont of the Union.
Clarence Powderly. as poor boy, was boy
cotted because he was the president of the
Knights OF Labor when it was in its infancy.
Boycott him now. and we win make him Presi-
dent of the United States, and you be careful,
you scoundrels that you are not hanged by the
neck The knights Of Labor say that there is
oas TWO ways to settle LnlS exlSting trouDio De-
tween capital and labor The first is for every
one Of you who work for wages to take what is
given you, never grumble, and there will be no
more strikes Second, knighthood says you
SHALL appoint D committee. They shall approach
he foreman or the proprietor, and if he does not
Aear them as a committee, they shall appoint a
committee 10 meet yours snd between them Sc
lect an arbitrator. by whose decision the Knights
ssf Labor will always abide. Gould agreed to do
This, and now the scoundrel dares to deLy that
he did. Arbitration will end strikes We want
our freedom and We must have II. / want you
TO feel that by your cleanliness Of character that
you are the nobility of the world; that the ma
chinist that turns the iron into the grandeur of
locomotive, and the man who cleans your
streets and prevents disease and the death of
women and children is Thousand times more
noble than all the tight-pant dudes you can rear
Ia forty years"
He concluded By urging workingmen to use,
Ill legal means in effort to strengthen the