Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-05-20
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NASb1s
Mr.. Nasty, Pending His Appointment
to the Postoilce, Offers His Ser.
vices to the Down-Trodden
Laborer.
CoNFEDERIr X ROADS,
(Which is in the State Nv Kentucky
May 1st, 1886.
I can't understand why President
Cleveland does not send on my CON-
mishu ez Postmaster Nv the Corners,
and relieve me and Bascom from the
terrible strane that is onto us. amt
very tender-harted, and KIN run ac-
count ez long ez most men without
blanching, but 1 am gettin to feel
sorry at times for Bascom. He hez
charged up my likker to me in a
weery sort Nv way, for SO long time
that l begin TO rely think it high time
that either 1 pay suthin on akkount,
or commence payin cash for wat I
consoom from day to day. lam not
totally abandoned.
To help Bascom out I hev deter
mined, while I am waitin, to offer
my services to any labor organiza-
shen that needs sich man ez / am.
feel that I am pekoolyerly fitted
fur this field-jist ez much SO ez any
perfeshnel Labor Reformer that ever
yawped.
Among my qualifcashens the fol-
lerin are the most conspicuous:
1 hev, perhaps, the strongest jaw
Nv any man on the continent. l hev
talked on the rites Nv man in ten.
acre feeled fur five consecutive hours.
and Good hev continyood indefinitely
eff ther he'd bin any body left fur me
to talk to.
To be Nv yoose ez leeder and re-
ceever NV contribooshens in any re
form q man must hev his heart in hi
: work. 1 hev alIuz sympathised will
; the down-trodden laborer. Nothll
so moves me ez to see any man work
; ceptin a niggel, which wuz born to
heritage Nv labor I hate labor will
i. a intensity wich knows no bounds.
1 hev alluz abslootly refoosed to d
q any labor myself, and never did bu
I once in my life. That wuz in No
8 Jersey, 35 years ago, when I WI
convicted Nv vagrancy by a cold
hearted, labor-oppressin Jestis Nv th
Peece, who found me gilty Nv appre
priatin shirts from cloze-lines in th
!, still hours Nv the mite, and sentence
). me to 80 days Nv hard labor in
n stone-yard. Sentencin men to stone
At yards in Moo Jersey is no joke.
meens biznis. They don't feed yo
r. with quale on toast there, nor ca
70 you dawdle at your work. Yoo worl
yoo do. 1t was then that the ire
entered my sole. After 80 days
es that institooseen swore a sellu
d. oath that wood never work agin.
ae Ihev KEEP my oath!
y I hate capitalist, no matter ho
"a he becum one. hate the NEE
ne spirited, grovelin reich wich will wo
ly ten or more hours a day, depriv'
IT. himself Nv beer, and terbacker, al
es ;s keerds, and bilyards and hoss-raci
be and sich, savin penny by penny
ng he hez ground enuff out Nv the wo,
to hev shop Nv his own. and to eI
to ploy other men to slave fur him, a
M thus go on akkumulatin till he ow
~ ~ things. Sich men are monopolis
m. and the enemies of laber, and grin
i'd ers.
ed I hold that the possession of I
DC dollar bill makes monopollst, a
~ I all sich shood be crushed. Ez he
em a ten dollar note makes a man a n
nopolist his monopolisin increa
in jist in proporshen to the ten dol
tor bills be hez. The owner Nv a fac
'eo ry is enemy to the human race, a
nos 10, ez for the man wich bids a ralere
Md he
rtv "Is monster Nv sich hidgus meen,
- That to be hated needs but to be seen."
ea- My hatred NV raleroad manag
hat is intense. 1t commenst with
md fust time I wuz dropped off the h
'eo platform Nv trane for not pa
49,. fare, and bez increest with every I
rec etishun Nv the offense, wich gene
the ly happens every time I want to
m. anywhere. I loathe the raleroad !
nus nopolist.
'no ~ A grindin monopolist is any I
this wich hez anything. Whenever
nth man hez saved anything he beco
'stl- a capitalist, and ez capitalists
. .er dangerous to laber he shood be m
.on. to divide it up SO ez to be on e
8 of ity with them wich never saved n
oled in.
to The mechanic or workingman ,
l. saves so ez to own O house Or I
becomes capitalist and conseke
a grindin monopelist, and ez acco
olashens are dangerus to laber
he hez shood be confistikated
1.a. divided up among us wich be
anything. Property is crime.
., amt list shoor that / hev got