The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-13
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Corporations. ii has VOL been
said. are soulleS-. Their entire his |
tory in this country has deinOn-tia'-
ed the truth OF the saying. Incos
D t:st,.. capitalists. whose mantlfae-
fnicl goods we're protected 10 the
extent OF prohibiting the importa
ton oil goods coming into compete /
ton, became 80 avalicious, and 80
hostile TO American laboring men
that they sent their elnissaries to the
most debased among all the nations
OF Europe. employing the cunsnlS.
sent ont 10 represent our govern
ment by republican presidents to
procure and purchase the panpers
and criminals OF Europe to come
here TO snpplant American labor IN
the factories and in the mines. These
criminals on their arrival were given
fire arms and instructed to shoot
down American laborers upon the
slightest interference with their
work, which in numberless instances
was done. And SC notorious had
this practice Of buying panper and
criminal labor in Europe become
under the hypocritical cry Of the re-
publican party OF its Protection to
American Labor" that law Of
congress became necessary to pro-
hibit the importation Of pauper and
criminal labor under contract. And
now these panper5 and criminals
imported by capitalists to shoot
American citizens and laborcrs have
turned against those who imported
them, and are shooting down Amer
lean citizens discharged by the cap
italists from their employ. while pro-
tecting their lives and property.
The Poles and Bohemians Of Chica-
go who have been marching with a
red flag, throwing bombs and dynn-
mite and indulging in indiscrilninate
slaughter OF innocent people were
imported by capitalists in this coun.
try for this very work, and while
doing it In the interest Of capital
their victims were simply molly
Magnires.' Now that capital gets q
dose of the medicine it had provided
for labor one would think it had al
ways been opposed to such methods.
In New York City fourteen Of the
twenty-four aldermen are under in.
dictment for bribery in connection
with granting a street railway char.
ter to some capitalists of the city.
This corporation worked its condnc-
tors from 5 o'clock in the morning
till half past 3 o'clock ut night ut
the penurious price Of Sl.2J. These
laborers "wickedIy' (D demanded
more pay from corporation that
was annually robbing the public Of
millions and bribing its public SER
wants to donate to it without pay to
the public the right to convert its
public thorougLfares into street rail-
way property. The result was a
strike OF the conductors. And not.
withstanding the terrible lesson that
hired ruftians who haG turned upon
the protected criminals that had i'm.
ported them, in Chicago, but two
days before, President Lyon, OF the
Third Avenue Railway in New York
last Thursday thus boastingly talked
to the public. as reported in the
New York Star:
I'VE have seven cowboys running
''cars now, aud we expect fifty more
ITO morrow. They are ugly GUS
TONERS to tackle, / can tell YOU
'Some Of them hail from Texas and
the Southwest, and others are from
the western prairies. I warned
them to steer clear OF the strikers
when going home at night, and
they all cried: Not much. We're
looking for Il fight and nothing would
suit W. better than to get into one
When these cowboys turn theil
weapons upon President Lyon and
his associates, they will gladly &C.
cept the protection which their re.
Gently discharged employees, like
tue American citizens, will render
to them.
!, For Fifteen years the independent
uubought newspapers Of tho coun.
try have been warning capital OF the
coming conflict, not to intimidate 1t
but that it might remedy the wrongs
it wa, imposing upon labor that al
occasion for complaint might be re.
moved.
| This is to remain government 81
law, and its local authorities, as un.
der the noble management OF Mayor
Harrison was done in Chicago, mus1
be and remain the bulwark Of The
people against the Cloths and Hun,
employed by corporate vandalism t
over awe the true American either
Of birth or adoption.
A Few Words in Confidence /,