Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-04-09
An Indignant Appeal.

Gould system of railroads at ST. LOUIS
and other points i'm the West and South
west have issued an earnest and indig-
nant address, because of their ill-treat-
ment by Jay Gould and his subordin-
ates. 1t is as follows:
"To the Workingmen 81 the World
Friends and Brothers: Hear US, for we
plead for our right. Men of equity look
upon US, for we struggle against giants
Of wrong. Mad with the frenzy OF
pride and self-adulation, begotten as it
is of the success of outrage and infamy,
there stands before US giant OF aggre-
gated and incorporated wealth, every
dollar Of which is built upon blood, in-
justice and outrage. The giant of cor
porate wealth has centralized its power
in and is impersonated in the eager
fiend who gluats as he grinds the life
out of his fellow-men, and grimaces and
dances as they writhe upon his instru
ments of torture.
80, We workingmen of America, who
love your liberty and your native land;
We great creators of wealth, who stand
as the foundation of all national good,
look upon your brothers to-day. Gould,
the giant fiend-Gould, the money
monarch, is dancing, as he claims, over
the grave of our order-over the ruin OF
our homes, and the blight of our lives.
Before him the world has smiled in
beauty, but his wake is 4 graveyard OF
hopes, a cyclones path of devastation
and death. Our strong arms have grown
weary in building in building the
tower of strength, and yet he bids us
build on or die. Our young lives have
grown gray too soon beneath the strain
of unrequited constant toll. Our loved
ones at home are hollow. checked and
pale with long and weary waiting for
better days to come. Nay, more than
this, the graveyards are hiding his VIC
tins from our longing eyes.
"BrOther Workmen: This monster
fiend has compelled US TO toll in cold
and rain for five and fifty cents day.
Others have been compelled TO yield
their time to him for II and sc weary
hours for the pittance Of Q hours pay.
Others who have dared to assert their
manhood and rebel against his tyranny
are black-listed AMI boycotted all over
the land. He has made solemn COM
pacts with the highest authority in our
order, and then has basely refused to
fulfill his pledge.
"lIe lives under and enjoys all the
benefits of a republican form Of govern
ment, and yet advocates and perpetuates
the most debasing form Of white sla-
very. He rObs the rich and poor, the
high and low with ruthless hand and
then appeals to corrupt and purchased
courts 10 help him take our little ones
homes away. He breaks our limbs and
mains our bodies and then demands
that we shall release him from every
claim for damage or be blackliSted for
ever.
Gle goes to our g.ocers and persuades
them not to give us credit because we
refuse to be ground in his human mill.
He turns upon us Il horde OF lawless
things, who shoot among our wives and
children with deadly intent, and then
he bowls for government help when he
get his pay in coin alike.
"Fellow- workmen, Gould must be
overthrown. His giant power must be
broken, or you and must be slave for
ever. The Knights of Labor alone, have
dared TO be David to his Goliah. The
battle is not for to-lay-the battle is not
for tomorrow, but for the trooping gen-
Grafton in the coming ages Of the world
for our children and our children's
children. lis the great question of the
age: Shall we in the coming ages be Il
nation of free men or nation OF slaves?
The question must be decided now.
The chains are already forged that are
to bind us. Shall we await until they
are riveicl upon our limbs? May God
forbid. Workmeu of the world, mar
shall yourselves upon the battlefield.
Workmen of every trade and cline, into
the fray. Gould and his monOpolies
must 70 down, or your children must
be slaves. Think of the little olive
plants around your hearthstones that
will be blighted 10y his curse. Think OF
the little home he is seeking TO rob yon
of. Think of the wife from whose eyes
he has wrung floods Of tears, and from
whose heart he has tortured drops of
blood.
"Who can look calmly upon his per-
fidy. his outrage and his crime? For he
hiss sought to incite felony among our
rank and Ale. He has bought the per-
fidy of vile men to entrap the unwary,
that he might stain our fair name and
gloat over misfortunes. Once for all
fello w-workmen, arouse!
Let every hand that tolls De lifted to
Heaven, and swear by Him that liveih
forever, tuat these outrages must cease.
Let every heart and brow be turned to-
ward our common foe. And let no man
grow weary until, like Goliath, our
giant is dead at our feet"
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