Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-24
THE GREAT-OUESTiON.
To the Editor offhe tnClr

To the Editor OF the tsGle-
Previous 10 1861 the army, The navy
and the courts of Justice were trinity
of unrignteousness; uphoiding chatte!
slavery Even the church. ALWAYS con-
scrvative, declared the accarscd thing
was pairiarchal institution. The
virus of slavery permeated The body
polite and cur statesmen abjeciiv
bent the knee 10 Baal. la few years
q mighty revolution took place; the
slaye-.ords were defeated, and We
hoped that man would be blessed by a
higher, a hulIcr. and a noblcr civiliza-
ton thar, any which proceeded il. BUT,
alas, for human hopes; the lords OF the
ran are today more pow crful for evil
than The slave-lords were in the past.
In proof of this assertion, | have only
to refer t. the massacre nj st. Louis.
infamous act, but also those
who hired them should be visited with
the scycrcst penalties of the law. AZ
ter reading the following advertise
ment no honest man can doubt the
nature OF the business these nine as
sassins were hired 10 perform.
LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE II. II. Co.
Wanted-(ioo6 men to act rs deputy mar
shals at East St. Louis, 20 protect the prop
erty of this company. Five dollars per day
will be paid and board furnished. Only
men who have plenty of grit and mean
business need apply.
T. S. GENUG, Agt.
These hired despcradoes meant "bus-
mess when they foully murdered
eight or nine unoflending citizens, and
among them one woman. How long,
q Lord. how .ong will the sovereign
people allow these railroad mag
mates TO pursue course of reck-
less pl.nder, oppression and inhu-
manity?
The functions of government have
been usurped by these corporations
and the system which allows few
men TO rob the millions of farmers,
mechanics and business men, must be
abolished; or the producers of wealth
must submit to the degradation of be-
ing mere muscular slaves. Compulso-
nv arbitration would prevent in a
slight degree the brutality aud des-
potism of this dangerous class of rail-
Int satn l.s
of the roads is the only rational means
which can save the people from the
grinding oppression of railroad corpo-
rations. Then the roads would be OPP
Grated for-the benefit of TIE people
and not as at present, for the benefit
of favored class. Men must work
for starvation wages as railroads are
now conducted in order that these
magnates and other capitalists
may draw big dividends with
which 10 buy up our state aud
national legislature. The Knights of
Labor are the abolitioni>ts of TO-DAY:
they are the advanced guard of free
dom combating powerful and un-
scrupulous enemy.
Will they succeed?
Yes: as sure rs the aboli,ionists of
81 succeeded.
The labor-saving machinery Of the
nineteenth century should be the
means of blessing mankind. II is now
used for their enslavement. If this
state of affairs were to continue |
would doubt not only the goodness.
but the very existence of a God. The
best men of this country are ranging
themselves an the side of labor
A reverend brother declared
that the preachers should join
the Knights of Labor, and he had
the honesty 10 tell his hearers that the
trout lie with the church was that ii
was controlled by the money power.
When the educated and moral classes
express such noble sentiments. we NAV
hope that the time is not far distan;
when Gods will shall be done on
earth as it is done in heaven" Yours
piously, One OF THE Macs.
Glen Mary Farm, April -, 1856.