The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-13

"oTAtnen SnOul1 occupy hlgher plane
and are entitled TO better recognition. III
did not care for the markets of the world
This country is rapidly accommodating popu
lation, and he wants to build up a yeonanry
to supply our own market. Let it worl
less hours and have more hours to study
and educate, for il is the cunning bralr
which guides a skillful hand. Labor sale
the speaker, creates all values; it should
have great share of the values it creates
labor is the grand creator"
ORGANIZATION AND THE BALLOT.
The speaker argued that perfect organiza
tiou and the ballet box afford the only mean,
through which labor can secure its just
sharre Of earnings. Capital organized sub
ordinates the public good, Legislatures fee
the power of corporate wealth. the insidu-
GUS influence of corporate power; it iuhu-
ences If 1t does not control the Congress of
the United States and has dragged the err
mine of the Supreme Court of New York in
| the mlreo The mission of the knights of
Labor he contended is to preserve the country
in the purity in which it was founded and
as the fathers gave it to us; to create a pub
lie opinion for the preservation Of our free
| institutions. Enterprise and labor are nat
ural allies and friends. Labor protects
| honest capital. Usury sucks the life out Of
| both enterprise and labor. When an at
tempt is made to strike down labor, it is a
|
enterprise from the grasp Of corporate
| wealth.
A CONSERVATIVE POWER.
The speaker argued that the Knights Of
Labor are great conservative power to
preserve order, and he cited the fact that
the country had unorganized labor in 1877,
and as a result property disappeared in
gre and smoke, and men were shot down
in the streets In the same State there has
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organized labor and corporate wealth. and
the telegraph has brought no such tidings
of destruction to life and property. The
order was sworn around the altar of Knight
hood to uphold the law and it had done so.
The speaker, waxing eloquent as he depicted
the changed condition of affairs, said: IL
would strike down the man VINO would use
the bomb of the dynamiter or the dagger of
the assassin This sentiment was enthusi-
astically cheered.
The ends which the order expects to at
tain cannot be attained in day Men do
not plant mushrooms to grow oak trees.
The acorn must be planted and coming up
must be watered and tended for years, and
after 200 years later it will shade and shell
ter. The order Of the Knights of Labor is
not for to-day, but for all time Knights
will call their children to their bedsides in
the closing hour and the order will be be-
queathed from sire to son until there is
liberty to labor and emancipation to the
toiIing millions of the earth.
THE LABOR PROBLEM.
Mr.. Litchman likened the labor problem
to triangle, whose sides are production,
consumption and distribution. Given the
power of distribution he could starve the
producer and bring the distributor or mer-
chant TO bankruptcy and insanity. When
either OF the three sides of the triangle gets
more than its share the other Cwo lose, and
the consumer usually loses the most, because
the other two get whack at him. A dollar
day measures the size of the houss the
laborer occupies, the kind of clothes the
family must wear, the size of the loaf of
bread, whether it shall be cut in thin
slices or thick, and whether 1t shall be
buttered on one side or both, or on neither
side. The death rate increases with the
advance in prices of the necessities of life
Increase the power of labor to consume. he
said, and you increase the prosperity of the
people But as the price of food increases
the inferior quality that labor must use in
creases disease and mortality. 81 hold.n
said the speaker with great earnestness,
THAT the man who conspires to raise the
price of food is a murderer and should re-
ceive murderer's punishment 1t IS more
merclful to shoot me down upon the street
than to rob my table of the food which sus-
tains the life of myself and wife, and nv
little onesn
LABOR MUST BE CARED FOR.
He held that before the war the aged
black, after a life of toll was given a hut
or home on the old plantation and was
kindly cared for. Now labor found nothing
at the end of years of labor but the poor
house. He did not Include the rum gllzzler
An increase of wages means to that man
greater opportunities to g9zze. He is the
first to strike. He is the first to turn
''scab." He is always ready to be
speaker said he did not want to
be understood as trying to cram his temper
ance principles down the threats of his
hearers, but, said he, "they would do YOU
more good than the whisky some of YOU
cram down your threats, " The speaker then
launched into TRADE against the rumseller
runlseller is interdicted from becoming a
member of the order. He may be a nice
man, but his business is damnable." said
Mr. Litchman.
OPPOSED TO WHISKY.
Visiting, some time ago, a city in New
York where tn re was a strike, committee
of five met him and drove him to a barroom
where So was expended before leaving the
place, and this at a time when the workmen
were soliciting aid from their brethren
abroad. Mr.. Lltchman said that when he
was taken TO the hall he made q stirring an
peal to the members not to patronize the
rumsellers any longer On his second visit
to the place. he said, and in the same hall
a woman came down the aisle weeping.
and taking him by the hand blessed him
and thanked him. He asked what she was
thanking him for, and she alluded to his
appeal for the members to be sober men
She said her husband had heretofore been
drinking man, but from that day up to
now he has never patronized the rumseller.
and she added: 'You don't know how
happy my home is.n
This incident deeply affected the audience
"Clothe your own wife" added Mr. Litch-
man after pause, 'and let the rum-seller
clothe his. Do this and your homes will be
happier, and there will soon he no reason
why you should not have hall as magni6
cent i'll all its appointments as the one we
are in tonight"
AGAINST LABOR-sAvING MACHINERY,
He inveighed against labor-saving ma |
chimney because it degrades by sub-dividing |
labor. The accumulation of two-hundred |
mllllonalreS III ten years means, he said. |
100000 tramps. Until the system of |
regulating values is changed the army of |
tramps will exist.
He advocated public schools. He wanted
education as free rs the raindrops which
fall from heaven and the air which we
breathe" adding parentheticallv, THANK
Tod, no monopoly has been abba To hottle n !