The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-02

until the workingmen used the weapon
in self defense. It all depends on
whose OK is gored. Let them pass all
the criminal laws they like but they
cant compel US to buy scab's goods.
We should never boycott without
cause, but we should boycott as hard
rs we strike.
Seven-tenths Of the farmers in the
Carolinas are tenants 1T will. In Ire
land q tenant can beat . landlord out
Of . years rent. but In Carolina
farmer cannot beat his landlord out of
seven days rent. We hear much Of the
New South but the corporations own
it. A farmer seldom sees his rent for
his crop is mortgaged before it is
taken out Of the ground. To 60 on
the platform and tell the truth in the
south means funeral. The cotton
corporations own every town and the
children work from 4. nj. to 9 p. m.
for Is cents day. Bricklayers, car
penters and stone -masons 81. 90 to 81. so
day. Still they tell us that we should
not strike, that our interests are mu-
tual. Our interests are really those of
buyer and seller and we have nothing
to expect from the employer. When
the employer takes advantage Of the
necessities of the employe he calls this
..busincss. Well, it is our business
to get compensation that will make the
common people happy. The man who
pays 81 day to the man Mho produces
81 q day for him is as much robber
as Jesse James. Jesse ordered our
hands up while the employer
points the revolver at our head.
Our present civilization Is SIM
ply barbarism silyer-lined, and we are
simply contending for civilization, that
our houses should be what God intend
ed-happy and neat. In our present
civilization we depend on our success
for the destruction of human life and
property. The war illustrated this.
The soldiers who went home were EN-.
ployed at good wages. Those who
stayed at the front were lily recon-
pensed. The four Grand Army posts
at East Saginaw. Mich. rendered their
services during labor trouble. The
employers said: mo; they are in SYM
pathy with the strikers; they cannot
be depended on" He resented this
and then invited all present who were
not Knights to join the order. You
must: he said. protect yourselves. He
would be protectionist il Uncle Sam
would compel the protected manufac
turer to share the benefits of protec
ton with his employees instead of com
pelling the latter to strike to get it
II an American shoemaker finds that !;
factory in Canada has closed down h,
reduces wages 10 per cent. II the EN-
ployes complain he imports the idls
men from Canada. He had seen wive
and children "protected' ou
of their homes and into tent
in mid-winter. They say we mus
economic. That wont do, for W,
produce more than we use and th'
more we economize the greater is th'
business mans cry of ..over-produc
tion.' The fault is unequal distribu
ton and inadequate compensation. Tn
employers who pay girls prices whicl
will not allow them to live decently ar,
responsible for the moral degradation
of those girls even though they pra,
ever SO we'll in church. This is ,
moral movement which aims to saw
your daughters. The laborer has
right to wear good clothes and If h
can not have them now it is because b
does not receive fair pay. Mr.. Barr.
advised his hearers to read and atten,
the Knights Of Labor meetings.
i Mr.. Barry then related his experienc
in the south whittier he went to settl
labor trouble. The man who owne'
the town misrepresented him to . crow,
of dependents. They determined t
lynch him, and gave him fifteen min
utes in which to say his prayers. H
devoted the time to making speecl
and when he had concluded the crow
! was divided in sentiment and he wa
permitted to depart. He spoke Of th
, need of organization in the south. TIL
employers, he said, regardless Of rae
or political or religious creed forr
boards Of trade and cotton and corr
, exchanges to protect their interests an
the work inOman Sh0nld do the same