Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-17

took part in preparing the defense of said
receivers. The evidence taken by affidavit
and deposition was very voluminous, as
will appear by reference to the files in said
cause; that there wero several questions
of law of some difficulty which had to be
and were carefully examined by the coun-
sci aforesaid. That hearing of said
cause was had at Springfield, Ills, before
Hon Thomas Drummond, circuit Judge,
and Hon. John s. Treat, w. O. Gresham,
district judges; that in going to and re-
turning from the place appointed for the
hearing and presenting and arguing the
case. nearly one whole week of time was
consumed by all the counsel aforesaid, |
every night until a late hour being given |
to the case. And affiant says that he is |
acquainted with the usual rate of fees |
charged and paid for such business in said |
court, and that he believes the services of |
each of his said associates and of afiiant |
were reasonably worth the sum of 81 900 |
"'BENJAMIN HARRIsoN.'
HE says nearly one whole week of time
was consumed. And affiant says that he
is acquainted with the usual rate of fees
charged and paid for such business in
said court and that he believes the SER
vices of each of his said associates and
said affant We're reasonably worth the
sum of $1,000 Nearly one whole week
and reasonably worth $1,000 Men toll
ing, digging. standing at the throttle,
firing, risking life. encountering thou
sand lurking dangers for railroads paying
sums varying from 81 to So per day,
while attorneys for the same master think
nearly one whole weeks work is rea-
sonably worth 81 600 The whole lesson
is there"
After citing several instances of Gen.
Harrison's harsh prosecution of arrested
strikers, in refutation of the statement
that he was friend to the unfortunate
men, Mr.. Bailey thus continues: Il have
arraigned Benjamin Harrison at the bar
of public opinion. have recited record
In which the truth, unadorned. broad
based as pyramid, convicts him in the
minds of unprecedented men of inhumanity
to his fellow man, than which in the
whole catalogue of mans mental and
moral infrmities there is nothing that so
intensifes adherence. lnhumanity is
blind to restitution, it is deaf to the walls
of the oppressed. Mans inhumanity to
man has designed and set in operation
every instrument from the thumb screw
to the fagot, and Gen. Benjamin Harrison.
in clamoring for bayonets and bullets to
suppress railroad employees in the city
| of indianapolis in 1877, when they were
| demanding sufficient pay for their toll to
dispel darkness from their humble homes
and drive gaunt hunger away and lift
| the burden OF despair from dependent
| wives and children. did that which
| burned into the memory of the victims
impressions of his brutal cruelty as inef-
faceable as the imprint of Jebovahs hand
upon the hills and valleys of the earth.
have recited a record bristling with facts
| which must sting the consciousness of
workingmen like the lash of scorpions.
NO WORD OF SYMPATHY FOR THE oP-
| PRESSED.
Il have painted no fancy sketch. l
have not drawn upon my imagination to
| make a case against Gen. Harrison. l
have given You testimony. like Alpine
scenery, where Hills peep DER hills, and
Alps on Alps arise have given you the
statements of living men-truths as i'm
movable as the pillars of Gods throne
have placed Gen. Harrison in attitudes
deliberately chosen by himself. We see
him first in the posture of swollen pomp-
Gus arrogance. vengeful as an autocrat,
| denouncing workingmen driven to des-
peration by oppression, and bidding them,
as if they were chattel slaves, to return
| to their tasks. We have seen him coun-
selling armed force and threatening ven
geance if his words of terror were disre
garded We have heard his fife attuned
voice calling men to arms, and have seen
him in battle array tramping up
and down the streets of Indianapolis.
trigged out in sword and cap and shout
der straps at the head of an armed force
impatiently awaiting orders to make the
streets red and slippery with the blood of
workingmen. And when, by wiser coun-
sells, the storm had passed and not life
was lost nor dollars worth of property
| destroyed, we have seen this man Harri-
son, with vengeance unappeased and the
fires of his wrath unquenched. enter the
courts and volunteer his services, and
with sleuth hound ferocity pursue his
victims until they were behind prison
doors and prison bars. In all this dark
and repulsive record, bleak and ruthless,
there is not to Gen. Harrison's credit one
word of sympathy for these impoverished
workingmen; no word of kindness be-
tokening a noble soul; no tone in har-
mony with suffering; not one expression
to help the downtrodden to hold up their
heads in the conscious independence of al
American citizen.
such record in full view, what must
be the conclusion in the minds of work
ingmen, of railroad men of Indiana OF
the whole country? What it will be may
occasion debate; what it ought to be does
not admit of discussion. / make no ap
peal to the passions of men. If the blouses
of the railroad men of 1877 are without
rents made by bullets and bayonets, nc
feeling of gratitude is due to Benjamin
Harrison; if striker for Justice escaped
a felon's cell it was not because Gen
Harrison's tongue was silent; and If the
mad passions of men in 1877 did not glow
like heated steel, their escape from fire
and slaughter is not due to any pacific
words or acts of Benjamin Harrison
Around him, in the homes Of hi:
neighbors, were empty dinner bucket:
and empty -four barrels. The CRY
J was for bread and meat, for clothes
for the necessaries of life. Harrison
did not hear the cry 1t was drowned By
fife and drum and the tramp of soldiers
Is 1t the conclusion that workingmen vii
vote for him? VIII workingmen forget
ever forget, when the swelling veins OF
his brow throbbed with the hot blood o
his vengeance? There are wrongs which
to forget makes forgetfulness a crime
The vices Of men should be as monumental
as their virtues. He who ruthlessly add
I poignancy to the pangs of poverty is
monster, and he who strikes down tn,
} humblest soldier in the dinner buckle
brigades of the world that he may curr,
| favor with the oppressors of the poo
should no more be forgotten than Ner
, or an Arnold, and whether dead or alive
whether as gigantic as the Colossus o
, Rhodes or as pygmean as Gen Harrison
t they should ever stand in front of tn
D fires of mems fierce indignation Will
, right and justice have champion Oh
9 earth.
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