Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-17
wORKINGMEN, STAND FIRM!
Use the Ballot to the Best Advantage on
Election Day-DO Not Defeat
Your Sincere Friends.

In the following article, which is taker
from the Nanticoke San, the attention
of the workingmen of this county il
called to the power they hold for doing
good or evil in the next election. Reac
it and reflect upon it before voting or
November s.
Every laboring man in Luzerne Coun.
ty, no matter what his affiliations may
be, serious or politically, or whether he
is connected with a labor organization OF
not, will agree with us that Terrence V.
Powderly is fearless, outspoken cham
pion of the poor and man whose ad-
wise to his followers is always wise and
candid. And after repeated failures in
many methods of redress, after the col
lapse of numberless strikes and upris-
ings of a similar character, Powderly
has spoken upon the subject of the
toilers grievance and his true redress.
He says away with strikes, away with
mobs, violence and all their mistaken
PHILOSOPHERS. He gives the working
man a stronger weapon. "You have a
ballot-a vote-use it as sword of fire
to strike at all your wrongs. The ballot
is the freeman's sword in free land.
Let him use it well and his foes shall
fall before him."
The soldier who fears to lift his sword
against. his foe is a coward, and the
workingman who uses his ballot falsely
to his own veal is traitor to his home
and kindred and the generations that
are yet unborn to suffer hunger, poverty
and distress. Workingmen should vote
for their friends and against their enc
mics, no matter how the timbers of
political parties may totter. We do not
say these things now to infiame mems
minds in the heat of campaign, but
only to tell such truths as an honest
journal should speak in all seasons. If
the men of toll had not been so blind to
their own interests in the past their con-
dition would be better to-day than they
have ever dreamed it could be. They
are cursed because they have voted into
office, again and again, men who have
compassed them with villianous laws
laws that added to the rich mans store
and constantly took something from the
pitiful pittance of the poor. Is this not
true, men of toil2 Who among you will
stand forth to gainsay the truth of one
single word Of all we say?
Very well, then And now will You
vote for Charles T.. Rice? Has he been
your steadfast friend? Does the Mine
Examining board OF lnlS (NantlcoKe)
district suit you? Is it, the board,
recommended by organized labor
Name one poor man that he has ever
appointed to office.
Will you vote against George Steg-
maier, who, in the last legislature, ac-
cording to the testimony of Representa-
tives Gallery, Williams and Davis,
Senator Hines and all his colleagues,
also the chairman of the X of l.. legis-
lative committee, who say that he was
an uncompromising and vigilent friend
of every labor bill that came up for
passage?
viii you vote against Joe McGinty,
the trusted Knight of Labor the Eber-
vale miner? McGinty, whom you sent
to your conventions and who has never
yet betrayed you? He is your own
vote against him if you will
Come, workingmen, it is time to be
honest, time to be true to your friends.
Let the politician go to the rear. By
his deeds shall a man be known. You
know your men. Do not be ungrateful
to them. See that their names are on
your ballots next election day.