The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-01


wretches who own the roads called
for more blood by another reduc-
ton. @t4
The "riot and bloodshed'' was
brought on by starving women and
children who saw the plutocrats
paying ''scabs"-and they were q
loathsome, dirty breed of "scabs"
too O!-three times the wages asked
by honest men! And for what?
Simply to break the backs of the
regular force!
The 'lesson it taught" was one
that the plutocrat will remember
longer than the Knights. 1t taught
the former that millions of stolen
wealth would shrink into small COM
pass if they forced a few more strikes
that was the lesson taught. Never
did Labor strike fraudulent CAPT.
tai more terrible blow. The strike
was not a failure by any means.
That the "death knell of the
Knights of Labor has been sounded
is too palpable a falsehood for even
a plutocrat to ventilate. How is it
| that the corpse has united with the
Federated Associations?
| If "Our government is founded up
on equal rights to ALL" then it has
slipped from it's foundations. When
/ it gets so that confederated railway
] lines blacklist man because he quits
work when he wants to, and with
vast capital back up their conspiracy
l-then the government does not Sc
icure equal rights for all. Blacklist
ling is a simple conspiracy! When
fsthe Knights of Labor buy 500 tons of
coal in Indiana, and cannot get, by
an appeal, or by threat of the law, a
railroad in that state to ship it to
Chicago-then there is no equal
rights for all.
! "No one can long continue to op-
press another!'' No? Well, we
Thought they could. We thought
Pthe getting of two or three hundred
labOring men on to II and Ia hours
work day, and then compelling
them to accept starvation wages or
quit In a body, when their roads are
paying an enOrn GUS income on Ovigi-
nal Outlay)-We thought this was
oppression! The right to do this
does not exist any more than the
Shylock has the right to get his VIC
tim in q tight place and then apply
the screws Of susury issslss !,
"He who by industry, careful liv-
ing, correct habits and a determina-
tion to succeed in life, becomes apos-
SCISSOR, etc." Put it this way, YOU
banded plunderers: "He who by
fraud, subornation of perjury, lying,
deceit, cunning, legal wrongs, divi-
sion of stock which don't represent
dollar, watering the bonds, to get
more interest from more debt, buy
ing up Councils, bulldozing competi-
tors, reducing wages, etc., have
managed to get on top-he shall
have the protection of the American
government in taking advantage of
the wants of those he has robbed
That's the way to put it.
"SOme of the leaders with whom
the managers have been forced to
come in contact!' Alas, those over
hauls disgraced lavender pantalets
by cOntiguOusness of continuity did
they not? A French minister behind
the throne once advised the turbu-
lent poor to ''eat grass" One of the
first victims of the Revolution was
this minister with his mouth stuffed
with grass. We hope no strife will
ever come which will necessitate the
stuffing of pair of delicate lavender
breeches with a lot of old overhauls
1t might compromise his self-res-
pect." 1t might compromise the
poor mans stomach too.
The association congratulates it.
self that there will be no more strikes
1.-THE lesson has been we'll learned -
Well, Mr.. Bondsoaker, just turn on
the screws once more, and see if the
American labOrer is indeed broken
hearted puppy! "The control of
which by the sweat of his brow be-
comes his Own.'-Ye Gods! look
up the source of the Mississippi
River, and see if it is not the sweat
pouring down the brow, past the
nose and collar band and out at the
breeches legs of Tom Lowry and
Uncle Yerkes! Sweat! Sweat! Fan
fo16 6o1
Railway King sweats, we can call
this-wet weather. Tom-Hill must
use sweat when he writes up his
franchises.
Farmers Friend:
The vast millions of increased
wealth in our country, year by year,