St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-28
Red Hot Shot Poured Into Or
ganized Labor by a Mas
ter Builder.
He Charges That Young
America Is Completely
Crushed Down
By the Tyranny Of the Pres
ent System of Organized
Labor.
The Time Come for the Dec
laration Of Industrial In
dependence.

One of the features of the convention
of master builders yesterday was an ad-
dress delivered by Richard Deeyes. of
New York, on the theme, "The National
Importance of the Industrial Education
of the Youth of the Country" The adj
dress was received with such applause
that it may be stated it voiced the senti-
ment of the convention. 1t was in
brief. scathiug rebuke to the present
system and leadership of the labor Of
CARNATIONS. The first portion was
historical review to show the advance
ment of the race until it has eliminated
in the American ingenuity and Ameri-
can prosperity of to-day. But, he argued.
these proud possessions are in danger of
being lost to US. There is danger to the
republic through the loss of her ar
tisans. growing out of the labor organi-
ZatiOns-a vast body controlled and
operated by few unprincipled and I'M
scrupulouS men. Said he: "What would
be thought by the people of this nation,
or how long would they tolerate it, If
all the farmers of the country were to
combine and agree in order to keep up
prices and that they could live more at
ease to create an artificial scarcity by
cultivating only portion of the soil,
or If the owners of the coal and iron
mines of the country were to do the
same, and cause scarcity OF their prod
ucts, and thus raise the price on the con-
sumers? Would not the people and the
nation have the right for Self-protectlon
10 put stop to such conspiracy and
punish the conspirators? Yet we are
allowing this very thing to take place
in the labor industry of the country, and
we raise but a very weak voice against
it. Suppose we should permit this re-
Striction on the freedom Of American
youth to choose his occupation in life
to prevail, would the demands of these
socialistic propagandists stop here?
Every intelligent person who hears me
will answer no. Surrender your rights
to the lawless and you will be left
without law. Where is our boosted
freedom? if any clique or secret Or
ganiZatiOn
FOREIGN TO OUR INSTITUTIONS
can deprive our youth from learning
trade or calling. Is it not the duty Of
the nation to protect her citizens in their
rights in this respect, and severely
punish those who would rob them? If
such intolerable tyranny were allowed
the same propagandists would also de-
prive US of every other right we possess
If these rights interfered with their
selfish ends. With the cry of liberty on
their lips, word SO sacred to every
American heart, the leaders in all these
movements of socialistic and anarchistic
tendencies would set all laws atdefance
and substitute license for liberty. and
that only for themselves. The word is
profane when coming forth from the
lips of anarchists. When the great
Patrick Henry uttered the now immortal
words, "give me liberty or give me
DEATH" he had no idea of the word
s.liberty" being used as a synonym for
license. -
If we look back to the time of the
French revolution during the Reign of
Terror we find that the prototypes Of
our modern socialisticS and anarchists,
under the key note of the revolution,
liberty. equality, fraternity, caused the
streets of Paris to be drenched with the
blood of It's best citizens. With this cry
of liberty on their lips they tried to ex-
terminate each other. With Equality
for their motto they proclaimed that all
should eat black bread, and any per-
son found in possession of any other
gave cause for Imprisonment, and posi-
bly, the guillotine. Some Of the darkest
crimes in the worlds history were COM
mitted by those mobs while eXcitedly
shouting the memorable words: Lib
erty, equality, fraternity" Madame
Roland, one of the victims Of the Reign
of Terror. Immediately preceding her
death by the guillotine, uttered these
com mitted in thy name."
With our immense population of more
than 60.000,00O of people there are less
persons learning trades to-day than
there were twenty-five years ago. Cut
off our foreign mechanics to-day, and
not increase the number of apprentices,
and before many years the nation
would be robbed of the means of ma
terial advancement.
AS proof of this within the last year
the stonecutters' unions passed reSO-
luton shutting out the stonecutters
called "birdS of passage" who come
over here from Europe in the spring,
working here all summer and fall for
good wages, and when the winter sets
in, go back to their homes. taking the
money they have saved with them to be
left on the other side, and repeat the
same thing year after year; and as
consequence of shutting out so large a
number there was great
SCARCITY OF GOOD STONECUTTERS
in our large cities and the progress Of
building greatly delayed. With this
policy of the unions l am in full SYM
pathy, if at the same time they will re-
move restrictions placed on the indus
trial education of our youth.
The plasterers are now very largely
dependent upon the foreign supply, and
becoming so scarce that in the busy
season they can demand almost any
wages. This certainly is not healthy
state of things for the nation and peo-
pie when we cannot either educate
mechanics or import them.
Not only are the rules of trades unions
and Knights of Labor SOcialiStic and
anarchistic In their tendency, but. in
most cases, are violation of our rights
under the constitution, but are unlaw-
full; and if the law were properly en-
forced those persons who attempt to en-
force these unlawful rules dpon us
would be severely punished. Take the
law of boycott for instance. Has there
ever been such another act of tyranny
or cruelty devised? Yet the people of
this nation have not YET walked up to its
enOrmity. There is enough law in our
land to-day to punish all violators of
rights, but the trouble is there is too
little justice neted out to those who set
the laws at defiance. Ii an appeal were
taken to the United States courts I
think they would decide that all such
combinations, having for their main OBJ
iect the interference with and restric-
tons of the rights of others, are con-
spiracies, and should be punished.
But IL our present law do not reach
this class of criminals, the sooner we
have such laws on our statute books
aud their rigid enforcement, the better
for the prosperity of the nation and its
people.
But will our Legislators dare to take
up such subjects when they know that
they are inimical to the voters who be-
long to those various unions? I fear
there aI9 few who have the moral and
political courage to do so. But they
are ever ready to propose legislation to
gain popularity by hampering capital
and thrift, showing by such acts either
their socialistic tendencies OF their
cowardice.
While travelling on train over one
of our Middle states last summer, / be-
came engaged in conversation with