The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE
Fool Them or Kill Them off.
The True Inyvardness of Ghe Conspiracy
 Against she TOilers as shown i'm Letter lhnt Wasn't Burnt.

to be genuine. Even if it were never writ ten it undoubtedly expresses the senti. ments of the cold blooded conspirators who seem to be the ruling spirits of the land. We shall keep the article standing from now till the day of election, that those who happen to see it may be per
 mitted to vote with their eyes open; and
 we trust that our friends in the State will aid us in giving it all the circulation pos sible. Don't let single paper go to waste but pass it along to those who strive to do the best according to the light that's given them.
 The editor of the Dayton, Ohio, Work man is responsible for the statement that the following is a copy of a letter from a capitalist (''Sam'') to one of his friends:-
 NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 1So0.-F BEND BIRKLEY-Dayton Ohio: Yours of the 25th. nlt came to hand in due time, but I confess my inability to fully and satisfac- torily answer the questions you propound. Indeed they have been a source of great annoyance to most of us who have great capital invested in various ways. The fu- ture political aspect is anything but en- couraging. My only hope in the future is che ignorance of the masses, and their sus- ceptibility of being used by us just as we have always used them. l will therefore try to answer your questions from that basis. You ask, "Does the present agita- tion among the lower classes--I mean all laboring classes indicate a reversal of power from our hands into theirs ?0 Next you ask, twill the agitation likely amount to anything in the long run, or rather in time ?' To your first interrogatory. I will answer, that I do not think the lower classes capable of conducting what now ap- pears to be war upon the upper classes, for the following reasons:
 They are by no means united, neither in organization nor in objects to be accom- plished, much less are they sufficiently in formed upon the real condition they are in. To explain. There is, for instance, the great organizations fighting each other. Powderly, Gompers and all the leaders are at war with each other, therefore the var ious organizations are each at war with all other organizations. Just so long as these Headers fight each other,we will have noth- ing to fear. Now it is evidently our poll icy to keep them fighting each other. The result wil[Sbe, final breaking up of thesel organizations. The fact is apparent, that neither the leaders or the members have , the first glimmer of common sense or they would long since have united their forces and compelled us to give way step by step, nor need we fear of their ever uniting up- on any one great controlling principle. All that they can perceive is an advance in wages, and even if we have to concede a little in that way, it's only a question of time, and that a short time, when improv- ed machinery and growth of population will increase the number seeking work, so that wages will naturally tend downward. These men do not yet understand that they ought to direct their fight and ener- gies at the root of the subject. I am still more positively convinced, when I look at the various branches of industry, both pro- ductive and distributiye I see sort of pride among the one branch or other which precludes all possibilities of unity. For instance, the clerks in the various branch es of distribution imagine themselves as superior, and will not associate with those whom they regard as laborers. We need fear nothing so long as this pride exists among the various branches of wage-work- CTS. We, of course, can see no difference, but we must keep this antagonism alive and nourish it. Looking all along the ap- parent line of battle, see no reason for fear. They can not now, nor is it at all ho1 al 41aatt t1axy nf&o strike at the root, which is so deftly cov- cred up, that it requires great study and patient inquiry to learn where their trouble comes from. The only body that may, ,and 1t does, cause any trouble is the Knights of Labor. It seems to me, as far as I can learn, they are the only organized body that is educating themselves and are hunt ing for the root. The very fact that they realize that the wage question is not the root, makes it ominious for the future But all other organizations are at war with them. and it must be our settled policy to wipe out their organization. We in the East are contributing to fund to keep up the fight between the Unions and Knights of Labor. I am glad to be able to say we are succeeding in this line.
 There remains only one other cause for apprehension, and that is, when any of the K. of L.-assemblies is what they cal them, believe-breaks up they join some other organization and instil into them that deyilish persistency of hunting up the root, and thereby increase our enemies. So far they have succeeded, at least in measure, to stir up the farmers and others sufficiently to give us trouble. The only remedy can see is to take the right of franchise from them and place the control of government entirely beyond their reach. You know the methods that are now be- ing sought to accomplish this, and if it fails, some other similar method wi have