The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-07

tribute to the agent of a dozen men.
They yield up So, 600, 600 in one year,
and are told by this agent that the
price of the produce they will bring
from the earth this year will be so and
so. They levy this tribute on the til
lers of the soil without a vestige OF
right. They have no more authority
to do this than Dick Turpin had to
rob in his own way: But no Pinker-
tous were called out. Why not ?
These things are done under no law,
no standard has been erected by
which prices are thus regulated or
men robbed, and there is no limit but
the patience of the animals whom they
fleece. Greed is the law and fear the
limit. Where were the Pinkertons !?
The newspapers owned and con
trolled by the New York Central and
published in New York City and
along the line of the Central each
day are loud in denunciation of the
Knights of Labor because they claim
that the association is OF foreign
origin. This claim is made while the
president of that company is summer
ing among foreigners. Four years
ago Henry Clews, banker of New
York, in a secret circular, said that it
was a hopeful sign to see so many i'm
migrants coming to the United States,
for the tide would sweep I'VE the
Knights of Labor, and no matter how
they struggled the immigration would
always be the club to beat back the
Knights. They claim that our order
is foreign, and should be suppressed
because of that. They applaud the
coming Of foreigners TO beat US to
earth. One may not join the Knights
of Labor, if a foreigner, under pain OF
dismissal from employment. -Four
years ago Adolph Pol etschek landed
IN the United States. He landed the
year that Henry Clews sent out that
secret circular. Four years later we
find him mot yet a c~itizen) doing duty
under the pirate flag of Robert Pink.
ertOn in waging war on a body of
lei who have broken no law, out
ragged no statute, threatened no vio-
lence, and who reckon among their
members over seventy five per cent.
of native Americans. Az alien hired
on American soil to butcher Ameri-
cans who demand justice and equality
under the law. We are a patient
people-aye, almost a cowardly people
or we would not tolerate this thing
day longer.
The Knights of Labor are strug-
CLING, among other things, for an
honest days pay for an honest days
work, and because dividends are
wanted on wa.ered stock they cannot
get it. Their labor cannot be watered;
no deceit or treachery can be practiced
in working the switches or manipu-
lating the brakes. In defense of wa
ter-of the thinnest kind-the blood
of the artisan citizen is spilled by
alien hirelings who were imported by
men who manipulate the stock market.
Benjamin Harrison and Robert
Pinkerton stand conspicuously before
the American people. One is the
Chief Executive of sixty millions of
people and was elected by their votes.
The other is the creature of the mo
nopolies of the United States, was
not elected by anybody, and yet has
more authority than the President.
Where will oil of this end If it is
to be warfare instead of law, who can
muster the biggest army? Is it not
time for Benjamin Harrison to wake
up? The ~mutterings one hears on
every hand bodies no good to those
who invoke the hand of violence on
the slightest pretext. The people feel
outraged, and patient endurance will
not stand forever. We may wake up
some day to a n of duty aud legis
late the Pinkertons out of existence;
but if they are not abolished by law
they must go, for the rule of the
bludgeon and bulldog revolver must
end. 7. V. PowDERLY.
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