The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-10-18
eoop WORDS by A woRKINGMAN.
N. n.,ounces S,rikcs for Political Effect
and Gives Good Counsel to the
LabOrers.

Hs D~enounces strikes for Political Erect
and Gives Good Counse to the
Laborers.
EDITOR TRIBUNE: Every vote cast
agains, Mr.. Gibson at the coming election
will be a vote thrown away. The people
without regard to party have taken the
matter IN hand because it is their interest
to do so.
Those who live by politics and make it
a business are rather noisy just now. The
reason is obvious. Some are in Office and
want to hold on; some on the outside
want to get in and ONE who have moth
ing to do and wouldn't do 1t If they had,
are ~"muldoons'' for q little while.
Mr.. Gibson sounded the keynote to
success when he stated that If the people
didn't think him worthy he did not solicit
their support. Here we have been for
years praying and begging capital to
come in to help build up our town, build
railroads, develop our mines and facilitate
transportation for business generally.
Now later the demagogues and tell
us it's all a mistake, that they know of
something better to suit us and our wants
than we do ourselves. Who are they, and
what are they worth morally, socially, po-
litically or commercially? Not one of
them, not a single one of them, could get
| elected by the people to the POSITION of
night Waterman.
All, but the W o%rkingman, their solicit
tude for him is great indeed! Great
enough to take the bread out of his
mouth, to take away from him his source
Of employment and to send him adrift a
tramp on the public highway or an in
mate of the Jail.
When those v%agaboDds encouraged and
brought on the strike, did they see the
way out of it? Had they anything in re-
serve, any place to put him to work, any
place to shelter him the coming winter,
any money to help him go seek or find a
better market for his labor? No. Work
ingmen of Great Falls city and Cascade
county, you have been duped and you
know it now.
Why, it is asked, why did the strike
take place at this particular time, and
who originated and engineered it? NJ
one has any difficulty in solving the ques
ton.
l believe that $3.50 per day is little
enough for surface work or unskillet
labor and that eight hours should cor
stitute a days work, particularly in win
ter time. But will any sensible maj
throw behind him $2.25 a day until sure
of more or in some way better his posi-
ton? Where can the w%orkingman d.
better than in Great Falls? 1t IA easy II
ask for an increase. but who is going Il
give it. Why do not those e~lectioneerinj
dodgers go to the merchants and bust
ness men of our city and seek to stir then
up and tell them what to do at election
time or any other time. 1t is a Grim,
against humanity, against u laws an,
social order to allow those anarchists Il
influence the ignorant, unthlnking an
unwary.
Having in mind the results arrived a
in New York from strikes, and KNOWN,
as we do the large number of men EN-
ployed because Of the completion of tn,
railroad north of us, it is doubly crimina
in any n to excite the workingman t
his own injury.
Hear what Cardinal Gibbon says O
the subject: "There shout dnot and nee
not be any conflict between labor an
capital, since both are necessary for tn
public good, and the n depends on til
cooperation Of the other. A contest be
tween the employer and the employed i
as unreasonable and as hurtful to the &C
cial body as a war betwe the head an
the hands would be to the physical body
Such an antagonism recalls the fable
!, conspiracy on the part of the member
} OF the body against the stomach. Whoeve
tries to sow discord between the capitals
and the laborer, IS an enemy of socis
, orders. Every measure should therefor
be discountenanced that sustains the on
7 at the expense of the other. Whoeve
strives to improve the friendly relation
, between the proprletors and the labo
unions by suggesting the most etrectura
means of diminishing and ever remoyin
the causes of discomfort, is a benefact0
to the community"
1t is time to throw disturbers ovel
board; over with them.
A. WoRKINGMAN.
Great Falls, Oct. IA, 1890.