Workmen's advocate., 1890-12-27
THE NEW INDEPENDENCE"
Henry n. Lloyd Gives his Views ot Frye
 dom under Capitalism.

Henry n. Lloyd Gives his Views ot Frye
 dOm under Capitalism.
 Tue first of series of lectures to be delivered before the Society for Ethical Culture was given last week at the Grand Opera-HoUse in Chicago by Henry D. Lloyd, his subject being "rhe New Independence" The only introductory exercise was violoncelo solo, after which Mir, LIoyd said;
 "True freedom is to share of the chains our brothers bear and with heart and hand helping to sever tine bonds of otherS. The subject upon which shall talk is what is termed the labor ques. ton In all great struggles both sides are at times in the wrong, but in all is sues the principle of but one side can be right, The workingman is often wrong, but his is always the wight side. The railroad employe, the capitalist, can no longer say I am the king That which IS done by the cooperative labor of all shall not become the buslness of the few. We hear the cry "union forever" until the workingman forms a union and then all is changed to protest A man who represents combined interests is called an attorney, a director. or a broker unless he stands for the union of workingmen; then he is called a ''la Dor agitator." A Chicago manufacturer said to me the other day: The working men are getting tO0 much. This man had just returned from Europe where he had beer on a pleasure trip.
 " It was but yesterday the working men ceased to be slaves. It has been said of old: Servants, obey your mas, ters,' but to day the gospel says: Let no man have any master but himself, for no man is good enough Go be the master of another man.
 1.-The anti trade union law, the deci- sions of Judges in New York, the denial of tLe free use of streets when on strike, the use of spies to betray the ac' tlons of laboring men; all of these are more or less efforts to enslave the work lngman. Man is too good to be kept poor and dependent. The South said: We shall be ruined if we give up our slaves. This is the sentiment here, but let me say that the more business you give the wOrkingman the more business you will get.
 "A New York manufacturer says: 'organzed labor k an organized mob Tbe Chicago master steamtitters say: We ought to grind their faces Van derbilt says: No man shall exercise his rights, and stay on my payroll These methods are not American and the men who employ them are enemies to Amer- can principles.
 "Iou are sorry for non union men. Labor unions are human, and the tyran- ny we hear of is their refusal to allow the employer to make both sides of the bargain. The unorganiged workingman cannot make free contract. The work ingman who is too ignorant or cranky to join unions cannot make free con tract. Such man has no right to take away the work of other men.
 "The railroad men are the most powerful body in the United States, and their business comes from the misuse of the power given them to take the pro perty of private citizens, without con- sent, by force--to take it from the indi- vidual for private enrichment.
 We hear of the necessity for Pinker- tons blacklsts, and police at strikes. These are all bad manners. It is not bad manners that make strikes success ful. The gentlest of strikes have been the most effective. This ruttianism, which requires Pinkertons belongs to both sides, but to the employers side belongs the black half The turbulence is caused by the rich, and the working mans side is holiness itself"