Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-05-29
THE GREAT REVOLUTION.

of the so-called Peoples party speak,
in the first resolution adopted at Gin
cnnati. Of "the great social, industrial
and economical revolution now dawn
ing upon the civilized world" That
is, they assume that things are
as they have been for generations past,
and that only now have the prospects
of humanity begun to brighten.
Those Of the new movement who are
Americans ought to know better.
They are belittling their own history.
In no other. respect has the world
made more marvellous advances in
the past century-that is, since this
government was established, and chief:
ly as the result Of its establishment
than in the improvement of
the condition Of the working
man. By workingman we mean one
whose labor and skill are under en-
gagement to an employer.
Before the American Revolution
there was but little difference between
the slave and the nominally free, but
really serflike laborer. The employ
er was master in the fullest sense of
that word, and the liberty of the en-
ploye was completely within his con-
troll. The war for independence not
only resulted in throwing off the for
eign yoke, but it also shook down the
fabric Of domestic tyranny. This was
done without any concerted action on
the part Of what were then distinctly
the working classes. War unsettled
everything and dismembered old asso-
Citations, and when peace brought an
end to the tumult things and people
were pretty much on a level, at least
here in the North. 1t is true that
the power of some of the great old
families survived for a generation or
so, but the gradual enlargement of
suffrage took away their power, until
they sunk out of political sight.
But the workingman was only free.
He needed remunerative work. This
the protection Of American industry
gave him by keeping out the foreign
goods that had swamped the Ameri-
can market. Labor, we'll remunerat-
ed, more and more asserted its po-
tency, until today the manual worker
is the political equal, and, according
to his individual merits, more or less
the social peer Of any man. He is a
commanding force in politics, and in
the country's need he was an excel
lent soldier. He handled a rife for
the Union, and sometimes a generals
sword, for among American toilers to-
day are to be found veterans who or
dered as well as veterans who obeyed.
There is no height to which the work.
ingman may not aspire, for the rich
men of today, with very few excep-
tons, were once engaged in some
manual occupation, and a rail splitter,
q tanner and a canal driver have been
president within thirty years.
What nonsense, in view of such a
history, to talk Of a dawning revolu-
toni The revolution dawned ages
ago, and its bright light is on US to-
day. It will not 60 backward, but
its progress will be retarded, rather
than hastened, BY violent interference
with those principles Of justice and in
dividual right which apply alike to
the employer and the employee, and
which cannot be violated as to the one
without peril to the other.
Money Duo Electric and Water
Company rs p.
Should be paid to s. Stoll. Parties
owing the Little Falls Electric and
Water company for electric lighting,
water rent, or any other purpose,
are hereby notified to pay the same
to s. Stoll, president Of the Co.
j. B. HUTCHINGS,
Sec. i. #. E.. e w. Co.
Little Falls. Mimi, Oct. 1. 1890.
I have a good House
and Lot on Main ST..
10 sal al. trade for