Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-03-20
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do SO may form their own judgment
OF it:
uEDIToR HERALD:-In some recent issues
OF your paper you have alluded TO the
questions involved in the labor issue, so
termed, but which are OF no less interest
to the whole business community. To
the workingmen of Fairhayen and this
whole sound, you have opened up great
question, and as workinRmen we take the
opportunity TO ask of you some space in
your columns to speak of our side of the
question.
The three great questions involved are
finance, transportation aud corporate
concentration of wealth. These Cover all
Others and the settlement of them settles
all others. You also allude to the Repub-
lican party and its preservation.
The people care nothing for the preser-
walton Of parties. The fusion of the Re-
publican and Democratic parties in Ne
braska to defeat the Independent and
support Boyd, the Democratic governor,
show that the old parties don't care any
thing about II either, only TO fool the peo-
pie.
The days OF party idolatry have passad
and Pagan politics are at an end. The
issue now Is, some purpose In government.
That purpose is involved in the question,
shall corporate wealth absorb the Subsis-
lance of the people, and leave the people
SldNfo W dDlldllSllC bIttu, VI snail lHt
liberties OF the people OF the American re-
public be paramount to corporate wealth?
We do not have to extend an argument
to show that this proposition Is correct.
Andrew Carnegie has told us that capital
has already absorbed the liberties of the
people, and that the people have no REM
edy. Andrew Carnegie Is an "infant in
dustry' that the Republican party has
protected, until he has become q roaring
lyon and has denounced their liberties
and he tells them that they have mo
remedy" Jay Gould is another infant
industry that Bepu5licanism has pro-
tccted, until he carries the industries OF
this nation in his pockets, and he tells us
that he cares not who makes the laws,
he "can buy the courts
/. But how is IL here in Fairhaven?
Contracts are awarded for public i'm
provements.
These contracts are let to some curpor-
alton through the instrumentality of some
cats paw monkey" that pockets large
profit and sublets 10 some miserable
wretch who establishes a boarding house
hog pen, buys his supplies from abroad
by wholesale, or from some corporation,
leaving the Legitimate boarding house
and merchant OF FaiFhavcn out in the
cold; some member of a corporation now
opens an employment office, and il man
wants work he must go 10 the employ
ment office and pay two dollars
for job, and Is compelled to
board in the hOg-pen and pay
hospital dues, and when he has worked a |
week or so, to pay the employment agent |
and hospital dues, and for his cold hash ]
and SiOp, some lOafer who stands around /
with an oyercoat on, and wears on his /
God -fOrsaken expression |
that indicates that he has been denied /
admission in hell, and concluded that as a !
last resort he would become boss" |
gives him discharge to make room for |
some other victim. As no man who sup !
ports family in Fairhaven can work on |
these terms, only tramBs are employed at
very low wages.
This is a local Illustration of our gem |
eral corporate monopoly business system, |
1t grinds the workingman of family |
through its mill of poverty, TO become |
villain and tramp, destroys individual !
commerce and enterprise and is planting
a hot bed OF vandalism that will some day
bring forth fruit.
Nor is II well for cooperate power to hold
that precedent is on their side. for lease
of perpetual power They may control.
as they boast, the religion, the press and
the wealth and intelligence Of this cOuB-
try, but the immortal minds of the people
have passed beyond their control. The
bird has hOwn from its nest; the germ
has left the acOrnshell, and the millions
that create the nations wealth In times of
peace, and whose blood defends it in the
hour of danger, are slowly, peacefully
unitedly and coldly contemplating their
remedy. May the enterprises of Fair
haven show that we all comprehend the
situation, annd may our business, in all
It's branches, be so conducted in the future
that we may all receive the greatest pos
sible benefit therefrom.
COMMITTEE X. of H.