Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-04-27
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
TO RAILROAD EMPLOYEES.

party opposed to such taxation Hence
the anI-tea party, taat was organized
ia boston, party that boarded a ship
loaded wi Il tea and emptied the cargo
lato Boston bay, which gave rise to an
old battie song OF which tha following,
IS we recolect. was a st4nza:
Johnny Buu and many more,
Soon they say are coming o'er
And when they reach our shore
They must have their tea
80 johnny put the kettle on.
BE sure 10 blow the fire strong,
And load your cannon, every one,
With strong gunpow1er tea.
During the revolution the whig and
tory parties existed, next the repub-
lican and federalists; after these came
the dem cratic and whig parties; then
the democratic, whig and abolition
parties; later the democratic and re-
publican parties, with here and there
prohibition party. At this writing
there are three parties in the field, the
democratic, the republican and the
peop e's party, the latter sometimes
being referred to as "the Farmers
Alliance" P" and which at the same time
claims 10 be labor party, or the work
ingmen's party.
If we were to be guided in our esti-
mate Of parties, predicated upon pro-
fessions expressed Immediately prior to
an election, we should be compelled to
aver that all political parties are deep
ly concerned about the welfare of
labor-that their solicitude for the hap
piness and prosperity of workingmen
absorbs a large per cent. of their
thoughts, and that they are ceaselessly
wrestling with the subjects, how best
to pr mote the interests of men whose
Ia Dor pays all interest, taxes and reve-
nues, and keeps the world from stag
nation and decay.
This system of profession. chicane,
duplicity and hypocrisy has been prac-
tice for years and has inspired many
time, wOr,Singmen,
With hopes that but allure to fiy
With JOYS, that vanish while he sips,
Like Dead-Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,
But turn to ashes at the lips
Here and there, now and then, the
claims of workingmen have been recog-
nized and laws have been placed on
the statute books which modified some
outrage that had fastened itself upon
our Christian-savage Jurisprudence, a
neiic OF barbarism and q legacy from
the dead past, those dark and damned
ages when, in judicial parlance, it was
always master and servant" or "mas-
ter and slave" but never imam and
man," when no workingman, either in
court or out of court, sought to have
any right restored or respected, which
had been cloven down by his master ~
The world of workers took hope when
the declaration of independence de.
clared that ''all men are created equal, 81
and the dav on which it was first read
is national holiday wherever float
the stars an1 stripes, and he shouts.
fForever float the standard sheet!
Where breatheS the foe but falls before us.
With freedoms soil beneath our feet,
And freedoms banner waving oer u.s.
But the questi n arises, over whom
does the starry banner float now-a-
days? Over a nation of freemena
Nominally it does, but in fact it 1es
not
Workingmen declare that they are
not free men, ii their employers may,
with or without law, hire Pinkerton
thugs, arm them with rifles and order
them to shoot down workingmen like
dogs without provocation. These in
fernal cut-throats these vaglbond ;
from the slums, these hired outcasts
constitute a military force unknown to
the state, and yet workingmen have
been liable, except in few instances,
to strike down the murderous policy
employ the thugs.
We confess that in all our rea n IS
Of savage and barbarian methods we
have found nothing IN ore essentially
deyilish, more Internal in all regar Is,
than the employment of Pinker on out.
laws to murder worhingmen at the be-
hest of a corporation.
We talk glibly of lands cursed by
autocrats and aristocrats, and exclain
read our declaration of independence
Beho our flag. Remember Bunker
Hill and Yorktown! Contemp t. tn,
territorial grandeur of our re oub ic
And in our rapture we contempla ale t.je
luminous ira tx of glory. perina .eat
and bright, made by our fathers, I,
which we love to refer; but as one be
holds an ar1le ga 1g IF Pinkerton rur
derers ready to ki | railroad men IN ei
orders from Il rair .ad corpora 10 l.
does not his blood un Geld in hi, We us
aud when .sel VINO make laNs are ap
peale 10 to end the infamy bv eaa I
ing Law forbi .oipg its coDtinra c.
and are given to understand That i
will not be doie, what, it any. is tn,
re nedy?
Is it ioager wise to continue in afii a
ton with any party that tn s ride,
ana contemptuously thrusts rs aside
Is it not wise to form an alliance witi
some party that is pledged TO reform
abuses so glariag that Satan hi sell
would be unable To frame an excns.
Tor taeir continuance?
Is it not OF the highest importance
that railroad employees shoal give
special prominence to the "co-c upl W
iniquity?
1t is scarcely required tooffer / word
in outliuing its Insasureless in ia tic !.
aad that it should be incorpora- e ii:
American Jurisprudence stag -ers be
lief Railroad men fully CO apr lie nd
the wrongs it infiicts-
WHAT'S the demand? 1t is :. re-
peai stat1tes by virtue of viii a : /, IS
wr ng, scarceiy less than a r;me. ex
isss bit to eqaet a Law which shail Al
once and oseser S zize IRON si,A re or.
OF the courts the damning eridenc
that 8 ith ali our boasting wo are liz
Ing under decisions based upon neithe
Law nor testimony, but whic:l \, effect
naily blast the rights of wor :iag nee
as If it Were written in our s.osstita
tions that railr ad employe, sre sesf.
or chattel slaves, who have ri IT:
which co9r.s are bouni to r..
Wh1, OF all the wise man 4 norica
p2ssesssd Of hearts and ". - seasi
bites are not dead beyond Ing rezc.
Of hope. are not horrifed almost Iaiij
by the records OF the maimsd an.