Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-10-19
THE STONE WALL.
Organized Labor Stands Between Capital"
IstIc Greed and Hungry Need.


IstIc Greed and Hungry Need.
In it's issue Of September TIE Kan
sas City Journal quotes and com lents
upon, with enthusiastic approva the |
following language of that plutocratic
snob and military despot, Gen. Snow
den, commander of the Pennsylvania |
militia:
The people may as well make UP their minds
that the eruption at Homestead indicates the |
presence of a disease in the body polite which
extends far beyond any thing Of which they
have conceived believe the hour is not far
distant whom peace and order will have to be
enforced at the point Of the bayonet. The PEG
pie at Homestead organized revolutionary
government They had their officers, their
Magistrates, their council OF ten They arrested
citizens without warrant, brought them before
| the so-called advisory committee, exiled them,
or inflicted such othcr punishment as they saw
| at. They established an armed censorship OF
| the press The newspaper writer's were COM
PEELED to wear numbers, like convicts in prison.
| They resisted the sheriff. They committed
| murder and then made war. As our fathers
| fought for independence and the war Of the re-
| bellion was waged for the union, so, unless all
| signs fail, We viii have to fight for our homes,
| liberty and institutions in the not far distant
| future
The Journal closes its diatribe with
the following paragraph:
And this has largely been done to prevent
| American citizens from working to support
their families-for the so-called Organization"
II but o small minority Of the workingmen.
The man who gave utterance to the
quoted sentiments is a plutocrat by in
stinct and a tyrant by nature. The
newspaper that indorseS and favorably
comments upon such uttterances Ii a
glazing illustration of the truth and
Justice Of Whitelaw Reid's scathing ar
raiRnmOnt of metropolitan journalists
when he informed a representative body
Of them at banquet that they were
intellectual prostitutes" who dare not
express their honest and manly convic-
tiOns.
In the first place such language comes
with bad grace from an unworthy scion
of revolutionary sire. The spirit of
rebellion against unjust and oppressive
laws gave to the world the immortal
declaration of independence and result
ed in the establishment of the United
States of America, as an experiment in
democratic self government And yet
our revolutionary forefathers had COM
paratively nothing to rebel about If
their grievances are contrasted with
the outrages at present perpetrated up
on the laboring classes. A country
which In the short period of twenty-five
years has differentiated 81, 900 million
, aires who jointly own $50, 900, 900, 900
: in wealth, and evolved 1000, 900 tramps
, who beg or steal precariouS nourish-
ment and have not where to lay their
, head, possesses all the necessary ele-
4 msnts to evolve q popular uprising, If
3 not a bloody revolution. And Mr..
l. Snowden calmly proposes to keep the
. people quiet with the bayonet while
y the law-fortified plutocracy is subdning
+ them to abject servitude and humble
'r submission. Before that end is reached
Y many a Snowden will pay the penalty
as due to an outraged humanity with theil
be lives.
ne This journalistic apologist for the sys
a tenn of legaAzed robbery under which
Mt we live lays great stress upon the fact
that organized labor constitutes only
le small percentage of those people wht
!. have to work for living. 1t is not this
OF however, that worries the Journal, bu
nd the fact that like a patriot band Of OLE
ne at the pass OF Thermopylse, this Spartan
'er band stands like rock in the path o
ne plutocratic dominion, while ever ant
&c anon an Arnold Winkelfried rushes t,
the front and makes a path for Hbert
OF across his PROSTATE form. Yes, Xix
Gen Jackson, organized labor stand
M like a ''stone wall" against the assault
~ of capitalistic greed and the frenzie
onslaught of the starving populace
- The plutocrats they gladly meet wit
~ all the panoplies of war, returning hlov
lat for blow and curse for curse. Tn
ed ragged and hungry army of tramp
'n' they meet in a spirit of cancellation
~ striving to educate aud proselyte, grie'
de- ing meanwhile at the piteous nlustri
70 ton of mans inhumanity to man.
Forced to use harsher methods, eve
MD as the blows given by a mother to h'
child hurt the mother more than tt
child, so in the spirit of love and a
Of monition does organized labor chastis
ION the would-be scab
me To avert what catastrophe, to wal
ces off what dire calamity does organize
md labor thus continually wear its arm'
'rr- and sleep upon its arms? Even thi
DC Unmolested and its path undispute
M, nal plutocratic capitalism would march
ens r,ower and affluence over the prostra
md form of assassinated labor. With mol
to defy its will, organized monopo
-. would continue to beat down and r
mia duce wages to the point OF bare su
a OF sistence upon the plane of existence
'sE the Chinaman, the Polander and Z
- Russian Jew. Allowed to buy its lab