The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-12-16
WE STILL HAVE SLAVERY.
1t IL Tha al the Tnrin Robbers over
Honest Toiiers aud Producers.

BUUV " NV
Honest Toiiers aud Producers
The following is an extract from .
speech of Hon. III. q. Turner in the
house of representatives:
..Mr. Speaker shall pause here to
make no defense OF slavery. ! nave
none TO make for it. Neither will l
arraign the ancestors of gentlemen on
this floor who first set up the slave traf-
fic in this country. nor will ! make any
comparison between the crime OF those
who brought the slaves here from their
| native wilds and those who reared them
| and fitted them 10 be citizens. Let Il a
pass. But has it occurred to the gem
| tleman from Ohio that when statesmen
here or abroad mediate a political
crime il is usual to do the deed in the
name OF liberty?
Il am amazed that any gentleman
here who contemplates a similar ofiense
against our civilization should attempt
to c~oniurc up the ghost OF slavery. mas
IL occurred To the gentleman from ONO
that when he is making away from us,
holding in his hand the pennies and
the nickels which have been filched un-
der protection from the pockets OF my
constituents, and then cries, slavery"
back at RE. he is only resorting to the
vulgar dodge OF stop, thief"
II ask him IL slavery Is extinct in this
country to-day, The negro is free. but
how IL II with the rest OF us? The man
who takes what he has not earned from
the man who has earned it is worse
than a slave driver. Even in the Ian
ouace embalmcd by the highest court
in the land. he is a robber; and the mar
who does not receive the full reward OF
his labor. what is he? The man who
under legal compulsion must labor ior
the support of another without com
, pensation is a slave. You have prided
, yourselves upon having stricken the
[. shackles from three millions of slaves
and YOU exult in the performance every
|. time you can, but you have substitutes
for slavery "A system by which you nav
, nut the letters on all your countrymei
Of every race and condition. The mod
ern republican fcudal system is ever
worse thar the old patriarchal institu
t ton Of slavery.
Those institutions imposed mutua
obligations and mutual duties; but un
der this heartless and cruel system yo'
: can rack and ruin the poor OF this coun
9 try as long as they are useful, an
when they cease to be useful they ma.
J go to the poorhouse! Applause
= I'VE are villains of the lords OF Taxa
ton! We wear the collar OF the tariff
, We wear the shoddy livery of our mas
tiers! II we buy our clothing in som
frecr land we are fined! II we do nc
, paw the fine we are imprisoned. a
, last, we want amnesty! Our only Grim
: is poverty, and that was imposed .
law.
!" mr.. Speaker, the time has come whe
I" we aspire to freedom; the time has con
- when we mean to be free. And II u
+, gentlemen on the other side Will III
- conccdc something to us. ! ask them
put their ears to the ground and iistel
- Unless concessions are made. unle
/" something is done for the amelioratle
:. Of the existing distress-l an not q
~ alarmist. far from it-but unless son
- relief is given these people to reta
% their confidence of a great and giorio
~ government. you will produce despai
~ You will convince them that they 2
:" under outlawry and prescription ire
* their own co~untrymen.'