The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-10-07
rnE AMERICAN SLAVE TRADE.
1t Begins With Locked Cars and Armed
Guards-Handcuffs Will Come Next.

1t Begins with Locked Cars and Armed
Guards-Handcuffs Will Come Next.
II score of low browed. black
hearted, unprincipled men should fit
out a vessel and visit the coast Of AZ
RIGA and while there should. by
treachery persuasion and misrep-
resentatiOn. induce cargo OF natives
to come on board and then by force
should confine and guard them from
escape. transporting them TO work on
the plantations and in the mines of
distant country. without their consent
the crime would be branded as piracy
All the world would agree in the ver-
dict Fleets Of war-ships manned
and armed for battle. would cover the
ocean. and the flaming flags of
nations would vie in rivalry to
suppress ) that inhuman slavery.
If the ex-slaveholders of the South
should send man-hunters abroad in
the land to capture. coerce or per-
suade colored people or board railroad
trains and when there should lock
them up in box-cars under guards to
prevent their escape. Transporting
them to unwilling service in the
Southern mines and on the planta-
tons American hearts would burst
with rage. writes John Davis M. G.,
in the Journal of the Knights of La
Dor. The stars and stripes would
float from every staff the bells would
clang in all the steeples swords would
leap from every scabbard cannon
fortress in America. The inhuman
interstate slave trade" would be
suppressed if million men were sac
riiced in the noble effort
But when Mr.. H. G. Frick. of Penn
sylvania, in the service of a British
aristocrat sends his man-hunters
abroad into Pennsylvania and adjoin-
ing states, and by Misrepresentation
false promises and treachery induces
half hundred American citizens TO
board a railroad train, and, when
there, locks them up in box cars.
| under armed guards. transporting
them for service. without their con-
sent in the Carnegie iron works the
fact is duly announced. but nobody's
blood boils! No flag flames or flaps!
No swords leap from their scabbards!
No cannon talk from the fortresses!
No nothing happens! 1t is all mat
ter Of course! What rights have
American citizens in this land of plu-
tocracy? Talk about freedom! Talk
about human rights There is scarce
enough of these precious boons now
left in America to be seen with
microscope!
Mr.. Jefferson was the founder of a
party which esteemed personal rights
above property rights. Mr. Lincoln
said that labor was superior TO capital
and deserved the higher considera-
ton; and that in case of conflict he
favored 1.-The man before the dollarr
All is changed now! Tho British
aristocrats and their Tory allies the
Shareholders and the plutocrats, have
their way in everything! Humanity
has no rights which stolen wealth is
bound to respect. 4
have been led into this line OF
thought by reading the following
dispatch. clipped from the Chicago
Inter Ocean:
P1TTsBURG, Pa, July 2S.-(Special tele-
gram IA riot occurred this morning on a
Baltimore and Ohio train, in which a party
OF hfty-six non-union men were being trans
terred from Cincinnati to Pittsburo to
work in the Carnegie steel works in Home
stead. In the melee one man was stabbed
in the forehead with bayonet in the hands
OF an armed guard, another had one of his
thumbs chewed off, and nearly score Of
others were badly bruised in an attempt to
regain their liberty. When the train
reached Pittsburg there were only twenty
one men aboard in addition to the armed
guard, the others having escaped from the
cars between White Hall station on the
Wheeling division and the general depot in
this city. When they left Cincinnati the
men say they did not know they were being
brought to Homestead, and when they
found it out they rebeled. That is how
the riot had it's inception
If this case of wholesale kidnapping
had taken place in Dahomey, it would
receive the prompt and earnest atten-
ton of the entire civilized world. If
it had taken place in Mississippi, il
would boil the blood of the entire Re-
publican party throughout the Northi
But as it was done by plutocracy in a
doubtful Northern state Just before
election. nobody's blood boils Why
should it?
Americans! In the name of those
noble sires who gave to us the boon
of liberty and the grandest country
on the earth. how long shall these
outrages continues? Please answer
through the ballot box, on the ides of
November.