The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25

TRUTHS.
Which Should be Blazed from Ever.
Schoolhouse and Pulpit!
The recent Buffalo strike, broueh'
forth the following sentiment iron
Erastrus Wiman, wealthy ant
influential man of New York:
"Ours is an age OF combination
Capital combines and SO does labor
Capital organizes into trusts. Labor
organizes into unions, brotherhood
and associations; and now | say
and mark we'll my words the posi-
bilities of organized capital are ter
thousand times more dangerous te
the public than are the possibilities
of organized labor. / have q SOL
with Troop A. at Buffalo, engaged il
expressing 475 laboring men who
have struck. He is supporting, I re
gret to think, unjust organized CAPT
tai. They represent org anized labor
l regret that he is there. I regret
that 5000 of our State militia should
be there overawing men who wish an
hours pay for an hours work.
One Of the roads engaged in this
switchmen's trouble, the Lehigh Val
ley road, is party to the so-called
coal trust. 1t controls 20 per cent OF
the anthracite coal land in the coun-
try. The New Jersey Central con-
trolls another 20 per cent, and the
system, as was told in my
own house only two months ago,
controls 50 per cent. Here you have
over 90 per cent of the coal product
OF the country under the control OF
three corporations, and one OF these
three, the Reading, has far from en-
via BILE financial reputation, and pays
it's employees according to it's reputa-
ton. Another road the Lehigh, now
in the switchmen's trouble,
would like to reduce switchmen' g wag-
es to the Reading standard and send
up coal to the Reading price. II
these roads should SO wish they could
refuse next winter to send coal to
Buffalo, or New York City for that
matter.
Again, I say, the possibilities of or
ganized capital are ten thousand
times more dangerous to the public
1han the possibilities of organized
abor. / know that am guilty OF
outrageous heresy in SO saying, but
read the news every morning. which
,tirs my blood, and / must let it out.
Whenever a nation is divided into
;wo or more classes, holding res
oectively superior and Inferior posi-
ions, so that their reciprocal obliga-
ions differ wholly in kind and degree,
70 that one class, and but one, lives
n constant dread of mourning the
of the other, or rather of
Mourning the consequences of that
lispleasure, this is relation which
,hrist never recognized and which all
lis teachings tend to condemn and
'verthrow.-Horace Greedy.
"The world is bankrupt" There
> not enough wealth to pay off it's
Indebtedness national. state and
'rivate: A few, literally, own the
arth, and the many are but the
laves of the few. Our people need
government loans at low rates of in
crest, or they can never in Gods
world get out of debts. The GOulds, |
he Vanderbilts and Rothchilds will
'wn the earthl Every month these
hree families accumulate all Il he pro-
It's Of millions of wealth producers,
nd every month their power increas-
s-as the snow ball rolled along in
he snow increases 10 size. Every
urn of the ball increases it in surface
nd gathering power.-The Chicago
Express.
Lift a man, give him life, let him
1ork eight hours day, give him the
chool, develope his taste for music,
i've him garden, give him beauti-
IL things to see and good books to
cad and you will starve out those
)Wer appeUlUeS. live man q
nance to earn a good living, and
GU may save his life. So it is with
oman in prostitution. Poverty is
he road to it; it is this that makes
hem the prev of wealth and the
izure of another class. Give a hun
red men in this country good wages
nd eight hours work, and ninety
inc will disdain to steal. Give unto
Il women q chance to earn q good
wing and ninety-nine of them will
isdain to barter their virtue for
Old.-Wendell Phillips.
DR.. Lyman Abbott, the successor to
Lenry Ward Beecher, in q speech in
entral Music Hall, Chicago, said:
In New York there are many who
re denied even those three God-free
fts-pure air. sunshine and fresh I
alter, and as for ownership OF land,
by that is q dream to them un-
lough OF. It is time for us to learn |
longer now to make wealth but !
DIV to distribute it. Wehaye devel-
ped plutocracy in our midst and /
le worst Government on earth. Let |