The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-07-06
WARNING TO LADORHRS.
Justice Brewer Makes q Very
Sensational Speech.
There Is Danger in Combinations Of
Capital and Labor Organizations.
The Rights IL the Individual slowly Lost
sight OF The Judge Predicts We WIN
Vet see l Great Conflict nctween
Indlvlduailsts and Socialists.

WooDerOcK. CT. July s. ~ Justice
Brewer, ~ the United States supreme
court, made speech at the Fourth Of
July celebration Tuesday on .sIndi-
yidnai Liberty In which he said that
the most noticeable social fact of to-
day "a that 81 tho combination Of capt.
tai and the organization Of labor. Il
am not here TO decry the tendency"
said Justice brewer.
"a capital combine may. a. n claimed pro
duco better, cheaper and more satisfactory 70
suits IN manufacture. transportation and gen
eral bus ness; but TOO often tho combine u not
content with the voluntary corporation Of such
~ ehccsc 70 Join. II Craps at monopoly and
brushes or swallows Inc individual. and No n -,
sauited ae though he were an outlaw.
so Il Is with organizations OF labor the
leaders order q strike tho organization throws
down it, tools and ceeaea 70 work No u.
diylduai member dafo say: i have family 10.
support. prefer TO work. but II forced 70 20
with tho general body Where Il tho Individual
iabnrcr who daree assert his liberty and act
AZ hn pleases IN the matter 81 uorkt
Where Il tho individual contractor Or
employer who can carry on bis business -
he thinks beatf In nnfc-bclium days. wc AL
remember how slavery was defended on account
Of It's heneitto the slave Hut Il servitude q
q \ ngie man loss OF slavery than nertitudo ~
an organl9atinnY II II NOT tiine that Tho dor
mant energies Of our nation wero aroused and
speedy and summary stop put g every such
trespass on any mans iibcftyf Arc w going
10 drift along untll this contest ends n ashloedy
strurRici Must our children pay for securing
the real liberty Of each Individual the price
ihat the nation paid score o. year ngo y
abolish human slavery n Gov. Altgeid Wall
Ing 10 be tho Jefferson Davis o. Aosmnrr0W.
''The business men are becoming slaves o. the
combine, tho labofer o. the traden.uniou and or.
ganikation Through the land tho Idea II Eruw-
ing that Tho Individual Ia nothing, and that tho
organization. and then the state. II everything.
and We hRye the fancy sketch Of tho dreamer q
. supposed ideal state. In which tho individual
has no choice Of lot or toll. but II moved about
according 10 tho supposed superior Wisdom Of
ihG ofhantscd masss and this, No arc told, r.
Tho liberty for which the ages have toilod and
for which human blood has cfimsonod the earth.
.As against this Herpitudo and sacrifice Of
individual liberty wish 10 enter my earnest
protest Il Il not hartering away the expert.
enrcs Of tho past, arc we not selling our birth
right for mess Of pottngc. when We cncour
age or even tolerate the domination OF tho com
bine, when We look In silence upon the growing
DcrFltude az Tho individual 70 the ofganiEationf
History repeats itself Kansas introduced
the great civil war DO err in forecasting mo
future when / aiilrin that on the plaina Of the
same grent central state the conflict be-
tween tho domination of tho orgnniznr
/ Won anu tHc itDtFty VI CNNu tNNlItNNNt VIII 70
precipitafed II may not DO war Of blood.
though Kansas men WIN shoot Il need be- but
II VIII be fight 70 the inlsh. Elsewhere In
the nation the cry for socialism comes largely
from tho dissfpated the lazy. tho disbonest
'sThere. II comes from the conservative class
tho farmcra~ hose, themselves honest toilers.
netuatod not BY selfish purposes. but BY pro
found conviction. erroneous though Il may be,
that wealth. IL the creature d law, and that
regulating NIL human actions BY law will
work such a change ns 10 make wealth
the equal inheritance Of all. Instead Of
the recomponse of superior toll and brain
| do mot mean Ia aiiirm that all the popuilBts.
M they call themselves. Aro equally honest
Among their number arc tho putrid reminiscon.
COS of defuHet politicians, shouting Justify - o.
yorc. in Tho hope that their useless and od0f-
Gus wind may secure for themselves .
toilicss living Hut passing these shfiekers
by, whose noise II the excact equivalent
OF their useessness. l know that tho great
body of these people are moved only w a con
ylction 81 Inc injustice OF present Law and ao-
cal conditions and are striving 10 compel Z
more equal distribution OF the good things Of
earth With sympathy for the purpose which
aetuates them, am convinced that their i1nor.
ing Of the lessons Of history IA step towards
socialism and the destruction d the liberty that
the tell OF centuries has achieved