St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-14


Bullets When There Is a Bal
lot-Rich Growing Richer and
Poor Poorer.
BosToN, Dec. ia reception was
rendered General Master Workman
James B. Sovereign and Thomas Fl.
Mcguire, of New York; C. f. French.
of Marlboro, and Henry b. Martin, of
Minnesota, the newly elected members
ofthe general executive board of the
Knights of Labor. in Faneuil hall to-
night by members of that order in this
city. The attendance was very small.
not over 800 people being present. Gen
eral Master Workmen Sovereign was
the first speaker. He said III substance
that 1t was pleasure to him to be priys
lleged to speak in the hall made me-
morable by the long line of
Americans who had fought for
the freedom of chattel slaves.
but while we are all proud
and jubilant over the victory that
resulted from the movement these men
were engaged in, yet we should not
forget that there is at present as great a
need for the freeing of the white wage
slave as ever there was for the colored
brothers. In America. the garden CT
the world, with its vast and varied
industries, we see things that are
appalling. According to the press re-
ports there are in Chicago alone l15, 200
enforced idlers, and movement has
been started to raise Sl.O0O,0O0 for their
relief. One of our brightest writers
when speaking on the raising of this
fund said: 1--WE would to God that
THE MILLIONAIRES
OF Chicago would spend one night with
these out-of-work people and that i'd
the morning there would be no diff
Guilty III raising the fund.-" Why is TINS
distress? No people have been SO IN
dustrious as the American people. BY
reason of our industry and ingenuity
we have attracted the attention of the
entire world, but, with all our industry,
we have not shortened the hours of
labor nor increased the comforts of life.
There is a wheel loose somewhere in
our social machinery. and the rich
are growing richer and the poor
poorer. and there is rank discrimination
in the law against the poor in favor of
the rich. During the past twenty-five
years we have raised two distinct
classes of society, the tramp and va.
grant. and the dude and dudelet. The
tramp is a cross between crime and
poverty, and the dude is cross between
noon and nothing. But history has
shown that every nation that allows
the rich to grow rich, and the poor
poorer, has always gone down, and our
country Will always 90 downif this coh-
tinues. Societysis now: being shaken
from stem 10 stern by the labor troubles
of the present day. We are opposed to
strikes, but in nine cases out of ten
they are forced upon us by the hostil-
tiles of the
CAPITALISTIC CLASSES.
+ We believe that our rights can be OBJ
tanned through the ballot box. Many,
people are i'll favor of using bullets, but
l say it is shame and disgrace to
talk about bullets when there is the
ballot. The Knights of Labor are
working for the amelioration of the
working classes. The workingman,
Will llio HilO dilu prOVfu6u
with the necessaries of life, is a very
harmless fellow, but when his wife and
children are starving, then is the time
to watch that man, for he is
liable to do wrong. 1t is the
duty of a government to make 1T
easy for the people to do right, and
hard for them to do wrong, In order to
obtain amelioration from these dread
full conditions under which the working
people are living, they must organize
and educate themselves as to their
rights, and this can be done through the
Knights of Labor.
Henry B. Martin. of Minnesota, spoke
next, and earnestly advised organiza-
tion and membership in the Knights of
Labor.
Thomas B. Mcguire. of New York,
spoke on the land question. and humer-
ously discussed the silver and tariff
questions.