The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-07-27


entitled to the protection Of the courts,
The federal troops, and all of the mach
merry of the state and nation, as is the
capitalist. Governments are not made.
or the benefit of dollars. or corpora
lions, or organizations, but they are
formed of and by and for individual
citizens. In the Pullman company
case, the actual dollars of the capital
of the company are as much entitled
to consideration in the settIementzof
the dispute as are the dollars of the
wage-earners; not one whit more not
one whit less. But the watered stocks
of the PuIImans are not entitled to re-
spect, and should not be factor used
against the wage -earners. When
company has a real cash capital of one
dollar and issues bonds for three dol
lars and stocks for six dollars. and at
te npts to pay interest on the three dol
l rs in bonds and declare dividends on
the six dollars in stocks, is the dollar
of the wage Garner given an equal show
with the dollar of the corporation? If
there is law to punish labor organf-
cations for conspiracy to retard public
busneiss, does not justice demand a
law equally as strong to punish con-
spiracy and robbery on the part of cor
porations?
The grave question to be determined
is this: Shall the dollar in water equal
the dollar in labor? Or, shall the fcti-
tious values have the same power as
the real values? Shall it be "con-
spiracy' for the dollars in labor of the
poor man to unite to preserve life,
while it is legal for the fictitious dol
or the Union Pacific, to unite for pub
lie plumber? Shall the dishonest water
be squeezed out of corporation stocks,
or shall the life blood be drawn out of
human labor? That is the question to
be solved. We say squeeze the water
out of the corporations and save the
life blood of American labor.
The frauds perpetrated by corpora
tions are as dangerous to the public
welfare as are the outbreaks of organi-
ECU 1dOOI. Ih0 hoobS W OO IiCl1 HAS
led to the importation of the most
dangerous riff raft from Europe to the
immense cost of American wage earn-
ers. but to the still more serious loss of
American honor. Greed has assumed
control of all the functions of govern
ment. The degradation of American
labor went hand in hand with the
binding of the public conscience. The
to, hn &,N,,
the maddening race for riches. The
idea of citizenship was driven out by
the worship of wealth. Corporations
have been piled upon corporations and
watered stocks were added to watered
stocks, and organizations were multi
piled by organizations, until the old
fashioned American citizen was hardly
known in the land under a flag sup
posed to represent the liberties of the
most enlightened people on earth.
Sift out from all the labor Organiza-
tionS the foreign anarchists and make
arbitration the law, and it is very
doubtful if there would ever be another
strike on American soil Greed lies at
the bottom Of the whole trouble. Trace
out the causes OF the bloody riots in
the mining regions and among railway
men and you will find that the great
corporations have deliberately violated
the laws of the land by importing cheap
labor from the slumS Of Europe.
Every anarchist imported by the cor
pOratiOnS has crowded out an Ameri-
can wage-earner. Not only that, it has
tended to lower the scale of wages in
America to the European standard
More than that, it has brought here a
class of European ideas absolutely mi
mical to our free institutions. Anarchy
is the sworn enemy to society. An
archy would burn the churches, de-
stroy the school houses and uproot the
home. Anarchy is the most relentless
enemy of constitutional liberty. An
archy is a traitor to the American flag |
It SCOTS at the declaration of Ameri- |
can independence and makes of the |
Fourth of July bye word and a re |
proach. Anarchy is organized assasSi-
nation. 1t is the incarnation of evil in |
social, moral and political life. It is
the political and moral secondary |
syphilis of barbarism engrafted into |
The life blood OF civilization
Greed brought it to our shores.
Greed ought to pay for the damage it
has inflicted. Greed ought to be in
1icted, tried by jury of Americans
and sent to the penitentiary. Greed
2 Id anarchy are the two great monsters
the American people to-
lay. Greed has stolen wealth in it's
vaults. Anarchy has murder in it's
heart. Between the two, are millions
IF American citizens being ground to
powder, morally and financially. Every
operator in stocks who has gained ten
million dollars during the past 80 years
has taken nine million dollars from
the pockets of his fellow citizens. He
has been public robber, under the
forms of law. The watered stocks of
American corporations since 1860
amount to billions of dollars. Watered
stocks represent legalized robbery I'M
Ter the forms of American statutes.
Greed made the laws and watered the
stocks. It is a legally arranged con
ddence game" In comparison with the
shameless swind1es of the inventors of
and operators in the watered stocks of
American corporations, the wicked
Louisiana lottery is a saint. The money
swallowed up by the watered stocks in
American corporations since 1865 is
fully equal to the entire cost of the
war of the rebellion. The devil him
self would blush at the infamy practi-
eed in seeking to make the people pay
dividends on billions of watered stocks.
More than 20 per cent of the munich
pal Indebtedness in the United States