The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-12

was remarkable. Imported speakers
stormed at him at every point, but
everyone was ripped, snatched, busted
and blown out. Congressman Cobb,
Lawyers, Graham, Pearson, Bowie,
McCloud, and other Democratic heavy
weights tackled Manning. Every min
now in Clay nibbled at him, but law
him."
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ECHOES OF THE GREAT STRIKE.
Sovereign and Debs have been ma
ligned, tusta other leaders have been,
and the workers of America will love
and respect them the more for 1T. The
daily papers are wasting their time
and space. The labor organizations
and their leaders may make mistakes,
but they will not risk taking the adj
vice of their enemies .--KnightS of
Labor journal.
The Chicago Times is authority for
Olney's remark to Western senator:
''Ill break up every labor union in
this country with the antitrust law
before we're Through, for l will make
every strike the basis for locking up
every man WHO'S concerned in it be-
fore it is begun" Gentlemen of the
labor unions, the time has come for
you to put up or shut up. AS to what
you will put up-weU, just at present,
put up all the money you can into
your treasures. Forewarned should
be fOrearmed.-Br Diamond.
Keep it before the American people
that the so-called protection to Ameri-
can labor does not protect the laborer.
BY it the manufacturer is amply pro-
tected, but when the laborer can no
longer live upon the wages the pro-
tected manufacturer sees fit to dole
on, he must step down and out, and
let the pauper labOrer have his place
or be shot down by federal troops.
WitnessH omestead, Cpurd' Alene. Buff
falO, the coal fields of the South, and
last of all, Chicago and other cities, to
which troops were sent to Subdue the
striking laborers in the late great
strike.-Dispatch, Upton. Ind.
The sending of federal troops to Chi
cago, despite the protest of the COVER
nor of the state, marks a new depar-
ture in constitutional procedure and
will serve as noteworthy precedent
in time to come. In effect. it amount
ed to interference of government to
support an individual capitalist, who,
by the admission of journals hostile to
the popular cause, stands confessed as
an arbitrary autOcrat, who haughtily
declined arbitration, and at this mo-
ment is probably the best hated man
in the United States. The mails fur
nished but flimsy pretext, for it was
proved to demonstration that the
mails could easily have been moved
but for the underhand trickery of
making every train mail train.-Ad-
vance Era, New York City.
The intelligent man who calmly re-
fleets upon the events of early July
will find himself puzzled to understand
how it came about that the Interstate
commerce law, which was passed at the
demands of an outraged people for re-
lief from the lawlesSnesS, tyranny and
q
was employ ed by the attorney general
and his associates in government for
the support of these same corpora
tiOns when engaged in tyranical war
fare upon the lawful organization of
the railway employees. If the action
of the peoples officials was dictated
and guided by the honest belief that it
was in conformity with the esprit of
our institutions, then surely it is
time to inquire if we had not better
remodel those institutions, employ
new Interpreters Or rewrte and radi-
cally amend the Declaration of hide
pendence.-Joseph r. Buchanan.
Attorney-General Olney, by force of
federal bayonets, may enforce his rul-
ing that pouch of letters shall not
cross the continent unless accompan-
led by one of Pullman's palace cars,
but the upholding Of such a perversion
of the principles Of right and equity
will entail ignominy upon the admin
istration. We say that labor has al
ready won it's cause, and we mean this
in the broad and ultimate sense of fin
al victory. We say this. not because
we believe that the Pullman boycott
will prevail, but because this strike
has compelled the American people to
think Ond consider the cause of labor,
and the entertainments of the corpor-
ations as they have never done before.
New Charter, Santa Cruz, Cal.
The plutocratic press is showing its
teeth like mad dog these days. Its
attitude towards the laborers could
not be more venomous if they were all
murderers and outlaws instead of the
bone and sinew of this country and the
basis of its prosperity. "Charles
Fleischer," says the Associated Press
account of the murder at Hammond,
was at the head of the rioters when
shot by the United States soldiers" AS
matter of fact, Fleischer had no connec-
ton with the strike, being a law-abid-
ing German carpe inter-, and was DELHI
erately killed while looking for his lit
tie boy. This is now generally admit
ted, and has been abundantly proved,
but the plutocratic press felt the ne