St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-07
what government ownership has done
for Germany.-Kearney (Neb.) Stand
urh

Or Germany. -Nearney (Nep.) stand /
ard.
There are S,l9O.l52 families in the |
United States who do not live on farms. |
Of this number only Il little more than
nothing of the mortgages covering
many of these. May we not ask, whith-
CT are we driftingo
Laborers will strike together. tramp
together, Starve together, die together,
but they have not learned enough to
vote together. May our guardian angel
spirits hasten that day.-lowa Referen-
dunn.
1t is not that the railroads draw divi-
dends on watered stock so much that
Injuries. but that they are continually
bribing all public officials and viliating
the principle of free government.
There is no justice possible where one
of the parties owns tie courts and legis-
-latures, and every man who reads the
daily press can see the red-handed cor
pOrationS in every statute and almost
levery court decision. The car could
do no more.
3 When the rich combine, it is for the
purpose of exchanging IDEAS" When
the poor combine, it is conspiracy"
IF they act in concert, il they really do
something. it is ''mob." If they de-
fend themselves, it is treason" How
is it that the rich can control the de-
partments of government? Why should
the rich control? Why should not the
laborers combine for the purpose of
controlling the executive, the legislative
;oI do,> of
-'ment?-Rubert q. lngersoli.
Cut this out and paste it in your hat:
One per cent of the people own one
fourth OF the nations wealth.
The banks, as rule, refuse to loan
money TO persons who are not custom
ers. Do you think the government
would pursue such policy if the people
enjoyed a postal savings banks system?
Honor bright, which would you
rather have to carry OH business, cash
or confluence. If you have the cash you
don't need confidence. Ii you have no
cash and lots Of confidence you are
in hourly danger of the need of cash,
for some banker or other cuss may
knock out confidence aud then ''where
are you atT'
If tn boys with a job don't vote for a
system that will guarantee everybody
work, the boys out of a jOb will be com
PEELED to work for less wages than the
boys with job get. and the boys with a
job will find themselves out of job.
Vote for public ownership of every
monopoly and then the nation will be
able to furnish employment for all
Your votes can make this wonderful
change.
When all the plutocratic papers con-
denim labor leader, and all the mon.
eyed classes pat others on the shoulder
as safe, conservative men," it is safe
to say the conservatives. like their pro-
totypes in the Uniled States senate, are
not good men for the RANK and file tC
follow. Save US from our friends the
enemy, who are so anxious to select ouI
leaders for us!-Railroad Register.
The railroad companies are black
listing all the men engaged in the recen
strike. Laboring men are jailed wher
| they cOnSpire or combine to prevent
non-union men from working, and il
| the courts were not In the hands oil
tools of the corporations, the railroad
managers would be Jailed. When the
| labOring men understand that the bes
| law can be used to do injustice wher
left to be executed by their enemies
they will place men in sympathy will
| them in every office and on every bench
The railroads paid about fourteen
million dollars last year to lawyers t.
prevent the people from getting
| justice. They spent ten millions fOl
advertising to bride the press and make
feInt at competition. l see no item!
| corresponding to such expenditures il
| a poor man gets as good service and al
low rates there as the millionaire. Cam
| the public see the schemep
i The banker does not want the work
ingrnan to go into politics; neither doe
| the railroad magnate, nor the trus
\ king, nor the corporation attorney, no
/ the president and ex-president of thes,
/ United States. Are the interests o
these gentlemen identical with those o
the workingmen? If they are, VIII.
this bitter opposition to indepe nden
/ political action on the part of Anne rical
wealth prOducersa
u0 6lupiUy0S VI tuC PIdtC
i have been cut Is per cent IN wages
i Little knocks OH the head like thes
will sometimes teach the working
people what great love for their well
being the men who make protection
laws have. / like to hear of cuts il
wages, for 1 plainly see that in no othe
way will the masses ever get rid o
the fallaoies regarding wages that hav
been instllled into them from baby
hood. The masses are trained for tn
profit Of the rich just as horses ar
trained for profit of the owner. The ric
own the working people OF the Unite,
States, and the laboring people canno
be made to see the cheat except by
continual reduction Of wages. Nor
wealth is created today for each Day
la Dor, but the pay is steadily decreasing
Public ownership is the only solution
No cut in the postal system.