People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27
WIN WE WILL!
MyrOR w. Reeds Prophecy
rs 10 the Outcome Of
Labor Troubles.

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made by such men as Pullman as an
effort to break up all organizations OF
labOring men, 50 that they can deal
with the wOrkingmen one by one and
gradually get them down to pauper-
ism and serfdOm. Don't be diScOur-
aged if you read reports sent ont by
the associated press. That organiza-
tiOn has been the slave Of capital
since its beginning.
IL have been criticised for saying
that any man had the right to take
away his labor from any employer,
but had not the right to interfere
with any other man for taking his
place. say now that he has right
TO interfere if he does it in a peace
able way. 1t is right and just for
every man to protect his wages and
his job. / also say that man who
does not belong to union and stands
ready to take another mans place at
less wages, is an enemy, spy and an
obstructor and ought in some peace
able way to be removed.
WHAT SOCIALISM REALLY Is.
NOW, in regard to socialism. 1t
would be well FOX people to look up.
the meaning Of the word socialist
The public school system is sOcialis-
tic. 1t makes every man contribute
to the education of his neighbOr'S
children. The rich help educate the
poor. The pOstOffice is also social
istic. Under the old method every
man carried his own letters. Now |
CAP send letter or package weigh
ing four pounds by taking it to the
postOffice, paying the charges and al
lowing the government to Go the
rest. If | can send four pounds, why
not 40, 400 or 10000 pounds on the
same plan? Why should not the gov
eanment take charge of the railroads
and express companies? Under the
old plan when man had fire in his
house he got couple of pals of wa
ter and tried to put it out. Now the
community chips in and a fire de-
partment does the work. The police
force and Sprinkling Of streets also
run on the same plan.
If we can have socialism in these
small things-and nobody questions
their benefts-why not have more?
The government tonight operates
twenty-seVen railroads in the United
States through the courts. Why not
all? When the roads get into trouble
they are public institutions and the
militia and United States troops are
called to protect them and the courts
10 help them stand off their debts.
When there is no trouble they are
private institutions and the public be
id.
A MIGHTY STRUGGLE IMMINENT.
'If a man today has a modern
thought and wants to benefit man.
kind, lie is an anarchist. | was
brought UP in family OF abolition
lists. At first the abOlitiOniSts were
social OutCaStS and had to meet in
secret. None Of the best people
would recognize them-Only such peO-
pie as are before me tonight. Grad
ually the thinking of the masses
grew and the meetings were more
open until the tlnal climax came.
But all were not with US. After the
war closed there was change. In
1865 there were lots Of abolitionists.
I predict that a great struggle is COM
ing. Just before the war Uncle TOMS
Cabin was sent cut and it bad a won
derful effect. Just now we read those
powerful little tracts treating on the
relations between capital and labor.
These and the current events have
set men thinking aud the struggle is
getting nearer and nearer every day.
ut does not matter what becomes
Of this particular strike. The great
strike has Just began, the great battle
has just started between capital and
labor. All can aid US in this strike:
if not by action. by assistance; il not
by assistance; by sympathy, and il
not by sympathy, then by prayers.
God is on our side. He always has
been the God Of the oppressed. We
have the same Jesus Christ that drove
the money changers out If the temple
in Jerusalem, and he will drive them
out again. (Cheers.)
THIS THE TINE TO CRY "STOP."
"This will be no seven years war.
The children of today will be a little
gray haired when it is settled. But
win we must aud we will. We have
not yet gotten down to English and
French poverty and oppression.
Nowis the time to call stop" l say
fight while We have meat to eat and
while you have the strength. Before
long we will not be allowed meat
and then our sinews and muscles and
ambitions will be no more. Potatoes
will not stick long enough. A man
cannot fight on an empty, half-strayed
stomach. | am glad to see so many
women here tonight. This is the
cause especially of the workingmen."
The speaker criticized the present
condition of the land question and
said: "COnfscate the lands We have
been robbed of. We owe the present
occupants nothing aud should pay
them nothing. They owe us for the
use of it. The only title to land on
earth is occupancy and use. The
land belongs to the people of the ma.
tiOn. Denver affords the best object
lesson on the Henry George theory of
land of any place on earth. Just op.
pOSite my house is strip Of vacant
property. Its value comes from the
houses myself and Others have built
around it. On one side is a street car
line. 10 itself it adds nothing to the
community. 1t detracts by rea-
son of its unimproved state from
the value of the surrounding prop
erty. Why should not a homeless
man locate on it. build house or
raise a garden and claim it so long as
he occupies the land and puts it to
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