St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-21

knowledge on the subject to use theil
own reason 10 determine 81 impnrlah {
matter. They grow III that belief. re
iuSt 10 INVESTIGATE, ana become th'
hope!eSsly bisotrd instruments of self
oppression. \ wise man is never /;
bigof. lie may Ue a iyrant. but Ii,
knows the result uf his actions: know:
what is good W i'll for him. He invcSti-
gaies. and never allows others 10 do his
thinking and draw his ronclustnnS.
Read all sides. Ii is the only safe way.
According to the computations made
by Prof. Edward Brmis, OF the Chicago
university, based on the census oil 1890
the average wages of the 2i.323 miners
or Illinois were only ST 81 a Week: of
the 10, 81 Ohio miners, 81 10 week; OF
the bitunlnouS miners oi.l'ennSylvania,
S755 week, and of the anthracite
miners. 1921 week. And yet the
party that ins0lrntiy claims to he the
especial "fripnd of the worklngnan''
PIRATES about high wages and high liv-
Ing in America. May the miner and
all who work in useful occupation
soon get good sense enough To deliver
themselves from such "friendS" by
combining at the ballot box for the
overthrow of gluttonUuS monOpOliStS
and cantiug politicians.
The rich classes are always, in their
sympathy for the Door, warning them
against "cheap" money. Can't the
poor people take tumble? Can't they
smell a mice? What is il about cheap
money that so exercises the monopo-
lists? Hadn't the working people bet
ter look into this matter little and see
about it themselves? You Will notice
that there is a decided difference be.
tween cheap wheat, made by labor. and
cheap money, made by law. OF course
the monopoiists dearly love the labsr-
ing classes, work tor them and pay
deceive the workers TO control their
vote, certainly not!
No tariff or any law enacted in this
nation ever compelled the employer tC
pay high wages. And any such law
would be wrong in principle and ty-
rannical in practice. But law that
would be right in principle. fraternal in
practice and beneijcent In results w0uld
be for tine law to provide public rail.
roads. public tplegraphs, public coal
mines, public oil wells and rehneries
and pubic banks, and establish rate
of wages in them that would enable
every employe TO live ana raise his
family as becomes citizen of free
country. The law has thai right. Why
don't the poorly paid many who have
the votes see that they vote only fol
men who desire this condition?
Ii our ministers would explain thu
social teachings OF Christ, the laws by
which society III earth should be gov
erned, and the reasons therefore, III
stead OF disQuisitions on obtuse theo
logical theories that cannot be under
stood by the average communicate, ant
on which the teachers themselves ar,
not agreed, it would so elevate the SO
cial fabric that all might, and mos
would, understand the spirit of the NaZ
arene's teachings on matters spiritual
Suppose 100 emigrants. locating in :
new, ungoverned and fertile country
should proceed t. build homes, rails,
crops, stock, roads. bridges and ali thu
requirements of mans comfort, eXcep
three, who did little or nothing, but Sc
themselves I'D as lawmakers and oank
| erss, and in few years should own th'
| whole community and all that the labo
of the ninety-seven had created. l say
do you suppose they could do IL honestl.
| and justly? Yet that is just the result
! in the United States today.
| The laboring people of this natiol
can nearly all read and write, in acquir
| ing which they acquired the ability t,
| think. And that's what the matter i
with the country--many of them ar
| actually thinking for themselves. Thl
! was factor the rich class did not TAX
| into calculation when the free SchUo
system was adopted. This is why tn
ruling classes are getting great nav.
and modifying the youth they are get
ting into the militia. Brute force is t
] combat Ideas.
The wealth of the United States ma
be increased ten times in the next tel
years. but il it shall flow into the hand
of few the people will be no better OF
than they are today. And so surely a
it would be mere aSed, under the pres
ent system, the men who create
would be given in wages only enough t
| live Oh and the balance would 20 int
the possession of men already too rich
Every move that is possible withou
| arOusing public suspicion is being mad
to establish a military despOtism in tn
United States. A strong central powe
the power of kingship-is being de
| manded by those who, having stolel
| from the masses the millions of wealth
created. now demand a power sur1jcien
! to hold it..
A government that enacts debt will
; certain amount of money in circula
ton. and then contracts the money vol
ume before the debt is paid, commits
heinouS crime against the people. Tina
is what the Republican party did
Every true Republican ought to believ
IL. not because it appears in these col
umns, but because Abraham LincOll
SAID it.
IT will bear repeating often that i
national taxes were collected as ar
state and county taxes, 1000 families
! who own three-fourths of the United
States. would have to pay three fourth
of the taxes. OF 1876, 600, 900 year. Nov
they don't pay over S2.000,000. You
poor devil, do you see the protection?
The monopolistS, aided by cunningl,
devised law. hire one set of men to figh
and subdue another in their Interes
while they are safely in Europe spend
ing the UOOty they have robbed til,
laoorer of. When will men who worl
for wages learn enough to act tOgethe
for their mutual interest?
"Pay me a tribute or you shall no
trade" is what the money loaner saws t,
the masses who produce all the wealth
of the world.
When men feel their weakness of ar
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