Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-04-01

lions to presect and further its inter-
ests by means of production under our
State laws: trusts and monopoiistlc
combinations are organized, but sell
fshly and inconsistency these comDl-
nations do not grant privileges 10 en-
ployes 10 organize for mutual protec-
ton In factories and workshops WORK
ingmen no donbt have the power IN
their own hands TO remedy this selhsh
stubborness by choosing honest repre-
sentatives TO legislatures who will give
equal protection 10 wage earners under
the supercilious sneers OF exacting en-
plovers as well as these employers re-
ceivei from the State by virtue OF their
charter.
Corporations or trusts refusing TO rec
ognize labor unions, when IL Is clearly
aSeertained that such unions were
not organized 10 make malicious
and unwarrantable attacks on the per-
sons or property OF employers, should
be compelled by an act OF Ia" Ioroiu-
ding employers or manufacturers 10 o.
struct or injure the mutual oeneht
arising from labor unions under the
penalty OF !orfeiting to the State the
charter granted for the formation OF
combinations.
II the State is a just and conservative
guardian Of her citizens equal justice
should be given all, then the Legitimacy
and legal standing OF trades unions
would be in comparison with corpora
tiops. Workingmen organize unions
for profit aud protection, and their
right TO this claim should be no more
abridged or violated than the right OF
two or more men TO organize partner
ship for carrying on business. wage
workers capital is their labor En-
ployer's capital is money. Workingmen
are wealth producers, employers
are not. Capital and LABOR
combined is the foundation
that progress, Christianity and civiilza-
ton is based or Without these TWO fac
tors our government could not stand.
Instead of a chosen alliance between
them it appears the more we are ad-
vancing In civilization aud Christianity
the wider the chasm between capltal
and labor is becoming. The capitalists
Christianity is more wealth. wealth.
attracts aud controls the sympathy OF
the law makers, the news papers ana
the churches. II also enliSts the coop
GRAFTON OF others not inclined To
become wealth producers to make
wealth q scientific study TO go over
10 the classes of distinction. Labor
has no sympathy outside its own ranks.
National aud State law makers who
profess great friendship for the work
ers ignominiously fail to redeem the
hedges made before election, gratu-
itousl7 give their whole attention and
consideration 10 law favorable TO mo-
nopOly to the exclusion OF the horny
handed. The subsidized capitaustlc
press condemns every act Of working
men, whether justi6abe or not, with as
much caustic vindiCtiyenesS as II they
wero that many hungryswolves prepar-
ing TO deyour every capitalist IN the
country. The church makes no pre-
tense or effort TO do anything for
the amelioration of the condition
of tho toilers. Its best features are
exposed when labor revolts against the
oppression OF capital. 1t admoniShes
the wronged tolers to submit TO the
dictates of capital and accept its terms.
This means peace on earth TO men OF
good will, whether with empty stomachs
or not. The covetous little merchants,
the Insignificant, graSping, selfish ousl-
ness men, with q few hundred spare
dollars, invests it in industrial instltu-
tions, votes for the consolidation OF In
terests, and If the wheels OF these in
dustries are stopped by financial stag
nation or depression, the sordid little
FISH, with the greed OF sharks,
cry out for another 10 or Is
per cent reduction IS wage earners
would not have the temerity to resist
their demand in the face OF naked backs
and hungry StomachS.
In former years capitalists did not
study the art OF how to rob workingmen
or defraud them Of their wages. With
in the few last years, however, they are
openly and brazenly robbing them by
continual reductions and DotwithStand-
ing this they have to pay as high
price for the EecesSaries
OF life as when the times
were good. State, county and
municipal taxation is not reduced
one cent, neither is house rent, or in
forest on borrowed money. Tho condi-
ton OF the working classes is alarming
thousands OF them out Of employment,
Offering their labor for any price, and
no work to be found at that This de-
plorable condition Of the workers needs
some effective remedy; these times will
not last this way. The indie
pendence OF American manhood that
should characterize free men is a
redisite not TO be overlooked in
the organization Of the masses. Every
worker should join labor unions
to uphold their rights in procuring a
fair share OF their toll, and emancipate
themselves from the humiliating system
of serfdom and starvation. This system
of enslaved oppression that we are en-
during should be never allowed TO take
root on American soil 1t is fungus Of
inhuman perfdy imposed TO make
blighted victims OF the masses and to
enrich the classes. 1t is virus 10
brutalize and pauperize the toilerS, and
the capitalist who sowed the seed OF de-
preston to pauperize American work
ingmen and have them divided instead
of united will reap rich harvest, il not
Distracted OBSERVER
Quite An Old BAtche,or.
Mr.. Sergeant, Uncle Sergeant" they
call him. lives in DahloneEa, Georgia,