St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-26
FROM THE LABOR PRESS.

sICIANs AND TAXPAYERS OF ST.
PAUL.
FROM THE LABOR PRESS.
The welfare of The nation depends on
what the lives of its working people are
like.
The Standard Oil company has alb
Rochester. n. Y. 1t Is quite plain that
the courts have squelcEed the oil trust!
Keep on believing it, voters.
Every time the ruling classes order
out the militia or the police against the
working classes it adds 10 the ranks of
the army who will vote for a new. and
nODler system of government. v--f
When people are starving under. com
petition they turn their eyes TO cooper
alton. Had they done this years ago,
they would have been we'll fixed today.
But better late than never.
When man tells you that 'the best
has been done" that can be for the
laboring classes. make some inquiry
about him; you will probably find that
he is one who lives off the laboring
classes. c.<s
Don't fret. All the gold will go to
Europe. More bonds are needed, and as
they cost the receivers nothing they are
going to be issued. Great scheme. amt
it9 Don't believe it? Well, what have
the people to show for the last issue, of
bonds? ~
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elect one of their number to office if
he does not understand the social ques-
ton. An ignorant laborer can do DO
good i'll Office. He is as soft snap as
capitalists want. Elect workingmen,
but elect good thinkers.
1t Is very amusing to hear fellow
who hasn't done lick of honest, useful
work in twenty yealS chatter about
voorhees, woIkingmen being poor be-
cause they will not work. The stu.
pendouS gall of some of the ''loafers" Is
almost equal to the monumental stupid
ity of those who vote to have them live
without doing anything useful.
What is the policy of the Republican
party, anyhow? It's single gold stand
ard. issue OF bonds, bonds, bonds, the
national bank monopoly and tariff for
protection-for capitalists. That has
been the ruling policy of the country
since the war, and it has brought ruin
to millions. No Republican smart
enough to prove it otherwise, either.
A dividend of the Pullman Gar conf
pany. two days after Pullman told his
striking workers he was losing money,
ought to convince the working classes
of the great love and truthfulness of
exploiting employers. Of course if
the wOrkingmen had voted for national
railroads, they would have no Pullmans
to combat. Ii wages were not decent.
they could vote then for congressman
who would see that they got wages.
But they vote the same tickets as such
men as Pullman vote, and they are
only getting the logical results. Boys,
the public ownership of railroads will
place you in command instead of a
Pullman. You can't injure Pullman
so long as you support private owner
ship of railroads and telegraph with
your votes.
What a picnic the rulers have with
Doodle and champagne! Workiugmen,
can you have anything without working
for il? Not much, unless you steal it.
What work" do these YulerS do? Do
you not see that they live off your labor
under this system of not allowing the
public to operate business which you
support by your voteS2 If you are poor
1t is either because you have not worked
or because others have made profits out
of your work and left you little The
wages you receive is smaller than the
worth of the goods produced, and when
you buy goods another set, of
men live off you by adding profits. If
the nation conducted the business your
wages would be the price that others
paid for your products. If you want to
live better why don't you study this
system and learn how to vote so you
will get more wages? If you don't. do
you think those who live off you will do
it tor you? AS stated elsewhere, by
governmental authority, there is only
two and one-tifth cents paid for labor in
producing 81 worth of sugar. If 1.-THE
nation produced the sugar you would
either buy what now costs you 81 for
not over five cents, or else those who
actually created the sugar would get
nearly 81 instead of two and oneififth
cents. See? a,i
Something wrong, eh? Well. why don't
you read and find out what it is? How
can you treat all ailment the nature of
which you are ignorant? Do you think
all this came about by chance and will
remedy itself the same way? Some say
the people are too eXtravagant, others
that they drink too much, others that
they don't work, others this. that and
the other. But you must know. Guess
ing won't do. What produced the pres
ent crisis and other crises is movable,
and it is your business to find out. It's
no use to work and try to gather a
competence for old age and your children
when every few years a crisis appears
and sweeps it out Of your hands. 1t is
far better to understand what prod2ses
these periods of distress, and if you
can't change them. you can at least not
be robbed by them. Who is being benz
Gifted by them? Somebody is. you may
be sure. Who is losing by them? Any
book on money, written by any but a
millionaire, will throw a flood of light
| on the matter. Better read something