The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-30

ground rent, and labor must still be badly
housed, clothed and fed Capital must still
fight down wages in order to compete and
exist, and still must millions of our work.
ers be worse off than when the production
of wealth per head not a tenth of
what it is today. Capital and labor are
natural allies. but capitalists prefer the
alliance of that idle and non-productive
class miscalled noble" So, it may
come to pass that labor will
find the means of taking possession of all
the instruments of production, that is the
capital of the nation, and working them for
it's own benefit. Public companies have
neither a soul to be saved, nor any place
to be kicked Shareholders care only for
dividends. 1t matters not to them how the
human machines that produce the divi-
dends clothed, housed, or fed, or how
rough and diseased in mind and body their
children grow up The Great Northern
Railway Company refuse the moderate de-
mands of their workers for the same con-
ditions of wage and time given by the
Great Southern and Western and the Mid
land and Great Western Companies. How
is this? Does not the Great Northern line
run through what the directors of that
company In their individual capacity de-
clare to be the imperial, rich, prosperous
province and do not the other lines run
through the parts of Ireland they call the
pauper decaying provinces? Let the Ulster
company beware-their men have votes
-
ers are beginning to think the queens
highway, as the railway now is, should not
be "blackmailed'' by capitalists any more
than in other days it was permitted to be
by the stand and deliver fraternity of
the Dick Turpin class. Hear, hear) When
railway companies refuse 16s per week to
porters, 15s cd to platelayers, and 1Ss Cd to
25s to guards, a sense Of public danger
should induce the public to take possession
of the railways for the use of the nation
II tn 10 cn1fn f ,1o ~
got for such miserable wages will be too
inferior to permit of safe travelling Cap
plause)
Did God place the lamp of His love in the
sky
That man should look up with tear and
a sigh?
Did God spread His carpet of verdure so
fair
That man should look down with groan
of despair?
Away with the soulless and helpless creed,
The mind that believes it, is darkened
indeed. (Applause)
Now do you see the remedy the British
Democracy mean to apply? F'irst-The
legal plumber Of ground and mine lords
must stop, and the $500, 900 be divided
between the CAPITALISTS and laborers who
create it. Second-An ground values shall
as they keep growing by invention and dis
covery go to the state as public taxes to
the relief of industry from taxes now
levied. Thrd-All values created by indi-
viduals shall be the absolute property of
individuals but those values created by the
whole community must be appropriated by
the community. On these lines higher
civilization will rise The workers are the
foundation of our present structure. Three
generations of our present deterioration
would bring the edifice crashing to ruin
Our city statistics prove this by the death
rate and the country no longer supply
fresh material in bone and sinew to work
up into capital and ground rents But dis
tribute the three hundred millions per an
mum and the result will be houses for the
workers in which sweetness and light will
with proper space refine manners and
morals The worker needs and must have
more than mere food, clothes, and lodging
AS chattel slave he was better off il
these are all his needs. AS a slave his
owner valued him and took care of him in
all these respects, just as a man does his
horse If a slave died a new one cost a
large sum- but under our wage system if
worker die another is NOTWITHSTANDING
for the lob But the worker is man with
a moral and intellectual nature to be min
istered to. (Applause) Society sins against
God when it hardens the brains, stiffens
the sinews, and degrades by too much toll
the brothers and sisters of Christ for whom
His blood was shed. Music and song, art
and nature are now only for leisured
class. But God is not Knocked. The land
of the people, and the inspiration of scien-
tific production will give leisure and culture
to the workers. Look up, children Of toll,