The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-27
Labor Notes.

! Why mourn for Carnot-the result .
rather weep for the starving thousands
| that roam the streets of Paris. the victims
! of bad government
| French government was oyerthrovn
Sause' refused to grant miners a working
| Gay or eight hours, also refused govern
ment railway employees the right to or
| ganze.
| A statute in New York harbor towering
| towards the clouds, designated Liberty
| Enlightening the World a majority of the
| people on shore deprived of nearly every
advantage OF civilization, and all the spon-
| taneouS offerings of nature except the light
| and air. In what does the results of bad
government differ under the name republic
| from the titled monarchy?
Public Printer Benedict says he is going.
| 10 reouce the force in the government
| printing office from $500 to 1900 persons.
Th1s is display of official intelligence
| In order to relieve hard times IT throws
| 1,4OO employees into the ranks of idle labor
| ana ADDS to the inability to consume the
| surplus plenty amid which the industrious
| starve. This is a sample of prosperity in
freedom, and the sovereign power of the
people.
According to computations made by Prof
Edward Bemis, of the Chicago University.
| based on the census of $780, the average
wages of the 1888 miners of Illinois were
| only S6.S week: of the 1851 Ohio miners.
1915 a week; of the bituminous miners of
pennsylvania T55 week, and of the an
thracite miners, 1921 a week. And yet the
party that insolently claims to be the espe-
cial friends of the working man. pirates
about high wages and high living in Amer
lea. May the miner and all who work in
useful occupations soon get good sense
enough to deliver themselves from such
friends by combining at the ballot box
for the overthrow of giuttonous monopo-
lists and canting politicians.-Coming Ma
ton.
Chauncey Depew said that Fifty capt.
italists he could name could stop the wheels
Of commerce." William Vanderbilt said:
1.-The people be damned" and Jay Gould
said: Il can hire one-half of the laboring
people to shoot the other" How true they
spoke the situation of the wealth-producers
Of this country prove. The capitalists have
locked the money and securities represent
ing our past labor in their vaults. The
holder of railways, mines and forests say
1.-The people be damned" and the oppressors
OF labor have armed one-part of the people
to shoot the other, while, working men and
women starve! What is congress doing to
preserve our "inalienable rights to life, lib
erty and the pursuit Of happiness?' Moth
ing. It is adding to our present burdens by
increasing our bonded debt, making i'm
provements for private benefit, and concoct-
ing plan to steal $1000O0,0O0 to build a
canal In a foreign country, while the re-
sources Of the United States remain unde-
veloped. Are we free people?
Mayor Eustis has seemingly struck a
snag since he ordered a number of peacebly
disposed citizens out Of the city. Has the /.
shock generated fear or caused a slight
vibration of common sense to agitate his
sluggish brain since Cantwell and Jefferys
arrived! Perhaps it is caution. If writ
OF habeas corpus were sworn out in a fed
eral court for unlawful arrest of peaceful
citizens from other states. unpleasant ques-
lions might arise concerning the rights Of