Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-01
DEBS AT ST. LOUIS.
Largest Hall in the City Packed to
Overlooking.
Evening Journal.)

Evening Journal)
Take heart said Mr.. Debs, "thc
midnight watch is over.
Defy public opinion and take you,
stand with men like Jackson. TIE
world, as yet, is neither just nor gen
erous. Still there is room for hope in
this line. Free government can DEM
onstrate itself. The forebodings and
advance objections of Macaulay count
for nothing as against honest attempts
to establish justice among men.
Organized labor is not understood
l. is not the produce of a cline or sea-
son, but is born of oppression While
of course, there are honest and even
generous employers, they ever find
themselves short of a quorum. They
stand simply as honorable exceptions
TO an otherwise monotonous array OF
forces adverse to the welfare of the
wage worker. The widening
range of machinery is constantly rem
derinG more difficult the application OF
arbitration in the settlement of disputes
arising from its use.
Machinery is everywhere and is
everything; man has become a mere
attachment. For instance, men in Kali
amazoo. Mich, operate machinery for
five cents an hour. This service brings
a reward of fifty cents a days a
week Such pay for intelligent effort
is so palpably inadequate that strikes
follow sooner or later. They do not
come by chance or by choice.
Frances f. Willard, that sterling
exponent of an enlightened citizenship,
says that to-day millions are kept in
enforced idleness; they can get no
work. They strive for this work as If
1t were bread itself. Happily, econom-
les is obtaining a hearing; it is on the
lips OF many; it is hopeful sign. Re-
life must come. Victor Hugo has apt
ly said the labor question is the uues-
tion of mankind. \ crucial change is
impending. Good men are saying again:
Prepare ye the way
Abraham Lincoln placed man before
the dollar, but industrial conditions
have reversed the enumeration, and
mans social standing is now weighed
out to him just as any other purchas-
able commodity
Referring to the model town of Pull
man, ILL.,, as a condensation of indus
trial infamy, Mr.. Debs told again some
Understanding truths With a surplus
OF S25.OO0.O00. this company charged
rentals (and per force collected them,
ranging from 25 to so per cent above
the rate paid by others than Pullman
slaves in the immediate vicinity. The
e1actions wrung from this unwilling
tenantry were fully exposed. On every
step from the cradle TO the funeral
casket Pullman levied toll.
Bitter was the arraignment of the
Managers association, so-called. which
precipftated the strike that has been
charged Up TO the American
Railway Union. Twenty-six lines of
railway allied thef fIselves to wreck this
trade union and tsackiist its members.
This damnable blacklist is enforced to-
day so far as il is possible to do so.
Courts are used by one side only.
and injuhoS;ons are for the rich alone.
During the Pullman strike. ND TO July
2 no trouble had occurred. But trouble
was necessary. So 1900 thieves we're
sworn in as deputy marshals il Chi
cago. and trouble began that day.
Property was destroyed. Chief of Po-
lice Freeman has testified that the
deputy United States marshals were
the real thieves. sought the advice of
the best legal advisers of the country
with regard TO the injunction served
upon me. / followed the advice and