The herald., 1896-10-18

pie Of England, Scotland and Wales,
after the adoption of gold standard,
as told by the English banker. Will
you permit this destructive policy to
continue? Or will you take warning be-
fore it Is too late?
CAPITAL CONTROLS THE PRESS.
Having capital against you. you have
also the popular press against you
that is, many of them. Let us see what
some of them have said-how much in
terest they manifest in the welfare of
the masses who depend on their industry
for their livelihood.
Said the Chicago Times: 1.-THE old
English system of Imprisonment for
debt would be far preferable to our
bankrupt law" ,.t.
Hand grenades should be thrown
among those who are striving to obtain
higher wages, as by such treatment
they would be taught valuable lesson.
and other strikers would take warning
by their fate"
1.-THE best meal to give tramp is a
leaden one" says the New York Herald.
He (the tramp has no right but
that which society, in its grace, may
see fit to bestow upon him. He has no
more rights than the sow that wallows
| in the gutter" says Scribner's Monthly.
And Tom Scott, the great railroad king,
said: Give them the rifle diet for a
few days. and see how they will like
that kind Of bread"
Such, my friends, are the sentiments
of those who would degrade you and
control your wages by controlling your
money"
And, true to this brutal advice, gov
ernment troops were sent to Chicago to
shoot down brave men who, being ami
mated by the same fraternal spirit that
animated Lafayette when he came to
America to aid us, endeavored to aid
their fellow men in their efforts to Sc
cure living wages.
ATTORNEY GENERAL HARMON.
know that United States Attorney
General Harmon defends this action on
the ground that the government has
the right to enforce the fulfillment of
contracts with it. And that is, of course,
all true. But over whom did the gov
ernment have control in the case re-
ferred to? Certainly not over those with
whom it had no contract, and from
whom no obligationwas due. The con-
tract for carrying the mails was not
with the railroad employees, but with the
railroad company. Suppose the gov
ernment had been erecting postoffice
or any other government building, and
the work had ceased and when the gov
ernment officials had asked why the
contract, the answer had been given
that they were having trouble with
| their employees; would he, without fur
ther investigation have asked for de-
tachment of government troops to COM
pei those men to work? Surely not; he
would most likely have said, as would
any man who had Alet Job of work:
Il have nothing to do with your hands;
the trouble with them you must settle
yourself the best way you can; but you
must fulfill your contract"
Just SO the government should have
done with the railroad company that
agreed to carry the mails. Otherwise
the company could reduce the wages of
it's employees to the lowest possible
amount, and when one set Of men gave
out for want Of sufficient food, others
would take their places 1t would mat
ter nothing to the employers, for you
know the bankers circular said "capi-
tails control Of labor did not carry with
it the care of the 1aborer." According
to Attorney General Harmon, people
under this government would have no
assurance Of living wages when en-
ployed on government work, because
men could be compelled to work, wheth-
er the wages paid were five dollars or
five cents. What worse-what more
unjust-law could we have?
While the government has the right
to enforce the fulfillment of it's con-
tracts on the part of companies or indi-
viduals, it surely has not the right
without due process of law to pounce
upon any class of persons and shoot
them down at the behest of rich corpo-
rations. Surely such interference on
the part of the government, in favor
Of capital and against labor, is not law
| ful-is not in accordance with constitu-
tional privileges: and can but charac-
terize such an act as conspiracy against
the rights of the people. If anything it
is worse than anarchy-it is tyranny
Yet many have sustained the action of
the president. Surely they do not real
ize the danger to their own rights of
such a precedent.
"a STRONGER GOVERNMENT" DE-
MANDED
Senator Sharon once said in the Ne