The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-09-22
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reduce wages they would be
among the first to advocate it.

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among the first to advocate it.
Nearly every campaign docu-
ment they issue, nearly every
speech they make and nearly
every editorial they write con-
tains a threat against the people.
They threaten to withdraw cred
its, foreclose mortgages, confis-
cate collaterals, bankrupt indus
tries and pauperize labor if free
coinageis adopted in this country.
They would invade the sacred
rights of citizenship by threat
ening to discharge tens of thous-
ands of working people for their
political opinions. On the 22nd
day of last May the authorized
mouth-piece of Wall street, Hen
ry Clews, in his weekly letter,
proclaimed the disposition of
Wall street to destroy the last
vestige of free government in
America. He openly boasted
that if the people elect a two
thirds majority of congress in
favor of free coinage of silver
Wall street will evoke conditions
and events that no congress has
ever yet dared to disregard and
that the cause of free silver will
be defeated when it's success
seems most certain. Then like a
boasting king he said: ''lt is on
this reserve power that Wall
street is now reposing."
In the name of labor / want to
say that we are willing that the
gold gamblers shall use their
persuasive powers among the
people, but they shall not sue
ceed by threats, they shall not
coerce labor by any form of du-
ress nor buy the presidency with
Shylock's gold. These gold
gamblers come to labor from the
club rooms of associated banks
in the form of sham angel with
borrowed robes of virtue and a
stolen scepter of authority, try
ing to persuade the world that
fortitude and submission, COM
bined, are lovely, that a suffer
ing creature on bended knees
with teeth set to endure every
form of persecution is a spectacle
worthy of sympathy and rever-
ence. To this counterfeit angel
labor is asked to write sad stor-
les and pathetic poems and yield
up their lives with a martyrs
confident hope of reward, but to
the entreaties as well as to the
threats of this angel of greed
and gold we reply that submis-
sion to evil is tacit encourage
ment of evil itself, to submit to
the pain is to sanction the tort
ure. Submission to wrong that
can not be righted is a virture,
but submission to wrong that
can be righted is a crime. The
working man who is willing to
sell himself into slavery rather
than suffer temporary inconven-
ience or incur the displeasure of
this hybrid angel deserves to
wear the yoke of bondage.
To the end that working people
may concentrate their forces to
stay the hand of this social rob-
Der and feel secure and encour-
aged through the organized eff
forts of their friends, l have de-
termined to establish campaign
labor bureau at Chicago. All
labor organizations will be equal
ly respected. Able labor lead
ers will be placed in the field
and such literature distributed
as will treat our sacred cause
from a labor standpoint and /
most earnestly appeal to the
friends of labor, free silver and
good government everywhere to
contribute financially and other
wise to the support of this cam
paign labor bureau. / desire to
place one hundred or more labor
speakers in the doubtful terri
tory and open communication
with the working people. Let
us meet the enemy on its owr
field and steer the ship of state
from the rocks of monarchy and
despotism against which it is
about to dash to pieces and wreck
the framework of a superstruc
ture that cost so much of human
sacrifice and so much of human
blood to construct. Address ms
at box 81, Sulphur Springs, Ar
kansas. j. r. SOVEREIGN,
General Master Workman
Knights of Labor.