Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23
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weld the nation into unity again
by repeating the laws that
caused it to split asunder.
| America is the workingman 5
Paradise Lost" and it can
never be regaiued by passive
obedience to the serpent.
Our carpenters build maguih.
cent mansions and live in rented
tenements themselves. Our me
chanics construc. electric lights
and use kerosene at home. They
manufacture pianos and do not
own a tin whistle. They build
carriages and go afoot. Our M
ners dig gold and die poor.
They delve in dangerous coal
mines and lack fuel in the win
ter. Our farmers raise grain and
want for food, export cotton and
wool and lack clothing, sell cat>
tie and are without meat.
Our marvellous inventions
have been monopolized in spite
of the daily miracles of our mas
chinery the hungry still lack
food and the homeless wander
through the streets. Step by
step TIE moneyless man is losing
his right to exist. Every recent
change in legislation has been
made to protect property and to
disfranchise men. Armories are
erected and school houses for
gotten. Immense grants of land
are bestowed upon railroads. but
the settlers upon those grants
are evicted. Trades union lead
ers are imprisoned for having
contempt for a contemplate
judge, while monopolies are aid
ed by injunctions and Federal
troops.
To-day Shakespeare has been
revised and Shylock is the hero
of the play. Portals plea for
mercy is called revolutionary,
and Bassanio is branded as a re.
pudlator. ~
There is hardly a trust or syn>
dicate that has inaugurated this
campaign of threats and ridicule
and object lessons that dare open
up its own business career to
the public.
One of these defenders of law
and national honor, the Stand>
ard OIL Company, has illegally
Increased freight rates, closed
rivers and canals, destroyed in
ventions, bought up inspectors
and put its stamp upon explo>
sive oil, attacked the property of
competitors and blown up rival
rehneries. These trusts are re-
iigious at one end and murder
Gus at the other.
This law>breaking, aggressive
spirit of monopoly has found a
perfect EN- bodiment in the per-
son of Mark Hanna.
He to-day towers above Nc
Kinley and above the Republi>
can party, the American Blue
beard, who Stays his workers in>
stead of his wives.
The skeletons of the Seamen's
union, the Miners union and
the Street Car Mems union hang
bleeding in his closet.
When Mckinley was Gov
ernor of Ohio Hanna was his
guardian. Therefore, in criti-
.cising Bryau's opponent, we look
not at the servant, but at the
inaster-not at Mckinley, the
most pitable fgurehead in pub>
lie life to-day, but at Hanna, his
owner and tyrant.
Give Hanna four years of
power and he will paint the
White House black!i
He will utterly destroy every
vestige of trades unionism for he
will have the army, the navy
and the Treasury at his COM
mand. He will discover that it
is cheaper to abolish manhood
suffrage than to buy votes, and
next November may be the last
chance that moneyless men ever
may have to record their vote
for President. Many Republi-
can workingmen are thought
lessly going to the ballot box
just as an OK goes to barbecue
-gaily decorated iu honor of its