The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-05-27
STRONG POINTS WELL PUT.
E. Gerry Browns Discussion OF
Money at a New England
Town Meeting.
A REMARKABLE LITTLE BOOK.
CONTINUED from last week

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Observation-Disclosures mi-
lies make such claim; but they in
clude in their estimates only the men
who are at work, and not those who
are idle. A fair estimate for compari-
son could include all labor, at either
period, when making an average.
Again, the law OF supply and demand,
in determining a price for wages to be
a new factor,-the labor unions, which
the injustice of gold basis. The only
prote ction that labor gets is In its or
CARNATIONS. Their power is we'll re-
cogniZed when the gold monopoly finds
it necessary to institute and main
tain government by Injunction and
gatllng gun, with Imprisonment with
out trial by jury as a repressive meas
ure, to answer labOr's protest against
the gold basis. If wealth producers
were getting their due share of what
they produce, wealth could not con-
centrate so rapidly In q few hands"
LAS the hour is getting late, move
that our minister say few words"
said villager, land close the meet
ing" 1t having been 50 voted the
minister said
Thirty odd years ago we had lit
tie trouble In this country because a
few men claimed vested right to
take from black man his liberty and
the proceeds of his toll, rendering to
him only the means OF existence. The
black man was property; and good
care was taken OF him as property. He
was transferable by a bill of sale, and
as property, had no rights as man.
What great wave OF moral senti-
ment was awakened by the many
stories Of the trials and tribulations
Of the poor black slave! How the
tears Of men and women mingled in
Faneuil Hall, when the white hand Of
Lucy Stone rested in tender blessing
upon the dusky brow Of negro woman
escaped from bondage, while she
talked of mighty wrong, and pleaded
for the sacred rights of the weak
against the oppression Of the lawfully
strong!
Recall all the horrors of that sys-
tenn of chattel slavery which the
financial system of thirty years has
created! The newspapers tel the
story from day to day.
Ibid your negro seek his freedom
with the bloodhound at his throat?
Your white man in his insanity of de-
spair often sees no freedom except
that which only disordered brain
can discover in suicide. Was your
negro bound over to a new master and
separated from his family? Your
white brother looks for work that may
give bread to his family, and is locked
up for 50 days or six months, as a
tramp: and the deserted are left to
their fate! Did black Margaret Gar
ner kill her children to keep them
from going back to slavery? Oh, how
pathetic an incident that was
as an awakener in the old
days! But some of your white
Margarets Of today go with their chill
dren into the humdrum Of a mill; or
they hear their children cry for the
food which chattel slavery never de-
MED to the young folks who rolled ON
the little cabin floor Of the ole Ken
in fear that the slave driver would
come some day? Your white man has
a spectre at his side which pictures
him out of a lob that often only gives
him only one weeks wages between
food, shelter and clothing for the
family, and down the hill to the Door
house.
'As under the system of chattel
slavery, SO under this new system of
assumed vested rights the distribut-
er Of labor's products holds no honest
title against mans God-given, and
therefore 1nalienable, rights; yet it
claims the right to take from the pro-
ducing forces all that the traffic will
bear" Chattel slavery made proper
ty OF the man: and il 1T took the pro-
ceeds of his toll, it gave him food
clothing, and a home, medical attend
ance in sickness and burial at DEATH
The present system is free from the
responsibility Of caring for the man
as property: but it owns the tools
which men must utilize in the ex-
change Of their products. For the use
of these tools 1T demands nearly all
the wealth production. The conflict
today is not between labor and capital
but between labor and those who mon
opolize the tools Of labor, and exact
an inequitable tribute. The inalie a.
BILE rights of man are in conflict with
the assumed rights OF property.
1.-The slave drivers Of humanity In
this present system have evolved q
machine so ingeniously con trived, that
the victim rarely discovers the man
acles that harness him to his daily
toll. He sees no farther than the
length of his hand, and occasionally
strikes at another victim of the
same machine who may occupy the
next round in the ladder of life, as 9
nominal employer of labor; but both
employer and employee vote and cheer
for the concealed hand that takes the
fruit Of their labor, even while it Is
passing into their possession.
1.-The cause Of human freedom, the
religion OF Christ, pleads for a new
emancipation, and calls for champions
Of the type of those of 1776, or those
who rose at later day against chat
tel slavery. The Lovejoy who died 10
Alton, ILL.,, defending the printing
press; the Phillips who rebuked the
recreant American in Faneuil Hall;
the Sumner who fell in the Senate
Cham Der; the John Brown who wrote
on the steep-rising rocks of Harper's
Ferry history that shall never be ef-
faced; the Lincoln who declared that
in case OF "a conflict between man and
the dollar, then the man frst,-the
times call for men like these. Can
the West and East produce heroes
who can educate the people to the
fact that slavery exists in the repub-
lie in more objectional form than
ever before, and the slave-drivers are
in their own communities? Do the
ministers dare to emulate the ex-
ample of their Leader, and drive the
money-changers from the Temple:
"There are patriotic sons Of pa
triotic sires who ignored political
ties. and united to eradicate chattle
slavery: will they now vote to con-