The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-21
THE CALL.

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To organized labor, its various di-
Visions and subdivisions, and to all re-
form, social, educational and scientific
bodies, who condemn government by
injunction and the use of force to
fcoerce the people and deprive them of
their rights as American citizens:
Columbus. O., Aug, 20. 1S97.-To the
organized labor of the country, greet
ing:
The geat miners strike has gene be-
You'd a struggle for living wages. A
crisis in the affairs of the nation has
arrived. in Which all patriotic people
must determine whether they will ac-
cept and consent TO live under the rule
of an oligarchy of wealth, or whether
the institutions of free government, the
rights of free speech and peaceable
public assembling are to be preserved.
THE present struggle has assumed
contest for the preservation of civil
liberty and constitutional rigts.
The tyrannfcal and un-AnerIcan in
functions of the federal and state
courts are revolutionary, against the
first principles of free government, and
derogaItory to the inherent rights of the
masses, endangewing the public peace
and destroying the personal society and
individual liberty of the common
people.
1.-The courts have desecrated the tenn
pie of justice and now stand for the
defiant bulwark of confederated capital.
Their arbitrary rulings have set up one
standard of rights for the rich and an
other for the poor They decree that
capital is always right, as labor is al
ways wrong. They have made lit I'M
lawful for starving working people TO
present grievances or proposed just and
peaceable terms for the redress of in
sufferable wrongs
THE present great miners strike is
an expression of disc9ntent that ORR
ginated in poverty and starvation; y
was born in the sorrow and restitution
of hungry women and children. 1t
was the last protest of impoverished
and enslayed labor, and it presents to
the world a cause as righteous and
humane as ever inspired tine souls of a
Christian, people The pnilantropic
heart of this great nation has respond
ed in sympathy with the miners ap-
peals for the right to receive respect
able living for the most arduous and
hazardous labor in the world Their
appeal for a small Snare of the wealth
they create and for the right to enjoy
tfle fruits of advanced civilization finds
q responsive cord everywhere in the
c,5n1rno1ality of mankind, and if it we're
a struggle between miners anff mine
operators only liberty would triumph
over oppression. industry over greed
and right over wrong, without the
necessity of this call.
COURTS FAVOR THE RICH.
'sBut it is nothing but mere struggle
between employee and employer. The
judiciary has assumed the indefensible
claims of the operator, and the struggle
is between tyrannical courts and the
whole people. The courts, although un-
oath to serve the rich and poor alike.
have volunteered to defend the sordid
interests of the rich as against the God
given rights of the peor- ard now threat
ef7sd the Calling guns and the WincheS
tiers of criminals and thugs against all
who dare TO protest against their despic-
able restra.sltng orders. The judiciary is
prostituting to oppressive capital. has
placed the right of property above the
right of persons, and has Disseminated
against the many in the interest of the
few.
denned to lives of drudgery and star
vatson by the arbitrary rulings of the
COURTS is an insult to a beTlaficiefft Gre
aI.3r am outrage upon free government.
and g disgrace to the Christian civiliZa-
ton under which we live.
EMPLOYMENT OF THUGS.
."The recent injunctfons and their ex-
treme application against the lawful
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