The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-06
THE GRAFTON OF THE DAY

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mark you. it is not a constitutional
privilege, II is only a legal
one. The legislature tomorrow. IL in
session. may repeal and cancel out that
right. You saw the strike of 1894
when the souls of men. workmen, re-
fused to permit the minds of men 10
follow their own personal interests anu
the interests of their families, and
made them strike and peril the hap
piness of their homes in order to pro-
test against the exposed monstrosities
and %tyrannies of the Pullman Car com
pany toward its labor. 1t would seem
that the developed intelligence and
justice of the American people would
have sustained that noble effort on the
part OF the railway men OF America
10 correct an evil that no power In
either the national or the state gov
m started or attempted to stay
or to stop. But no ooner were the
American people annoyed by the an
noyanc TO their travel and to their
trade. which was incidental to the
strike. than they exhibited "a readiness
to stand any innovation whatever up
on the laws or the judicial procedure
of the unit IL they would only ter
inmate that strike. And so II was that
at that hour the courts of the country
adopted for America "a power over the
practice and consciences of men which
the courts of England, to their honor
be II said, have for the last SO years
refused to exercise. (Cheers).
I'VE are now confronted in America
with an awful effort being made by the
b%ondholders and the men defensive or
the mercantile political economy for the
humiliation of the gathering labor or
CARNATIONS and combinations OF this
United States. In every state OF the
great free Mississippi valley. In Ohio. In
New York, in classic New England
blacklisting by corporate authorities Il
permitted by the civilizations OF those
countries. Men who are making them
selves foremost in a demand for only
the rights OF labor are being driven TO
the recesses of nature to obtain the
means of life. The saddest example
which came under my notice, Mr..
Chairman, was Hugh Ross. Hugh Ross
was, prior TO the Carnegie strike, the
strike of the workmen at Homestead.
the superintendent of building for the
vast Carnegie plant, which had over
AZ acres under roof. He was a man OF
transcendent ability in his department
of labor; he had built all the furnaces,
all their work shops. But he was one
Of those men who resisted the idea that
capital could of its own accord and
without any grant of power from court
or legislature enlist a private army in
another state, arm II, officer 1t and
march ii in to subdue men in Pennsyl-
vania. (Cheers). He did not believe
that capital had that power or that
right. And so in the providence OF God
he was one Of the men who on that Inn
mortal 9Th day of July stood at the END
Of the gang plank which the army OF
thugs and Pinkertons were pushing out
on the shore at Homestead, TO prevent
their landing as a private army to the
destruction of the forces Of organized
labor. (Cheers). You have all heard
the glorious result Of that great battle
for liberty"
Mr.. Erwin spoke further along the
same lines. making point after point
with telling effect. At the conclusion
OF the address Mr.. Erwin was wildly
cheered. 1t was freely said that Mr.,
Erwin's address was one of the best
ever heard in this state.