Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-19

fishness Of the Spectators ln r,o,ev
the very life blood Of the NATHAN Thev
began then. and have continued ia do
velop ever since, the worst curse that
ever fell upon the American neon,e II
might perhaps Justly he said mon any
people IN the history Of modern ma
tons. II was the system OF sneci,I, tin,,
upon the circulating medium Of ex,
change. cannot IN letter go into
that subject in detail. II il moi neres-
snry, In fact. since the ncoplo .re ron
orally familiar with the history ant
this ! must say. that tho nenubIican
party was the medium through which
inc curse grew ana liked itself upon
The nation and finally brought about
the coup d'etat of 1878, whereby Inc
nation was captured bv Icf-aliee,l
pirates. more selfish and cruel than nny
of the cut Threats who sailed the Snon-
ish main $50 years ago
In the land where these pirates dwell.
chiefly; that, is on the Atlantic eea-
board. there are today 10000 men. v.o-
men md children shut out OF eronIoy-
ment in the cotton mills Of New T,nr-
land because their wage have boon
cut to such an extent that they can
not labor and live, and choose to rtarve
II starve they must. without the bitter
ness of knowing that they are Etarvinn
as the slaves of the min owncrs. I,x
pert optfltiNeF uiluef tie recent cut
could make only 50 per week ont OF
which they must pay rent. clothe them
selves and families and procure food
All were working under system Of
fines-for many frivolous failurcs--nnd
those fines cut their weekly earnings to
such nm extent that, not infrequently
operatives came out in debt 10 the mills
at the end of the week. To such an
extent was this infamy carried that II
has been declared TINT in n year the
corporations would he able to declare
n dividend on the money thus nlched
from operatives. Thousands OF families
have been living for months on corn
meal and cold water, being unable to
buy coal--the husband working twelve
hours per day on food unfit to sustain
a laboring man an hour.
Recently committee of Intelligent
men made an investigation for a New
York paper on the condition of these
mill operatives as compared with that
OF the southern slaves prior to the re-
bellion, and their verdict was that the
operatives are much worse off than
were tho slaves.
ThIs il is that in New England, once
the cradle of freedom, and later its
bulwark there is now 81 white Slavery
more CALLING and degrading than the
balck slavery of the South that caused
the civil war, cost the lives of Co.,
900 men and threw the nation into the
Jaws of mnrey sharks.
But While the mill operatives are
starving, some. at least. of presidents
and treasurers of the mill corporations
are drawing from $4,000 to $4,000 per
annum as salaries. besides their div
idends on stock. The directors have
said they had to cut wages or shut
down. i'hey have done both. why did
they not cut the salaries-the wages
Of presidents, treasurers, and what not
and increase the pay OF those who did
the labor and made the money that
paid their dividends. Because their
piety IL IL pretence. because their re-
lisiun Is a farce. because their wor-
ship Of God has been, for years, the
worship OF the dolarl
They say that thew We're forced to
cut wages because prices of manufac-
tured goods have fallen. why have the
prices fallen? Because the pirates who
have been specializing in the circulat-
ing exchange medium for years have
made 1t impossible to secure that
medium In quantity necessary to en-
able the great mass of the people to
live. The people have been unable to
buy mill products.
What will upset this political and
social condition of robbery and ruin ?
Nothing but agitation! No republic can
live without agitation. In n monarchy
the government is no concern of Tho.
people. They take what comes and ac-
qulesce. But republic, as the name
indicates. is thing of the people. 1t
belongs to them. They are the king.