The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-05
= Employes, Assistance Empry,rs,
Total ..... 1858, so7, S66 $1O,9l4,4 Os

Total .$l63 SvI, S66 $40, 400 $S2 59O, $50
Total loss to employers and employees,
$257, 31265S.
TRUSTS A MENACE TO LABOR.
The report Of the labor commissioners re-
veals the fact that trusts are and will con-
tinue to be the aggressive foe Of labor.
The report says: mo proposition involving
settlements of labor controversies present
as great obstacles as those in which trusts
are parties to agreements. In every en-
counter with labor. the workingmen, how
ever just their cause, emerge from the con-
fiict the greater sufferers"
So far as large aggregations of capital en-
able the proprietors, in legitimate way. TO
better economize and to minimize the cost
of production, they cannot be said to be
aggregations OF capital give augmented
powers. Corporations do not form for the
purpose of serving the public, but to sub
serve private ends. These combinations are
allie to arbitrarily control the output hence,
having control OF supply. they regulate de-
Mand and prices. Small industries are
closed, and labor suffers. In brief, any CO.
alition. corporation or combination, formed
in restraint Of commerce or trade, or that
controls the price of any article of COM
merce or merchandise Is menace to pub
1t is possible for the laboring man in this
country to have a comfortable home well
man TO indulge in dissipating habits and Sc
cure or keep home with furnishings need
full to comfort, convenience and happiness.
/ trust the insiduous evil of intemperance
will not be overlooked. Millions of dollars
earned by workingmen go to crafty intem-
perate habits that ought to go to the pur-
chase of a home and its identifying and
furnishing: supplying books. papers, mag
azines. MUSLIN short. towards making the
home a little Eden of sunshine and happi-
ness. l speak thus plainly to workingmen.
for IA no. Cd WI r.
row as I have seen the money earned by
day-labor worse than thrown away, that
should have contributed to the happiness of
In conclusion, may be INDUCED in words
that are fr some manner personal. but per-
tnent to LABOR DAY cster which
events that center in this dear old county
of Montgomery.
TO RETIRE FROM POLITICS.
Seventy-one years ago my parents came
from Shelby county, Kentucky. into the un-
broken forests of this county. and built a
cabin in the woods In the midst Of priva-
tons and hardships they patiently toiled In
a single spring my father for twenty-five
days, assisted his neighbors in their heavy
log rollings. going as far as five miles to
aid in this heavy work. My mother, on the
hand-loom. wove the fabrics, and with
hands as busy as Dorcas's. OF the apostles
time. fashioned the garments for a large
family. Reared amid such environments.
could / be other than the friend of those
who toll? 1t was a proud day In my life
when ] was permitted to return from the
civil war to the county where my parents
gave their energies to create home. 1t
was the consuming ambition Of my life 10
own a home in this county of sacred MEM
cries. Hands willing 20 toll and heart will
irg TO endure were my equipment. In my
efforts / was sustained and aided by my
dear wife. whose life as a school girl had
been spent in study. but who was ready 10
join me in the earnest effort 10 secure a
home. A quarter of century was given TO
intense manual labor. Just as our hopes
were being realized and abundant reward
had crowned our efforts. | was chosen TO
assume larger responsibilities and TO bear
burdens more exacting than those OF my
farm life. When, in the providence CT God
/ shall have finished these duties. slial; re-
turn TO the home made sacred by reason OF
the struggles and tolls and the holy MEM
cries that cluster there. 1t - my purpose