The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-04-29
Snap Shots.
by $. Goodwin.

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and now our christian CO admins
frat ion has ordered a batch OF bibles
printed i'm Tagalog-thc Filipino dl1-
Icct. Mr.. Mckinley ought 10 have the
Declaration of independence. Lincoln :
Emancipation Proclamation and some
or his own speeches also printed in
TagaIog. to show the Tagalogs what
King of a chameleon he is.
Banks. barracks. Burglars and beg
oars are four Of the reading products
of the present day in this CnItc'l
States.
Our masters down in the White
House at Washington were very eager
to ship three million dollars, part sill
yer, to Cuba to give to the poor Cuban
soldiers-which is perhaps all right.
Rut there are several million poor
hungry and patriotic Americans in this
country who are much more deserving
Of such gift.
It is rather amusing and also ridicu-
lous to read in the metropolitan daiIieS,
un(er big headlines, Of the great pros
perity that is bounding over this coun-
try-then in another place OF men
striking for living wages, and OF the
hard work of the Charity Boards 10
care for the paupers and worthy poor,
who are unable to work.
There are in this country great
variety Of beats-there is the
pulse beat. the heart beat. the police
mans beat, the sugar beet, the red
beet and The dead beat-the last is 4
species of biped that takes a paper 70"
e,eral years and then when requested
to pay up throws the paper back into
the postoffaice marked ''refused." This
is the genuine dead beat and it grows
in all parts Of the country.
What could the little band Of mil
1!onaire oppressors Of labor in this
country do. if the oppressed would
only be as true and IOval to each
other as the oppressors are. Why. the
people could win prosperity and free
dem at one election were they only
organized as are the rich trust mag
mates and their puppets, the law"
makers, at Washington. The oppress-
ell people alone are to blame for their
present condition.
Great preparations are being made
at lavish public expense for Peace
Jubilee in Washington next month.
Great God. \ peace jubilee and muir
der still being committed daily in the
fir away Philippine Islands: more SOL
dicrs being sent there dali -troubla
brewing in Puerto Rico, Cuba and
Samoa; new war ships being contract
ed for, and Il brutal policy OF tyranny
being propag;lted by our national adj
ministration. Yet peace jubilee is
to be pulled off in May in our national
capital. Let us cease numbering and
being murdered, let us have peace
never mind the jubilee.
Last year the milliOnaireS contrib
uted about eleven million dollars they
never earned, to entlow professorships
and colleges, in which to teach their
dosmas and doctrines. When a few
men have millions Of dollars. they nev-
err earned. to thus invest, it certainly
signifies that there must be millions
" no have been robbed Of the fruits of
their toll. by these few-by special and
purchased legislation.
The body of Il dead child lay for
two weeks in the poverty-striclen
home of its parents in Chicago, await
ing burial. and yet our nation is look
ing about for job.
1T always has been so and ALWAYS
will be so.'' is the motto Of drones. the
Of fools and the creed Of
THE toad beneath the harrow knows
Exactly where each tooth-polnr
goes: