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


And now our christian CO admins
tration has ordered batch of bibles
printed in Tagalog- Filipino dIa-
]ect. Mr.. Mckinley ought to have the
Declaration of Independence, Lincoln's
Emancipation Proclamation and some
Of his own speeches also printed in
Tagalog, to show the Tagalogs what
king of chameleon he is.
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Banks, barracks, burglars and beg
CARS are four of the leading products
of the present day in this United
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.
But 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 dallles'
mider 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 a
species of biped that takes a paper for
several years and then w hen requested
to pay up throws the paper back into
the postoffice marked ''refused.' This
is the genuine dead beat and it grows
in all parts of the country.
What could the little band of mill
lionaire oppressors Of labor in this
country do, if the oppressed would
only be as true and loyal 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-
ed people alone are to blame for their
present condition.
Great preparations are being made
at lavish pubic expense fol- Peace
Jubilee in Washington next month.
Great God. A peace jubilee and MUIR
der still being committed daily in the
far away Philippine Islands; more SOL
diers being sent there daily-trouble
brewing in Puerto, Rico, Cuba and
Samoa; new war ships being contract
ed for, and brutal policy of tyranny
being propagated by our national adj
Yet a peace jubilee is
to be pulled off in May in our national
onrsfn1 Of
being murdered, let us have peace
never mind the jubilee.
Last year the millionaires contrib
uted about eleven million dollars they
never earned, to endow professorships
and colleges, in which to teach their
dogmas and doctrines. When few
men have millions of dollars, they nev-
er earned, to thus invest, it certainly
signifies that there must be millions
who have been robbed of the fruits of
their toll, by these few-by special and
purchased legislation.
The body of a dead child lay for
two weeks in the poverty-stricken
home of it's parents in Chicago, await
ing burial, and yet our nation is look
ing about for a job.
ut always has been SO and always
will be so,'' is the motto Of drones, the
philosophy Of fools and the creed of
''The toad beneath the harrow knows
Exactly where each tooth-point
goes:
The butterfly upon the road
breaches contentment to that toad"