The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-14

rupt organized labor, and keeps part
OF the regular army in Idaho for that
purpose: but neither the regular army
nor the Standard Oil trust can disrupt
organized labor in that state. There
the miners know their rights and viii
not surrender them to any trust though
they lay in Jail all their lives.
Ihose men are denounced, Tidiculed
ana abused by venal press (the pa
peis q your city excepted, they have
upon this OCCASION as on others, treat
ed organized labor honorably) because
lney refused to surrender every right
that belongs to free men and accept the
edlct of the Standard Oil trust, and in
the same issue write meaningless edi-
torlals against trusts in order to de-
ceive and blindfold the public.
Notwithstanding this TRADE of abuse
organized labor in every state in the
union is in full sympathy with those
brave men and good women; inside Of
81 DAYS the name of each prisoner will
uecorate the nalls OF every labor organ
ization in the United States. to be pre-
served and honored by future genera
tons who will point to them with the
same kindly feeling ais we love to nojnt
to the names of John Brown Lincoln.
Philips, Garrison and Loyejoy and teach
sach generation how those noble men
fought for the liberation of four mil
lion slaves, how they We're hated by the
tories of their time and abused by the
plutocratic press: how they were mon
bed, executed and assassinated for de.
claring that property in man was a
crime and slavery should never exist
on American soil The names Of tia
martyrs in the Standard Oil stockade
will go down in history as the heroes of
the closing days of the 10Th century.
from whence shall spring an impetus
that will cement the laboring men TO-
gether, as if bound by hooks of steel
and in forward movement guided by
wisdom and intelligence construct the
bier upon which organized greed which
has despoiled American freedom and
defaced the goddess of liberty by legal
tied robbery shall pass beyond the lines
of our great country, the richest under
the sun. ] do not claim that laborng
men are infallible and incapable of
committing wrong; they have for years
committed an objectionable wrong for
which there is no excuse. for such COM
mission generations yet unborn shall
suffer; they have unqualifedly and
without due consideration for their flu
ture welfare voted themselves into
bondage by voting republican or dem
ocrat ticket as their masters dictated
To me there is no greater crime or
humEating spectacle than to behold a
w1rkingman who is the slave of cor
poration walk 40 the polls on election
day and deliberately vote away the
freedom that was gained for him by the
Revolutionary fathers on many a hard
contested battlefield. / regard him as
an Incorporating enemy of every lib
erty enjoyed by the American people;
it were infinitely better and more hon
orable were he to die of starvation than
TO surrender his manhood and honor in
such an ignoble manner: the man who
Is guilty of such moral coWardce
should not be entrusted with the voting
franchise of any country. After years
of practical experience in the labor
movement / have long since concluded
that there is but one solution of the
vexatious question between labor and
apitalsts--when the laboring people
will abandon the foolish idea of regain
ing their rights by strikes and boycotts.
spend less time in the barroom and
more time at home and in their lodge
room educating themselves to distin-
guish sbetween right and wrong, and
Danish forever that miserable, con-
temptible, religious hsgotry that has
proved the ruina ton of the laboring
people for centuries; cast aside their
petty jealousy which should not exist
among body of intelligent men: come
together regardless of trade or calling
and discuss all national and local ques-