Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-01-26

minister the interstate law have given
the railroads two years more in which
to hr and main their employees, al
though they have already had SIX years
in which to equip their rolling stock
with safety appliances, as required by
law.
Drones Have the wealth.
Mr. Speaker. labor produces all
wealth Can You show me a particle of
wealth that is not the product Of some
mans toili And yet who has the wealth
Of this country todayf Is it found in
the hands which produced Isl More
than one-hah the wealth Of the nation
is owned by 81, 900 persons, not one Of
whom evar produced 9 dollar in his lifa
Rockefeller has $3.50. 900, 900, but pays
taxes only on $500, 900, and when the
authorities inquire into his business he
burns his books How does 1t come that
wealth producers are In poverty while
drones and parasites poeses the wealth
produced by toili I win tell you, Mr..
Speaker. Legislation has done thia
Legislation has given the natural re-
sources Of the country into the hands Of
monopolistx thus cutting off labor from
lbs natural field. making Of IL a poor,
miserable. begging thing, which must
both beg and buy the privilege Of exert
ing its power. and making 1t trespasser
upon Gods earth
Legislation has given the highways
over into the hands of private corpora
tions, whose agents stand like highway
men In these roads with the demand TO
all to stand and, deliver" An the
products Of labor must pass over these
roads on their way from producer 10
consumer, and these highwaymen are
thus in position 10 demand as much Of
the product Of labor a. they choose.
limited only by their desire not TO kin
the goose that lays the golden egg. And
even this they often do in their greed
Many industries have been DESTROYED
and labor thrown out of employment by
excessive transportation charges II was
supposed that the interstate commerce
commission had power 70 say what were
fair rates, but even this poor power has
been wiped out by the tools Of corpora
tions sitting upon the supreme bench
AN the traffic viii bear Is the only
tender mercy left to labor In the trans
portation Of Its products
A Sleeping Giant.
by legislation the function of issu-
ing money has been abdicated by our
government and that function turned
over to the banks, to be controlled by
the money trust as their interests may
dictate The power which labor former
ly had TO furnish itself with money
through the mines has been DESTROYED
by law, and labor is thus left to the
tender mercies of the bankers, who.
ike the railway companies. take all
the traffic will bear
"Under such laws labor is ground be-
tween the upper and neither milestone
Cut on from the land. its natural field.
compelled to give the greater share of
ts products to get them TO market and
dependent upon the money trust for its
medium of exchange, its only resource
is the power of organization to re-
oppression. And even this is to be
destroyed by legislation, as eyinced by
ection 146 of this bill
81 beg OF you to strike out this sec
ion / know You have the W 10
Ass II, but II does not always pay TO
lse power absolutely. Labor Is a sleep
ng giant 1t may awake some day
nd use tts power perhaps not wisely. /
emember a certain French nobleman
rho once declared that grass was good
nough for laboring men TO eat Three
ears later his head was carried through
be streets Of Paris with its mouth
tuffed with grass Certain other Of .ha 8
rench mobiles used to despise labor A.
Is despised by certain classes in this =
'1ntTy today. They tainted laboring !
zen as sans culottes' because they ]
ere not permitted 10 retain enough cf
product Of their labor TO cover their
Akednesa Three years later a tanperv
set up near Paris, where the skins
those same mobiles were tanned to
AXE clothes for the naked Can we not
oft by historyf' r.
Mrs. susan BaIIitt Dixoa.
II is passing strange. but neverthe-
= absolutely true. that g m has
ritten the best book Of American his
y. Mrs Susan Bullitt Dixon, widow
the late United States Senator Archi.
Dixon Of Kentucky. is the author
The True History Of the Missouri 6
'mpromise and Its Repeal" is the title
her great and invaluable work
Macaulay declared 1t to be his ambi
to write a history Of England that =,
ould divide interest with the latest II
vel he accomplished his purpose
IN this western world a half cen
later MR Dixon rivals his snlendia