The labor world., 1899-06-24
~ WING to strike Of the miners in
Colorado against a reduction in
$50 pay, fifty thousand people are

i 1Gke ana civil war is TlTeaDeneQ.
This system is practicable, gentle
men! .jsls: vi tss,5. s5s,S5. $4:s; $4!::5s;
With seven thousand street car and
other workers in Cleveland paradinp
the streets and threatening the peace
and safety of the town, in protest
against the private operation of in.
dustries, there can be no doubt that
This system is racticable, gentle.
men! . 81. I. rs 3 i l.;al$$ F tE
While 10000 garment workers in
and about New York sare parading
the streets against starvation wages
and illegal conditions; ); while they{are
being dubbed by policemen, jailed by
Judges and robbed BY genteel law.
yers, and the: peace Of the comimun-
ity requires an army of police, what
better evidence do you want that
This system is practicable, gentle
Il men! sSi .zf 81 rs III S55
With the Standard Oil Co., defying
The authorities Of Ohio, laughing in
the face Of the constituted guard
ians" of the people, and no arrests or
imprisonments meted. out to the law
less, are you not satisfied that
a.1s kystem is practicable, gentle:
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With civil war on small I scale. at
Buffalo, n. 3. which has been going
on for weeks, with armed sSmen keep
/ ing peace while the workers; wives
and children. are being starved into
submission, we must all agree that
This system is pract cticable, gentle
men! &: a5F.9
With the great department stores
crushing out the small fry, with the
trusts crushing out all the small fac
tories. with combinations on every
hand closing down plants and dis.
charging men, turning them hope
less into the streets without a chance
to beN other than thieves or sbeggars..
the man must be a fool who does not
think that 5z5a . 5s
This system y practicable, gepsle-
men! .5i sS4. is31ie rs n ,S'st sss 81
With the glass workers closing
down and putting II 900 workers with
their families on the streets, Destroy
ing not only them but all who rely
on them indirectly, and tnen raising
the price Of glass to the public to
double what it was when 1T cost more
to make, you are blind indeed il you
cannot see that g s.. ,s.5. s}$sss t.,5s rs 4
This system :is practicable, gentle
men! i
With martial law in. Idaho, with
troops sWarming all over the hills
and valleys hunting the laboring men
like 50 many wild animals, with the
ind M NV =,
.herdipg them like cattle in filthy Sen-
closures with the cry Of distress from
helpless women and children going
up, you must be deaf and dumb not
to feel that
This system is practicable, gentle
mem!
With the strike in the coal mines
of Kansas, with the operators build
ing stockades about their property like
forts, with martial ,law threatened
and gaunt want on one side and OPP
preston by the sleek-skinned devils
of greed on the other, what kind Of a
man are you not to see that
This system is practicable, gentle.
men! .Ss
Wit. war in the PHILIPPINES, with
army Contractors skinning the public
out of millions, with the country in
a roar of commendation and condem-
nation, with bitterness and quarrels
everywhere between every one, with
individual interests clashing with pub
lie interests, with intrigue and de-
ception in every path Of life, with
revolution predicted by prominent
men on account Of social conditions,
none but q fool could have any doubt
that
This eystem is practicable, gentle
men! Y.
SOCIALISM that would render ev-
cry 'man's interest the interest Of
every other man, which would render
oppression and want and ignorance
impossible. WOULD BE IMPRACTI-
CABLE, GENTLEMEN, and there 10
no use considering it.
What a world!
Appeal to Reason.
For the Weak and Aged.
The best thing for weakly persons
and invalids is fSpeer's Port Grape