The representative., 1900-10-18

Organized wealth has disclosed it's
damnable purpose in the present politi-
cal campaign-it is making open war
upon organized labor.
1t has turned the coal field of North
eastern Pennsylvania into an armed
camp, with the intention of crushing the
last vestige of independence out of
half million human beings for the pur-
pose of making serfdom more complete.
The bloody tragedy at Homestead,
Pennsylvania, July 6, 1892, is threaten
ed with its counterpart in the Pennsyl-
vania anthracite mines this year of
grace, or disgrace.
The battle of Homestead, in which
nearly score of persons lost their lives,
was caused by the greed of the steel
barons-Carnegie and Frick.
The present troubles in Pennsylvania
were brought about by the same causes
the determination of the coal barons-
Rockefeller and Morgan-to crush or
ganized labor. !. bsa
In 1892 Caxnegieaand Frick were ap-
pealed to to adjust the difficulties,
They refused and the Monongahela was
red with blood. % INV
j. Pierpont Morgan and his fellow
conspirators-the Standard Oil interests
have been urged to permit arbitration
In the anthracitef coal districts. They
refuse. Will Homestead be repeated?
The Homestead tragedy was followed
by sweeping reputation Of the mo-
nopolistic Republican party.
History will repeat itself in 1900. The
strong arm of labor is poised to strike
blow for liberty.
Organized wealth-the trust-relies
on hunger and the bayonet in Penn
sylvania to render it's conquest of or
ganized labor complete and lasting.
The trust is backed by Hanna and is
spending it's ill-gotten, blood-stained
profits to "perpetuate the present ad-
ministration."
Organized labor everywhere realizes
that its existence is once more as in
1892, at stake. The starving babies in
Hazleton, in Wilkesbarre, in Shenan-
doah, in Shamokin, in Plymouth, in Nc
Adoo, are appealing to the humanities
Organized labor is propounding these
questions to President Mckinley.
will you permit the trusts to coin
dollars from blood and crush with it's
mailed hand the promptings of human
ity?
will you, by your silence, make
starvation a part of the science Of in
dustrial economy?
"Will you remain dumb while hund-
reds of thousands are engaged in
hopeless struggle against the allied
forces of combined wealth and capital
lied villainy?
Are not the starving victims of the
Pennsylvania trusts as much entitled to
relief as the starving victims of the
Texas cyclone?
"Are you more interested in half
dozen millionaire coal barons than you
are in half million starving coal
miners?
"Are you going to remain silent while
the world stands aghast at the brutal as
sassination of labor by the money malta?
These questions ,must be answered.
You talk Of the full dinner pail There
are in one state in this union more than
10000 men whose pals have not been
full for the last four years and whose
pals are now as empty as your prom
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"These men are mot the drones of
society. They are aMorkers Their
babies work when old enough to toddIe.
They are, above all, human beings like
yourself ~
"This, the greatest aOutrage OF the
century, is going teaehrust itself into
your political life and you cannot bar
it out either by silence or by meaning
less phrases.
what are you going to do, Mr.. Nc
Kinley?"