Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-08-23
The American Workman Is Not All
Stomach.

] From the Chicago American.
The tame republican editors and
the republican spelIbinders in IN
counted numbers are talking to the
American workingmen at present
about 1.-The full dinner pall'' and
about nothing else.
One very tame editor, sad-eyed
comic editor. puts picture OF the
alleged full dinner pail on every
page of his paper.
We are informed that the national
republican committee proposes to
adopt the full dinner pail as a trade
mark for whole campaign.
A full dinner pail is an excellent
thing. But we humbly submit that
for an entire campaign it Is hardly
an argument satisfying to the intelli-
gent working voter.
If MIR. Hsnns were schemiDg to
get the votes of eighty millions of
hogs he would of course do we'll to
devote all of his newspaper space
and all of his political speeches TO
the beauties of ''the full swill trough"
But the American workman does
not devote all of his thoughts and
hopes and ambitions to his stomach.
IF an intelligent voter, native or
foreign born, goes to Mr.. Hanna to
ask:
"What are you going to do for me
if give you my vote?'
Mr.. Hanna replies:
81 am going to fill your stomach
and keep it full for four years. I am
going to give you dinner pail so
heavy that 1t will make your arm
ache TO drag it to the factory. Does
not that make you happy?"
Mr.. Hanna and many other repub-
lican men of power have got into the
habit of looking upon mere work
man as they look upon a mule plod-
ding along the canal bank.
They know that If the mule has a
full stomach, full NOSEBAG, that
mule is happy. They can't under
stand that a man so low down in the
world as to be working for living
should ask for anything better than
full nosebag which satisfies the mule.
The American workingman wants
a full dinner pail, of course.
But IN the first place he knows that
to get the full dinner pail he has got
to put in full days work, and that
he will owe the contents of the dinner
pail to his own sweat and muscle,
and to no plutocrat's kind heart.
In the second place he remembers
that the negro slaves always had "a
full dinner pail" Their masters saw
to that.
The negro was expected to bow
and crlnge before the man who filed
his stomach.
The workman today does not pro-
pose to trade his independence and
the nations future for that ''full
stomach" which could not even keep
the negro pacided.
The full dinner pail' is not such
beautiful trademark as the republi-
cans imagine.
The workman sees IN 1t other things
than the means of filing his stomach.
90 the outside of that dinner pail
shine the tia trust and the TIN tariff
both republiCan-which make the
pail cost more than it ever did before
Inside the pail in that separate
compartment reserved for tea or cot
fee the republican sugar trust and
the republican milk trust have ;heir
little nests of profit.
In the body of the pail Mr.. Ar
mour's meat trust gets its share.
The American workman says:
"You offer me a full stomach.
Very kind of you; but give me- 3
chance to work upon a fair basis,
give me freedom from trusts that dis
charge thousands and put up prices;
give me freedom from republican
lockouts like that which now starves
men and their families in Chicego;
give me g chance to live and work as
free nan in free country should
work and live, and I shall look after
my own stomach"
Further than this, the American
workingmsn says:
s.I don't like 70 ha treatad % Ion.