Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-10-19
SPREADING INrAMY THAT
MUST BE CHECKED.

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people Of the United States battling
for a holy cause would refuse here.
after to purchase anything from any
firm or concern guilty OF driving en-
ployes to vote for Mckinley by lying
threats that such firm or concern
will be compelled to close down il
Bryan is elected.
That is u more dastardly and con-
temptible interference with the
s~acredness Of personal liberty at the
ballot box thnn il shot.guns we're
presented at employees and threats
made to kill them il they did not vote
for Mckinley.
For two can play at the shotgun
game. But how is u day laborer to
Withstand a declaration that il he
votes according to the dictates OF his
own conscience, and not in line with
the suggestions OF a slave-drivmg
employer, which virtually amount to
orders, he will be thrown out Of work
and his wife and children can s:arve?
Surely that is slavery OF the worst
kind. Most certainly, it Is rs in
famous in its way as c~orraling the
slaves Of the South at the auction.
block.
The men guilty Of this infamy
know they lie when they ave that
the election Of any man or the defeat
Of any other man will result i'll wreck
ing this Nation in u commercial or
business sense, will paralyse industry,
will restrain commerce.; will put a
damper on agriculture, or will check
manufacture.
And yet we doubt not that some
OF these infamous scoundrels thus
holding the sword Of DamOc!es
above the heads Of the working
classes, would be perfectly willing, III
the event Of Bryan's election, to close
Gown foundries and factories in order
to teach the people a lesson.
We have no doubt that the syndi
Gated wealth Of the country would
look upon u panic OF it's shame
less man utacture rs q blessing, il it
would forever demonstrate to the
laborers that they must vote as their
masters dictate, on penalty Of being
thrown out Of employment ON every
occasion when tLey centrarily ex.
ercise their constitutional preroga-
tive.
1t is the duty Of good citizens to re.
buke this Infamous coercion ON the
9th OF November.
III they do not, matters Will go on
from bad to worse until the Ameri-
can citizenship OF the average
laborer will become but II badge Of
servitude to II grinding employer.
This infamy will have to be cor
rected. 1t should be corrected by the
ballot box But just as surely rs it
is not, there will be a revolution in
this country.
These are not idle words. The
best thinkers and students Of the age
see its inevitable approach if these
things continue.
In one Of the very wealthy clubs OF
San Francisco the other day, a multi
millionaire and "A politician well.
known all over the coast and III
Washington, warned his fellow-nil-
lionaires that reformation in the
treatment OF the laboring classes
must come soon or it would be forced
through fire and blood.
You may laugh at me-" said he,
but it is bound to come ms it came
in France unless we reform our ways
and act with more justice. l am one
Of you, but | am not blind"
The Beo hopes the change will
cume ~peaceably.
1t trusts that it will soon be with
us as n result Of the election OF Will
liam j. Bryan, and n return 10 tho
fundamental principles Of the Re-
public from which We have driited so
far, and in the strict observance Of
which alone can we find national
peace and quiet, true progress and
prosperity not tho progress Of the
few, not the progress Of the few. not
the prosperity winch makes the rich
richer and the poor poorer, but that
which finds its beet demonstration in
the contentment OF the laborers and
the perfect security OF tho million
aires.