The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-03
.Muzzle not the OK that treadeth out

"Muzzle not the OK that treadeth out
the corn
He said:
Each decade of our history shows
greater production of wealth, and the
men who produce it have less to show
Tor It. Is this a good condition? A
rlgnt condition? The solution OF the
problems that confront us is in leg
lslation; not in legislation for or
against classes, but for equal Justice
pe1ore the law. The strike is to-day
the only weapon the laborer has, but
II Is weak and inefficient.
If the laboring men were half as
active on election day as they are in
enforcement of their strikes they would
WELD force that would right the evils
which beset them.
The greatest danger of to-day is
private monopoly Not that any mon
opoly is any worse than others. but the
principle is bad which tolerates any
private monopoly. / have heard that
the true solution of the problem is for
the laboring man to divide profits with
the trusts. That has been given as an
argument for the trusts. Such a thing
would be immoral and impolitic. It
would be like dividing the spoils of the
hlgnwaymen. 1t would be permitting a
man TO rifle your pockets and then Of
Ter TO divide the proceeds with you.
To-day the only people who sympa-
tn'ze with you are the others who toll
IN other parts of the Lords vineyard
In the present great steel strike, whers
djd the first expressions of sympathy
come from? From Texas. They have
no steel mills there. They are farmers.
Ihey are tillers of the soil and la oor-
CA1x
you tC resist the overtures of the trust.
Beware when corporations ask YOU to
JON them. The farmers can stand the
enoroachments of the trusts longer
than you can. The farmers live off
thelr farms. When trust prices get so
hlgh that the farmers cannot buy, they
VIII eat the products of their own in
dustry. Their wives can even go back
to the primitive method of making
clothes by weaving. But when the
farmer can no longer pay trust prices,
then there will be no more demand for
the products of your toll and you can
make no more wages
THE offer of the trusts to divide
with the laboring man is pitfall. Can
you trust the corporations to divide
honestly? No. How many of you
would like to try lawsuit when the
judge on the bench is the opposing
party to the suit? There are good
judges, good juries, yet do you want
judges and juries to try your cases
when they are interested in the out
come themselves. When you permit
private monopoly to dictate terms of
division, then you place yourselves
wholly at their mercy. You allow them
to water their stock and then expect to
divide with labor on a just basis.
you are witnessing a battle between
labor and the great steel trust. This
trust was willing to unionize some of
its mills, but would have others open
to non-union labor. Why? Because
the trust wants some mills that it can
depend on in the event of a strike
1t is an unequal struggle for the trust
can shut down it's mills for a year, but
laboring men cannot live year with
out work. 1t is your duty to crush
monopolies with the best resource at
your command. the ballot.
Government by injunction is an
iniquitous system, and one of the ques-
tions demanding attention at the hands
of the American people. The courts
are the servants of the people, and
for court to rule by in
junction, IS for court
to dispense with a jury and
to condemn a man for violating
law that the court itself made. I'm
der the process of government by in
junction, the court constitutes itself
the power to make the laws, execute
them, and pass judgment on the often
der. The whole thing is wrong. Under
the system number of employers can
organize themselves, go into court and
get an order prohibiting others from
organizing for the same purpose. They
can get an order prohibiting working
men from getting other workingmen
to refrain from working. The employ
ers can organize to crush labor, but
others are forbidden to organize.
Il am opposed to government by in
junction, not that it is directed especial
ly against the laboring man, but that
is does away with trial by jury. 1t is
menace, not only to one class, but to
all 1t is within the power of the la
boring man to do away with the sys-
tenn"
Mr.. Bryan also condemned the action
of the South Carolina mill men who
forbade their men to celebrate Labor
day or to join unions.