The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-02
DAY
IN WICHITA
Continued from Fifth page.

How will we solve the labor question: %
1 tell you, fellow citizens. that the Labor
question is being solved every day. Every
new union is a link in the great chain,
every glorious meeting of this kind is a
victory for the cause.-The poor fellows
in Pennsylvania that have for past
months stood out against their tyrannical
employers-cut of from their daily
bread perhaps-the4r wives and children
crying for something to eat-these-all
| these are martyrs 10 the great cause;
hut by their determination, by their suf-
fering. another victory-another glorious
victory has been won. These poor fellows
may go down to defeat-hunger may
force them to quit the struggle-the in
junction against John Mitchell may stay
mis- hand. but the cause is strengthened
and those who fought are among the
heroes of the cause.
The day of victory for the laborer is
Gawning. We will win-snd with men on
the bench who will not be bribed; with
the laws passed by legislators elected by
the people-with men who have the cour-
age to enforce just laws against capital
as well as labor-an brought about by
the labor union. The days Of starving
strikers viii all be over; the law, now
often the tool of the capitalist, viii be
the protecting arm of the laborer, and
the slayer of its foes. No more, the
bioated and insolent trust manipulation
shall be able to evade the shafts of JUS
tice, and at the same time invoke that
goddess to do his bidding under so-called
legal injuncttons against the labor unions.
No, I tell you that once most powerful
weapon which they now use by corrupt
ing and debasing our courts of justice
shall one day-and that day is now dawn
ing-be turned against the breasts of
those who have corrupted it.
1T is not that we desire laws that will
be unjust to capital or partial to labor.
But the time has come when the peo-
pie Of this country WIFI not sit idly by
and see our lawmakers the mere tools of
the trusts-nor the laws executed by
courts under their dictation; and it is to
the organization, the institution which
you represent and in whose name we
have met here today. that we must look
to bring about this salvation, not only
for the labor classes, but for the saliva
ton of the public. II has been truly said
that the labor movement is the strongest
force outside the Christian church for
the practical recognition of the human
brotherhood, and you, as the opponents
OF that movement, can point with pride
to the accomplishment Of your object
The fellowship and brotherly love which
your unions typify, and which you so
stgnally show here today. your seif-de-
NAL for the good Of your brethren-your
courage in standing shoulder to shoulder
in a grand phalanx, a united brother
hood; il is this which the union typifes.
and which they would have Of all their
fe1lowmen."
SENATOR J. W. TAPP
Senator J. w Tapp. who was intro
duced as the fourth speaker said in part:
I'm this country where all are well
many do not know why labor
Is organized. Go into the states IF the
south and you will find that ninety per
cent of the cotton mills employ child
labor. If you expect to maintain a coun-
try like we have here will you do it by
putting children in a factory where they
never see the inside OF a school house?
Do you expect to make this country
srander by letting whole states go with.
put education? ORGANIZED labor is against
child labor
Place one thousand minionaires in
Kansas and without labor they are as
helpless as babes
Who was it that went to the front /
% protect this country when the call /
came for volunteers? The soldiers came /
rom the ranks of the laboring man. |
How many millionaires went to the last !
war we had?
What we need is education on these |
questions. If every laboring |
nan in this country would give I'D one |
iollar the whole would not amount To |
Is much as Morgan is worth. He could |
give every laboring man in the country !
l dollar and not feel IT,
Every man is entitled to a good Iiv-
ng with a three-hour day. What we
want is a division OF the profits of our
abor with the Iaboring man.
There was a man in PENNSYLVANIA who
wanted to learn ali about the oil indus
ny and sold his farm for 1878 and began
o study the oil business. The man
Who bought the farm found oil under
and became millionaire Your con-
iition may be better than you think"
ADDRESS OF MR.. CREWSON
D. B. Crewson, the last speaker. said
n part:
I believe that lsboring men have the
anne right to organic as financiers The
nan who sells his labor for $3.50 day
las the same right TO fix the number
f hours he shall work as his employer
las to fix his wages. He has the same
tights TO fix his price as the farmer has
0 say at what he will sell his grain.
God implanted in man the desire for
lovely home. The man who labors
hould receive sufficient compensation to
eep his home in comfortable circum-
tances. Every mechanic who does not
arm what he is paid for his work is
nworthy Of the name Of a mechanic
When a man makes a vow 10 stand
y organized labor and deserts that or
anization. he is the same sort OF man
mo enlisted in the Union army and then
-hen favorable opportunity came.
ought on the other side.
The labor unions are growing stronger
J Wichita Nine-tenths OF the people
T this city belong 10 some fraternaI or
aniation. In the labor union is a fra
arnalisrn not found in any other organ
alton 7 ask you 70 make this town
emember that today is labor.s holiday.
'ext year at this time I hope 70 ind
very laboring man in the city in
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SPORTS IN THE PARK
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