Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-30
Mother" Jones Tells Miners to Elect One
Of Their Number to Congress.
HER IMPRISONED SPEECH AT HIIEMAN
SHE APPEALS THE ToILERs TO AWAKEN AND SHOW THE
WORLD THAT THEY ABOUT TO assert THEIR RIGHTS
AFFAIR SHARE OF .EARTHs RIcHEs."

, slowed upon me. From the bottom of
my heart | thank you for the loyalty,
| cooperation and support you have
given me throughout my terms as dis
trict president and for my successors
| ask from you the same loyalty the
same cooperation and the same sup
port.
Il will say that whatever the future
may hold in store for me, assure the
miners of Hiteman and the citizens of
this town that you will find that l will
| continue one of you In reality, and
that will continue to hold my mem
bership in your union as long as | am
eligible.
Now l want to introduce to you the
only miner who wears skirts; the only
miner who is allowed to belong to
every local in the country at one time !;
the only miner who does not wear a
pit cap; woman who has the respect
and love of every miner in America; a
woman who, before she has finished
her speech. will convince you that the
mission of labor is holy one; that the
labor organizations have accomplished
more progress during their existence
! than has any other similar organiZa
ton during the same length of time
during the history of the world. La
dies and gentlemen. take great pleas
ure in introducing to you Our
Mother Jones'
Mother Jones' Address.
A round of enthusiastic applause
greeted Mother Jones as Mr.. Reese
| closed his speech, and she bowed in
acknowledgement After selection
by the band she advanced to the front
of the stage. Her hearers were inter
ested because of her statements, al
though the speech in itself is not con
nected throughout. She said:
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow-Toilers
This is my first visit among you. II
is not my first nor my last visit among
workers. Away back among the age:
we find that from the time the human
race left the cradle and began to learr
to talk there was planted in the bosom
of mankind a desire to advance, tt
march forward a desire for greater
nobler things. That desire has follow
ed US down the stairway of time ant
has each day pressed on until the toll
ers are awaking now in such way a!
the world never knew Today we ar
, confronted with conditions neve
known before.
Glass Separation.
THE people are being separated
Events are bringing to the mind tn,
deep thinker of today the realization
that there is great evolution, a grea
revolution going on in the world. Soci
ETY. is divided. The lines are closet,
drawn. On one side is handful o
human beings with all the wealth tn,
human race has created in ages il
their hands. On the other side is
multitude of people, robbed, oppressed
downcast, but pleading for the tim
when the human race shall possess it
own. We look back into history and a
We realize what the conditions were
and we thank Providence for the llgh
that is BEGINNING to dawn upon civiliza
| tion
Workers PoWerless.
I'VE find that today there is elias
of men and women whose skill. coul
age and greatness have prompted then
to get out and brave the storms o
public opinion, the storms of oppres
sion. And why? So that the worl
might be better for their having live
in it. But we find that class power
less.
The Idle Have Control.
1--WE find that class of idle people
that class of people which has take
from it's cradle the babe and throw
him into the mill, the factory and tn
mine, which has assassinated the il
: fants We find that class in power
, and we stand here protesting tina
now in this advanced age the childre
. should be In the schools, preparin
their minds and their intellects for tn
grand day, that noble hour when tn
laboring millions of the earth sha
rise in their might and assert thei
!, God-given rights to the fair and jus
: share of the riches which they DIT
! duce. We plead for better times.
;, In Iowa you have never had $
9 hard a time as you have in som
l places. This state has never had S
: tyrannical government as some of tn
/ others, especially that God-cursed stat
e 1 of West Virginia. There are where til
liicLSS w Sethliipaio w Tie WI ~ uGl
y they are not satisfied with four-legge
blood-hounds and so they got two
/ legged ones. and now they have 81
= legged bloodhounds.
Glass Hatred.
Some people fail to recognize tn;
there are and have for many yea
been classes. They tell us that "
are creating class hatred We sd
that We have not, that we do not ha,
to do this. The conditions have dor
this. With the introduction of machi
cry has grown class hatred. The intr
duction of machinery introduced in
the world that idle class that robbie
the people, oppressed the poor. slaugf
cred the babies. Those were the force
that divided the classes.
Some of lis don't realize that Fl
100 years there has been I'M progre
an evolution in the industrial worl
For the first 100 years no one reali2,
that there was being enacted a chanl
in the whole economic field For
years their revolution has been goil
on quiet and still at first, as do ;
Tho ~ iob ne