Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-30
when he drank, and they cut down his

when he drank, and they cut down his
wages.
Have your wages gone up with the
Increase of your product? No. Have
the reduction of your hours of labor
kept up with your production? No.
Stop and think what fools you are.
Injunction Ridden Virginia.
In Virginia you can put your foot
on hardly foot of ground on which
there is no injunction. You can't step
Off the highways but you step on an
injunction. They have tried to starve
our people out and the people of the
country have responded They threw
them out of the houses and they in
tents and under the trees, with only
Gods canopy over them at nights Ten
cars of provisions from Cincinnati
We're lost for sixteen days The oper.
ators reported that there were no
funds and that no more food was COM
| ing to the strikers. The railroad
company. acting for the operators,
switched the cars in their yards and
we could not find them Finally the
firm in Cincinnati sued the railroad
and the cars turned up
A Last Appeal.
so want you to wake up here.
want you to put a man in congress
who will introduce bill to stop these
wrongs. Free speech is forever dead
In Washington they say that the
wrongs of the toilers must not be dis
cussed, the money power must be pre-
served. l see the chains and l see
where they can be broken. l stand
here in the name of Washington, of
| jefferson, of Patrick Henry. of our
dead heroes, and l plead in the name
of our country and in the name of the
| flag with you to come and be free
men. Rise in your manhood and pro
claim your freedom to the world
A Wish.
LAS | look back at those old fathers
| of our country | say Shall 1t be mine
to say the republic still lives?' May
our children say that this generation
has done it's part to break the chains
which bind the people Why should
we be pleading at the masters feet?
plead with you to elect one miner to
congress this fall. Then some other
state will elect another. and later three
or five other states will elect others,
and if they do they will come back to
you and tell of the treachery that is
practiced in Washington. With cour-
! age in their breasts they will break
| the chains, shorten the hours of labor.
plead with you to elect one of your
craft What can a lawyer do? All
they do is to go to school and learn
the tricks of scheming. Do you want
them in congress? In the senate there
are sixty-eight corporations lawyers.
Do you wonder at the injunctions and
the conditions that exist? Behind
them are operators and the courts.
Morgan has throttled the President
and holds the legislature and the sen
1 ate. He has throttled the pulpit.
Turn over and let them see that labor
is awakening, and tell the world you
have awakened. Elect one OF your
own men,
Calls Courts Dangerous.
81 plead with you to use your judg-
ment. Do less drinking and more
thinking. Stay away from the sa-
looms. Stay at home. Discuss econo-
mic questions. There stands behind
me. like myself, victim of the in
. junction. He knows what the injunc-
ton is. what it is to be behind prison
bars. While l owe him no debt of
!, gratitude and he owes me none want
to see him in the congressional halls
before | die. He knows who issues
the iniunctions and in whose interests
they are issued. He knows the cor
ruption of the federal courts. They
are dangerous and must be stopped
Pleads for strikers.
Mother Jones ended her political
speech here and concluded with an ap-
peal for pecuniary help for family in
/ West Virginia, the father, striker
with a sickly wife and twin babies.
She sold many books at nominal
sum. thus raising a considerable purse
: for the support Of the babes.
, The miners and their families gath
J cred about the famous old woman at
: ter the meeting and did her honor
After a few minutes among them she
left with Mr.. Reese for Abba, where
} she remained all night She spoke al
t Smoky Hollow to the miners working
1 there on Sunday.