The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-02

which broadened and extended the in
dustries inch by inch. I'm this struggle
for betterment," continued Senator
Smith, I'VE have a sleeDless foe but IL
is weakening. The courts are examin.
ing it; they are going into the elemental
fact that labor differs from all other
commodities. 1t must be sold today OF
not at all. 1t has only a present ex-
istence. The mine owner. farmer ana
others may hold their wares till tomor~
row, but labor passes forever by the
hour. 1t is the most fieeting of all com
modities. and he who depends upon It's
own daily sale destroys so much OF ms
wares. Every day he holds for higher
price he loses every price. hope Tor
the day when labor and capital shall
deal on the same footing, when. because
of industrial arbitration there will no
longer be need of labor legislation But
until then legislation is dema nded. May
God speed the day when labor and cap
ital equally strong will be able indie
Dendently to work out their own des-
tiL>--''
O,HARE ABUSED EVERYBODY.
Frank T. O'Hare of Kansas City, can
didate for supreme justice on the So
cialist ticket, in his speech on "Organiz-
ed Labor versus Organized Capital
somewhat electrified the audience with
his structures upon the pulpit, the poll
tics and the press of the country
When the English came to America
he began, they found a race here hap
ny tidt gu tiidt was COILiii5 ~
them. But the English brought to them
a civilization just as we are bringing
civilization to the Fiipinos. When the
Jews were in bondage to Egypt Moses
began to educate and organize in get
ting the slaves together until finally ne
said, Boys, let's wolk out and when the
three million Jews did walk out they
took all the movable property in sight
with them. That was before the days
of the Republican or Democratic par
a n
civilization when the people were all
soldiers and slaves. Then the northern
tribes swooped down upon that mighty
empire and established a better system
of slavery in which the capitalists own
ed the land and the slave with it. And
now society is divided into two classes
capitalists and la bOrerS: those who
make and those who take. Labor crea-
ted all wealth and I ask. Why has or
gained labor not got what it created?'
But somebody says that labor must not
demand too much. I want to tell you
labor cannot demand too much; for all
the fruit is of labor. Capital has no
rights which labor is bound to respect;
and those who have taken it are rob-
bers of labor. Now we are fighting for
increased pay for our labor; but to-
morrow labor militant shall present its
ultimatum to the capitalists to get off
the earth. Now Governor Stanley
wouldn't agree with that.
But labor is awakening in this wide
world. In Germany the people are
strong in the ranks of organized labor
Organized labor is in battle today and
anybody who says it is not is either
fool or liar. We are fighting the cap
italists: Satan and all his imps. 1t is
out of the question to talk about capi-
tai and labor lying down side by side
like lambs They will never do it un-
til capital is inside. Capital divides la
Dor into two classes: those who work
and those who don't work. And if you
were to go on strike here in Topeka
capital would at once telephone down
for the state militia and have them
drive their bayonets through you. Why,
what have they Governor Stanley for if
not for that? Capitalists own the
earth. Forget those long definitions:
capital is machinery. All the wrong
and sin and oppression ha - come about
because the working classes live on the
cruts of that capital gives them"
Mr.. O'Hare declared that the preach
ers would pervert the word of God in
the interests of capitalists and that the
press of the country was controlled by
the same class. He said that even
though reporters loved him better than
their mothers they would not be allowed
to print what he said about capital He
said that the great anthracite coal
strike had more than local and pres
ent significance: 1t was the struggle be-
tween labor and capital to determine
whether in all time to come and in all
places labor1ng men were to have the
right of forming unions.
Mr.. OHare says he will address the
public this evening at the corner of
Sixth and Kansas avenue on a similar
subject.
The meeting Monday was presided
over by r. l. Palmer, representing the
labor unions.
Imperial beer was the brand of brew
sold on the ground in the stock barns
to the west of the grand stand Tickets
ham III f1,1 ir.fk s-I1
ly signifying Tabor day celebration
were sold from a window and by pre-
senting these the necessary drinks were
obtained. Among the bartenders was
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