The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-31
The Voice of
The People

WAGE EARNERS wHACKS. NO. 8.
Editor Providence News
1. Were my free trade opponents sub
sidized by the free trade machine poll
ticians? Well, IL does look exceedingly
suspicious that they should be 80 ex-
ceedingiy interested just before election.
yet so luke warm now that the free trade
machine has expended all its money and
can no longer afford to put out the cash
for writing free trade articles: neverthe-
less. I do not think they wrote for spot
cash for free trade TO rob wage earners
of their jobs. OF course they were natur-
ally angry to find lifelong advocate OF
wage earners battling so persietently for
the welfare of needy bread winners; for
the out and out free trade tariff advocates
are always looking for cheap things for
those who have money while the swindling
Of 100000 deserving wage earners out OF
employment Is, I'm their eyes, OF too little
consequence TO reckon. Still | claim that
my opponents. who. since free traders
have been so soundly whipped have kept
so mum, were the gulled and not tho spl-
lers: they were the deoeived and not the
free trade deceivers for the machine
which went so sadly in pieces In Novem-
ber.
True. one of my opponents did his level
worst to rob me of my job and nothing
save his weakness In Influence and argu-
ment, saved me from bsing sviudled out
OF employment but. then. we should not
call him a subsidized soribbler; for from
force OF habit he was naturally angry that
a lifelong wage earner's advocate should
stand for work for needy bread winners
instead OF reducing them 10 semi-pauper-
ism that those with money might pur-
chase things cheap, especially foreign
goods produced by semi-paupef labor in
Europe, Asia and Africa. Yet. notwith-
standing all the strong circumstantial
evidence, I say 10 my friends, VINO ask
II my opponents were subsidized by the
free trade machine, that free trade OPP
position TO supplying employment for the
needy was merely from force OF habit
and last hut not least had tho free trade
machine political bosses wished 10 subsi
dize writers they would have chosen pen
men who were not so unfamiliar with the
tariff question.
2 notice that the saffron New York
Evening Post. who so persistently stl-
boyed Czoleosz on by slandering McKin-
ley. until shot. Is now out for Anarchist
Turner being allowed 10 peramhulate up
and down tho land. But whether the In
tention Is 20 have Turner vent his anarch-
10 those who are more or less familiar
with the Toryism displayed by that SAT-
from sheet all through the administration
of Mckinley, and opposed. abused and
slandered the pure Christian and friend
~ the common people for the reason that
the Christlike martyr 20 principle believe
IN the gospel of work and wages for needy
bread winners Is y any wonder that
some good people sull believe iu total
depravlty2
3 We are rejolced % learn that n
large majority OF the members OF labor
unions are opposed TO anarchists. and
that the apparent vote OF the New York
Central Federated Labor union TO endorse
anarchist Turner. was not only un-
parliamentary. but that the chairman did
not dare 90 allow a bona hde ballot on
the question. knowing. as he undoubtedly
does that an overwhelming majority
OF our labor unionists have no love for
anarchists The members OF our labor
orga nizations, n seems 10 mo. ought
20 insist most emphatically that such
important questions ~ ordering a strike.
endorang anything like anarchism etc.
should be decided by a paper ballot with
out the slightest appearance OF coercion
look upon labor unioniem as destined
10 become one of the most bene1cient
institutions in the land. and every ap-
psrent endorsement ~ anarchism and
every lawlees act of n unionist. II Just
az detrimental 10 the organization as an
member OF the church, Is an