Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-06-20

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their "Whereasas" was as follows:
Whereas, No man among the vast
army of laboring humanity can sue.
cessfully assert his manhood while
his necessities make him a suppliant
at the feet of another for job which
he must have to sustain life."
That sets one thinking. What
kind of a political change will release
"the vast'army of laboring humanity
from work2 That is the question
which we are all interested in.
What trick of legislation will reverse
the old decree that by the sweat of
his face man must earn his bread?
In 1892 there was very much such a
movement as seems to be going on
now. Laborers were busy all over
the country. working at good wages,
quite as good as their employers
could pay, but there was the same
assumption that labor was being OPP
pressed and the country voted for
change. By the nature of the
change capital was driven into re-
tirement, and it was useless for a
man "to be suppliant at the feet of
another for job, for there were no
jobs. Then Coke armies took up
their march and it was not long until
men who, the year before, had profit
able occupations, but raised a shout
that they were being oppressed,
were living upon the free soup of
charity. / S that going to be re-
peated? 1t really looks possible.
The belief seems to be spreading
wider and wider among working men
that there ought to be an easier
way to make money than to work for
it, some universal receipt through
which, without effort, to get rich
quickly. Of course it is a delusion
unfortitied by anything in history or
mans experience, but it seems to be
breaking down the manhood and the
honest independence of millions. A
healthy man who is able to work and
who receives a reward sufficient to
meet his requirements and has some
thing left is not an object of sympa-
thy. He has before him all the pos
sibilities of Carnegie or a Mark |
Hanna. When such a man is lured |
away by the mouthings of demagogue
or by agitators who work
to create unrest, and takes up the
dea that in some unexplained wav
lie is being wronged; that idea is the
beginning of that mans degenera-
ion, and when it spreads until mil
ions of working men are tainted and |
the demagogue takers and writer's
begin to advertise the complaint as a
great principle which the government
should vindicate; then, unless it can
De quickly arrested, national decay
will begin. When men sell their SER
'ices, and are paid for them, it is a
air exchange between two men.
The one buys what he most needs,
he other sells what will bring him
he things he most needs. There is
10 dlshonor, no degradation on
ither side. Beyond all that is the
law that it is mans obli-
'ation and privilege to work. 1t is
he only means through which the
fe of the world can be maintained.
considering these things, the whereas
n which this article is founded is
ure incendarism, for it is a blow
lined at the very basis of society
nd, moreover, it is an attack upon
ne very fiber of the workingman.
n reasoning from it he, in a little
lille, concludes that it is crime if j
2 is made to work at all, and is but d
step removed from reconciling him Il
live on food and to wear clothes =
lat other men have earned.