The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-11

! lest sufferer through their insane fol-
lies. The most brutal tyraat the sonth-
ern negro knew In antebelluM days
was not the white man, but the negro
himself who was made the overseer
Of the planta ton. In the same way In
many cases the most brutal tyrant the
laboring man has today is not the capt.
talist but the walking delegate" or
the mercenary political trickster who,
as q laboring man, manipulates the ex.
ecutive committees which govern the
labor unions for their own ruin. OF
course this Indictment is not universal
In Its application. There are many
honest and upright and beneficent
labor organizations, like that of which
the late Mr.. Arthur, was president
namely, the Brotherhood Of Locono-
tive Engineers. Mr.. Arthur brought
that organization up to such perfcc
ton that 1t not only looked after the
interests Of the owners of the different
railroads, but after the interests OF
many clear Drained, sagacious and no
BILE minded labor leaders whose object
Is not to disorganize the labor market,
but to steady 1t, SO that employers as
well as the employed may have their
due II do not believe in strikes for
the laboripg man." said Terence V.
Powderly n few months ago. 1T is
true we had some when I was at the
head of the knights of Labor, but we
settled LOO labor disputes without
strikes. Indeed, | might say we pre-
vented over 1000 strikes" Yet, strange
to say. Where there has been one able
and sagacious leader whose chief OBJ
ject seemed to have been to make
every man do his honest quota OF work
and get his just pay there have been
many whose chief object has been to
find out how little they can permit
laborer to do and how much they can
make an employer pay without literal
ly breaking his back. Such men are
an incubus on labor, Like the Old Man
of the Sea, who sat on the neck of Sind
bad, they sit heavily upon the work
iagmans shoulders, impeding. his prog
ress and involving him in endless dis
putes and trouble. The sooner he ribs
himself of such incuimbrance the better.
Like Marie Antoinette.
Now, my laboring friends, mark you
this. ! am not claiming that capital is
ALL right and labor Is all wrong.
mi ~ tha
in the world are to be found In the
ranks of capitalists. Some of them VIII
squeeze out of worker his last drop
of blood. Some of them have no more |
sympathy with the hunger and power
ty Of the worker than Marie An
toinette had with the sulferings of poor
Paris when she heard the cry of the
mobs: Give us, bread! We must have
breada' why" said the shallow
braiIed French queen to one of her
attendants. ''do they ask for bread?
If they havetno bread, why don't they
eat cakef' But while capital in some
Instances may be mcrciless, it is quits
certain that il the labor unions will |
stop their petty chickering's and their
nnjustitable tyrannies and gnitedly de
mand what is right capital viii be con-
PEELED to yield to all of labor's just de-
mands. SO long as labor persists in |
making absurd claims just so long
will labor not only be refused such de-
MATHS, but labor will lose much of
what she justly and rightfully ought
to have. When a labor union comes
and says, Capitalist, you must hire
HE men | sendSto you and no Others"
then the capitalist, stupS by. such tyr
amy, replies: Rather than have you
dictate to me what | shall do l will
light your organization to the last dol
ar. My forefathers died on Bunker
Hill and at Valley Forge for liberty.
free was born, free ! shall live, and
Tree / shall die" II is flint against
'tecl and is the inevitable result Of
'uch 4 course of action. This is the
pirit with which capital is today fight
ng labor when labor makes absurd and
Unjust demands.
But would speak also in reference
o another great affilction from which
abor today Is suffering. / allude not
0 the competition Of American labor
With the foreign hordes. but to that
unnatural AID ever increasing COM
'etition between our American boys
nd their American sisters in the Ia
'Or market. Brothers struggle for
read In competition with sisters: fa- P
hers compete with their own daugh-
ers. Now, know the few words that
am going TO speak viii not be popu-
lr with some. but what have TO say
hope may be heard patiently and
nth profit. Ia
Tle world, by every law OF Justice.
ives every man. woman and child a
wing, IL they are ready TO work for
!. But God never intended some peo-
lie to work f&I a living in certain
'ays any more Man he intended colt
tx months old to do the work OF q.
ell developed draft horse. He never
tended young boys nd-girls TO leave
,hool before their time, or wives and
aughters to labor as farm hands in