The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-05-13

bued with the spirit to own and pos
sess a. home for himself. Not at all
debasing or tyrannical are such i'm
pulses, every man but Post will say.
But he cannot live up to his ideals or
intents on the pittance employers would
pay II the workingman were. slave
enough to accept what voluntarily
came to him. -:
Greed 10 HI. Motive.
He can see on every hand. men, like
Post. who have made their, millions,
who commenced with him, and are in
satiately reaching out for more, while
he, If not behind in his obligations to
his family and tradesmen, is at least
stationary on the road Of worldly ad-
vancement. He has worked as faith
fully and as conscientiously as the
Posts. striving to do his duty by God
and his fellow man, and ne naturally
concludes he Is being deprived. Of some
of the fruits of a labor which adds in
cessantly to Posts store while 1t i'm
pels him to continue at the same cease
less grind. He may possess talents and
capacity which eclipses Posts, but his
requirement Of ability which piles up
millions is lacking. Post will say he
is not man to grasp an opportunity.
An opportunity to avail himself Of dis
honest practices and rascally intrigue,
thank God, for his immortal souls we'll
being, for it has been conclusively
shown that the accumulation of a MIL
lion dollars was never honestly &C.
hieved by one mans efforts. If Post
has piled up wealth to that amount he
has accomplished the feat by robbing
the people in high prices for his pro-
ducts or denying to the employees who
labored faithfully for him just recon-
pense for their toll. Can he point to
any man in his employ who started
out even with him In a. condition of
ease and afrluence? He asserts he pays
1.-The highest wages in the state for
like work." and don't you find it profit
able, Mr.. Post, to adhere to that pol
icy? And would it not be just as easy
and more decent to advise others con-
tending with 1.-The labor trust" to do
likewise? You stand out as a shining
producer-who has been enabled to
accumulate a competence under such
policy, and your business sagacity sand
alertness to maintain a. handsome profit
on all your products, we presume, as
sisted just a little, bit.
Where Corporations Stand.
The workingman must keep up an
incessant. struggle for. living wage.
We have here. in free America, men
and corporations rapaeious enough and
sufficiently tyrannical, <to impose. con-
ditiQn Of absolute and servile serfdom
! upon every man Woman and<chndA de:
pending on wages for a living. And
that statement. is moi. overdrawn, eth
er land such disposition. has been the
/ cause for the labor union. It COM
menced away back, and unionism was
in no deceased condition" when, in
1877, the. railroad employees arose in
their might, and after a conflict more
bloody and widespread than has ever
since been chronicleda:in this country
enforced recognition of their right to
humane consideration. Unionism was
not in a deceased condition when the
prison doors of Illinois and Indiana
were thrown open to the murderers and
thugs who were brought to Homestead
to coerce and COW the mill. men-mur-
der them in cold blood If need be.
Unions Not Like Trusts.
In what way does a Tabor trust
differ from the other trusts which
have the people at their mercy and
~stif1e all competition. Do not the beef
trust, the sugar trust, the various 9TH
er trusts compel enforcement to their
regulations by means compared with
which the open riotousness Of strikers
are chivalrous and manly In compari-
son? If strikers break the laws Of the
land in seeking to distrain deluded men
from filing their places In cases of Diff
ferences with employers, do not the
trusts impose other and more villainous
methods to bring about to their way Of
thinking q man who would have the
hardihood and are inspired by that
External God Of Human Liberty
whom Post sacreligiously mentions, to
embark in a. competitive career &C.
cording to their own inclinations? Do
men Of the Post specie -clamor for the
muster Of Nhe militia or. regular troops
when these opulent and supercilious
trusts "conspire In restraint Of trade, "
or would the wall Of hungry babe or
/ the despair of furnishing mother or
father produce an appeal for lowering
the cost Of trust commodity? The
Standard OIL company, which has aided
and abetted arson and murder In the
determination Of business rivals, finds
favor with Post because It is "a peace
full organization" and he evinces a re-
gard for a combination or organization
which can effect its end by any
means, however disreputable or muir
:derous, SO long as they do not have re-
course to that nightmare Of narrow
bigots of his stripe, the union. label,
and the boycott. ,z*s::
s.: Business 10 Business.
Business is business in these frenzied
times, Mr.. Post, and If. it is. business
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