The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-24

party carried the city, it's legislative candidates winning, In reporting the vote an error was made by an offlcla and this error was declared by the hos tile Whig authorities to invalidate the election. Another election was called. IA few days before 1t was held one of the great mills of Lowell posted tnis notice:
 .eWhoever employed by this corpora ton votes the Ben Butler ticket on Monday next will be discharge l.
 The mill operatives were alar:ae d, dc-
 claring that they did not care to sup
 port the candidates who hae won 5y
 their votes at the previous election.
 Butler, however, called meeting oft
 his partisans, nearly all of them work TX CTS in the mills, and addressed them as follows:
 "our fathers fought the battles of the Revolution, braying the perils ol var with the British empire, to estahlish one very important and essential privi- |lege to the people namely, the right to
 govern themselves by electing to their Legislatures, by votes cast in an orderly and quiet manner according to the laws, men to represent them and their interests such as they shall dee.n Eroo- per. If under our republican form of government established by our pat riot fathers the people of this country. act ing under and in accordance with the laws. cannot govern themselves N Y their votes, cast according to their conscienees, then the Revolutftn was 2 failure. If the worldngmen ean be de--5 priyed of their freedom and rights by threats of starvation of themselves and: | |thelr. wives and children, when they act according to the laws and their own Judgment, then they had better De slaves indeed, having kind masters, in stead of being free men who are only at liberty to do what their task sters impose upon them or starve. And this question must be settled here and now.
 eI know the power of these Corpora tions. I know many of the men who have been in charge They have made a mistake in the appeal to force. When that weapon is tried they are weak and you are strong. They have their mills and their machinery, their bricks and their mortar, and that is | the extent of their power. You are stronger than they. You have your right arms and your torches and by them you will blot out this accursed
 outrage
 l s.As God lives and live, by the living | Jehovah. if one nan5is driven from his 1 employment by these men becausesof a | vote I will lead you to make Lowell what it was twenty-five years ago-a
 sheep pasture and a fishing place, and I will commence by applying the torch to my own home. Let them come on.
 As we are not the aggressors, We seek
 not this awful contest.
 l This is the speech from which Presi- dent Shea of the Tealnsters' Union and
 his associates quoted in their address to President Roosevelt. Their quota- ton was mainly significant for what is omitted. In the last paragraph of the
 extract given herewith the words print l ed in italics, because of his vote,"
 were eliminated from the version given I in the strike leaders, address. Yet any I reader must see that they are the es-
 senee of the entire speech. Why were
 they omitted? I Probably for the same reason that the first half of the first paragraph giv-
 en above was omitted. These portions
 of the speech suffice to show that strik- CTS who appeal to violence to prevent other men from earning a living occu- l py the same position as that of the tyrannical mill owners Of Lowell
 against whom Ben Butler thundered so
 many years ago. Those strikers and
 their friends who have created riots
 during this disturbance. lawlessly l set their wills against the wills of the
 people of Chicago, who have elected a
 mayor to enforce the laws, preserve or
 der and secure for every peaceable hon.
 est man the privilege of working for his
 living. Chicago News. s X. K