The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-10


But OF all the trades in the procession
the tailors were certainly the favorites
The master tailors usually borrowed the
best horses from their customers, and
they were not accustomed to horseback
the scene was highly ludicrOus "A tailor
riosity, but troop of $50 tailors, all
dccked with ribbons and lace, and every
species of finery, on horses equally smart
presented a spectacle outlying descrip-
ton. The journeymen and apprentices
walked-eXcept that number of workmen
on the platform. 1t is worthy of notice
here since anarchists are loudly proclaim
ing that Christianity and particularly the
Catholic church Is the champion of the
rich, etc. These notorious falsifiers of all
| history ought to know that the guilds and
trades unions had their origin in the
Catholic church. which took this means
Of combating the feudalism which pre-
/ vailed making the artisans subservient TO
the titled robbers. Here is the evidence
| OF the church's protection. Each guild
was under the guardianship or a patron
| saint. Again following the procession, the
sboemakers made a fine turmoil. and there
was st. Crispin with his last, 81. Andrew
| with his cross. st. Luke with his gridiron.
headed their respective guilds ana nKe.
wise many others. The city Officers with
/ their full robes and paraphernalia were
| included i'm the show.
! The guild of merchants being under the
| especial patronage of the Holy Trinity,
| could not with all their ingenuity 1ind out
any unprofane emblem, except sham-
\ rock of huge dimensions, the three dis-
/ tinct leaves whereof are on one STOCK.
| This by the way offered st. Patrick means
of explaining the Trinity, and thereby
! converting the Irish TO Christianity;
| Hench the shamrock became the national
emblem OF Ireland. The merchants also
/ had a large ship on wheels drawn and
manned by real sailors.
/ Such was the celebration OF Labor day
in Ireand's metropolis in the eighteenth
/ century. but soon after Castlereagh AND
the Irish parliamentary traitors e aa n'sd
commerce slackened. aye sickened even
unto DEATH and Erin still weeps for that
which is no more.
II is not fair TO say that the act Of
! Union brought about by Irish treachery
was wholly responsible for the cessation
OF the manufacturing and trade lna 1i
tries in Ireland. For ten years preceding
the union Ireland was in most lnsurrec-
tory state which eliminated in the reDel-
lion of 1885, For five years afterward the the
country was similarly distracted, until
! with the execution of Ireland's immortal
patriot Robert Emmett, all hope or Ire
land again being nation seemed 70 nave
died in the hearts OF the people. II was
at this period that England so sedulously
cultivated religious hate in lreland; All
the good work accomplished by the Unlted
| Irishmen was destroyed by orange ana
Catholic fanatics. When either religion
or politics make partisan division or any
trade or labor organizations, II means
goodbye to any merits as an institution IL
originally possessed In time this dissen-
sion found its way among the artisans
of Dublin. II had its effect or lessenlns
the efficacy of the trades unions, II was
no longer a union for mutual advancement
and the amelioration of conditions per-
tanning to their craft but a gathering OF
men each distrusting the other, ana eaen
CLIQUE endeavoring to get control OF the
offices which would aid them IN making
"a cats paw" Of the union Tor their own
political preferment. 1t was un1ortuhale
for the Irish that about his time tnere
was much intercourse of a political nature
between the Irish and the French. Inc
!. strange stories of the French arlstOrcats
being sent 10 the guillotine, and how their
wealth and estates were seized by tne
people had taken hold of many enough
| the seed Of sOcalistic anarchy was soWn'
The guilds went in for international SOIL
daritv - their meeting places were called
clubs The master mason, the master
! carpenter or any other craftsman whose
industry and thrift enabled nun 10 rlse
= from a iourneyman to handling a DUST
- / ness of his own was Immediately looked
, upOn as having no sympathy with organ
lied labor" and for the first time tne
3 found himself stigmatiZed by being classec
J as one of the "Burgeoise."
{ The ordinary working people wers
: dubbed as the prOletariat.' the captains
2 was declared the enemy of all, and 10 teet
: the flame of socialism" for twas moth
> ing more nor less under the cry OF lid
ertv equality and fraternity. the goo'
I old patron saint of the guilds were de
, shrined in the temple Of labor. and tn
, HOLY Trinity metaphorically kicked out
/ doors.
! During the reign of the first empire
y throughout the peninsular and genera
: ! FTuroDean wars. business reviewed among
: the manufacturers and trades of Ireland
: that is those that survived the trying
ordeaIs they were subjected TO, for amoni
other calamities strikes. sympathetic an
otherwise, became Of too frequent occur
How accustomed the people became t
such a condition of things, 1t is relate
that in a biblical play being gwen aoou
This time at the Crow Street theater, &C
| cording to the Dublin University Maya
, ! zine -" this whimsical scriptural dram
bnine, an exhibition of Noah as a shi
. builder preparatory to the deluSe. n
is assisted by large gangs or angels WorK
ing as his 'jOurneymen, whose Srea
soIicitude is TO keep their wings clear on
| Of the way of their hatchets. etc. y
J length the whole of these Angels SIrik
, ! and turn out for higher wages TIL IN
, aTri,,aI OF \ body of soldiers bring then
, | IN order by whom they are threatened I
j be sent back to heaven II they 90 no
poiie,,e he was reading of an irreligiou
. travesty Of a hundred years ago
| pertinent is it's significance TO the presen
time Up to about lSb W WaDh teie an
Iondon in it's principal INDUSTRY; IN
manufacture of textile fabrics-ano IN
I'm spite Of hostile legislation 10 IIish CViu
merce by an English parlament1Dut
| Greater enemy to Ireland's prosperity wa
now felt. the manufacture OF texdl
fabrics. the finer wooden goods but NOR
aspeciallv for it's manufacture OF silks
ribbons. velvets. tabinets and the ramon
Irish poplins. which gave employment !
thousands. fast but surely was this trad
ebbing away from Ireland. A contedera
ton and international organlzauoh w
Effected among the various trades IN
nernicious socialistic agitators, most
from some outside place, undertook IN
direction OF affairs. and while hitherto OH
ferences OF any kind were settled Withl
tbe respective trades. who certainly KNEE
how to handle that which they thor
oughIy understood. both by employers an
ennioves. and generally brought forth r.
suits mutually satisfactory, now was, ot
nuted TO paid agents or delegates, who's
tenure of office and graft continued &C
cording to their abuse of the. capitals
and the constant iteration OF now th
xlae-e worker was robbed by the ogre VIII
Maid him for his labor, and who too
ali the risks Of losing that very caPlts
!, tbrough the many fluctuations and Weiss
; tiides to which trade is subject to in ever
. sond THAT they had among them we
: la uid sewers of dissension, who earned nc
d bv the sweat of their brow, but the frot