The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-01-12

power. What strange change has
come in so short a time? The very
men-the very men, I say, that he put
into position, the very men into whose
hands he gave the dignity of the city,
come now to cast mud upon him and
to strike at his good name, but with
the prudence characteristic of their
kind they wait till he is 10000 miles
away.
Rudolph SpreokeIs. Exposed.
Rudolph Spreckels? You might
have got some other man to do your
dirty work, you who were put by
Mayor Schnitz on this committee and
made much of, you who came crawling
with your father to the mayors house
to beg for favors when you thought
you could sell favors and sell the peo-
pie for a few million dollars. You
might have remained in the back
ground. 1t would be easy for you to
dig up from the depths Of infamy,
with which you are familiar, some
other assassin to gather this hundred
thousand dollars and to do the mayor
Of San Francisco, to death s5s...ss,
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cfared that with 500 900, 900 III bank
the committee was throwing: out old
women from the huts in the parks,
because they cannot pay rent. Talk
of graft, talk Of greed, talk of rob-
berry! The worst graft is grating the
pennies Of the poor. The worst greed
Is to steal, the coppers from a blind
mans hand. Aye, the worst graft is,
this night, when the heavens are open,
and when the cold rain is pouring
down, to walk through the streets of
your city and to see in every square,
to see in every vacant lot, the poor,
worn tents in which the citizens of
San Francisco are sleeping-and four,
million dollars Of relief funds in the
San Francisco banks!
Reckless Use of Relief Funds.
rs it for want Of money that your
boxes Of the Ingleside? Is it for want
Of money that every square is dishg-
ured by the dog boxes in which you
are putting your workingmen and your
workingwomen? It is not want of.
money, but 1t is this: that Rudolph
Spreckels, who is the master Of the
camps: Rudolph Sprekels, who has in
the hollows Of his hands the care of
the people Of San Francisco, instead
of spending his time and occupying
his thoughts In the work he has as
sumed, namely, to house the homeless,
prefers, according to the instincts of
his race, to go down into the depths
of the city with his muck-rake, and in
order to def1le the names Of his poll
tical enemies he skins the blacklist
spot that seethes on the hob Of hell.
Pays His Respect to Spreckels.
What could you expect Of Spreck-
els? 1t is an old saying, that it is
hard to cure a rotten egg. Like father,
like son. And it is not great wonder
for the people Of San Francisco to see
the sun rising out Of such a somber
cloud as the Spreckels family and the
Spreckels regime? Do the poor Ger
man grocers who. in the days gone by,
bought the stock in the sugar COM
pany, and were frozen out Of lido
they think you are going to get civic
purity from Spreckels? Do you, who
remember the San Joaquin Valley
fraud, when they told you you were to
have a competing railroad, when they
assessed the banks, when they took
the money from the servant girls. and
then sold out-do you think anything
good can come out Of the house of
Spreckels.? Aye, do you remember
the time, not so long ago, when they
went to the supervisors and got
franchise-not your Labor Union Sup
ervisors. "a voice: Not much') Not
much, inded, but your supervisors who
were 50 rich that they did not need
to: steal. and your mayor who was so
rich that he did not need to steal.
They got franchise, and tore up
every street in the city, and signed
householder after householder on a
contract that they would give the light
at fair price, and when they got it
all sold out to the old company for
five or six millions. Do you think that
any good will come out Of men tainted
as these, not in the hands, not to the
elbows, not to the arms, but body, soul
and breeches, by the basest fraud
known to the annals OF shame. i.
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d Aye, but II we are not going to
get reform from Rudolph spreckels