The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-03-12
GAMBLING
Robbers Of Wall Street Toy aud
Play With Financial
and Industrial
OF THE NATION
Gamble for the Wealth That
IS Being Fdched From the
People and Sacrifice All
Other Interests.

Taking into consideration all
that organized workmen have
striven for and tanned in the past
and all that we hope to do in the
future. trade unionism is going to
live and continue its fighting, no
matter how mighty its earthly foes
may be, for its mission is right
eous one, and its work will never
end: until poverty and the uuhap.
ness it brings cease to exist.
Why should they who toll year
Ill and year out continue sshand
to mouth' existence, while the
toulest and greatest gambling hell.
which has its abodeEin Wall Street
is allowed to gather up the fulness
OF the land. and the scoundrclS
who control its blighting machin,
cry revel in the millions they have
wrung, from the lite-giving streams
of the nation, carrying woe to in.
dustry and idleness and suffering
to the toiler? Why, we ask.
should this Wall street gambling
monster be permitted, at it's own
tickle pleasure, to toy and play
with the financial and industrial
welfare of the nation, while the
robbers and gamblers fight among
themselves as to WHO shall have
the controlling interest in the
wealth that has been filched from
the people? Is there any earthly
reason tor its existence7 Ii so, we
have tailed to find it or learn of it.
In our humble opinion, it is time
that our American citizenship as
serted itself and demanded from its
public servants in no uncertain
terms legislation that will annihil-
ate every vestige of the blight that
this den of thieves has periodically
cast upon our beloved country.
These, and other gamblers OF
high finance, are responsible for
the panicky conditions of today.
They are the men who have not
hesitatcd to discredit the nation
and Its president, in order that
their Scheming designs may bear
fruit, and that they may, by fin
ancial manipulation, gain control
OF rival corporate interest. j.
l'lerpont Morgan, the so. called
saviour and the men associated
with, recently made over twelve
million dollars in the saving pro-
cess, which, at the same time, gave
to the United Stat IS Steel Trust the
absolute control and monopoly of
the ore lands of the country, part of
which were formerly controlled by
the Tennessee Coal and Iron com
pany. Its holdings are now
2,4O0, 600, 900 tons, and it's pro-
moters say that they cannot be ex-
hausted i'll Il hundred years. while
at the same time, it has secured
1000, OOO, 200 tons of coal proper
ties from its rival, the Tennessee
Coal and Iron company, which is
now no more.
In his "saving the country''
process and charitable work, we
are told, j. Pierpont Morgan also
crushed out of existence the HeinZe
Copper company and placed all
Its properties in the hands of II.
IL. Rogers and VIM. Rockefeller.
or the Amalgated Copper company
the biggest monopoly of it's kind
III the world, and this squeezing
by the big captains of finance will
go on and on until they get what
they want. no matter whether the
wheels of honest Industry hum or
not, or whether thousands of hon
est working men and women walk
the streets in idleness and in want
of bread.