The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-01-02
THE
ONLY HOPE
10 Free the American People from
the Tyranical Rule of the Greedy
rusts and Corporations.

cerptS from u. 5. Senator DaviS'S S
antitrust speech, which are inter
esting facts to organized labor:
Our fathers, when they framed
this government intended to form
government that should be a
simple government, indeed, of the
people, for the people, and by the
people. But, sir, is that the con
dition prevailing today7 Mr.. Lin
coin. the great patron saint of the
Republican party-God bless his
memory-in his latter days spoke
a great truth when, looking down
upon this government from the
travail of his soul, he said: I SEE
Az ERA APPROACHING
WHICH GIVES ME MORE CON
Germ THAN DID THE CIVIL
WAR. l SEE A PERIOD AP-
PROACHING WHEN ALL THE
WEALTH OF THE COUNTRY
WILL BE CONCENTRATED IN
THE HANDS OF A FEW, AND
WHEN THAT DAY SHALL AR,
RIVE | TREMBLE, SIR, FOR
THE REPUBLIC ITSELF
Mr.. President, l am not an
alarmist. [ am not a socialist.
Neither am | an anarchist. But /
stand here today to tell you that
there is something wrong-radic-
ally wrong. This is not the gov
ernmcnt handed down to us by our
fathers. The old ship of state has
drilted far from her moorings, and
unless we tow her back to her old
time democratic simplicity, I stand
here today to tell you, sir, that we
are upon the very threshold of IL
national calamity.
MIR. President, stop, study, and
think where are we going, whittier
are we drifting, where is our gov
ernment tending? When the la
boring man takes his bucket or
his basket and goes to the beef
shop to get his beef he pays trib-
ute to Armour. When he goes to
wire or steel shop to get wire to
make his fence or to get nails he
pays tribute to the wire OF the nail
trust. When he goes to the coffin
Shop to get a coffin to bury his
Dapy he pays tribute to the coffin
trust. When he goes to church on
sunday he hears the word of the
blessed God and listens to the di
slhe doctrine eXpounded
from Il trust-made BIZ
pie. Has not the G. 0. P. got this
country III nice mess-the wealth
Vi the country concentrated in tnc
hahus OF few men, the great mass
les, the mighty millions, paying
'lioute. How true the declaration
ol Mr.. Lincoln; how well he fore
saw and foreshadowed coming
levents.
"Ah, sir, thank God the labor
3e's OF this country are organizing
To-Day. From Maine to. California,
from Cape Cod to Kalamazoo, they
are getting ready for fight. This
Is going to be great fight. 1t is
ah unequal fight. Upon the one
na'o we have trained men
we nave trained financiers,
We have money, we have
sWealth. On the other hand, we
nave the poor of the earth, with all
lhe best of the earth at last, but
uh htfalned and unskilIed in this
scharacter of warfare.
An, MIR. President, this is 60
lug 10 be a fight, and | hope the
uAE Will soon come when we can
Fee The stock gamblers of New York
IN ieion's stripes. Why, sir, the
sspehltentiary house would be a
e"Hiiner gu resort as compared with
nat they ought to have If they
iiau their just deserts.
DO you tell me that those men
~ not control the price of our pro-
ssI"cIs! The ma who asserts that
L. thgS down upon his own head the
i iI'1lc'ile and the contempt of the
So &C. gambler himself, because
z.naU IS their boast. That is what
icy claim. What they want to
T. known as doing is controlling
- i market. Knock out Their
s '.satn ollng. l say, and they drop OF
4 thelr own weight.
4 Labor is organizing. Is organ,
IlNS last: soon it will be demand
o1 the powers that be that the
spoor people OF the earth shall have
. j. ust recognition of their rights in
great administration of public
ilalfs. Sir, l would that the la
hS people would organize al
~ er THIS land, no matter whether
- the great railroad thoroughfare:
IA the printing offices. in the shop.