The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-16
WON'T Be SQUELCHED.
ITS MISSION Is RIGHTEOUS.

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There Is Enough and 10 Spare For All
IN the World--orsanized Labor VIII
Keep UP Ito Work. Until Poverty
Ceases to Exist.
Taking Into consideration all that or
ganized workmen have striven for and
attained in the past and all that we
hope to do IN the future. trades un-
ionism Is going to live and continue
Its fighting, no matter how mighty It's
earthly foes may be, for its mission
is righteous one, and its work will
never end until poverty and the unhap-
piness Il brings cease to exist. Is there
not enough and to spare for all in this
world? Yes. Then why should they
who toll year In and year out continue
d .hand 70 mouth" existence while
the fouest and greatest gambling hell
which has ITS abode ID Wall street ia
allowed to gather UP the fullness ot
the land ana the scoundreIs who con-
troll Its blIghting machinery reyel in
the millions they have wrung from the
life giving streams of the nation, car
rying woe to industry and ldIeness and
suffering to the toiler? Why, we ask,
should this WALL street gambling mon
ster BIZ permitted at its own tickle
pleasure to toy aud play with the finan-
cial and Industrial welfare OF the ma
ton while the robbers gamble and
fight among themselves as to who shall
have the controlling interest ia the
wealth thar has been fiIched from the
people? Is there any earthly reason
for its exIstence7 If so, we have fail
ed to find It or learn OF II. In our
humble opinion. 1t is time. that our
American citizenship asserted itself
and demanded from Its public servants
In no uncertain terms legislation that
will annihilate every vestlge of the
blight that this den Of thieves has pc
riodically cast upon our beloved coun-
try.
These and other gamblers OF nigh
finance are responsible for the panicky
conditions Of today. They are the
men who have not hesitated To dis
credit the nation and its president in
order TINT their scheming designs may
bear fruit and that they may BY imam
ciai manipulation gain control of rival
corporate interests j. Piefpont Nor |
gan. the 80 called savior and the
men associated with him recently
made over $l2000,O00 in the saving |
process. which Mt the same time gave
to the United States steel trust the alb,
soiute control and monopoly Of the ore /
lands OF the couhtrg, part Of which |
were formerly controlled By the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron company. IT'S |
holdings are now 2,4O0. 600, 900 tons, |
and its promoters say that they can
not be exhausted 10 hundred years.
while at the same tiIne It has secured |
2,000, 100000 tons OF coal properties
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. ]. /
Pierpont Morgan also crushed out OF /
existence tho Heinze Copper company
and placed all its properties in the
hands Of Fl. H. Rogers and William
Rockefeller or the Amalgamated Cop |
per company the biggest monopoly Of /
lts kind Iii The world, md this gqfeez
ing bv the bIg captains Of finance win /
20 on and 81 until they yet what trey
want, no matter whether the wheels
of honest industry hum or not Or
whether thousands BIZ honest working
men ana women walk the streets Id
idIeness and in want Of bread.
Trades unionism any more than the
president Of the United States Ii not
responsible, wholly Of ID part, for the
depression, mistrust and want Of con-
tidence that confront prosperous
country. Organized labor may suffer
with the rest OF the people before bet
ter condition is secured. but 1t viii stand
firmly in its purposes Just the same,
and the day is approaching when labor
in its fullest meaning win come into its
own. Bricklayer and hlasou.
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