The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-02

clever manipulation they will be
able to turn into permanent
gain: (a) by reducing the force
in their packing houses, (b) by
cutting down the salaries of
those they keep in employment,
(c) by forcing down the price of
livestock, thereby making the boy
colt boomerang for the common
people to destroy themselves with,
and the greedy trust will sit back
on its launches and smile COM
Iplacently. while the people, In
their ignorance, force panic and
ruin upon their fellow working
men. This boycott can have but
one result. 1. e.: to cause the
trusts that control the other me-
cessities of life to force up the
price of their products, which will
leave Mr.. Common People in much
worse condition than he Is at
present.
Second, / believe it to be I'M
American for any man to starve
himself as a means of combating
wrongs imposed upon him by mis-
placed power, or to blindly assail
his fellow working men (his
companion In Misery in a vain
endeavor to right a wrong i'm
posed equally upon himself and
fellow working man, and who is
no more responsible for the evil
conditions than he is himself.
The all-important question that
confronts us as a people then is,
What can we do to better our
condition? How can we throw off
the yoke imposed upon us by the
trusts? The weapon is within our
grasp, but before we can accom-
lplish the desired results we must
learn to WELD this weapon prop
erly, and especially learn to strike
an enemy, and not friend, when
we strike.
There are many things for us
to learn before we can make an
Intelligent fight against the OPP
preston. First, we must learn
that we are being oppressed. This
the American people do not yet
realize. In proof of this asser-
ton, witness the bowls of the
populace after some designing
politician has made a full-dinner
pail speech, or the cries of pros
perity from some poor individual
who is eking out bare existence
and whose family is destitute of
the necessities of life, after his
hand has been shaken by some
demagogue, or he has been pre-
sented with a cigar by some G..
O. p. boss who is endeavoring to
line him up for the right man"
in the good old way!
Second, we must learn that we
are all the common people and
have all common interests. When
we learn that the interests of ths
merchant, and the mechanic, the
| farmer and the laborer, the pro-
Queer, and the consumer, are all
identical, and that to strike any
subdivision of society means a
blow to the very life centers of
our great republic, and, above all,
when we learn that the daily pa
pers of our land are the molders
of public opinion, and can stand
| together in boycott of all papers
published in the interest of cor
Iporate greed, and read only such
papers as stand fearlessly for the
interests of the people, then, and
not until then, will we be able to
better our condition.
The nation is now Travelling
in pain to bring forth a new era
of enlightenment, an era of pros
perity, but the wheels of evolution
move slowly, and every man and
woman in our land should be
ready to hold up the hands of
such papers as the Tacoma Times,
that stand fearlessly for the in
terests of the people, and should
give them every support in our
power in order to hasten in this
new era.
| will say in conclusion that /
don't agree with Mr.. Chaffee, that
we should do away with a medium
of exchange, nor do | think that
each individual should have all
he produces, for in either case you
take away the incentive for man
to strive, and thus retard progress,
for If every man has all he wants
or all he is able to get, who would
strive?
Thanking you in advance, I am,
with best wishes to the Times,
D. U. TYLER.