The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-04-17

On the night of April 49, 177 people along the Boston to
a G Ter ed aroused from sleep by the Of flying e9urers
vance reached Lexington at early dawn it sixty seventy
minute men drawn the green Dsperse We rebe shout
dead OS 0''sr "A V0ey was fired and seven Americans fell
e few hours later British troops approaching Concord bridge
every fence and tree The of the RVoon had bgun
nat was al about King Gorge had levied
cks and tesaments stamp had to be affixed to these
en eo by very few sm4gge5s like John
tyranny"
How ng appear reasons for the Revolutionary Wan
MEN we compare them with conditions around Calumet the
ar of Our Lord 9li What decent chap George The
lard when him with the copper barons of the
OF the American ievoutionsts who own the mines
d Michigan All George wanted few pennies every pound
mortgages and similar chnents which their drew no.
than twenty per cent Didn't he have right to
huty when entersng citizens like Hancock cheated hin
Of half million dollars import duties by landing his cargoe
lonely out Of the places? Nowadays send deV
% the penitentiaIy if he steals even loaf of bread
The think about George Third better regard
~ Seems to me that somebody has done mighty tall lying
ABOUT the old gentleman The deato call equity good natureC
old duer like George rant strikes that the British
KEGS who raised all that account of few lousy pennies
about the measest stngest outfit that down the
PIKE And when think about their descendants the sockhod
the Calumet and ecla mines then makes me feel sore
because George didn't hang the whole blooming outfit before
they had time to breed.
Did Gorge claim every land in and around Boston?
Did ne stretch oatoed wire Tense aount the colony OF
throw people of their homes because they refused to work fol
il Did little innocent chldren
he when ortVe degrees below zero? Did ne hlre
down skunk to yell Fire.! into crowded hall to break up
uetide celebration and incidentally murder little children?
No. George that kind of hyena. He wanted what was
coming to him and he after in gentenany And
Boston revouonists had been half decent they WOULD
have paid their honest taxes instead OF shooting hoeS IN reSpe
table officials.
But know they were folks. doubt they were
folks at ALL my life can't see how human beings
hogs the Boston stockholders of the Michigan
mines It kind of hurts my feelings to drag the name of use
animal like the hog in such low down company but cant %
ped because don't know OF other creature on tour legs
the two legged ones with Just the same am gong to ca
bacon with good deal OF respect from now on
The Calumet Company organized under the laws
d the State of Michigan in 1871 started with auhorzec
ta stock S250OO00 The par value S25 but only ST.
paid each share So the actual Investment was really
100000 From that it may be that the patriotic sons Of
lie teapay paid themselves 30OooO for the trouble
d raising sl20ooo0. Pretty good for starter
Since 1871 the company has paid s1210Oo0OO in dividends
600 in other properties Most of this money went to
who couldn't tell the difference between mining shaft and
ger hole For the pay Of managers supernendents pres
s directors of the paid out OF the running
enses The wages Of these gentlemen run anywhere between
Now when people take S2OOO0OOO0 out of hole without
ing hole stands that the folks who 90 the acua
or see by the governments report lying before me that the
copper received average OF So per day Whe tney
oe Wnfn on v about the Same So this cuts the living
pretty close the hungry line The working hours average
Hcveen and eleven day Do you wonder they started
strike?
Now what does all mean? It that King George dur
mo his Whole life never got much out Of the American
as few Boston have gotten out of the Ca
net Ieca 1t that II Adam and Eve ana lam
md Abel had started to earn their living IN the sWeat OF ne
and had made per day the job and put every cent OF
M dav Wage in their socks they would have just aboQ
s2O0OOO0OO punks away It means that It every man. woman
child who lived in Boston ITS still living and had saved
everv Year until day all of them together wouldn't have
nc as the stockholders of the Calumet Fieca mines nave
ont Of couple of thousand miners in forty years
that the American people Just about the biggest aggre
cation Of pure and unaduItraed dampho0S 10 De ou'o " oil e
world. . r ,o1.
Here of dirt which glacier JcoogGd cut OF o
r. poscn Revolution didn't make the
M lake the ere in dirt From naca "a c Uonn c 5e
nnd and on the strength of this sheet OF paper the ef
~ naonle have allowed themselves to be stone blind
VIII the free and independent Americans who aug up the com
nav for the copper don't to mind getting slnneG lhS
are so alfred busy trying to skin each other that ey oon no
FEE When someone takes their hide Off, ;. J.,
The Ignorant foreigners however who aug the copper go
oon into their imported noodles that was aoou e TO put al
"a - The sknninp business Most of them were orough up u
the Gar of Russia and taste of real liberty It's hard
~ to oct used to American brand OF freedom as eN
~. +5e BOSTON Sons the American Revolution They
w - Sounds we'll enough but doesn't taste Just rlght