| Show EDITOR BOYCE We have received the Miners Magazine Maga-zine the new publication of Edward Boyce which he has started as he says In the interest of labor In his salutatory saluta-tory we find the following Labor being tho producer of wealth Is entitled to all it produces but tho priv ileged class upheld by the politicians hac robbed It of nearly all its product thus forcing It Into a condition ot helplessness find dependence This Is tho gloomy con dition In which wo find it and tho way out seems scarcely Illumined by a sin gle ray of hope This Is particularly true of American laboreis Their rights and liberties are disappearing before tho sacred rights of properly like an Iceberg In the All tho tropics machinery of gov ernment Is continuously In motion to crush them whenever they make a stand for oven a portion ot their lights We ask the laboring men of this region re-gion to read the above carefully We ask them to take it up sentence by sentence and analyze It Take the first one Labor being the producer of wealth Is entitled to all it produces What does that mean Is It that If I some man who has mono vhlch Is but labor put in Indestructible form hires laborers to open a mine and a great ore body is discovered do the men who perform the work on the ore body Are the laborers who arc paid dally for their services entitled to It or is It the man who Avltl the labor that has been made Indestructible pays the laborers for their work Again when that ore body Is taken out whose Is It If ten men take out 500 In a day are they entitled to 55O each or to what their servIces arc worth In the market Again If 510000 Is paid them and nothing is found will they be ready to pay back the 10000 I to the man Avho has hired them But continuing let UB consider the next I I proposition The privileged class upheld up-held by the politicians have robbed It labor of nearly all Its products Is that true Can any laboring man recall a time when so many men were at work as at present and when they were receiving so much for their ser AicesV Boyce Is a miner and appeals directly to miners Is It not true that any miner can by a single years work living well and dressing well all the time accumulate more money than the average man of all the thousands and tens of thousands who settled our country coun-try between the Atlantic and the Rocky mountains possessed Where is tho helplessness and dependence which Boyce talks about Where Is the gloom which Boyce Invokes This he thinks is particularly true of American laborers What country would he advise American Ameri-can laborers to emigrate to Would he have them go to England or Scotland or Ireland Would he advise them to invade continental Europe or go to I Mexico or Central America Where la there a country that offers better accommodations ac-commodations and more rewards and comforts to laboring men Would he like to go across the line Into British Columbia and try his game Again what rights and liberties are disappearing disap-pearing from American laborers Is there any legitimate thing that they cannot do Then as to the machinery of government If Edward Boyce had some property which Avas being put In jeopardy by Incendiaries and murderers murder-ers does any one doubt that he would I by the first to squawk and call for help We have more than once expressed the I belief that Edward Boyce was an enemy i to honest labor and honest laboring I 1 I I men Can any laboring man read the I i I foregoing and doubt It That he Is a I I bungling and transparent liar the dullest I dull-est person In the ranks of labor can see j I Then ho makes half a dozen falsehoods j J I the basis on which to attack the Gov I ernment which protects all its citizens J alike And he does all this in the hope I of wheedling workingmen out of money i I j I fnough to keep him In idleness He Is I j i one of the class which eventually when I I justice Is dons theGovernmcnt supplies 1 I with board and variegated ulothlng aritl oup I belief Is that Infinitely beVtcr I men than he ure receiving those attentions J i atten-tions from the Government now |
