Show THE LABOR QUESTION A striking article ati the great national topic the thinkers of this nation have for a fortnight been hard at work on the labor problem in the concrete it would seem that questions like labor and money must come to a calamity before men will give them proper consideration thus your good logician will debate the subject of cremation and education without limit but wages and wage money the two most important of human affairs outside ot bi rth marriage and death roust forever approach revolution bloodshed and starvation before any attempt is made to right their wrongs or accept new aspects of the truth reader pause just to consider how dire must have been the ills of labor ere whole states should join as one man in demands seemingly most trivial the proud sneer of the eastern know it alls now Tadea into a pale look of astonishment at the industrial situation 0 men will work rather than starve 1 said the know it all and he eaid it only a year ago but now he rouses himself when it is too late to saye the old era the old era is gone good or bad the new era must come there is a word about to be coined into use which will occupy more space in the newspaper columns than vein has filled and the word will be the hybrid Labon cracy or its synonym the government of people but by the laborers the men who work in their shirt sleeves again may we say how reat must have been the dereliction of the non laborers in shirt sleeves to have so carried themselves as to render the entire consolidation soli dation of the under elements of society the eastern Fau bourger conservative aristocrat ancien regime man has the honesty ot his selfishness he will accept labor only when it shall have taught him its power in terms ho can understand in fire and blood and why not from his point of view he has nothing to gain and everything to lose by surrender true would any Trades assem I 1 bay believe jay gould trust jay gould ally itself with jay gould has the society of labor any use whatever for jay aa M y ytol unit of the society of the expiring order of things fight with tooth and nail labor may treat with your girard your montefiores Monte fiores your Stan fords your peabodys ys fo r in their works they foresaw the rights of man they divined the un justnes of the old distribution and made those restitutions restituti ons to society which have immortalized them but your vanderbilt der bilt your gould your factory owner your hocking valley wretch all these have stood with eyeballs jutting forth with hands clutching saying nayl to the widow and give give to the world there has grown over against this gorgon of oread a spectacle no less minatory terrible it is the spirit of hatred of all capital hatred of all invention all machinery as being the goggons Gor gons instruments of torture thus when Labor stands caubin hand prepared to destroy then docs progress the private secretary 0 the Gorgo nap peal in vain to the irate giant what cares the giant for progress progress may flee or be clubbed what cares the giant for justice another of the gorgon justice may flee or be beaten what carea the giant for liberty 1 another vassal ot tho gorgon liberty may flee or be smitten how can the editor of the nation argue with the giant has the editor bot told the giant for twenty years and six months that the chinese were willing to work in america and in tho eternal fitness of things would work here aad did no the editor suppose the giant believed it did not the editor say ill unions impracticable and and did not the editor prove it by driving fifteen or twenty union prin tera out of iw did alii settle it alas the editor finds it settled nothing tho giant brandishes hia club it is not alone the poor little editor who anay bo destroyed but the blows are like to be liine at justice liberty 1 reader is not that a picture for you rand for us to look at with some care with auroe yet with some faint hope of peace between nud justice progress find liberty and vanderbilt fail to ba heard in the of all the unions the one called the knights of labor has achieved na the head powderly Puw derly is ft more powerful executive force than the Gove inore of tasca and missouri together toge thir the apul man provably bly hardly how closely his ex acu ecu i approaches pro aches by tos pop ta turca wielded liy alo arci i ha stale and atiat t day u from hi people thau the UK narces of ary from 1 duwer h founded completely on the respect of americana for the laws which he has broken every day he has been in office but powderly has defined none ot the laws which created him he a man to be hired for 85 a day will not meet the men whom gould hires at a day he must meet gould himself and in his plenary power this powderly docs not deal out calamities to the offending ones alone but to whole states full of people who have in no way quarreled among themselves Is not this dear reader a monstrous evil which mr jay gould and his ilk have wrought out for us we have not only the stone of greed above us but the nether stone of laborec racy below and tho two have been picked sharp with the edged tools of general orders above and hate below and now we are to stand between while this mill of the gods begins to grind out an industrial future for the world must honorable employers who never abused a man who never grabbed for everything in sight must they live upon the precipice of a sudden stoppage must they be nailed upon abe cross for the sins of the whole world yes dear reader they must for they are now so being nailed what may be done ah that is indeed a question it would bea good idea to set jones preaching gen ty and de founcine noun cine greed and avarice the etaw of business for a generation has been enough to make a gomora rah of this nation the gorgon will proceed directly to some conclusion cl he may prohibit the or der of the knights of labor as bismarck struck st the socialists ot germany in 1878 this end could be secured by an dional congressional conspiracy law passed in the manner that all the butler acts of congress were passed the known ability of mr gould in appointing judges would secure the proper endorsement indorsement indor of such legislation that would be for two years would Labor bend a congress to washington that would be true to its constituency or would Labor following mr mannings lead defy the law and if pushed merely revolutionize the country these questions are worthy of oui attention for some legislature somewhere will soon hurl an interdiction at the order the catholic bishops in canada have already done so there be an attempt knights and the maans bomor bP Mor gans time but gould will not be able to find any morgan that will b e good enough till after the election he will have to strike like bismarck and he has not the position of the chancellor he has no army no divine right he ia lost the old era must go but reader enst we and all other honorable men perish industrially during the contention that shall evict him must our interests bo the virginia over whose fair acres la bor and the gorgon shall do their marching and countermarch counter march ing fighting their bloody battles chicago t |