Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1883 — SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT [ARTICLE]

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

The Board of directors appointed by ibe Uenaal UouiuiiiUe on Lauor Lents 1 aboil organ.Z üby authoniy or lhe last Congress oi Ute Lao >r Unions, submit to tne organized Trudes U*>ious and Asemblies of Labor oi the United Slates a manifesto, headed with tpufollowing surring cull: "To Your tents, O Israel! ike manifesto denounces the majority < f ilie benaie us lawyeis retained oy fi-d» rated capitalists; Uema da an extra ses ion o. OougresS as a remedy lor impending strikes, auu «dvises u)l wage xoihmeu t<> join ineir Trade Unions o« the Knightof Labor, and present an unbaokeii lr..nt. lhe maniksto says: ‘•Tne higasst official auth »riiy esti mates that mere are no le-s tuan from litiy to one hundred men in tne Uma d States wbost- average income is *>v<r $ uoo,vo a year.- there are 10i>,00 • v,. use income is lt*,« 00 a year; tin re are l.imo, OO’i whose income is stated at $1 op A year, while there are 14 OuO.VtM wage workmen, who toil daily for tne support of their fam Lies and whose average in come is less than $4 0 a year. Under a revenue system deuv<d through taxes upon the consumption of the n-eess.iries of life, it is certainly true tn it the 14,UOO.OU'i workers who are barely feeding and clothing their families, pay t »ur eee fifteenths or neany all. of the interest on lhe public debt, the extravagant support of tne army and navy, the aris.ocraiic civil list and pension list and the high salaried diplomatic Corps out of t eir scanty wages, whi egthe.iew thousands oi wealthy men whose incomes reach over SSO, OO.OOu a year, pay lime or nothin,-: yet the.entire expenui.ure is manipulate!, in their interest The wot king classes < f the country produce annually enough to make every man, woman and clrud comfortable if their productions were fairly and honestly distributed Bui under the prevailing system of laws, corruptly ,>r ignorantly made, the drones get the ent le profits, while lhe industri us labor r maintains a continual struggle with abject poverty.”

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