People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Might vs. Right. [ARTICLE]

Might vs. Right.

The receivers appointed to operate the Northern Pacific R. R. made a cut in the wages of the employees. They applied to a U. S. court and obtained an injunction, presenting said employees from striking. The managers of the road had beat down the wages to the botton notch below which the employees refuse to work and then the government, through one of its courts, steps in and makes a farther cut in wages and serves notice on the employees that they must accept the reduction and continue in the employ of the road. If the employees of that road are not slaves and made so by the government, what are they? When will the labor unions find out who are their friends? How long will they continue to support political parties that use the power of the government to make slaves of them. Laborers by the score have been shot down by U. S. troops,State militia, and Pinkerton thugs for resisting the oppressions of the capital but now a U. S. court comes in with an injunction and imforms the laborer that there must be no further resistance. What sort of patriotism will such actions of the government inspire in the heart of the laboring man. How long will a goverment stand, that thus deliberately makes slaves of its subjects?

Dear reader, what answer will you have for the nice, sleek, oily tongued politian when he comes around next fall, asking '•you for one more chance to forge and fasten the fetters that bind you beneath the tyranical heel of capital. He will call you such nice names as the “Horny handed son of toil,” “The honest yeomanry of the land” etc. Will you suffer vourself to be cajoled into supporting him? I ’ you do, you deserve no better fate than the slaves on the Northern Pacific Railway

A few nonths ago when gold 1 ;ft the country, every Plutocratic organ from the least to the greatest declared that it was all on account of the Sherman la r, and that the repeal of that law would immediately turn the stream of gold toward our shores; that foreign capital would seek investment here and everything would be lovely and the goose -would perch on the topmost twig. Now that we have all the benefit that repeal c >uld bring in so short a time, and gold is leaving for Europe, tnose same organs are trying to account for it in some other way. It is demonstrated that those organs are either very ignorant, or else great liars. It now costs one bushel- of wheat to ship another bushel from Nebraska to New York. Who does the most work the man that raises the wheat, or the one that carries it to the sea boaid. With the beginning of tl e new year, a new enterprise will start up in our town, under the title and firm name of The Star Chamber Cutlery -Concern.