People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — THE LABOR MOVEMENT. [ARTICLE]

THE LABOR MOVEMENT.

Wendell I'lllllipu «»lil the Laborers Demand Immcii i,:e Action. Now here I take issu* with the best critic the labor mover est has met: I reler to the Rev. S'. j nei Johnson of Salem, one of the tlihakarß who has spread out before the |>eopfle his objections to the labor njveiueat of this country. His first objection is that we will' hurry into po Jtics. Well’ now our answer to him j.d io the score of other scholars who have been criticising us’ is this: mention en’ we seethe benefit of going into politics. If we had not rusher into poiiiijs’ had not taken Massai ) usetla by ihe iou:corners and shaken nor, you would never have written your criticism . We rush into po/.itics because pol.tic . is the safety vaHve. We wK«uld discus.: as well as you, f.f you woi* c only gi. o us bread and Tic uses, fail- play a.if. leisure, and opportunities to travel. We could sit. and discus the question for fifty years* It’s a very easy thing t® discuss, for a gentleman in his study, with no anxiety abou/t to-morrow. Why the ladies and gentle-nen of the reign of Louis XV. and Loulu XVI., in France, sea/ted in gilded stuoous and on Persian carpets, surrounded with luxury, with the product;: cf In lia, and the curiouu manufactures of ingenious Lyons and Rheims, disc..-used the rights of man, and balance 1 them in dainty phrases, and expressed them in such quaint generalizations that ~effarson borrowed the Declaration of Independence from their hands. There they sat, balancing and ulscutslng siweetly, making out nc»w theories, and otaily erecting a spleadi I architecture *of debate, till the ang'ry crowd uroke open the doors, and ended tue discussion in blood. They waited too long, discussed about a half a century too long. You see, discussion is rery good when a man lhas bread to eat, and his Children all portioned off, and his daughters married, and his home furnished and paid for, and his will made; but discussion is very bad when—hear the children weeping, O my brothers; Eire the sorrow comes with years;" discussion is bad when a class bends under actual oppression. We want io\U: liato act! x Wo w-ulh ijufl 11,0 thU Issue from an outbreak of actual vlolsnee. Thorotoro wo jps lata poluh*.—Knm a I gy* *JaMoti a* Bomin.