People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — What Fools These Laborers Be. [ARTICLE]

What Fools These Laborers Be.

A few days ago 100,000 laborers paraded the streets of the City of Mexico, with banners and music, demandii ■ to be led against Guatemala. There i a dispute between Mexico and G us# mala about a piece of swamp wh h probably isn’t worth 10 cents per u:;re, and whose ownership could easiL be settled by resurvey or arbitration !t has never done the laborers of e ' r country any good, and never vyill. 'ct these 1(0,000 Mexican laborers pa da the streets, clamoring ‘or v.r! .. ii any wonder that tyrants, i; so m. ay shapes, rule the people wli ve that the people thomsolve;. are ; < h fools? The king’s quarrel, and i.he pie do the lighting—that.’s t.r> hi: ry of man l ind. Here we are preieu 'rng to be civil Led. Almost 1,900 years of Christ and his gospel of peace have been our teachers, and yet we turn out, 100,000 strong, with bo.: cr. ilyc e, drums beating, and horns to-, mg - demanding to bi( led against bayonets and bullets to settle the boundary line, of a wretched wilderness of swamp! No wonder our masters despise us —Tom Watson.