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agin ain't right American anyhow ballot BENJ best foot body broad land Cæsar champagne coal-mine Commune Communist cost of living cried dangerous to free devil don't fear earn fair fellows first-class flames at Pittsburgh form of government four thousand millions free institutions freer gaunt girdled tree government will wither greasy mechanics Grosvenor History Syllabus Fund honest hope industrious and worthy Jay Gould keep land the rich lean-looking light of flames little tin pails look MacMahon mean mightily millions of capital more'n mune Napoleon NFORD now-a-days ordinary miner Patriotic citizens pay taxes pillage poor RAILWAY KINGS ITCH Railway managers Railway owner Railway's RED-HOT STRIKER scare Scott SCRANTON sort squirm stop strike suppose talk There's thing thousands of little Tom Scott tred TUCKER wages want an Empire warm dinner workmen world owes worthy go gaily
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Page 6 - ... swear the one is for humanity, and the other isn't. Now then, which of the two is most dangerous to free institutions ? I needn't argue the point : your own confession condemns your side outright. You say in so many words : " The necessity of self-protection against the Communistic spirit in Congress will band together instantly all railway owners and managers, not to resist, but to run, the Government.
Page 2 - ... end. I don't know as you're a Railway owner or not, but I can see well enough that you belong to the Railway. You're trying to put its best foot foremost. If this is its best foot, what in the name of thunder must t'other one be ? I blush through all the cinders and sweat my face ever carried to think an American citizen could produce an article like that, and that it could get a place in a respectable American publication.
Page 5 - The way to do it is, first, to see what is the idea of both, what each of them demands. Now, I say, — and I challenge you, or any other fellow like you, to show I'm not right, — I say the " Commune " represents the cause of the poor in this : that its object is to give every human born into this world a chance to live ; live long, and die well. And I say of the
Page 4 - gaunt " fellows that make up the Commune, that's giving you that are fat just now such a scare.
Page 8 - Your figuring conies to this : wages have increased over wages paid before the war from thirty-five to ninety per cent. ; and the cost of living has not gone up in the same proportion. Prices have gone up some, but not so much as wages. Well, I don't care to dispute that. It's no matter. It may be as you say, or, as Mr. Arthur says, just the contrary ; but no matter. Gone up or down, three things are as plain as a nose on a man's face : 1. Wages never' ve been equal to the needs of the workingmen.
Page 5 - I've been reading up some, and I have read enough to be willing to bet a hundred to one, if I had it, that the French Communists have been lied about unmercifully. Things got done in their frenzy that wa'n't right, but that's nothing against the principles they stand by. Only an enemy will judge a cause by the evil that gets done, not setdown in the bill.
Page 6 - Yes, you hope the people will settle down and let your kind of capitalists have things all their own way. You hope they will vote such " free institutions " as will let the " Railway " scoop up this country for its own. If they don't (and I don't guess you mach think they will), then Mr.
Page 11 - We mean to bring things to judgment. We say, " Tom Scott, come into court ! " We've got him there now, and we mean to keep him there. — But I must come to the end. The future is sure. These United States ain't going to peg out in consequence of "four thousand millions of capital in the hands of a few.
Page 11 - That form of government will wither and die like a girdled tree, if the thousands who pay taxes get no protection from the millions who govern.